"Wagh…" The beast sounded exhausted but his anger was still lightening up by the two youngsters, its reptile eyes gazed across the caves and stopped at the injured boy
The giant rushed toward Vaterian, who just stood up and recovered from the impact. He used the sword as support to evade the attack, moved his body aside.
In a brief moment, Vaterian saw a sneer on the monster's face, he quickly push himself further away from his current position and let go of the sword.
A quake was created when the log hit the ground. Vaterian saw it clearly, the giant switched its hand while charging toward him to get a greater reach than before. This monster wasn't a beast.
Without giving Valerian more time to think about it, the giant yet again swung its weapon, this time with both hands.
Vaterian pulled out his dagger and picked up his axe from the ground, it might be thrown away by the giant at any time, but it didn't matter. It was not the best choice, by it was the only choice for him right now.
"Vati!" Looking at the origin of the sound, Vaterian saw a reflection of a short blade.
"I'm fine!" Vaterian replied. Staring at the log falling on top of him, Vaterian charged forward and attempt to cut off the giants tendon again.
The monster was intelligent enough to realize what he wanted to do and use his tongue to stop Vaterian.
Vaterian grinned, he turned his body around and sliced through the monster's tongue and wrists. After accomplishing that, Vaterian threw his dagger toward its eye.
The beast reacted quickly and turned his head to the side. However, he captured a trail of white through the air, which disappeared after a blink of an eye, if it could even blink it again.
"Wagh!!!" The giant howled loudly, louder than any other it did in the past. Some of the stalactites fell off from the huge shake it created, but what bring more attention was the changes on the giant.
After pulling away from the giant and picking up his sword, Vaterian started to notice the changes that happened to the monster.
Some blood started to flow out from its pore but quickly evaporated by the immense heat from its body. Below the skin was the rest of the blood flowing quickly, dyed its body to a dark red colour. Its belly shrank fast, and its limb started to grow stronger and filled with muscles.
"Eghhh…" The monster covered its eye with its right hand and pulled out the blade stuck on it, no blood was spilt out. The dagger left an injury on its eye and it was only cured, not recovered. It might be the only good news for the boys.
The vision of the monster turned toward those dying citizens, it rushed recklessly toward them and grabbed some of them.
One of the civilians was finally awake after so much action. He open his eye and saw a huge jaw in front of him, the hollow tongue pierced into the person beside him and turned it into a dried body.
"No..No.." He tried to squeeze out some words from his throat, but the sense of powerless stopped him from achieving it.
"Not today!" A flying axe cut through the darkness went past the civilian's sight and pinned on the wall. The tongue dropped beside the feet of the monster and made it even furious.
"Erghhh" the low howl signalling the teenagers they were yet again being targeted, with that in mind they fastened their belt and wished it won't fall off later.
The giant threw the civilian to the wall. By listen the sound it created, Vaterian doubted the civilian would survive.
Followed by a quick throw of a rock, the giant charged straight toward Igor. It wanted this person who take away his eye and tongue to pay for his actions.
Igor was surprised about the huge increase in speed of this giant, it no longer move slowly as it was before. Igor quickly dodge the attack and made an opportunity strike on the giant's leg, but the tough muscle stuck the sword within it.
Igor pulled out the sword and maintained his stance while Vaterian stepped forward, slowly approaching the giant. Vaterian held his sword firmly, any mistake could result in the loss of his life.
Suddenly, the boy leaned forward and rushed forward like a rocket, but it was still enough time for the monster to react.
The giant took a step backwards and swung the log in front of him, trying to stop Vaterian from closing him.
At that exact moment, the giant saw something. A silver shine flew out from Vaterian's hand and right toward its remained eye, the giant quickly covered his eye with both of his arms.
"Ding." A sound of metal clashing with each other sent to the giant's ear, but it was much dimmer than he expected. However, it had no time to watch what happened, a pain drenched through his feet.
Vaterian swung his sword around the giant's ankles, by avoiding all those hard muscles, tendons and bones, the blade flew through the gap between structures and came out easily, leaving significant damage on the beast.
As he finished his strike and listened to the howl of the beast, he grabbed the falling projectile. He knit his brown, the silver ring was flattened a bit because of the high heat and force being put on it.
The beast, pounding its weapon blindly on the ground, tried to hit these flies who keep annoying it, but it got nothing but rock shards.
"Pam!"
A sound of thunder ends the movement of the giant. A smoking barrel was held in the hand of Igor. "Try to let your engineer make them more efficient, they take too long to reload!".
"Pay attention, it isn't dead yet!" Vaterian stared at the beast, it raise its head, the round was stuck in its forehead.
The lead ball melted by the high heat dropped on the watery ground and solidified. The giant stared at the boy with a gun, growling toward him.
"Erghhh!" Despite losing most of its mobility, the monster was still being aggressive and reckless in its advance. The watery ground didn't seem to affect it, the only thing that affected it was the consistent harassment from the tiny creature.
Swinging from the right was the huge club, from the left was a giant hand. Igor fell back and evaded this attack, but the monster changed its movement.
By using the remaining momentum, the giant threw the log toward Vaterian, and stomped the ground, causing everyone to lose their balance.
"Vati!" Vaterian also unexpected from such a tactic, despite having heard Igor's warning, he had no time to dodge the giant wood. Vaterian held his sword with both hands and placed it to his right, hoping to be safe from this situation.
The boy was being knocked away, the sword and his heavy clothing had deflected some of the impacts, but the remaining force still manage to let him experience the texture of the ground.
The giant quickly leave Igor and charged toward Vaterian, the broken tongue was hanging beside its jaws and some meaningless growl came out from its throat.
Rocks and water flying all over the cave, the sound of the flesh hitting the ground echoed around the battlefield. When the monster was just about to reach Vaterian, it slipped.
The giant looking in front of it, Vaterian stood up with his sword. One of the bags on his belt was opened, the beast remembered there was where the bullet was taken out.
"The hunt was over, sorry!" Followed by a sound of sword thrusting into flesh, the hall fell silent. Countless man was fallen under this creature, now it fall under the blade of Vaterian.
"Sorry to take away your hero time, it was just such a perfect chance to end this," Vaterian said to Igor after pulling out the sword from the giant's eye, the remains of its brain flowing out from the eye, showing that Vaterian had shaken the sword a couple of time before pulling it out.
"Never mind, you were the prince, I'm the servant." Igor walked away from Vaterian, picking up the weapons he left on the ground and sheath his sword.
"You...arghh." Vaterian still don't know how should he handle such an issue, the thing that happen in Heiligen still remained a huge gap between them, but neither could he tell Igor the truth.
"I hope time could solve everything." Vaterian cleaned up his sword, took back all his belongings, and walked back toward those citizens, who still laying on the ground.