Chapter 57 – Giant Subjugation Quest #14

Even as I spoke, I wasn’t sure if this method would work.
An old giant is obviously different from a young giant full of blood.
Like an old man, he might have the age to not be swayed by others.
If the provocation doesn’t work, Rebecca and I are doomed.

“Kuk.”

The fear of failure seemed to turn my head into a blank slate.
But the moment I looked at Rebecca, I was able to calm myself down.
Rebecca was staring at the old giant with her resolve.
Rebecca, who has to provoke the old giant herself, is like that, so I can’t be nervous.

“Let’s try a little something-.”
“Please.”

As Rebecca walked toward the old giant, I quickly moved to a hiding place.
It was right behind the corpses of spiders piled up like a mountain around the camp.
A place where things like the leftovers of giants are piled up.
If it was here, he could avoid the gaze of the old giant.

I made a sign while looking ahead through the cracks in the corpse.
As round water droplets floated around my body, I began to connect them to form a whip.

‘As thick and long as possible. So that the whip can reach the distant ceiling.’

When I’m putting my heart and soul into making water whips.
At last Rebecca reached the old giant. The old giant was shaking his hands as he watched Kate, whose vines wrapped around him.
Rebecca shouted at the old giant whose back was turned.

“Hey, don’t move there!”

Hearing the trembling voice, the old giant turned his back.
The old giant’s piercing gaze fell upon Rebecca.

“Red-haired female swordsman. Do you want to save this nun?”
“That, that blonde-haired bitch doesn’t matter! I asked if anyone wanted to compete with you?”
“Who wants to compete?”

The old giant opened his mouth with a puzzled expression.

“I said that, but isn’t that the end of the story? You guys have already rejected my offer.”
“It’s not over yet.”

Rebecca raised the curved sword in her hand toward the old giant’s neck.

“I, this desert warrior Rebecca, will challenge the giant to a duel!”

But the old giant remained calm even with his sword in front of him.

“What happened to the small man who was trembling in the corner until just now? I can’t understand why you challenge me to a duel.”

The old giant looked around with suspicious eyes.
His eyes looked as if he was looking to see if an ambush was hiding somewhere in the campground.
Then came the moment when the old giant was about to reach out to Kate, who was lying unconscious on the floor.

“Shut up and attack you motherfucking giant!”

A powerful voice enough to tie the eyes of an old giant!
Rebecca’s voice boomed through the cave.

“What, what?!”
“Are you at a loss because you couldn’t catch a girl? It’s a waste of your size, you cowardly giant bastard!”

It was Rebecca screaming with all her might, shaking his shoulders.
The old giant mumbled and tried to say something, but Rebecca’s provocation was not over yet.
She brought out a final provocation at the old giant.

“It’s a dumping, this baby-! I don’t know if it’s the honor of Jotun, but there’s no honor for a baby like you! Because I can’t kill a girl !!”

Finally, Rebecca insulted Jotunn’s honor.
Perhaps Jotun is what the giants refer to themselves.
The old giant stared at Rebecca in silence.

“…”

Did it work?
I gulped and looked at the old giant.
The old giant’s face was tinged with reddish light. Although he kept his mouth shut, there was an unusual atmosphere for the old giant.
At last the old giant opened his mouth.

“Your bitch wants to die.”
“Kuk.”
“If you dare speak of the honor of Jotun, even though you are a weakling, I will rip you limb from limb and throw it as fish food!”

Thump thump thump! The old giant began to run wildly.
The ghastly eyes full of life were rather terrifying than those of the young giants.

“Kuk!”

Rebecca turned and ran away with a terrified expression on her face.
The old giant’s fingernails barely brushed Rebecca’s back.

‘It’s almost done.’

Looking at the almost finished water whip, I muttered to myself.
The provocation was successful and Rebecca is steadily luring the old giant under the stalactite.
All that was left was for me to swing the water whip with precision.
I couldn’t help but feel tension in the hand that was holding the whip.

‘Even if the whip misses.’

I raised my head and looked up at the ceiling above my head.
The ceiling is densely studded with sharp stalactites like thorns.
If the water whip misses, the giant’s gaze will immediately head here.
The old giant, noticing the wizard’s presence, will immediately charge at me.

‘You can swing it again and hit the ceiling. Then that old giant and I will be on good terms with each other and get stabbed.’

I am afraid to die.
But it’s a shame that I’m the only one who dies.
At the very least, it pays to take that goddamned giant to the underworld with you.
How could I have endured 20 years as an incubus in a fucking different world, but I can’t just give up my life as tough as a leech.
Of course, it would be best not to miss the whip.

“Hurry up and catch it, you giant!”

Rebecca ran towards the entrance to her hideout, firing her taunts endlessly.
When the old giant arrived near the huge stalactite, I let out a moan while watching the giant run at breakneck speed.

“You’re too fast.”

Can this really fit?
I think I’ll just pass by the stalactites before they fall!
But the old giant couldn’t just pass under the stalactites.

“It’s here!”

Rebecca slammed her curved sword into the ground as she gasped.
She braced herself against the inertia with the stabbed curved sword, and thrust her shield menacingly at the giant.
A wide target that could be hit with a club in an instant was born there.

“——–!!”

The moment the old giant swung the club with rotation as if it were about to collapse, Rebecca rolled her body to avoid the club.
This is the same move she showed when fighting a kelpie on the lake shore.

Thud!! The club, which had lost its target, hit the ground in vain.
The old giant finally came to a stop beneath a huge stalactite.

Now is the time to wield the water whip.

‘I won’t miss this time.’

You shouldn’t blow your chance in vain, like when you fought the kelpie on the lake shore.
With tenacity, I swung the water whip at the ceiling.

A giant water whip reaching 15m in length.
With a whip this long, the hit rate would drop due to the recoil, but the magically created water whip was different.
The magic of manipulating the water can constantly correct the trajectory.
The wriggling water whip made its way diagonally toward the ceiling as if it were alive.

“You got it right!”

Bang! The wriggling water whip properly pierced the joint of the stalactite.
As the tip of the whip with destructive power shattered the stone ceiling, a thick stone mass fell at the top of the old giant’s head at terrifying speed.

It’s over now.
The moment he intuited his end, the old giant suddenly looked overhead.

“——–!!!”

At that moment, something unbelievable happened.
The old giant, who had stopped in his place, energized his lower body.
Even then, the large calf swelled up like it was about to explode.

Thud-!! A stalactite punctured the ground.
However, the figure of the old giant is nowhere to be found.
The kick kicked the ground and the guy rolled his body, rolling across the floor before landing on the ground.

“Pi, dodged…?!”

The old giant escaped the stalactites.
The giant who escaped from death with an absurd movement was indeed a monster itself.

“—-!!”

The old giant roared and rose from his seat.
But it’s not without damage. Blood was flowing from one knee of the old giant. The recoil from overexertion knocked out the old giant’s right knee.
Losing one of his legs, the old giant glared at me with hateful eyes.

“Wizard, you were there.”
“Keuuuuu!”

My body trembled instinctively as I received the stare full of murder.
He quickly retrieved the water whip and tried to prepare for the next attack, but it took time to retrieve it.
At that moment the old giant came towards me, limping on his feet.

‘Please! Please sooner!’

Watching the water whip being sucked in, I prayed with all my heart.
I hope I can prepare my next attack before the old giant gets to me. He wanted to be able to at least try his last breath.

“Ouch.”

But maybe the prayer didn’t reach God?
The old giant was one step faster than the speed at which the whip was retrieved.
The stride is so wide that you have no choice but to approach at insane speed and allow the approach.

Haha!”

An old giant bursting with madness.
He let out an eardrum-shattering roar as he brandished his club.

It’s over now.
There is no corner to escape to anymore.
The moment a giant club cut through the air and tried to slash the top of my head, I gave up everything and closed my eyes tightly.

“…”

Is this a kaleidoscope?
Memories of the past flashed through my mind.
At the moment of death, I wanted at least a happy memory.
However, the moment something faint came into my mind, a loud voice pierced my ears from somewhere.

“—-Not yet!”

I woke up at the sound of that voice.
At that moment, red hair swaying in front of his nose appeared.

A familiar red-haired female swordsman stood in the way.
Rebecca, running with all her might, came between me and the giant in that split second.
With the tower shield pointed forward!

“Luke-!”

Rebecca’s voice rang in my ears.
Kwajik! A huge club crashed into the tower shield. With the sound of metal breaking, Rebecca’s body was pushed back. Unable to overcome the giant’s strength, Rebecca’s body floated into the air and then fell to the ground while drawing a parabola.
There was no shield in Rebecca’s fallen hand.
That needlessly large tower shield was rolling right next to me right now.

“—- I will kill you!”

The old giant roared as he looked at the disturbed Rebecca.
Contrary to his screaming mouth, the old giant was kneeling on the ground.
As he swung his club, he inadvertently strained his knee and blood flowed out.
The old giant’s right leg was completely broken.

“You are the one who dies.”

In my hand was a water whip that had been completely recovered before I knew it.
The moment he swung the whip again with strength, the old giant crouched down.
But what I’m aiming for is not the old giant.

The ceiling with stalactites!
He swung his water whip at the ceiling densely studded with sharp stalactites.
A 15m long water whip hit the ceiling.
The ceiling shook and sharp stalactites fell toward the ground.

“You bastard!! Did you intend to die together!!”

It was a scene of rain falling with pointed awls.
The old giant staring at me as if he had opened his eyes before he knew it, and burst into exasperation.
But I was only laughing at the old giant.
Even if countless stalactites fell, only I had the confidence to survive.

“No way.”

I threw myself and reached for the ground.
Before I knew it, I was holding a tower shield with a distorted surface in my hand.
A large tower shield had fallen to the floor of the cave.
He lowered his stance with the tower shield raised above his head.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The falling stalactites hit the tower shield mercilessly.
The sharp pressure presses the surface of the shield, and the stone fragments bouncing from all sides injure my body.
But even in the pain, I burst into laughter.

“Kuaaaaagh—!”

Because the old giant’s body had been pierced mercilessly.
Falling stalactites lodged themselves in his massive body.
Countless holes were pierced in the old giant’s body.
The moment the shaking stalactites fell, the old giant died with blood fountains pouring from his body.

No matter how giant he is, he cannot survive if his whole body is pierced.
The old giant hung his head helplessly on his floor.
With his head on the floor, the old giant died.

“Gwa, are you okay?”

The battle was won, but now I didn’t care about the giant’s death.
I looked at Rebecca, who quickly fell to the floor.
Fortunately, it flew quite far and there are no stalactites that fell around Rebecca.
Rebecca is just lying on the floor.

“I’m glad I didn’t get hit by a falling rock…”

Judging by the excitement in her heart, it was clear that she was still alive.
We finally survived the old giant.

“We won, we won.”

I let out a sigh of relief as I sat on the floor.
Suddenly, my gaze landed on the shattered tower shield.
A tower shield that barely survived the fall of the stalactites.
In the end, it was dismembered into fragments, but thanks to it, his life was saved.

What did Rebecca say when she showed me the tower shield?
I was able to recall right away.
Perhaps, Rebecca would have said something like this in front of the adventurer’s guild.

‘I bought this to protect you, this-.’

‘—-If something happens, I’ll protect you.’

She really saved me.
Rebecca’s tower shield saved my life.