Monsters: Evolving from Titans to Ancient Gods

The priestess still remembers the scene from hundreds of winters ago when she watched her loved ones leave alone.

On that joyous night of harvest, the backs of his loved ones gradually disappeared into the starlit darkness, choosing to leave civilization and return to the cold wilderness that was rightfully his.

But she stood in the glow of the bonfire, a symbol of civilization, basking in its warmth, quietly watching her loved ones depart.

In the days and nights that followed, she would miss her family members who had long since disappeared.

Every harvest season, this longing would reach its peak, until the seductive voices of ghosts and gods rang in her ears.

The giant turned around slightly, but stirred up a fierce wind in a corner of the city, lifting the priestess's robes and long white hair.

The priestess's familiar smiling face came into view, making Longbo's eyes become somewhat dazed.

More than three hundred years later, he never imagined that he would see her again.

At certain moments during his travels through this world, Longbo imagined that perhaps one day in the future he would have the chance to encounter the last traces left by the priestess.

This heritage may be about some of her murals, or some legends that have been passed down in this land.

It could also be her descendant, a woman who might look very much like her, or a tall man who looks about three-tenths like her.

But at this moment, even though he had expected it not long ago, seeing a living person standing in front of him still caught him off guard and filled him with emotion.

"I'm so glad to see you again."

Long Bo tried his best to lower his voice, but it still sounded like muffled thunder to the priestess.

But the joy of the long-awaited reunion made her overlook this fact, and her smile grew even more pronounced on her serene and beautiful face, unlike that of Neolithic humans.

"Come, let me see my brother's face."

She abandoned her almost harsh authority in front of her people, letting her joy overflow.

She knew that this almost alien face was not her relative's true appearance; in the past, although his face was ossified and he could not show any expression.

But he still had a human outline, instead of having four grotesque eyes and lacking a human nose and mouth like he does now.

Upon hearing this, Longbo remained silent, controlling the nerve tissue connecting his head to the visor to separate it, and gently removed it.

A face almost identical to that of the human era, but even larger, appeared in the priestess's eyes.

The priestess smiled again, using the power of the Kirieloids to levitate her nearly three-meter-tall body, float in front of Longbo, and stroke his face.

You've become thinner than before.

She became "one with the Kyrielords" and gained access to all the aliens' memories of future Earth and other alien worlds, although this could not corrupt her mind.

But it still makes her words and actions closer to the modern people in Longbo's impression.

In response, Longbo looked down at his own majestic body towering above the mountains and ultimately did not reply.

He was utterly speechless, unable to comprehend how the priestess could utter such insincere nonsense as "you've lost weight" to a giant who was 120 meters tall and weighed over 120,000 tons.

In the priestess's mind, the Kirielod residing in her body was locked in a dark room, surrounded by darkness and devoid of sound.

But she still felt her power being drained by the savage who had deceived the gods of Kirielod, and she was furious about it.

"You despicable and shameless woman, you uncivilized savage, how dare you wield the power of the gods!"

"A despicable, shameless, and treacherous bastard!"

Enraged, the Kyrielords used the most vile words they could ever think of to insult the priestess.

But the priestess simply smiled indifferently, because the spirit was right; she frankly admitted that she was an uncivilized savage compared to those in the spirit's memory.

"Come on, I'll take you to see your people." The priestess floated to Longbo's shoulder and sat down, resting her eyes against the bony armor protruding from his shoulder.

She could feel the radiation emanating from Longbo, and a kind of pleasure that came from the depths of her blood.

Those spirits said that they could live for more than three hundred winters, and that other members of their race could grow taller than trees, all because they had received radiation from the planet's balancing incarnation, resulting in passive evolution.

It was through the answers from those ghosts and spirits that she learned who her relatives, who were born with her, truly were.

The ancient gods from beyond the heavens deduced that only species with similar physical form and genes to this giant monster could passively evolve due to radiation.

From then on, they became a species derived from giant monsters.

Even within the same species, there are differences in the degree of adaptation, while those from tribes with similar bloodlines to Longbo possess perfect adaptability.

As for why the spirits were so concerned about her people, the priestess didn't quite understand, but it seemed that her people were better able to bear their power.

Just like herself.

Longbo walked through the town, following the priestess's guidance deeper into the island. His conversation with the priestess continued throughout the journey.

However, Longbo had been alone for a long time and was not used to speaking, so their conversations were conducted through telepathy.

From her description, Longbo learned everything that had happened to them over the years.

Several winters after Longbo left, the priestess noticed the abnormal flow of the Yellow River, so she led her people away from there and traveled inland.

Over the decades, the priestess gradually realized that she and other members of her clan born after Longbo aged significantly slower than others.

They, and even the younger generation, are almost all as tall as Longbo was when he left.

Decades later, their descendants have become completely different from ordinary humans. They are as tall as mythical beasts and can easily knock down elephants.

During that time, a person who had been separated from the tribe returned and told the tribe that she had witnessed someone who resembled the person in the old man's story. From then on, she led the tribe on a long search.

Persistence pays off; they eventually found the traces left by Longbo and followed his footsteps for a long time to enter the inner world of the earth.

But that was all they got to. The place was fraught with danger, and powerful creatures were everywhere, which was quite awkward for them, whose size was somewhere between humans and giant beasts.

They have neither the unremarkable bodies of humans nor the formidable fighting power of giant beasts, making it difficult for them to move an inch in the inner world.

But it was precisely after entering the inner world that the favorable environment there activated something deep within their bodies, causing them to grow larger and larger, and their power to expand.

To this day, each generation of the clan grows taller. Many of the middle-aged members are already as tall as trees, while the younger generation, though still young, has a promising future.

They made their home somewhere in the inner world, but would occasionally return to the surface.

Upon hearing this, Longbo was also somewhat moved.

At that time, not only did I need radiation to grow, but the people in the tribe also needed a lot of radiation to activate the evolution brought about by the Longbo radiation.

Decades ago, Longbo lamented that he had no offspring to follow him.

It turns out that the people in his own tribe were actually his own Titan derivatives, only without the radiation activating this evolution.

But at this moment, everything is already set in stone.

The gap between myself and these giants born from me is already too great, and I have not poured a lot of resources into them or paid sunk costs.

He's unlikely to bring them with him anymore.

Perhaps it is precisely because the gap between many Titans and their derivatives is too great that the derivatives cannot provide any assistance to the Titans, which is why the Titans choose to act alone.

And their derivative species have long since become extinct over the long course of time…