The moment he saw the barren giant appear, Xi Wei almost cursed out loud in his Divine Kingdom.
At first, he thought that the villagers were talking about barren giants because they were ignorant, mistaking the rock golems and other earth elemental creatures for barren giants. After all, barren giants were the most famous earth elemental creatures among humans besides the mountain giants.
Mountain giants were easily hundreds of meters tall, so there was no way they could mistake them for barren giants. That was why many humans subconsciously mistook large rock golems for barren giants.
The problem was that barren giants usually lived in the wastelands, in areas like the Loess Plateau where soil and water were severely eroded. They wouldn't go near coastal areas because the humidity in the air would make them uncomfortable.
That was why Xi Wei didn't even think that the enemy was a barren giant.
"Things aren't looking good."
The barren giant was an epic creature, an adult barren giant could easily take on a normal dragon in a one-on-one fight and still have a fifty percent chance of winning.
Even if the barren giant that appeared wasn't an adult yet, it was still in the middle stage between infancy and adulthood. If you were to use a Digimon's classification, it would probably be considered a growth stage.
But even so, it was already able to chase Transcendents all over the place.
Not only that, the barren giant was a spawn of the Lord of the Peaks, and the Lord of the Peaks was a subordinate god of the Earth Weaver, one of the Seven Divine Fathers.
"No wonder I didn't see it at first."
As a spawn of the Lord of the Peaks, the barren giant also had the Lord of the Peaks' divine power. Just like the divine barrier that formed around the churches in major cities, it could also block Xi Wei's Divine Eye.
If Xi Wei's original intention was to train the players and not interfere in this battle, then with the appearance of the barren giant, he couldn't do anything about it.
After all, the battle between the players and the barren giant was purely based on their personal grudge, and from the Lord of the Peaks' point of view, it was like a dog biting another dog. Even if its own dog was killed, it wouldn't do anything, and could only blame its own dog for being weak. As a god, other than a newbie like Xi Wei, who didn't have tens of thousands of dogs under them? Arguing with a dog was tantamount to lowering one's own style.
But if Xi Wei interfered in the fight, it would be the same as him killing the dog right in front of its owner, and it would be normal for the owner to turn against him.
Though Xi Wei was not afraid of the Lord of the Peaks with Aslan the Lion of Justice watching over him, his boss was the undeniable Divine Father. If things were to play out like in most web novels where the young would be beaten up and the old would come, Xi Wei would probably be beaten into a braised lion's head even if he was tied up with the Great Lion …
"Sigh, looks like it's a little dangerous." In that case, Xi Wei could only follow his heart and stare at the Players. "Forget it. Let them learn that the Players aren't invincible."
Be that as it may, Xi Wei still considered the possibility of the Players winning … While the chances were slim, what if?
Thus, he pulled out Evil Bones from the Tomb of the God Binding Tomb and broke off the first part of its little toe. Then, he stuffed it head first back into the tomb.
He then used the divinity he had regurgitated while digesting the Aquatic Lord's divinity to soften Rotten Bones' toe bone, intending to use it to craft a golden legendary equipment.
This was the first Legendary equipment. He believed that the players would like it — if they could get it.
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"Things aren't looking good." Edward made the same judgment as his God.
The thirty-meter-tall Barren Giant that weighed close to a thousand tons was terrifyingly strong. At Level 50, it was far stronger than any Boss that the Players had seen so far, and its template was the first to appear as a 'Lord'. The strongest before this was only the Rotten Bones Archbishop's' Boss Template '.
Aside from a few Shield Warriors, the other players were basically one-shot by its attacks. If it wasn't for the fact that there were quite a number of Clerics participating in this event, allowing them to revive every time someone died, the Players would have already started losing members.
But it was only a matter of time before they were defeated. After all, every death meant a loss of EXP, and not many players could afford to lose that much EXP. Not to mention, if the Clerics suffered a large number of casualties, the Players' defense line would immediately crumble!
What made the Players even more uncomfortable was that their attacks dealt very little damage to the Barren Giant. After being attacked for a while, the Barren Giant's HP bar had dropped to less than a tenth!
"There's no way to fight this, we can only retreat!" Eggface couldn't help but yell at Edward when he realized that all his arrows were bounced off the Barren Giant. "Even I can't break through its defense!"
Edward fell silent as well.
Indeed, this Barren Giant was completely different from any enemy they had fought so far, and the Players' skills and resurrection abilities weren't going to be the deciding factor.
Edward's brows furrowed at this thought. No, even though skills and resurrection abilities weren't the deciding factor, but without them, the Players would probably all be dead already. Resurrection increased the Players' attack time and opportunities, and skills allowed them to deal damage to the Barren Giant. Even Eggface's arrows that couldn't break through the Barren Giant's defense took off 1 HP.
What they lacked now was an opportunity to deal damage.
Skills were dead, but the Players were alive. If they could use their skills flexibly, they might be able to create unexpected results.
"Its eyes might be its weakness … Joe, can you and the other Warriors distract it a little?" Edward pulled himself together and began to command the Players again. "It's best if you can pull it away, we need time to prepare!"
"Got it! Heh, you bastard! "
Joe and the Warriors tried to use Taunt on the Barren Giant, but it was obviously immune to it.
Since the Barren Giant had yet to reach adulthood and was still a ways away from being an Epic tier, it wasn't completely immune to Xi Wei's Rule of the Game, but it wasn't completely controlled by it either. The most classic example of this was that it was immune to control skills like Taunt — some players had successfully used Fling on it, but they clearly weren't able to lift this monster that weighed almost a thousand tons.
At this rate, forget pulling it away, they wouldn't even be able to attract its aggro.
That was when Joe suddenly noticed a Rock Giant Soldier that was slowly healing itself.
His eyebrows furrowed, and he quickly jumped onto the Rock Giant Soldier.
Elemental creatures were hard to kill, but that wasn't the case for the Players — it didn't matter if they were elemental creatures or something else, as long as they had HP, they could kill them.
Joe gripped his sword with both hands, his familiar spirit attaching itself to the blade. He swung it with all his might, and with a loud crack, the Rock Giant Soldier that was already on its last breath stopped healing itself. Cracks started appearing all over its body, and it finally crumbled into a pile of rubble.
The Barren Giant stopped in its tracks towards the Mages and Clerics.
Joe put on a very exaggerated and apologetic expression. "I'm sorry, is this your aunt? I accidentally killed her. "
The Barren Giant slowly turned its head, its huge single eye staring straight at Joe.
The latter looked at it, and then used [Evil Sword, Mountain Crushing Strike], ignoring the other Players' cries of "Hey, don't kill steal", and cut down a nearby Rock Giant Soldier.
"Oh, is this your uncle? Sorry, you guys all look the same, I can't tell you apart. "
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