Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1117: Land of the Giants



Edagon was yet another curious place on Aigas.

Aside from its size, there were several things about it that marked it as unique from each of the other continents: Feinheath, Opungale, and of course, Amanas.

For one, around its coast, the sea, which continuously purified itself of the corrosive, ebony traits the closer it got to this land of Giants, turning fresh and colourless once again, was a shade of gold. It was thick and viscous like some kind of glue, and thus it rarely rose in waves. Edagon also had a complex geographical structure. It was characterised by an abundance of enormous mountains, many of which rose so high that their tips were lathered in snow and ice. An absurd number of gorges and ravines could also be seen, and part of the continent looked as though it had borne through from the east by some colossal oceanic monstrosity, as the golden, viscous substance from the sea bled in through the lengthy crack made into the very heart of the continent.

The last thing of note, and probably the most outstanding thing of all, was the fact that not a single one of the cities on Edagon was located on the ground. Some of them were built on thick, squat mountains, and some on ones that sank into the Aigas sky, hiding in the clouds. In all, there were 24 cities, great and small.

All were uninhabited, strangely.

Curiously, not only cities could be found on the highs of glorified hills. Ancient shrines could be seen too, some looking to be no more than a week away from crumbling into nothingness or succumbing to the cruel gusts of the season.

There was a significance to these shrines.

There was a time when they were the centre of attention for all the Giants on Edagon. Yet now, most of them had become irrelevant. Because the Giants had become irrelevant.

Before the largest shrine in all of Edagon, perked atop a vast and tall mountain that surpassed even Jerthrax in size, Sause stood with a dark visage.

The circular wall of great, red jade bricks, enclosing three massive, white, faceless statues; two with a masculine physique and the last with a feminine one, held a deeply awe-inspiring divine presence. From their appearance alone, one could designate this series of constructs as consecrated in some way.

It wasn't hard to locate either.

A shrine couldn't, or rather, wasn't supposed to be hidden.

This fact had worked against Sause.

His enemies had been drawn to the shrine soon after they reached Edagon.

Before him stood the crowned, pale, wrinkly-faced, false Null Devil King, Stylla by his side. Aurolio was to the Giant's left. He still assumed his true Deathform appearance. White hair still cascaded from his head, and instead of eyes, there was a glowing, purple slit in their place. His skin was now firm and pale, like hard plastic, and his jaw was like a segmented plate of steel running from ear to ear.

The Deathform was extremely intrigued by the shrine behind Sause.

He and the Null Devil King had soared from the earlier battlefield towards Edagon immediately, with Sause following seconds later, but to their surprise, the Giant had beat them to the punch.

It seemed he knew exactly what they were looking for, and when the two were finally drawn by its presence and headed towards its position, they found Sause there, ready to defend it.

'To think he's holding us off all on his own...' Aurolio thought and frowned slightly. His body had still borne a significant amount of damage from Jerthrax's black fire. He only survived it because his definition of strength also extended to a profound defence, but that alone hadn't been enough to leave him unscathed.

As a matter of fact, Aurolio would have perished if not for Replicus using Reversion immediately after the Herald had turned everything to brimstone.

However, this didn't diminish Aurolio's value as a combatant, after all, the technique etched into his body - one that disallowed him from being defeated - played a role in this. Defeat had many interpretations too, after all.

Aurolio's 'eyes' shone sharply.

"You know..." he said to Sause, "...I was under the impression that what made a world Rich was something a little grander. I have been dying to know for a long time. I had had the thought that whatever it was, it would probably be here, but to think that silly idea was actually validated."

Sause did not answer.

Aurolio scoffed.

"Aside from those statues peeking out, what else is inside the shrine?" he asked.

"Come closer and maybe you'll find out, ahaha," Sause said, adopting a smile for the first time since he appeared.

His figure, which towered over both the Null Devil King and Aurolio looked even more menacing with his declaration, and his presence became a lot more solid.

Of course, neither the Null Devil King nor Aurolio were fazed.

The only thing hindering them from launching relentless attacks and getting past Sause was the barrier he had erected. It was invisible to the eye and it warded off all attacks easily. At least that was how it seemed to them.

In reality, Sause was taking a gamble.

The barrier was made using a special artefact, and it had the ability to ward off any ONE type of attack ONCE. This meant that if the aggressors tried to attack the barrier twice with the same ability or method, they could pass through, but the Null Devil King and Aurolio were yet to realise this.

Not a lot of time had passed since they had arrived on this mountain, after all. It had taken some time for them to get in range of its alluring pressure and find it amid the countless series of mountains piercing through the sky.

The Null Devil King's eyeless sockets keenly pressed on Sause's figure.

"It impresses me that a world can be so Rich. This is exactly what Lady Serenity needs..." he said and raised his hand to point it at the space between himself and Sause.

The Giant grew tense.

He too, like Jerthrax, had been told of the power of anomalies; those born of Existential Parallels, and thus, he couldn't help but react viciously when he noticed the tone of

seriousness in the Null Devil King.

Nitros spiked from the Giant and it formed a great hand, one larger than his entire body, and Sause sent it whipping towards the Null Devil King.

It moved so fast that Aurolio hadn't even gotten to see that it was a hand. In his eyes, it was a

white blur!

As impeccably timed as Sause's attack was, however, it was met by hundreds of greedy monstrosities that devoured it whole before it could touch the Null Devil King!

...!!!

Once again, the false Authority of the Null Verse was using the powers of a Class befitting the

status the body he was inhabiting embodied.

The Forcemancer!