## Chapter 1078 – Ancient Beings

Hoping for a more fruitful question this time, I stood before the Oracle once again.

Indeed. As Ari had said, asking about the locations where the ancient beings were sealed wasn’t a bad idea. No, it was a great one. If I could learn about them, especially when I couldn’t get a clear picture of the Lich, it would be a significant help.

Beyond just loot, it would allow me to hinder that bastard Lee.

The ancient beings were, simply put, like landmines. Forgotten mines buried in the mountains. You never knew when they might wash down with the rain or when a hiker might step on them and set them off. Heck, some mischievous kid might even pick one up, thinking it’s something cool, and give it to their best friend as a token of friendship.

Boom.

They needed to be removed, ASAP.

“Alright, Oracle. I’ll ask again. Tell me the locations of the beings sealed around here.”

Since they were sealed, even old knowledge would be fine. It wouldn’t have changed much.

“Pro…ceed. Location… of all… sealed beings… in the vicinity… Checking…”

That’s when it happened.

“Ah!”

Risha cried out.

“It’s overloading!”

With that shout, all sorts of magic circles lit up, and the liquids filling the glass tubes began to vanish as if evaporating. And that wasn’t all. The brain in the glass jar was also convulsing, shuddering violently.

What the hell is this now?!

“Shit! Emergency stop!”
“…”

As I commanded it to stop, the commotion subsided.

“What… what was that?”
“Damn, I thought the brain was gonna explode.”

They were just as bewildered as I was.

“What is this thing?”

Overloading now, of all times?

Could it be that I couldn’t ask any more questions? What a load of crap…! This couldn’t be happening! I hadn’t gotten a single piece of useful knowledge! You ancient piece of nuclear waste!!!

“Well, from my perspective, there was a slight problem just now,” Risha said calmly, as if reading my thoughts.

“You need to set precise conditions. If you ask too broadly, it has to search through all the relevant knowledge, which can overload the brain. Just now, it seems like it was about to go berserk because it was trying to find all the beings in this area.”
“Ah.”

So that was it.

I had thought there wouldn’t be many, so I asked without much thought… Could there really be so many that it would cause an overload?

That was a chilling thought.

“Katt-nim! Then try setting the conditions again!”
“I will.”

But what to ask?

The closest location?

No. That was the waterway, but it was uncertain whether it would understand if I said “excluding the waterway.” It seemed to be nearing its limit, judging by the overload. So, I should avoid questions that could be ambiguous.

Then I’d have to ask something else.

“The most dangerous. Yeah. The location where the most dangerous being in this area is sealed. Let’s ask that.”

That would be safe.

Finding the most dangerous being was a very important task.

“The most dangerous place…”

Ari looked up at me at that moment.

“That.”

Karin said with a grin.

“Good one. Ask that. I like it. If you’re gonna look for something, you gotta find the most dangerous thing. Yeah. Absolutely.”

Always so belligerent.

“Hehe, that’s my sis. Alright, I’ll go with that. Risha? Specifying it like this should be okay, right?”
“Hmm… It seems clear enough. Go ahead and ask.”

Good.

Then I’ll ask.

“Oracle. Tell me the location where the most threatening being in this area is sealed.”
“Got it.”

At those words, the Oracle opened its mouth again.

“Most… dangerous… being.”
“Yes.”
“A precise definition of that is required.”
“A precise definition, huh.”

Well, I did need to define specifically how it was dangerous. What would be the most dangerous being? There was only one thing that fit the bill.

“The degree of threat to humans if released from the seal. I’ll define the highest level of that as the most dangerous being.”

The being most dangerous to humans was the most dangerous bastard.

“Definition… confirmed…”

The Oracle seemed to be responding more positively, and I looked at Risha.

“It’s okay. No problems yet.”

She was carefully examining the brain using black magic. If something went wrong, she would warn me like before.

And so, the Oracle’s response began.

“Current location… Ana…lyzing… Among the sealed beings… Highest threat to humans upon release… In se…quence… To… summarize…”

Good.

It was going smoothly so far.

Judging by the way it was rambling, it clearly wouldn’t answer that it didn’t know, like the Lich had. It must know something. But surely it wouldn’t say itself or the Titan Prince, would it?

If it did, I might get so angry that I couldn’t control my rage.

To be specific, to the point of causing 10 Kim Katts to scream and 55 Kim Katts to do mid-air somersaults.

“From the current location…”

Soon, the answer came.

“North…”

North, huh.

“Ah. Aah. Ah. Ice Giant… Sealed… If released… and regains its prime strength… It is estimated… that the human territories… will be devastated.”

Ice Giant?

“This Oracle… judges it… to be the being with the highest threat to humans… However, this knowledge is from when this Oracle was sealed… Unclear as of now…”
“It’s true. It doesn’t seem to be lying,” Risha confirmed, but I couldn’t help but fall into thought.

“…”

Ice Giant.

I’ve definitely heard that somewhere before.

When was it… Ah, right. When I went to catch Sasquatch back then. It was a legend I heard from our Kadia. She said it was a giant monster destroyed during the Idol War, and the primitive monster race, the Sasquatch, worshipped it.

Come to think of it, it was a story I heard a long time ago, but it’s coming up here?

“What is that? Explain it precisely,” Liztina asked the Oracle.

“Ice Giant… A type of god… that has existed since ancient times… A destructive being that wanders without intelligence… but its range of activity is limited to the snowy regions… However… if awakened from its seal, it will howl… and the human lands will be covered in snow…”

So it would be active in human lands as well.

“Currently, it is only worshipped by the Sasquatch… It was defeated by humans and perished… but it does not disappear… It seals itself… to have time to recover…”

Kadia said that people living in the northern regions had legends about the Ice Giant. But it was already known to be dead, yet the Oracle explained that it was a being that would revive.

Even defining it as the highest threat to humans.

“So. Where is it?” Winnia said, listening to the story.

Right.

The location was important. The location.

“Located… to the north of this place… The Ice Giant was destroyed, but the source of its power did not disappear… so it is hidden… there…”
“Damn it, tell me the exact location.”
“Only knows it is to the north… Exact location cannot be specified…”

This bastard?

“The only being… that can find it… is a Sasquatch with blue fur… However, Sasquatch with blue fur are extremely rare… so no one has found it yet…”

The “now” it was talking about was when it was sealed.

“Oh, shit.”

Wait a minute.

“So we have to find a Sasquatch with blue fur… Huh? Katt-nim?”
“Blackie? This…”

Hilde and Winnia looked at me.

“Hey, damn it. A Sasquatch with blue fur can find the location where the Ice Giant is sealed?”
“That is correct,” the Oracle answered immediately.

“I think I’ve seen that.”
“That’s right! When we were killing those heretics in the snowy mountains!”

When we raided the heretics’ facility hidden in the snowy mountains back then. Inside were heretics and a demon, and next to the demon was a white-haired heretic woman.

That woman… that woman was holding a baby Sasquatch with blue fur.

I was 100% sure of that memory. That bitch was holding it.

“Blackie? That’s right, isn’t it?”
“I think that’s right.”

This is coming up here.

“What…?”

Ari expressed her question, and Winnia immediately explained the situation. I tell all my women everything that happens when I go out, so they’ve all heard the story at least once, but it must feel different hearing it again now.

“Oracle. Are you sure about that? I’ve seen a Sasquatch with blue fur. Is it true that it can find the location where the Ice Giant is sealed?”
“That is correct… The Sasquatch with blue fur… is bound to the Ice Giant… It will be able to find it…”

Damn it.

“Those bastards already made the first move.”

That heretic woman must also be in league with the Lich. Probably listening to the Lich’s instructions… and somehow found and took that blue Sasquatch. Ah. Come to think of it, the demon used gate magic back then.

This is something.

“Hoo… So it seems clear that those heretics are trying to find the Ice Giant using the Sasquatch with blue fur.”
“They’re gathering a lot of things, aren’t they?” Claudia replied to Risha’s words.

“What on earth are they doing it for…!!!” Hilde was already trembling.

“Haa. Anyway, I didn’t know what that was all about, but now I know. How many years has it been?” Winnia sighed.

“You can say that again.”

That bastard Lee.

What on earth is he gathering all those things for? It’s clear that he’s gathering them to destroy the world, but I can only speculate so abstractly, and I don’t know the exact purpose. The Ice Giant… Is he thinking of reviving it with that? To make it his weapon or subordinate? It’s possible.

It’s sure to be incredibly dangerous.

“Anyway, this isn’t something we can do anything about.”

But they’ve already made the first move. There’s nothing I can do now.

“It’s so amazing. To think there are things like that…” That was Liztina’s reaction, finding it fascinating.

“It is a bit.”

I’m a bit amazed too.

But well, I did acquire some decent information, but it wasn’t very useful. It wouldn’t have mattered much whether we knew it or not. It’s already confirmed that the Lich has formidable things.

Anyway, it seems like this Oracle bastard’s energy is about to run out.

“Ice Giant… A being with the same highest level of threat… exists…”

At that moment, the Oracle continued to speak.

“What? There’s another one?”

Seriously, what kind of world only has these crazy bastards?

I’m starting to wonder how the ancient humans lived. Maybe the ancient humans were much stronger than the humans of today. There’s no other way to explain it.

An era when beings that were incomparably more powerful than the monsters of the present were destroying the world along with the evil gods.

Modern humanity could never stand against them.

“It is… located to the east…”

East.

I looked at Risha.

“It seems to be nearing its limit. I’ll cut it off if I see any signs, so listen carefully.”
“Alright.”

Maximum concentration.

“Its identity is… Vampire Lord… True Blood… Tescania… Tunares… Berang Coltrahn…”
“What?”

Why is the name so long?

I quickly grabbed a pen and wrote down the long name.

Vampire Lord.
True Blood.

Tescania Tunares Berang Coltrahn.

“Oh!!! Vampire Lord!!!”

Vampire Lord!!!

Just hearing the name made it sound incredibly powerful, and it definitely existed in the north of South Korea…! The legends of vampires were not fabricated!!! They have existed since the beginning, and they were disguised as humans!!!

Transcendentally evil trash that sucks the blood of humans while disguised as humans!!!

They still exist!!!

“East… The exact location coordinates… exist in this Oracle’s brain… If you go near that place… you can pinpoint the location… Vampire Lord Coltrahn was attacked by humans backed by gods and eventually fell and was sealed…”

Everything was silent.

It seemed like a very important story, so I was listening intently.

“In that subjugation battle, so many humans turned into lumps of blood… It was a greatly threatening being… Coltrahn was a powerful vampire that even the Titans of the past could not kill… It is sealed in the east… and if released, it will suck the blood of weak humans, recover its strength, and suck the blood of even more humans…”

This was a serious story.

“Uwooooooooaaaaaaah!!!”

At that moment, this crazy bastard let out an extreme scream.

“Ah, shit, you scared me!”
“What is it!”
“Suddenly screaming!!”

And.

ㅡDead.

It drooped down.

“Oh!!! Risha!!!”

This crazy!

“…It seems it couldn’t withstand the burden and lost consciousness. Don’t worry. I intervened before it was damaged. If you take good care of it, you should be able to use it again.”

That’s good then.

But… a damn strong ancient Vampire Lord.