Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 234 Even Giant Beasts Have Limits

In the eyes of the chosen champion Elias, while fighting the ancient serpent was troublesome, it was not entirely impossible to win.

Yes, the ancient serpent possesses formidable power and has even taken control of the underworld, becoming the new God of Death. However, as the one who has had the most contact with this ancient serpent, the Chosen Champion Elias can sense the serpent's greatest weakness.

The greatest weakness of this ancient snake is its laziness.

Although it wasn't completely immobile, based on his understanding of this ancient serpent, it was actually quite inactive most of the time—even if it would shout a few slogans and claim it was going to do something, it would quickly forget about them as time went by.

This is a common situation for many giant beasts. They are born with huge bodies and have no natural enemies in their environment. Their excessive power even leads many local natives to worship them as gods. Their excessive power allows them to do many things easily, but from another perspective, this is not actually a good thing.

Because they can do anything easily, they are indifferent to everything, and this indifference makes them lack motivation for anything.

Without motivation, there is no way to move forward.

Without the ability to move forward, it's impossible to become stronger.

This directly resulted in many giant beasts being able to show off their power for a while, but ultimately they would be defeated by warriors of humble origins. The reason for this was simply that while the giant beasts were stagnating, these warriors of humble origins were constantly growing stronger.

It is precisely because they are aware of their own weakness that they have the potential to become strong. On the contrary, those who are born strong will become weak without realizing it when they become complacent in their strength.

Even the retinues of those giant beasts are like this, which is why these giant beasts are often called indigenous gods—not only because those who worship them are a group of local natives, but also because these local natives can only have a level of civilization like that of tribal natives.

Just like the retinue of this ancient serpent, these local natives, even though they have received the blessing of the god of courage, are still stuck at the level of ancient bronze smelting - which is so primitive that it cannot be more primitive. They have not even entered the Iron Age. As for other technologies, they are even more primitive.

As for the reason, it's actually easy to understand. After all, if these local natives have any problems they can't solve, their first instinct is to seek out their snake god. The snake god's power can solve almost any problem, so naturally they don't need to progress.

Just like their serpent god, they too have become addicted to that illusory power.

"Therefore, even if they have accepted the influence of the God of Knowledge, they are not invincible. After all, they are still at the level of natives, and they have not truly given up their dependence on that ancient serpent."

This also means that although this planet seems invincible, it is actually a disorganized mess inside. These chosen champions of the God of Courage still have a chance to defeat the powerful enemy and destroy this planet.

"As long as we keep making progress and keep upgrading, these local natives who are stuck in the same place will eventually fall at our feet."

Elias had such confidence in victory and in the future.

But soon, Elias lost his confidence.

"what is this?"

Ilias stared blankly at the greatsword brought back by a chosen champion.

It looked like the greatsword used by these chosen champions, with a thick blade and a rather sharp edge. You should know that these two are actually somewhat contradictory, and it is not an easy thing to do both at the same time. At least with the local natives' technology of only being able to smelt bronze, it was impossible to even imitate it.

But that's where the problem lies.

There was not a single trace of it having been used.

This is not their sword at all.

"...Where did you get it from?" Elias gritted his teeth.

The chosen champion who brought the greatsword back also shared his experience.

He originally intended to try to gain some experience outside the city, which was something that these chosen champions often did during this period: by attacking the local native immortals, they could gain experience and quickly increase their level.

This time, the chosen champion found a sword-forging immortal.

The battle was lost as expected. Even though the Chosen Champion had reached level 250, he couldn't possibly defeat the level 370 Sword Forging Immortal. After the defeat, the Chosen Champion was pinned to the ground by the Sword Forging Immortal until he took off his pants and pressed them against the counter before the Sword Forging Immortal let him leave.

This sword was forced upon him by the sword-forging immortal, and the price he paid was that pair of pants.

"This……"

The Chosen Champion, who brought back the greatsword, hadn't realized anything was wrong, but Elias's face had already turned ashen.

The greatsword in their hands, apart from lacking enchanted runes and thus unable to harm the soul, was in all other aspects, even the level of steel smelting, extremely close to the greatswords they used themselves.

"So, it's only been a few days?"

Elias suddenly felt a sense of disorientation.

Just a few days ago, these local natives were still in the primitive era where they hadn't even fully mastered bronze smelting. Now, a few days later, they have skipped iron smelting and jumped straight into the steel age.

And the level of steel smelting...

"Extremely skilled! Even comparable to the craftsmanship of those in the Star Sea!"

Ilias's forehead began to sweat.

If these local natives had taken one or two thousand years to develop to this level, he wouldn't be surprised at all, and might even find it a bit slow. If these local natives had taken a few hundred years to achieve this level, he would be somewhat surprised, but it would still be within his comprehension.

But now, in just a few days, these local natives have already made such a leap.

This was something he simply couldn't understand.

"Even with the influence of the god of wisdom, it couldn't have been this fast... It's only been a few days? How many days have passed?"

Thinking of this, Elias subconsciously raised his head.

In the distance, the giant snake coiled outside the city remained as conspicuous as ever.

This time, however, instead of the smoke rising from the giant snake as before, a group of local natives gathered around it, seemingly talking about something.

The giant snake's expression had completely lost its previous lazy look.

(End of this chapter)