Chapter 140: CH 140: The Encounter
After the Array stopped functioning, and with it the support of the souls and the undead, things became even worse for the Elves.
An endless stream of enemy soldiers descended upon them, and no matter how many they killed, it seemed as if they would never end.
It was true that the Elves were stronger in terms of individual strength, but in terms of numbers, the enemies were far greater.
And in the end, the bodies of the Elves had limits!
But the worst thing was that a large portion of the enemies had managed to pass toward the noble district where the people were hiding!
Old Gansh and the girl Lona stood with their backs pressed against each other, surrounded by ten Level Three Giants, and there had been the same number lying on the ground as well, but they were dead!
Both old Gansh and the girl Lona gasped heavily and with difficulty, feeling the extent of exhaustion in their bodies.
BOOOM!
A Giant thirty meters tall swung the trunk of a giant tree and struck old Gansh with it, sending him flying until he crashed into the chest of another Giant!
The Giant grabbed old Gansh’s body. Old Gansh looked at him with blurred eyes and a face covered in blood, unable to move a single muscle!
He felt weak and feeble, and had almost completely lost the sensation in his body, but what the Giant did next brought that sensation back to him!
The Giant grabbed old Gansh’s arms and began pulling and tearing them apart with force, in a gruesome and painful scene!
Old Gansh’s pupils shrank to their smallest size, and the voice he had thought he could no longer produce finally came out with a force he had never imagined before!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Old Gansh’s scream echoed through the area, filled with hysteria and agony, but such a sound was not strange in this region, as there were many voices just like his all around!
The white disk old Gansh possessed tried to reduce his pain and heal him, but when the Giant grew tired of old Gansh’s screaming, he immediately tore off his helmet and bit his head off, at which point old Gansh’s screams stopped completely, and the white disk stopped trying to heal him as well!
"OLLLLLD MAN!" Upon seeing this scene, Lona cried and tried to break through the Giants’ encirclement to retrieve old Gansh’s corpse, but suddenly, a blow came from behind!
BOOOM!
A tree trunk struck Lona’s back, sending her flying and crashing into one of the houses!
"Hahahahahaha, this is what you deserve for opposing the Giants!" The Giants’ mocking laughter echoed as they advanced to finish off Lona and take her life, but they suddenly stopped moving, their laughter stuck in their throats... and after a moment, their heads fell from their shoulders!
"My Liege!" Upon seeing this scene, Lona smiled weakly and quickly fainted.
Moments earlier, near the Royal Palace, space began to distort and a spatial gate opened!
Titan Anar frowned upon seeing this and patiently waited for whoever was on the other side of the gate to come out.
The first to emerge was Rios, followed directly by Elena, then the seven youngsters, and then the rest of the army.
As soon as everyone emerged, they immediately spread out in every direction except Rios, who remained standing in place, glaring at Titan Anar with resentment and fury!
The same went for Titan Anar. He did not try to stop the army from spreading out and helping their friends, but he gripped his spear and stood there, looking toward Rios as well!
"You have a beautiful city, so I thought I should leave my mark on it to make it even more beautiful and magnificent." Titan Anar laughed mockingly and waved one of his six arms. "So what do you think now? It has become more beautiful, hasn’t it!"
Rios did not answer him or utter a single word. Instead, he disappeared from his position and reappeared beside Titan’s face!
BOOOOOOM!
Rios punched toward Titan’s face, but his fist did not reach the face. Instead, what met it was Titan’s fist!
BOOOOOOM!
Anar punched Rios’s fist and quickly sent him flying several dozen meters before he crashed into the ground.
"Hahahahahahahaha, are you an idiot or what? You want to face a Titan in close combat and brute strength. On top of that, you are at Level Three while I am at Level Four!
Hahahahahaha, is this the joke of the century or what!" Titan Anar placed his hand over his head and laughed hysterically, mocking Rios’s actions!
"If the Elf form won’t work against you, then what about this form!" Rios stood up, brushed the dirt from his shoulders, and smiled viciously at Titan Anar. His body quickly began expanding, and his clothes tore apart...
Within moments, Rios transformed from a handsome Elf into a gigantic sixty-meter-tall tree!
After Rios reached the peak of Level Three, he had been thirty meters tall, but after devouring the Tree of Life, his height increased and reached sixty meters!
Rios stood towering before the Titan, approximately one and a half times taller than him.
With twenty roots below and one hundred flexible branches hanging from above, Rios quickly activated the Armament technique, and his form transformed from its ordinary form into his battle form!
"Do you think you can face me with just this!" Anar smiled mockingly as he looked toward Rios, who had become taller than him, and spoke confidently!
"Who said I was finished!" Rios mocked Anar in return, and quickly activated another technique...
Abyss Tomb... Activate!
Black mist instantly spread, and gravestones quickly appeared. A strange pressure descended upon Titan Anar, causing his movements to become extremely heavy!
Titan Anar gripped his spear tightly, and the gray aura appeared around its blade once again. He raised it and struck the black mist with all his strength... but in the end, nothing happened!
As I expected, it’s the technique that belongs to that entity! Anar sighed with some regret, because his gray energy was useless here!
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Rios did not wait for Anar to make another move. He quickly sent ten of his roots and fifty of his branches, all of them transforming into snakes and dragons as they attacked Titan Anar!
ROOOOOAR!
HSSSSSSSS!
Titan Anar frowned for the first time upon seeing this. His spear quickly disappeared, and six axes made of bone and flesh began forming, one axe in each hand!
Anar skillfully blocked the dragons and snakes, but his movements were much slower than usual!
"Damn it, I have to get out of here as quickly as possible!" Anar cursed inwardly and swung his six axes, immediately forcing the dragons and snakes back. As soon as he did this, he began flying upward!
The black mist tried to stop him, but when Anar used his full power as a Titan at the peak of Level Four, he finally managed to escape the range of Abyss Tomb!
"Hahahahahahaha, show me how you will face me now that I have escaped the range of your technique!" Anar laughed mockingly and sneered. "Let me guess, your technique is some kind of domain and you can’t move it, right!"
Titan Anar looked toward Rios and waited to see that broken and defeated expression, expecting Rios to deactivate the Abyss Tomb domain...
But instead, he found Rios smiling mockingly at him!
"Who said I wanted to trap you here in the first place!"