Chapter 1050 - 803: Giant’s Warning

The architecture here is massive, and most locations are accessed through teleportation. Frequent teleportation exposed Long Yi to the extravagance of the Giants—each teleport consumed a significant amount of energy, but here, teleportation was just a standard feature.

Finally, arriving at the library Elma had mentioned, Long Yi at last discovered what this so-called library was all about.

"Pioneer Memorial Hall."

The characters of the Giant script entered Long Yi’s vision.

It turned out that those monuments were all to commemorate the Pioneers!

In the Giants’ definition, any brave soul who ventured alone was called a Pioneer. Whether it was someone who sealed all their own power and considered themselves a human like Long Yi, or those who placed themselves in danger in the midst of their research, they were all Pioneers. Some Pioneers succeeded while others failed.

For some reason, this was the first time Long Yi felt that the Giants in his memory took on a complete shape. Whether learning the Giants were expelled by the Dragon Clan or hearing about the Giants’ greatness, there was always a feeling of reality behind those stories. But now, here, Long Yi suddenly realized that Giants were also a form of life. Beyond greatness, they lived and died just like all other beings.

"This is the library! Look at these huge metal plates. Place your hand on one, infuse it with mana, and knowledge will flood into your consciousness. How much you can learn from that is up to you!"

An incredibly vast space with countless metal plates neatly extending from the ground. They looked like the giant tablets in Long Yi’s hand but were much smaller. Each metal plate had a name engraved on it in proper script—Kaimerla. Long Yi had just seen her monument.

Placing his hand on it and infusing mana, a series of scenes flashed through his mind.

"Hey, this is the third experiment. I’m all prepared. I will use magic to reduce myself to just one hundred times bigger than a nucleic acid and make a complete observation of the chain of life! Wish me luck!"

In the image, a female Giant spoke to the camera while the surrounding scientists immediately burst into applause and cheering.

On one side of the camera, a creature lay sleeping on a bed—ordinary-looking, without any distinct features. Then, the image shifts, and the girl begins to shrink; when she is reduced to the size of a rice grain, she flies onto the creature’s forehead. She continues to shrink, and the dense skin she observes seems full of ravines. Next, she falls into one of those ravines, arriving outside a cell.

"Whew, this is my first time entering a cell, wish me luck!"

The girl continued to shrink, then tore open the cell’s surface and entered.

"Although this isn’t my first viewing, I’m amazed every time! Thanks to the Heavenly Kingdom!" the girl said.

"Hey, Kaimerla, you better hurry up. You just triggered alarm chemicals by breaking the cell wall. White blood cells patrolling nearby could come at any moment," called out a scientist from outside.

"Maybe I’m too small, I can’t hear you clearly, but don’t worry about me. I’m about to enter the cell nucleus. Once I’ve completed this sequencing and get out, we must have a good drink to celebrate, the microscopic world is just too beautiful!"

The image ends there, then the scene shifts to the outside. A group of scientists in disarray exclaims: "Kaimerla! Get out of there quickly! White blood cells are converging in your direction! The experiment is canceled! I repeat, the experiment is canceled! Did you hear that? Get out of there immediately! Answer me!"

A few seconds later, someone reported, "That cell has been engulfed... this is the last message Kaimerla sent out..."

The last scene showed a sequence of genes.

It was the first genetic sequence observed in Giant history, but it was obtained at the cost of a Giant’s life.

Long Yi took his hand off the metal plate, his expression somber.

"How was it, did you gain anything?" Elma asked excitedly.

"Yes, but my gain might not be what you’re thinking," Long Yi said.

"What do you mean?" Elma didn’t quite understand.

"I mean, haven’t you realized that this place is not really a library but a Giant’s graveyard?" Long Yi said.

"What?" Elma was taken aback, having not noticed this before.

"Did you see the same thing I did?" Long Yi asked, pointing to the metal plate he had just touched.

"I saw a female Giant enter the body of some creature and obtain some strange rune from inside it. Everyone was excited about it. I just don’t know what the rune was for," Elma said.

"Yes, I saw the same thing. But what this piece actually tells you is that the female Giant died inside that creature’s body in order to obtain that rune. Because she was too tiny, she couldn’t escape the danger. And right outside, there’s a monument dedicated to her," Long Yi said.

"This... can’t be, right? They’re Giants, do Giants die?" Elma still couldn’t believe it.

"Giants don’t die?" Long Yi countered.

Elma looked visibly confused.

If what Long Yi said was true, then everything here could be explained. The huge monuments, and the fragments embedded in every metal plate.

"All the content you saw, are the moments some Giant sacrificed their life for some great research," Long Yi said.

"But no one has ever seen them die!" Elma still argued.

"No one would ever leave the details of their loved ones’ deaths on a monument, right?"

At this moment, Elma actually believed it.

"What, what have I done! What have we done! All this time, we have been constantly disturbing the great Giants’ rest?"

Elma hugged his head, shocked by this revelation!

Long Yi didn’t speak but quietly walked around here. It wasn’t until he reached the center of the area that he found a circular metal plate. On it was written, "To take is to pay the price, even for us."

Below it, there was a line of small characters: This message is for every race that manages to come here.

Long Yi placed his hand on it, infused mana, but nothing happened. When he channeled the power of the Giants, his vision was immediately filled with a series of images.

Before long, Long Yi returned to Elma’s side, "No need to grieve, this place is actually left for you by the Giants."

Elma looked at Long Yi in confusion.

"The Giants that passed away are not buried here. This place is specifically prepared for any race that can reach here. The Giants used this method to warn you that to obtain anything, you must be prepared to pay the price. In this multiverse, absolutely no exploration is without danger," Long Yi said.

"You can understand these words?" Elma finally caught the main point.

"Yes, I can understand some of it; this is the standard script of the Giant race. Extremely rare, I wouldn’t recognize it either if not for good luck," Long Yi explained.

"Ah..." Elma shook his head, somewhat disheartened. He had thought it was a holy land, a treasure trove left by the Giants, but it turned out to be this.

"This matter can remain between you and me, there’s no need to tell anyone else. Let this place continue to be your holy land," Long Yi said.

Elma nodded and then, with a start, said, "You have always been saying ’you’ in speaking of us, from the very beginning you never intended to stay at the Ancient Mage Tower, did you?"

"Yes, haven’t I told you that my goal is the middle plane, I have a reason that compels me to go," Long Yi said.

"As for the Teleportation Array, The Divine Auffa Empire has one, and providing the huge energy needed to open the Teleportation Array is not a problem. One big trouble is that opening that Teleportation Array requires three keys; one is with Emperor Saint Jialin, one is in the hands of Elder Solis, and the third, however, is nowhere to be found," Elma said.

Just when a new complication had arisen! Although Long Yi knew leaving this plane wouldn’t be easy, he didn’t expect that there would be such a trouble! The need for keys!

Initially, after The Divine Auffa Empire obtained the Teleportation Gate, they had attempted to open it once, which resulted in two terrifying Giant Beasts rushing in from the middle plane. They not only destroyed half of the Imperial City of The Divine Auffa Empire but also flew to different planets wreaking havoc. In the end, it was the Ancient Mage Tower that sensed the spatial fluctuation and hurried over to investigate, after which a large group of mages joined forces to kill those two Giant Beasts.

After that incident, the Teleportation Array was completely sealed. To open the Teleportation Array, three keys are needed, one the Emperor kept for himself, one was given to the Ancient Mage Tower for safekeeping. As for the third, Elma couldn’t remember at all.

"It’s okay, let’s at least gather the two keys we can find first," Long Yi said.

Solis was also here at this time. He had seen some of this content countless times, it was magical but completely incomprehensible. Therefore, he paid more attention to Long Yi and Elma. Based on the conversation between Long Yi and Elma, it seemed Elma was somewhat discouraged—perhaps Long Yi had conveyed some bad news? Seeing Elma’s discouragement, Solis would feel very happy. But he had his own concerns; Long Yi actually dared to come forward and reveal his secrets—did he have something to rely on? Was it help from the Empress of the demon realm? Yet if the Empress of the demon realm already knew about the God Chasers here, why haven’t they shown up?

Solis was plagued by a series of doubts.

At this moment, when Solis saw that Long Yi had left the area, and Elma didn’t follow, he also sneaked away.

Long Yi planned to explore the building on his own, but most importantly, he needed to use the Giant tablet to confirm his speculation.

And then the Giant tablet confirmed Long Yi’s conjecture: this place was indeed Monument Star. It was a world created by the Giants specifically to warn other races not to overstep the bounds and to remember the great deeds of those Pioneers.

Here, the names of all the Giants were listed in detail.

Then, Long Yi was startled to see a name among all the others that he recognized.

Suolin!

"Although she was not a Giant, her presence allowed the Giant race’s space-time exploration technology to skip at least a thousand years of detours. The great Time Traveler Suolin, because of a teleportation accident, never returned."

What?

Long Yi felt a jolt in his heart, turned around, and was about to leave; he needed to see what had actually happened. But below that information, there was another line: Update note, Time Traveler Suolin returned unexpectedly without any forewarning after a thousand years from the teleportation accident. Unharmed, yet this memorial still warns any race attempting to experiment with space-time to proceed with caution.

Seeing this line, Long Yi breathed a heavy sigh of relief, finally at ease. Suolin’s return after a thousand years did not mean she had been trapped for a millennium, much like the eight-thousand-year discrepancy with his fighter jet. Space-time travel, who could explain it clearly?

When Long Yi scrolled further, he found yet another line: This message is for someone, sorry, it was me who launched you away.

Definitely Suolin’s writing!

What does she mean, she launched me away? Launched where?

Long Yi’s head swelled in an instant. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)