"Mm-hm-hm-hm..."
The muffled, strange tune emanating from his chest and abdomen differed from what ordinary people might imagine. Looking over the life of Aibadon, King of the Purgatory Giants, he had not always been so endlessly domineering, invincible, and peerless in battle. When he had been weak, finding himself grievously wounded in desperate peril had been commonplace.
Otherwise, the Purgatory Furnace would not possess the ability to infuse a golden body and repair injuries.
Aibadon represented the Purgatory Giants' unmatched will to fight and never retreat. Unlike the conflicts born of resource struggles in many worlds, conflicts among Purgatory Giants were disputes over methods of evolution.
One was an evolutionary path fueled by fire-element energy; the other, a path fueled by fighting spirit and rage.
Throughout the long years of history, every victorious Purgatory Giant King had used the accumulation of elemental energy as their evolutionary path. As a result, the Purgatory Giant World had been no more remarkable than countless other flame worlds and elemental worlds—until Aibadon forged the Purgatory Furnace and, with his unmatched combat power, smashed the previous Purgatory Giant King to death, becoming the new Purgatory Giant King!
As the first Purgatory Giant King in history to use fighting spirit and rage as the source of his power, though countless obscure Purgatory Giants before him had also embarked upon this path, there was no doubt that all of them had failed amid this extreme method of evolution.
King Aibadon's achievement, like his evolutionary path, was an extreme—a mutation amid the Endless World and its innumerable living beings.
Perhaps, against the boundless expanse and vast, ancient history of the Endless World, he was merely one member among the countless masses. Yet in this world cluster on the verge of unification, during this brief span of the War