Chapter 278 - Giant versus Giant

Although Dilli managed to elevate herself along with Chan from the ice, she couldn't keep it up forever. See the weight on her back along with the fact that she is using hooks to pull herself closer towards the ice, which doesn't allow her from flying off and being dragged by the win as a result, doesn't allow her to fly too long.

We can consider her trick as a long long leap, it would be more appropriate. Her first leap got them 30 meters up, as for the landing on the ice again it indeed became tricky and if not careful it can become bone braking too.

The first leap hurt her foot but not enough to break it, what was the result of it? She learned how the land the second time she does this leap. She figured out that the trick to success here would to blast a bit more fire than usual through her toes in order to melt through the ice and confirm a grip.

The other part of the landing trick would be to kick the habit off constantly sinking her hooks lightly through the ice for a couple of inches in, a habit of which she got with her first leap as she quickly dug her hooks to assure orientation.

She would need to dig her hooks as deep as possible before her feet meet with the ice, because what help would her feet half way deep in ice be if she hasn't a good firm grip with her hooks? She would slide down after getting this high already.

Once she made her first leap and land, she whispered. "We should wait for the rest."

"Why? Just keep flying!" Answered Chan who wanted to get this humiliation over with as soon as possible. Well, the humiliation and the fear of falling down on the sharp ice at the other side.

"We can't face the Giant ill.u.s.tratio alone." She reminded as she turned her head back hoping to look at Chan. "That's crazy even for me."

"Perhaps I didn't explain her enough of the plan?" He thought to himself as he recalled the past weeks. "Look, when I said that "We will cut off the Giant ill.u.s.tratio's toe." I really meant that, "You will cut the Giant ill.u.s.tratio's toe."

"Yes, I'm aware of that fact." She answered swiftly, trying to figure out where he is trying to go with this specific piece of wordplay. "Leave that to me, but we still need distractions."

"Good point, wait here I suppose." Chan decided to finally reason and just lightened his grip around her, her shoulders likely feel sore already although they do feel like boulders.

He whispered in her ear, "I heard cracks when you landed. Are your feet okay?" Here at least he proved that he has concern for more people than himself, well he proved that at Volume 3 as well but we are just using this piece of wordplay as an example.

"They are just cracked, not broken." She answered, knowing it as a fact because although painful she can move her toes just a little bit. "They will heal when I rest."

Seeing Rowan climb close enough to them, they heard him advise. "Don't fly when you are almost at the top, you do not want to face a 30 foot man alone."

Finally making it to the top, they just saw another man slide down to the bottom. Meaning now there are 6 Guards who made it up here, along with Rowan, Dilli and Chan there only are 9 people at total who will face the Giant ill.u.s.tratio.

As they got up here, Rowan gestured for all of them to get closer together and whispered. "Try to make as little noise as possible, if you want that Toe and get out of her alive we must not make any noise."

The scene they found up here is indeed interesting. It looks like a semi flat land, all shaped in ice but there is snow to be seen up here too. A lot actually, the higher they climbed the more snow they walked or slashed over against. And unlike down there, it feels a lot softer.

This signifies that snow is almost constant here, it likely snowed minutes before they arrived.

"Follow me." Rowan whispered as he spotted something shinning around 30 meters away.

The semi flat land here seemingly stretches over a 100 meters long but it seems a bit smaller in width, so they have to keep that in mind if they actually want to fight this Giant beast. Or at least remember where the slide is located at so they don't slide their way to death in any other direction.

Once they've reached what Rowan found, he turned around and stated with a small hard to hear whisper. "This is his foot."

As for Dilli, this is like an indirect order to do her part of the job. She stepped towards the foot closer, which stood only a foot above the ground. The foot stood a foot.

Or at least the toe did, the big toe. This explains where Frozen Toe Kingdom got their name from. This Giant ill.u.s.tratio's toes are indeed frozen, they almost look like the same as ice. Although ill.u.s.tratios are green in colour, these toes look pale enough to be called blue.

Based on the books she has read, he won't feel it if she touches or even burns his toe off. Tapping it at first to determine how tough it is, she figured that just a simple fireball won't do the trick here. Even a Sword wouldn't cut it for the job.

She took a couple of steps backwards, and prepared to unleash a move which will indeed guarantee success. The Slicer.

Without wasting a blink, she sumo squatted her way towards finishing this task. The Fire cut through the toe, and to make it a lot more confusing but thankfully not disgusting, portions of the toe shattered like actual ice.

The bottom portions to be more exact, afterwards the toe just spun itself towards the snow close by. Chan tip toed his way towards it and grabbed it carefully, it is lighter than it looks.

As if the Giant ill.u.s.tratio didn't loose the toe at all, he just continued to sleep or whatever he is doing underneath the snow. It became relieving equally as confusing. "That's it? It was this easy?" They all shared this same thought or anything similar as they slowly walked towards the slide.

A few blinks later, they've all heard what they didn't want too. They were quick and well informed enough to figure out that the Giant ill.u.s.tratio wasn't sleeping. But what gave that hint?

Well, they saw a half body running towards them. That's right, they only saw the Giant ill.u.s.tratio's legs and genitals. That was the toughest part to see here apart from who he victimized.

The legs of this beast charged right towards Rowan, and kicking him hard enough to break bones at the spot before he was elevated 30 meters high and send hurling across the air, about to face the end of his time against the harsh ice.

"I will finally see my boys." He whispered to himself as he felt the raging burn on his chest.

"Holy shit, did that just happen?" Chan yelled out as he saw the n.a.k.e.d Giant's body being close to being reformed completely.

"It just happened." Yelled Dilli, grabbing everyone's attention and knocking them out of their sudden shock. "Run!"

Well no one disagreed to her plan and without wasting a blink they started running towards the opposite direction, looking for the slide they climbed along too.

Seeing the Giant ill.u.s.tratio up on his feet, she figured out that his foot only stretches over 70 centimeters long if not over a meter. And nearly half a meter wide too, there is no fate of life left for Rowan or anyone who faces the same fate as him. But at least he can see his boys.

Dilli shot towards the Giant ill.u.s.tratio, hitting his arm with a 6 foot wide Fireball. He might not feel any pain on his toe but the rest of his body is totally burnable.

She saw his arm falling down, and as his head finally became reformed he unleashed a large ice shattering shout. "Roar!!!"

The rest just didn't want to face it along with Chan who is already sliding down along with the toe of which Dilli cut off. This Giant ill.u.s.tratio's head looks a bit different, the primary difference of which is its canines stretching all the way down his cheek. Talk about primitive.

However the fact this beast can be shot down, gave her a lot more confidence. She proceeded to shoot another fireball towards the beast's chest, perfect timing too because he has already started chasing.

The second 6 foot wide Fireball stopped him on his spot for a couple of seconds, she could see a lot blood falling down after and giving the snow a new colour. But the Giant didn't want to stop just yet.

A different creature joined the battle here, and thankfully it isn't a Blue Eagle or a flock of it. No, a man 1/3 of the Giant's size joined the battle. She never saw a man this big and couldn't see who it is since he was covered in fur clothing.

But he managed to knock the Giant ill.u.s.tratio down once he got a grip of his leg, as if he waited for the Giant ill.u.s.tratio to be weakened. The Giant ill.u.s.tratio hit the ground and shook a good portion of the mountain, the snow up here near the slide started rolling down.

Dilli slid down along with it, not because the fall knocked her off balance but because she used this odd situation to escape. The last thing she wants right now is to face a semi giant along with a giant.