212 Great Stone Sculptor (1/2)

[Congratulations to host for promoting to the unique class, Lord of Frigidwinter. This is a personal job class just for you, and it is impossible to pass on to any others.]

[Congratulations to host for entering Gold rank.]

[Congratulations to host for receiving the special isolated dimensional world, Frigidwinter Earth. The System has already prepared camouflage for it. From what the Gods can tell, this will only be a rather unique small version of your mental world, and please use it as much as you like. However, if any Gods enter it… hehe, definitely remember to kill them in order to silence them.]

[Congratulations to host for…]

The miserly system actually gave me a series of congratulations. This Gold rank wasn't a reward from my system either; I had broken through to this rank on my own. Actually, none of these were important to me. What was most important was that I had now confirmed my future path of development.

”I need to complete and perfect this world.”

I needed to find God Equipment, materials, and Divine Souls to fill this newly-born world with. Completing and perfecting this world would mean the same for myself.

Perhaps this would be a thorny path, one that would take an uncalculatable amount of time, and perhaps I might never even finish it in my lifetime. On this path that only I walked, it would be impossible for anyone to give me any advice. But I knew that at the very end of this path I was walking, the treasure that I desired so much might exist.

”In that case, let's give it a try.”

I couldn't suppress my excitement and joy—it was as if I was a child who had just received a new toy. I would obviously want to try it out, but I immediately heard another notification from my system at this point in time.

[Due to the cost of the camouflage system's activation and analysis of these new abilities having surpassed your ability to pay in Fate Points, please pay an additional 2147 Fate Points that you owe within 24 hours. Otherwise, the system shall confiscate your new world. You don't have money? Then let's use your newly-born baby to pay off the debt.]

*Pu!*

I instantly spurted blood. It actually did this to me at such a time? Give my earlier gratitude and how moved I was back to me!

But I had no time to comment on any of this. Based on my understanding of the System, when it said something was good, it might not really be that good, but whenever it said something would be bad, it would definitely be worse than I expected. Since it had already said that it would confiscate my new world if I didn't pay up within 24 hours, then it really would confiscate it by that time.

”Wait a moment; this is the core of my new job class. If you confiscate it, then won't I become a knight without a horse, a basketball player that doesn't know how to act dramatically to get fouls, a tennis player who doesn't know ultimate techniques, a tofu brain with no sugar to run it with? Won't that be meaningless then!”

[Time remaining: 23 hours, 59 minutes. System Reminder: Just keep talking about unimportant things and making fun of me, you heretic sweet-lover!]

I…I decided not to comment any longer and instead began working hard at earning points.

...

The Helod Deep Canyon was a forbidden zone in Karo City's map because this was where the tower giants resided.

'Tower giants' didn't sound like a magnificent name at all, but anyone who took a single glance at those enormous stone giants would instantly understand how they got their name.

Every tower giant was as tall as a building with several dozen floors, and their heads and shoulders would be obscured by the clouds. Their upper halves were basically fortresses, and their shoulders and heads had the shapes of buildings and were basically the fortress's clock tower and cannon towers.

Its tremendous body meant that it had matchless physical attack power, and these tower giants were immensely destructive in melee combat. But the most fatal of all would be the hundreds of catapults within their fortresses.

The reasons for such a thing being born were inconceivable. The first pioneers to arrive in the Earth Elemental Plane had been ambushed by a tower giant, and while they suffered serious losses, they had also mistakenly believed that they were ambushed by an enemy faction's archmage.

After all, its specialized body was just like a human structure and made it obvious that it was a created object. Although the tower giants still hadn't evolved to having their own wills, their incomparably gigantic bodies and countless numbers of huge stone catapults were indisputably the best evidence that they were born to be war machines.

And for the Helod Deep Canyon's tower giants to be labeled as the highest danger level of all was because all these tower giants also contained countless numbers of residents within them that formed strange symbiotic relationships with the tower giants.

Some of them that lived within the tower giants would be stone peelers or other low-intelligence earth elemental creatures. Sometimes one could even find gargoyles or other special flying creatures within. Every tower giant was like a box of chocolates; you never knew what you would find inside it, and finding out would typically never be a good thing. [1]1

On top of all that, tower giants even had the habit of living in groups and had a special way to communicate with each other. This meant that fighting with a single tower giant would basically be like fighting an entire war, as several dozens of tower giants would come by and create a tremendous army unit.

In the Helod Deep Canyon, the tower giant tribe numbered approximately four hundred. The exact number of tower giants and symbiotic tribes living with them were impossible to count.

Just this tower giant tribe living here in the Helod Deep Canyon made even sand dragons fear to enter this area. Only the most ancient of existences knew that the largest secret was actually within this canyon, and that these gigantic tower giants were only the door guards personally sculpted by a certain ancient existence.

”Who's that? He's actually heading inside the Helod Deep Canyon?”

Tower giants would occasionally come out to hunt or roam around. In order to prevent unnecessary losses, every faction established a temporary outpost at the entrance to the canyon. As for Karo's outpost, in addition to keeping a watch on these big guys' movements, their more important duty was to convince newbies to go home instead of going inside.

”What? A mega SSS-ranked dangerous zone? Hmph! I was born to do great things; what's a dangerous zone to me? Danger only means it's a place where treasure is hidden and miracles can be found… Hahaha! God Equipment and inheritances, I'm coming for you! There are no stairs? Perfect, I'll simply jump off this cliff!”

Idiots like that would come along every year, and there would always be those who believed too much in hero's tales. Sometimes, the mages standing guard here would get annoyed and stop trying to convince them, allowing them to enter at their own risk.

Luckily, there weren't too many idiots this year. The mage who was in charge here, Kalin, was even worried that there wouldn't be enough funny stories to share when he would finish his shift at the end of the year. When he finally saw someone coming to the Helod Deep Canyon, he was actually rather happy.

But before he could go up to that person to warn him about the danger, he stopped of his own volition.

That figure, who was wearing a gray cape, merely glanced at him, but he felt as if he had been paralyzed by a lightning strike.

”He's so strong! I haven't heard of a thunder element archmage that had come here.”

The next moment, Kalin knew that his good intentions were needless, as that figure had already vanished.

The tower giants were under the command to attack all non-earth elemental species. On his way into the canyon, that continuously flashing and vanishing figure was attacked many times, but unfortunately, those clumsy and slow tower giants weren't even able to touch him, much less see him.

Once he reached the center of the deep canyon, the gray-cloaked figure stopped, and patiently waited until a voice spoke up.

”Camdian, what could be so important that you would personally come to find me?”

Even when dealing with a powerful Elemental God, this similarly ancient top-level Earth Elemental Lord had zero hesitation and respect—it was almost as if it was treating Camdian as its junior. Nor did Camdian care about the disrespect; it was rather the opposite, as he preferred being direct as well.