The pirates sat and forgot, and they really believed the nine truths and one lie.
Chapter 1690 The Shock of Elubaf
Estelle and Ida, the two female giants mentioned by Harald, are extremely unfamiliar to most people in the world.
Anyone with even a slight understanding of emotions can sense the intense, unyielding love triangle entanglement within that simple description.
The gossip-loving spirit of some viewers has already been quietly ignited.
Harald calls Estelle the Queen, yet he also says that Ida is his lover; there is clearly a significant story behind this.
While most viewers in front of the broadcast screen were unfamiliar with these two giantesses, some elderly people who had lived long enough and had seen enough were already starting to explain the facts to the young people around them.
Harald was a prominent figure in the old days; he was an indispensable figure when discussing giants.
His impact on the world is probably even greater than that of Oz, the demon from the Land of Fortune. I never imagined that after so many years of death, he could return in this way.
In Harald's true homeland, King Elubaf was deeply shaken at this moment, far more so than anyone else outside.
The giants of every village, regardless of age or gender, gathered in front of the broadcast screens they could see, gazing in disbelief at the former king who had "come back to life."
His familiar face, which seemed a little younger, was speaking eloquently through the screen, his voice echoing between the mountains and villages.
For a moment, many giants even thought they were hallucinating.
"Am I...am I drunk?" A giant shook his head.
"That's His Majesty the King?!" The older giant warriors stared wide-eyed.
Elder Yaruru, the highly respected sage of Elubaf, had also lost his usual composure at this moment.
He looked at Harald on the screen, whose skin was smooth and showed no signs of old scars, and who even seemed a few years younger than he remembered.
He couldn't help but rub his dim old eyes hard, muttering to himself, "Is this all... real?"
"Our king has been resurrected..."
A flicker of pain flashed in his cloudy eyes. Some extremely unpleasant memories, deliberately buried deep within, surged up, making the elderly giant feel a suffocating discomfort.
The tragic incident deep within the palace that led to Harald's death, and the mysterious deaths of those elite warriors, remain an unhealed scar in Elubaf.
The giants living in Elrubaf almost all knew one "fact": it was the evil prince Loki who murdered his own father, King Harald.
This truth is so deeply ingrained that it has become a classic negative example in educating the next generation to be wary of corruption within the royal family.
Only a very few survivors knew a portion of the more brutal truth. Most of the giants who knew more of the truth died in the bloody battle that affected the royal palace.
Their bones were mixed with Harald's and buried together in the palace.
This blame was ultimately firmly placed on Prince Loki, becoming a collective trauma that Elubav was unwilling to mention but tacitly understood.
Saulo has accepted the fact that Harald has "returned" in this way.
But what he cared more about at that moment was another piece of information revealed in Harald's words: Ymir, the Founding Titan, the mother of all Titans, and the destination of consciousness after death.
Sauro bent down and whispered a serious reminder in Yaru's ear, "Elder, you'll have to find a way to speak later and calm everyone down. I'm a little worried that some of our people might do something foolish because of His Majesty's words."
"A foolish thing?" Yaru didn't react for a moment.
"In order to return to Lord Ymir's embrace, I am afraid that they will end my life prematurely."
Aruru was startled, instantly realizing the seriousness of the situation!
He had just been preoccupied with the king's old love triangle gossip, but Saul's reminder made him break out in a cold sweat.
Giants are naturally bold and fond of fighting, and often do not value their own lives too much.
They were also heavy drinkers, and fighting when drunk was commonplace; their minds were mostly filled with straightforward, muscle-based thinking.
Now, hearing their beloved former king say that he would return to Ymir's embrace after death and be able to see his deceased relatives and friends, what a temptation that would be for many Titans who were unhappy with their lives or simply felt that life was boring.
"Anyway, dying doesn't mean you really disappear..."
"I'll get to see my dad/old buddy again..."
"It's better than just drifting aimlessly in this cold and boring world, with no one to care for or love you..."
Aruru could almost immediately imagine what some hotheaded giants might be thinking, and he might even be able to use his prestige to control the giants in Elubaf.
But what about the giants scattered around the world, active as pirates or adventurers? Those giants who weren't born in Elubaf were all left to their own devices and no one cared for them.
What unpredictable waves would Harald's words unleash once they spread? Aruru dared not even think about it.
He couldn't help but question his own heart, realizing that he himself had lived long enough.
Over the long years, he has witnessed too many terrible things and watched one promising young person after another pass away before him. Despite his high position, he felt increasingly lonely.
Elrubaf needs a new king; it cannot rely on the elders to mediate and barely keep Elrubaf afloat forever.
Solving problems with words instead of swords had exhausted this old warrior. Fortunately, there was still the backbone of Sauro's generation.
The fact that the next generation of children are being guided to read more and fight less gives him a glimmer of hope.
"I wonder what expressions those two princes will have when they hear the king's words..." Aruru thought bitterly, his heart filled with unease.
He was referring, of course, to Harald's two sons—Loki and Halding, princes who also harbored complex feelings toward their father.
Both children felt that Harald had wronged their mother and had never experienced much proper fatherly love during their childhood.
If they were watching right now, the scene would be a predictably heartwarming one of fatherly love and filial piety.
Aruru's wrinkles deepened, and his expression became awkward. "Prince Loki, will he fight with the king?"
Sauro paused for a moment, then gave an honest answer: "It's hard to say."
Although it may be a bit embarrassing for the Elrubaf royal family, this reunion between father and son will most likely escalate into a fierce conflict.
The thought of two giants, a father and son, fighting each other in front of the whole world gave Aruru a splitting headache.
Now we can only hope that Shanks can stop Loki and prevent the prince from doing anything foolish.
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