Chapter 662 - 473: Black Stone Territory’s First Miracle Creation
Chapter 662: Chapter 473: Black Stone Territory’s First Miracle Creation
Eight hundred-meter-long mechanical legs, like eight colossal pillars, plunged deep into the ravaged earth below.
Then.
Before the stunned eyes of all who watched.
The steel Giant Beast, tilted and half-embedded in the mountainside, moved.
Using its eight giant legs for support, it slowly, bit by bit, pushed its impossibly heavy, colossal body up and out of the shattered mountainside.
Countless tons of rock and dirt slid from its body, creating a waterfall of debris.
Sunlight once again illuminated its body, which had been buried for a century.
Its tilted frame was slowly righted through the coordinated movements of its eight mechanical legs.
Finally.
When its massive, cube-shaped body completely broke free from the mountain’s embrace and stood steady upon the earth, the entire world seemed to fall deathly silent.
It stood quietly amidst the ruins of the valley, an eight-legged steel Giant Beast straight out of myth.
Its dark silver metal shell reflected the cold sunlight, exuding an indescribable, oppressive aura.
The Hill Giants fell silent. They tilted their massive heads back, staring blankly at the creation before them—a being taller and more majestic than they—their eyes filled with primal awe.
"It... It’s alive..."
The dead silence in the valley was shattered by a heaven-shaking cheer.
"ROAR!"
Kado threw his head back and let out a roar, his rugged face etched with fanaticism.
He pounded his solid chest, expressing the shock in his heart in the most primal way.
Spurred on by his example, the hundred-some Hill Giants behind him also erupted in deafening roars.
"ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!"
The cheers echoed like rolling thunder through the valley of Giant’s Sleep, shaking loose stones from the cliffsides.
They worshiped Power, and this steel Giant Beast, just now awakened from its slumber, was undoubtedly the ultimate embodiment of it.
"WHIRRR..."
A low-pitched hum of energy emanated from within the steel Giant Beast once more.
Its eight mechanical legs, like pillars propping up the heavens, began to move.
The two frontmost legs, one on the left and one on the right, slowly lifted.
Then, they took a heavy step forward and came down!
"BOOM!"
An incredibly deep, deafening crash.
The earth trembled violently.
Two enormous craters, each over ten meters in diameter, were stamped into the ground where the legs landed.
Immediately after, the second pair followed, then the third...
The steel Giant Beast strode forward on its eight enormous legs. With a unique gait that seemed slow but could cross nearly a hundred meters in a single step, it walked out of the ruins that had been its tomb for a century.
Its steps were heavy and stable, each footfall sending a tremor through the earth.
The THUMP, THUMP of its footfalls was like the heartbeat of an ancient giant—oppressive and heavy, hammering against everyone’s chest.
"Let’s go. We’re heading back."
Sun shot into the sky. The Cloud Sea Giant Whale, carrying the Giant Legion, slowly ascended, and they both circled above the steel Giant Beast like a pair of escort warships.
On the ground, after a brief period of acclimation, the eight-legged steel Giant Beast began to gradually pick up speed.
It strode out on its eight long legs, marching toward the Black Stone Territory beyond the Black Stone Mountain Range, all while the Hill Giants cheered and followed in its wake.
「Black Stone Mountain Range.」
When the steel Giant Beast, nearly two hundred meters tall and shimmering with the light of Magic, strode out of the valley of Giant’s Sleep with heavy steps, the tranquility of the entire mountain range was shattered.
In a nesting ground home to hundreds of Two-legged Flying Dragons.
These normally ferocious aerial predators were now like frightened quail, huddled together and trembling.
They could feel the heavy, drum-like footfalls approaching from the distance, growing louder and louder.
The largest among them, a Two-legged Flying Dragon King, mustered its courage and took to the sky.
The moment it saw the approaching "monster" clearly, its slitted pupils shrank to pinpricks.
It let out a terrified shriek, abruptly changed direction, and fled back to its nest.
Similar scenes were playing out in every corner of the Black Stone Mountain Range.
Hordes of Ogres abandoned their fresh kills and scrambled into the deepest caves.
A colony of venomous snakes lurking beneath a waterfall pulled their heads back underwater, not daring to cause even the slightest ripple.
Even the true overlord of the Black Stone Mountain Range was stirred.
Atop a high peak in the eastern range.
The Black King lay prone at the entrance to his lair, his massive Dragon Wings folded at his sides. His Dark Gold draconic eyes coldly watched the behemoth rampaging its way from the central mountains.
Two jets of scorching, sulfurous air blasted from its nostrils, and a threatening growl rumbled deep in its throat.
As the ruler of this mountain range, it would not permit any being to act so wantonly in its domain.
But the two figures flying above the steel Giant Beast made it choose to ignore the intrusion.
It had seen them clearly.
A golden Giant Dragon and the Cloud Sea Giant Whale flanked the steel Giant Beast from the air.
’That human actually dug this hunk of metal out of the terrifying Lord of the Mountains’ lair?’
A glint flickered in the Black King’s draconic eyes.
The afterglow of the setting sun painted the western sky a magnificent crimson-orange.