Monsters: Evolving from Titans to Ancient Gods

Several days have passed since the last mission, and Longbo and the Golden Ship have left the Icefield and entered a new area.

The sound of horses' hooves echoed through the dimly lit canyon passage in the middle of the plateau, amplified by the dark dome, and reverberated among the jagged, fang-like stone forest.

This area is perpetually shrouded in thick fog, with the ground covered in cooled, solidified lava and devoid of vegetation.

The air deep in the canyon was unusually murky, perpetually filled with a suffocating stench of decay. Pale mist swirled around the towering stone pillars, making everything in the distance appear exceptionally hazy, and something seemed to be writhing in the darkness.

The air was so thick that the golden ship couldn't help but sneeze. The sound was unusually loud in the almost enclosed environment, overlapping with the sound of horses' hooves, creating an eerie and unsettling atmosphere.

The canyon, practically screaming "danger," made the Golden Ship increasingly uneasy. Turning to look at Longbo, its narrow, vertical pupils revealed a hint of hesitation.

Is this the only way to go?

Longbo understood the meaning in the golden ship's eyes, but he didn't pay much attention to it and gestured for it to continue forward.

Actually, he also felt that something was wrong with this plateau. It was normal that his vision could not penetrate the plateau, but it was a little problematic that these things, which looked like thick fog and miasma, could interfere with his magnetic field perception.

But apart from this canyon, the surrounding area is all cliffs stretching for thousands of meters, requiring either a detour of thousands of kilometers or the creation of a path through the mountains.

Out of confidence, Longbo ultimately chose the shortest route.

The golden ship has turned back more than ten times along the way, but it still has no intention of giving up.

Longbo suddenly understood the meaning of the saying that overly intelligent dogs cannot be police dogs or military dogs.

If the Golden Ship is so stupid, it would want to run away at the sight of danger. What would happen to the Shepherd and the others over there?

The golden ship obviously couldn't go against Longbo's wishes, so it could only sulk and race wildly through the winding canyon, deliberately increasing the amplitude of its movements, trying to shake Longbo to death on its back.

But it clearly underestimated Longbo's ability to withstand pressure; its actions did nothing to harm Longbo.

It was the creature that was startled by the white bone it suddenly stepped on that made it behave itself.

But it is precisely because of its actions that the road that should have taken a lot of time to cross is now only a small section.

The canyon ends just a few thousand meters ahead, but the scattered bones of various wild beasts are increasing, to the point that even an intellectually disabled person could see the problem.

Longbo's gaze fell on the surrounding skeletons, his four eyes narrowing slightly. These giant beast skeletons had wounds that looked like they had been cut by sharp blades, which made him somewhat concerned.

Turning around to look around, the hundreds of meters high staggered stone forest "grows" many brown vines, which intertwine and spread, forming a giant net with the huge trees that seem to have come from nowhere, just enough to catch the densely packed boulders above.

Amidst the cliff face obscured by corpses ahead, a few sharpened animal bones were faintly visible.

Clearly, this is a trap.

A trap designed for large creatures.

This canyon, located in the middle of the plateau, seems to be the perfect ambush route. Detours take too long and are too difficult to climb. In comparison, this canyon is almost the only way, and the chances of a successful ambush are very high.

The size of these traps is clearly designed to deal with giant units, so they couldn't have been set up by humans. Therefore, it's obvious who set up these traps.

Giant gorilla.

In the inner world, besides the Titans and the Ivy, the only other creatures with the highest intelligence are the giant gorillas.

The monkeys that Longbo had seen certainly didn't have this kind of intelligence, and the silverback gorillas are almost extinct; the remaining ones are probably playing Boom Beach on Skull Island.

All that's left are chimpanzees and gibbons.

I just don't know which one it is.

Thinking of this, Longbo looked once again at the exit at the end of the canyon, taking in the faintly visible biomagnetic field there.

Clearly, the creature that set the trap is right ahead.

"Is this targeting me again?"

Longbo felt he had guessed the truth. He stopped the golden ship with the reins and, under the latter's puzzled gaze, unfolded the Rainbow Magic Realm and put it inside.

A deep blue light emanated from his body, illuminating the dim canyon and making more details of the trap clearly visible.

Upon discovering that the trap was aimed at him, Longbo immediately chose to use his superior ranged abilities to overturn the table.

Flipping the table over would definitely be the right thing to do.

This massive commotion naturally caught the attention of the culprits lying in ambush outside. With a series of panicked screams, the traps that had already been set up were activated.

The giant net loosened, and countless boulders fell with tremendous force, carrying thick clouds of dust that covered Longbo.

But it was too late. The charged particle cannon swept in all directions, annihilating any suspicious signs that came into view.

The mountain's rock face was pierced, and the charged particle cannon, carrying boulders, swept across, slicing more than a dozen giant gorillas in half. The terrifying aftershocks landed on distant mountaintops, causing deafening explosions.

The blue light filled the eyes of all the gorillas, and the emanating energy sent chills down their spines.

Only when the blue light dissipated and the canyon became dark and silent again did they lower their arms that were covering their eyes and cautiously look at the end of the canyon shrouded in smoke and dust.

The nearly 100-meter-tall, long-bodied, red-haired behemoth looked at the gray-dark canyon with its eyes slightly narrowed.

It reached out to stop several red gibbons behind it that wanted to come forward to investigate, and looked around.

The savage, mature giant ape reached out and grabbed a black giant ape with red handprints on its body, then pushed it directly toward the Dark Canyon.

The black giant ape dared not resist. In the end, filled with intense fear, it gripped the weapon made of leg bones and stone and carefully disappeared into the darkness.

The traps inside the canyon had long since collapsed, leaving it not only dark and shrouded in a thick cloud of smoke.

The black giant ape grew increasingly uneasy, but its fear of the brutal king behind it intensified, and it could only cautiously search for what the king wanted.

In the dim world, an earthquake-like sound rang out, and shadows deep within the smoke and dust crawled toward the end, spreading an invisible pressure that made the giant ape tremble.

The black giant ape gripped its weapon stiffly, looked at the shadows and let out a threatening roar, assuming a charging stance.

In the darkness shrouded in smoke and dust, a ray of azure light rose once more, and streaks of lightning-like energy outlined the shape of a sharp blade, which was being dragged across the ground by some being.

As it slowly approached, its unique aura, situated at the top of the ecosystem, followed, transforming into the fear of death that clouded the giant ape's mind and instantly shattered its defenses.

"Clang..."

The giant ape's weapon slipped from its hand, its pupils dilated, its heart pounded, and the fear of death finally became the driving force that made it turn around and try to run towards the outside of the canyon.

But just as it turned around, a dark shadow approached and enveloped it, and a sharp blade shrouded in blue light swept across the sky.

...

A mournful roar echoed from the canyon, causing the giant apes surrounding them to instinctively retreat.

But under the intimidation of more than a dozen red giant apes, they finally overcame their fear and raised their weapons to aim at the canyon.

"Thump...thump..."

An earthquake-like sound rang out, as if a giant hammer had struck the minds of the giant apes, and a vague outline emerged from the depths of darkness.

The red giant ape's gaze swept across the scene, catching sight of the blade shrouded in blue light, and a human-like smile appeared on its beastly face.

Longbo emerged from the canyon, his sharp blade slicing through the ground, creating a deep gash that traced a perfect arc before finally pointing at the giant ape ahead.

Behind Longbo, the howls and roars of ferocious beasts rang out one after another, and then the group of giant beasts charged out of the canyon with a deafening roar that shook the earth...