Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 203 Those Ignivas
As Elias recounted his story, Du Yi gradually learned about some things he had never heard of before.

According to Elias, the so-called chosen ones are those watched over by the god of courage. They are all extraordinary strongmen, each of whom can be said to dominate their own territory. And the champion, literally, is the true number one, and no one can surpass him.

The term "Chosen Champions" is a collective name for these powerful individuals. As those watched over by the God of Courage, they have an extremely deep obsession with becoming stronger, and this obsession, in turn, makes them powerful.

"In other words, it's less of a race and more of an identity?"

Du Yi roughly understood what Elias was saying.

These so-called chosen champions are not from the same race, or even from different planets. The only reason they have come together is because of the God of Courage. They all want to prove their courage and strength to the God of Courage and prove that they are the true number one.

As for how they prove themselves...

That's how it is now.

"The chosen champions who can sense this fluctuation will all gather here, just to determine the strongest one."

This is Elias's statement.

In Du Yi's eyes, this was also easy to understand—according to Elias, as those hierarchical systems gradually unfolded, there would inevitably be high-level powerhouses, and the aura and fluctuations emanating from those newly emerging powerhouses would attract the attention of them, the chosen champions of the starry sky.

At this time, these chosen champions descended upon this place, each fighting for survival alone. Only the strongest could leave alive, while the weaker ones would become corpses, buried in the soil of this planet.

This made Du Yi's expression somewhat subtle.

If he were the chosen champion who parachuted onto this planet, this story might sound quite exciting. He could easily turn a planet into a training ground for his subordinates, a feat that would be awe-inspiring. But as the one who was parachuted into the planet, Du Yi was anything but happy.

"This god of courage is just too outrageous!"

Du Yi started scratching his head with his tail.

"So, what's this about the God of Courage?"

"About the god of courage..."

Elias continued.

As for the God of Courage, he didn't really know how to say it. After all, strictly speaking, no chosen champion had ever actually seen the God of Courage. All they could feel was the God of Courage's gaze and the encouragement from the bottom of his heart.

However, there is indeed a very simple and direct way to prove the existence of the god of courage.

"Experience and level, these are the divine spells of the God of Courage."

Elias began to explain.

Although experience and levels may seem unrelated to the so-called God of Courage, anyone who has experienced them knows that they can indeed make people infinitely stronger. After all, with experience and levels, people have at least a basic direction. Even if they didn't know how to become stronger before, after seeing the increase in experience, they can immediately find their own path to becoming stronger.

As one's level increases and becomes accustomed to growing stronger, the courage within gradually emerges. After all, the methods for gaining experience and leveling up are fixed; the only way to level up is to continuously challenge stronger opponents and improve oneself time and time again.

"So that's it..."

Du Yi roughly understood what was going on.

After that, Du Yi asked Elias about some things among the stars, such as what exactly happened in the starry sky and what things were there. Unfortunately, as the chosen champion, Elias had always been a martial arts fanatic and never thought about anything other than becoming stronger, so he didn't know much about the forces involved.

"As for the forces in the starry sky... it's impossible to count them all. After all, the starry sea is just too vast, and many new forces will always emerge. Large forces will occupy an entire star system, while small forces will occupy an entire planet. As for places like yours, where even the planet itself is not yet fully unified, that's even more common."

That's all Elias knew. After all, he never made a conscious effort to remember the names of those forces. As the chosen champion of the God of Courage, all he needed to know was where the strong were and where to prove his courage. That was enough.

However, it was clear that this answer was too vague, so Elias simply added some of his combat experience as a supplement—although he didn't deliberately remember the names of those forces, he did remember all the opponents he had fought.

"Like that time... in your timeline, it was probably eighty or ninety years ago?"

Elias tried hard to recall.

"At that time, I encountered an opponent who was skilled in using fire. Those people's application of consciousness was simply divine. My armor was almost burned through by those flames. Fortunately, I killed the long-haired demon elephant that he used as a mount with a single sword strike..."

"Wait a minute?"

Upon hearing this, Du Yi suddenly felt that the name sounded somewhat familiar.

Using the power of fire and riding elephants... and most importantly, these elephants are all hairy?

"Are these adversaries you're talking about called the Ignivas?"

"How do you know?"

Elias was taken aback.

Now that he thought about it, he did remember that the race was indeed called Ignivas—but how did this ancient serpent, who had clearly never even left the planet, know about the Ignivas?
It's important to know that the Ignivas are a typical interstellar race. They never stay on any planet for long, since the hairy elephants they ride will devour everything on that planet, making the Ignivas race infamous.

However, they were merely infamous; no one could truly wipe out the Ignivas. After all, the Ignivas' fighting prowess was simply outrageous. They not only thwarted the bloody sieges against them by other races on several occasions, but they even committed the insane act of burning the entire planet to the ground.

"I didn't ask you that."

Du Yi shook his head repeatedly, then stared intently at Ilias in front of him.

"I ask you, where are those Ignivas now?"

(End of this chapter)