Although his face was still very young, the child was at least as tall as Yeon-woo. His eyes widened when he realized a human was in the cabin with Valdebich. The basket in his arms dropped to the ground. “Ah, ah…!”

Valdebich sprang into action. Before the child could scream, he struck the child’s neck and the child fell to the floor. Valdebich carefully caught the child and sighed. 『I didn’t realize we’ve been speaking for so long.』

“And that child…?”

『This is a descendent of the group of survivors. He’s had to live away from civilization. He’s stuck here, so he’s a fallen divine being…what the Tower calls a half-giant.』

Yeon-woo’s eyes grew bigger. He was surprised to learn that half-giants, who were thought to be children of giants and humans, were actually fallen descendants of the giant race. “How many more of these half-giants are here?”

『I heard there were quite a lot at first, but that number continued to decrease…now there’s just over a hundred.』 Valdebich stroked the child’s head with a heavy expression. 『The Crawling Chaos didn’t touch them. There was no need to, really. From his point of view, the half-giants are bugs who can’t even be used as hunting dogs.』 Valdebich's eyes took on a sad light. 『Unfortunately, this place pretty much turned into his holy territory because it's filled with his holy power.』

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