Mythran's Master Of All

Ren jogged ahead of the giants as he led them into the wilderness. Since their steps were so huge, it was difficult to pace along with them. He was tempted to run, but then he would lose them if they didn't run as well. Princess lapped them back and forth, and around the entire group, almost as if she was herding them. Teepo rode on her helm so he could keep an eye out in all directions, so neither he, nor Ren, would make the same mistake they had made before. No random giant was going to sneak up on them again.

Teepo? How's the time?

“It's been about 45 minutes.” Teepo responded.

Then here's a good enough spot. Ren thought, ran out a little ahead of the giants, and came to a stop facing them. He waved to Laurelia, and she told everyone to stop.

“Is this it?” She asked Ren, and looked around. “There's not a lot here.”

“That's kind of the point.” Ren said. “We'll be setting up 135 giant-sized tents. We're going to need a lot of room.”

“You're right.” Laurelia smiled. “I hadn't thought of that.”

Ren looked into the group of giants close to him, and found the two giants that had an inventory.

“I'm going to need your help again.” He said to them, and they stepped forward. Ren took out the 12 crates of camping supplies, the crate with bolts of cloth for himself, the workbench, the sacks of food ingredients, and the two large stew pots. He opened all of the camping supplies crates, and found most were tents, some were bedrolls, and one was full of lanterns, ropes, cooking utensils, small pots, bowls, and knives. It even had a bunch of those racks to put over campfires. The last crate held the ration packs.

“Let's try this one first.” Ren said, and closed the crate of ration packs. “I'm giving you this crate of ration packs.” He said to the male giant, who nodded, picked up the crate and stored it. He waited a moment, then took the crate out again. It was giant-sized, and the giant opened it. He picked up a ration pack, and it hadn't increased in size at all.

“I was worried that already prepared food wouldn't scale.” Ren said. “It's a good thing I brought lots of ingredients for stew.”

“I can't wait!” One of the giant said. “I haven't eaten in almost two days!”

“That's why I had you walk instead of jog or run.” Ren said and took out the icebox and a plate of food. “Even after getting healed, that would have been too much to ask of you.” He walked over to Princess and gave the food to her.

“How can you be so scary and so nice?” The female giant with the inventory asked when Ren came back over to them and he stored the icebox. “I mean, when you were scary, I was filled with dread.”

“Me, too.”

“So was I.”

“Some of the stories really are true.”

“Yeah, little people can be dreadful sometimes.”

“Do you remember that one story with the Prince fighting the little person?” Laurelia asked no one in particular. “I thought the little person didn't have a chance, and then he caused so... much... fear.” Her eyes widened, and she looked at Ren. “Oh, my god.” She said in a soft voice. “You're just like him. You're the Dreaded Foe.”