"Jabababababa~ This is a good thing! The Daughter of the Wine Village is far taller than ordinary tribesmen and possesses the blood of the Ancient Tribe. The child she bears might inherit Harald's excellent talents."
Jorul stroked his beard and laughed, his gaze passing over Hajrudin, who was sparring with Raideen nearby, with some regret and helplessness.
To be fair, the child Hajrudin has good perseverance.
But talent is talent; it cannot be made up for by hard work.
Let alone catching up to his father Harald's strength.
He might not even be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Dorry and Broggy.
"Bojajajaja~ That's right. Prince Loki will definitely become Elbaf's strongest warrior of the new generation. We must give him his first blessing." Jarul also laughed loudly, carrying undisguised expectations.
They were the leaders of the new generation Giant Warrior Pirates they had personally cultivated.
Dorry and Broggy had a conflict for some unknown reason and fought fiercely on some outside island, not returning to this day.
This left the Giant Warrior Pirates leaderless; they were caught by the Marines and were almost publicly executed.
Fortunately, the nun "Mother" Carmel spoke up and dissuaded the Marines from executing Raideen and the others, allowing the World Government, which was hostile to the Giant Tribe, to barely reach a reconciliation with the Giant Tribe.
Now, there are even giants joining the Marines in battle, forgetting the glory of the Giant Warrior Pirates.
After Harald met the South Blue giantess Ida, he also completely forgot the former glory of the Giant Tribe.
Although Hajrudin, born of the two, has intentions for the Giant Warrior Pirates, he did not inherit Harald's royal bloodline.
He simply cannot support the Giant Warrior Pirates, which now exists in name only.
Perhaps Prince Loki, born of the Daughter of the Wine Village in Elbaf, can inherit Harald's bloodline and talents.
Let the glory of the Giant Warrior Pirates shine upon the world once again!
The two excited men didn't notice the guard's abnormality at all.
"Um..."
"What is it? Was Prince Loki taken back to the Wine Village?"
"It doesn't matter, at worst we let..."
The guard could no longer bear their expectations and spoke with difficulty: "But Queen Estrid prophesied that Prince Loki would bring destruction and threw him directly down to the Underworld! Prince Loki has already met with disaster!"
"What?!!!"
Jorul and Jarul roared in shock and disbelief.
In his agitation, Jorul even tore off a large handful of the beard he groomed every day.
Jorul and Jarul looked at each other, both seeing despair and anger in the other's eyes.
The distance between the Sun Realm and the Underworld was over ten thousand meters; even if a newborn child was talented, it was a dead end.
Their dream had been shattered before it even began!
"Notify the fire brigade, prepare ships to go to the Underworld! Also the nearest West Village, mobilize them to search for Prince Loki's... corpse!" Jarul was the first to regain his composure and issued orders.
"Try to contact Harald, inform him of this news, tell him to rush back, depose this mad queen, and establish a new one." Jorul's face was also full of anger.
Back then, Harald wanted to marry Ida.
Their Council of Elders rejected it because Ida was from the South Blue and her bloodline was impure.
Later, they chose Estrid, the Daughter of the Wine Village who possessed the Ancient Bloodline.
They didn't expect to have chosen a lunatic!
"Yes."
The guard left to obey the order.
Soon, Jorul and Jarul took the lead in taking a boat to the Underworld.
Located in the Fisherman's Village east of the West Village.
Hajrudin returned home in low spirits: "Mom, I'm back."
"Hajrudin, what happened to you? Why are you back so early today?" Ida, who lived in seclusion here, noticed Hajrudin's abnormality.
"Father's son was born." Hajrudin's tense face was full of unease.
Although he was young, he had already tasted a bit of his awkward situation.
Moreover, the two heroes had just personally admitted that his half-brother would be the strongest warrior of the new generation.
This made Hajrudin even more uneasy; could he compare to Loki?
Most importantly, after hearing that Loki was thrown into the Underworld by his biological mother...
He actually felt joy, and he felt shameful about it.
Ida clearly perceived all of this. She smiled, approached, bent down to hug Hajrudin, and said softly, "What does that matter, Hajrudin? Loki is also your younger brother."
Hajrudin resisted strongly: "He is not my brother, and... he is already dead!"
"What?" Ida was startled, her kind face turning serious: "Hajrudin, what exactly happened?"
Hajrudin bit his lip and said reluctantly, "That woman threw Loki down to the Underworld just after giving birth to him."
"What?! That woman threw a newborn infant down to the Underworld? What on earth is she thinking?"
Ida turned pale with fright.
She couldn't imagine how sad Harald would be when he heard this news.
She quickly grabbed Hajrudin and started running: "Hajrudin, let's go find Loki too."
"I'm not going, Mom, we have nothing to do with him!"
Hajrudin stubbornly dug his feet into the ground, like a husky being forcibly dragged home by its owner.
Ida turned back, looked gently at her son, let go of his hand, and stroked the soft hair on the back of his head.
"Hajrudin, our plight has nothing to do with a newborn child."
"After he was born, your father will still love you just the same; nothing will change."
"Moreover, Loki was born with the blessings of your father and me."
"He still has the same blood flowing in him as you; this is a fact you cannot change."
"Of course, if you don't want to go, I understand your choice. Just wait here for Mom to come back."
After saying that, Ida rushed toward the village entrance.
Hajrudin paused slightly, but eventually followed his mother's footsteps.
A moment later, in the Underworld.
Giant warships, far exceeding the size of ships in the Four Blues, pierced through the island clouds, followed the rainbow bridge, and landed on the snow.
The warriors of Elbaf scattered, searching for any possible trace of Loki.
Soon, places with beast activity were discovered one by one.
"Wooo~~~"
The special horn was blown, and teams gathered and approached.
The biting cold wind of the Underworld swept up the snow, slapping against the dazed faces of the Elbaf warriors.
"What is with those expressions of yours..."
Jorul and Jarul approached following the signal. Seeing this, they subconsciously wanted to question them, but after seeing the situation in the distance clearly, incredulous looks also surfaced in their eyes.
In the distance, a beheaded giant wolf, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with its chest and abdomen torn open...
Corpses of Underworld giant beasts lay across the snow.
And the instigator of it all was lying on the belly of an elk with broken antlers, drinking elk milk and eating fruit handed from the side.
The blood all over his body didn't make him look wretched; instead, it highlighted his power!
And the attendant was a giant ape squatting on the ground, its face bruised and swollen, looking somewhat aggrieved.