After consuming a hundred-meter-long lava python, Garon fell into a deep slumber.
Given that it was a demigod-level wild beast, its flesh contained unimaginable essence energy. Even if not all could be absorbed, it was still a great supplement for Garon, who was still a distance away from reaching demigod status. According to the hierarchy of beings, the lava python was a peak creature of the primary material world, whereas Garon was still lacking.
Inside Volibear's vast cave, Garon slept for about two months.
"Wake."
With a deep and heavy breath, in the dim cave, a pair of platinum dragon eyes slowly opened.
The dark vision became clear.
Garon opened his eyes, took a deep breath, then stretched his spine and wings.
The previous feeling of weakness had completely disappeared.
Due to the divine sword's penetration, which left a certain amount of corrosive power, the wound that could not heal for a long time had now disappeared.
"Finally, back to peak condition."
Garon sighed with relief.
Although, because of a passionate and protective older brother, he didn't have to worry about his own safety, the feeling of weakness due to injury, if it lasted a bit longer, made Garon uncomfortable. Being ambushed by an unknown formidable divine power was the most severe injury Garon had ever suffered.
Fortunately.
After almost using up all the divine magic scrolls, plus the nourishment of a demigod beast's energy, he was able to heal.
After confirming his body had returned to its peak, Garon examined his physique.
He stretched out his dragon claw and gently grasped a few times.
Garon could clearly feel the more surging power flowing between the muscles under his scales.
Moreover, his size had increased after this slumber.
Originally about fifty-one meters in length, Garon's body had grown to about fifty-six meters, with a wingspan surpassing seventy meters. When stretching his wings, it even more highlighted the majestic body of the dragon, like crowns, the six dragon horns were imposing, showing an extraordinary demeanor.
Realizing his growth, Garon looked towards the flowing river of time.
Normally, coming to a new timeline, the local river of time should have a subtle rejection of Garon.
For example, not allowing him to freely draw on the power of time, not lending Garon the corresponding power.
But this time, the situation seemed a bit different.
Garon willed it.
Threads of the river of time, as if summoned by him, gathered around, gently circulating around Garon's body, merging into him.
The power of time inside his body, with the absorption of the river's water, rapidly strengthened.
Even without actively controlling it, with Garon's breathing, the water of the river of time entered his body with each breath.
"Something's wrong."
"This river of time shouldn't be so warm, right?"
"Why is it as close to me as the main timeline's river of time?"
"My connection with the river of time seems to have significantly improved."
After noticing this strange state, Garon blinked, sinking into thought.
In an instant, he recalled what had happened in the chaotic vortex of time and space.
Garon hadn't forgotten that he was eroded by the river of time, almost merged into it, becoming part of it, obtaining the great power of time, but at the cost of losing his own will.
"Could it be related to what happened in the time-space vortex?"
Garon thought carefully and felt his theory was highly plausible.
The rivers of time in other timelines wouldn't suddenly become warm; something must have happened.
"I didn't completely remove the erosion of the river of time; some of it has merged with me."
With this thought, Garon became cautious.
In the vortex of time and space, Garon's state was at its worst. He tried his best to protect his will and thoughts from being devoured by the river of time, having no time to care for other things.
In the last moment.
Garon even lost consciousness, relying solely on his body's instincts to resist the chaotic vortex of time.
Although he eventually resisted the erosion of the river of time, Garon couldn't be sure if he was unaffected at all.
Thoroughly checking his body.
After a while, Garon shook his head slightly and stopped.
He didn't find any unusual conditions in his body.
As if nothing had happened, but the unusual closeness of the river of time here assured Garon that it wasn't as simple as it seemed on the surface.
"Whether it's good or bad."
The river of time no longer rejecting him meant Garon could freely use the power of time now, not needing to be as tense as on the Ferelden continent, where using it once required a long time to recover. In this view, indeed it was a good thing, but Garon was still wary of his experience of almost being washed away by the river of time's consciousness.
"The river of time isn't actively devouring me."
"It's because I didn't have enough power to understand it, so I was passively about to drown in the vast power of time and couldn't extricate myself."
Garon understood this point.
Unable to solve this issue, Garon simply stopped thinking about it, waiting for when he became stronger, the question would naturally be answered.
Next, Garon used a detection spell on himself.
Biological level: 38. Just two levels away from the power of a demigod.
Garon felt that when his biological level reached forty, his size should be able to surpass sixty meters, becoming a super super super giant dragon!
However, this could only serve as a reference.
In this wild continent called Valoran, there are almost everywhere beasts and demigods at level forty, because here is a primary material world, so the biological levels of many powerful creatures have already reached the limit. But even so, the difference between them is still not small, Volibear is obviously much stronger than the lava python.
As for above demigods.
According to Volibear, it hasn't heard of a stronger existence yet.
Garon believed that in this timeline, there should already be gods born above demigods, but perhaps because they haven't turned their gaze to the Valoran continent, so their traces haven't appeared, but well, with a continent full of demigod creatures, stronger deities would find it difficult to influence the Valoran continent.
"Hunting some more demigod beasts, with the essence of demigod-level flesh, should allow me to quickly grow to a demigod level."
A lava python, plus a near-death experience, allowed Garon to achieve a significant improvement.
The subsequent demigod beasts may not provide such a large degree of growth evolution at once, but with more numbers, it definitely won't be a problem.
And what this world now lacks the least are demigod beasts.
According to Volibear.
At the beginning, since everyone was born with the world, intelligent demigods treated demigod beasts as companions. However, as time passed, because demigod beasts couldn't communicate and often suddenly attacked intelligent demigods, leading to some intelligent demigods' deaths, the remaining intelligent demigods gradually realized the threat of unintelligent demigod beasts.
Intelligent demigods began killing demigod beasts bit by bit.
And demigod beasts also fought among themselves, so although demigod beasts possess strength not weaker than intelligent demigods, it's only a matter of time before they are completely eradicated by intelligent demigods.
At this time.
Garon turned his head to look around.
In his view were the cave walls covered with bear claw marks.
Outside the cave were still the raging storms and thunder, with the sound of thunder rolling into the ears.
When Garon awoke from his slumber, the cave was empty except for himself; Volibear was not in the cave, unsure of what it had gone out to do. Garon speculated it was likely hunting other demigod beasts.
The demigod creatures here, most of them are embodiments of a certain elemental energy, like Volibear is the embodiment of the storm, they actually do not need any flesh food, they can obtain enough energy from their corresponding elements, however, hunting demigod beasts and consuming their flesh helps in their own strength enhancement.
Because of the existence of demigod beasts, there is not much conflict among intelligent demigods.
Not seeing Volibear, Garon calmed down and silently mobilized the power of time within his body.
His connection with the river of time deepened, and his spiritual power, physique, etc., have all improved, so he tried to develop some new time-based abilities to increase the diversity of his powers.
Time ticked away.
About three days later, a thunderous rumble louder than the storms and lightning outside the cave resonated.
Garon, who was in deep thought, raised his head to look outside the cave.
In view, a thunderous giant bear, enveloped in lightning, strode through the storm surrounding the mountain, coming to the edge of the cave.
"Little brother, you're awake!"
Seeing Garon wake up, Volibear laughed heartily, its body accompanied by lightning flashes, arriving next to Garon, patting him on the shoulder.
"Not bad, not bad, much sturdier."
"Looks like you're finally not as frail."
After feeling the power contained within Garon's scales, Volibear spoke satisfactorily.
"Come, go out and fight with me!"
"Let me see if your claws and teeth are sharp enough."
Saying this, Volibear summoned the storm, not waiting for Garon's response, excitedly wrapped both himself and Garon, and like a dark wind, rushed out of the cave.
In just a few seconds, when the storm dissipated, Volibear had already brought Garon to an open area a few kilometers away from the cave. Nearby were only a few low, several hundred meters tall hills, covered with various claw marks and signs of storm damage, seemingly used by Volibear as a tool for sharpening its claws.
"With your current strength, you should be able to keep up with me."
"Give it your all, let me see your capabilities, don't worry, I, your brother, will go easy on you."
Garon also wanted to know his gap with elemental wild gods like Volibear.
"Alright, big brother, I might surprise you."
In front of the thunderous giant bear, the silver giant dragon was eager to try, its aura climbing, with a hint of combativeness in its eyes.
Then, under Garon's gaze, Volibear raised its right arm high.
Boom, boom, boom!
Lightning fell from the sky, merging with Volibear.
In an instant, in the blinding light, Volibear turned into a terrifying giant bear over six hundred meters tall, with countless storms and thunder circulating around its body with every breath, filling the air with a scorching smell.
Under the oppressive force of the other party, the spark of combativeness that had just risen in Garon's heart couldn't help but tremble.
"How can I fight this?"
Garon looked up at the mountain-like thunderous giant bear, swallowed, and envied.
At this moment, Volibear, with a size larger than Garon's entire body, faced such a colossus, indeed did not give rise to the thought of confrontation.
Then, Volibear looked at the motionless Garon with a puzzled look, and then, like thunder falling, said.
"Little brother, why don't you transform?"
Volibear squatted down, speaking to Garon.
If I could transform, wouldn't I have done it? Garon sighed, looking up at Volibear, "Big brother, I don't have the ability to titanize."
It seems like all the elemental wild gods here have this move of becoming gigantic.
When fighting, it's definitely a move to transform first.
Although tenfold size titanization doesn't bring tenfold strength enhancement, at the very least, it will improve several times the combat power. Already a demigod, Volibear, after becoming gigantic, gave Garon a feeling of being unbeatable.
"What?"
Hearing Garon's response, Volibear looked surprised.
"Ah, little brother, something must have gone wrong when you condensed your physical form."
Volibear's body shrank, returning to its original size.
"Can you teach me this ability?"
"Maybe I can learn it later."
Garon said.
He envied the titanization ability of this world's demigod creatures too much.
Ordinary titanization magic, for Garon's strong physique, the effect has long been negligible.
Volibear thought for a moment and said, "I've never seen a situation like yours."
"I know of gods, the beasts I've killed, all can become titans."
"This is an innate ability for us."
Titanization. Garon licked his lips, approached Volibear, and said, "Big brother, you don't want me to be bullied by other creatures outside, right?"
"You definitely have a way to let me learn titanization, right?"
Hearing Garon's words, Volibear immediately showed an expression of proud arrogance, saying, "Of course."
"I, Volibear, am omnipotent!"
The dragon and bear returned to the cave.
Under Garon's hopeful gaze, Volibear paced back and forth from one end of the cave to the other, while continuously scratching its head, showing a rather troubled expression.
Clearly, although it decisively agreed to Garon, it didn't know how to teach Garon titanization.
Volibear prides itself as the embodiment of strength.
But this strength is innate, something it naturally knows how to do, so how to let Garon learn it later became a problem for Volibear.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. Blue lightning snakes uncontrollably roamed around Volibear, almost making its fur stand on end.
"Big brother?"
"Did you think of a way?"
Garon called out.
Hearing Garon's words, Volibear put down the claw that was scratching its head, with a face full of confidence but somewhat hollow voice, said, "I've thought of it, but, I think I need to consult with our eldest brother Ornn."
"With our brothers united, teaching you titanization will definitely not be difficult."
"Once you learn titanization, fighting a few battles with me will no longer be boring."
Garon nodded repeatedly, saying, "Just so, I also want to meet brother Ornn."
Volibear waved its paw, saying, "In that case, among themselves, so although demigod beasts possessed strength not inferior to intelligent demigods, it was only a matter of time before the intelligent demigods wiped them out.
At this time.
Garon turned his head to look around.
His vision was filled with rock walls marked with bear paw prints.
Outside the cave, the storm and thunder continued unabated, with the sound of muffled thunder rolling into the cave.
When Garon woke up from his slumber, the cave was empty except for himself; Volibear was not in the cave, and it was unknown what it had gone out to do. Garon guessed it was most likely hunting other demigod beasts.
In this world, most of the demigod creatures are incarnations of some elemental energy, like Volibear, the incarnation of the storm. They actually don't need any flesh and blood food and can obtain enough energy from their corresponding elements. However, hunting demigod beasts and consuming their flesh and blood helps strengthen themselves.
Because of the existence of demigod beasts, there are not many fights among intelligent demigods.
Not seeing Volibear, Garon calmed down and silently mobilized the power of time within him.
His connection with the river of time deepened further, and aspects like spiritual power and physique improved, so he tried to develop some new time-related abilities to increase the diversity of his powers.
Time passed bit by bit.
About three days later, a thunderous rumbling sound, louder than the storm and lightning outside the cave, grabbed Garon's attention.
Garon looked towards the cave entrance.
In his sight, a giant bear wrapped in thunder and lightning, resembling a small mountain, stepped through the storm surrounding the mountain and arrived at the edge of the cave.
"Little brother, you're awake!"
Seeing Garon had awakened, Volibear laughed heartily. With a flash of lightning accompanying its body, it appeared beside Garon and slapped his shoulder.
"Not bad, much sturdier."
"Looks like you're finally not so frail."
Feeling the power contained within Garon's scales, Volibear expressed satisfaction.
"Come, go out and fight with me!"
"Let's see if your claws and teeth are sharp enough."
Saying this, Volibear summoned the storm, and without waiting for Garon's response, excitedly swept them both out of the cave.
In just a few seconds, when the storm dispersed, Volibear had already brought Garon to an open area several kilometers away from the cave. There were only a few low, hundred-meter-tall hills nearby, covered with various claw marks and traces of storms, seemingly used by Volibear as tools for sharpening its claws.
"With your current strength, you should be able to entertain me."
"Give it your all; let me see your abilities, don't worry, I'll go easy on you as your elder brother."
Garon was also curious about the gap between himself and elemental deities like Volibear.
"Alright, big brother, you might be in for a surprise."
In front of the thunderous giant bear, the silver dragon was eager to try, with its fighting spirit climbing.
Then, under Garon's gaze, Volibear raised its right arm high.
Boom, boom, boom!
Lightning fell, merging with Volibear from the heavens.
In an instant, within the blinding lightning, Volibear transformed into a terrifying giant bear over six hundred meters tall, with countless storms and lightning breeding and swirling around its body with every breath, filling the air with the scent of scorching.
Under the substantial oppressive force of the opponent, the small flame of fighting spirit that had just risen in Garon's heart couldn't help but tremble.
"How can I fight this?"
Garon looked up at the mountainous thunderous giant bear, swallowed, and looked envious.
At this moment, Volibear, with a single palm larger than Garon's entire body size, truly made him feel incapable of competing.
At that moment, Volibear, noticing Garon's stillness, showed a puzzled look, then spoke with a voice like thunder falling.
"Little brother, why aren't you transforming?"
Volibear squatted down and said to Garon.
"If I could transform, wouldn't I have done it already?" Garon sighed, looked up at Volibear, and said, "Big brother, I don't have the ability to become a titan."
It seems that all elemental deities here have this titan transformation ability.
When fighting, it's definitely a standard procedure to transform.
Although a tenfold increase in size doesn't bring a tenfold increase in strength, it at least improves the combat power by several times. Volibear, already a demigod, after titanization, gave Garon a feeling of invincibility.
"What?"
Hearing Garon's reply, Volibear showed a surprised expression.
"Sigh, little brother, something must have gone seriously wrong when you were forming your physical body."
Volibear's body shrank back to its original size.
"Can you teach me this ability?"
"Maybe I can learn it later."
Garon said.
He envied the titanization ability of the demigod creatures of this world.
Ordinary titan spells have long been negligible for Garon's powerful physique.
Volibear thought for a moment and said, "I've never seen a case like yours before."
"I know gods, I've killed beasts, all of them can titanize."
"This is an innate ability for us."
Titanization. Garon licked his lips, leaned closer to Volibear, and said, "Big brother, you wouldn't want me to be bullied by other creatures out there, right?"
"You must have a way to teach me titanization, right?"
Hearing Garon's words, Volibear immediately showed a proud and arrogant expression, saying, "Of course."
"I, Volibear, can do anything!"
The dragon and the bear returned to the cave.
Under Garon's hopeful gaze, Volibear paced back and forth from one end of the cave to the other, constantly scratching its head with its bear paw, showing a somewhat troubled expression.
Obviously, although it had confidently agreed to Garon, it didn't know how to teach titanization to Garon.
Volibear prided itself as an incarnation of power.
But this power was innate, something it knew instinctively, making it a challenge for Volibear to teach Garon, who needed to learn it later.
Zzzt-zzzt-zzzt. Blue lightning snakes uncontrollably roamed around Volibear, almost making its fur stand on end.
"Big brother?"
"Have you thought of a way?"
Garon called out.
Hearing Garon's words, Volibear put down the paw that was scratching its head, showing a confident face, but its voice was somewhat hollow, saying, "I've thought of it, but, I think I need to discuss it with big brother Ornn."
"Our brothers united, teaching you titanization definitely won't be difficult."
"Once you learn titanization, fighting a few battles with me won't be so boring."
Garon nodded repeatedly, saying, "I also want to meet big brother Ornn."
Volibear waved its bear paw and said, "Since that's the case, I'll take you to Ornn's territory."
"My new armor hasn yet been decided upon; I'll have him forge a new one for me."
"With the lava python's fire scales and bones, we should be able to create a decent armor."
Garon had only consumed the flesh of the lava python; its scales and bones were preserved. According to Volibear, these were materials that Ornn liked; this elder brother enjoyed hammering and forging things.
"When do we go?"
Garon, eager for titanization, said impatiently.
Volibear grinned, saying, "Of course, we go when we want to go. Let's go!"
The decisive dragon and bear left the cave, heading towards Ornn's territory.
Volibear, riding the storm, created a thunderous presence in the sky, while Garon, flapping his wings, swept across the sky like a silver streak of light, fully capable of keeping up with Volibear's storm in terms of speed.
Soon, Garon and Volibear arrived above the area where the battle with the lava python had taken place.
Looking down from the clouds in the high sky, Garon could see deep canyons and winding ravines. The landscape had been completely altered by the battle between the two titans, with canyons crisscrossing and ravines abounding, and a new river running continuously.
Garon intended to take just a glance before moving on.
However, when his gaze accidentally swept over a canyon near the river with a few green plants, Garon was surprised to discover some small humanoid figures.
These were humans.
Dressed in simple and rough clothes, they appeared quite frail. There were a few hundred people in total, along with a few half-human, half-bear creatures, cautiously staying deep within the canyon, worshipping towards Volibear with awe in their eyes, while Garon seemed somewhat overlooked.
"Big brother, do you see that?"
Garon extended his dragon claw, pointing towards the primitive humans in the canyon.
Volibear looked down towards the humans.
As Volibear's gaze landed on them, the people in the canyon became even more excited.
Their eyes fervent, they continued to worship non-stop, not caring even as their foreheads were cut by the sharp edges of stones, and they murmured in a coarse and primitive language.
"I see them."
"These creatures are called humans. They moved into the canyon created by my battle with the lava python more than a month ago."
Pausing, Volibear showed a proud look, saying, "They worship me as a god, they revere me."
"I can feel the wild, vigorous heartbeats of these little creatures."
"I enjoy their awe and faith towards me."
Volibear liked the feeling of being worshipped.
Feeling good, it waved its bear paw and released several bolts of lightning.
Zap!
Five bolts of lightning instantly descended, entering the bodies of five relatively strong humans.
These individuals were enveloped in dazzling electric light, emitting painful and excited growls. Then, their fingernails gradually sharpened like knives, beast-like teeth grew in their mouths, hair sprouted on their bodies, and they also grew in size.
Having received power, this small tribe of humans worshipped Volibear even more fervently.
And Volibear looked pleased.
"In this world, aside from demigod beasts and us gods, there are also some weaker creatures."
"After witnessing my power, these little things worship and fear me, considering me a god."
"They disregard death, fighting bloodily with beasts much stronger than themselves to please me."
"I admire their courage and their wild, fearless nature."
"So, I granted them a sliver of the storm's power."
Volibear, like a child who found an interesting toy, introduced its connection with this human tribe to Garon.
Not staying long, after a moment, under the fanatical gaze of the humans, Garon and Volibear continued their journey towards Ornn's territory.
"Ornn, the elder brother, lives in a wooden house he built himself out of giant trees."
"He almost always stays within his own territory, never leaving."
Saying this, Garon and Volibear had already traveled far from Volibear's cave.
Along the way, Garon sensed many awe-inspiring presences of demigods.
There were demigod beasts, as well as intelligent demigods.
A magic wolf enveloped in frost, a terrifying giant crocodile as large as a mountain, a divine eagle with wings that blotted out the sun. When they encountered a huge, iron-armored boar-like intelligent demigod, Volibear even stopped for a while to warmly chat with it, meanwhile introducing Garon as its new brother.
After some time.
Garon, under Volibear's lead, finally arrived at Ornn's territory.
And he saw the "wooden house" Volibear mentioned—a majestic and solemn building, presenting a reddish-brown overall, obviously constructed with great effort. Its style was out of place in this wild land.
While many demigod creatures were still living in caves, Ornn was already residing in a palace-like structure.
Previously, when Garon asked which of the siblings was the most powerful, Volibear, without hesitation, claimed it was the strongest. But based on Garon's understanding of Volibear, if Ornn didn't possess significant capabilities, Volibear would not accept Ornn as its elder brother and would have declared itself the leader long ago.
At this moment.
Inside the giant structure, Garon felt a force as if it could incinerate everything, a high temperature, along with a chilling coldness reminiscent of winter.
"Coincidentally, Anivia, our sister, is also here."
Volibear said.
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