"Pitter-patter, pitter-patter."
Dark clouds blanketed the sky above the Legendary Arena. Along with the dense purple lightning came howling winds and torrential rain.
The rain struck the barrier enclosing the vast arena and instantly evaporated.
In the surrounding stands, the spectators were already soaked to the skin. Even though the rain stung, no one bothered to raise a shield against it. Every pair of eyes remained fixed on the extraordinary battle inside the arena.
Inside the arena, the first exchange had ended. Soya's stone warriors had been churned into mud by the Thunder Dragon.
Soya knew he had not grown weaker. Shawn had grown stronger.
But the arena was sealed, leaving him nowhere to escape.
Soya could no longer muster any threats. All he could do was grit his teeth.
He drove the scepter in his hand hard into the ground. It instantly crumbled to powder, and the earth-yellow gemstone at its tip shattered as well.
Waves of immense earth element energy spread outward like the tide.
The ground kept cracking and collapsing, with fissures spreading in every direction like a spiderweb.
All the hills forming the arena's scenery split apart. Their peaks floated into the air, then shed massive chunks of rock that converged at the center.
The rubble and soil piled together again, forming a giant hundreds of meters tall. As mighty as an ancient titan, it loomed across the center of the arena.
The Titan Giant stared upward with cold, merciless gray eyes.
Behind the giant, veins bulged on Soya's face and sweat poured down his skin, revealing just how much effort summoning this Stone Giant had taken.
In the sky, the purple Thunder Dragon prowled through the heavens on four feet. Its purple-and-gold horns drew countless bolts of lightning behind it like a purple cloak.
Shawn