Chapter 243: Giants
"As for that region rich in Silestium, reward the Falcon King who pointed you toward it with ten thousand Primes. As for clearing it of monsters, our friend here will handle that task" Vaelor pointed his finger toward Orion, who was still in the midst of breaking through to the Fifth Level in the Body path, smiling slightly... but he quickly scowled and stepped back again!
"As for those heroes who fell beneath the claws and fangs of the monsters, give them a proper condolence and honor, and if they have families, give them the highest level of care at the kingdom's expense!"
"As Your Majesty commands" Ayat bowed to Vaelor, responding to his order, but before she could start to leave, Vaelor raised his hand, stopping her, appearing to have remembered something.
"Wait a moment, how are things going with Lanor and Leonor so far?"
"Things with Generals Lanor and Leonor aren't in the best shape, my liege, for after the boundaries were removed from this continent, the numbers of Fourth Level monsters increased enormously, far beyond what we expected!" then she raised her head, looking directly into Vaelor's eyes...
"It's true the monsters never approach the City of Light because of Your Majesty's aura invading the place, but there are dozens of monster dens and nests already in various regions of the Forest of Light. Generals Lanor and Leonor's army has wiped out roughly half of these nests, but there are more nests that haven't been eliminated yet. We're fearing the emergence of Fifth Level monsters at this point, and the army is moving with extreme caution!" Ayat said with worry, then scowled deeply and continued...
"But there's some very bad news that emerged last week, and because of Your Majesty's busy schedule we weren't able to inform you!"
"Speak, what do you have?" Vaelor furrowed his brows deeply, looking at Ayat.
Very bad news, in the face of all these tremendous capabilities Vaelor's kingdom possessed?
Then that news must not be just ordinary news, for even the death of all those soldiers in the Silestium region hadn't been described as very bad news!
"Our scouts spotted several Fourth Level giants last week on the outskirts of the Forest of Light, and we fear it won't be long before Fifth Level giants appear" Ayat said in a slightly trembling voice, then continued with words she wished she didn't have to say "or they may have already appeared, but we just haven't spotted them yet!"
If there was a kingdom the people of the City of Light hated more than any other, it would be the Storm Kingdom, and if there was a race the people of the City of Light hated more than any other, it would be the Giant race. The race all seven races and even the monsters agreed to hate alike. This race of gigantic bodies and immense physical strength, a single one of them could fight another being a full level above them, of the same lineage grade, as an equal.
Had it not been for the Fourth Level armor the elven soldiers wore, and had it not been for the arrays the City of Light possessed, the City of Light would have fallen in that war before it even rose. And even people like Rios and Elena wouldn't have survived that massacre.
But the truly terrifying thing about them was that the army the Titan Anar had attacked the City of Light with had been nothing but a small drop in the giants' vast sea... a small drop the Titan Anar — "the Lord" — had hastily gathered to eliminate the City of Light and Rios's future threat.
This race had only come to this world a hundred and fifty years ago, but it had nearly completely destroyed three regions, and had the Lord not reined them in through his control over their kings, they would certainly have destroyed several other regions!
But now that those kings had fallen, and with them the Lord's control had fallen as well, the giants would certainly discover this, or they may have already discovered it by now!
Now there would be no limits restraining them, no limits on their tyranny, their savagery, their bloodshed, their destruction of life, their toppling of civilizations and kingdoms... and worst of all, there would be no limits on their reproduction rates from now on! And if no one reined them in or finished them off soon, they would threaten the very existence of this world, not merely threaten a few regions or kingdoms. The abomination called the Giants would finally reveal its true nature, and the people of this world would learn exactly who the Giants were!
Vaelor immediately reviewed his memories about the Giants, most of which he'd obtained from the Eternal Night Heaven.
The Giants had, in truth, originally been human!
Perhaps they had been ordinary humans, or even transformed humans like the elves, the Falcons, or other transformed human races. But due to exposure to a radiation called Gray Chaos Radiation, their bodies and genes change until they finally become the abomination known as the Giants.
Gray Chaos Radiation could appear in several ways, the most famous of which were meteors carrying it, which emerge from the Primordial Chaos and strike planets randomly. After finally landing, Chaos energy carrying the Gray Chaos Radiation spreads everywhere, and when it strikes someone, they usually die, but whoever survives the Chaos energy carrying the radiation immediately transforms into a "giant" abomination. And thus the first generation of Giants is created.
The Giants' instinct revolves around one single thing only, which is destroying life regardless of its kind, and after they finish destroying all life on the planet, they begin destroying themselves so that no trace of life remains on that planet whatsoever!
In the outer world, and on the rest of the discovered planets that have a number in the cosmic registry, if Giants appear on one of those planets, those who handle the purging of that planet are the Immortal Court, for they're responsible for fighting abominations throughout the entire universe... and if it's revealed that this planet contains Giants, Vaelor would find dozens of fleets hovering in this planet's sky by tomorrow, and the dream of controlling this world "planet" within fifty years would then become an impossible dream to achieve... and his death would then become certain!
Yes, his death, for the first year of the System's special mission — "control the world and build an empire within fifty years" — was nearing its end. And Vaelor had so far only gained control over seven regions out of a thousand regions on this continent, and more than ninety percent of this continent's regions were uninhabited to begin with and filled with countless numbers of monsters, and there were even regions of near-certain death.
And now that the danger of the Giants had revealed its true form, matters had become several stages harder.
But on top of all this, this continent was just one single place in this world, Vaelor still didn't know how many other continents existed in this world, whether they were of similarly immense size or not, and how many peoples, kingdoms, and races existed outside.
The area of this continent alone was roughly a hundred times larger than the area of planet Earth, so what about the rest of the continents in this world!
"The mission assigned to both Lanor and Leonor will change from now on" Vaelor leaned back against his seat, speaking in a calm voice, and took out two rings from his storage space, giving them to Ayat "send them three additional armies, and give these two rings to Lanor and Leonor, and tell them to keep them on at all times and never remove them, they're life-saving tools in case a danger they cannot handle appears" Ayat took the two rings, keeping them, and felt a little envy and jealousy toward Lanor and Leonor, but she knew what the priorities were, so she quickly set these trivial feelings aside a little and listened to the rest of King Vaelor's orders.
"In addition to these, send them word that their mission ends with purifying the Forest of Light region, and they must return immediately after that" then he took out something else from his storage space, a small information card "this card has designs for advanced watchtowers recorded inside it. After finishing purifying the Forest of Light, I want you all to build these towers around and within the Forest of Light and the rest of the regions we control"
"You have two blueprints with you, one belongs to a Fourth Level tower and the other to a Fifth Level tower. As for the first, it can monitor a circle with a diameter of a hundred kilometers, and the second can monitor a region with a diameter of a thousand kilometers" Vaelor explained with a simple smile on his face "these towers operate using the Law of Light, the Law of Sound, the Law of Life, and the Path of the Soul, and they don't just monitor and detect, you can even set an alert if a certain threshold of power or a certain race appears, if that level of power or that race appears, the towers will immediately report it and place a tracking mark on the target!"