"How are they still not dead?!" Ismir's face changed as he watched the Cyclops, already riddled like a sieve with arrows, continue charging forward while swinging its club.
"Crack! Splurt!" Though Ymir was not as tall as the Cyclops, bolstered by the Senate Guard's Blood Mist Set, he split open the weapon in the Cyclops's hands with his serpentine greatsword before dismembering it.
"Roar!" The Half-giant's roar was no weaker than the Cyclops's. Before everyone's horrified eyes, Ymir slammed heavily into the Cyclops!
"Boom!" Amid the swirling dust, the Cyclops was sent flying backward, while the stockier Ymir staggered back two steps.
"Argh!" A stone axe came whistling toward Ymir's head. Just as his skull was about to be split open, a mass of winding vines burst from the ground and wrapped around the Cyclops's arm. In the distance, Ismir held up the Withered Wood Staff, his face flushed red.
"Ymir!" Ismir roared.
"Splurt!" Black-red blood sprayed through the air as Ymir's greatsword easily sliced off the Cyclops's head. The bald head, as large as a millstone, rolled across the ground.
"Defend!" Over a hundred Nature Guardians raised their shields. In an instant, brilliant green light gathered into a curved wall of light before the soldiers.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The Giant Catchers hurled fist-sized stones at the crowd with their slings.
"Hngh!" Soldiers kept letting out muffled groans. The stones striking the shields rapidly drained the Battle Qi within their bodies, and many soldiers' legs began to weaken.
"Fire!" Ismir cried anxiously. The few crossbows behind them were their only heavy fire support.
"Thud! Thud!" Accuracy aside, most of the Cyclops struck by the Crossbow Bolts merely swayed before continuing their charge.
"Bang!" A club-wielding Cyclops had just raised its club to smash down upon the Nature Guardians' defensive skill