Chapter 010: Mountain Giants

“You go first! Nayixiu and I will hold back!” Du Fan said hurriedly. As he spoke, he took out a small cup of Water of Life and poured it into Bashar’s mouth.
Drawing out the Sacred Radiance Staff, Du Fan chanted spells continuously, while Nayixiu drew her elven longbow and stared intently ahead with a serious expression!
The two dual-elemental mages cast natural magic along the way, summoning numerous plants to block the path as they fled.
Grass City was built underground, where the earth element was extremely strong. Since earth gives rise to wood, it was ideal for casting natural magic.
After about four or five seconds, angry roars and heavy footsteps came from the opposite side.
Soon, all the plant obstacles on the road were cleared!
On the other side of the continent, facing Du Fan and Nayixiu, was a five-meter-tall giant and a group of over a dozen dwarves!
“Mountain Giants!” Nayixiu exclaimed loudly upon seeing the giant over five meters tall!
Du Fan suddenly remembered information about this race. Adult Mountain Giants could grow to four to five meters tall! They were incredibly strong and, in battle, would often pull out a tree to use as a weapon right away. Their skin was as hard as rock, granting them immunity to most magic!
A single Mountain Giant could easily defeat a Saint-level warrior!
Mountain Giants were so rare that they were on the verge of extinction. No such creatures had been seen on the entire continent for hundreds of years!
Du Fan also recalled something Gaia had told him earlier—Mountain Giants were actually intelligent beings created by a supreme god. To ensure his creation held a favorable position, the god even merged part of his own essence into the first Mountain Giants!
Thus, the Mountain Giants carried the bloodline of the supreme god within them!
If not for their overwhelming strength and the combined pressure from several races, the Mountain Giants would have already taken control of the forests and mountains—places most suitable for their living and fighting!
Seeing this group appear, Du Fan waved his Sacred Radiance Staff, and a green wind dragon roared as it rushed toward the Mountain Giants and the dwarves!
Faced with a level-9 magic spell, the Wind Dragon, the Mountain Giant took a giant step forward and smashed its fist into the dragon’s head!

The wind dragon summoned by Du Fan stood six or seven meters tall, clearly taller than the mountain giant, yet a single punch from the mountain giant sent the wind dragon staggering back several steps! The mountain giant roared, grabbed the wind dragon by the neck, and threw it to the ground before unleashing a barrage of furious punches on its body. As the wind dragon fell, the dwarves rushed forward as well, swinging their axes wildly. Within seconds, amidst the wind dragon’s continuous cries of pain, the ninth-level magic-created wind dragon turned into pure wind elements and disappeared into the air. Du Fan was stunned, speechless at what he saw! He had thought using this spell wouldn’t be very lethal, but he never expected it to be defeated so easily. A ninth-level wind dragon was reduced to nothing under the mountain giant’s punches and the dwarves’ axes! The power of the mountain giant was comparable to that of a dragon! After destroying the wind dragon, the mountain giant led the group of dwarves and rushed quickly toward Du Fan and Nai Xiu. Seeing them approaching, Nai Xiu smiled faintly. Finally, when the mountain giant and the dwarves were still twenty meters away from Du Fan and Nai Xiu, she unleashed the long-prepared “Sun-Shooting Arrow” with a loud roar! Amid the thunderous sound, the mountain giant tumbled desperately, rolling backward over twenty meters before stopping. Slowly getting up, its rock-like skin was covered in cracks, from which green blood seeped out. One “Sun-Shooting Arrow” had injured the mountain giant, but judging by its condition, it hadn’t caused fatal damage—just serious injuries. Such a close-range, forbidden-level arrow technique, delivered when the mountain giant was unprepared, only resulted in serious injuries, showing just how astonishing the defensive capabilities of this race were. With their immense strength and defense, aside from their inability to fly, mountain giants could almost rival the noble dragon race! “Go!” Du Fan ordered sharply. Watching the dwarves quickly get up, he waved his hand, unleashing an unimaginable number of wind blades. Clearly, the mountain giant hadn’t suffered much damage, and among the dwarves, four were even master warriors of the sacred rank!

Faced with such strength, Du Fan wasn’t sure he could win. Taking advantage of the moment when Nai Xiu shot and injured the mountain giant, he quickly pulled her away and ran fast.

By the time the dwarves dealt with those numerous, terrifying wind blades and the mountain giant caught its breath, a dwarf leader-like figure angrily got up and said, “Charge! We must kill those two filthy humans!”

“Second brother, what happened?” Once outside, Bashah recovered immediately after drinking from the Spring of Life. Seeing Bashah unharmed, Du Fan quickly asked.

“Third brother, you were right. They started their attack tonight. While we were sleeping, a huge stone fell from the sky—probably weighing tens of thousands of pounds! It completely destroyed my house,” said Bashah.

“If it weren’t for Lord Bashah seeing that stone and flying up to swing an axe at it, we might all be dead,” said a mage, still shaken.

A stone weighing tens of thousands of pounds—big enough to destroy a house.

“That very stone injured me,” said Bashah.

With such immense weight and kinetic energy, Bashah still flew up and swung an axe at it. It goes without saying that his strength was also enormous.

“Lord Bashah flew up and struck the stone, causing it to pause in midair. Only then could the three of us manage to get out from under it,” said another mage.

“Fortunately, they took me with them when they left. Otherwise, I would definitely have been killed by that stone!” Bashah said, still shaken. “When I struck the stone, I felt a huge force piercing my chest. I spat out blood immediately and became numb, barely able to move!”

As they spoke, thunderous footsteps echoed behind them. By the sound, it was the mountain giant, chasing after them with a group of dwarves.

“Let’s run!” Without time to explain further to Bashah and the others, Du Fan pulled him along and started running.

As they ran, he kept casting wind magic on them to boost their speed.

Du Fan found Du Fan’s speed strange, but the mountain giant, with its long legs, also had to run fast. Some of the other dwarves, for some reason, ran extremely fast as well, and their speeds were very close. They maintained a distance of about 200 meters, with one fleeing and the other chasing!

“Basha, how come such a huge creature ended up in your city of Grass? And you, as the city lord, don’t even know about it?” Du Fan said frustratedly.

“I really don’t know. As you know, after the Black Panther Knight Order changed shifts today, the troops guarding the entrance to Grass City are all private soldiers from Grass City! No one told me anything unusual throughout yesterday!” Basha said angrily when thinking about this.

“And also, Basha, you were attacked in your own city, yet not a single dwarf came to help! Don’t you find that strange?” Du Fan said loudly again.

“Well, third brother, you have no idea how fast they attacked! And it happened in the dead of night, when everyone was asleep!” Basha said dejectedly.

Here’s what happened: While Basha and the three others were resting at home, they suddenly heard a sharp sound approaching from afar.

Basha and the three magicians, who were prepared in advance, sensed something was wrong at the sound and rushed outside. As soon as they stepped out, a huge stone crashed down, injuring Basha. The four of them then fled from Basha’s house.

While escaping, one of the magicians quickly sent a distress message to Du Fan.

It took less than two minutes for Du Fan and Naixiu to arrive to help!

In such a short time, those still asleep didn’t even have time to react! There was no way anyone could get up to help Basha!

As they fled while talking, the mountain giant suddenly picked up a stone while running and hurled it fiercely toward Du Fan’s side.

The stone the mountain giant casually picked up was as big as a millstone!

With the mountain giant’s strength, it threw that millstone-sized stone like a swift arrow! From a distance of 200 meters, the stone arrived behind Du Fan in an instant with a whooshing sound!

It’s unclear how the mountain giant managed to aim, but the stone headed straight for Du Fan! Could it be that the mountain giant identified Du Fan as the leader of this group in such a short time?

Hearing the sound of the wind behind him, Du Fan quickly turned his head and saw the large rock heading straight for him. Suddenly, Du Fan let out a strange laugh! He swiftly adjusted his position, but just as he did, the rock slammed into him with force! Watching the rock hit Du Fan, the Mountain Giant let out a weird laugh. Along with that laugh, he patted his stomach a few times, then pushed off with his feet, generating tremendous momentum that surpassed even the speed of the dwarves as he slowly approached Du Fan and his group. The rock hit Du Fan hard, and a white light burst from his entire body. Then, that white light shot forward at high speed! In the eyes of the Mountain Giant, it seemed as though Du Fan had been flung away by his own rock! Using rocks in attacks was also one of the characteristics of the Mountain Giants. There was a reason why they were well-suited for living and fighting in mountains and forests.