By the time the giants finished their dinner, the sky had already darkened. Half of the prey had been eaten, and there was a large pile of bones here. A few giants got up and threw the bones up the small mountain of bones.
Although I already understood the origin of the bone mountain, I didn't know why the giants piled up the bones into a mountain.
From the bone powder at the foot of the bone mountain, I could guess that the earliest bone mountain was thousands of years old. In other words, the giants had lived here for generations and never migrated. That was why the bones were piled up.
Just now, all the giants were kowtowing to the totems around the bone mountain. I could guess why they never migrated. It could be said that they were very different from the ancient giants I had met before. I had never seen a female ancient giant before. Today, I saw it with my own eyes.
Interestingly, the ancient giants were indeed divided into males and females. However, female ancient giants were very rare. People often wondered if the ancient giants had females and how they reproduced. More interestingly, the female ancient giants with big shoulders and round waists seemed to be stronger and more ferocious than the male ancient giants. Moreover, they were often the leaders of the ancient giant group. This made people wonder if the ancient giants were a matriarchal society. (Although there was no evidence to show the social structure of the ancient giants.)
The origin of the ancient giants was still an unsolved mystery. Like other humanoid races, the ancient giants also had a certain level of intelligence and civilization. They would use animal skins to sew simple clothes and decorate them with animal bones. They would build huge bonfires to warm themselves and mark their territory. Although they were powerful, the ancient giants rarely fought with their bare hands. They would usually use bones, stones, and wood to make simple sticks or stone axes as weapons. The ancient giants would occasionally hunt, but their main source of food came from their unique domestic animals, mammoths. Mammoths provided the ancient giants with fur, meat, milk, ivory, and bones. Therefore, the ancient giants valued their mammoths very much and treated them as their own property. Hurting a mammoth with an owner was almost as serious as hurting its owner. According to some observations, the ancient giants did have a very special affinity and affection for mammoths.
The ancient giants could also speak, but it sounded like vague and low snoring. Only the ancient giants could understand the meaning of this language. This was the ancient giant language. Some people learned this language through special methods and found that it could help to eliminate the hostility of the ancient giants. After training, the Ancient Giant could also speak a few simple sentences in Dwarven and Derman. The ancient giants did not have words, but they seemed to like to use some spiral patterns to mark the stones around their territory or the tusks of their tamed mammoths. These patterns were thought to be simple to attract mates or mark their territory.
The Ancient Giants usually lived in small groups of a few Ancient Giants. It was said that in ancient times, there were dozens or even hundreds of Ancient Giants that formed a large tribe. They were led by the most powerful Ancient Giant King who had absolute authority. However, most of these tribes were destroyed in the war between the Ancient Giants and the German Empire. Nowadays, they were almost nowhere to be seen. Sometimes, the ancient giants of a region would gather in a specific place to communicate, exchange items, or mate. This kind of place seemed to have some kind of religious nature (although no religion of the ancient giants had been found so far).
It was worth mentioning that the Ancient Giants were one of the few creatures that had special feelings for death other than the intelligent races. According to some observations, the ancient giants of a region were always willing to end their lives in a specific place. If they died in an accident, their companions would try to bring their bodies there to be buried. The reason for the formation of this "ancient giant mound" was still unknown.
Most of the time, the Ancient Giants maintained a relatively peaceful state with other intelligent races. The only large-scale conflict occurred when they broke with the dwarves. At that time, they often fought with the Ancient Giant tribe. Although they were destructive, the Ancient Giants were not aggressive. As long as their territory and the mammoths they tamed were not threatened, they were relatively peaceful. Of course, in the Dwarf Kingdom, there were still incidents of Ancient Giants breaking into farms or attacking caravans from time to time. Therefore, the dwarves also retaliated against the Ancient Giants by ganging up on the lone Ancient Giant.
However, there was a huge difference between the Ancient Giants and the ordinary Ancient Giants on the Althalia Ice Peak. In fact, these Ancient Giants were a type of Frost Ancient Giant. These Ancient Giants were extremely rare, and compared to ordinary Ancient Giants, their appearance was even more peculiar. They had horns, four eyes, three fingers, and long hair that was much thicker than the Ancient Giants'. Moreover, they seem to be much stronger than ordinary Primordial Giants, and they can use the power of frost. However, we know nothing about their origins. They seem to worship totems, and they seem to like killing. They are very ferocious, and they don't seem to be very intelligent. Most importantly, they are very smelly.
When talking about the Ancient Giants, it was necessary to talk about the mammoths, which were closely related to the Ancient Giants. These giant beasts that lived in the Dwarf Kingdom all had two pairs of long teeth. These mammoths that lived in the Dwarf Kingdom were huge in size and had brown hair.
As long as they were not provoked, mammoths were relatively docile creatures. Although they looked fierce, they would not actively attack other creatures. Only the tall Ancient Giants had successfully tamed them. Mammoths were the most important livestock of the Ancient Giants. They provided the Ancient Giants with meat, milk, skin, teeth, and bones as decorations. Similarly, mammoths were also the most important property of the Ancient Giants. Attacking a mammoth raised by a giant without permission would anger its owner.
Although mammoths had great war potential, there were not many records of them being used in war. The only record now was that when the Dwarf Kingdom resisted the invasion of Holy Emperor Barossa, there were records of Ancient Giants and mammoths joining the war.
Our group was well-hidden, and Uther and I had used our domain-level power to hide our auras. These stupid Frost Ancient Giants had not discovered us yet.
They were kowtowing to the terrifying skull totem. Their movements were very big, and we were even a little nervous. After all, there were eleven Frost Ancient Giants.
At this time, Uther and I discovered at almost the same time that there seemed to be a huge sinkhole in the place where the Ancient Giants came from. However, it was very far away and could not be seen with the naked eye. We perceived it through our domain-level power.
What was that place?!
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