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#306. City of Giants (1)
A sunny wilderness with not a breath of wind.
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The air split apart with a sound like tearing paper and spat out Ray.
Bingle! Bang!
Ray, who landed lightly, then caught Veronica, who was falling in a good position to bond with the ground, and placed her down next to him.
The gap closed with Aurelia landing gently on Ray's shoulder.
“The place where he is sealed is right here─.”
The crown fell from above Orea's head as she leaned forward, and Ray caught it and returned it.
“Oh, thank you, Ray.”
“… … .”
Aurelia puts the queen's symbol back on her head with a sigh of relief.
The crown was a morphed fragment of orange from the rainbow, radiating a brilliant light of that color.
“Thank you for giving it back to me, Ray.”
“I don’t think you need to be thankful. It was yours originally.”
An orange shard of the rainbow that has temporarily lost ownership.
Thanks to this, Orea regained her original power and activated the magic circle carved into the Land of Disaster, transporting Ray and Veronica there in one go.
The fairies who were causing the disaster were also ordered to retreat, and Philip, who had been desperately continuing his story, took a deep breath and led the children he had rescued to the entrance of the disaster land where the bus was parked.
“This is the place where Kum is sealed.”
Kum, that was the true name of the Blue Guardian who started the first war of the old era.
“… … .”
Ray stared at the scenery before his eyes.
Objects buried in the sand and broken buildings were like any other historical site.
But there was one crucial difference that made it all new.
“It’s big.”
“Yeah, it’s huge. Ray.”
That's right, everything in sight, buildings and objects, was excessively large.
Orea said.
“Kum was a giant. He was the least capable of mana manipulation, but he was blessed with the greatest strength due to his huge body.”
Ray listened.
It was a story I had not heard even from Rael due to the limitations of memory preservation.
“Even after the advent of the age of magic, the giants didn’t care about their weaknesses. They had no problem living without magic. However, Khum, who was tasked with guarding the Blue Shards, was different.”
Ray asked, walking slowly towards the ruins.
“How was it different?”
“I desperately wanted to use magic. And I was jealous and envious of all the other races who prospered through magic. Those feelings were enough to awaken the power of the Blue Shard.”
Ray seemed to know.
Because the blue mana has a nature that mainly resonates with negative emotions such as inferiority complex and anxiety.
“With the power of the Blue Shard fully awakened, Khum was able to use magic. Perhaps… his paranoid desires came to light. He then started a war. He wanted to wipe out all other races so that he could become the superior being.”
“Did you stop it…?”
Veronica's cautious question.
Aurelia shook her head.
“Even if all the other races joined forces, they couldn’t stop him. Khum was a being that enjoyed the great power of the giants as well as the blessing of magic. Pushed and pushed back… After the giants joined forces, they barely succeeded in sealing Khum.”
“Giants?”
“Even the giants feared Khum. He was a rule-breaker and a disruptor of order. They felt a great sense of guilt as a member of their own species, and volunteered to offer their cities as a place to seal Khum. It was a kind of atonement. The other species, whose cities were destroyed and who had no means to do so, accepted the offer.”
Orea added.
After that, he built a disaster zone in front of the city of giants to completely block outside access so that the sad history would not repeat itself.
Veronica's voice became sad.
“But that would mean sacrificing the entire race.”
“It’s better than having Kum wake up again and the world falling into chaos.”
Aurelia answered with a faint smile and said while holding onto Ray's hair to keep it from falling from her shoulder.
“But did you retrieve the fragments from the other Guardians, Ray? I’ve been here with the children the whole time, so I don’t know what happened after the sealing…”
“Redlan started the second war. He caused discord among the other Guardians.”
Ray explained quickly.
Redran has a plan to erase all emotions in the world, and the man and golem who passed through the land of disaster are like his servants.
“And you’re trying to absorb the power of the Blue Guardian to stop me.”
"ah…."
Confusion and shock crossed Orea's face, but she was quick to assess the situation.
“We have to hurry. The place where Kum was sealed is the city’s central square. The servants must have gone that way. The direction is…”
“This way.”
Ray's footsteps as he entered between the buildings were unstoppable.
This was because the emotions that Indiago left behind continued on like footprints in the air.
Gloomy red and blue mana.
Anger, inferiority complex, anxiety, self-loathing.
The group quickly moved along the line of negatively colored emotions.
Knock! Knock knock!
The large buildings and objects buried in the ground created the illusion that the body on this side had become smaller.
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But there was no sign of the giants, only a desolate wind blowing around.
“Orea, have all the giants disappeared…?”
“I haven’t visited the city since the sealing of Khum, so I don’t know what happened there. However, considering that the lifespan of giants is shorter than that of other races, and they don’t have any special technology to extend it, I think they naturally declined. However, they must have left the gatekeepers behind in some way… .”
widely.
It was at that moment that Ray stopped walking.
The place that appeared before my eyes was a very large square, with stone statues of giants standing at regular intervals along the perimeter.
A large creature, reaching 4 or 5 meters in height.
Three bulging pupils.
Veronica looked frightened at the vivid sight of him swinging a high club at any moment, and moved behind Ray, grabbing his clothes.
Orea expressed her puzzlement.
“I don’t remember the giants having this kind of artistic culture….”
“… … .”
Ray glanced at the giant statues and walked to the center of the square.
There was a huge circular platform, topped with large chains and restraints that looked like they could be used to capture monsters.
“There’s no Kum! It was definitely sealed here! Redran’s minions must have gotten there first and taken over!”
“That’s most likely not the case.”
Ray's answer was decisive.
This was because Indiago's embarrassed feelings still remained around the foothold.
'They say that when Indiago arrived here, there was no Kum.'
Where did the missing Kum go?
Did you wake up and move on your own?
Or was it transferred to someone?
At that moment, a sound was heard from around.
Kkuddeuk!
When I turned my head, I could see the surfaces of the stone statues cracking and pieces of stone falling down.
Knock knock!
In an instant, the shells peeled off, and the giants, awakened from their long sleep, muttered with their eyes shining ominously.
“Intruders are eliminated.”
“Unauthorized entry.”
“Annihilate it in its place.”
The giants are getting closer.
But Ray wasn't flustered.
This was because he already knew that they were not real sculptures through the faint mana flowing through their bodies.
'I think it was triggered by getting close to the platform.'
Did Indiago and the Golem use some special method to fool the giants' senses?
Anyway, after subduing them, it seemed like it would be a good idea to establish physical contact and find out Kum's whereabouts.
“Nell! Rom! Pa! Ken! Stop!”
Then Orea flew up from Ray's shoulder and shouted.
“It’s me! Orea! Don’t you recognize me? Now is not the time for us to fight among ourselves! The one who wants to liberate Khum is in this city right now!”
The giants answered without stopping their thumping advance.
“It doesn’t matter who the opponent is.
“Aurelia, you too.”
“All intruders are just intruders.”
“Oh my! Are you all as stiff as a rock? This person here right now! Could this be the one we’ve been waiting for so long?”
For a moment the giants stopped.
But soon the advance resumed.
"lie."
“There is no way he will come back.”
“Aurelia, are you still harboring vain hopes?”
Orea bit her lips tightly and looked back at Ray and Veronica and shouted.
“Persuasion is wrong! It’s better to just get out of here…!”
“No. I don’t have time for that.”
Ray gave him a look.
Veronica, who immediately understood the meaning, immediately cast a small protective and acceleration spell on Ray.
Ray jumped up and rushed forward.
The moment I jumped in front of the giants.
Phew!
The giant's hand, which had been moving slowly, swung its club at lightning speed.
'also.'
The slow movements were a trap to make the opponent let his guard down.
This must be the real speed that the giants with natural physical abilities can display.
Whirlyrick!
Ray's body did a somersault.
I managed to avoid the club by a hair's breadth, and at the same time summoned Lakhria, who was writhing within the yellow shards.
Crackle! Crackle!
After completing her giant transformation, Larkria grabbed the bodies of three giants at once and engaged in a power struggle while emitting electricity.
Meanwhile, Ray landed on the shoulder of the guy who had been swinging the club.
and.
Tear-tear-tear──!
He placed his palm on the giant's neck and fired a shockwave.
The intention was to knock her unconscious, but her thick skin showed no sign of life.
'It was a magic at the level of the 4th circle, but it was completely useless.'
Ray dodged the fiercely flying giant palm and moved to the shoulder of another giant.
Tear-tear-tear──!
This time, much higher output.
A giant fell over with a bang.
Kuuung!
Ray then flew up onto the giants' shoulders, and each time he did, a heavy, dull sound echoed through the plaza.
Orea followed and flew between the giants, disrupting their vision and aligning them.
The wind vines controlled by Veronica bound the giants' feet.
“Lay! Look behind you! Look behind you!”
A giant hammer was flying towards Ray as he leaped high into the air.
It was an attack that read the repetitive pattern and carried out accordingly.
Phew!
The impact surface of the hammer is rapidly expanding. It is too late to dodge.
The mana of the jewels and rings moved according to the boy's imagination and will without any calculation.
Knock knock!
A stone platform was created.
Whioooo!
A dense wind enveloped my entire body, changing the direction of my body.
widely.
After finding his center of gravity on the platform, his fist swung forward and collided with the flying hammer.
Kwaaaaang──!
A loud noise that felt like the earth was shaking.
The hammer was shattered into pieces.
The giant was blown to the end of the square and fell, a strong wind blowing along the path of his fist.
The silence continued.
When the smoky dust cleared, there was not a single giant left standing.
Ray approached the face of the highest-ranking giant, pushing open its massive, unconscious eyelids.
And then he spoke while looking into each other's eyes.
“Get up. I need to hear where the Kum that was sealed here went.”