The rushing river pounded against the reefs, spray whipped by the wind across the ferry crossing.
The enormous warhammer carried a gale-force blow straight at him. He Xi had no time to wonder why a Two-Headed Ogre had appeared in the Tower of Illusions challenge.
[Jumping Tendons]!
The tendons in his calves tightened like fully drawn bowstrings in an instant, driving his thighs into explosive motion as he narrowly hurled himself backward.
Boom!
The solid stone foundation seemed unable to bear that horrifying force. Deep cracks spread outward like a spider web, huge slabs of rock caved inward and shattered, and fragments flew in every direction.
Apart from the suffocating pressure brought by the nearly five-meter-tall giant ogre, dire wolves bared their interlocking tusks from the shadows on both sides, carrying orcs as they flanked him from left and right.
In the distance, Reese, who had just climbed to his feet, was left dazed by the sight before him.
It wasn't as if he had never seen ogres in the illusion before.
Those stupid, foul-smelling creatures over three meters tall were not impossible to defeat with coordinated teamwork.
But compared to ordinary ogres, the two-headed monster before him was the difference between a father and a son.
The son swung a wooden club and could at most smash him into chunks of flesh.
But this father, judging by the earth-shaking force of that hammer strike just now, could probably skip the middleman and smash him straight into meat paste.
Reese instinctively cast an [Appraisal Spell].
The information that came back was a despair-inducing deep crimson.
Its level exceeded his by far too much; he couldn't determine it at all..
Reese swallowed, turning his gaze toward the battlefield.
"Th-This... isn't he afraid?"
In his sight, He Xi was using nimble footwork