"That's what protects us, salt? I didn't know that salt had this function, and I thought they could only be used as a flavoring agent. Lothar leaned over and carefully dipped his fingers in some white powder from the ground, put it under his nose and sniffed it, the smell of sea salt was still easily recognizable thanks to his civilian life for more than a month. Unlike the Count, however, Fettis, who had finished handling the wounded, walked over to the salt powder, her brow furrowed, as if she was recalling something.

"I'm afraid it's not salt, or rather, it's not just salt, Karon's friend. Have you ever heard the men on the docks tell the legend of the giant, especially about his death and rebirth?" the witch didn't touch the grains of salt, she looked up through the light blue phosphorescence to see the rock wall overhead. But it was too high, and Fettis could only see the darkness that engulfed everything.

Lothar has really heard a lot of legends about the Thunder Giant. Not to mention the deeds of those who claim to be descendants of the Thunder Giant's bloodline, the richness of the Thunder Giant's content alone can already be compiled into a thick book. Of course, most of them Lothar hadn't heard of yet, but even the limited parts he had heard were distinctly different. The difference lies in the complexity of the story, and in some stories it can be summed up in two simple sentences, i.e. what the giant did when he got there, but there is no mention of why he did it, and the consequences and achievements of doing so.

Such stories are the most numerous of the rumors that Lothar hears, but they are not the most well-known. The story that the sailors know is probably not so simple, the Thunder Giant in their mouth is a human-like being, he has a human way of thinking, but his vision and actions are like gods. In fact, it's not just about the Thunder Giants, but also the protagonists of those word-of-mouth myths and legends. This is also the kind of story that people in the world like and accept the most.

But not all stories can be divided into two or somewhat, and although there are few of them, even less than the first, Lothar was lucky enough to hear one or two of the more complex and longer stories. These stories are often the result of bards hired from the taverns, and some from the mouths of the few old people in Heartless Bay. In these stories, the Thunder Giant's actions are once again unpredictable and far from the average person, but the reasons and purposes for his actions are clear and unusual, even though they may seem unreasonable or even absurd to others.

In this third story, Lothar is especially remembered for the legend of the existence and death of the Thunder Giant itself. Everything has a beginning, just as people come from the mother's conception, plants come from the germination of seeds, and even the world itself seems to many people to have a reason that is not necessarily certain, but at least worth believing. Then as a thunder giant, he should be the same. And what is the origin of the Thunder Giant? It is known that the Thunder Giant should be the only individual in this world, and this is true in all legends. The giant is lonely, and as such, his personality is both gloomy and irritable, and that is because he has no companions to communicate with and no need to compromise with anyone. Such giants, some say, were incarnated from thunder, sons of the sky. So some people say that giants are the product of the union of the ocean and the sky, the sky is the father, and the ocean is the mother, so the giant is always embraced by the ocean and watched by the sky.

Gradually, however, the sailors no longer agreed with either of these views, not believing that the storm giant was the god of the heavenly sea, just as they never thought that they should obey the laws of any country, nor should they have to worship a god who ruled the sea. The sea is immeasurable and disorderly, so everything is contained in it. And as a symbol of this spirit, the Thunder Giant should not be derived from something like the sky and the sea, as the priest said. They believe that the Thunder Giant, once a person. And the reason why he became a giant is naturally there are countless theories.

But in the end, these statements all point to one thing, that people will die. So giants will also die, and rightfully so, without any problems. But a giant is a giant after all, and even if he was once a human being, people don't want him to drift down the river into the sea after death, like them, for fish and shrimp to eat, and be ravaged by the waves. Therefore, after the death of a giant, his body does not simply disappear.

"His muscles become an archipelago to shield seafarers from storms, his blood becomes a stream to feed ships that dock, his breath becomes a monsoon to propel sails, his bones..."

"His bones are scattered and dissolved, which is the origin of the salt in the ocean. The witch said this for Lothar. It's just that she looks at the story from a very different perspective than the Count, and in the eyes of Fettis and the other spellcasters, the so-called legend is by no means purely groundless. Because of the occasional foolish dream, there is no way to spread it in the crowd for so long.

It is true that people love these fictional things and make them into poems and burlesque performances. But people never make up something they have never experienced, any more than a painter can paint a color that has never been discovered. If you are not recognized, you cannot describe it. In terms of cognition, people tend to think that people who are far away are not as good as people in the vicinity, and people in the early years are not as good as people now, so they will regard things that have been handed down from far away and ancient times as nonsense. But is that really the case? In the eyes of the caster, whether it was in ancient times or in distant places, they may be different from the current people in appearance and habits, but in essence, they are all the same kind of creatures. And since they are the same creature, why do the words come out with different weights depending on the region and the era? Spellcasters have always attached importance to legends, because they believe that although the skin of legends will change due to circulation, the core must not change.

"Now, we see his bones, we see the salt of his bones, so he exists. And right there it is. Fettis's expression was quite serious, "Well, since death is credible, rebirth must not be a lie." Karon, you said that you once received a revelation that made you think that the purpose of the minaret was to wait for the temple to come at a certain time. Do you think that the Krakens can't wait to destroy it, and what you encounter in the Spire, is it because that moment is coming?"