novelraw Chapter 105: Garoth’s Skyborne Collision
Chapter 105: Garoth’s Skyborne Collision
As the altitude dropped, the speed increased, and the razor-sharp whistling sound weakened, replaced by a thunderous roar.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
This sound announced Garoth’s arrival.
He dove sweeping over the Stone Giant camp, releasing one glowing red-hot explosive scale after another from his body, like a torrential downpour, sweeping toward the Stone Giant camp.
At the same time, he locked onto the Diamond Stone Giant, carrying an overwhelming, irresistible force, like a meteor, like a malevolent star, crashing down.
Garoth’s speed was too fast.
His attack was utterly unexpected.
When the Diamond Stone Giant realized what was happening, the scarlet explosive rain had already poured down densely, mainly concentrated in the area where the weak juvenile and young giants were located.
Its body surface shone with a sparkling crystalline light.
Magical energy circulated within the Diamond Stone Giant’s body as it raised its thick right arm and spread its five fingers.“Earth, heed my command!”
A voice like rolling stones issued from its mouth, rough and solemn.
Its five fingers clenched tightly, generating a spell effect.
Elements invisible to the naked eye condensed, and a heavy curtain of rock materialized almost out of thin air, as if adding another layer of ground midair. It was thick, dense, and hard, shielding the weak young giants inside.
Crash! Crash! Crash!
The red-hot explosive scales fell, shattering the rock into fragments, sending countless stones flying.
Under the Diamond Stone Giant’s control, the rocky curtain continuously filled and repaired the cracks with more elemental energy even as it broke, maintaining its defense and blocking Garoth’s wave of explosive scales.
At the same time,
The Diamond Stone Giant’s eyes gleamed as it faced the speeding half-blood dragon. Its body radiated diamond-like brilliance, exuding an indestructible texture from head to toe.
The Diamond Stone Giant’s defense was unparalleled among the giant species.
Others of the same level, including dragons, could only watch in awe.
“Come on, Dragon!”
It raised its head fearlessly, ready to fight.
The young dragon before it was unusual, but after all, still just a young dragon. The Diamond Stone Giant found no reason to fear and even found Garoth’s arrogance and conceit laughable.
A young dragon dared to attack the Stone Giant camp alone.
What level of arrogance and conceit could inspire such behavior?
Garoth was less than two hundred meters from the Diamond Stone Giant. At his current speed, he could close the distance in an instant.
However, at that moment,
A thicker dark red flame surged from the tip of his wing bone. Garoth tilted his wings.
Harnessing all the kinetic energy accumulated during the dive, his massive body carved a nearly right-angled sharp bend in the air, changing direction, and crashed fiercely toward a young Stone Giant.
Great Desolate Dragonfall!
Garoth roared his dragon cry, naming the move in his mind to add momentum.
The next moment,
Just as the young Stone Giant lifted its head, its gray rocky chest indented with a clear dragon-shaped silhouette.
Garoth’s dragon horn pierced first into its chest cavity, explosive scales rubbing against the stone skin sparking dazzling fire.
Immediately afterward,
A shockwave burst.
The ground around the impact point collapsed and sank, forming a crater like a meteorite pit.
A ring-shaped airwave exploded simultaneously.
The ground within several hundred meters rippled like waves. Three stone huts collapsed like building blocks. Flying rubble shredded the nearest rock lizard group like a sieve.
Under this earth-shattering strike, the young Stone Giant’s body shattered into countless burning fragments, radiating into the pit’s bottom.
It hadn’t even reacted before it died.
Garoth shook his dragon wings, flicking off the debris from his body, then straightened up and soared straight into the sky.
“Damn dragon!”
The Diamond Stone Giant’s roar sounded.
It shattered the cracked earth beneath its feet and leapt like a cannonball hundreds of meters high with fierce momentum. Before Garoth fully took off, its huge fist clenched tightly and smashed toward him.
Before the fist struck,
Garoth felt his body suddenly sink, as if pulled by an invisible giant hand.
Among the light radiating from the Diamond Stone Giant, faint runes circulated, forming a heavy spell that weighed Garoth down, like carrying a small mountain on his back.
Adult Stone Giants generally possessed such gravity-enhancing spells.
Their essence was to strengthen gravitational pull to restrict flight, not to dispel magical energy. Therefore, it affected Garoth to some extent.
Boom!
Dark red flames surged as Garoth flapped his huge wings, fighting against the weight to continue ascending.
But because of this hindrance,
The leaping Diamond Stone Giant was already close, its hard giant fist smashing toward Garoth’s head.
Garoth turned his body sideways, using his strong, heavy back to absorb the blow.
Crash!
Each explosive scale absorbing kinetic energy detonated, sending sharp scale fragments shooting at close range toward the Diamond Stone Giant, leaving scratch marks on its body.
Garoth’s body only trembled slightly.
Using the force of the punch, his body twisted smoothly, flames accelerating, dragon wings spiraling fiercely as he slashed the Diamond Stone Giant’s chest, knocking it back to the ground and leaving a shallow horizontal crack across its chest.
Breaking free from the Diamond Stone Giant’s entanglement,
Garoth rose again into the high sky, simultaneously escaping its heavy spell range.
He lowered his gaze to the Stone Giant camp, grinning, his dragon face full of arrogant and conceited expression, sparks spewing from his nostrils, showing the red dragon’s brutality and recklessness.
“You worthless creatures made of broken stones dare to compete with me for territory?”
“Today, I will erase you all from the map, leaving not a single one alive!”
On the ground,
The soil and stones beneath the Diamond Stone Giant’s feet seemed to come alive, gathering onto its body. Its chest wound and the small injuries caused by close-range explosions and scale fragments regenerated at a visible speed.
Dragons rule the sky; Stone Giants control the land.
Each side had its advantages and disadvantages.
Gazing over the huge crater in the camp and thinking of the young clansman shattered to pieces, angry lines appeared on the Diamond Stone Giant’s sculpted face.
“Young dragon.”
“You will pay the bloody price for your arrogance!”
The Diamond Stone Giant said in a deep voice.
Garoth did not argue or explain the Diamond Stone Giant’s evaluation of him as a young dragon.
Although he still had about a year and a half to go, having just ended the longest slumber of his juvenile dragon period, he could indeed be called a young dragon.
An adult Granite Stone Giant stood beside the Diamond Stone Giant.
It had not kept up with Garoth’s speed and burst before and failed to react in time. Now, it showed anger, ready to fight alongside the elder.
“Targon.”
“This dragon is not as reckless as it appears. It seems to be a red iron hybrid, not a pure red dragon. It is cunning and sly, and though still young, it already shows a sinister demeanor.”
“Guard the weak kin. Don’t let them be attacked and killed again.”
The Diamond Stone Giant said to the Granite Stone Giant.
Judging by Garoth’s first feint attack on himself and now the young giants’ behavior, the Diamond Stone Giant was certain of Garoth’s slyness and warned caution.
The Granite Stone Giant clenched its fists heavily and nodded.
It gathered the two surviving young giants and other small giants behind itself, focusing all its attention on guarding against Garoth’s possible sudden attacks.
Meanwhile,
Garoth soared again high in the sky.
He spiraled upward, flames accelerating, tearing a huge hole in the high-altitude clouds, then finally dove at extreme speed toward the Stone Giant camp.
The heavy spells of the Diamond Stone Giant and Granite Stone Giant were useless at this moment.
If used, they would only grant Garoth greater speed and strength.
This time, the giants and their followers were prepared and no longer completely caught off guard like the first time.
Huge rocks were condensed by the Stone Giants, shooting into the sky like cannonballs, smashing toward Garoth. Magical beasts spat fireballs and acid, coordinating various ranged attacks with the giants.
The most dangerous attack came from the Diamond Stone Giant.
Its body gleamed as the diamond-like brilliance concentrated on its chest, forming a white light pillar that shot up violently, splitting the air along its path, leaving a blank trail with tremendous power.