"Oh, oh, look! What did I find?!"
"Wow, are these still the guys we saw before living on the volcano?"
Beneath the clear sky, a creature only about two meters tall was shrieking strangely.
This creature was humanoid as well, but in appearance, it rather resembled an oversized mosquito.
Three pairs of relatively translucent wings beat continuously, while it had one pair of arms and two pairs of legs.
As for its head, it was naturally an enlarged mosquito head, though without the long proboscis real mosquitoes possessed.
Its body was covered in black-and-white patterns, giving it an intensely eerie appearance.
They were the Children of Sky and Wind, or at least that was what they called themselves.
These Mosquito People were not as strong as the Dinosaur People or Serpent People, and their size was even less comparable to theirs.
But there was one thing in which they surpassed the Serpent People and Dinosaur People: they could fly.
In the sky, they believed no one could defeat them.
Well, at the very least, if they wanted to flee, no one could catch up to them and kill them.
They were the sole conquerors of the skies over this continent in this era.
And as conquerors of the sky, they naturally had no natural enemies.
As a result, these Mosquito People had developed exceedingly arrogant personalities.
They despised the creatures on the ground, yet they also feared landing and being killed by them.
After all, they fed on fruit and tree sap.
Whenever they were hungry, they had to return to the ground or the trees.
Lowering their altitude and being hunted by other races was something that had happened countless times in the ancient past.
However, as time passed, these Mosquito People had gained even more exaggerated dynamic vision.
They could see every slightest movement on the ground from high in the sky, and most disguises were useless against them.
Because of this, Mosquito People were rarely hunted by ground-dwelling races anymore, further cultivating their current vile temperaments.
And how vile were they?
From time to time, after seeing events unfold on the ground, these Mosquito People would use shells as writing tablets and spread the news everywhere through pictographic oracle-bone script.
They liked watching other races fight and kill one another. Looking down from above as though watching a little show gave them the feeling that the Children of Sky and Wind truly were the children of gods.
That lofty feeling was simply too satisfying.
Because of this, when some races encountered Mosquito People, they were often willing to trade food for information.
However, it was impossible to truly entice Mosquito People into becoming scouts.
Mosquito People were naturally restless, and even less willing to be governed by the ground races they considered inferior.
Thus, Mosquito People were usually nothing more than troublemakers.
They gave people headaches, yet there was nothing anyone could do about them.
The Dinosaur Elder could actually guess why the Dinosaur People's army had previously been ambushed while attacking the Serpent People.
To discover news of the Dinosaur People's attack so promptly and make the Serpent People and Shark People quickly join forces, there could be no other explanation besides a race like the Mosquito People, who possessed incredible speed and loved stirring up trouble.
Of course, they were furious. However, the Mosquito People's main settlement was not even on this continent, leaving the Dinosaur Elder and many chiefs who knew the truth deeply helpless.
At this moment, two Mosquito People in the sky stared blankly at the mutated Dinosaur People army.
They had merely accepted a great deal of delicious food sent by the Shark People on an island in the sea and returned a little late, only to discover that the war among the three races had already ended.
The war was over, and the Shark People and Serpent People had lost.
This outcome had almost completely exceeded the Mosquito People's expectations.
After learning that the God of Dinosaur People had appeared and caused this result, the two curious Mosquito People naturally wanted to join in the excitement and see what the so-called God of Lava actually looked like.
Was he truly as terrifying as the Serpent People and Shark People had described with their gestures?
Well, before they even reached the skies above the Dinosaur People's tribe, they saw the Dinosaur People army coming for revenge.
Yet the Dinosaur People looked completely different now.
Every one of them walked like a humanoid monster made of moving boulders.
Wherever the Dinosaur People army passed, the entire region trembled, and countless primitive forests around them were reduced to wreckage.
The mutated Dinosaur People were large, but overall, they were merely about the same size as the Serpent People.
But the Dinosaur People's blood kin were far too enormous.
Looking at those Giant Beasts nearly thirty to fifty meters tall, and at their numbers exceeding two thousand—
Wherever they passed, dust billowed and the earth sank.
The two Mosquito People were utterly dumbfounded.
However, that was not all.
Because behind the Dinosaur People army—
Amid the dust filling the sky, an enormous, terrifying figure rose straight into the heavens.
No, that was not a monster. It was a god.
It was the God of Dinosaur People, and he was larger and more imposing than the two Mosquito People had ever imagined.
The two Mosquito People looked at each other in utter disbelief.
Kangqiao was the largest god they had ever seen in all their lives.
He was nearly half again as large as their own God of Sky and Wind.
However, after the shock passed, one of the two Mosquito People suddenly laughed without a care in the world.
"Hehe, now this is going to be fun!"
"Only one of those two underground races can survive. A God War is bound to break out next!"
"Haha, this is so exciting! When we go back, we'll finally have a story to brag about to everyone else."
One Mosquito Person excitedly grabbed their companion and spun circles in the sky, looking exactly like a child.
However, although the other Mosquito Person was also delighted to witness the grand spectacle about to unfold, he suddenly slapped his forehead and cried out.
"We need to go back and warn the Poison Fog Tribe first! We absolutely can't let the Lava Tribe's ambush succeed, or the war afterward will be far too boring."
"Oh, right, the Water Tribe seems to be trading the last batch of supplies with the Poison Fog Tribe. Maybe we can persuade the Water Tribe to join this war too?"
"Haha, great idea!"
"But will they participate? The god of that Lava Foreign Race looks very powerful. Didn't he scare off both races before?"
The other Mosquito Person hesitantly tapped his chin with a hand.
"That's true! What should we do, then?"
"Ah, no, no!" His companion suddenly seemed to remember something.
"A God War is definitely going to happen next! It's a God War! If one of those gods dies—"
"That would be Blood Food from a god! The Water Tribe definitely won't turn a blind eye to it!"
"And I think one of us should go back and notify the elders, then have them awaken the Mother Goddess. Who gets to feast on this banquet is not certain yet!"
"Ah! Right, right, we have to notify the Mother Goddess. I almost forgot something so important. This is a God War!"
The other Mosquito Person suddenly understood, and her eyes became blazing with eagerness.
If their Mother Goddess could seize the Blood Food of one god from this God War, their status within the tribe would certainly rise to the greatest heights.
Just thinking about it made both Mosquito People excited.
The continent was vast. Even if the Dinosaur People marched without rest, they would need more than a dozen days and nights to reach the Serpent People's tribal territory.
But the Mosquito People could fly, and their tribe was merely on a large island overseas. The distance was not too great, so there was plenty of time.
Thus, once they decided on it, they acted. Before long, the two seemingly small Mosquito People in the sky were wrapped in a whirlwind and sped away at incredible velocity.
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