The heavy footsteps numbered more than one. The rumbling and the tremors rising from the ground beneath his feet felt strangely familiar to Hao Ren. Sure enough, not long after everyone took up their battle stances, some familiar figures came running out of the Twisted Woods: those enormous Stone Giants!
"They actually made it inside," Hao Ren said, drawing a breath. "I wonder how that town is doing."
Big Beard was startled when he saw the rocky monsters. A layer of pale golden light suddenly appeared over his body. As he assumed a fighting stance, he muttered incredulously, "What are these things? Are these the Stone Giants you mentioned?"
"That's right, these are them." Scorching red light swirled around Izax as he strode toward the Stone Giants. "Be careful—they can regenerate. You have to get these things off the ground to destroy them completely."
"Boom—" The instant Izax finished speaking, a Stone Giant had already engaged him. The great demon raised one foot and kicked the Stone Giant's knee, shattering the stone pillar that even a person couldn't wrap their arms around. Izax then calmly smashed its limbs to pieces and lifted its trunk off the ground. Just like that, the enormous monster was effortlessly killed. Having dealt with them before, the great demon found these monsters—which possessed nothing but toughness and brute strength—far from difficult to handle.
Everyone immediately swarmed forward and engaged the Giant Monsters. Since this wasn't their first encounter, no one was as helpless as they had been the first time. Even Magic Swordsman Becky, who didn't excel in strength, couldn't deal with a Stone Giant quickly, but she still wouldn't be hurt by one. Roars rang out across the battlefield. The thunderous sounds of rock shattering and massive bodies colliding echoed like rolling thunder through