Epic of Caterpillar

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Ariant and Eriant swiftly descended out of their flying cloud, a special wind attribute spell that Ariant learned just some hours ago when he leveled up. Bringing with them the black egg of Bubu which was shining with a large draconic aura, although the Giants were so big they barely noticed it as I carried it with my tiny hands.

As we reached the village, the giants cheered for our appearance, surprised over how small people like us fended off their foes, which seemed to have been coming here for a while now, not just today.

"Did those small people saved us?"

"I can't believe it, they're so small though!"

"Yeah, unbelievable!"

"Hold on, that's an enormous wyvern there!"

"I had never seen a white wyvern with feathers before."

"What a beautiful creature, is this a savior as well?"

The giants who had been living secluded lives for a long time were surprised of every little thing about us, and didn't let us relax at all, thankfully, Halberd swiftly ordered his trusted aides to manage things while he led us to his house, an enormous home shaped out of a giant piece of white bone.

It had no door or windows, and just had a big hole to enter and a few others for the light from the outside to get inside. The house was gigantic for us, but for Halberd it was quite small. He only had around two rooms, the first room where he ate and the other where he slept. I don't want to ask where he goes to the bathroom though.

The giants had a very poor daily life, just by looking at them they were all rugged, wearing tattered leather, their houses were dry and barely built out of these giant bones, probably with their bare hands. There was no source of water at all, and I didn't saw a hint of vegetation anywhere either. However, from time to time we saw small groups carrying several monsters with them, from wyverns, giant antlions, to walking cactuses. I can tell they get their water from the cactuses who are quite juicy inside their bodies.

And aside from that, they most likely just eat monsters for a living. Although the mine of Blood Crystal in here must have some sort of purpose for them, and that purpose was quickly revealed to us as Halberd invited us to his living room where he used a special magic item imbued with a giant blood crystal to lit up a large bonfire.

"Let me invite you all to a small feast at the very least." He said humbly. "Brunhild! Come here, don't be shy, girl!"

Suddenly, an adolescent giant girl emerged from another room. She looked to be about two thirds of her father in size and had tanned skin and long brown hair tied into a ponytail. Her body was naturally covered in beautiful muscles and she had a few red tattoos around her body, which seemed to be made of blood crystals, as they were imbued with magic.

"Father, I am glad you're okay…" She sighed, hugging him. "But who are these small people?"

"They're our saviors. You were hiding so you didn't see a thing but there was an enormous Bone Dragon that showed up, something we never saw before. It was absurdly strong! Yet somehow these people managed to defeat it." Said Halberd. "Don't be shy and come eat with us, let's roast some meat. There should be some Antlion stew left as well. thankfully they're small except the big wyvern so I guess they wont eat as much as us."

"S-So you defeated that monster I heard?!" Asked the girl, her eyes shone. "C-Could it be… Are you adventurers?!" Brunhild seemed to be jumping out of joy by thinking about our lives as adventurers.

"W-Wel… Err…" Sol muttered.

"Kind of." Said Fiere.

"I wouldn't call myself an adventurer but we had surely had a bunch of adventures by now." Sighed Luminous, he didn't seem to recall them happily.

"I am not an adventurer but I want to aid Kireina-sama to defeat the Dem- Mguh?!" Ariant's face was quickly covered by her brother, Eriant, who didn't wanted her to just go around saying I wanted to kill the demon king to get back home or something.

"Ssshh!" Eriant quickly reprimanded his sister.

"We are adventurers yeah I guess you can call us that no problem." I said, instead of acting stupid like these guys I just embraced the new identity, deep down I've always wanted to be a carefree adventurer going into adventures. If it wasn't for all the threat at Genesis I would had probably had such a life.

"OOOOH! Please tell me about your tales of adventuring!" Brunhild said. "I've always dreamed about walking out of this boring and arid village and go into an adventure… There has been small people that came here from time to time, they spoke about the world outside the sea of sand, a world of green! Is it true? Does it exists?" Brunhild couldn't help but jump around excitedly as she asked us questions childishly. Honestly, she was slightly cute for being interested in such things.

"Yeah it does!" I said. "But there's more than-"

"Brunhild! Stop annoying our guest so much! They must be hungry, go warm the stew for now, I'll roast the wyvern meat." Said her father, quickly interrupting me.

"Ugh… okay…" Brunhild sighed, walking away.

"I apologize for this." Halberd said. "My girl has been like this since that outsider came years ago telling her about the outside world… She doesn't stop talking about wanting to go out but she's too young and weak for that."

"Weak? To us she looks pretty strong." Said Luminous.

"Well, for small people even our babies might be mighty, but she had yet to win any tournament, I cannot really call her an adult yet…" Sighed Halberd.

"Tournament?" I wondered.

"Well, you see… Us giants decide when a child becomes an adult after they win their first tournament, where the most promising younglings fight one another."

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