"To live is to die for an unexpected journey."

Samuel, the Bone Priest, has imparted much knowledge and experience to the people, and is a wise man worthy of respect.

But Zikad remembered it, and he couldn't forget it.

For the ancestors of the White Bones, death was a rare and ordinary thing.

In the early years of the Resurrection Kingdom, the civilian mortality rate was high.

Farmers often encounter predatory beasts, most commonly wild boars and bison.

They will suddenly rush into the field to feast, and if the farmer dodges and escapes, they will be knocked over by them, and when they land, they will become a pile of broken bones, and if they are unlucky, their skulls will be crushed and they will die on the spot.

Herders are most afraid of electric wolves and rock bears.

These two otherworldly monsters are not as talkative as beasts. If the beasts that rush into the fields and houses are in search of something to eat, and at best they are stealing and robbing, then the electric wolf and the rock bear are purposefully killing people and stealing goods.

When they attack, they will first kill all the surrounding herders before enjoying the various livestock in the pasture. Sometimes they are not there to eat, but just to enjoy the process of hunting and killing.

The kingdom's military was not strong enough to keep the farms and pastures safe, and the soldiers struggled to deal with the supernatural monsters for hundreds of years.

Until Yao Shen set his eyes on this world.

With the advent of the Prophet Cat Grass, a series of changes began to take place in the entire Resurrection Kingdom: higher remuneration was raised to encourage animal husbandry and planting, the army was expanded and strengthened, and the king had to follow the election system......

Zikad has seen the kingdom upside down.

During the unexpected journey to death, Zikad felt the difference that being alive brought about for the first time.

The mage Andrei told him about the outside world.

"I'm from the fifth level of the Abyss, where there have been wars in the past, but it's also a wonderful place. There are many mage towers we have built on the ground, centaur cavalry patrolling and running on the plains, monks practicing on foot in the forests and mountains, and vampires turned into bats, often passing by the night......"

"If you have a chance, you can go and have a look."

"You are an optimistic adventurer, Zikad, you will encounter a lot of trouble and danger, but that is the path you will choose...... Some people will choose the roads that many people have walked, and those places are safe and flat, but because they have been trodden everywhere, it is difficult to have any surprises. ”

Andrei smiled and patted Zikad's withered shoulder: "And you, my friend, you will walk those off-the-beaten-path paths. I know you're going to do that, if not now, and someday in the future. ”

Soon after, the hero Sidar accomplished a near-impossible feat.

It proves with its actions on the battlefield that the Bone Ancestors can also be transformed into feared and revered giants, and that the thin skeleton body does not only represent humility and cannon fodder.

Anything is possible.

At the same time, Zikad was also hired as a collector for the Sand City Newspaper, and was responsible for local reporting in the Kingdom of Resurrection.

It tracked and reported the marriage between the martyr and Theodore in the [Kashima Shrine], and the gods and the apostle Theodore were too low-key, and they appeared outside the shrine and were completely unheard from.

The news was so small that it was only one sentence, and Zikad kept some elements in the report that the masses liked.

After the report came out, it was beaten several times, and the other party attacked hard and accurately, so that before Zikad could come to his senses, he had been divided by five horses. It had severed bones all over its body, and it took a long time to recover.

Then it was recruited by the Di Newspaper Hall to the headquarters of Shacheng, where it was responsible for local reporting.

……

With the baby in his hand, Zikad was in a wonderful mood.

The ancestors of the white bones were unable to have children, and the increase in population completely depended on the [White Bone Mound], so there was no concept of family, and it was more divided by occupational groups.

It had been told by Gen Andre before.

"It was very difficult for my wife to give birth to a child, she was a vampire, and it was very difficult for an extraordinary person to give birth to the next generation...... Alyosha and I were scared at first, we were both too busy and didn't have time to spend with our children. ”

"But it's an amazing feeling to actually have children. Zikad, I can't say, but I just feel more hope and fighting spirit for life...... I became more of a qualified adult and role model. Children are the future, and the world belongs to them. ”

André said this with a smile of satisfaction on his face, as if he had received a gift from the gods.

Zikad carefully held the baby dug out from under the ice.

He had delicate and slender skin, but his whole body was as cold as snow, and he looked so weak, his body was slightly dilated and contracted.

The Nibelungen child slowly opened his eyes.

His eyelashes are long, and the pupils in his eyes are blue, like jewels. His tiny lips twitched, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't.

In the end, he just grasped Zicard's bony fingers tightly with his small, soft hands, as if nothing could tell him to let go.

But Zikad has a way.

It flipped out of the toolbox, smeared lard on the bones of its hand, and slipped out between the baby's fingers.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect to dig you out."

"You just go back to sleep."

Zikad lowered the baby back into the previous pit, quickly buried the ice, and tamped the ground with a shovel.

When it gathered up and turned to leave, it found that the child had crawled out of the ice, looking at him curiously with blue eyes.

Zikad walked, he walked, and the child crawled deftly on the ice, not slow at all.

This left Zikad in a bit of a dilemma.

Bury him again, and the child may still come out. According to Andrei, the child is very energetic, and when he sleeps heavily, he wakes up like a berserker.

Zikad rummaged through his backpack.

Pregnant!

It found a bottle of potion [sleeping potion] and poured it all down on the baby. The other party quickly fell asleep, lying on the ground on all fours and not moving.

Very good.

Good boy.

Zikad buried it again in an underground ice cave.

It should be fine now.

But when it walked to the edge of the fog country with its backpack on its back, it was surprised to see that the child was following behind him at some point.

Although the baby couldn't help but yawn all the time, he stubbornly followed.

Zikad realized that the child had a stubborn desire to follow him, but he did not dare or could not leave the Land of Mist.

So when he walked out of the Land of Mist, the baby stared blankly, but with a look of nostalgia on his face - but he didn't cry.

Zikad gave him the empty bottle of the sleeping agent as a souvenir.

……

Back at the newspaper office in Shacheng, Zikad handed over the crystal image he had taken with [Coral Crystal] to the newspaper office. After extracting these crystals, the artist will copy them and put them on paper.

A few days later, the latest issue of the Sand City Mansion newspaper was released, and one of the headlines was "Exploring the Land of Mists" written by Zikad.

This is the first detailed record of a visit to the Land of Mist, though there is no mention of the baby Nibelungen in the ice.

A month later, Zikad re-entered the Land of Fog.

This time it's going to investigate a strange thing that has caused a stir.

According to the scholars of the Temple Society, the ground of the Land of Mist is frequently earthquaked, and the ice begins to fluctuate violently like ocean waves, making it difficult and dangerous for them to collect ice fountain toxins.

Deep underground in Niflheim, there seems to be some kind of power that is gradually coming back to life.

To this, the Blood Knight, who guarded the Inexhaustible Spring, simply said, "It's a giant." ”

Legend has it that the Land of Mist is one of the sources of giants.

At least one giant is being bred in the Land of Mist.

Zikad carried his bag all the way into the Land of Fog, and on this ice field covered with cold white mist, it experienced two small earthquakes that nearly damaged the precious [Coral Crystal].

While it protects the most important collector unit, the large kit is missing.

It contained not only the essentials such as potions, pickaxes, shovels, ropes, and a steam stove, but also important special greases that Zikad had to apply all over his body so that the bones and joints of his body would not freeze and become brittle.

Death is approaching.

Just as Zikad was showing his worries, a teenager walked out of the fog. He found Zikad's kit and returned it in good condition.

"Thank you very much! What a help! ”

Zikad was excited, and said in the Yao language: "I'm Zikad, the wind collector of the Di Newspaper Pavilion, are you a member of the Shrine Society?" ”

The boy smiled at him.

That's when Zikad sensed something was wrong.

The boy was dressed in tattered clothes, which were worn by adults, his hands were not gloved, his neck was exposed to the ice mist, and his feet were still bare under the wide trouser legs.

He looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, with snow-white hair, dazzling white skin, and blue eyes.

The boy couldn't speak, but he understood what Zikad meant.

He gestured to the pendant around his neck, a small glass bottle tied with a rope.

Zikad observed.

"Digging? No, digging up the ice? ”

"Sleep?"

"Drink water? Drink? Drink medicine? ”

"Leave, apart?"

……

Zikad's jaw clicked, and a tooth was broken.

It finally knew what the other side was talking about.

The child was telling him that he was the baby who had been dug out by himself.

Zikad was both excited and surprised.

The Nibelungens grew up so fast that they could go from baby to teenager in just one month.

Then the ground shook again.

With a surprised look on the boy's face, he looked into the distance.

Zikad barely managed to hold his body.

It found that a huge hole had been cracked in the ground, and many people had crawled out of the ground and the glacier. They are all like teenagers, with white hair and white skin, blue eyes, but most of them are very young, almost all children, and there are very few boys and girls.

At the center of all Nibelungen children is a young man who is difficult to distinguish between male and female.

His silver hair was spread out, enveloping his body almost completely, like some kind of mysterious totem. All the children approached him and reached out to touch him.

And the moment they touched, the children merged with the long-haired young man, making the young man even taller. With the assimilation and integration of a large number of children, the form of the young people in the center is constantly changing and distorting.

He was transformed into a towering giant, clad in armor made of ice and snow, with a faint blue light lingering on his armor.

The boy looked at Zicard, then at the giant.

He pointed to the giant who was heading this way, and motioned for himself to go over as well.

Zikad didn't feel good.

As a bone mage, it also has a certain understanding of spell basics and various abilities. It is a spell of complete fusion, almost symbiote.

The giants of the Fog Nation were originally formed by the children of the Nibelungen - in other words, the Nibelungen were more like the children of the Fog Nation giants.

It took a large number of children to form a full-fledged giant.

This way of growing up made Zikad feel dangerous and weird.

It grabbed the boy: "Don't go. ”

With a confused and hesitant expression on the boy's face, he gestured to indicate that the giant's call made it difficult for him to fight.

"I don't know if you can understand...... You can go past and be part of the giants. ”

Zikade gestured: "You can also live as a child outside without going back, becoming a giant is not your only choice in life." ”

The boy seemed to understand.

But he had an uneasy and nervous look on his face, as if he was terrified at the mere thought of resisting a giant.

The boy stood still, still hesitating.

However, the giant had already completed the fusion of the other Nibelungen children, and was walking towards this side step by step. At this time, it is already more than 30 meters tall, like a small mountain, and every step it takes will shake the earth.

The giant's broad five fingers fell from the sky towards the boy.

The boy suddenly turned his face to a look of pain and fear.

Zikad grabbed him and dragged him behind him.

"Run! Get out! ”

The boy seemed to understand, and ran away.

Zikad also tried to escape, but was smashed by a slap from the giant. At the last moment, Zikad expertly threw his skull far away with both hands, but unfortunately it got stuck on an ice pick.

The giant lifted his foot and stomped on Zikad's skull.

In the last moments of his life, Zikad had neither fear nor fear in his heart.

It's just chagrin.

It's a shame that I couldn't capture the Nibelungen children growing up to be giants.

……

However, the projected fragment of death did not materialize.

A flash of black lightning fell, causing the giant to stagger back two steps.

Zikad came back to his senses and saw a black-armored knight standing in front of him.

Blood Knight Nevid.

"Who allowed you to hurt the Yao, Frost Giant?"

The giant roared in anger and unwillingness, but eventually it spread its hands as if eagerly explaining something.

The Blood Knight just raised the big sword in his hand and pointed at the other party: "Next time, I will send you back to the Inexhaustible Spring." ”

The Frost Giant's whole body froze, and it hurriedly turned and retreated, quickly disappearing into the ice mist.

Zikad breathed a sigh of relief.

Where Lord Yaoshen's divine power is, the Yao clan will be able to get the greatest security.

The Land of Mist is the territory and origin of the giants, as well as the bed and home of the Nibelungen, but only the god Yao is the master here.