Apotheosis

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 tig

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While they were talking, another sound came from not far away. Geoffrey smiled faintly and then told him, "It looks like you are right."

But when he looked into the distance, his face suddenly froze.

Another group of members of the Colossus race had appeared on the mountain top.

There were over a thousand of them, and their leader was the same patriarch that they had seen just a few moments ago. Even the pattern in which the purple crystals had been stuck on the patriarch's body was the same.

Ziya also felt that something was wrong. "What's going on? Are these giants mere clones?"

"Fight them!"

The patriarch waved his arm and every single giant rushed over towards them.

Geoffrey frowned and raised the Heavenly Ring Staff with some hesitation.

"Kill them."

Boom!

The Heavenly Ring Staff once again extracted a third of Geoffrey's strength and lightning fell.

A burst of violent thunder managed to completely

annihilate a large group of giants. But this came at a great cost.

After exploding thunder on their heads two times in a row, Geoffrey felt slightly weak. More than two thirds of his strength had been consumed. If he used this move a third time, he would no longer be able to use the Heavenly Ring Staff.

The power of this staff was totally dependent on the user's strength. Although Geoffrey had been strengthened for two times by the Levitation Tower and he was easily comparable to a top-level warrior in the Deep Space, his strength was still limited in magnitude.

At that moment, a bad feeling came over him. The hidden opponent knew him and the Heavenly Ring Staff very well. He was trying to tire him out.