The Level 3 Lava Giant battling Benjamin was no ordinary Lava Giant commander.
From the moment of its birth, besides scorching magma, mixed yet unique energies had flowed within its body.
From the instant it was born, the Lava Giant Heye Alvarez Alex Atkinson had learned from its inherited memories that it was a rare "prophet" variant among the Lava Giants.
"Prophets" held an extraordinary status among the Lava Giants. To a certain extent, they could foresee what would roughly happen in the future.
Such foresight was not a clear image, but a vague flow of energy and prediction of trends, allowing them to avoid danger or seize opportunities in advance.
According to the Lava Giants, this was the revelation prophets received from their ancestors.
However, wizards believed that this special variant was innately capable of communicating with the Plane Origin to a certain extent.
Thus, they could unconsciously access the Plane Origin's information repository and thereby "foresee the future" to a degree.
This time, the Lava Giant prophet had ambushed the entrance precisely because it had vaguely foreseen that enemies would intrude here.
Yet its foresight was not omnipotent.
At first, it had predicted that the humans entering this place would not be particularly strong. It believed the Lava Giants already within the "nest" would be enough to handle them, so it had not chosen to seek reinforcements from other, more powerful gathering places.
At the beginning of the battle, the course of the battlefield had still been within its expectations—a reckless wizard squad, several low-level beings that could be crushed with ease, and itself waiting by the tree stump for a rabbit.
But it had never expected that this tiny bug before it, which it had sent flying with a single blow and which looked like nothing more