I Became a Flashing Genius at the Magic Academy [158-362][English Translation]

Episode 316 Chapter 57: Damgal Toywol (2)

Damgal Toywol (2)

"Giants."

Once the strongest race on earth.

Now, they exist only in history or legend, stories passed down through the ages, but there was a time when the entire continent trembled at their footsteps.

Their necks reached the clouds, they could cover the sun with their hands, and if they wanted, they could split mountains and seas in half. No one could defy their physical might.

Fortunately, there were only 100 giants in Aether World from the beginning, and most of them were gentle and disliked fighting.

However, the problem was that not all giants were gentle; a very small number were not.

The war between giants and humans started before history was even recorded.

A thousand years ago.

While humans were just beginning to make ballistae, giants were uprooting mountains and throwing them to break city walls. They would casually pluck out arrows as if they were pricked by needles, seemingly invincible.

Until the first magician appeared.

History is divided into before and after his appearance.

Before that, magic existed in a shamanistic form, but no one had mathematically systematized and spread it.

The first magician conjured flames and meteors, driving back the giants. The war finally ended in a human victory, and peace seemed to arrive.

Until the presence of the Black Mage emerged.

A piercing scream that could tear eardrums made Baek Yu Seul frown.

If he hadn't plugged his ears with earplugs in advance, his eardrums would have burst.

[Item 'Ghost Earplugs' blocks 71% of the wails from the 'Specter of the Dead Giant.']

Clearing the message that floated in the air, Baek Yu Seul looked ahead.

'Seeing it in person makes me feel nauseous.'

It felt like black fog imitating a human form. Its facial features evoked an uncanny valley, its shape flickering as if it were scattering, and its limbs were irregularly long and short.

It had all the characteristics of a specter just before it materialized.

"Get back!"

An elf knight shouted to Baek Yu Seul while launching a red orb forward. A specter of a giant vanished, but a specter twice as large stepped out from behind it.

"Ugh... there's no end to them."

Ghosts do exist in Aether World. They are very rare, but there are professions like shamans and ghost hunters.

Most ghosts take the form of humans or other races, and their strength can increase depending on their grudges.

What if it's the specter of a once strongest race on earth?

The giants who cursed the first magician as they fell continued to wander the earth even in death. Many magicians sealed them, but some were too powerful to be sealed.

Magicians had no choice but to divide the specters of giants into dozens or hundreds of pieces and seal them in the land where Damgal Toywol slept. Hundreds of years have passed since.

As Damgal Toywol's awakening progressed, the seals weakened, occasionally causing specters to awaken even in the game.

Usually, it was a high-level content task taken in the form of a 'side quest,' but dealing with these specters was challenging without end-game specs.