Chapter 54 – Giant Subjugation Quest #11
When it was time to walk again, Rebecca was able to move well. The cobwebs that were sticky to the soles of the shoes had melted away without a trace.
“How is it? You did well to learn fire magic, right?”
“Yeah-. As expected, all magic seems to be useless.”
Other than Rebecca, the other adventurers were also advancing without difficulty. Among them, Kate is also included, and it was really fun to burn her shoes with fire earlier.
Every time she brought the fire close she screamed in fright. She was probably worried that the fire would spread and burn her feet.
– Yes, please be gentle!! Mongma!!
– Her hand slipped.
– Aaaaa! Save the nun!
Kate lies on the floor of the cave and wriggles over her body like an earthworm.
The humiliating sight was still lingering in my memory. For a nun, an aristocrat in the adventure industry, to suffer such a miserable situation is an opportunity that is rarely seen.
“Quack-kick-kick-kick-kick.”
“Hey-!! Please stop laughing!!”
I laughed out loud and Kate, who was nearby, got angry. Her expression contorted with shame was quite remarkable. If possible, I would like to take a picture and keep it.
“Can’t you even laugh?”
“Everything, you-. You imagined what I was rolling earlier.”
“How do you know what I’m thinking? Have you mastered mind reading?”
“You can tell by looking at it with your own eyes, right?”
It was just as Kate reached out and grabbed my collar.
Just then, Rebecca, who was by her side, quietly opened her mouth.
“Wait, be quiet. Sister stop talking too.”
“Yes…?”
“Look ahead. It seems to have appeared soon.”
Rebecca pretended to be quiet with her gloved fingers, then pointed in front of her and gave her chin. Turning her head to follow her gaze, I could see the light streaming from her in the distance.
It’s just a bonfire.
A flame several times larger than the bonfire of the subjugation party was emitting light in the cave. Around that intense light, three figures appeared.
“It’s a giant.”
“Here, but the fucked cubs.”
The adventurers who were walking forward whispered in low voices.
When I saw the human figure wrapped in light, I couldn’t help but doubt whether an optical illusion had occurred momentarily. Even though they were quite far away, their size was no different from the people in front of them.
But it’s never an illusion.
The closer they got, the bigger the giants grew. When they were within discernible distance, the giants had swelled to the size of houses. It was an overwhelming size enough to disregard the law of perspective.
“Heo-eok-!”
The adventurers looked up at the giants and groaned in fear. The three giants were sitting around the campfire eating spiders. Spiders the size of wild dogs were grilled, holding them with both hands and biting them voraciously.
The moment the groans echoed, the three giants turned their heads towards the adventurers.
A human voice flowed from the mouth of the giants.
It was a voice so thick that it echoed in the cave.
“They’re weak little people.”
“Are you planning to challenge us Jotuns?”
“I was just bored, but that’s great! It’s perfect to play with as a toy!”
The three giants laughed and rose from their seats. They stared at us, clutching the sticks that had been placed on the floor. It was a club made of oak that would break bones if hit.
“Charge!”
The leader of the subjugation, who had been the vanguard, raised his sword and ran forward. Old Nickel was running alongside him holding an axe.
The adventurers who regained their fighting spirit at the cheers of the subjugation leader pursued the two.
Eventually, the moment when the leader of the subjugation is about to collide with the three giants!
“Puhaha! The little guys rush at me.”
“Take a taste of the stone-.”
The giants took a long step back, taking a long step back, then picked up a rock rolling on the cave floor and threw it at them.
I was astonished at the flying rocks as if I had been shot with a catapult.
“How strong is your power!”
“Lu, Luke! But the direction of flight is strange!”
“What?”
It wasn’t the adventurers that the giants hit with rocks. The rocks they threw crashed into the ceiling of the cave, missed for a long time, and landed in a place where there were no adventurers.
Thud-! The ground shook and a loud, deafening sound rang out. However, it was never reassuring that the rock had missed. There was a reason why the giants suddenly hit the ceiling.
“Joe, the stalactites are falling!”
“Run away!!”
Stalactites were tightly packed in the high ceiling.
The thick ones were cut off by the collision.
Bold stalactites began to fall toward the cave floor.
Above the heads of none other than the adventurers.
“Kuk!”
Rebecca threw herself swiftly and bounced off the stalactites that fell on my head. She lifted the large tower shield that covered her body upward. I could only sigh as I hid myself under my shield.
“Thanks to you, I lived.”
“Don’t stay still, grab my shield!”
I put my hand on the back of the tower shield and gave it strength. It was a shield wide enough for two people to hide, so I could not get hurt even in the falling stalactites.
Unfortunately, other adventurers were in a different situation.
“It’s black.”
“My arm, my arm.”
Some of the adventurers without shields were hit by stalactites. The falling stalactites poured down in large quantities even if they were not fast. Unfortunately, only one hit is possible. The adventurer whose arms were pierced by sharp stalactites screamed.
Haha. That’s why you should have been careful above your head.”
“You were tricked? You were fooled, adventurers.”
The three giants looked this way and laughed out loud. Seeing that, I realized that they were enemies on a different level from the monsters I had dealt with so far. It’s not just talking about brute strength. They knew how to use tools and how to use landmarks. They were obviously of the same race as the continental people.
“Now I’ll show you the real stone-.”
The giants began to throw whatever they could get their hands on. Something like a large stone or the corpse of a spider. It was the moment when I instinctively tried to duck down at the endlessly flying projectiles.
“—You are playful. Little giants.”
A deep voice resounded in the cave.
At that moment, an old barbarian clutching an ax jumped into the air.
Whipping his white beard, the old barbarian crossed the ax in his hands.
It was a nickel inspiration spewing life from his entire body.
“Haaaaap-!!”
Nickel Old Man, who wields a heavy ax in a fit of spirit.
At that moment, a strong gust of wind flowed from Nickel’s axe. As if a storm was blowing, the flying projectiles lost their direction and bounced off. Even I, who was standing in the back, had to close my eyes tightly from the wind blowing.
“Wind pressure! I created a gust of wind with the ax swinging.”
“How did you become a monster!”
Thud-!
Old Nickel, who landed on the floor, looked intently at the three giants.
“I blocked you.”
“Barbarian-!”
The three giants glared at Old Nick with shocked eyes.
Old Nickel spoke to the giants with a relaxed expression.
“What do you plan to do now? Young giants. Will you cowardly kill this old man with a stone? Or will you compete proudly in strength. Choose an honorable fight like the warriors of Jotunheim.”
“Don’t talk about the honor of the jotuns!”
Did old Nickel’s words hurt the giants’ pride?
The giants grabbed their clubs as if they were going to break and started charging at Old Nick.
“Cover the barbarian!”
After the commander’s command went out, I started attacking the giants with the adventurers. Dealing with all three at the same time was indeed daunting, but Old Man Nickel was concentrating on blocking the club.
No, blocking a large stick with an ax is a marvelous enough thing. Protecting old Nickel was the way to win this subjugation.
“Die, giants!”
I swung the water whip and hit the body of a nearby giant. However, despite being whipped, the giant’s momentum did not break at all. Rather, he let out a frenzied shout and brandished his club mercilessly.
“Kwaaaaagh.”
“Cuck!”
A stick with enough power to knock an adventurer up against a wall!
A head-on hit like that would surely break his bones. I shouted at Rebecca, who was dazzlingly moving her feet in front of me.
“Don’t think about blocking with a shield, dodge!”
“Yes!!”
I took a deep breath and calmly observed the battlefield.
What I was looking at was none other than the battle of old Nickel. Nickel old man’s movement when he was confronted head-on with a giant was unique.
Old Nickel raised his ax and was only aiming for one spot.
The Giant’s Knee!
‘Knee? Why are you aiming for the knee?’
I remembered the past while observing Old Nick’s fight.
It was when I hunted the gigantic goblins in Morris Forest.
– The gigantic phenomenon does not necessarily mean that the organism becomes stronger. The muscles in your limbs can’t handle the weight, so your movements are slow and awkward.
Lily’s advice after defeating the giant goblin.
Could it be that the advice is valid for these giants as well?
Giants must have no choice but to take a load on their bodies because of their own weight. There is no law that says only muscle can support weight. The skeleton wrapped in muscles must also support the body weight.
Then-.
“It’s a kneecap!”
Knees were the giant’s weakness!
A body part that bears the weight of a massive giant.
Giants have no choice but to be weak in the knees by nature.
“Liquid.”
I firmly gripped the water whip with my hand. Then, holding his breath, he swung his whip from the side, out of the giant’s sight.
I was sure the moment the tip of the whip hit the giant’s knee.
That the realization I got is the correct answer.
“Oh ahhhhh !!”
A giant who staggers while screaming.
The giant let out a groan while holding his knees with his palms. The adventurers gathered around them were taken aback by the eardrum-shattering screams.
“Thank you, blonde young man. It was hard to match because this guy moved around. Haha.”
Amid the bewildered adventurers, old Nickel laughed heartily.
I shouted at him with an incomprehensible expression.
“Why don’t you tell me that you have to aim for the knee, old man!”
“Huh? Was it your first time hunting a giant?”
“Yes! It’s the first time.”
“I didn’t know that there was a first-time traveler in the subjugation party. Anyway, you did a good job unlike a first-time traveler. Other adventurers were only paying attention.”
Were you just staring?
Could it be that I was the only one who didn’t know?
That we should aim for the giant’s knee.
However, I, who was a first-timer, did a great job. The other adventurers didn’t even think about attacking the giant and were just trying to avoid it.
“Haap!”
It was the moment when old Nickel jumped on top of the giant’s head.
Blood gushed from the top of the giant’s head as the ax fired a flash of light. A crack formed where the ax had gone through, and soon the giant’s head was split in half.
Kwajik! Now that his head has been split, there’s no way he’ll survive even if he’s a giant.
The adventurers burst into battle-filled cheers as they saw the dead giant.
“The giant is dead!”
“It’s because the horned wizard aimed at his knee. If you aim recklessly, you’ll be killed by a giant.”
I was dumbfounded when I heard that shout.
Could it be that you didn’t aim for the knee just because you were scared?
Were you watching each other and waiting for someone to hit you?
Indeed, they are adventurers full of selfishness!
Still, killing a giant meant a lot.
The other two giants began to tremble in fear. The giants who had thought of fighting the adventurers like a joke had finally begun to feel the fear of death.
“My brother is dead-!!”
“Ahhhhh!! I hate dying-!! That barbarian is a monster!!”
The two giants, in a panic, turned their backs and began to run away. He seemed to have completely lost his will to fight. He didn’t know if he could easily defeat him if he pursued him.
“Stand there you bastards!”
The captain of the subjugation shouted and tried to chase the giants.
At that moment, Old Nick stopped the subjugation leader.
“Stop. Before chasing the giants, there’s something I need to tell the adventurers.”
“Yes? It’s an urgent situation…!!”
“Take a deep breath, though. There’s an important issue that needs to be addressed.”
Old Nickel grabbed the shoulder of the subjugation commander with a powerful hand. Despite being quite bulky, the subjugation commander couldn’t shake off Old Man Nickel’s hand. It was the remark of the barbarian who split the giant’s head in two. Everyone was bound to be frightened.
“Oh, I see. Please make it shorter.”
“Thank you.”
Old Nick opened his mouth while looking around the adventurers.
“There’s something you guys should know. There are actually three giants hiding in this cave.”
“Yes? The guild said there were three of them!”
“Look carefully where the giants’ sleeping bags are.”
Old Nickel raised his finger and pointed near the campfire.
A giant sleeping bag spread around a campfire.
“Yes?”
The moment I inspected the sleeping bag, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
The total number of sleeping bags was 4.
The number is one more than the giants we just encountered.
Old Nickel took a deep breath and opened his mouth with a fishy smile.
“I can tell by the smell. There’s an old man hiding in this cave. It’s a very cunning, cunning old giant.”
