Chapter 34: Berserker (2)

Rowan would have been shocked by these giants. If he had not seen bigger in that world with the Red Moon. And unlike those giants that felt unassailable, these just felt powerful. Enough to kill him? Maybe, but Rowan was not going by logic currently.

Events around him had pushed his mind to a singular purpose. Which was: Protect what was left of his people and put down the monsters.

He had no time for fancy introspection. No thought on the actions he was committing, just a sheer drive to stop the souls that were coming to him for solace.

Their remembrances these soul brought with them were tearing his psyche apart.

These monstrosities ahead of him should be the Giant battle form. Which was a fusion of hundreds of Battle Form Abominations.

Their appearances would put all nightmares he had in his previous life to shame. How do you even begin describing a chaotic creature such as this?

They generally walked on two legs, but none of the giants were the same, one had dozens of snarling faces of Abomination on their chest, with a head that had only a single eye.

As always, they had no skin, so a massive pile of warped muscles and viscera adorned the bodies of the Saints, with bones poking from unexpected areas of the bodies.

Another giant had three arms and its fingers were the arms of individual battle form Abomination. The shapes these giants had were so disjointed that it would drive a normal human insane, for their proportions spoke of a thoroughly alien mind, that was impossible for a sane mind to comprehend.

An Abomination was a lot like a colony of insects, and there were many theories on how they were created.

The most popular was that Abominations were a Mutation of a powerful Dominator who failed in transcending his state of change. Moreover, there was much evidences that supported this theory. Abominations were mostly seen where powerful Dominators died.

Legends spoke of entire dead empires and forgotten civilizations, where underneath lies ancient Abomination with the power of gods.

Maeve zoomed past him, perhaps she judged he would not make it quickly enough. Although Rowan was fast, she was still clearly faster. Rowan was sure she was a Peak Legendary Dominator. He was encouraged however that now he could clearly follow her movement.

Silver sparkles began to materialize around her charging figure, and she entered battle with the giant.

Rowan shook his thought away from his musing on the origins of Abomination, the mind it seems would always wander.

He pushed his focus into the coming battle, he observed the fray ahead, and the figure that battled the Giant Abominations.

Maeve had gone all out, she held two giant hammers—Her favorite. Her figure flashed between the legs of a Giant Abomination, and she swung her hammers, when they made contact, a sound like mountains exploding rang out.

She had been with him ever since he was a child, and every so often he forgot how gifted and powerful she was, even though he now suspected she was at peak legendary, she seemed able to draw more power than she should be able to from her bloodline.

She moved with the grace of a ballerina, the preciseness of a mechanical watch, and hit like a tank. Her twin hammers pressed against the air, creating shrill sounds and leaving a red glow behind that faded after a short while.

There was already a collapsed giant, with his head caved in. The giants were slowly recovering, their vitality burned the air, as their bodies shifted and realigned, yellow blood that resembled pus flowed down like rivers, and whatever damage she could dish out, the giants slowly recovered.

These giants appeared to be unkillable. Their bodies seemed to discard the damaged parts whenever it was needed.

But Rowan was not going to let this fallen giant recover, if he could help it, and he thought he might have the right weapon for the job.

Rowan called upon the full might of Soul Seizer and the bracelet around his wrist floated behind him, creating a circular ring of bone that appeared eerily majestic. The bones were now stained a shade of gold. This was a result of his Constitution surpassing a hundred points, his bones began to transform to metal.

Rowan had reached the battle, and he leapt on the fallen giant that was on its way to its feet, he used the bumps and pustules on the bleeding giant to find a way to its head. With a loud cry, he used both hands to forcefully plunge his blades into the forehead of the giant. The floating ring gave a long-drawn-out hum and the giant collapsed.

The body fell with a loud thump, that shook the ground and the battlefield stilled for a second. It would seem that the giants had many bodies merged, and so were their souls. Killing one was enough for Soul Seizer to gain access to their combined souls.

Rowan ripped it out.

Rowan slid down the body of the fallen giant, and yelled at Maeve, "Break them and I shall kill them."

Maeve nodded in understanding, and with a fell grace, she twirled around a giant, building up momentum in her hammer. With bone crushing force, she hammered the shin of a hulking Abomination. The bones broke with a crack, and it began to fall to it's side with a pained roar.

Rowan timed the fall of the giant and jumped, adjusting his trajectory, he used the momentum of the falling giant to slit the throat. There was a thick layer of muscles and cartilage, and Rowan blade failed to cut through.

Like a monkey, Rowan climbed the giant, dodging grasping fingers, when he got to the stomach, he could no longer hold on. The giant defensive movement grew in intensity. But he did not need to go higher. Rotating the blades, he stabbed deeply into the stomach, and he began to run across the torso to the other side, while his blade slid through the tough muscle of the stomach.

The twisted internal organs of the giant exploded out of the massive opening he created, but this was not a fatal wound to these monsters; however, Rowan had killed a couple of the fused Abomination inside this Giant and that was enough for Soul Seizer.

Free to battle only one giant. Maeve began to show her ferocity and power. The giant legs became two pieces of broken pillars. It's reaching hands were crushed, and with a yell, Maeve hammered its skull into mush.

Even with all this punishment, the body of the giant was realigning itself, a massive vein that was filled with glowing red energy began to emerge from the spine of the creature.

It didn't heal it wounds, it forcefully joined its body to those of the two fallen giants. Wounds were fused back to a close, limbs were bent and reshaped, flesh was melted together, glued in place by the glowing vein.

The loud cry of the Abomination shattered the fog. Broken bones penetrated its skin, and a rib cage that grew to protect the skull.

Maeve sighed, breathing hard, as she blew a strand of hair out of her face using her mouth, "I think I might have gone too far with this one."

"You think!" Rowan yelled back, his sights fixed on the disgusting spectacle happening.

This giant was growing and evolving in battle! The giant shook Maeve away, and pounded on her with two great limbs that were a mishmash of bones, gristle, and muscles held together by ropes of glowing red energy.

Maeve dodged the assault with stellar footwork, then she was blasted away by a third limb that emerged from the giant spine. Rowan barely dodged the body of Maeve that was flung into the fog, she had somehow materialized a shield quickly enough to avoid the full brunt of the blow.

The giant Abomination wailed at Rowan. He could hardly move before the Abomination raised both hands and smashed the ground. The ground caved in. A massive number of rocks flew through the air. The vibration from that blow reached Rowan and his body was shaken and tossed into the air.

Inside his shell. Rowan vomited blood.