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"Oh, those rough guys in the Giant Kingdom actually let such treasures stay in the warehouse." Had took out one of the ores and wiped it clean with his sleeve as if he were treating his lover.

"There are some unknown secrets, but since they told me so readily, I didn't bother to investigate." Hebie walked to the side and picked up a fist-sized piece of ore. The heart-like shape of the stone made her ask another question.

"Is this thing really not cursed or has any negative effects? This is a gift for strangers."

Hard rarely gave a direct answer. His blacksmith's unique identification skills revealed the true appearance of the ore.

[Pulsating Demonic Heart]

[The heart of an extinct magical life form, an excellent forging material, can grant the wearer immense power, but it also means that the truth of the dark world is entangled.]

"Believe me, strangers always like equipment with this kind of negative effect."

Chapter 179 A Nation Too Burdened

【Pass to the City of the Dead】

[This highly suggestive name was chosen solely for the creator's aesthetic taste. The item itself is simply a simple prop created by the simple application of gravity magic, allowing people to walk on the ceiling.]

"The only good thing about becoming this undead body is that I have mastered magic, which is extremely rare for a Giens person like me."

The giant Ghost Rider gave Blaze a prop that allowed him to walk normally in the reversed city, and walked in front to lead the way for Blaze.

Because Blazer fell into the trap of "If you want to know XXX, do me a favor", the Giens man began to introduce the situation of the city.

Her name was Enya, and she was the leader of a knight order in the Giant Kingdom. Coincidentally, the knight order that Enya led was the predecessor of the Royal Knights led by Marika - the Knights of the Kingdom.

At that time, the Giant Knights were not as big as they are today. They only had one city, and the so-called royal family was just a group of ordinary people leading the persecuted half-bloods.

Enya put on the helmet again. Because of Blaze's attack, the full-coverage helmet had a crack from the eye to the chin. In fact, Blaze had always noticed that only half of Enya's face was a pale human face, and the other half was a terrifying skeleton.

It was after Enya withdrew from the combat state that she realized this and put on the helmet.

"I'm sorry, it must be awkward looking at that face all the time."

"It's okay. I have the skill [Skeleton Aesthetics], so I don't find skeletons scary."

One word is worth a thousand words.

But Enya couldn't help but turn her head, and Blaze could see her pale lips trembling beneath the cracks in her helmet. Given Blaze and Marika's daily interactions, it was clear she wasn't moved by his words; the Giaiens wouldn't tolerate such talk.

"Are you really not being expelled because of some special fetish?"

See it.

Don't say anything at this time, because the people of Giaiens are stubborn and can't think straight. Explaining will only make things more complicated. It's better not to say anything, anyway, you won't be treated specially for this matter.

"Hasn't there been any strangers here before?" Blaze changed the subject stiffly.

"Those people from another world?" Enya immediately shifted her attention and frowned, seeming to have little good feelings towards strangers.

"Occasionally, strangers would enter here. Initially, they would only be active in the dome. Even if they discovered this city, they would not be able to set foot here."

"But a year ago, somehow, they managed to reach this city in an instant. After that, strangers began to frequently enter the city, searching for the red robes stained with our blood, just like you did."

Enya waved her hand, without deliberately distinguishing Blaze, and generously expressed her dissatisfaction with everyone who broke in here.

"I don't know what the descendants of the Giant Kingdom were thinking, actually allowing people to enter here."

"Don't you know that the Stranger defeated the Titans a year ago?"

Enya paused, her open mouth revealing disbelief.

She murmured, "Can that thing really be killed?"

"Hehehe~" Blazer crossed his arms over his chest. Now it was his turn as a professional to talk about the Pink Bunny's feat of defeating the Titan.

"So so...so so..."

"Pink Bunny, what a great hero." Enya's face seemed to have little stars twinkling, and her tone was full of admiration.

Blaze understood why Enya was hostile to strangers. Just like everyone else two years ago, Enya was wary of strangers from another world. Enya didn't know the contributions strangers had made to this world, nor could she know.

The sound of the Titan's fall was transmitted to every corner of the world, but this royal nameless tomb is located in a place far away from the continent, and even the shocking sound of the giant's fall cannot be transmitted.

This also explains why Enya is not affected by titles like the Great Lion. It turns out that she does not have the prerequisites to understand this title.

Now, foreigners who enter the Royal Unknown Tomb will at least no longer be attacked by the undead warriors of the Giaiens.

"Now I can understand why strangers are allowed into this place. Perhaps someone who knows the dark history expects strangers to put an end to the story of the past."

Enya raised her head and looked towards the center of the city in the distance. It was a huge castle, the center of this nameless country.

"Sure enough, [two countries living on the border started a war for survival] is not the whole story." Blaze also looked over. The city was very large, and even the ruins could give a glimpse of its former prosperity.

A city like this slowly decayed in a place abandoned by the world, while the man who destroyed this city silently guarded it after his death.

This doesn't seem like something that can be explained in a few words.

"You said that strangers came here to obtain the [Red Robe stained with the blood of heroes], and then used it in the knight's canonization ceremony." Enya said suddenly, with a broken smile on her lips.

"But we are not heroes at all. We are just a group of executioners who kill to survive."

Enya brought Blaze into a dilapidated house. Blaze looked around. This seemed to be the place that Enya had renovated. It was filled with various handmade weapons.

Inside were two undead warriors of the Giaiens, but their bodies had mostly decayed, leaving only their fighting instincts. It was only a matter of time before their souls dissipated and fell to the dome.

"You asked before why the knights of the Golden Kingdom wanted to take away the souls of the people of this nameless kingdom, right?" Enya raised her hand and pointed to the coffin in the corner of the room, which contained the bodies of a woman and a little girl.

"No corruption?" Blazer was stunned.

As the undead warriors gradually decayed, the bodies of these two people still retained their appearance in life.

"Take a closer look."

The chicken pecked Blaze's head hard, and the sting made Blaze shake his head. The uncorrupted corpse disappeared, replaced by two crystallized human bodies.

"That was the Night Watchman's professional ability. You saw their souls."

"Soul!?" Blaze was extremely surprised.

"Yes, their souls are still preserved in their bodies." Enya knelt on one knee in front of the two crystal bodies, took off her helmet, and touched the little girl's cheek with an expression of great pity.

"At that time, a corner of the world was about to be turned upside down because of the heavy burden of their nation. So we took action."

"This was a war of annihilation, and we lost, but the world still turned upside down."

Chapter 180 A Life Where the Soul is Heavier Than the Body

That nation was too heavy, because they were an extremely strange crystal people, their bodies were made of crystal, their blood was liquid mithril, and their hearts were mountain copper known as Orichalcum.

The bodies of these people are made up of three kinds of magic minerals. They are almost covered with treasures. They are called "Treasure Miners".

This is a completely insulting and greedy name, but the Baokuang people easily accepted this name, proudly called themselves Baokuang people, and even established a country.

The Baokuang people are a kind, pure and straightforward people. The current character of the Giens people is more or less influenced by the Baokuang people.

Miners, who feed on stone and other minerals, are not driven to savagery by hunger. Composed of three magical minerals, they are naturally incredibly strong and therefore lack ambition. Even when injured, they can repair themselves directly with minerals, so even if they are targeted by other greedy creatures, they remain unfazed.

The fledgling Giant Kingdom and the Treasure Miners' kingdom were neighbors, and they enjoyed a healthy relationship. Back then, the Giant Kingdom was resource-poor and its weapons were outdated. The Treasure Miners sent their own people, deceased by natural causes, smilingly declaring that the Giens would dismember them and forge them into weapons.

Even now, Enya can't help but twitch her lips when she sees that scene.

This is also related to the ethnic characteristics of the Baokuang people. The reason why the Baokuang people accept the name of Baokuang people is that they claim to be cannibals who will eat the bodies of their dead. The dead Baokuang people are just a piece of human-shaped mineral. According to the traditional customs of the Baokuang people, they will happily share this human-shaped mineral to avoid waste.

But after interacting with other peoples, especially the Giaiens, they understood the meaning of family, blood ties, and the pain of losing loved ones. They saw the tears shed when their deceased loved ones were burned, and while they couldn't understand such wasteful behavior, they envied and longed for the feeling of remembering their families while looking at the stones that meant nothing.

Perhaps wasting food is the first step in the advancement of civilization.

The people of Baokuang have always been very practical. They took a direct detour, skipping the step of [burying the remains and remembering their families] and directly reaching the final stage of [the remains of their family members are reborn and turned into weapons and armor to protect their friends].

It was so fast that even a nation as cautious as the Giaiens could not bear it. Fortunately, the Baokuang people were very considerate and broke the body into pieces and packed it up.

One piece of mithril for the solidified blood, one piece for the crystal body, and one piece for the orichalcum heart.

The miners noticed that the corners of the Giens people's mouths twitched when they looked at the heart-shaped orichalcum, and they considerately suggested that they could flatten the orichalcum and bring it over.

With the high-quality ore, the Giant Kingdom recruited dwarves and had enough power to guard the borders, expand the territory and provide shelter for many persecuted half-bloods.

The Giaiens and the treasure miners joined forces and gradually created a beautiful kingdom outside of fairy tales.

At this time, the Titans came here.

This is a disaster that has always existed, and today the Titans also danced a dance in order to be able to stand and walk. The heavy dance steps, each step brought the power to tear the earth apart, and the last step of the dance that no living creature could bear became the beginning of darkness.

The world began to slowly turn, and the immensely heavy bodies of the treasure miners accelerated the process. This was an unbelievable and surreal development. The number of treasure miners was only that of a small country. How could they possibly crush the world?

And when the treasure miners tried to move, the overturning not only accelerated, but also spread, and eventually the Giant Kingdom was involved.

The surrounding countries are ready to make a move. They have been eyeing the opportunity to destroy these two countries.

"The Baokuang people stood on the flipped boundary line, waving goodbye to us and wishing us sunshine tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and every day thereafter."

"So we took action, killing the Baokuang people in order to leave even one of their people in this world."

Blaze didn't know how to comment on this matter. He couldn't understand the deep feelings between the people of Giens and the people of Baokuang. All he could do was to raise some dry questions about the details.

"Even if we kill the treasure miners, their bodies are still there, and their weight is..."

"The dead treasure miner is just a pile of rare metals." Enya raised her hand and hooked the little girl's nose, smiling as if she recalled the good old days.

"What weighs heavy on the treasure miners is not their bodies, but their kind souls."

"They are still alive, right?" Blaze approached the two men, squatted down and looked at them carefully. These treasure miners with crystal bodies were just in a deep sleep like suspended animation.

And there are miners like this who have faked their deaths all over the city.

Perhaps with just a certain opportunity, this group of kind-hearted people in the mines will be able to regain their lives.

"Do you want me to help wake them up?"

Enya shook her head, touched the little girl's forehead again, and closed the coffin again.

"No, this city is reversed. Only those who are now pretending to be dead but still have souls can lie in this city as undead. If they wake up..."

Enya didn't need to say it, and Blaze also knew that this group of treasure miners, heavy enough to turn the world upside down, would directly smash through the blue brick dome and fall to an unknown place.

"Furthermore, the treasure miners voluntarily fell asleep to maintain the significance of this reversed city. They will only awaken when they are judged to be able to awaken."

"Meaning? Isn't it to commemorate this city and the blood debt of the Giant Kingdom?" Blaze was puzzled.

"The significance of this inverted city goes beyond this. The people of Baokuang volunteered to serve as the center of gravity, using their own weight to stabilize the world, preventing it from flipping over again." Enya pointed to the ground. "You've never seen or heard of the world flipping over, right?"

True, the Titans sang and danced more than once, but only the earth cracked, never the world turned upside down. And this was at the cost of a kind nation forever slumbering in the abyss.

"Now the Titan is dead, but the miners haven't woken up yet, which means they think the time has not come yet." Enya sighed and sat down next to the coffin in a somewhat decadent manner. After sitting down, she was finally shorter than Blaze who was standing.

"Only when the treasure miners have a bright tomorrow and the day after tomorrow can the blood debt of the Giant Kingdom be repaid. But we cannot leave here, so I would like to seek your help."

"It's sudden, but can I ask a question?"

"Is there a specific way to do it?"

"No, it's how the treasure miners give birth to children."

Chapter 181 Underground World, Continuation of Extinct Creatures

When faced with the private question of how to continue the offspring, most women would be shy, but not the Giaiens. They would just explain it to you on the spot.

"Yes, really? So both parties must reach the peak of pleasure in order to produce offspring."

Blaze's expression was stiff, perhaps due to the ancient times they lived in. Enya's explanation was quite blunt. He also knew that the treasure miners were simply made of crystal, and their reproduction method was similar to that of normal creatures.

"There are rumors that they are descendants of magical creatures from the Age of Gods, so they are a very magical nation." Enya was afraid that Blaze didn't understand, so she emphasized it again.

"They have normal male and female organs."

"I know, I understand, no need to explain anymore." Blaze waved his hands repeatedly. Fortunately, he canceled the silver werewolf transformation when he entered the house, otherwise his blushing face would definitely be seen.

"I've heard your story. Now tell me what you want me to do."

"Yeah." Enya nodded and said seriously.

"The Treasure Miners remain dormant to protect the creatures on Earth from the devastation brought about by the world's inversion. But it seems that the inversion itself is part of the natural order of this world, where some things sink and some things float. The Treasure Miners' slumber is a forced resistance to this natural order."

"We have been safe so far, only because nature is preparing a bigger counterattack."

Nemean Giant.

Blaze inexplicably thought of this terrifying enemy. If he hadn't united forces and forcibly defeated the Nemean Giants in advance, there was no doubt that the Nemean Giants would have given birth to a body even larger than the Titans. And in the future predicted by the old lion, the Nemean Giants would cause earth-shaking changes.

"So I hope you can find a way to survive even if the world turns upside down, without being affected by life on Earth."