Chapter 135: Sound
"That one on the right is mine. You can do whatever you want with the one on the left."
Ranus looked back and found Ethar’s angry face, and he quickly furrowed his brows. "Do you have a grudge against him?"
"Yes!" Ethar simply nodded while focusing on the Giant on the right.
"Alright, he’s all yours." Ranus moved to the side and left the battlefield to Ethar.
Ethar nodded at him and went toward the Giant with the thick brown beard on the right, while Ranus took care of the other Giant.
"Whoever disturbs Gang deserves death!" Giant Gang advanced and paid no attention to the ant before him. With all his strength, he swung the giant club and brought it down over Ethar’s head!
Facing with the giant club, Ethar gritted his teeth and swung his hammer, "Angry Bull," with all his strength, and it collided with the club, shattering it!
The club shattered into thousands of pieces the instant it collided with the hammer, causing Giant Gang to stand frozen in place in shock!
"What... is... happening!"
"Death is calling for you, you filthy Giant!" Ethar quickly reached the side of Giant Gang’s foot and smashed it with his hammer with all his strength!
BOOOM!
Because of that strike, Giant Gang’s right foot disappeared, leaving behind a grotesque mass of bone and blood.
BOOO!
Aaaaargh!
Giant Gang fell heavily to the ground and screamed in pain and agony because of his injured foot!
Ethar climbed onto Giant Gang’s chest and stood over him, staring at that hideous face while remembering a painful event from long ago.
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"Run, Ethar, before someone finds you!" Beneath the ruins, there was an Elf couple.
The man was completely buried beneath the rubble, with barely his feet visible from underneath it!
The man made no sound, nor did he show any sign of life.
Meanwhile, the woman was also buried, with barely half of her upper body visible from the rubble. Blood seeped from every opening on her face, and she wept tears of blood as she spoke with great difficulty to the five-year-old child whose fingertips had been stained with blood while trying to move the rubble and save his parents.
"Run, Ethar... cough, cough!" The woman tried to urge him again, but she couldn’t because of how difficult it was, and blood poured through her throat!
"No, I’m not going anywhere and leaving you behind!" Little Ethar screamed as tears streamed from his eyes, mixing with his mucus, while his hands moved even faster...
He was in pain, he was suffering, and he could barely move his hands... but he gritted his teeth and dug with all his strength!
"Come on, boy! What you’re doing is pointless!" While little Ethar was busy digging, a knight wearing golden armor came, forcibly picked him up, mounted an elk, and fled from the area!
"Don’t leave me! Mooooom! Daaaaad!" Ethar struggled to break free from the royal guard’s grasp, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t escape!
Ethar cried even harder as he watched his parents getting farther and farther away from him.... But suddenly, he saw a scene that made him forget everything, even how to breathe!
A Giant with a thick brown beard and a height of thirty meters approached the ruins of Ethar’s home and stepped on them!
The Giant’s foot crushed the ruins even further, and when he lifted it, something was stuck to it.... It was Ethar’s mother’s corpse!
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In the present.
Ethar stood atop the chest of the Giant who had crushed his home and parents, while all those scenes replayed in his eyes!
Aaargh!
Giant Gang groaned in pain beneath Ethar, but he couldn’t move because parts of the ground beneath him had taken the form of shackles, binding every part of his body!
Ethar looked at him coldly and spoke in a calm voice, "Does it hurt? Then how about you experience this pain."
Immediately after saying this, lightning erupted from Ethar’s hammer, which he was leaning on like an endless torrent, and entered Giant Gang’s body!
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Outside the city, the army patiently waited for news of the seven youngsters, while the Sky Knights watched the events from above... But at this moment, they heard a blood-curdling scream that would bring nightmares for many nights!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
"What was that!" The soldiers were startled and frightened by the intensity of the sound, and soon the answer came from the Sky Knights.
"Hahaha, that reckless Ethar is torturing one of the Giants at the peak of Level Three."
"A Giant at the peak of Level Three is being tortured!" Some of the old soldiers were shocked by this. Such things and news had once been nothing more than legends and old tales, but it seemed that they were no longer so!
"I never imagined I would live to see the day when our youngsters could torture Giants." The old soldiers looked at each other with joy and excitement, while some of them couldn’t hold themselves back and a few tears slipped from their eyes, but they quickly wiped them away.
It was true that Ethar was torturing Giant Gang for revenge, but he had no idea how much this had raised their morale, or how high the army’s morale had risen because of this act!
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Back to Ethar.
The torture of Giant Gang continued for a while, lasting twenty minutes, until he could no longer scream, and his body turned into numerous charred black pieces, with smoke rising from every part of him!
Ethar took the core from Giant Gang’s body and looked around, but he couldn’t find Ranus. However, he found the corpse of the other Giant, which had been turned into pieces of ice!
After that, Ethar left the area and headed directly toward the army... He had had enough of hunting Giants for today!
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When Ethar reached the meeting point, he found that he was the last to arrive. "Looks like I took a little too long torturing that Abomination."
Ethar scratched the back of his head and smiled before heading toward his companions!
"Ooh, how many Giants did you kill?" Ayat approached Ethar and winked at him.
She already knew how many he had killed without even needing to ask, but she was deliberately teasing him!
"I only killed one Giant." Ethar took out a palm-sized core and said awkwardly!
"Hehehehe, looks like you’re in last place then." Ayat covered her mouth with her hand and said mockingly!
"Looks like I am, but what about the others?" Ethar scratched the back of his head with a smile, then asked about the others.
"You’re last, then comes Ranus after you with three Giants killed. Then there are Leonor and Valeria, who each killed four Giants. Then comes Lanor with five Giants killed...." Ayat stopped here while looking toward Lanor, whose face was now red from embarrassment and anger.
"Come on, say it!"
Ethar noticed the voice, and when he saw the scene before him, he smiled mockingly. "So that elegant bastard lost!"
"Come on, say it! Say it! Say it!" Imris stood beside Lanor and kept repeating in an irritating voice!
"Come on, are you backing out of your words now? Are you even a man? Be like the Light, clear and straightforward, and do what we agreed on!" Imris slapped Lanor’s thigh, provoking him even more.
Lanor gritted his teeth, and the veins on his forehead became even more prominent, but in the end, he surrendered because he was the one who had proposed this bet. After a long struggle with his pride, he finally said it.
"Lord!"
The words barely escaped Lanor’s lips, and his face immediately turned red. He felt like he wanted to bury himself at that moment.
He had lost the bet for the highest number of kills to Imris, with Imris having killed seven Giants, while he had killed only five, placing him in third place after Ayat, who had killed six Giants!
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In the sky above the Abyss Cloud.
"Looks like they’re having fun." Elena looked at the seven youngsters and smiled happily when she saw how happy they were.
"Looks like they are." Rios also smiled at the happiness of his army, especially the seven youngsters, but he soon furrowed his brows and listened carefully.
Doom...
"Do you hear this!" Rios suddenly stood up and asked hurriedly.
Doom...
"Hear what? I don’t hear anything besides the sound of the crowd cheering below us." Elena tried to listen, but she couldn’t hear anything!
Doom...
"Everyone, be silent!" Rios’s voice echoed throughout the area as he shouted angrily. The moment they heard his voice, everyone became frightened and stopped making any sound...
Shortly after they fell silent, everyone heard a strange sound...
DOOOM!
DOOOM!
DOOOM!
Everyone turned toward a certain direction nervously and anxiously, imagining things they never wanted to happen!
"The direction of this sound... Could it be!" Elena pointed toward the direction of the sound, not daring to say it!
But Rios gritted his teeth and remembered the prophecy Elena had told him before they set out on this campaign, which closely resembled the fate he had seen when he purchased the Fate Jewel, and which the market fortune teller had also told him about.
He said angrily, "Yes, it’s her... The City of Light!""