"Hmm? Wororororo, not bad. I didn't expect there to be an ancient giant among the giants."
Kaido's long Azure Dragon body coiled up as he looked down at the burly giant below.
"Correct! I am the only king among the giants to awaken the ancient bloodline—the current Giant King! My name is Loki. I recognize you, Kaido of the Beasts. Twenty-eight years ago, the woman you brought back to bury on the sacred mountain was my sister. Her name was Filina."
The giant's hands were empty, but it did nothing to diminish the profound aura emanating from him.
"What? Filina was your sister? What kind of joke is this?!"
Kaido could no longer maintain his composure.
Transforming into his human form, he landed with a thunderous crash in front of Loki, glaring at the giant king.
"Mamamama, so you're Prince Loki of Elbaf? I heard you had a crush on my daughter Lola. I even considered an alliance with Elbaf back then."
Linlin walked over curiously, sizing up Loki with a few glances.
"Lolololo, that was in the past. Now, I wouldn't even look at her. Tell her to find another husband, lolololo!"
Loki's laughter was deafening, rumbling like thunder.
He looked down at Kaido and grinned.
"That's right. Filina was indeed my sister—half-sister. When she was born, she was diagnosed as a dwarf among giants and should have been executed on the spot."
"But because of her royal status, her death sentence was pardoned. My father sent a guard to take her to a human kingdom, where she was placed with an ordinary family so she could live out her days in peace."
Kaido stood at 7.2 meters tall, and there were very few people he had to look up to.
This towering Loki, even among giants, was one of them.
After hearing Loki's words, Kaido grew even more furious, nearly roaring.
"Executed for a congenital disease? What kind of bullshit logic is that? Are all the giant royals this ignorant? Where's that bastard father of yours? I'll tear him apart!"
Loki scratched his messy hair with a massive hand, causing dirt and pebbles to rain down.
He sighed. "If it were an ordinary giant, having a strange disease wouldn't matter. But Filina was of royal blood, and she had the most disgraceful condition for a giant—dwarfism."
"Among our kind, size is everything. The larger you are, the higher your status."
"Take the legendary 'Country Mover' giants, for example—they were once kings of all giants."
"As for my father... lolololo, that old ghost? I already tore him in half. Among giants, to become king, you must defeat the previous one. I'm 63 years old—equivalent to a human's 18—still young..."
A slightly sinister smile curled on Loki's lips.
"But I couldn't wait any longer. My father refused to join the World Government, only willing to send giant mercenaries to the Marines. I'm different. After becoming king, I applied to become a member state of the World Government during the recent Reverie."
"Elbaf has been isolated for too long, so long that the world has forgotten that we giants are the strongest race in this world!"
He grinned for a while, then suddenly shouted at Kaido, "Kaido, I can hand over Filina's remains to you, but on one condition—you must leave Elbaf!"
Kaido gritted his teeth, his eyes blazing with fury.
"Leave Elbaf? Then wouldn't Filina have suffered twenty-eight years of injustice for nothing? Loki! The giants must pay for this—only by becoming a legion of my Beast God Pirates can they atone for their sins!"
"Then there's nothing left to discuss."
Loki clenched his massive fists and strode toward Kaido step by step.
Thick Armament Haki surged around his fists, even emitting tiny black lightning sparks!
The strongest king of the giants had clearly mastered the pinnacle technique of Haki Infusion!
"Beat me, and then we'll talk!"
Kaido grinned savagely, the ground beneath him shattering as he shot into the air like a cannonball.
Even without his club in hand, it did nothing to diminish his power!
"Thunder Bagua!"
Two fists—one massive, one smaller—both shrouded in deep black, unleashed torrents of Conqueror's Haki lightning, tearing through the void with thunderous force as they collided.
"Hmph! Such monstrous strength! As expected of the king of the giants!"
Kaido felt a mountain-like force transmit from Loki's fist, crushing the ground beneath him and shattering countless graves.
Meanwhile, the giant king Loki felt his bones creak under the overwhelming power from Kaido, nearly breaking.
For the invincible Loki, this was unbelievable.
And yet... exhilarating!
"ROAR! Ancestors of the giants, master of the Divine Mountain—Odin! Grant me the power of my forebears!"
Loki roared excitedly at the sky.
To Kaido's narrowed gaze, a towering, muscular figure dozens of meters tall materialized around Loki, instantly amplifying his strength to surpass Kaido's and sending the latter crashing deep into the sacred mountain!
"LOLOLOLO! The power of my ancestors truly knows no bounds!"
Loki threw his head back in wild laughter before turning his ferocious gaze toward Linlin.
Linlin chuckled lightly, hopping onto Prometheus and soaring into the sky.
"Loki, you deal with Kaido's rage. I won't keep you company—I'll just knock out and capture all the giants of Elbaf first!"
Enraged, Loki swung a fist at Linlin in midair.
BOOM!
The terrifying shockwave compressed the air, creating cannon-like explosions as a massive vacuum tunnel shot straight toward Linlin.
"Ancestral power my ass! Threefold Thunder Strike: Netherworld!"
Suddenly—
The sacred mountain beneath Loki exploded.
At that moment, the entire Odin Capital trembled and groaned as countless graves on the mountain's vast platform shattered.
A draconic, azure figure burst from the mountain's depths, his scaled fist meeting Loki's shockwave head-on!
Kaido's fist erupted with crimson lightning, dispersing the atmosphere with unimaginable force.
In one strike, he obliterated Loki's shockwave and, under the giant king's stunned gaze, landed a devastating blow to his chest!
BOOOOM!!
A deafening explosion echoed as Loki's colossal body was sent flying like a meteor, mirroring Kaido's earlier fate—plunging deep into the sacred mountain, piercing through its core, and crashing onto the streets of Odin City!
Loki's body struck like a falling star, toppling buildings and flattening nearly half the district in an instant, reducing the ancient thousand-year-old city to ruins.
"To hell with ancestral glory! Utterly foolish!"
In his dragon-human hybrid form, Kaido erupted with a chilling killing intent, once again shooting toward the fallen Loki like lightning!