"Do you think the 'giants' of legend must necessarily be lifeforms similar to us?"
Ausia smiled as she looked into Yao Ziyan's eyes, a meaningful, faint smile on her face. Her ice-blue eyes were as still as deep pools, clear and crystalline.
Yao Ziyan's mouth opened slightly, and she came to a stop.
Luo Chuan stopped as well, looking at Ausia in surprise.
It was a simple sentence, yet it contained an immense amount of information. If one thought carefully, everything seemed to point toward an utterly shocking truth.
Luo Chuan and Yao Ziyan exchanged glances, each seeing the shock in the other's eyes.
Clearly, they had both understood what Ausia meant.
Yao Ziyan let out a slow breath, as though she wanted to calm her turbulent thoughts this way.
She looked at Ausia, then at the ground beneath her feet, and finally spoke with some uncertainty. "You mean that the 'creature' underground is actually the... elder giant brother of the countless races in this world?"
To be honest, Yao Ziyan did not even know how she had managed to say those words.
Before this, she and Luo Chuan had made all kinds of guesses about the Underground Creature's true identity.
An Outer God that had accidentally drifted into Kolo and fallen into slumber, a demigod creature sealed here by the gods, a powerful magical lifeform created by an ancient magic empire...
Yet they had never expected every one of those guesses to be wrong.
The Underground Creature's true identity was actually the giant described in those legendary tales handed down from distant ages—the... elder brother of the world's myriad races.
But why had it appeared underground?
How much of the descriptions related to it in those legends was true?
How much was it connected to the disaster that had