"Divine ability backlash is intensifying. The battle formation is nearing its limit... Prepare to disengage!"
"Control the magical circuits! Increase the supply of magic! Slowly contract the formation!... Breaking formation in midair ten or twenty meters up—what were you thinking? Trying to kill yourselves in the fall?"
"Even the Edge Hunting Team's Zhen Su Battle Formation can't withstand the impact of a high-altitude fall!"
"Notify Nicholas. Tell them to prepare to break formation!"
"Forcefully breaking the battle formation requires an external neutralizing force to cushion the backlash!"
"There's a pond below us. Water is the best neutralizing force!"
"The pond is too shallow... We have to land in the Silent River!"
Splash!
The water kicked up by the Giant's foot fell back into the shallow pond. The Giant growled low, pulled its foot from the muddy bottom, dragging up great clumps of sludge, and charged toward a bend in the Silent River nearby.
The pond was less than a hundred meters from the river bend, but as it ran, the Giant's body kept shrinking.
With its first step, it still stood over twenty meters tall. After drawing back its leg, it shrank to seventeen or eighteen meters. With another stride, it was already under sixteen meters. And so, taking three steps as two, by the time it was less than twenty meters from the river bend, the Giant stood under ten meters tall.
Then it leaped with all its strength.
Boom!
The Giant crashed heavily into the deep, dark Silent River.
Bang! Bang!
Two balls of blue light exploded on the riverbed, catapulting nine figures out of the water before they fell back down, splashing into the gurgling river amid a spray of water.
The swimming fish and those hidden Magical Creatures had already been frightened away by the Giant's