Chapter 93: Hill Giant

  "I'm going to eat you!"

  Aed roar came from the hillside.

  Over five meters tall, with coarse brown skin, wielding a rge tree casually uprooted and still covered in dirt as a on, wearing unprocessed animal hides simply tied together with hair aher straps, sweat dripping onto the rotten fur emitting a strong odor—that was a hill giant.

  Hill giants are selfish and dim-witted savages, often dwelling in hills and valleys everywhere, and often gathering in mountain lumberyards or shacks.

  They hunt, fe, and plunder everywhere, just to obtain more food. They ountains and forests, doing their utmost to hunt prey and bully the weak. If not for their enormous size and inexhaustible strength, these zy and sluggish hill giants would have long beeinct.

  And now, it seems the food has e knog on their door.

  The hill giant licked its lips, foul-smelling saliva dripping from the ers of its mouth.

  Ever sihat unusually rge ogre led a group of moo drive the hill giants out of the valley, they wandered daily on the fringes of the Storm Highnds, sging rotten food or dev passing humans.

  This greedy hill giant hadn't had a full meal in a long time, and now was obviously a great opportunity.

  [Based on your own strength, you observe the following information.]

  【Greedy Hill Giant】

  Huge Giant, Chaotic Evil

  AC: 13 (Natural Armor)

  HP: 105

  Strength—21

  Dexterity—8

  stitution—19

  Intelligence—5

  Wisdom—9

  Charisma—6

  Senses: Passive Perception 12

  As: Multiattack, Greatclub Attack, Rock Throw, Bite

  Challeing: 5 (1,800 XP)

  Mantou sighed, "This monster is kinda strong; we really beat it?"

  Singo said disdainfully, "What are you afraid of? With our setup, we crush it with basic attacks. We're here this time to farm experience for you. If you had reached level four, believe it or not, it would already be dead."

  "Alright, just don't let us get wiped out and embarrass ourselves."

  At the foot of the hill was the "Draic Bloodline Four," their team's strength had greatly improved, so they took on the highest difficulty quest 【Defeat the Hill Giaroying the Farms】. This quest had an official reended challeing of level 5.

  You should knorofessional pyers like Singo were only barely reag level 4 now, and that's after grinding day and night. Most others were still at levels 1 or 2.

  Watg the hill giant charging down the hill wielding a rge tree, Singo was not flustered at all: "Born Battle Maniac, you and Autumn Rain hold it here; Mantou and I will attack from the air."

  Born Battle Maniaodded readily: "Okay."

  Then Singo and Mantou flipped onto their mounts, riding their wyverns into the air.

  Born Battle Maniac stepped forward without hesitation to face the enemy. fronted with an oppo far taller than himself, he was fearless. Ba the day, he had even chopped down ielr beasts; to him, such a giant was nothing.

  He had choseh of the Barbarian Berserker.

  For barbarians, rage is a way to reach the extreme—the extreme of violence.

  And the path of the Berserker is ohat pursues blood and urained fury. When pyers ehe Berserker's rage, they will tremble in the chaotic pleasure of battle, fetting their own safety.

  "Aaaaaaaah——"

  Born Battle Maniac raised his head and roared, activating Rage.

  Instantly, his eyes turned blood-red, muscles bulged exaggeratedly, veins popped out, and his whole body emitted a bloodthirsty aura.

  In his freate, Born Battle Maniac excitedly charged toward the hill giant, leaping up and raising his great axe.

  "Frerike!"

  The great axe carried immense power, slig through the air as it swung down.

  However, due to the hill giant's enormous stature, the axe could only barely reach its chest.

  Even the hill giant was startled by this aggressive "little guy," but when it realized it was intimidated by such a small creature and that the oppo was unafraid of it, a ferocie appeared on its ugly face.

  "I... I'll smash you into mince!"

  The hill giant used the rge tree to blo front of it, resisting the great axe, and then swung with all its might. The immense force sent Born Battle Maniad his great axe flying backward together.

  Born Battle Maniac fell heavily, and the battleaxe embedded itself into the ground nearby.

  After being knocked back, he showed no iion of retreating; instead, a hint of joy and fanaticism appeared in his blood-red eyes at entering a strong oppo.

  "Aaaaaaah——"

  Born Battle Maniac forcefully pulled out the great axe deeply embedded in the ground and charged fain with red eyes.

  "Wait a moment—"

  A crisp female voice came from behind, but Born Battle Maniatinued his charge as if he hadn't heard.

  Summer Night Autumn Rain held her forehead and sighed behind him. The Berserker css was great in every way—could fight and tank—but ohey entered Rage, they wouldn't listen to anything and just charged blindly.

  Fortunately, she followed up and cast a spell on Born Battle Maniac.

  【Enrge/Reduce】

  Born Battle Maniac's size suddenly swelled, increasing from nearly two meters tall to almost four meters. Even his on and the animal hide armor on him grew correspondingly. He noeared slightly smaller than the hill giant but could be sidered the same level.

  Feeling his elevated perspective, Born Battle Maniac ughed heartily and leaped up again. This time, instead of striking the chest, his jumping ssh aimed at the head.

  The dim-witted hill giant didn't uand magic, but he khat the "little guy" had grown and could pose a threat to him.

  So the hill giant roared angrily and swung his arms forcefully.

  "Bang!"

  The blunt edge of the great axe cshed with the tree, trembling slightly, and Born Battle Maniaded heavily.

  But the hill giant still held an absolute strength advantage, gradually pressing down the great axe along with Born Battle Maniac's body.

  "Aganazzar's Scorcher!"

  Summer Night Autumn Rain's lips parted slightly, and she spewed forth a line of rolling fmes, directly hitting the hill giant's massive body while he was immobilized.

  The hill giant's right shoulder was burned bck, causing him to open his foul-smelling giant mouth a out a painful howl. His hands gripping the tree also loosened a bit.

  And it was this slight pse that allowed Born Battle Maniac to seize the opportunity.

  He knocked aside the tree in the hill giant's hand and swung his over three-meter-long great axe fiercely toward the hill giant's shoulder.

  "Ssh!"

  The great axe chopped off the entire right shoulder, already somewhat charred from the burn, along with the arm.

  The thick, massive right arm fell and rolled to the ground.

  Warm, viscous blood spttered onto Born Battle Maniac's face, but he didn't mind at all; instead, his expression showed even more excitement.

  "Aaaah—I will kill you!"

  The giant raised his head a out a painful wail, being enraged due to the loss of his right arm, even losing his sanity.

  He directly grabbed the great axe embedded in his flesh and threw it over teers away, then rushed forward to engage Born Battle Mania the most primitive and brutal close bat.

  The two "giants" grappled and wrestled together, using knees, fists, heads, and eveh, doing everything they could.

  In the sky, Singo looked down at the battle on the ground and said to Mantou, "See? If you don't aow, Brother Battle Maniac will beat the hill giant to death himself. Once he enters Rage, he never listens to anyone; he just focuses on enjoying the fight."

  Mantou watched Born Battle Maniac fighting fiercely, seemingly wanting to eat the hill giant, and excimed, "Wow, Battle Maniac is really fierce!"

  Singo said decisively, "Stop the nonsense; get ready to charge."

  Mantou said, "Okay."

  Then he skillfully maneuvered his wyvern, preparing for a dive.

  "Roar——"

  The sky resounded with the wyverns' roars.

  The hill giant, pressing down on Born Battle Maniad hammering him frantically, ighe strange sounds and tinued venting his anger over losing his right arm.

  Even though his size had increased, Born Battle Maniac's strength was ultimately inferior to the hill giant's, and his Rage had ended, his whole body entering a state of exhaustion.

  Fag a monster with a higher challeing alone, even a professional pyer like him would find it hard.

  Moreover, he had a backup pn.

  And his goal wasn't to kill the hill giant himself.

  Born Battle Maniac had beeen bd blue, but when he y on the ground and saw the wyverns in the sky, a ferocious smile appeared on his face.

  The wyverns dove down, and Singo drew his bow and arrow.

  A plex purple rune appeared on the hill giant's arm—that was the Hunter's Mark.

  "Whoosh——"

  A sharp arroidly pierced into the marked spot on the hill giant's left arm, the blood-stained arrorotruding from the other side.

  Uhe influence of the purple rune, araordinary amount of blood gushed from the hill giant's wound.

  "Who is it!"

  The deranged hill giant, attacked from behind, roared angrily, turned his head, his blood-red eyes fixed on the wyvern rider in the sky.

  "Die!"

  The hill giant picked up stones from the ground and hurled them at Singo. The immerength sent these stones, which ordinary people couldn't move, flying easily toward the enemy in the air.

  However, Singo maneuvered his wyverly rolling sideways in the air to dodge this dangerous attack.

  The storaced a beautiful ar the sky, about to fall to the ground.

  Singo shouted, "Mantou!"

  So Singo's attack was just a feint!

  The real killing move was from behind!

  Due to using too much force, the hill giant maintaihe posture of throwing the stones, and from behind came a loud dragon roar.

  "Roar——"

  Mantou dove down at high speed from behind the hill giant, his wyvern's wings folded.

  He leaned forward slightly, his arms tightly gripping the over six-meter-long nce; he could evehe wind whistling past his ears.

  At high speed, Mantou's heart pounded, a surge of extreme excitement welling up.

  "Take your life!"

  Mantou shouted loudly.

  【Dragon Roar Charge】 activated, the nce aimed straight at the hill giant's massive occiput.

  Uhe powerful kiiergy of the wyvern rider's dive, immense force was transmitted along to the spear tip, even covered with crimson draic aura.

  In an instant, blood spttered.

  The nce pierced the hill giant's tough skirated his hard skull, pierced through his filthy flesh, and protruded from his gaping, feroouth.

  The hill giant's roar abruptly stopped, and his massive body toppled to the ground.

  "Boom!"

  Mantou gracefully discarded the nce.

  His wyvern "Noodle" suddenly spread its wings, slowed down, and swiftly asded along the air currents again.

  Information refreshed oerface.

  [You have sin 【Greedy Hill Giant】, gaining 1800 XP]

  [Your css level has increased to Level 4]

  Mantou's heart hadn't calmed dow, still a bit excited. He preteo look up and said, "The wine is still warm, and I've already taken the enemy general's head."

  He circled a few times in the air before nding on the ground.

  Mantou began to boast smugly, "Singo, just tell me, wasn't that awesome!"

  Singo poured cold water on him: "If you weren't such a noob who hasn't reached level 4 yet, my arrow would have hit its head, and Brother Battle Maniac's axe would have chopped its neck."

  Mantou immediately became dejected.

  Born Battle Maniac got up from the ground, touched his bald head: "That monster was really strong; I feel like I couldn't beat it one-on-one."

  Summer Night Autumn Rain looked at the ravaged ground, nodded with lingering fear. Her stitution wasn't high; if she were hit by the hill giant, she'd be dead.

  But soon she asked, "Singo, what... what are you doing?"

  They saw him holding the hill giant's foul-smelling arm like a treasure, even sniffing it, almost wanting to take a bite.

  Singo said matter-of-factly, "This is good stuff! The hill giant's fingers be made into Hill Giant Strength Potions that increase Strength to 21 points."

  "21 points? That's amazing!"

  Born Battle Maniac became ied and joined Singo, unbothered by the stench, to study the giant's smelly corpse.

  Even the wyverns cirg in the sky curiously nded nearby, though they weren't there to study.

  "Hey, hey, wyvern, don't start eating! It's a waste to let you eat this!"

  Summer Night Autumn Rain: "..."

  After they fiidying up, the ground was a mess, and Singo's backpack was bulging, his expressioed—it seemed they had returned with full loads.

  However, the strong sten him, like he hadn't bathed in years, made Summer Night Autumn Rain quietly take a few steps back.

  Suddenly, Singo said mysteriously, "Do you know what the mai is?"

  Mantou cursed, "Singo, stop wasting time; just say it."

  Singo slowly uttered two words:

  "War."

  Summer Night Autumn Rain asked curiously, "How do you know?"

  Singo expined, "I stayed in the Ember 's main base, Dragon Valley, for three days. Unlike Mantou, that noob who just focused on pleting tasks, I also noticed the situation in the valley."

  He paused and tinued, "Almost every day, the hobgoblin and lizardfolk armies were training. In a pce with productivity close to the Middle Ages, daily military training is very unusual.

  Mantou quickly echoed, "I heard those sounds too."

  Born Battle Maniac said, "So you mean, our mai will be a war?"

  Singo nodded, "That's right, and it definitely won't be small in scale. As fa sub-css 【Crimson Scaled querors】, Mantou and I should py signifit roles in it."

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