Book 1 Chapter 663
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“Grooaaaaar!”
Giganto roared at the sky.
“Ugh!”
Arhi’s party members grabbed their ears and stumbled.
“Fear…!”
Ar gritted his teeth and gasped.
“Kuh-heo-eong!”
Ar’s howling canceled out Giganto’s fear.
“Krahahaha! What a spirited little one!”
Giganto looked at Ar, who had canceled his fear, then gave a combative smile and hunched over.
And at an incredible speed, he charged towards Ar.
Ar’s eyes flashed as he saw it.
Whoosh-!
A bright light flashed in Ar’s eyes and soon turned into water.
“Hmm?!”
Giganto’s eyes widened at the sight.
“You can turn into water even though it’s not a full moon?!”
As Giganto cried out in surprise, his eyes filled with delight.
“Interesting! Interesting! You look very appetizing!”
Giganto licked his lips.
“I’m going to eat you!”
“Who are you going to eat!”
Ar, with wide eyes, kicked off the ground.
Ar, who had become a golden flash, charged towards Giganto at an incredible speed and kicked Giganto in the forehead.
Kwaaaang-!
Giganto’s neck snapped back as if it had broken.
Swoosh-! Kwagagagagang-!
Giganto’s fist, swung with his neck snapped back, devastated the surrounding area.
Ar, who had already anticipated and avoided the attack, was now behind Giganto.
Paak-! Kwagagak-!
Ar kicked Giganto in the back of the head.
Giganto, who fell forward, had his face plunge into the ground.
Terrible destructive power.
But Giganto sprang to his feet.
“Krahahahahahahaha! I like it! I really like it!”
Kugugugung-!
As his massive body rose, dust fell off him.
Seeing Giganto laughing with a mad look, Karl made a fed-up expression.
“No damage at all?”
“My name is Giganto! The assault captain of the great Giant King’s legion! I will remember your name!”
“Ar Tune. The one who carries on the will of the hero.”
“Hero? Was there anyone called a hero?”
“You bastard! You’re ignoring Lord Arion! Is that head of yours, as big as it is, just for decoration?!”
An agitated Ar hissed.
“Arion? Who’s that?”
It was when Giganto was confused.
“Isn’t this the time for chitchat?”
Pajijijijijijik-!
Golden lightning raged from above.
Duran, clad in lightning aura all over his body, was swinging a greatsword with both hands.
Giganto swung his fist at Duran’s greatsword, which was aimed at his neck.
Kwaang-! Pajijijijik-!
Lightning raged in all directions.
Giganto’s face, which had blocked Duran’s sword, was hideously distorted.
“You’re interesting too!”
Whoosh-!
The other fist, which wasn’t blocking Duran’s greatsword, was swung at Duran.
Pabababat!
Lightning flashed, and Duran’s body scattered.
Duran, leaving an afterimage, was already swinging his greatsword at Giganto’s ankle.
Kwak-!
Duran’s greatsword dug into Giganto’s ankle.
Duran’s eyes twitched.
It had dug into the flesh but failed to cut through the bone.
Duran frowned at the greatsword, which wouldn’t budge as he tried to retrieve it.
“A sharp sword.”
Giganto curled the corners of his mouth.
“But its durability is at toy level!”
Whoosh-!
Giganto’s massive palm was swung as if to crush Duran.
Kwaaaang-!
The ground shook violently.
Duran, who had avoided the attack, drew the longsword from his waist.
Giganto, gripping the ground, clutched his fist with a crunch-! and then opened it.
Hoodududuk-!
Due to the terrifying grip, Duran’s greatsword, Lightning Storm, fell in pieces.
“O-our nation’s treasure—!”
Karl grabbed his head and screamed.
Lightning Storm.
It was the sword used by the first king who founded the Moira Kingdom.
The symbol of the founding king and Moira Kingdom’s National Treasure No. 1.
Karl couldn’t help but cry out in shock at the sight of the sword shattering before his eyes.
“Hmph. It’s an antique, so its durability is terrible.”
“Is that what you say when your family heirloom is broken! The King won’t let you get away with it!”
“It was going to be mine anyway, so it doesn’t matter.”
“Wow… I sometimes envy that personality.”
Karl gasped at the strong mental fortitude of Duran, who didn’t flinch even when the kingdom’s national treasure and family heirloom shattered before him.
Giganto pounded his chest with a bang-! and his eyes flashed.
“My body was forged by the world’s greatest blacksmith! My father Gias pounded the hammer himself to create this body! Before my body, the greatest masterpiece made by the Giant King, any bladed weapon is meaningless!”
“Hmph! The world’s greatest blacksmith isn’t the Giant King Gias, but Lord Dweno!”
As Driana snorted in response, Giganto tilted his head.
“Dweno? What’s that?”
“You don’t know Lord Dweno, the divine blacksmith?! Is that needlessly large head of yours just for decoration?!”
“Calm down. Ar already said that.”
Karl grabbed Driana’s shoulder, who was growling and swinging her fist.
“Strange fellows. Hero, divine blacksmith. What are such things anyway?”
Giganto scoffed.
“If you don’t know, I’ll split that head of yours and engrave it into your brain!”
With a menacing voice, someone flew towards Giganto’s head.
It was a woman with a small physique, Artian.
“Ah! Professor Artian! It’s dangerous to charge rashly when you don’t know the opponent’s abilities!”
Karl urgently tried to stop Artian, but Artian’s eyes flashed open as she shouted.
“Shut up! If bladed weapons don’t work, just punch them!”
Hwawang-! Kwaaaaaang-!
Artian’s fist hit Giganto’s forehead.
Kwagagagagagak-!
The ground around Giganto’s feet cracked at an incredible speed, and the ground began to erupt.
“Cough?”
Giganto, who hadn’t flinched even at Ar’s or Duran’s attacks, staggered for a moment.
Whirrr-!
Thwack-!
“Hyaaaah!”
Artian, who landed on Giganto’s ankle, grabbed his ankle and let out a fierce yell.
Stagger-!
Giganto immediately lost his balance.
Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!
“Ugh-oh-oh-oh?!”
“Cough?!”
The small-statured Artian began to spin Giganto around using her terrifying physical strength.
Ar and Duran, who were in the radius of rotation, backed away in shock.
“Hryaah!”
Whoosh-! Kwagagagagang-!
Giganto’s body, flung by centrifugal force, was horribly embedded in the ground.
“Ugh!”
“Here I gooooo! Bonk!”
“Cough!”
Artian, who charged at Giganto at an incredible speed as he was getting up, headbutted Giganto directly in the abdomen.
Giganto, struck by Artian’s headbutt, which flew like a bullet, was sent flying.
From Giganto’s perspective, it was as if a hard object the size of a palm had flown at an incredible speed and hit him in the abdomen.
“Whew!”
Artian, whose fists were pulled back to her waist, exhaled through her nose.
“I… I’ve made a vow. From now on, I will absolutely, absolutely, absolutely never talk back to Professor Artian.”
Karl gulped and muttered at Artian’s unimaginable martial prowess, and everyone nodded.
Kugugugugu-!
“Ohohoho! It’s been a long time since my blood boiled like this!”
“Huh? You’re laughing? Shall I beat you up more?”
It was when Artian’s eyes flashed.
“I’ll take this one, Professor.”
Artian glanced at Leo, who stood beside her.
“You were amazing, weren’t you?”
Artian narrowed her eyes, looking at Leo who was smiling and patting her head.
“It seems like the roles of professor and student have been swapped.”
“My apologies.”
“Hmph.”
Artian snorted and crossed her arms.
“I’ll command the kids and deal with the other rabble, so you make sure to handle that lump.”
“Understood.”
Artian, leaving the rear to Leo, returned to the party members.
Grooaaar!
Monsters began to crawl out of the tunnel Giganto had dug.
“How do you plan to amuse me!”
Giganto’s eyes filled with anticipation.
Seeing Giganto, Leo drew his sword.
“I might be amused, but you won’t be, will you?”
“Krahahaha! I like spirited ones! But!”
A sneer formed on Giganto’s lips.
“A mere knight cannot defeat me!”
“Because of your aura characteristic that nullifies aura? Knight Slayer, Giganto.”
“Oho? You know my aura characteristic and still dare to challenge me? You’re a remarkably courageous fellow!”
Thud-
“…?”
Giganto’s gaze fell to the ground.
And he widened his eyes at the sight of his massive arm twitching.
“Ugh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!”
Giganto screamed, clutching the severed cross-section of his arm.
Leo approached Giganto and said,
“5000 years ago, you were a handful. Your ability was to nullify aura. And Arion was also inexperienced when I first met you.”
Leo had subdued Giganto just before Dweno joined Arhi’s party.
At that time, the Giant King’s legion was moving its forces to attack the fortress Dweno was defending.
Giganto, who had the ability to nullify aura, was a formidable foe.
Furthermore…
“As you said, your body was indeed Gias’s greatest masterpiece.”
His body, impenetrable by any weapon, also possessed powerful anti-magic properties, giving him strong resistance to magic.
Of course, Luna and Licheness were mages skilled enough to overcome that anti-magic power.
But they had no time to spare to stop Giganto’s leading Giant King’s legion.
‘At that time, Arion broke down for the first time.’
The knights who moved with Arhi’s party died.
Arion was truly enraged by that fact.
Recalling Arion, who had resented his own inexperience, Leo raised his sword.
“What is that! That sword!”
Giganto’s face was filled with shock as he looked at the shabby longsword in Leo’s hand.
“This?”
Leo pointed Posteritas, which was in his hand, at Giganto as if it were nothing special.
“Proof that Gias, that bastard, isn’t the greatest blacksmith.”
“You! How dare you say such blasphemy!”
Kwak-!
“Cough!”
“There’s nothing easier to defeat than a knight who relies on powerful armaments.”
Leo said indifferently, having severed Giganto’s ankle.
Giganto’s terrifying aspect was his tough body, which no bladed weapon could penetrate.
It was Gias’s finest masterpiece, made with great care, a blacksmith who poured out formidable armaments by the standards of that time.
However…
‘It’s meaningless before Dweno’s armaments. Because the world’s greatest blacksmith is Dweno.’
Moreover, what Leo held in his hand now was the masterpiece that Dweno alone recognized as a true work.
Giganto’s body was powerless before Leo’s sword.
“Nooom! Do you think I became the vanguard captain of the great Giant King’s legion with just my body!”
Kwagagagagang-!
Giganto slammed his fist into the ground.
Then, black lava surged up and engulfed Leo like a tsunami.
Leo snickered at the sight and raised his palm.
A ring sparkled on Leo’s hand.
Chrr-chrr-chrr-!
“…!”
Giganto’s eyes widened as if to tear apart, seeing the lava instantly frozen.
“Whew…”
Breath escaped Leo’s mouth.
“Spirit magic and… sorcery? You… just what…!”
“You gained notoriety as a battle maniac.”
Step- Step-
Leo, with his sword slung over his shoulder, approached Giganto with the corners of his mouth curled up.
“But at the moment of death, you screamed.”
Leo’s eyes turned gray.
Giganto, meeting those eyes, knelt.
Thud-!
For a moment, the image of a gray-haired young man brutally dismembering his own body appeared in his mind.
‘…What is this? Is this a hallucination? The future? Or… the past? What is it!’
Giganto’s body trembled.
“It was amusing to see you, who only enjoyed winning battles, begging for your life.”
Seeing Leo smile softly, Giganto asked, squeezing the words out.
“What exactly are you?!”
“Me?”
Kwak-!
Suddenly, Leo’s sword dug into Giganto’s eye.
“Ugh-oh-oh-oh!”
“The great hero you feared the most.”
Kail’s true nature, which had terrorized countless demons in the past, awoke.