Chapter 186
Everywhere I can see, the Prophetic Security forces have jumped into action, attacking the Giants and rallying support. They seem to be especially dense at our location, coming in almost shoulder to shoulder before looking for the three of us and attacking.
They’ve come prepared, most of the Hill Giants in our area are in late Core Formation, with a few in the final stages of the Immortal Realms who turn their attention to Elder Song.
The changes to my body from Elder Song’s Divine Tribulation Lightning, coupled with my physical cultivation style make dealing with attackers taller than the surrounding buildings easy. I can jump high enough to kick them in the head if I like, but attacking their groin and chest takes them down just as fast, and without putting me in easy reach of grabbing hands. For what reason I don’t know, but they seem very intent on capturing me, opting to try to grab and crush me instead of throwing large scale energy attacks at me like they’re doing to Karl.
I crush the knee of my next opponent, making him flail for balance before the black and white serpentine Dragons created by the combination of my energy and the ability granted to me by the Cathedral Totem rip into his stomach, forcibly tearing his core from his body. Judging be the enraged roaring of Giants, that might not have been the best idea I’ve had today. They’re even beginning to turn their backs on Karl to swarm me.
Most Giants also pick a physical cultivation technique and path, due to their extremely low aptitude for any sort of magic, and that has become their downfall. Karl is capable of attacking dozens of targets at a time, and the distracted ones lack sufficient energy control to defend against his attacks without looking at him. He has backed up close to Elder Song in a defensive formation with a handful of the Prophetic Security forces, and I’m a few city blocks away, circling behind their primary ranged attackers, hoping to take out the bulk of the energy attacks so they can fight freely.
Looking around from the back of a heavily armored attacker, where I jumped to dig my claws into his neck and break his spine, I can see that the Giants are starting to get reinforcements.
In areas where they’ve not been fully engaged they’re starting to set up some sort of artifact that looks like a fence. If it’s not contained it becomes a platform to transfer between their realm and ours, and ordered ranks of Half Giant soldiers are already entering the city.
The Elders of the Sects still in the city are making the platforms a priority, but the Giants aren’t dumb enough to leave them undefended, so getting to them means fighting through a small army. I send my findings to Karl through the mind link we share so he can pass it on to Elder Song and the defenders with them, before returning to my attempts at clearing the ranged attackers only to find that they have been joined by one of the late Immortal realm Giants, which will make this a very, very difficult proposition.
Not impossible though, the numbers in this area are thinning, and we’ve still got plenty of defenders, even more having joined us once they realized we were the epicenter of the attack. I’ll give them this, the Prophetic Security forces are single minded. They’re clearing the city of only the Hill Giants, ignoring the half giant forces, clear about their mission to avoid a negative prophecy or mass slaughter.