Exploring Technology in a Wizard World
Chapter 1536 - 1534: World of Giants
A clearing in the mountain forest.
Richard returned once more.
Reaching out his hand, he skillfully activated the Space Jump Point located here. Soon, the vanished Purple Energy "Round Mirror" reappeared in the air.
With a flip of his hand, Richard took out five beads wrapped in a layer of silvery-white liquid, approaching the "Round Mirror."
"...Find me... come find me... find the Beacon I left, it will guide you..."
The familiar summoning voice echoed from within the beads, and the Purple "Round Mirror" gradually turned silvery-white.
When Richard, holding the five beads, got close enough to the "Round Mirror," a ripple appeared on its surface, and the beads shot up, automatically entering the "Round Mirror."
The "Round Mirror" instantly transformed into a completely silvery-white color. In Richard’s perception, the "Round Mirror" had already formed a stable teleportation path.
Through this path, he could reach a certain plane, which, while not the one of the Summoner, was getting closer to the Summoner.
This was akin to pointing out a clear direction in a fog; as long as he followed this direction—continuing to find the corresponding Beacons on the next plane and the one after it, he would eventually reach the place the Summoner resided.
This time, Richard didn’t delay any further and stepped into the Space Jump Point.
His body vanished.
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Some time later.
Richard’s body reappeared, having reached an entirely new plane.
As soon as he entered the plane, Richard’s nostrils flared slightly, sensing the exceptionally fresh air around, breathing especially smoothly.
After carefully perceiving for a moment, he confirmed that the oxygen content of this plane’s air was significantly higher than in other planes, which obviously had a major impact.
He could see that the surrounding plants were extraordinarily tall. Not far off were a dozen trees, each over a hundred meters tall, standing straight like pillars holding up the sky.
The shrubs and underbrush beneath the trees were no less impressive, far exceeding human height and incredibly dense. It looked like a patch of underbrush, like a small forest nestled under the giant trees’ canopy.
Beyond the plants, animals were proportionately enlarged. Black beetles, several centimeters long, were using their sharp mandibles to continuously dig into the surrounding soil. In the sky, fly-like insects, resembling dragonflies, several meters long, flew in swarms, casting a shadow like rain clouds. Occasionally, birds nearly ten meters long appeared, acting as predators at the top of the food chain, quickly grabbing the black beetles on the ground or diving into the insect swarm, feasting before gracefully departing.
Richard squinted at this scene and murmured to himself, "Is this a plane similar to the Jurassic, a world of dinosaurs?"
Just as he finished speaking, a roar came from a distance, almost splitting the heavens and earth.
"Ah—oomph!"
Hmm?
Richard looked toward the sound, and a shadow, a hundred meters tall, suddenly came crashing into view, rushing toward him. Wherever it went, trees toppled, the ground shattered, dust rose, like a small earthquake device.
Coming closer, Richard could see that the intruding shadow was not a dinosaur or giant beast, but actually a person— or rather, a Giant.
However, this Giant was different from the usual—normal Giants have thick and strong bodies to support their massive size, looking like an iron tower. But the Giant appearing now had long and slender limbs, with two noodle-like arms swinging at his sides as he ran.
Noodle Giant?
Richard thought amusedly, intending not to pay the Giant much mind, and turned to leave.
Because he had already discerned that the Giant was not a creature of Wisdom, and what he needed to do now was find the possibly existing creatures of Wisdom in this plane to communicate. Through communication, he hoped to find the guiding Beacon of this plane and the Space Jump Point, using the Beacon and the Jump Point to move to the next plane, repeating this process until he found the one who summoned him.
Thinking along these lines, he pressed his foot to the ground, leaping into the air, ready to fly off into the distance.
But just as he left the ground, he suddenly sensed something, his body stopped abruptly, hovering in midair, and he turned to look at the strange Giant rushing over.
He fully released his perception, greatly amplifying auditory content.
All sounds from the Giant were captured, including sounds from within the Giant’s body, flowing into Richard’s ears: the hiss of muscles contracting, the click of bones swaying, the thump of the heartbeat, and... the susurration of blood flow.
Then Richard’s eyebrows raised, having picked up a familiar sound from within the Giant.
Yes, a familiar sound—if he carefully identified the susurration of the Giant’s blood flow, he could catch the summoning voice he once heard from the blood-red bead.
There was a Beacon inside the Giant?
Richard just had this thought when the Giant approached closely.
The less-than-two-meter-tall Richard was completely ignored by the Giant, who stepped down as if to crush an insect.
Yet just as the Giant’s foot was about to come down mere meters from Richard’s head, Richard extended his hand and pointed toward the Giant’s foot arch, with a "boom," the Giant’s entire body stiffened, suddenly tilting, and crashed heavily to the ground like petrification.
Richard waved his hand, using a strong wind to dispel the rising dust, then approached the Giant’s body, heading towards the chest area.
Reaching near the chest, Richard bent down, touched the Giant’s body, and at the point of his touch, a fist-sized wound dissolved, and a blood clump flew out.
Richard grabbed the blood clump, using Energy to shatter its surface, revealing its contents.
There, he saw an irregular crystal about the size of a fingertip. Probing it with spiritual power, he could hear a summoning voice clearer than that from the blood-red bead, radiating a faint spatial fluctuation.
Richard speculated that if he collected enough of these crystals, he wouldn’t need to find the Space Jump Point, as the crystals themselves could open a transmission path, allowing him to move to the next plane.
Clearly, the crystals were special Beacons left by the Summoner in this plane. With this understanding came a problem—how to find more of these crystal Beacons?
If the crystal Beacons had been swallowed into the Giants, he would have to figure out where the Giants had been and what they had eaten.
If the crystals were innate to the Giants, marking them by the Summoner on these specific creatures, like a "Destiny Worm," he would need to find more Giants, kill them, and extract the crystals from their bodies.
Which should he attempt first?
Richard was hesitating when continuous roars rose from the distance, and looking up, he saw a group of dozens of Giants rushing over—whether they came to avenge a comrade’s death, were engaging in a communal hunt, or for some other reason, was uncertain.
This left Richard no longer hesitating; after all, the arriving Giants had already made the choice for him.
Very well then...
Richard squinted, stepping forth towards the Giants, terrifying Energy forming in his hands.
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