Apotheosis

Zen turned his head to glance coldly at the chieftain of the Elephant Man race. "You changed so quickly. Just now, you were intent on killing me, yet you say this is a 'misunderstanding'?"

The chieftain nervously looked away from Zen. "Ramsay," he hissed, "apologize to him, quickly!"

Ramsay dumbfoundedly looked at Zen, who had suddenly grown as large as a hill. He had never experienced the era of the Wild Gods, so naturally, he didn't know it would take only a split second to enlarge a mosquito to the size as big as himself with a theurgy.

However, Zen's sudden transformation to a giant over ten thousand feet tall was shocking enough. Ramsay was fully convinced. Curling up his long trunk, Ramsay bowed and apologized sincerely.

Zen watched indifferently. Bending down, he reached out and gently scooped Elvinia into his arms. Then, he placed her on his right shoulder carefully.

Although Elvinia had heard of Wild Gods before, she hadn't actually seen Zen use this skill. Thus, she too was stunned at the sudden appearance of a ten thousand-foot tall Zen.

Sitting on Zen's shoulder, she turned to look at his massive head, which was as tall as a building. Dazed, she shook her head, rendered speechless.

Since the misunderstandings had been cleared out, the Elephant Men became polite to Zen.

The other Elephant Men began to deal with the black bulls that were killed by the lightning wood, while the chieftain of the Elephant Man race formally introduced himself to Zen. "I'm the chieftain of the Elephant Man race, Richie. You are not from any Other Shore race, right? However, the woman on your shoulder seems to be a human... "

The Elephant Man race usually isolated themselves, which meant they rarely ever communicated with the outside world. However, as its chieftain, Richie had stayed on Stage Seventeen for a long time; naturally, he knew much more than the ordinary Elephant Men.

Richie had noticed the woman sitting on Zen's shoulder. He could see her features clearly. Almost immediately, he had realized that she was a creature from the Other Shore.

"You're right," Zen answered. "She is a human from the Other Shore."

As he spoke, Zen carefully observed the expression on the face of the chieftain.

He firmly believed that there were clues about the human race on Stage Seventeen of the Other Shore. The creatures from here might know something about it, so Zen deliberately claimed that Elvinia was a human from the Other Shore and waited to see

ell the original color of his skin.

"This is our high priest Murkub." Richie gestured towards the painted Elephant Man.

Obviously, the position of the high priest was even higher than that of the chieftain. Richie bowed deeply to the painted Elephant Man. "High priest, this is our friend from another race. He wants to see the map of the south."

Murkub looked at Zen up and down a few times. Because he had managed the affairs of the tribe with Richie since time immemorial, Murkub trusted Richie's judgment.

Without uttering a word, the high priest nodded and proceeded to take out a board from a wooden box, no questions asked.

Turning the board over, Zen saw it was an intricately carved map. Murkub then retreated to the side of the house to continue meditating.

"This is the south part of Stage Seventeen, and we are here." Richie pointed at a location on the map, which was the center of the grassland.

Zen studied the map closely. He realized that more than half of the grassland was barricaded by fences made from lightning wood. 'It must not have been easy to build these fences, ' he pondered quietly.

It was unknown if they were built by the human race or by other creatures.

Every stage had its own secrets. Even though Zen was very curious about the fence, he decided against asking the chieftain about it, since it was their business. Instead, he focused on his goal to find the location of the temple.

With a flick of his hand, the map that was reflected by the Other Shore Key came into view. Zen proceeded to look for the temple on the map carved on the board while cross referencing with the map from the Other Shore Key.