Looking at the giant's silly reaction, Geoffrey felt a little depressed.
Something in his mind seemed to spark and he remembered what Elder Xue had told him. The creatures born after the disaster in the Deep Space were very stupid. In fact, they were not even able to cultivate due to a lack of intelligence.
The Abstruse Energy World had also encountered a great disaster once. Geoffrey thought that the situation here was most probably similar to that of the Deep Space. These giants' intelligence quotient seemed pitifully low.
"Have you ever seen your master?" Ziya asked him.
Since these giants were not very smart, they could only inquire things little by little. Ziya was much more experienced in talking in a way that they could understand.
"No. But he talks in our minds," the giant answered.
Ziya nodded and then continued, "Can everyone in your race hear him?"
"Yes," the giant affirmed.
"It's a will that descends into their minds," Ziya muttered to himself.
"No one in the fourth-grade world has such a powerful soul. Is he the downgrader?" Geoffrey theorized.
"That's quite likely," Ziya nodded as he looked at the purple crystals behind the giants. Then he asked, "How did you get these crystals?"
If it really were the downgrader who controlled these giants, then the purple crystals would have been his giving since the giants finding them on their own was highly unlikely.
It was hard to say whether the downgrader could return to the Abstruse Energy World, but he could definitely find a way to ship or smuggle the purple crystals out of the chaos. And these crystals might contain some clues of the chaos.
"They were given to us by our patriarch. It was he who gave us our powerful strength," one of the giants explained.
"And where is your patriarch?" Ziya asked gently.
At that moment, a loud voice seemed to come from afar. "No need to inquire about me. I'm here!"
There was a soft shimmering on the top of a mountain not far away from them, and a giant the size of a hill appeared on its peak.
The giant's head was inlaid with hundreds, if not thousands of purple crystals, which spread all the way from his head to his arms. The strangest thing was that at the bottom of those crystals, blood was seeping out. They must have been stabbed into his body not long ago.
Then, giant after giant emerged from the top of the mountain. In the blink of an eye, well over a thousand of them were visible.
Ziya immediately went on high alert and held the God Lashing Whip tightly in his hand.
"That's great! We won't have to waste time!"
With a smile on his face, Geoffrey rushed out and stomped on the mountain. He then turned into a huge arc and smashed towards the patriarch.
Seeing Geoffrey take action first, the members of the Colossus race roared in unison.
Buzz!
Before Geoffrey could reach halfway, every single crystal on the patriarch's body began to glow.
A huge power stimulated every meridian in his body. His eyes turned red, and like a machine, his giant fist struck out towards Geoffrey.
Boom!
A muffled sound was heard.
The giant had actually managed to block Geoffrey's attack. However, he paid a heavy price for that. His thick arm began to crack, the purple crystals embedded in his arm shot out like sharp arrows, and more than half of his shoulder was torn apart.
Geoffrey then stepped forward and grabbed the patriarch's huge head with one hand. "Where did you get these crystals? You have nine seconds to answer or you die!"
The members of the Colossus race had never thought that their prey would be so powerful. Time seemed to stand still for a moment.
All the giants, including the patriarch, did not even dare to move.
"They... They were given to us by our master," the patriarch stammered.
"Where is your master? Nine seconds or..." Geoffrey threatened.
Just as the patriarch was about to speak, the purple crystals on his back began to glow once again. But this time, the glow seemed a bit different, almost berserk.
Then, as if he had truly lost his mind and didn't care about Geoffrey's threat at all, the giant suddenly threw his remaining arm towards Geoffrey.
However, the moment he tried to make his move, Geoffrey tightened his grip instantly, and the patriarch's head exploded into confetti.
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