"William, allow me to call you that one last time as a brother. You are the one who gave me everything I am now...... Keep me by your side. How I wish we could go back ten years ago, and you were still the same brother who took care of everything for me...... Uncle Bernie, William pleases you. Warren grabbed William, who had fallen into a coma, and put him on the back of the incoming horse.

"Warren, do you really want this...... I'm sorry to let young people like you die in front of me. ”

"Take William out of here, wherever you go...... At least to live. Warren took one last look at William, got on his horse, and turned his horse's head.

"For William!" He mustered up the courage to draw his sword and rushed at the red-eyed giants, for the sake of his beloved brother......

Bernie watched as the giant at the only exit from the canyon was drawn away by Warren as he drove William, who was already unconscious, as he rushed over. Maybe as long as you break out of this canyon, you can escape the pursuit of these giants.

Two hours earlier, William had entered the canyon with Warren, Bernie, and Zach, and they were tracking the trail of a frost giant. When they first spotted the giant, everything seemed hopeful.

The massive humanoid, about 13 yards tall, was covered in blue-gray moss-covered stone skin, and its body was slow and heavy. Their arms were so long that they slumped even beyond their knees.

It's almost impossible to discern its expression, and its features are almost like carvings in the rock. Strangely, its eyes flashed red. On the whole, it looks like a big sick guy, aimlessly searching for something, staggering and barely able to stand still.

Could this be the rumored Frost Giants, but shouldn't they be giant carnivorous creatures that are agile, powerful, and cunning?

Perhaps they should try to attack and cut off its head, which requires two horses to carry.

"Let's follow, cut off its heels, and make it stop."

Then they followed the giant into the canyon.

Gradually, it approached from behind it, and the giant remained deaf to them. When the weapon slashed at the giant's heel, the blade easily embedded in its stone skin.

"Whew...... Whoop ......" The giant let out a cry of pain under the attack of the humans, resounding throughout the canyon. But the giant didn't fight back at them, and seemed to have some kind of mission driving it forward......

The moment the giant fell, it shook countless rock chips like a collapsed boulder on a cliff, and the "rocks" attached to its body peeled off like layers of shell. In the blink of an eye, it was a lifeless statue of a real carved stone.

They thought the expedition would end in such an unbelievable way, but they were wrong, and one giant fell, awakening more giants from the giant "coffin" covered in ice and snow. As far as they could see, the canyon turned out to be a narrow pasture with many giants buried.

They roared and struggled to their mossy bodies to their feet, their myriad glowing red eyes slowly opening. They are like hungry beasts that have woken up from hibernation and are now in need of food the most.

Some giants instinctively walked out of the canyon, while others sniffed the air with their heads held high, as if they had spotted the smell of fresh food.

"William, we have to get out of here! They found us. May they all be as slow as the dying giant......"

"Quick, more and more giants are coming around!"

It turns out that not all giants are dying "old men", and some giants actually run and chase after them, like a living frost giant.

"My lord, get out of the way!" Zakra knocked William away with his horse's head, and he stabbed his spear into the palm of the outstretched hand.

"No...... Zack! William turned his head and shouted.

It was too late, and in the face of such a swift giant, the spear in Zack's hand snapped as easily as if it had been pierced into an iron plate. He was grabbed by the giants...... When William wanted to turn the horse's head and go back to save him, another huge palm slapped him.

Before the coma, in the blur...... He seemed to see his favorite soldier, the first to die before his eyes.

……

When he woke up, he could feel himself on horseback, and the bumpy horseback meant that they were running away. I only remember the giant's palm, but fortunately, I subconsciously knelt down to the side of the horse at that time, thinking that the horse was already crushed.

"Warren, Warren, are you there? Zach ......"

"William, let's ...... for the time being Escaped. Bernie's words were staccato and his voice grew weaker.

Puff ...... The horse gradually stopped as its owner fell from the horse.

"Bernie!"

William realized that there were only two of them left, and he fell to the ground and crawled towards Bernie. He had not yet fully recovered from the impact.

Bernie's left hand was severed from his shoulder, revealing even red and white stubble. He had lost so much blood that he could even see the specks of blood behind him.

"Bernie, hold on...... Hold on! "And there was nothing around him that could be used to bandage the wound.

Stunned, he knelt in front of Bernie and hugged him in his arms, and William kept shouting "Bernie...... Bernie, Warren and Zach! But no one could answer his cries......

William? Arnos thought he was ready to sacrifice everything.

He was relieved when he loudly announced in the eyes of the crowd in astonishment, disbelief, and disdain that he was about to go through the highest trial of Anos.

He can finally draw a line with the cold-blooded monsters in human skin, and he can finally stand on the commanding heights of life and hold his head high and despise everything.

It had been hundreds of years since a child of the Janos family had raised such a trial. And after successfully completing the trial, he will become the Great Lord of the North unconditionally. Become the admiration of all beings in the North.

Perhaps hundreds of years ago, the young and haughty Anos proposed this trial, just like William now. But as a result, after their deaths, they were symbolically praised and passed on.

It's not too bad, is it? At least William can finally escape this vortex and shackles.

But he is now beginning to wonder if the choice was right or wrong...... Let those who trust Him go with Him to their deaths. As a result, every one of them died for him, and he survived here.

When he, as the eldest son, shirked his responsibilities and indulged himself, it was her younger sister who took everything on his shoulders. Instead of him, he became the "hostage" of the family and went to the royal city, and then fought for the empire for several years as a knight.

Everyone else is ridiculing and ridiculing this cowardly Yanos as being as good as an adopted girl.

So this is what William owes her, but it's a pity that he understood it too late. It wasn't until his mother was killed that he woke up to the fact that he could feel a pair of invisible hands secretly controlling everything...... Including Lillian? The death of Anos's biological parents, and the death of his mother.

He fell to the ground and wept bitterly, not in years.

He didn't want to run away anymore, and he picked up Bernie's sword, just for his mother and sister......