Arad's unruly savior

Chapter 3996 Dark Giant
After undergoing multiple transformations and refinements, Yuxia's magic book has become an extraordinary treasure. Every page is densely engraved with special symbols and characters, and no one knows how many abilities she recorded in the underworld.

Only the underworld, the final resting place of all things and the ultimate end of all life, has such abundant resources for her to use at will.

Of course, not all the dead in the underworld are friendly. On the contrary, most of them are indifferent or violent. After the light of wisdom in their minds dissipates, what remains is the most basic primal instinct. They have an extremely fanatical desire to attack living beings and are hostile to living beings like Yuxia, which reflects a state of opposition between life and death.

Only by using special items imbued with the aura of the dead, such as Hell Rocks and Soul Crystals, can one have a chance to deceive the heavens.

The reason Yu Xia was able to record so many abilities was because Ye Lin went to "give him face".

The dark valley split open to both sides, revealing a hard layer of rock beneath, creating a scene resembling a deep abyss. Looking down, the rocks were still the normal color at a depth of nearly a hundred meters, but deeper still, a different kind of starlight shone through, deeply penetrating the rock layers, like wooden planks soaked in paint.

Yusha struck again, widening and deepening the crack, creating a vast opening that surprised but was not unexpected... Beneath the Koretkil Mountains, the outlines of modern skyscrapers appeared, their sharp edges and neat doors and windows clearly visible, deeply embedded in the mountain, half-decayed... In another sense, the city had grown a mountain on the outside.

Imiwu casually remarked, "The historical traces in the Demon Realm are many times more exaggerated than those in the Delos Empire. You could dig up ancient ruins anywhere. The Gale Zone, the Night Skyscraper, Bolonx, and so on, all bear traces of the Terra era."

The Demon Realm was originally the most prosperous main city of the ancient planet Terra, named after the most revered Terra. Almost every corner of it bears traces of past civilizations. Now, after countless years, the world has changed and many things have been buried beneath the earth, but that doesn't mean they have disappeared into thin air.

The Delos Empire is worth mentioning because the Perus Empire, which once nearly unified the entire continent of Arad, exhausted its national strength due to the Dark Holy War. Then, Emperor Falmelia's mistaken attack on Xu Zu led to a crushing defeat, causing the vast empire to collapse. Various lords within the empire rose up in rebellion, declared themselves kings, and claimed to be the legitimate rulers of the empire, completely ignoring the remaining royal lineage.

This resulted in the birth of nearly a hundred vassal states and nearly a hundred royal families on the continent of Arad during that era. In the process of gradually flattening and annexing these vassal states by the founding emperor of the Delos Empire, the wealth of nearly a hundred royal capitals was basically seized.

However, a considerable number of the tombs of royal family members and nobles remain hidden and have not been excavated. These tombs contain enormous wealth and are still scattered and buried in various parts of the Delos Empire, yet to see the light of day.

So there's a joke circulating within the empire... that if you're really desperate, just dig. What if you find ancient burial objects? Even if you don't, you'll still get a piece of cultivated land.

Imi muttered, "So the Koretkil Mountains were actually an ancient building area, and this mountain range appeared later. I didn't expect that. It's a bit of a revelation to me."

"That must be because you haven't read enough books." Yue Na always wanted to take down the little witch whenever she had an idea, and she never missed an opportunity.

"Get up there!" Imi immediately pointed towards the outside of the mountain and said, slightly annoyed.

"Terra's history has a terrible gap. Only Lord Hilder and the ancient library with 20 million books have records of that technological age. Isn't it normal that I don't know about it?"

The historical gap is not because a powerful figure erased the painful history of Terra, but because it is a serious problem that naturally arises from a lack of knowledge and education. Apart from scholars who specialize in studying history, ordinary people have no way to receive systematic historical education, and historical transmission basically relies on oral accounts from the previous generation.

Without the transmission of knowledge systems, without books, and without corresponding education, let alone the Demon Realm and Terra, which span a terrifyingly long period of time, even if a major event had occurred in the Demon Realm a hundred years ago, ordinary people would only be completely clueless.

Life is the best vessel for wisdom, but it cannot be contained by only one vessel; the weight of history necessitates multiple vessels.

Only a small number of demons living in wealthy areas have the opportunity and the qualification to receive systematic knowledge education, and then generation after generation, something will always be lost silently.

Therefore, it is quite normal for the civilization of the Demon Realm to be interrupted. What happened in the distant ancient Terra? Why are there ruins and broken walls all over the Demon Realm? Why are there so many races? Only a very few people know the truth. Most races, the people of the Demon Realm, only have a superficial impression of those architectural ruins as "ancient buildings".

"Shall we go down and take a look?" Yu-zhen suggested, but didn't dare to be the first to go.

He had been in the Demon Realm for some time and knew the dangers of this world. Some forbidden and dangerous places, such as Storm Hills where Liu Feng had once ventured, were no less dangerous than the Chaotic Lands of the God Realm. Wandering around recklessly might mean dying without even knowing how.

"Walk."

Ye Lin was the first to set off, descending towards the torn ancient ruins, from ordinary rock layers to starlight-stained rock layers, and then to the deeper architectural ruins encased in soil. The descent was nearly 10,000 meters, and along the way it seemed as if the sediment of history had been deposited, with each meter of soil perhaps representing a great age.

A historian once lamented that true history is actually the earth itself.

Sparse starlight drifted through the abyss like wandering fireflies. Most of the environment remained as thick as ink, making it impossible to see anything. Then, Yue Na raised a brilliant sun, which in an instant shone brightly, dispelling the darkness and revealing the scene beneath the abyss.

The group had entered the underground ruins of the city, as if they had entered another world. The pure white light shone on the ground, and there were traces of collapsed buildings everywhere. The earth had crisscrossing cracks and many shell craters. A tragic atmosphere was overwhelming, as if they were on an ancient battlefield. In addition, there were many huge stones crowded together, shimmering with starlight, and emitting waves of indescribable heat.

"Those can't be Terrastones, can they? They're so big." Imiwu was a little surprised. Stones that can still have energy after countless years immediately make one think of Terrastones from the Demon Realm, especially those highly radioactive Terrastone essences.

She quickly dismissed the idea: "It shouldn't be like that. Terrastone's radiation isn't like that. That kind of radiation feels like it's blinding and burning your blood."

“It should be a meteorite from outer space; its material composition is completely different from that of the Demon Realm,” Ye Lin said.

"Moreover, there is a life force within the rocks. Is it a living thing?" Yuena gazed into the deepest part of the darkness, ignoring the shattered traces of the battlefield, and raised her hand, projecting brilliant holy light upon it.

A massive black rock came into view, hundreds of meters high, its surface extremely rough, with a damp, dark base color. Several irregular bright red marks appeared on its surface, as if blood had been splattered there, emanating a chilling, extremely dangerous aura. This rock possessed a living, breathing energy; a shadow seemed to slowly writhe across its surface. Most eerie of all was its shape, resembling a giant sitting on the ground, knees drawn up, its enormous head bowed.

Everyone learned that when the sunlight poured in from above, the light scattered by all the stars turned into energy, penetrated the thick ground, and then all gathered on the mysterious boulder in front of them.

Yuzhen frowned, feeling somewhat uncomfortable with the underground environment, and calmly said, "Have you noticed? It seems to be affecting everything around here. Look, the light released by Yuena is being distorted."

The pure white, brilliant light was being twisted and drawn by an invisible force, finally converging in a funnel shape at a single point, falling onto the black and red stone giant and completely merging into its body. At the same time, it caused the holy light in other areas to dim significantly, slowly returning to darkness, as it was devouring all visible light.

"The dark background and the light-devouring properties... why does it look so familiar?" Yue Na pondered, drifting into her memories.

"It's Lord Luke's dark nightmare." Rossello arrived from the center of the Earth Rail, holding the Staff of Wisdom, and stated the source with certainty.

The black nightmare that Luke, the creator, spread to the Celestial Realm and the continent of Arad possesses the ability to devour visible light and spiritual light from nature. It is then transformed into light energy by the machinery of Silent City and inputted into Luke's body to help him maintain his sanity and restore his state as the King of Hebron.

As a former member of Silent City, Rossello was very familiar with the Black Nightmare's abilities, so he recognized it at a glance.

Rossello speculates that a portion of the Black Nightmare must have entered this place for some reason and then attached itself to this mysterious humanoid boulder. After the Battle of Silent City broke out, Luke left the Demon Realm, and the Black Nightmare here was not retrieved.

"But upon closer inspection, it seems a little different. The black nightmare here is more devouring, not only the light, but also the life force in our flesh and blood can be quietly taken away."

After Rossello's identification, Imiwu also confirmed that the special energy existing in Sonar's body was actually a mutated black nightmare, which was affected by the stone giant's attraction and devouring of starlight and remained in his body.

"So is it alive, a stone that has come to life over the years? Or is the life force we perceive actually blood?" Rossello stared at the black and red boulder, especially the red parts, which looked more and more like blood.

But what kind of powerful being's blood could remain unfaded even after being buried underground for countless years? Could it be the legendary deity who perished on Mount Koretkil?

And as expected, her astrology skills became more active than ever before after she arrived here. Even in the depths of the abyss, she could see the stars clearly on a spiritual level.

Could this place, the abyss of Mount Corretkil, be the origin of astrology?

"Then the root of all this anomaly must be this humanoid boulder, how about we destroy it?" Liu Feng rolled up his sleeves, eager to try, and sharp wind blades already materialized around his body.

The wind follows the winds of nature, adhering to the principle that all things in heaven and earth have spirits and should not be harmed unless necessary. However, this humanoid boulder clearly does not belong to this category. It may be a natural spirit, but it has the ability to devour the light of spirit and flesh.

He had been unknowingly affected not long ago, but fortunately the curse of the Goddess of the Underworld was transferred.

If it is allowed to continue to exist on Mount Kretkiel, at some point in the future, its influence will likely extend beyond Staten Island, and the light of other areas in the Demon Realm will also be plundered.

Sensing the wind's attack intent, the silent stone giant underwent a sudden change. A rubbing sound came from its head, and then it opened a pair of pitch-black eyes, like two huge black agates inlaid inside. Behind the agates, numerous points of light drifted, then converged into two blinding beams of light. Wherever its gaze fell, the power of the Black Nightmare reappeared, creating a suffocating feeling that gripped the throat, seeping into the bone marrow, and invisibly trying to devour the spiritual light possessed by everyone.

Archangel Yuena was the first to be caught in the gaze, but she was unaffected.

Ye Lin exclaimed in surprise, "It's not that the rocks are sentient, it's that they're alive, giants."

"Giants?" The demons present were all surprised for a moment when they heard this, because there was indeed a race of giants in the demon realm, from the home planet of power, Greenbrad, the home of the First Apostle, Cain.

When the Demon Realm came into contact with Greenblad, it wasn't just the First Apostle, Cain, who ascended to the Demon Realm; there were also a considerable number of giants.

The most ordinary members of their race are tens of meters tall and are born with terrifying strength. Among them are many mutants, some of whom are hundreds of meters tall, and some can use magic. Moreover, every giant is extremely warlike. After descending upon the Demon Realm, they wreaked havoc in all directions, causing considerable trouble for the Demon Realm.

Later, it was Cain who coldly intervened, suppressing the giants of Greenblad with unparalleled power. He could shatter their proud bodies with a single punch, killing most of the Adventists and leaving them mangled and bloodied. The remains littered the land, and the remaining few giants, fearing the power of Cain and the Angels, lived in the Zemega region, also known as the Main region, which borders the Staten Island region.

But now a giant that should have lived on the earth has been discovered underground. It's hard to believe how it got here.

Ye Lin explained, "It's a mutant of the Greenbrad giant race, possessing abilities of darkness and earth, which is why it can penetrate deep into the earth. We should try to communicate with it if we have the chance."

Giants are naturally warlike, physically powerful and unparalleled, and also quite intelligent. There are precedents of communication between the demon realm and these giants, and some scholars have even mastered the language of giants.

However, in the face of Ye Lin's mental communication, the giant not only did not respond, but slowly raised his thick rock arm and reached out a terrifying hand to grab Yue Na. It was as if there was a black hole vortex in its palm, which burst out with an extremely powerful suction force, distorting the light around everyone.

Yue Na was equally decisive, swinging her cross to deliver a powerful blow. The moment the two collided, energy surged, sending a large amount of debris flying out.