Chapter 404
Chapter 404: Summoning
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
In the ancient myths of Orlodiodan, the world was created by a group of giants who covered the skies and shook the earth . The Eternal Thunder tribe of the Ghostwind Plains, meanwhile, worshiped a colossal mythical beast .
It was said that this beast was so massive it was capable of striding across the entire Ghostwind Plains in just fifteen seconds . Its claws and fangs were so sharp that even mountains were unable to block its attacks . Whenever it roared in anger, the plains would quake .
"Let's not discuss myths anymore . The Eternal Thunder tribe's culture is primitive . They even have cave paintings and hieroglyphics . Most of their records are passed down via word of mouth . Around here, their Tiger God's authority outstrips even the Creator Goddess . "
"…Of course, what their myths claim is absolutely impossible . But from our final measurements of the divine beast's bones, its original body must have been more than ten times the size of an Immemorial Dragon . Basically, its length was over one hundred meters… some of the records must be real . It would have been capable of casually swallowing a whole dragon . Such a terrifying monster . "
This plain had been turned into an archaeological district . Numerous digging teams were hard at work, searching for the remaining bones . Once they were found, I would be able to reconstruct this behemoth of a monster .
What I did in all this was use the most basic soul-summoning spell, which would sense the connection between the bones . I then guided my subordinates to dig up the remaining hidden bones .
"This feels like a big jigsaw puzzle game…"
Timlad's exclamation was quite appropriate for his age, yet he was becoming more and more of an important person in my faction . Countless inconceivable technologies were developed by him . Even I didn't know just how far his scientific research had progressed . However, it was definite that he had far surpassed himself from the same time in the game's history .
"Ha, if this is a jigsaw puzzle, this sharp bone must be a rib bone . Even the rib bone is so much taller than me . How frightening . "
"…Honored mage, this isn't a rib bone . It's the little finger's fingernail . "
"What?"
The one making a ruckus was the old child, Kaid . The dragon who brought him had left him behind without caring about how he would return, so Kaid stayed here and refused to leave .
"So… when it stands up, it's basically a moving mountain? Nothing could possibly block a single attack from it . If even the battle pet is so tremendous, just how large is its master, the Titan Giant?"
"…I know . If it's at all possible, I don't want to fight the Titan Giants head on . "
Even though the elements were becoming more balanced and the seal was decaying at a much slower rate, the Titan Giants' return was inevitable . Their incarnations were already capable of cavorting around in the mortal plane, so naturally they would wreak havoc in Dragon World . Anyone who tried to prevent them from breaking free would become their mortal enemy .
As for transforming this giant beast into an undead? On one hand, it would help us to better understand the Titan Giants' true strength . On the other hand, it was an irresistible top-level material that no undead mage would be able to resist .
"As long as I can reanimate it, even if it's only a skeleton soldier that doesn't know anything apart from basic attacks, it'll still be an almost undefeatable existence . Yins… just how ridiculous is he?"
Normally speaking, a creature's power was proportional to its body size . And its body size would naturally be related to the conditions of the creature's environment and world . Nature was cruel and would forever eliminate those unable to adapt .
This sounded rather confusing? Let me just jump straight to the conclusion, then . Under the same conditions of oxygen, gravity, temperature and so on, most creatures wouldn't have significant differences in how they worked . Lions, tigers and elephants were in a way quite similar in their own right .
Living creatures had necessary conditions for their existence . In the world of Eich, an environment rich in magic would be required for gigantic creatures to exist . If the environment drastically changed, such creatures would no longer be able to survive . Basically, even if I raised a giant war beast, its heart and internal organs wouldn't be able to adjust to the current low magic environment . It would likely have a very short lifespan as its heart would give out without the support of sufficient magic .
There were some that seemed like exceptions, such as the giants and the dragons . But they followed the rules as well, as they originated from the immemorial, great immemorial, or even older generations . And they were capable of existing mostly because they weren't pure beasts—they were magical beasts capable of using the power of the elements .
There were plenty more examples in the planes connected to Eich . Deep sea Megaink Octopi, the Giant Sand Worms in the Earth Elemental Plane, the half-elemental creature Skyworld Whale and so on . However, the fact they were able to grow so large was largely related to their physical structures and environments they lived in .
These ancient existences were typically accoladed as having Gold or Diamond Bloodlines . They were naturally born with the ability to use magic . Their very bloodlines contained magical mysteries, allowing them to instinctively use their natural talent . This was something other species couldn't match no matter how hard they worked .
However, such benefits were a double-edged sword . Powerful magical existences were accustomed to living in a high Elemental Tide environment . Now that it was a low magic generation, they found it incredibly discomforting . Just like how humans would get drowsy when they had low blood sugar, dragons would become drowsy with an insufficient concentration of magic in their blood . Only the most ancient existences knew that back in the immemorial generation, dragons didn't have this habit of sleeping for several decades or centuries .
As the magic in dragons' blood decreased, it also became more and more difficult for them to reproduce . The more powerful a creature was, the more difficult it became for it to reproduce .
As for angels… angels here weren't exactly the same as angels in legends from my previous world . Instead, these angels were the first-generation creatures of Order . Since they were the purest creatures of Order, they had even higher requirements of the environment they lived in . The end result was that the entire angel species disappeared from the mortal plane . Of course, it was highly likely that the angels would return once the Elemental Tide sufficiently increased .
However, this divine beast ex-Tiger God before me broke the fundamental rule of environmental requirements .
First of all, this creature was an individual, not a species . Not only that, judging from its physical structure, it was no different from the current day Eternal Thunder tribe at all except for scale . Its feet had hooks on it to help it climb trees, and its right arm had wear and tear normal for a long-term sword user . Considering that even in the immemorial generation there would likely be no ridiculously tall trees that it would need to climb, a frightening conclusion was now in front of me .
"Perhaps this mountainous 'Tiger God' was just an ordinary Eternal Thunder tribe member in the past . Yins forcefully twisted its basic physical structure to make it so tremendously huge… Have we learned why this creature died?"
"None of its bones have obvious injuries . Nor has the quality of its bones seemed to decrease . When considering the Eternal Thunder tribe's legends… the most likely possibility is that it starved to death . "
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