Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 276 Opening Eyes to the Universe

The camp of the chosen champions was not hard to find, since they had been within the Serpent God Empire and had not left.

Thus, the Empire's first batch of special envoys quickly arrived at the legion's camp. They were all handpicked suicide squads, and since they were unsure whether these aliens would be as benevolent as before, they were prepared to accept all the consequences.

At worst, they can just die here and then unleash the Blood Legion behind them. Those Blood Legion warriors have been fighting these Chosen Champions for a long time, and the two sides are sworn enemies.

"If the warriors can't defeat them either... I hope the Serpent God will avenge us."

Faced with imminent death, someone drew a vertical line across their chest.

This illogical action naturally puzzled others, but the envoy who drew a vertical line on his chest had his own reason—in his words, it was a final prayer to the serpent god, and the vertical line symbolized the giant serpent that reached the heavens.

At this critical juncture of life and death, a sense of ritual is needed to boost morale, so the other special envoys also adopted this gesture, drawing vertical lines on their chests.

Immediately afterwards, they stepped through the gates of the camp.

Unlike Tatunbto's style, the entire camp was quite rugged, with blood still fresh everywhere and spears stuck in the ground—and at the top of these spears were the skulls of various wild beasts, clearly a kind of decoration.

"That's really...savage."

One of the envoys muttered something, but was quickly stopped by the leader of the group, the second-generation carpenter fairy, Beskey.

Yes, Beskey also joined the envoy team, and even volunteered to be the leader—although he still had the responsibility of building the spaceship and should not risk his life under any circumstances, Beskey still wanted to personally meet these alien visitors.

If he could, he would even like to join a caravan himself, leave this planet, and go to the stars.

"In short, these are our conditions."

Even when facing the extremely tall warrior leader named Casaloron, Besky showed no fear. Instead, his eyes shone with excitement, simply because this chosen champion had never appeared before.

The fact that they haven't appeared before means they're new, which implies that they have a means of transportation to traverse the stars.

The thought of that mysterious, spaceship-like thing made Beskay feel her blood boiling.

And this burning passion, this undisguised desire, was fully perceived by Casaloran.

"This……"

After a moment of silence, Casaloran slowly nodded.

"can."

To be fair, Casaloran originally wanted to refuse such a request, after all, they were warriors, not merchants selling grain—although they would occasionally act as interstellar merchants, that was usually when they had slaughtered an entire planet and needed to dispose of the stolen goods.

But this time...

"I admire your courage."

Looking into Beskay's eyes, Casalorn felt as if he were seeing his former self.

Although their professions and what they want to do are completely different, they share the same courage to fight against nature and even risk their lives.

"Would you be interested in learning more about the god of courage?"

“I’m sorry, I am a subject of the Serpent God.” Beska refused without hesitation, even drawing a vertical line on her chest to show her loyalty.

This made Casaloran sigh once again.

Yes, it's that courage—even knowing that refusing would lead to death, they still firmly believe in their own ideas without hesitation.

"Such a person will be called by the god of courage sooner or later."

Casalon narrowed his eyes.

"Therefore, we must not allow the God of Mystery to have the opportunity to harm them."

This was another reason why he agreed, because at this moment, it would be meaningless for them to fight any more—the more intense their fighting, the happier the mysterious god hidden behind the scenes would be, because the greater the pressure, the faster these local natives would side with the mysterious god.

Now, the local natives' need to sell their food has unexpectedly given him an opportunity to intervene, an opportunity to disrupt the shameless plan of the mysterious god.

"It's time to let them know the goodness of the god of courage."

With this in mind, Casaloron donned his armor.

This left Bessie, who remained behind, feeling quite bewildered.

"Um...shouldn't we look for transportation?"

Beskey was somewhat puzzled, because in his mind, to go to the Star Sea, one must have a ship—as for why it had to be a ship, it was partly because the Serpent God had mentioned it, and partly because it was very much in line with people's common sense.

If you want to cross a river, you have to take a boat; if you want to traverse a galaxy, you have to take a spaceship. This makes perfect sense.

But Casaloran shook his head.

"You're talking about things that only primitive civilizations would do, since they have extremely limited resources and technology... especially limited technology, which makes them very inefficient in using resources, so they need cumbersome things like spaceships."

Seeing that Beska was still somewhat confused, Casaloran simply added some more information about the achievements of the chosen champions of the God of Courage.

While most of the time these chosen champions prefer to charge at stronger opponents, they are also happy to plunder the ships of lower civilizations when resources are scarce—when their rune-armored bodies smash through the sides of those ships like meteorites, the entire ship becomes a slaughterhouse.

“Large size often means clumsiness.”

Casalorn shook his head.

“Very few people would use such a low-level method.”

Next, Casaloran listed some other methods, such as the armor he wore that could sense the spiritual energy field of a planet and thus use the gravity of the spiritual energy field itself to repeatedly jump back and forth, or those powerful beings who used their consciousness as a raft and their body as a propeller, using their powerful soul as a driving force to traverse the sea of ​​stars—of course, the most common method was to find a spiritual energy field of the same frequency and directly create a portal, which could instantly connect two planets that were not far apart.

“But you can’t use any of these methods. For you right now, being able to build a spaceship is already quite an achievement… How about this, I’ll arrange a suit of armor for you first, and you can come with me to experience it.”

With that, Casaloran waved his hand, signaling the warriors to remove a set of armor.

The second-generation carpenter fairy, Bescai, became the first person in the entire Tatunbuto to ascend into the sky.

(End of this chapter)