The green dragon and Escora continued looking at each other for some time. Then it was the dragon who broke the silence first. He did not even need to open his mouth but still his words was heard loud and clear to everyone present in that area.

"Hmph, why are you back, mad oni ? You still need to spend several more years in the outside world. Are you trying to break the rules ?"

The green dragon said these words with malice evident in his tone. It looked like their was more to the story of Escora taking this mission to leave her home. And it was also clear that this green dragon was an acquaintance of her but their relationship was not a good one.

"Hah, did your brain got fried in all those years while I was not present. Obviously I'm here as a guide for someone who is going to take on the trials. Oh, sorry. I just remembered that you never had a brain to begin with. I apologise for forgetting that. Actually my brain always refuse to remember insignificant losers, so I totally forgot about you. Ass or Cass, whatever your name is."

Hearing Escora, the green dragon almost lost his mind. Elena was a bit surprised to see that Escora was quite good at trash talking, which was a good quality according to Elena. As she was thinking that, the green dragon's face almost turned blue in anger and he tried to smash his claws toward Escora while shouting -

"My name is Ascas. You stupid bitch."

But before Ascas' attack could connect, it was stopped by one of the people who was standing on Ascas' back. A pair of bat like wings came out of that person's back and he held back Ascas' claw without much effort. From this it was clear that this man was quite a powerhouse. Because Ascas was also a demigod rank powerhouse.

"Long time no see, princes Escora. It's a pleasure to see you again after such a long tim..."

Before this gentlemanly man could finish his words, Escora spoke up.

"Yeah, glad to see that all those years had been enough for prince Karsy to forget your humiliating defeat by my hands. It's my pleasure too."

The perfect smile that this prince Karsy dude was trying to put on almost broke after hearing her words. He still did his best to maintain the smile but stil the twitches at the corners of his mouth easily indicated that he was having a tough time maintaining his composer.

A sudden laughter broke this awkward moment. The person who was the source of this sound was a girl with pitch black hair, black eyes, black lips, black nails. There were even some black pattern drawn all over her body. Among the people present with the dragon, she was the strongest. Winning against her would not be easy for even Escora.

"Lil Escora, don't tease lil Karsy too much. I suppose the beautiful lady beside you is the new challenger. Hmm, I could feel that she is quite powerful but I have never seen her before. So I guess she had already gone to Elysium and now she needed to quickly visit Valhalla after coming to the mortal world for some reason. So don't waste any more time here. Quickly take her to the elders for the trial."

"Hmph, I was doing just that. It was the stupid ass dragon and this pretentious prince who blocked my way. Sister Fiona should handle her click more strictly."

Unlike the other, this lady named Fiona did not get offended by Escora's harsh words. Instead she lightly smiled again and said -

"Okay, okay. Sorry for blocking your way and disturbing you during work. I guess you are going to stay here for some time, so I will come to apologise to you later. I will also make sure to punish lil Ascas."

Hearing that, Escora did not say anything and grabbed Elena's hand while dragging her away. All the while, the green dragon named Ascas was giving both of them an anger filled look. But neither Escora nor Elena mind that.

...

After getting a bit away from that group, Escora told Elena that those people were all her piers and had competed against her in the main competition. The youngs of the giants normally did not mingle much with the youngs from the other races while on the other hand all the other races had a very good relationship between them. So as she was also a giant, her relationship with all of them was not very good.

Elena understood this explanation but she was more curious about something else. And that was the lore behind her going out of this blessed depths of the Ikrovi Wasteland. So with this in mind, Elena continued looking at Escora with a gentle smile on her face. Escora acted that she had not noticed this look for some time, but then she became self conscious and slowly started telling Elena about her circumstances.

...

After winning the competition two times in a row, she was again ready to win it for a third time and to score a hattrick. When she won for the first time, she was only level 383. Then on the second time, she was level 395. And this time she was level 399. So her losing was very very unlikely.

So her opponents came up with a new idea. And that was to forcefully level her up and to make her a demigod. Then she would no longer be eligible to participate in the competition. But if someone with her level of power wanted her halt her progression for some time, it was not hard.

But there were also ways for someone to force her advancement. Any winner of this prestigious competition was already eligible to reach the demigod rank by the blessing of the gods, so that was not a problem. So what the people needed to do was to supply Escora with an excessive amount of experience points so that she would not be able to control it anymore.

They did manage to pull this plan off by putting one of her little sister in danger. They had not planned to truly hurt her and were planning to save her by themselves if the situation got worse. But as Escora was not aware of that fact, she fought tooth and nail to save her sister against a large group of 10 thousand plus monsters. That way her experience points overflowed and she reached the demigod rank just a few days before the competition.

After learning that it was plot by the participants of that time's competition, Escora became extremely angry and beat them all up almost half to death. For that reason, the competition was cancelled that time, which was a very big deal. As she was responsible for all this mess, she was given the punishment to be banished from the blessed land in the guise of a mission. Actually this was a lighter punishment as the elders themselves were hot headed and sympathised with her situation.

So this was the true story behind her living out of her home for so many long years. Hearing this, Elena patted her head in encouragement. While they were talking, they had walked a lot and soon a super large city wall appeared before them. Seeing this, Escora proudly informed Elena that this was the wall protecting their city called the "Great Divine Wall".

Finally Elena had reached the legendary city where the giants lived.

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