Chapter 324 - 194: Brutality
Deep within the snowfield, beside a geothermal hot spring.
Raine glanced at the bodies of the ogres and giants on the ground and quickly showed a look of regret.
Compared to the Gray Dwarves, the weapons of these powerful giants before him are simply too enormous. For instance, the bone giant axe in the hands of the Frost Giant has a shaft three meters long, making it entirely unsuitable for human use.
As for the bone-studded leather armor on their bodies, it’s also made for a five-meter-tall giant. Even if he puffed his muscles to the most exaggerated extent, he wouldn’t reach three meters and could not wear it at all.
However, soon Raine’s gaze once again focused on the Frost Giant, partly admiring the giant’s formidable physique—
’The other broke free from the Earth-Binding Totem in just over a second, definitely not more than two seconds, demonstrating the robustness of their physique.’
This was merely an ordinary warrior of theirs.
No wonder the Frost Giants can rival the White Dragon in the Lankote Snowfield.
On the other hand, Raine still has a problem to address.
Although he has the ’Driving Wolves to Devour Tigers’ strategy, the issue is that neither the pursuers from the Silver Battle Group’s ’Nightmare Blade’ nor the reinforcements from the Frost Giant Tribe would arrive according to his timing.
As for the pursuers from the Nightmare Blade, Raine had a general idea. It should be two transcendents, but what about the Frost Giant Tribe?
Will the incoming forces be strong enough?
Will they be able to take out two human transcendents?
So even though Raine knows that the stronger and more intelligent the creature, the higher the chance of backlash when using the ’Brain-Eating Monster’ skill, it was something that had to be done.
After a slight hesitation, Raine used ’Brain Consumption’ and ’Body Theft’ on the Frost Giant.
In the next moment!
Raine saw many images, especially the strong resentment from the Frost Giant Berger before his death—
’Damn human... Brother Tollesk... killed...’
’Captain... commander... chieftain...’
Soon, Raine came back to himself and furrowed his brow slightly, shaking his head.
Although he succeeded in using Body Theft, the powerful strength and high intelligence of the opponent meant the process consumed more spiritual power than the previous two times.
And Raine is almost certain that if the Frost Giant were at full strength, using Brain Consumption would definitely have resulted in backlash.
’I’ve heard the Mind Flayer’s Brain Consumption ability is even stronger...’
’I wonder if I’ll have the chance to kill a Mind Flayer in the future?’
’That Extraordinary level Mind Flayer that appeared in the Valley of Dead Water would be nice. If I remember correctly, it seemed to be called Mentar?’
...
Although he took a small risk, the rewards were rather decent.
At this point, Meredith seemed to also realize a problem with the ’Driving Wolves to Devour Tigers’ plan and asked:
"By the way, Raine, if Nightmare Blade sends two transcendents, I feel the reinforcements from the Frost Giant Tribe might not pose a significant threat to them."
Even though the Frost Giants are indeed strong, Meredith, well aware of transcendent strength, knew that even if five giants of that level came in, they wouldn’t be a match for two transcendents.
Unless some of the Frost Giants exceeded Challenge Level 8.
"Don’t worry! It should be fine," Raine said with a smile, "Soon, it’s very likely that a Frost Giant captain, which is a Challenge Level 10 Frost Giant, will arrive, along with at least a squad of eight Frost Giant warriors. No, considering the one that just escaped, it’s likely nine will arrive. Even for the two transcendents from Nightmare Blade, they will definitely face a tough battle!"
This is the classic ’when you hit the small one, the big one shows up.’
Hmm?
Meredith blinked in surprise at Raine and said, "How are you so familiar with the structure of the Frost Giant tribe? How do you know the challenge level of their captain is Level 10? And that a squad of theirs consists of ten members?"
Meredith, usually of a calm demeanor, rarely posed such rapid-fire questions.
"Um... Before I came here, I did quite a bit of detailed preparation," Raine awkwardly replied, then immediately made up an excuse.
Luckily, he didn’t mention that the dead Frost Giant Berger was the brother of the Frost Giant Captain Tollesk, otherwise, he really wouldn’t have been able to explain it.
Meredith felt something was amiss, but after thinking carefully, she found Raine’s explanation plausible and chose not to dwell on the issue further.
"So what do we do now?"
"Let’s erase our scent, find a good spot with a view from a distance, and I’ll use the Flying Spell to take you there."
"Hmm, wait... You also know Flying Spell? A Third Level Spell Flying Spell?" Meredith noticed that Raine appeared as an enigma, totally unreadable.
After all, only a mage with at least Level 5 and extraordinary talent could possibly master the Flying Spell, but Raine...
"Uh... I was lucky enough to learn an improved version of the Flying Spell."
"Another improved version?" Meredith gave Raine a teasing sidelong glance, obviously not believing him.
This made Raine a bit sheepish, and he touched his nose, choosing not to explain further.
Looks like I need to speed up my promotion; if I reach Level 5, it won’t stand out so much, Raine thought to himself.
A few minutes later.
After eliminating their scent, Raine and Meredith quickly found a snow-covered observation point downwind.
The distance from the geothermal hot spring battle site was around three to four hundred meters away.
Even with extraordinary perception, it would be impossible to detect their presence from this far away.