Chapter 75: Giant

"Hiss!" Chumen jumped directly out of the Underworld. The recent eruption of the "River of Eternal Darkness" had caught him off guard; he had almost been unable to suppress the Dream Book and collided with it.

Once they collided, it would no longer be something Chumen could control.

"I hope it goes smoothly." He took one last look at the depths of the Underworld, then Roamed away, arriving at the Silver Kingdom.

With Amanises watching over matters in the Underworld, he did not need to interfere much. Instead, now that the Giant King Ormir had been defeated, the curtain on the Giant King's Court should also be raised.

The Silver Kingdom was a very important node.

Chumen Roamed out from the Spirit World and saw Lilith, who had been waiting there for a long time.

"Is the era of the Ancient Gods finally coming to an end?" Lilith sat casually on the city wall of the Silver Kingdom, a touch of melancholy appearing on her stunningly beautiful face.

That was also the era in which she had lived; it was all the memories she had since she gained sentience. Now that these memories were about to fade in color, it was inevitable that she would feel a bit moved.

"This is the drawback of having humanity." But soon, Lilith began to analyze her own heart.

"If it were in the past, I would only clap and cheer at the deaths of fellows like Ormir."

The Ancestor of Blood proudly mocking a former opponent who had vanished into the long river of history—this was something Lilith would have done.

Chumen nodded gently, "That was you, and the current you is also you."

Both of them sat on the city wall, gazing into the distance at the Giant King's Court, which was still some distance away.

The Twilight remained, dyeing the entire world with a touch of desolation.

Silently and soundlessly, the Hidden Angel descended; the faint figure made it easy for others to overlook her existence.

Pfft!

A crack appeared in the void, and Sasriel, dressed as the Vice Sovereign of Heaven, walked out from it.

This was the first time the Dream Council had gathered in person for an offline activity.

Under the vast sky, atop the city wall, four figures stood or sat, waiting with tacit understanding, gazing at the distant, gradually blood-stained Twilight.

……

Badehaier was the Giant subordinate god who left the Underworld the fastest after realizing that the Giant King Ormir had fled.

The God of Honor was currently consolidating the remaining Giant Race warriors to withdraw from the Underworld, but this was not easy under the frantic counterattacks of the Underworld undead, and it might be delayed for some time.

The Goddess of Harvest was in a similar situation; because of her status as the Giant Queen, she had been heavily targeted by the Phoenix race during the war, and her condition was not very good.

"Father God!" Outside the Twilight Palace, Badehaier knelt on one knee, piously kowtowing toward the Twilight inside the palace.

"I have already organized large-scale sacrificial activities within the race." The large-scale sacrificial activities of the "Anchor" helped the Giant King Ormir stabilize his own state.

"Bradel is protecting the army's withdrawal, the losses..." Badehaier paused suddenly, waiting.

"What are the losses?" The Twilight inside the palace rippled, and the Giant King's somewhat cold yet weak voice came out.

"... The participating army has lost more than half, but most of the Characteristics have been recovered by me." Badehaier lowered his head and replied.

"Very good." The Giant King's coldness loosened slightly.

"Is there any movement from the Sun's God's Kingdom?" The Giant King was even more concerned about the actions of the Ancient Sun God.

His current state was not much different from the time Lilith self-destructed back then. Having an arm severed did not have much impact; at most, it meant losing some Characteristics. In the body of an Ancient God, this was the thing least in short supply.

But what was worse was that the Characteristics within his body were already on the verge of being uncontrollable. The forcibly aggregated Characteristics had a tendency to separate, and at that point, his existence would disintegrate.

If the Ancient Sun God were to attack at this time, the outcome would be sealed; there was no longer the weak Balance maintained after Lilith's self-destruction.

"The Sun God's God's Kingdom has no movement, but..." Badehaier hesitated to speak.

"Speak!" the Giant King commanded coldly.

"I discovered traces of 'Misfortune' in the Underworld." Badehaier lowered his head and reported under the Giant King's might.

"'Misfortune'?" The Twilight aura within the Twilight Palace stagnated.

"Why at this time?!" The Giant King's voice was low, his tone filled with intense regret and anger.

The Goddess of Misfortune had always been hiding outside the sight of the Ancient Gods; the "Hidden" Authority made all efforts by others to find her futile.

The Giant Race had once searched for the Goddess of Misfortune for hundreds of years, but to no avail.

Yet it was precisely at this time that Ormir heard this news.

"She must be looking for an opportunity to become a god during my battle with Grejary. Once she finds a suitable turning point..."

The Giant King, whose mental state was sliding toward a dangerous territory, fell silent. The current scene was simply too perfect for the "Misfortune" hiding in the dark.

His state was extremely unstable, and Grejary's side was no better. Once "Misfortune" became a god, she would certainly be unable to resist attacking the two of them, the Ancient Gods.

Even... the success rate was not low!

"You, come in!" The Giant King suddenly spoke, summoning Badehaier into the Twilight Palace.

"Yes!" Badehaier stood up and walked into the Twilight with heavy steps.

The Twilight of the palace slowly parted, revealing a path leading directly to the depths.

One could vaguely see Ormir sitting on the Giant Throne in the depths.

His poor physical state was directly reflected on his Giant body; the Giant representing Decay and Twilight now had a broken and rotting body, with stark white bones exposed in many places.

One could faintly see shimmering lights of different colors within them; those were the Characteristics with a tendency to disintegrate.

In this state, Ormir could not even move; this Twilight filling the palace was already his last means of self-preservation.

"Take my sword, go find Budelar and Oumibeila, and at all costs, stop 'Misfortune' from ascending the God Throne!"

Ormir's tone was extremely cold. This "at all costs" meant that whether it was the remaining warriors of the Giant Race or even the three subordinate gods including Badehaier and Oumibeila, they were all within the scope of being sacrificed.

"... Yes, Father God!"

Badehaier knelt before Ormir's throne, expressing his submission.

Only then did he slowly stand up and walk toward the great sword at the edge of the throne.

This was the Giant King's strongest weapon. After obtaining this item, the Giant King had spent hundreds of years eroding and modifying it with his own Twilight Authority, turning it into its current appearance.

"Father God, how should this sword be used?" Badehaier felt a strong sense of heart palpitations as he approached the sword.

This thing was akin to a fusion of two Characteristics, and these two Characteristics belonged to the "Warrior" and "Red Priest" Pathways.

It itself seemed to carry a power of eternal annihilation, the end of all things.

That is a power more terrifying than "Twilight," "Evernight," and "Death."

"Its strongest power is 'End,' a power even greater than 'Twilight,' but even I cannot use it, otherwise the sword body would surely collapse."

"Its second ability is one you can use, 'Slaughter,' finding weaknesses, a Must-Kill in one strike, capable of killing even a Rule."