Chapter 574: The First Foray
It boggled my mind how quickly I could move and how much I could do at times. I’d just done a full, countrywide tour of Exterreri, and the fact that I could just casually fly over to a city and say ‘alright, everyone here’s in the perfect picture of health’ then move on was just… wow.
It was sobering, in a way. However fast I was, however much good I could bestow, there were hundreds of thousands of people out there who were faster than I was, and more destructive.
The height we were at let us see what was going on for dozens of miles in every direction. Even with that, we heard the titans before we saw them. A great clashing roar had all of our heads turning to the west as two titans crested the horizon.
They weren’t true titans. One was a giant of metal and cogs, wood and glass. My eagle-sharp eyes picked out dozens of dwarves scurrying around, fixing and repairing things as the mecha battled the other entity.
“What are they fighting?” I asked Iona, relying on her ability to shamelessly cheat everything with her divine blessing. She squinted, a puzzled furrow on her brow.
“I… have no idea.” She confessed. “I don’t get anything back when I try to peer into its System.”
I looked again and whistled. The entity was an elvenoid-shaped person glowing with pale blue energy all over. The dwarven coalition was easily driving the entity back, every step bowling over trees and carving through farms like they weren’t there. Fires emerged everywhere the glowing energy person stepped, and the dwarves didn’t care, continuing to fire upon him.
I mentally flicked through the eight cards Queen had given me, wondering if they could even help. Against the dwarven construct, I could possibly gum up their works, but it was such an obvious angle of attack they had to have a solution for it.
“I mean, I’d be more impressed if it was a person, but you’re telling me that’s a manifested skill they’re fighting instead?” I raised an eyebrow, lips puckering as a punch back punched through the shoulder of the mecha, a pair of dwarves lighting on fire and a third dying outright to the strike.