League of Legends in Multiverse

Chapter 16: The True Hunt

After the fall of the outer bailey of Wall of Maria, the Shiganshina District, the gate between the outer territory and Shiganshina District was also shattered by the sudden appearance of the Armored Giant.

Going against the grain from Eren and his group, Lianye, who had turned his hunting blade toward the giants, also detected the emergence of the Armored Giant under his hunting instinct.

However, the traits of this ultimate prey were even more troublesome than those of the Colossal Giant.

The overwhelming defensive power of its armored body, combined with the unparalleled speed granted by its streamlined physique—unlike other bloated giants—allowed the Armored Giant to charge through the gate with sheer impact force, emerging completely unscathed.

After that, and before the Pride Stalker could set his sights on the Armored Giant, it vanished mysteriously, just like the Colossal Giant, as if it had never existed—an ultimate prey disappearing from the giant hunting grounds.

To use a complaint that might already be outdated: it showed up, showed off, and ran away. Damn thrilling.

Both the Armored Giant and the Colossal Giant vanished after briefly appearing and smashing the walls.

Even with the blood-tinted vision and enhanced senses of the Hunting Rhythm activated, Lianye could not track the traces of these two prey.

The effect of Hunting Rhythm was not comparable to the Card Master's Fate skill.

The former activated the Pride Stalker's ultimate predatory instincts, allowing him to sense the direction, form, and even tracks of his prey; but the latter, by peering into the shadows of others, not only granted vision but also, in Twisted Fate's case, divined destiny itself.

In other words, the former precisely sensed the prey's location to aid the hunt—until the Colossal Giant and Armored Giant disappeared, cutting off the trail. The latter, Fate, could even reveal which giant was born from which mother, or whether a giant needed diaper changes as a child, or how many times it wet the bed—let alone divining why the Armored Giant and Colossal Giant appeared and vanished.

Due to the limits of his ability, the pursuit of the ultimate prey came to a temporary halt.

In truth, Lianye was not entirely certain that he, having only mastered the Pride Stalker's Hero Ability for less than a month, could kill the Armored Giant, whose combat awareness and fighting skills far surpassed ordinary giants, and whose body possessed immense defensive strength.

Even the ultimate killing technique under Brutal Reward was an ability premised on Lianye's own basic attributes.

—Therefore, before setting his sights on the Armored Giant and Colossal Giant, Lianye planned to first increase the layers of his Bone Tooth Necklace, strengthening his base stats.

As a glorious trophy of the hunt, each giant slain would transform into another surge of essence upon the Bone Tooth Necklace, feeding back to enhance the hunter's power.

To be able to kill those two ultimate prey in the next hunt, the Pride Stalker was sharpening his hunting blade, preparing for the next hunt.

Giants poured in endlessly from the southern Shiganshina District, until they had fully occupied the vast outer territory between Wall of Rose and Wall of Maria.

The already precious human living space shrank further; among the three regions enclosed by the three walls, the most expansive area had fallen to the giants.

The already precious human living space shrank further; among the three regions enclosed by the three walls, the most expansive area had fallen to the giants.

One year later, the Royal Government, under the pretext of reclaiming lost territory, dispatched a combat force of 250,000 refugees to launch a "counterattack" against the giants occupying the outer regions.

But that—rather than a counterattack—was suicide.

Under conditions of extreme power imbalance, it was merely throwing eggs against stones.

So-called war refers to the struggle and contest between forces of equal strength. Refugees with no combat awareness, no fighting skills, and no firearms were utterly incomparable to the ferocious giants that specifically preyed on humans.

The 250,000-strong refugee force's counterattack against the giants in the outer regions was nothing but a march to death.

—Well, in truth, the plan was to send these refugees to die.

Lianye understood this clearly. Because the land resources and food of the inner regions could never sustain so many refugees and native residents; thus, enough refugees had to be sent to die, just barely allowing the remaining people to survive.

Whatever cruel collisions of human nature or treacherous political struggles were involved, they had nothing to do with Lianye—as long as they did not hinder his hunting of giants in the hunting grounds.