Wizard: I am a goblin

Chapter 223 The Last Giant

It's so dark, Mom.

It's so cold here.

I miss the carrot cake from my hometown so much!

Why do I have to live so far away from home?

If only I didn't know magic—maybe I could become an apprentice at the pastry shop next door, surrounded by the aroma of milk every day—

Ah, croissants, coconut pastries—

Pig ears ————

?

"—Can you stop nibbling on my ear?"

The goblin protested, baring its teeth.

"ah!!!!!"

After a struggle, Geb and Belle separated, each occupying half of the narrow gap. They braced themselves against the wall with their hands and feet to prevent themselves from slipping down, and thus, they faced each other awkwardly.

Just now, at the instant the rock hit, Gebu teleported over, grabbed her, and they both crawled into the crack in the ground.

Belle was puzzled.

Gebuxi forced.

Belle was astonished.

Geb smiled.

Belle was furious.

Gebu laughed awkwardly.

"you!"

"You're welcome."

"Fool! Mentioning other gods' names in Aldom's shrine—are you stupid or deliberately courting death?!"

Seeing the girl's flushed face, Gebu finally realized what was happening.

Magnubie's buttocks.

It was just such a simple goblin swear word that angered that Aldom guy.

That's so petty! Can't you even mention names?!

Geb thought quickly; this place was Aldom's shrine.

Aldom is the god of volcanoes and destruction, a deity worshipped by giants. Geb recalls that Dulin once mentioned that Aldom was a god representing the wrath of nature in dwarven culture. Dwarves and giants lived together in the Giant Mountains, and the legend of this evil god may have originated from giant culture and spread to dwarven society.

The Wrath of Nature — The Old Gods — Devouring?

Based on this, it is highly likely that Aldom is "The Devourer," one of the six evil gods.

The etheric spring in the Red Chamber last time was a relic of the Six Evil Gods, and the aura of the Evil Gods can also be felt here. It seems that these etheric springs are intricately connected to the Six Evil Gods.

"You seem to have gotten stronger since we last met. Was that invisibility magic just now? Not bad, I didn't even notice you. What kind of magic do you know?"

Geb asked Belle face to face.

Belle was a little embarrassed by the goblin's large, pale golden eyes, and looked away, saying, "I'm not telling you."

"Hey, so petty," Geb thought to himself.

"My hands are so sore!"

Belle's arms were trembling, and she looked like she was about to collapse. They both looked down; the crevice below seemed bottomless.

"No, I'm asking you if you know levitation or flight, or something like that, otherwise you might fall."

No—it won't happen.

"Don't you know how to sculpt clay? Why don't you create a platform over there and sit down?"

"You don't understand, do you? Obsidian isn't a rock; it's more like glass with trace amounts of ether condensed within it—a magical medium."

Belle was showing off her knowledge with a bit of pride when she accidentally slipped and let out a scream. Geb quickly used his wizard's hand to catch her bottom, preventing her from falling.

"You scoundrel!"

Belle blushed and wanted to slap the goblin, but she couldn't free her hand.

Geb sighed.

"I saved your life just now to repay the favor you did me when I was robbing you. But judging from the looks of it, you owe me several favors now. Forgive my bluntness, Miss Belle, but you're really not cut out for adventures. Don't you even have a teleportation spell? What if you fall into a pit? You can even use invisibility; you're at least a second-circle wizard. Wouldn't stealth be better?"

"The Shadow Step only lasts once, while Invisibility can last a long time. It's not worth it for the same skill level."

The girl muttered. Gebu was both amused and exasperated: This little girl is quite shrewd with money. Too bad she's going in the wrong direction.

Magic isn't for settling accounts; magic is for saving lives.

"I can't hold on any longer—"

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Before Geb could react, Belle's hand went limp and she slid down. To make matters worse, because the two of them were supporting each other face to face with their limbs crossed, the girl fell and grabbed Geb's leg, ending up hanging on the goblin's leg!

"It's broken—it's broken!"

Geb felt his leg was about to be dislocated, and in a fit of rage, he kicked downwards with his other foot, striking Beiji's head.

"Ouch! Don't leave me, goblin!"

Belle cried from the pain, but she still wouldn't let go, clinging tightly to Gebu's legs like a crazed koala.

"you----"

"I don't want to die—"

Belle looked up, her beautiful green eyes brimming with tears as she stared at Geb, half of Geb's boot print still visible on her forehead.

Oh dear—this is it?!

Now, even the most heartless person couldn't bring themselves to step on it.

Geb sighed, quickly assessed the situation, and then said to Belle, "If you want to live, trust me!"

Belle nodded.

Geb silently chanted an incantation and cast a shrinking spell on Belle. Because the girl had chosen to submit to Geb's control, the magic offered no resistance to her.

As the girl's human body rapidly shrank, she transformed into a half-human, with large ears, big eyes, a small face, and a somewhat comical appearance with her baby teeth.

After Belle's body became lighter, Geb felt the burden on his legs lessen. He used a jumping technique on himself to strengthen his leg muscles, and then, like a professional mountaineer, he steadily crawled downhill step by step.

"Bring some up, don't get in the way."

Belle obediently climbed up Geb's thighs, reaching his chest, wrapping her arms around his neck and straddling his waist. Geb carried Belle like a backpack slung backwards, a scene that was both comical and absurd.

"Gebu, what's poking me?"

The girl asked innocently.

"—Uh, it's a dagger," Geb mumbled, quickly changing the subject. "Don't look down, Gao."

Belle immediately looked down and gasped in shock at the seemingly endless crack in the ground.

With his back against the stone wall, Gebu slowly descended, bracing himself against the other side of the wall with his hands and feet. Belle hung on the goblin with her eyes closed. After an unknown amount of time, Gebu felt the gap slowly widening, and his legs could no longer support the wall.

However, at the same time, he noticed a flat area a dozen meters below his feet—it seemed that the gap was almost over.

"Belle, do me a favor."

The girl paused for a moment, then said somewhat shyly in a low voice, "—Go for it, Gebu, Gebu, go for it—"

"No—I didn't ask you to cheer me on or light up the way for me."

"Oh, of course, I'm sorry."

The girl thought for a moment, then placed a magic flash on her remaining shoe, kicked her legs a few times, and made the shoe fall off.

Pat, pat, pat.

The shoe bounced a few times on the rock face before falling to the bottom of the cave, more than ten meters below.

A magical flash illuminated the space below, and Geb saw that he and Belle were at the end of the crevice, below which was an underground cave several meters high. If they descended a few more meters, the two of them would fall through the cave ceiling.

Hmm—what should we do?

"Gebu, it's so tall."

Belle instinctively wrapped her legs around Gebu's waist, her little feet curling up behind him.

"You have to trust me one more time," Geb said to Belle.

"ha?"

"Abeo!"

Before Belle could react, Geb had vanished in a puff of smoke. The girl immediately went into freefall, falling through the gap.

"ah!!!!"

puff.

The horrific impact the girl had imagined didn't happen; on the contrary, she landed on something soft.

She opened her eyes, and what appeared before her was the handsome face of a human man.

The girl blushed for a moment.

Ah, my eyes are playing tricks on me, it's actually a bear goblin.

Seeing the goblin's ferocious face full of scars, the girl instantly jumped out of the man's arms.

"Who are you?!"

"Gebu," Gebu said expressionlessly, "Goblin—Magnify—Bear Goblin. You know what I mean."

"Ah. Indeed."

"Wow, you're so big." Belle pinched Geb's biceps.

"—You're just like a child." Gebu patted Belle's little head.

The atmosphere between the two became a little awkward. Gebu canceled the enlargement/shrinkage spell. The two briefly tidied their soiled clothes. Gebu picked up Belle's glowing shoes as a torch and explored the interior of the cave. The girl followed behind him barefoot.

"Wait a minute." Geb stopped.

"Um?

"

"I haven't asked you yet. What exactly are you doing here?"

"Mind your own business—" the girl stammered.

"Don't try to hide anything, I know Golden Mask sent you," Gebu said bluntly. "You're here to make a deal with me? Why did you choose this godforsaken place?"

The girl was taken aback by Gebu's question, pausing for a few seconds before replying, "What golden mask? What's the deal?"

"I don't want to play games with you. I know you're not that smart. Last time you were just an apprentice during the Deep Well robbery, and now you're a second-circle wizard. I don't believe you can get away with this without a high-level wizard helping you. Let me tell you, I'm not even afraid of the Golden Mask, and I'm just as direct when I talk to him. He said he'd give me something to help me level up, is it with you?"

Belle instinctively hugged her chest.

"What is this? Don't do anything reckless! I don't know anything about this golden mask, and I don't know what kind of deal you have."

The reason I came to Giant's Hill is that Professor Eminent sent me to investigate this place—it's my final trial before I become a third-circle wizard.

"The Three-Ring Trial?"

"A third-circle wizard receives graduation certification from the magic academy, after which one can choose to leave the academy to become a local magic officer, or join the army as a battle mage. Of course, one can also stay at the academy to further their studies. However, graduation is not an easy matter," Belle explained, her tone somewhat urgent. "I am a student specially selected by Professor Imington, bypassing the lengthy selection process. To graduate, I need to make special contributions to the academy—researching and inventing new spells and spell theories, searching for lost arcane relics, etc. Professor Imington chose for my graduation project to excavate the Altom Shrine in Giantshill—I took a huge risk, finally found this place, and you ruined all my plans with just one sentence!"

"Wait a minute, so you weren't sent by the Golden Mask?"

"I already told you, who is the golden mask? I don't know him at all!"

The girl's angry expression didn't seem like she was lying.

"So this Altom Shrine is that glowing obelisk?"

“No, the shrine is inside that thing,” the girl said. “According to the ancient books, to worship at the shrine of Altom, a ritual must be performed. Once the ritual is completed, the ancient god will reveal His shrine to the priest and allow the priest to take a drop of His divine blood.”

Goodness, divine blood? That sounds incredible.

Wait a minute, could this drop of divine blood be the thing the golden mask promised to help him level up?

"Is this divine blood what you're after?"

"—Don't get any funny ideas, goblin. You really screwed me over last time—because of you, I failed my Deep Well Heist and had to beg the professor for help to do these dangerous things for him—I just want to graduate in peace. Who wants to run off to this ignorant witch-hunting country for no reason!"

"If I hadn't taught you a lesson, you'd still be stuck in the academy programming golems, probably bald by now. Don't worry, my priority right now is to get out of here safely. I can't worry about anything else. We can talk about that divine blood later—besides, if it weren't for saving you, I wouldn't be stuck here, right?"

Not only are you not grateful, but you also don't trust me at all. Aren't you a little shameless?

"You!————" Belle was furious at Geb's scolding, and tears of grievance welled up in her eyes.

"Sorry, I'm a rough guy, I went a bit too far, I apologize." After hitting the girl with the big stick, Gebu immediately gave her a carrot. "What I mean is, in this situation, the two of us have to cooperate. The fact that you were able to sneak into Shanhaiguan and find this place under the noses of the church and the army shows that you are capable and have grown a lot since I first met you."

We don't have to be friends, but we don't necessarily have to be enemies either. Right now, we can only be companions, finding our way out. Once we're out, I can help you complete your ritual, and afterwards, you can help me with some things.

Hearing Gebu say that, the girl calmed down a bit and muttered, "That's more like it—helping each other is reasonable too."

As the two were walking and talking, a hoarse, mournful cry suddenly came from in front of the cave, like the lament of a dying whale.

The two men instantly became alert. Just as they were preparing to fight, a dark red light shone from the depths of the cave, illuminating a huge, hunched figure.

Bang, bang, bang!

The heavy, irregular footsteps sounded like the faltering of a sick person. In the dim light, a thin and aged giant slowly walked toward two figures, one tall and one short.

"0 somnus tuus sine somniis, qui ultimos gigantum ecitasti!"

Oh! That dreamless slumber, who is it that awakens the last giant from his ancient mourning!