Chapter 240: The Mistake Of The Frog-kin Ancestor
Chapter 240: The Mistake Of The Frog-kin Ancestor
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Chaos looked down into the food. There was an oozy green soup emanating a strange, mildly sweet odor. There were small worms and critters floating over it, as if they had been boiled on the soup. It looked a bit disgusting to the normal human being, but he was a monster and he had eaten grosser things before, so this wasn’t half bad looking.
He tasted the soup, it was bitter, mildly acidic, and it also had these crunchy, slimy bites that the critters and worms were. The worms were softer than he thought though and had bitter and salty interiors that exploded inside of his mouth when he ate them. It was very disgusting but for Chaos it was ok.
The grilled worm and fish was better, the meat was tasty and firm, and he enjoyed them thoroughly unlike the other things, indeed.
And the boiled eggs were surprisingly creamy and sweet inside, the frog-kin ate them happily after enjoying most of the food.
After he was done eating, and so did everyone else, there was a slight rest before everyone began talking and asking questions… but Chaos became the focus of attention for everyone, and well, the clumsy Aruliel too.
Chaos still had to accept the fact he was trapped inside a giant frog’s stomach, which was incredibly strong and for some reason incapable of escaping from this hellish place unless he were to do something big… which he could not accomplish, even if he tried his hardest.
But Chaos and Aruliel wanted to go to the outside world more than anything, there were their friends outside waiting for them after all. Chaos couldn’t simply stay here forever, he had to get out of here and meet with Abyss once more… and Belphegor, and everyone!
“Do you know something more about this frog? I am… lost of words. I don’t know what else to do and I am a god…” sighed Chaos.
“We know, we know something…”
“Hmmm… But should we tell an outsider?”
Froggo’s parents seemed rather willing to speak, as his little siblings played around in the room.
However, his mother felt a bit doubtful about revealing the frog-kin’s secrets to an outsider.
“Please tell us! It’s the only way for us to get out of here…!” cried Aruliel.
“W-Well… It is said that you can technically move out through being pooped, but that’s not true, the gastric acids would digest you before that, and your magic, even that couldn’t withstand the acid for long, right?” asked Froggo’s mother.
“Indeed…” said Chaos.
“We only know of that stupid and ineffective method… though, aren’t you interested in hearing a bit of our tribe’s tale?” asked Froggo’s father.
“Tale? Wait… I also wanted to ask you but how come you ended inside a frog’s stomach? An entire civilization? Even more… I saw the ruins… you worshiped it?” asked Chaos.
“Why yes, well, our ancestors long ago did so…”
Long ago…
Froggo’s parents told Chaos the tale of how the Frog-kin last civilization fell before the might of… the Swamp Guardian.
In the world of Amphibi there were once a single sapient race, coming from an evolution branch of a frog-like species, the Frog-kin, who specialized in tool use and cooking, were born. They were natural gatherers, and used their intelligence to make up entire civilizations, building pyramids, and large temples.
Through their journey across this planet, they encountered an entity of gigantic proportions, a massive frog with a power unprecedented.
Its steps made the land tremble, it ribbits generated shockwaves that made the water quiver… everything it did was a natural disaster.
This strange and gigantic frog was peaceful, however, and let those that didn’t do any harm to it live near it. it was known as the Swamp Guardian because monsters wouldn’t get closer to it, or at least those that threatened the lives of the Frog-kin.
Because of this, they decided to live near it, and slowly made many civilizations, offspring, and separations were made over many generations. Amidst the many descendants, a certain group turned into nomads.
This group was slender, and more compact, their faces slowly turned less frog-like, and they even grew algae over their bodies, which let them do photosynthesis. This tribe would later evolve into the current dominant sapient species, the Saphibian.
The Frog-kin in those times separated themselves from the Saphibian, however, and lived on their own for the most part, which was mostly because they diverged in their own wills and desires, the two tribes split, and the Saphibians moved away from the Swamp Guardian’s Territory, which was said to be a divine sanctuary where no predators would ever step on.
They risked their lives and went away, desiring to explore the land and expand in other ways that the Frog-kin did not wanted to do. And like this, the two races split forever.
The frog-kin remained in these lands, while the Saphibians traveled the world, spreading more than the frog-kin, and reaching even farther areas, knowing more, and learning more too… they ended spreading in all sorts of families as well, which later on became races of their own.
The frog-kin remained in their sanctuary, as they grew more conceited inside their society, living by the grace and protection of this giant frog, unknown to them that this being was merely just sleeping and being neutral because it had no interest in them.
Such an entity that had lived so long… why would it care about flies moving near it? it had long stopped caring about the world around.
But it was because of a big reason too… this massive frog had a secret that the Frog-kin discovered later on the line.
It was protecting an egg, a large, 5-meter-big egg, transparent and containing a tiny little tadpole inside, which was still developing slowly, sleeping in there peacefully.
This giant frog was in fact a mother.
However, the frog-kin, specifically a young and arrogant prince of their civilization who learned about this once gave an order…
“Bring me the guardian’s egg, I will raise it as my pet, and it will become the Kingdom’s personal guardian!”
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