Monsters: Evolving from Titans to Ancient Gods

The white light pierced through the vortex of the Earth's core, transforming into a hazy glow that floated in the upper space of the Earth's core.

Longbo watched as the white light around him dissipated and his body landed back on the ground, a feeling that filled him with wonder.

Originally, he entered the Earth's core by crashing headlong into the Earth's core continent, but at this moment, he floated gently on the land near the vortex.

His gaze fell on the bronze object in the hands of the priestess beside him, and he seemed to be deep in thought.

This thing opened the vortex passage to the Earth's core, sending him and the priestess to the inner world.

If he wasn't mistaken, this thing looked similar to the magic light stick that Ryubo used in the tokusatsu series, but the patterns were somewhat different.

The lines of the same pattern as Ultraman's chest armor are not as soft as those of Tiga's Spark Lens; instead, they appear sharper.

But... why can this thing open a tunnel to the center of the earth?

Before Longbo could even ask for clarification, the giants who had been waiting for a long time gathered around. The moment they saw Longbo, they felt a surge of joy and immediately knelt down before him.

Their expressions were quite fanatical, giving Lombard the feeling that they were both a group of fanatical believers seeing a god and Marun from the next space station seeing their Primarch.

This fanatical attitude made Longbo frown and turn to look at the priestess, but she just shook her head to indicate that it had nothing to do with her. She did not train these new generation members like she trained believers.

Behind the crowd, a boy taller than most humans stood on the rooftop waving to the priestess perched on Longbo's shoulder.

The priestess smiled and nodded in response.

Meanwhile, Longbo was carefully examining the group of derivative giants born from him.

Their height is generally between fifteen and eighteen meters, and the giants at the back of the crowd, despite their age, appear to be about a quarter shorter.

Apart from their size, they were no different from ordinary humans. They had no bone armor, no bone blades, and no energy fluctuations; they were simply giants.

However, they generally adorned themselves with horn-shaped decorations, some of them cow horns, some of them sheep horns, and all sorts of horn-shaped decorations were flamboyant and more gorgeous than their clothes.

"..."

What is all this...?

Longbo's expectations gradually faded.

In his mind, giants were not like that.

They should be clad in heavy bone armor, with bone blades on their arms capable of cutting through steel, and elbow strikes capable of carving large holes in mountains; at the very least, they should be over fifty meters tall.

But what appeared before him were giant humans, averaging ten meters tall, whose frenzied behavior made him, a man accustomed to being alone, feel very uncomfortable.

The feeling they gave Longbo was far less than that of the giants in the One Piece world. Although those ancient giants with blue faces and fangs were ugly in the eyes of ordinary people, Longbo found them quite pleasing to the eye after looking at them for a while.

Longbo completely suppressed their ideas.

Although they are very powerful in the eyes of humans, in Longber's eyes they are not much different from the giant bats of Kamazozz; their upper limit is just that.

If one wants to evolve to the power of some derivative species of the Black Dragon, it would take at least several million years.

Lumbert did not find any familiar faces among these derived giants other than the priestess.

After a brief silence, the priestess gave her answer: the first generation of people who evolved from Longbo had long lifespans, but they also passed away one after another over three hundred winters.

Even if she herself hadn't been possessed by the Kirieloids, even if she had survived until this day, Longbo would most likely have seen her looking old and frail.

This is one of the reasons why she agreed to their request.

"..."

Upon hearing this, Longbo remained silent.

Seeing that Longbo's attitude was rather subtle, the giants derived from Longbo looked at each other in bewilderment.

Although Lombard's perception of them was not as keen as that of global tidal changes, they could clearly sense Lombard's feelings.

They didn't know why Lonbo was in such a mood, but that didn't stop them from trying to change things.

They looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally took out a "scroll" painted on animal skin from their bosoms and presented it to Longbo.

A giant stood on a huge staircase and handed him a roll of yellowed animal hide, and at that moment the priestess's voice echoed in his mind.

"This is the recipe..."

"I remember drawing a map on the ground before, mainly to record which prey we could eat, which creatures we couldn't defeat, and a small part of the terrain."

This is the Classic of Mountains and Seas, right?

Longbo remained silent, listening to the priestess's description, which resembled the Classic of Mountains and Seas in his memory.

Looking back, the world is indeed like that; not only are there many species in the inner world that resemble creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but there are also species on the surface.

Longbo turned his head slightly to look at the priestess, so she must have had a part in compiling the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The priestess who had established a telepathic connection with Longbo nodded slightly, confirming that she had indeed participated in the compilation of this recipe.

Longbo finally reached out his large hand and took the enormous scroll from the giant's hand, which was almost the size of his own palm, and turned it over.

...

After a long time, Lombard, guided by the priestess, left the city built by the giants he had created.

The boy, who was unusually tall among ordinary humans, quietly followed behind with the yellow dog. Longbo and the priestess had already noticed his presence, but they pretended not to see him.

This settlement is located in a secluded corner, with numerous green crystals stretching for tens of kilometers intertwined and concealing the space. There are no advanced predators within a hundred meters of it.

Beneath their feet was a bluestone road still under construction, which seemed enormous even to the giants, but to Longbo, it was no different from a narrow path between fields.

These bluestones were extremely fragile. Longbo crushed a large number of them as soon as he put his foot on them. He could only walk on them after he used his magnetic field control ability to reduce his weight.

At the end of the road are several pyramids of different styles, one of which contains an unhatched Titan cocoon, presumably Mothra's resurrection armor.

But Longbo's goal wasn't that pyramid, but the one in a corner of this area.

As the violent tremors shook the pyramid, Longbo arrived before it, which was covered in vines and moss. The priestess once again used her Kirieloid abilities to create a light barrier above the pyramid, causing the spiritual life form to break through and hurl insults.

The scene unfolds, revealing the interior of the pyramid to Longbo, leaving him silent once more.

Who dumped this body here...?

What comes into view are two lifelike "statues", one in human form and the other in the form of a giant beast, both with crystalline outlines on their chests.

The humanoid creature crouched on the ground, embracing the giant beast with a sorrowful expression. A large hand reached out to the beast, as if sharing its life with a dying comrade.

Without a doubt, these are the giants and behemoths that Longbo once saw in the murals. They did not die after fighting some kind of "calamity" from beyond the heavens, but came here and were petrified into statues.

Longbo originally thought they were all dead, but he never expected that they would turn into statues in this place, some unknown distance away.

This made Longbo sigh, these light life forms are really hard to kill, they can still live even after being shattered into photons.

The priestess supported Longbo as he stood with the bone armor on his shoulder, her gaze fixed on the two statues in front of her, her voice carrying through the air.

"I came here back then."

"Three beams of light emerged from the crystals on the chests of these statues and transformed in front of me into a bronze spark prism, an infant, and a puppy."

The priestess took out the bronze spark prism again, a hint of reminiscence in her eyes. "I adopted that child and treated him as my own."

"And his spark prism helped me fool those malicious ghosts and spirits, and complete my plan."

The priestess keenly perceived the relationship between the statue, the spark prism, and her adopted son, and was therefore very grateful for the help he had given her.

Without him, I would never have been able to complete my plan and see my last remaining family members before I died…