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#142 - Battle of Giants

"Slow down! Watch your step!"

On the narrow cliff path, Thorin was at the very front, rain constantly battering his face, stinging his cheeks, blurring his vision.

The others followed closely behind him, clutching at each other's clothes, preventing anyone from losing their footing, and ensuring that they could help each other at any moment.

"KABOOM!"

A huge bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, the brief burst of energy making the pitch-black rainy night instantly bright.

Just then, a huge figure suddenly appeared in front of them.

Its shape seemed to blot out the entire sky, and as the lightning flashed, a shadow fell upon the dwarves.

The figure swayed like a pendulum, slowly and powerfully, and with a single flick, a huge rock, large enough to be a small mountain, was hurled towards them.

Seeing this, the dwarves were filled with dread, because the boulder was flying directly towards their position!

"BOOM!"

With a deafening roar, the boulder exploded against the cliff face above the group.

The narrow path underfoot instantly shook violently, as if struck by a magnitude ten earthquake, and large chunks of rock tumbled down the cliff face like a waterfall.

Fortunately, a small, sloping overhang above them shielded them from most of the falling rocks, but some smaller, scattered stones still pelted them like hail.

Liang Yue, holding the hobbit Bilbo by the scruff of his neck with one hand, used the large sword given to him by the system with the other, swatting away the incoming rocks as if they were flies.

After a few moments, the crisis temporarily passed.

Liang Yue, wearing his full set of standard armor, was naturally unharmed, and the dwarves in the group were all thick-skinned, so a few small stones couldn't hurt them.

But this absurd, disaster-level assault was truly terrifying, almost impossible to face!

When Liang Yue was sitting in front of the screen with a soda in hand, watching this scene, he didn't think much of it, assuming it was just a slightly larger rock.

But now, as he actually found himself in this situation, facing the ordeal of giant rocks falling on his head, the feeling of shock was simply too exciting!

"This isn't just a storm! It's a thunderstorm!"

"Look over there!"

Taking advantage of a flash of lightning, the white-bearded dwarf pointed to the huge figure that had reappeared across the rain, and shouted in terror.

"Good heavens! The legends are true!"

"It's a giant! A stone giant!"

"Everyone be careful! It's throwing a mountain!"

"BOOM!"

The boulder crashed down, and the rock, comparable to a small mountain, instantly shattered into countless pieces!

Fortunately, this time the stone giant's target was not them, but... another stone giant hiding nearby...

Faced with enemies of this magnitude, all their martial prowess, courage, faith, armor, and even magic were useless.

Now the dwarves could only pray to their ancestors, hoping that the stones flying through the air would not happen to fall on them!

The earth trembled, the sky roared!

"Crack, crack, crack..."

Accompanied by a huge cracking sound, something even more terrifying happened.

The once solid ground suddenly split in two, and the dwarves who had been standing on the edge of the cliff were forcibly separated by the splitting cliff face.

In an instant, they were separated by nearly a hundred meters~

It turned out that the stone mountain under Liang Yue and the others was also a stone giant, and the cliff where they were standing was right on its calves.

Now that the battle between the giants had begun, it awakened the creature that had been sleeping beneath them, and it split its legs apart, and its huge body sat up from its reclining position.

Before it could even stand up, it was immediately struck on the head by a fierce headbutt from the stone giant hiding behind it!

"BOOM!"

The sound of the huge rock exploding merged with the thunder in the sky, perfectly blending into the stormy night.

If Liang Yue and the others were not in the middle of it, personally experiencing the thrill of the heavens splitting and the earth shaking, they probably would never have believed in the existence of stone giants.

After being suddenly attacked, the giant under them was naturally unwilling to be humiliated, and immediately retaliated with a haymaker.

Who knew that the stone giant on the side even knew some fighting skills, and ducked down to avoid it, while simultaneously delivering an uppercut that landed directly on the chin of the stone giant under Liang Yue and the others.

At the same time, the stone giant who had been throwing boulders from a distance also launched an attack.

Another fierce throw of a mountain head, directly hitting the back of the head of the stone giant with good fighting skills.

With a loud "boom!"

The giant's head burst open, and its legs went soft, and it fell directly into the deep abyss.

Then, the giant who threw the boulder began to stride over, and while the stone giant under Liang Yue and the others was still dazed, it delivered a fierce knee strike to its stomach.

"BOOM!"

At that moment, the heavens and earth collapsed, and the earth shook~

The roar produced by the impact alone made everyone see stars and almost burst their eardrums.

The harsh environment made it impossible for people to control themselves, and they could only instinctively grab onto others around them.

Only, as time slowly passed, and the crowd gradually recovered from the dizziness and blurred vision, and the buzzing in their ears slowly stopped, they were surprised to find that the battle between the stone giants seemed to be over.

All the abnormal phenomena around them, the earth shaking, the mountains splitting, and the collapse of earth and rocks, had now returned to calm.

Even the fierce storm, lightning, and thunder in the sky had begun to subside and slowly come to an end.

"Phew!"

Liang Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief and patted his stiff face.

Although he didn't have a mirror and couldn't see his appearance, he knew that his face must be pale and bloodless...

Turning his head, he saw that the little hobbit in his hand was still being held tightly, completely unharmed, only his chest was rising and falling, like a frightened chick, his face full of fear that could not be dispelled for a long time.

"What the heck, that was too exciting!"

He cursed inwardly, and then looked around to check on the safety of his teammates, and after a tense confirmation, Liang Yue was shocked to find.

In that turbulent, cataclysmic scene, the dwarves were all unharmed!

One by one, apart from being a little frightened and appearing somewhat shaken, the others felt almost no discomfort on their bodies.

It was simply a miracle!