The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　I finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

　But it wasn't Dark, it was Professor Lily. "Hahaha."

　Professor Lily burst into laughter. Aurora blushed.

　"Cough, it shouldn't be hard to guess that the magic gates of the Giant Empire need to be pushed open with brute force."

　Professor Harvey said this in a serious tone.

　Aurora had to explain briefly: "After the magic door appeared, Professor Enid kept saying that she had found the way to open it from the pattern on the door..."

　Professor Enid Lindbergh is the professor who teaches the elective course "Magical Literature". She often has disheveled hair and wears glasses as thick as the bottom of a wine bottle. She is also the advisor of the Literature Society.

　“So it was Enid,” Professor Sylph remarked, a rare occurrence for her to tease. “Did she recite poetry at the ruins?”

　Aurora nodded somewhat awkwardly, but quickly added, "Professor Enid is a good professor, and really amazing."

　Professor Enid Lindbergh is truly remarkable.

　Although she only teaches one elective course at the academy and gives the impression of being unkempt and even somewhat "neurotic," she is truly remarkable. Aurora's team was able to successfully complete the exploration of the Never-Setting-Sun Ruins without incident, all thanks to Professor Enid Lindbergh.

Chapter 1456 Darkdemon and the Primal Giants (4k)

　The college is full of talented professors, some as formidable as Professor Enid Lindbergh. But many others remain unassuming and unassuming.

　They don't usually participate in magic duels; they're purely academics. But when it comes to actually stepping up, they might not be any less skilled than professional duelists.

　After all, the essence of magical power comes from knowledge, and most professors have profound knowledge in a certain subject.

　Professor Enid Lindbergh's interests are even broader, and her breadth of knowledge ranks among the top of all professors.

　However, she had little interest in experimental research, and her only motivation for accumulating knowledge was to write more in-depth articles.

　Professor Enid Lindbergh is actually a very famous writer who has published a large number of works.

　However, all her literary works were written under the pen name "Anne," which doesn't really match her real name.

　She never appears in public; only one photo of her has been leaked.

　When publishing, the publisher always uses the same photo to promote its works.

　But believe me, no one can connect that photo with the person in question.

　That was probably a photo of Professor Enid during her teenage years, likely the result of being forced to dress up and make her look like a noblewoman. Not only was she styled in the hair of a noblewoman and had exquisite makeup applied, but she also didn't wear those thick glasses.

　In short, she is a completely different person compared to herself.

　Because of this, Professor Enid earned the nickname "pretty face" in literary circles.

　Her works are often criticized as "affected" and "overly sentimental." Although she is extremely popular among young girls, her reputation within the industry is not good.

　In short, this is Enid Lindbergh.

　Professor Enid truly put in a tremendous amount of effort in this exploration of the ruins of the British Empire.

　The Empire on which the sun never sets was a land of giants, and its last emperor was the Sun Chaser.

　As the name suggests, the sun-chasing giant is a giant who chases the sun.

　This concept originates from the legend of "Kuafu chasing the sun," but in actual performance, it has nothing to do with Kuafu.

　"Chasing the sun" refers to sun worship.

　The term "Sun-Chasing Titan" refers to a giant who chases or worships the sun. In terms of racial classification, the Sun-Chasing Titan belongs to the "Fire Titans." Essentially, they are a rare and superior species within the "Fire Titans."

　They can also be considered nobles among the "fire giants".

　After initial exploration, Aurora and her companions discovered that within the British Empire, three of the most numerous types of giants coexisted.

　The three giant races that make up the largest proportion of the population are fire giants, frost giants, and mountain giants.

　These three types of giants, regardless of social status, formed a tripartite balance of power within the empire, maintaining the equilibrium between racial forces.

　The emperor of the empire changes every hundred years, and it is basically a rotation of three types of giants. Of course, there are exceptions.

　When the balance of power among the three giant races is disrupted, the side with the greater power will naturally not be willing to give up.

　The consequence of trying to break the rules and seize imperial power is often a century-long war of power.

　However, history moves forward through war.

　The British Empire had a very long history and did not collapse due to internal strife.

　This was largely due to the circumstances at the time.

　The reason why three different races, attributes, and habits of giants were able to unite into one nation is only one: coercion from external enemies.

　Giants are a naturally powerful race, and those giants of that era possessed immense power comparable to that of gods.

　But such a description implies that it was an era of gods, where deities existed.

　Gods possess divinity, but giants do not.

　This difference placed the giants in opposition to the gods. The ultimate fall of the British Empire was not due to internal wars, nor to Ragnarok, but to its failure to win the war against the gods.

　In other words, the British Empire ultimately fell in a war of gods.

　Aurora and the others pushed open the "magic door" and entered the ruins of the British Empire. The first thing they saw was the nearly destroyed ruins.

　Even the collapsed and dilapidated walls were still higher than the walls of ordinary human cities.

　The ruins of the British Empire seem to have been abandoned forever, existing in an alternate dimension similar to a "divine realm".

　Compared to the massive structure, the sky in that plane was low, filled with gray dust that would never fall.

　The ruins and broken walls exude desolation, with the remains of a hundred-meter-tall giant scattered everywhere.

　The moment Aurora stepped into the ruins, she felt a “calling of mission.”

　It was as if destiny was driving her here, to the last kingdom of the "primitive giants".

　"Primitive Titan" is a special term used to distinguish the giants of that era from those of later eras.

　The transition from the era of "primitive giants" to "non-primitive giants" marked the fall of the British Empire.

　The two are identical in their biological habits, but their physical size has shrunk dramatically.

　If one hundred meters is the minimum height for a "primitive giant".

　Therefore, for "non-original Titans", one hundred meters is the upper limit. After the fall of the British Empire, except for very special individuals, the Titans could no longer exceed one hundred meters in height, and even approaching one hundred meters was difficult.

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　The average giant is usually around ten meters tall, which is like a tiny person in a land of dwarfs compared to the "primitive giants" who are at least a hundred meters tall.

　With a significant reduction in physique, the bodies of "non-primitive giants" no longer inherently possess the power of rules.

　They all returned to the ordinary, though some were god-level powerhouses, but all originated from "divinity".

　"Non-primitive giants" can also become gods. Like most creatures in the age of gods, they can naturally forge godhood after fully mastering the power of the rules and integrating it into their bodies.

　The decisive differences have disappeared.

　Giants and gods are no longer on opposite sides.

　Modern Titans, when studying the history of Titans, refer to it as "the price of the race's continuation."

　There are no remains of gods other than giants among the ruins of the British Empire.

　It is reasonable to suspect that someone removed all things related to the gods from this ruin space after the war of the gods ended.

　This severed all connection between the ruins and the gods, making it impossible for the gods to easily find this ruin space.

　In this endless expanse of time, time within the ruins seemed to stand still, forever freezing the moment of the empire's fall.

　That place is the ruins of the British Empire, and also the burial ground of the "primitive giants".

　—When Aurora and the others thought that way, danger arose. These were special life forms born from the giants' corpses. They had no reason, resembling the undead, their bodies composed of bone-like elements. They clung to the giants' corpses like maggots, feeding on the elements within to grow.

　Despite having nothing to do with "insects" in either appearance or nature, Aurora and the others still refer to it as the "Giant Corpse Worm."

　The giant corpse worms that Aurora and the others first encountered were only the size of humans. Their bones were twisted and inhuman, ugly and terrifying, and they clung densely to the skeleton of a giant sitting in front of a broken wall.

　When they sensed the first living beings to set foot in this ancient ruin for the first time in all this time, the "giant corpse worms" almost immediately charged towards them.

　The giant corpse worm has an extremely tough body; even if it is blasted into dust, it can be resurrected from its ashes.

　Unlike the skeletons among the undead, they do not have "soulfire" in their bodies, and therefore do not have the "core that can kill them by simply destroying it".

　After repeated experiments proved ineffective in killing it, Aurora and the others had no choice but to freeze it with an ice-type ultimate move.

　The freezing measure worked.

　The giant corpse worms they initially encountered did not have the ability to break through the ice seal in a short period of time.

　Aurora and her companions successfully survived the first danger and decided to venture deeper into the ruins to continue their exploration.

　Among the four of them.

　From the moment Aurora entered the ruins, she felt a sense of "mission," which grew stronger over time, guiding her deeper into the ruins.

　Emma can glimpse the "Secret Aura," an aura that can guide her to find the "secret treasure" that is beneficial to her.

　Senior Winnie sensed the intense aura of the icy object. Only Professor Enid Lindbergh showed no reaction to the giant's ruins.

　She was simply fulfilling her duties as the "team leader professor," reading the final glory of this giant empire as if she were flipping through a book.

　"The dangers we encountered in the ruins of the British Empire were almost entirely caused by giant corpse worms."

　Aurora said with lingering fear.

　"Besides the ordinary corpse worms we encountered at the beginning, there are also ice, fire, and ground-type corpse worms, as well as ghost and dark-type corpse worms in the ruins."

　"Those giant corpse worms are all born from the corpses of some special giants."

　"Those special giant corpses are different from ordinary corpses. After countless years, they still emit light of various attributes, making them extremely conspicuous in the gray and white world."

　"Among them, the probability of the attribute corpse worm being born from the corpses of the superior species of frost giants, fire giants, and mountain giants—winter giants, sun giants, and mountain giants—is significantly greater."

　“Those giant corpse worms can break through the ice, and the corpse worms of the Winter Giant are even immune to ice attacks. Senior Winnie's ice magic is completely ineffective against them.”

　"The corpse worms of the Sun Giant are also immune to fire attacks, and the corpse worms of the Mountain Giant are much larger than other corpse worms, each one is incredibly strong."

　“If it were just one, we could handle it. But there were just too many of them, so we had to run away.”

　The danger within the ruins of the British Empire was far greater than that of the Stardust Ruins. Moreover, judging from Aurora's subsequent descriptions, Dark suddenly felt that the danger there was even greater than that of the Temple of Life.

　It was incredibly fortunate that they emerged unscathed from the ruins of the British Empire.

　The greatest threat within the ruins of the British Empire comes from the ghostly and dark giant corpse worms.

　Those corpse worms can control the giant's corpse by collectively possessing it.

　Faced with the towering corpse of a giant rising from the ruins, Aurora and the others had no choice but to flee.

　Their experience in the ruins of the British Empire can be summed up in one word: "escape".

　They escaped the pursuit of the giant corpse worms.

　They sought a temporarily safe place to hide.

　Explore ruins while on the run and in hiding.

　But danger and reward go hand in hand.

　They obtained something of equal value from the ruins of the British Empire. Their greatest gain was...

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　The "original legacy" of the Sun-Chasing Giants. The beneficiary is Aurora herself.

　The last emperor of the Empire of the Undying Giants was a Sun-Chasing Giant. His remains sat atop a colossal throne, still radiating a fiery glow like the sun even after millions of years. Emma, ​​Winnie, and Professor Enid could not approach that radiance. But Aurora entered it with ease, feeling no heat whatsoever. The ruins seemed to have been created just for her.

　Guided by a sense of mission, she walked toward the throne, only to face the sole corpse worm born from the emperor's remains.

　The giant corpse worm was about five meters tall, with a human-like appearance, slender limbs, twisted bones, and a bony tail.

　It wields the power of the sun, its entire body is enveloped in flames, and it possesses terrifying power that is completely incongruous with its slender physique.

　Aurora fought it with all her might, but was no match for it. Finally, she lured the giant corpse worm to the edge of the blazing light, and with the help of Professor Enid, Emma, ​​and Winnie, she temporarily sealed it away.

　Professor Enid is a master of "sealing magic," and her magical artifact, the "Book of Sealing," can seal enemy creatures within its pages.

　However, when faced with an overly powerful species, she could only tear off pages and seal it using a method similar to talismans, but even that could not last forever.

　Aurora seized the opportunity to approach the throne and saw the last remaining consciousness of the Giant Emperor in front of the corpse of the Sun-Chasing Giant, thus obtaining the "original inheritance" of the Sun-Chasing Giant.