Chapter 011: Slaying

The height of mountain giants meant they were hard to spot only within forests. Their rock-like skin also made them difficult to detect in mountainous areas. It’s easy to imagine that if a mountain giant were to appear in the plains, they would be clearly visible from afar.

In the forest, they could simply pull trees out for combat, while in mountains, stones were everywhere! It is said that with the countless stones on the ground, mountain giants could even fight against dragons!

Even if dragons flew in the sky, the terrifying strength of mountain giants allowed them to throw stones at them from afar.

And those stones could indeed injure dragons. Du Fan now understood this all too well.

Just as a stone thrown by a mountain giant hit behind him, Du Fan felt an immense force strike him—force comparable to that of a divine strike. In other words, a stone thrown with full strength by a mountain giant was roughly equivalent to a physical attack from a lower-tier deity! Although a divine’s physical attack still differed slightly from that of other lower-tier deities, the difference wasn’t significant.

Such a physical attack could certainly injure a dragon.

When the stone hit Du Fan, he suddenly smiled eerily. Then, pushing hard with his feet and using wind magic to lighten his body, combined with the massive impact of the stone, Du Fan flew away like a leaf, drifting far away in an instant!

He ended up over a thousand meters away, unharmed. From afar, Du Fan gave the mountain giant a slight smile.

That smile left the mountain giant utterly confused!

Strange! He had clearly hit him with a stone! Even if that man was as strong as a dragon, he should be injured now! Yet, that man seemed unaffected and was still smiling at him!

A provocation! It was outright provocation! Seeing Du Fan’s supremely serene smile, this simple-minded mountain giant didn’t feel respect like those higher-minded races would. His first reaction was that this man was mocking him! Such mockery clearly meant he was useless—having thrown his best stone at him without knocking him down, that smile was a mockery of his incompetence! It was a serious act of provocation!

Seeing Du Fan’s smile, the mountain giant let out a fierce roar and charged at him, sparks flying from its eyes!
“Run away quickly!” Du Fan shouted loudly at Nai Xiu, Basha, and the three magicians.
After exerting its strength, the mountain giant’s speed increased significantly! It gradually caught up with Nai Xiu and the others, and seeing this, Du Fan grew anxious.
The more anxious Du Fan became, the faster the mountain giant ran!
Originally, the mountain giant was over five meters tall, with its legs alone reaching three meters! Such legs made it much faster than people who were over a meter tall. Although elves had agile bodies and dwarves had strong legs, none of these could compensate for the difference in leg length!
Just as it seemed the mountain giant was about to catch up with Nai Xiu and the five others, the three magicians suddenly pulled Basha and Nai Xiu and soared into the sky!
For a holy-level magician, carrying a few people to fly was an easy task. As the five of them suddenly took off, the mountain giant seemed completely unaware of their ascent!
It treated them as if they didn’t exist at all and continued straight toward Du Fan!
After the false alarm, the group looked up at Du Fan in the air.
Drawing out the Holy Radiance Staff, Du Fan stood there quietly, smiling, waiting for the mountain giant to arrive.
It was still night, the night in the Twilight Mountains—cool as water. Stars scattered across the sky, and misty mountains in the distance outlined faint silhouettes. To Nai Xiu and her group, Du Fan stood there quietly, leaning on those mountain silhouettes, smiling as he waited for the mountain giant.
Standing still, Du Fan was only about a thousand meters away—a distance that, for a being like the mountain giant, was merely a matter of a few breaths.
When the mountain giant leaped high from dozens of meters away, aiming at Du Fan, its powerful movement created a fierce wind that made Du Fan’s clothes flutter wildly!
Amidst the swirling wind, Du Fan suddenly raised the Holy Radiance Staff in his hand, and a black arc began to expand from it! That expanding arc revealed a terrifying blackness—a completely separate space, a void!
The divine forbidden technique, Space Tear Slash, was unleashed once again by Du Fan!

Du Fan took advantage of every available opportunity to stand far away from the Mountain Giant, waiting quietly for it to arrive, so as to buy himself time to unleash a Spatial Tear Slash! Amidst the intense pursuit, Du Fan first used his Absolute Protection Field to withstand the Mountain Giant’s heavy stone attack. Before being hit, he used the True Eye to observe the path and force of the stone, adjusting his position accordingly. Then, using wind-based lightness techniques, he swiftly sent himself thousands of meters away! The arc rapidly expanded to three or four meters in length. With a wave of his hand, the arc shot swiftly toward the Mountain Giant! The Mountain Giant’s mistake was jumping high! Perhaps this single-minded creature wanted to kill Du Fan instantly, but instead, it was forced into a deadly situation by Du Fan! Seeing that black arc, like a giant black crescent, heading toward it with an endless destructive aura, the Mountain Giant felt despair. In mid-air, as the arc touched its body, its body still instinctively rushed toward the Spatial Tear Slash! There was no escape—too late to change shape as its massive body crashed to the ground! Severe pain struck, and the Mountain Giant screamed in agony. The sensation of its body being torn apart was beyond what such a simple-minded creature could endure! Mountains could resist most magic, but they offered no defense against such direct tearing from another dimension! The black arc continued to expand. Amidst the Mountain Giant’s screams, it began devouring its body from the inner sides of its thighs. As soon as its screams started, its head was also swallowed by the Spatial Tear Slash and pulled into another dimension! The agonized cries vanished in an instant. Its two huge calves along with parts of its thighs, along with two arms connected to parts of its shoulders, fell to the ground. Only then did dark green blood start to flow. Watching the Mountain Giant killed like this, the dozen or so dwarves chasing behind were stunned. The Mountain Giant had been their main fighting force in this pursuit of Du Fan and Bashar’s group! It could be said that with the Mountain Giant dead, the strength of these pursuers dropped by more than half immediately!

The mountain giant’s formidable defense, comparable to that of dragons, along with its massive size, was further enhanced by the fact that Du Fan had three and a half magicians on his side! Moreover, the mountain giant was immune to most spells! All these advantages gave the mountain giant a huge edge in the battle against Du Fan’s team. Its quick defeat was completely beyond the expectations of those dwarves, who now seemed hesitant in their pursuit. Although there were four saints among them, they knew from the battle that the six people on Du Fan’s side were all above the saint level, and it was likely that among them were even domain masters! And these six had all come out of the Divine Ruins! The dwarves were well aware of the dangers in the Divine Ruins—those who could emerge from there surely weren’t low-level saints who had just reached that rank! Among those six, there might even be domain masters! Domain masters and saints were two entirely different concepts—domain masters, relying on the power of their domains, could fight against several saints at once, while ordinary saints would be doomed the moment they faced a domain master! Seeing the mountain giant killed, Nayxiu and Basha, three elf saint-level magicians, flew down to Du Fan’s side. After the six of them stood together, Basha loudly demanded an answer from the dwarves. “Are you all dwarves from that tribe? You certainly aren’t residents of Glass City—why did you attack me?” “Brother, what should we do?” one dwarf asked another. “Hmph, what else can we do? If we’re going to fight, then let’s fight! Are we the Tatta family all cowards?” the one called brother sneered. “Lord Basha, we are the four brothers of the Tatta family. I am Tatta Jin, this is my second brother, Tatta Yin, my third brother, Tatta Tong, and my fourth brother, Tatta Tie,” said the leader, Tatta Jin. “Not bad, not bad—your Tatta family’s Metal Four Brothers are indeed heroes. But why did you attack me?” Basha demanded angrily after hearing Tatta Jin’s introduction. The Tatta family was one of the leading clans among the dwarves, belonging to a large tribe. The dwarves were organized loosely, with millions living in the Dusk Mountains. They were divided into over a hundred tribes of varying sizes, with the larger tribes numbering seven to eighty thousand and the smaller ones only a few thousand!

Among these tribes, there is a large family in each, and these families serve as the leadership structures of their respective tribes! The Tatta family is the leading family of the Tatta tribe among the dwarves. The Tatta tribe has a population of over two hundred thousand and is considered one of the top tribes among the dwarves! The largest tribe among the dwarves is the Dodge tribe, which reached a population of one million at its peak. At that time, the Dodge tribe enjoyed the highest prestige among the dwarves. All dwarf tribes had to obey the orders of the Dodge family. The Metal Four Brothers of the Tatta family are prominent figures within it; these four holy-grade dwarf warriors symbolize the highest military strength of the Tatta family. When the Metal Four Brothers of the Tatta family joined forces to attack Basha, it represented the entire Tatta family. This attack by the Metal Four Brothers shows that the Tatta family has now become adversaries of Basha!