Chapter 99: The Barren Giant (2/2)

“I know we probably won’t be of much help.” Joey stayed silent for a moment, he had realized that his original assumption about the kids was probably wrong. The two boys weren’t kids who had been thrown into war when they were just children, their personalities weren’t cultivated from endless torture and bloodshed either, they were cultivated by these gang of weirdos in front of them who could laugh and joke while they were on the way to face a foe infinitely stronger than them.

These people were definitely weird, some of them were obviously quite… interesting characters, but from what Joey could see, they were undoubtedly good people. Jom and Terry would definitely be better off with these people than they would be with him, so he wasn’t going to mention adopting them anymore. “But at least we can watch you fight from the sidelines, and if anything goes south, we can rush back to the village to get them prepared.”

Jom looked at him and didn’t speak, Terry didn’t continue shooing them back either.

The other players didn’t really care much—they were just a few neutral units, and their levels were so low, whether they were there or not didn’t really affect the outcome at all.

When the players got to the mountain bandits’ hideout with the Shar-Pei’s lead, they found that they might have underestimated their enemy a little.

The mountain bandits’ hideout was built on a cliff. Maybe ‘built’ wasn’t exactly the right word, because they dug out the midsection of the cliff and made the hollowed out portion their hideout.

The players raised their heads to look at the bandit hideout and started discussing their plans of attack.

Some players even uploaded pictures and updates on their current situation onto the forum, letting players who couldn’t make it be able to join in on the discussion and share some of their thoughts.

When the players got closer to the hideout, a huge unassuming chunk of rock beneath the cliff suddenly came to life, swinging its car-sized rocky fist in their direction!

“This is the barren giant?” Jom who was standing in the front easily dodged the enemy’s sluggish attack and felt that something was off. Although the rock man had incredibly high attack power, his fist made a sizable crater in the earth. Anyone who got hit would immediately become a pancake, but its speed was way too slow to pose any sort of threat to the players.

Soon after, the health bar and name appeared above the attacking rock man.

[Stone Golem, Elite, Level 12]

Following that, many more stone golems emerged from beneath the ground, a rough count gave them over ten of these monsters.

“These things look like the barren giant’s underlings, we need to get rid of them before the Boss comes!” The highly experienced monster hunter in Edward came out, immediately starting to command the other players to attack these golems.

These high attack high defense but extremely low-speed stone golems were no match at all for the players, most of them were quickly taken out, leaving only a few left standing.

Obviously the people designing their security system didn’t expect their stone golems to be taken out so easily. When the last stone golem was just about dead, a rhythmic vibration resonated through the ground.

Thud, thud—

Thud, thud—

Then, a hand several times larger than the stone golem’s entire body placed itself on the top of the mountain, pulling up a terrifying shadow previously hidden by the steep cliff walls.

It was a monster almost thirty meters tall, almost as tall as the cliff. Its weight was hard to estimate but it shook the earth with every step it took. It was a super creature that could turn trees into powder without even trying and rival the likes of mythical dragons.

It was a monster with a humanoid form, but its body was covered in craggly rocks and its skin was tougher than castle walls, aside from a large gray eye on its face, it didn’t appear to have any other organs.

The barren giant.