244 One Man Army
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SLASH!
Another slash of my spear reached the giant’s right ankle, with both sliced, the giant was incapable of keeping afoot properly, falling to his knees and then into the floor head-first. His entire body was incredibly heavy, with both fat, muscle, and bone combined, I couldn’t help but imagine how many materials I could get out of these giants. It was going to be a good harvest.
The Demon immediately noticed I had jumped over his legs, slowly trying to move them to shake me off, but I jumped around dexterously and reached the demon’s back, finding a group of five imps pointing bow guns at me. They seemed to be quite rustically made but could shoot arrows at a close distance with great power. I didn’t feel threatened by them, however.
“Kill the bastard!”
“Damned child!”
“Human, die!”
Their words, which I could understand, didn’t meant a thing to me. I quickly conjured the Tier 1 Fire-Attribute Spell [Fireball] and combined it with the Tier 1 Wind-Attribute Spell [Gust], forming a compound spell named [Blazing Storm]. It was small despite its name, but it was devastating enough to take five Imps at the same time. I couldn’t conjure it constantly because of the Mana Cost, but thanks to Eleanora’s Aether, I could reduce the cost of Mana of this strong combined spell!
FLUOOOOSSSSH!
The blazing winds took over the five imps in a second, a few arrows were still shot at me, I evaded two and quickly intercepted a third, but a fourth managed to reach me, piercing my shoulder, the pain was bearable. But it still slowed me down. I reached the Imps being burned alive as I swung my spear, slicing them in half to make sure they died. I forcefully took out the arrow from my shoulder and blood quickly began gushing out of the rotting wound. Damned poisoned arrows. I put my hand in the wound and tore apart the rotten flesh while covering the wound with Holy Ki I had accumulated, stopping the bleeding by wrapping a piece of cloth after disinfecting the wound.
“Are you okay? Even an arrow might be lethal when they’re poisoned with miasma from the demonic energy the demons produce, my lord…” Said Eleanora.
“I am alright, I’ve even gotten my hand cut off, remember? Don’t worry about it.” I reassured Eleanora. My physique had evolved lately so with that, I had a better self-regeneration, as long as I stopped bleeding and disinfected the wound, it should regenerate in a few minutes.
While patching the wound, I was already over the giant’s head, his arms were trying to catch me as he attempted to roll over the floor to not let me hit his giant head, but I acted quicker than he could, infusing Eleanora’s Spirit Soul Aura into Gluttony alongside my own Blood Ki, an explosion of red energy was shoot down from the tip of my spear, resembling a red laser, as it hit the giant’s head, cracking his skull and blasting his brains out. The most secure way to kill a demon was this without doubts!
BOOOOMMM!!!
As the demon’s brains splattered over the floor, I noticed a System notification. The Giant gave me a whopping 5000 EXP, not bad at all. It is way more than the Onis could ever give to me, and the only one superior to it might had been Cassandra, the half-demon woman. With that said, I was done with this big giant, only for another two to get closer to us. But I wasn’t going to do this alone, the other Beast Spirits were few, but they were not useless.
“Orcus, Fenrir, Spore, attack!”
“Woof!”
“Gruooh!”
“Foo!”
The three Spirit Familiars ran towards their positions, suddenly circling an unsuspecting Giant. The Orcus, with their mighty strength, weight, and tusks, hit the giant’s ankles, quickly throwing it off balance. The demon was tough enough to resist the Orcus’ tusks, but it still ended falling to his knees. The Fenrir came afterwards, carrying Spores over their backs, they jumped over the giant’s back and slain the Imps over them right before throwing spores over the giant’s face, paralyzing spores!
“G-Gruooghhh…?! Cough… Cough…!”
The Giant quickly felt paralyzed, falling into the floor near-unconscious, the Imps felt completely confused and their faces quickly hanged into pure despair as they saw me crawling over the giant’s head. Unlike true giants, these demon giant are fairly weak, they have giant bodies, yes, but are not almighty, nor they have supernatural resistance, regeneration, or resilience like the actual Giants or Titans I’ve once fought in my previous life. They were just giant meat bags.
CLAAAASH!
“GRAAAHH…!”
I quickly crushed the giant’s head with the same attack as before, slashing the Imps that hurriedly ran away from me, while the rest were caught by the Fenrir. The last Giant looked at the scene, feeling confused, while lacking the understanding ability to discern if what was happening was somehow good or bad. However, the Imps mounting his back panicked, directing a giant ballista at me, it was made of wood and stone, but enhanced with their demonic blood. I immediately jumped away and hid beneath the giant’s corpse, as the ballista’s arrow hit the giant and exploded with enormous quantities of demonic energy.
BOOOM!!!
To think these bastards had such a weapon. I quickly looked up again, seeing them struggle to put another of those enormous and explosive arrows, I immediately and stealthily ran towards them, abusing Shadow Sneak, the Skill I acquired through Eleanora’s Skill Link, and reached the shadow of the demon giant that was carrying these Imps. I started crawling over his leg while the giant noticed something, but I was quick enough for his slow mind to not retaliate in time. I jumped over the Imps and grabbed one that was carrying the giant arrow, crushing his head with my bare hands through the various enhancements I had.
“Gryyaaaeegggh…!”
CRAAASH!
The other Imps immediately detected me, but it was too late. I moved to the left and the right, swinging my Spear precisely and gracefully, their bodies dropped into the ground below, shredded into pieces.
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