Chapter 400: The Giants' Three Duels?
A Giant Sky Tree reaching a height of seven thousand meters into the White Sea stood tall in the center of a Large Island.
The visual impact brought by its majestic trunk was no less than that of Zou.
This is Elbaf, the Giant Kingdom known as the 'World's Strongest Nation'!
Perhaps that Giant Sky Tree had absorbed all the soil nutrition, as no other trees and vegetation could be seen on the Island.
There were only continuous silver-gray mountain ranges and various rock formation hills.
Looking closer, one could see large Wooden Houses with a rugged style, existing side-by-side among the rock formations.
Although their appearance looked like ordinary single-story Wooden Houses.
Their height was between twenty-five and thirty meters, and their average occupied area was around five hundred square meters.
In short, everything here was large, everything was so large.
Even the children playing on the earth and stone wide roads were between three and five meters tall, but their population didn't seem very large, perhaps less than ten thousand at most.
Among them.
In the Deepest Part, there was a huge Castle named Oulust.
Many Giant Warriors wearing horned armor and holding giant axes and giant swords were guarding everywhere.
The overall civilization appearance was similar to the ancient Viking era.
Inside Oulust Castle.
A burly figure of a middle-aged Giant, wearing black armor, sat imposingly on the huge black stone throne, with a dark, ancient spear standing behind him.
His gaze swept over the Giant Elders standing below the platform, making one feel a powerful and overbearing might.
This was King of the Giants, Harald!
"You heard what he just said. The World Government only gives us three days for consideration. What do you all think?"
His expressionless question directly broke the heavy atmosphere in the Palace Hall. However, his indifferent tone made it impossible to guess what he was thinking in his heart.
"This is a threat!"
A Giant Elder standing on the left side shouted angrily: "We Giants never accept threats! If they want to fight, let's fight!"
"Right!"
"The World Government seems to have forgotten the terror of 'Elbaf Spear'. Let's make them remember!"
"Fight them!"
For a moment, his words received the support and agreement of many Giant Elders. They shouted and yelled excitedly, their words full of contempt for the World Government.
"But now 'Whitebeard', 'BIG MOM', and Byrnndi World have all joined the World Government, plus Garp 'The Fist' and 'Great Buddha' Sengoku. Are you sure we can win?"
Another Giant Elder standing on the right side retorted.
Instantly, inside the large Stone Palace, which was cold and only lit by torches, the lively atmosphere quickly cooled down and soon became completely silent.
No matter how proud they were, they couldn't ignore the weight of these names.
If it were one or two, they might have some confidence to say something, but with so many peak experts, they really couldn't afford to provoke them!
"Yarul, continue."
King Harald's cold, hard gaze fell upon the other person.
This Elder Yarul was originally one of the Captains of the Giant Warrior Pirates. Among the Giant Tribe, he held the epithet of 'Hero', and he was also the oldest among the Elders.
"His Majesty, the current World Government is no longer something we can resist. If a real war breaks out, our Giant Tribe might very well be the next Lunarian Tribe!"
Elder Yarul suppressed the rage in his heart towards Charlotte Linlin, maintaining his calmness, and said in a deep voice.
"And that Star Gate and Otherworld are also the biggest reasons why the World Government is willing to extend an olive branch, attempting to get us to join peacefully."
"They want our Giant Tribe to also join in that so-called 'Multiverse Conquest'!"
At the mention of the words 'Otherworld', all the Giant Elders showed scorching hot gazes. No one wasn't curious about other Worlds.
Especially for them who love combat, the temptation of being able to exchange blows with experts or armies from otherworlds...
"In that case, we will provide Giant Warriors, but we won't join the World Government, nor will we have to obey their orders. We'll just have equal cooperation. If there's anything, we'll discuss it together!"
Another Giant Elder proposed.
His idea made the Giant High-ranking Officials, including King Harald, feel moved. They all looked at Elder Yarul with expectation.
"Impossible!"
But Elder Yarul shook his head, ruthlessly crushing their small hope.
"If it were the Great Sea situation before, the World Government, constrained by the intimidation of 'Whitebeard', 'BIG MOM', 'Golden Lion', and others, wouldn't dare to overly pressure us Elbaf. Perhaps there would be the possibility of just cooperation without affiliation."
"But now the first two are already their people, and while 'Golden Lion' is said to be locked up in Impel Down, This Old Man thinks he's likely been incorporated as well. Isn't that the case with Kaido?"
"This Old Man even suspects that if we don't give them a satisfactory answer in three days, the ones who might come knocking are these few 'Yonko'!"
These words made everyone fall silent. Every Giant Elder's face showed complex expressions like helplessness, unwillingness, and shame mixed with anger.
When had their Elbaf ever been forced into such a desperate situation?
Even during the Great War nine hundred years ago, they still made the World Government dare not bare its fangs with their powerful strength.
For the Giant Tribe, who have a lifespan of over three hundred years, the establishment of the World Government was only three generations ago. Even through word of mouth, history could be passed down very clearly.
"It seems we must affiliate this time..."
King Harald sighed inwardly, then said coldly: "However, wanting to conquer our Elbaf is impossible with just words!"
All the Giant Elders looked at this Giant King.
"Tell the World Government that there must be three duels, a best-of-three!"
"If they win, our Giant Tribe will obey their every order from now on. But if we win, although we agree to affiliation, we won't give that Heavenly Tribute, and the number of Giant Warriors dispatched to participate in the war will also be decided by us!"
Elder Yarul knew that His Majesty was fighting for Elbaf's reputation.
But the problem was that the possibility of winning the duels was too low.
As mentioned before, what if the World Government dispatched 'Whitebeard', 'BIG MOM', and 'Golden Lion'?
But this duel definitely had to be fought. The Giant Tribe only ever obeys the strong, and it wouldn't work without beating them into submission!
Two hours later, the proposal from Elbaf Kingdom appeared on the coffee table in the Room of Authority, and also before Im on Noah's Ark.
"Three duels?"
Im's heart immediately grew interested.
"Does Elbaf have three Giants with Admiral level combat power? If so, then it truly deserves the epithet of 'World's Strongest Nation'."
He thought about the candidates from one's own side to fight. First, to win, he had to choose at least two people he was confident in.
"'Whitebeard', 'BIG MOM', 'Garp'?"
But that wouldn't be interesting. Im pondered for a long time, thinking inwardly: "Since it's a Giant's duel, the combat art style looks better with gigantification..."
(Translator: 400 chapters out of 2200 (600k world count) ; I didn't think i can do it for that long. )