Boom!
A distant but still fairly loud noise caused Elias to jolt up from where he slept, he saw Margo already awake, and Marius stood at a corner of the cave, peeking out the entrance of the cave as if to get a glimpse of something.
Beads of sweat pooled on his forehead, and his face had taken a rather pale and grim expression.
Boom!!
The entire cave trembled, and small pieces of rocks and crystals broke off the cave's ceiling. The sound grew louder, or rather the source of the sound had moved closer, Elias turned to face Margo,
"What's happening?" He asked her, even though she looked just as confused as he was.
"I don't know, an earthquake?" She shrugged, "But whatever it is, it has the old man scared as fear," she added
Elias frowned his face and walked over to Marius, "What's happening?" He asked, but Marius remained quiet as he continued to peek
Marius was visibly trembling; whatever was the source of the sound had him thoroughly shaken, "Hey! Hey!!" Elias called out as he shook Marius repeatedly in hopes of snapping him out of his fear daze
"Fine, I'll go out and check it out myself," Elias said after Marius remained unresponsive
Margo donned a serious expression, "I'm coming with you," She said
"All right,"
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Marius held Elias back in a firm grip, "Don't...you'll die. It will kill you," He said, his eyes still wild with fear
"What will kill me? Whatever it is, even if we can't beat it, I'm sure Margo and I are capable of escaping.
Talk or we'll leave you here, if whatever is out there doesn't kill you, this cave will or maybe you'd die of a heart attack first,"
With the back of his hand, Marius wiped the sweat off his forehead, "It shouldn't be here, but it is. Why did it come here?" Marius mumbled
"Giganteres" He muttered
Elias and Margo's breaths were caught in their throats as they gazed into the eye of the Gigantes. Any normal person would have initially thought it was another mountain emerging from the mist, but it was something far more incredible—and terrifying.
The Giganteres towered before them, a colossal titan, its form almost indistinguishable from the natural world it inhabited. It was as if the earth itself had risen, shaped into a creature of unimaginable scale. Massive cliffs and spires of stone jutted out from its body, draped in lush greenery that cascaded down its sides like ancient, overgrown ruins.
The Giganteres' surface was dotted with vast plateaus where forests thrived, and waterfalls spilled from its heights, plummeting down into the abyss below.
The creature's head was obscured by clouds, its features almost lost in shadow, yet Elias could sense the weight of its gaze, a primal force that made him feel insignificant. As the Giganteres moved, the ground beneath their feet trembled a slow, ponderous quake that echoed through the mountains.
Each step it took was a mountain reshaping itself, causing avalanches to cascade down its legs, which were as thick as ancient trees.
The air was filled with the scent of earth and damp moss, and the sound of the Giganteres' breath—a deep, resonant rumble that reverberated through the air, shaking the stones around them. The creature's back was a living landscape, teeming with life, a world unto itself.
Margo whispered, her voice trembling with awe and fear, "It's like a walking mountain..."
Elias could only nod, words failing him as he watched the Giganteres disappear slowly into the mist, its towering form becoming one with the mountains once again.
'That is not a creature, at least not a natural one. Now I know why I have never heard of a Giganteres before; it's simply because that's not a Giganteres; in fact, a Giganteres does not exist; it is just the name Marius gave to a creature he didn't understand. That creature is a..'
"Golem," Elias announced
"Say what?" Margo asked
"We are looking at a fucking golem,"
"A golem? This huge, I don't think that's possible," Margo said, her eyes never shifting from the Golem; even if she tried, she could barely do it as the Golem was just that huge!
Elias pointed to the head of the golem, "Look over there,"
Margo did as told and directed her gaze to the head of the golem,
"You sense that immense mana, don't you? It's all just concentrated in the head. If it was a living being, its mana would be spread all over its body but in this case, the man is emanating from a single point; the core" Elias explained