Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 299 You Are Lucky

In the God-forsaken land, we set up camp in the afternoon.

In the camp made of countless huge rocks with the first batch of lanterns hung on them, the residents of Silver City watched the two outsiders leave, just as they had come.

The helmet, which was as bright as day, was also taken away. The light gradually faded away, as if hope was taken away with it.

Dolores couldn't help but ask:
"Chief, since they are also going to explore the Giant King's Court, why don't you join them?"

He had participated in the exploration of the temple of the true creator and met the little boy named Jack. So he knew better than anyone else in Silver City that the world outside the Forsaken Land of God really existed!

And the way to leave the God-forsaken Land is most likely in the Giant King's Court!
The chief must also understand this, otherwise he would not have led them to set up this camp.

Isn't the purpose of establishing the Afternoon Town Camp to explore Afternoon Town and prepare for the next step of exploring the Giant King's Court?
Colin stared at the fading light and said in a low voice:

"If I leave with them, who will ensure the safety of this camp?"

"I can't risk your lives."

Dolores said without hesitation:
"Then I'll go with them! If I don't come back, I'll be considered dead. But if I come back alive, maybe I can find a way to leave!"

Demon Hunter Colin still rejected him mercilessly:

"No, let's not talk about this anymore. Go on patrol."

Dolores gritted her teeth, obviously unwilling to give in.

But faced with the chief's firm attitude, he could only obey and turn away.

Colin was still gazing at the light in the distance with an inexplicable look in his eyes.

What Dolores doesn't understand is that Colin isn't intolerant of risk.

He was willing to make various attempts to leave the God-Forsaken Land, so he let many things go. Whether it was Derrick or Lovia, they were all trying different directions for the City of Silver, and they all represented a possibility.

But no matter which direction these two possibilities lead to, they are still people of Silver City. Even though their respective attempts have ended in failure, Colin believes that in their hearts, the future of Silver City always comes first.

This time was different, even though this might be the closest to hope, because they actually saw the outsiders, one of whom was even a giant. But at the same time, this might also be the closest to destruction.

He couldn't be sure whether the two outsiders were friendly. Even though they tried their best to show goodwill in the conversation, Colin couldn't be sure whether they were really as friendly as they seemed, or whether they had ulterior motives.

If it was the former, it would be a shame to miss the opportunity to explore the Giant King's Court with them.

But if they really want to explore the Giant King's Court, it can also provide some convenience for Silver City's subsequent exploration. After all, they will inevitably encounter many monsters blocking their way during the exploration.

And if they want to move on, they must destroy these monsters.

This will also make the subsequent exploration of Silver City much easier.

But if these two people have ulterior motives, what awaits them and Silver City will be a catastrophic disaster!
Dolores is only a Sequence 6 Dawn Knight, and what he knows is very limited.

So he didn't understand why Colin didn't let him explore the Giant King's Court with the two outsiders. In his eyes, even if the exploration failed, at most only he would be sacrificed.

But Colin knew very well that there were some special ways in this world that could explore human memories, such as the Dragon Way.

Although the City of Silver only possesses the low-sequence potion formula of the Dragon Path, the Sequence 7 'Psychoanalyst' alone already possesses the ability to read minds and hypnotize!
If any of them were left alone, they would be captured by the other party, and then their memories would be probed to find the location of Silver City. Once the coordinates of Silver City were exposed, those with ulterior motives would be even more terrifying than the monsters in the dark!
Colin couldn't take such a risk.

The goodwill shown by the other party during this brief contact was not enough for Colin to trust them enough.
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Shortly after leaving the afternoon town camp in Silver City, under the illumination of lightning in the sky.

A city finally appeared in the sight of Yujin and Groselle.

A mountain built on the hill, naturally divided into upper, middle and lower levels. Here, gray stones are piled up to form different houses, some of which are hollowed out and nearly ten meters high, while others are so short that a normal human being can touch the roof. These buildings are closely arranged and spread out, some have collapsed, while others are still strong, but they are all stained with traces of staleness and decay.

"Afternoon town."

Groselle looked at the town in the distance, trying to find the corresponding scene in his memory, and muttered:
"This wasn't the case when I was here last time."

"Affected by the power leaked from the Giant King's Court, the daytime in Afternoon Town is always in the afternoon..."

Groselle's tone was extremely complicated, and a hint of nostalgia flashed in his eyes from time to time.

Even though a thousand years have passed, everything here seems so familiar to him.

Even though he had already heard from others about the final outcome of the Giant King's Court and the God-Forsaken Land, he still couldn't hide his disappointment when he saw with his own eyes that the town he once knew had become what it is now.

As he followed the embers into Afternoon Town, along the gray stone steps, between the tall and dark buildings, heading toward the top of the mountain, Groselle's mood became increasingly depressed.

Because he finally saw the giants - lots of them.

They were all about the same height as Groselle, and had a unique single eye. However, unlike Groselle, who had gray-blue skin, these giants were covered in dense black short hair!

They have long been corrupted and fallen, becoming part of these countless dark monsters.

Even though Groselle thought he had prepared himself mentally, when he saw this scene, an indescribable sadness still surged in his heart.

Bang, bang, bang! Similar monsters rushed out one after another from those dark buildings.

Some of them were of normal human height and had two eyes, while others were like the previous monsters, with obvious giant height and one eye, but without exception they were covered with dense, short black hair.

"Sorry, rest in peace."

Groselle murmured in a low voice, and spots of light burst out from his body. They turned into a storm and swept in all directions.

All the monsters touched by the light spot, whether they were giants or humans, had transparent flames ignited on their bodies, emitting bright morning light, burning everything to ashes.

Just like humans, giants also value being buried in peace.

This tradition originated from the Giant King Ormir, whose parents were buried in the Decaying Forest. Groselle was once the guardian of the Decaying Forest.

But now there are no conditions to bury these giants one by one, and even if they are buried, they may become new monsters.

Therefore, Groselle would not force it. Purifying the bodies of these giants was the only thing he could do.

Yu Jin stood aside and watched all this silently, without trying to intervene.

For Grosser, this was not only about clearing the way for their advancement, but also about giving his compatriots peace.

Yes, to Groselle, these monsters were also his compatriots, even if they had become monsters, even if they had died thousands of years ago.

Although Groselle always behaved carefree and didn't seem to care about anything, he was actually as lonely as Siatas in his heart. For these two "ancients" who had lived from the Second Epoch to the present, they had a serious lack of belonging to the current world. Siatas was trying to find her people, and so was Groselle.

The reason why he agreed to help Yu Jin explore the Giant King's Court was that he had a glimmer of hope that he could find other giants in the Giant King's Court.
Along the way, they encountered more than a dozen waves of monsters, mainly rotten giants, and each wave had at least a hundred of them. The more this happened, the more grief Groselle felt.

Because the thousands of polluted monsters correspond to the thousands of giants who once lived here!
When we reached halfway up the mountain, perhaps because there were not many 'indigenous people' here, the frequency of monster attacks began to decrease.

And they finally arrived at the area shrouded in dusk——

The huge towering building stood quietly in the frozen dusk, with no sound around it, as if it was just an oil painting, a magnificent and huge oil painting with a strong epic sense.

In the frozen dusk, new hope emerged in Groselle's heart once again.

The monsters in the God-Forsaken Land originated from the deep darkness.

Thousands of years have passed, and the Giant King's Court is still frozen in the dusk.

Does this mean that...

"Perhaps there are still living giants in the Giant King's Court?"

As soon as this thought came to his mind, Groselle was once again poured a bucket of cold water by reality.

Because in the frozen dusk, the rotten monsters rushed out of the still intact buildings. They had no reason, and they just rushed towards them instinctively after seeing the living people.

Seeing that Groselle had become increasingly silent after dealing with another wave of rotten giants, Yu Jin asked with concern:

"Are you ok?"

Groselle was silent for a while, then showed his familiar simple smile:
"Fortunately, I had expected this to happen."

Yu Jin thought for a moment and said:

"This place reminds me of Anor Londo. You can think of it as the Giant King's Court in another world."

"In the eyes of mortals, Anor Londo is the royal city, the capital of the gods, and the place where the gods reside."

"The gods who rule the world are tall, but much shorter than giants, about two meters and a half."

"The Protoss once defeated the ancient dragons that dominated the world in the ancient dragon hunting war and became the new rulers."

Having said this, Yu Jin suddenly paused.

"and after?"

Groselle asked subconsciously.

Yu Jin chuckled and shook his head.
"Later, the Gods fell into decline. The God King who led the Gods to glory died. The new ruler did not understand human nature and excluded the old subordinates left by his father, causing the Gods to lose their morale."

"In addition, other gods were unwilling to be informed, and after the death of the old God King, they left Anor Londo one after another and went to various parts of the world to establish kingdoms and rule over mortals."

"Although Anor Londo still has symbolic significance as the capital of the Protoss, it no longer has the status it once had."

"Even Gwyndolin, who had ruled the gods for countless years and was the appointed successor of the old God King, was imprisoned by a plant and swallowed by a pool of mud."

"By the time the world ends, there won't even be a few living people left among the gods who once ruled the world."

"And the gods who survived were also those who were once exiled by the gods."

"Compared to the Gods, the Giants are lucky enough."

"At least not all giants perished with the Giant King's Court. There are still many giant bloodlines left in the Northern Continent."

Groselle scratched his head. He had been in Backlund for some time.

I heard rumors about the Feysac Empire in the north.

The people there consider themselves to be descendants of giants, and the real giants enjoy a lofty status there.

Even the God of War they believed in, whose kingdom of Twilight Palace seemed to be a building prepared for giants. The God of War himself might be a giant, and there might be a large number of giants living in his kingdom.

Groselle thought for a moment and said seriously:
"Back to the Northern Continent, I want to go to the Feysac Empire."

He wanted to see with his own eyes whether the people there really had giant blood and whether there were really living giants.

Ember smiled and said:

"This is your freedom."

As they moved forward, more and more rotten giants appeared, either wandering on the road or rushing out of different buildings. They became stronger and stronger, but there were still no giants above the level of demigod.

This allowed them to easily break through the blockade and interception of these monsters and come to an extremely quiet area with no sound at all, which made people's scalps tingle.

Groselle hummed:
"I know the way, follow me."

Groselle recalled the memories in his mind and continued walking along the street that was a little run-down but still familiar.

After a while, a huge stone staircase appeared in front of them.

It is grayish white in color overall, but it is tinged with orange light, which makes it both brilliant and quiet.

Each step of this staircase is relatively high and is obviously not for ordinary people.

Above the huge staircase is a city wall that is so majestic that one has to look up to see the top. There are many signs of damage and burning on it. In some places, there are arrows as thick as ordinary trees and several meters long stuck in it, causing some stones to collapse.

In the middle of the city wall is a double-door gate that is several dozen meters high. Its color is more gray-blue, and it is inlaid with golden nails. There are two guards standing outside, and the mere sight of them can create a strong sense of oppression.

They were five or six meters tall, wearing exquisite and sturdy silver full body armor. One of them held a big sword, and the other one hammered a huge axe into the ground. There was a ball of orange-red light behind their visors, like a single eye.

Groselle looked at the towering city wall with a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.

Even for giants, this is not an area that can be easily entered.

Fortunately, Groselle's duties allowed him to come here frequently.

(End of this chapter)