He could feel the entire head rumbling as it began to tilt back. As it rose up, he rolled back onto his feet while sprinting towards the crater of a mouth still.
The reversed sky of soil and stone above disturbed his sense of balance while navigating the head of the giant.
-THWOOM.
He lost his balance as the entirety of the mountainous entity suddenly jolted, finding it as though it was crashed by a meteoric impact. Just ahead, he could see the mass of exuberant radiance had slammed his gauntlet right into the abdomen of the colossus, causing it to stumble back.
"HOW ABOUT THAT?!" Seung's voice boomed as though elevated through the grandest of microphones.
At the moment, Finn felt more annoyed than anything by his ally's actions, finding himself having to rapidly move his feet so as not to fall right off of the moving head of the Arbiter. Finally, the gap in the pyramid of stone was found, allowing him to slide down before landing on what was considered the "bottom lip" of the stone-carved mouth.
'Made it,' he thought.
Seeking the core of the Arbiter, it wasn't as if he believed Seung would be unable to win. No, he was certain that the brawler would be capable of it. What drove him was a sense of competition; whoever could defeat the Arbiter of Stone first–he wanted to test himself.
Looking in, the insides of the mouth resembled the maw of a massive cave, leading into the unknown depths of the titanic form. He stepped inside of it, though immediately having his balance pulled it from underneath him.
"Huh–!?"
The head must've begun tilting again, as the floor of the mouth was now a wall behind him, leaving him sliding down into the lightless chasm deeper into the colossus.
–THWOOM.
A massive tremor shook the entirety of the interior as stone dust rained over him, knowing full well it was the handiwork of the crusher to blame. Still, he allowed himself to slide down, finding roots of flesh clinging to the rocky walls, leading deeper.
["Lesser Wisp"]
To provide himself light, he called upon the meager orb of fire, bringing a small, but helpful amount of brightness in his descent. The further he slid down, feeling the rough grain of the stone scrape against his back, the fleshy roots became more plentiful, pulsating with a liveliness.
"Woah–"
The light of the wisp showed the end of the descent only a moment before he dropped, finding his feet landing squarely in an open, vast area of the interior: the stomach. There was a "squish" beneath his boots, unlike the firm stone before; he found himself standing among massive roots of muscle that pumped silver blood.
'There it is,' he found.
In the center of the colossal pit of the Arbiter's stomach, the core lay dormant, tethered by two lines of flesh to take the shape of a core made of platinum tissue.
'All I have to do is destroy its core–that heart, at least going by common sense,' he planned, readying his daggers.
["Blink Slash"] [2:59]
He warped right atop the spherical core, stabbing his daggers right into the living organ. It took some struggle to fully sink his weapons into it, as the strength of the heart's muscles was like digging through solid stone.
It wasn't deep enough to be a lethal wound, not to the core that was tenfold the size of his own body. Once more, he felt the rumbling intensify from outside the hollow giant, bringing him to squeeze both handles of his daggers–
["Magnificent Blade"] [Mana: -600] [1650/2500] [2:59]
A brilliant rise of silver flames and golden sparks were imbued from the blades right into the heart, delivering an elemental execution that burnt the core from the inside out.
["Arbiter of Stone defeated."] ["Anarch Coin x5000 obtained."]
[Experience Points: +75000]
[Level thirty-four reached!] [51010/65000]
[Assimilated ability from ["Arbiter of Stone"]: "Stone Warping" 1 / 1]
An exhale of relief escaped his lips as he sat there, still clinging to the core as it deflated like a balloon once popped.
'I'm getting pretty good, aren't I, Damian? You can watch me, too, Magnus–I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough before, but I'm not going to half-ass it anymore,' he thought, suppressing the doubts of himself he had.
All around him, the colossus made from the Arbiter began to crumble around him, bringing him to descend from the peak of the fading world's heights. He looked around hurriedly, finding, quickly pulling his daggers from the slain heart as he began to sprint.
The walls of the mountainous golem came down around him, collapsing like falling towers. He sidestepped a massive chunk that fell near him, having to pivot around as another piece slammed beside him.
'Shit–I have to get out of here!' He urged himself while sprinting.
As he ran with it all crumbling, the foothold he ran across crumbled from beneath him; a weightlessness under his boots spurred his stomach with a fluttering feeling. He looked around, finding himself exposed to the sky as his messy, dark hair rustled.
All around him, enough stone to build a mountain rained down, bringing him to land himself on a falling chunk, sprinting across it as it descended.
"Hhaaa!--"
Drawing in a quick breath in his quick descent through the sky, he leapt from one platform to another, watching as the quarry below approached rapidly.
Whatever fear of heights he might've possessed, he ignored it as he repeated the same mantra in his head while moving–"Don't look down!"