With the Fell God temporarily "lying low" and ordinary giants offering little challenge, Godfrey desperately needed an outlet for his pent-up fighting spirit and frustration.
So, after a brief rest, he personally led his elite troops in a ferocious surprise assault.
Horace took part as well, though it was less a battle for him than a chance to observe his elder brother's fighting style up close.
He watched Godfrey wrap his muscle-knotted arms around the ankle of an enormous Fire Giant larger than a hill and, amid the giant's terrified roars and the violent trembling of the earth, swing its entire massive body into the air!
That was no longer combat. It was a natural disaster, a physical manifestation of tectonic movement.
Using the giant as a "humanoid club" of flesh and blood, Godfrey roared as he smashed it into another group of giants, then into the towering rock face!
Every impact triggered avalanches and shook the earth, quite literally reshaping the terrain of the Mountaintops of the Giants.
The giant being used as a weapon was already a mangled mass of flesh, its bones shattered.
Driven by its last instinct to survive, it used its remaining strength to snap off the very leg Godfrey held with an audible crack.
Its enormous body crashed to the ground. Dragging its severed limb, it clawed frantically at the earth with both hands, trying to escape this humanoid fiend.
But Godfrey merely paused for a moment when his "club" suddenly became much lighter, then casually flung away the giant's thigh still clutched in his hand as though throwing out trash.
The severed leg spun through the air with a whistle and struck the back of the crawling, one-legged giant's head with unerring accuracy.
Godfrey leaped high and landed heavily on the fallen giant's