Chapter 98: Female Giant Annie [Follow the reading!!]

His grip on the arm loosened, and in an instant a gust of force struck from behind.

"Bang~!!"

Eyes narrowing slightly, Fulade realized that this strike not only surged in speed, but with the boost of that speed, its power had also grown by several degrees out of thin air.

Looking at another cyan light ring rising from the female Giant Annie's body, Fulade vaguely realized something.

"Augmentation rings!?"

Throwing out a punch, this time Fulade stepped forward proactively and launched an offensive.

He wanted to see just how capable this female Giant truly was.

Her figure turning into afterimages, the female Giant Annie's body instantly produced over a dozen phantom images difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

For a moment, the female Giant fell on the back foot, left with nothing but passive defense, barely able to parry.

Facing Fulade, who had clearly suppressed his own aura, she still felt a powerful suppressive force — something Annie had never experienced before.

A surge of stubbornness instantly welled up.

Never mind that she looked petite, and was vaguely ostracized and marginalized by male Giants of the same rank.

That was because they could not accept the fact of being defeated by a female Giant.

After all, as a creature race dominated by males, being unable to defeat a female at the same rank level was, one had to say, a complete loss of face.

This was also why, even though the female Giant Annie possessed considerable strength, she was still constantly ostracized.

This was not solely due to the low status of female Giants; it also involved the unwillingness to admit being defeated by a female Giant.

"Bloodlust~!"

A sharp cry rang out, and the female Giant Annie, arms raised and constantly parrying, instantly erupted with a surge of blood-colored energy, a blood-colored light ring instantly enveloping her entire body.

Follen and the other male Giants nearby, seeing this, were greatly alarmed and shouted: "Don't~!"

The female Giant Annie's body instantly swelled; her already bulging chest grew even more massive, and in but an instant, she transformed into a twelve-meter-tall Giant.

At the same time, well-proportioned muscles bulged one after another, and a powerful energy flowed rapidly through her body.

Looking at Annie, whose eyes were blood-red and filled with a trace of madness, seemingly losing her sanity, Fulade's expression turned serious.

"Something akin to a berserk state."

"Whoosh-boom~!!"

Accompanied by a tremendous roar, there appeared a red fist-shaped phantom.

Looking at the stone hall wall behind him that had been blasted apart, Fulade, amid his amazement, no longer slighted Annie in the slightest.

Just such a single strike had already faintly touched the level of a Tier-Two creature.

Moreover, the other party clearly still had room to continue developing and growing, which made Fulade unable to help feeling the delight of having found a treasure.

Since he now knew the other party's powerful potential, Fulade did not plan to keep dragging it out.

A powerful semi-arc-shaped energy phantom burst forth from Annie's nearly eight-meter-long legs.

A voice suddenly rang from Fulade's mouth: "Reverse~!"

Blood Manipulation talent, activated.

As Fulade gently flicked upward with his right fingertip, the powerful blood energy surging through Annie's body was instantly halted.

A painful scream issued from Annie's mouth.

The arc-shaped energy that had burst from her legs instantly veered off course, passing above Fulade's head.

"Boom~!! Crash~"

The top of the stone hall behind him instantly collapsed, rocks continuously falling.

This gave the Blood Race guards and Isabel and the others waiting outside a great shock.

The constant sounds coming from within the hall had already made everyone secretly worried; now, seeing such a scene, everyone instantly could sit still no longer. Meanwhile inside the great hall, taking advantage of the moment Annie's blood was disrupted, Fulade came before Annie and reached his slender finger toward the space between her brows.

A mental impact instantly rushed into the female Giant Annie's sea of consciousness.

In her daze, Annie only felt a wave of turbulence coming from her sea of consciousness, and her blood-red eyes instantly regained a trace of clarity.

At the same time, the red, yellow, and green augmentation rings on her body, with the mental connection severed and unstable, also began to grow unstable, dissolving into points of light and gradually dissipating.

"Annie, you're quite remarkable. Follow me from now on, how about it?" Fulade said with a smile, looking at Annie before him who was gradually regaining clarity.

Speaking of which, in this exchange Fulade had still taken some advantage.

Although he had suppressed his own aura to remain at the same tier as Annie.

However, neither his Blood Manipulation talent nor the quality of his mental power would obviously weaken along with the suppression of his own realm.

Innately, Fulade already held the advantage, which was also why he was able to restrain Annie so easily.

Of course, Annie's weakness was also very apparent — her mental power was relatively frail, and her control over mental power was also quite crude.

This was perhaps because Giants themselves primarily evolved passively through their physical bodies, and were not skilled at developing the use of mental power.

For the Giant race, who had no accomplishments whatsoever in mental power cultivation, they naturally could not provide Annie any form of help; being able to figure things out on her own to this extent was already quite remarkable.

Facing Fulade's invitation, Annie was clearly stunned; for some reason, Fulade actually saw a trace of being moved in this female Giant? What was there to be moved about.

It was only later, when Fulade asked about this matter, that he learned from her that among the Giant race, she had always been an outcast.

No matter how hard she tried, no matter how powerful she became, she could never gain the recognition of her Giant peers.

Only because... looking at Annie, who had suddenly transformed into the form of an ordinary human girl before him, Fulade's expression could not help but be somewhat taken aback.

This was a petite girl at most one meter sixty in height, with a slender figure, golden twin-tails tied behind her head, and fairly fair skin.

Clear abdominal lines appeared on Annie's taut, supple lower abdomen, making her waist appear especially slender and firm.

Fulade examined the "female Giant" before him with a rather peculiar expression, momentarily unsure how to speak.

Isabel, seeing this, hurriedly took off her excess clothing and draped it over Annie, while simultaneously shooting Fulade a fierce glare with her apricot eyes.

Fulade, coming back to his senses, raised his hand and gave an awkward cough; looking at Annie now clothed, Fulade said: "In the future, I can have a Wizard craft you a set of defensive armor and clothing that adjusts to your body size."

This was still a suggestion made by Alide'anna, after Fulade's extremely flashy act of blowing wind last time.

All you need is to use materials with good magical properties, forge them into enchantable armor or clothing, then apply a Magic Array that adjusts body size, and thereafter you can compensate for such a flaw.

You can also add other Magic Arrays, such as a solidified array that enhances defensive performance, arrays that amplify energy or agility, and so on.

When Alide'anna mentioned this, Fulade realized that this was exactly the magical equipment that often appears in novels.

At that time, the magical world had not yet had the concept of magical equipment; perhaps it existed before, but as Magic Materials became scarce, the craft had long been lost.

The so‑called magical equipment of today is merely a simple inlay of a magic gem, or a magic crystal unintentionally born from a monster's mind.

It has essentially no technical content.

Annie seemed completely unbothered by the exposure of her body; of course, if one looks closely, one can still detect a faint shyness in her eyes.

Facing Isabel's kindness, Annie merely gave a faint nod, appearing somewhat aloof.

Obviously Annie does not know how to interact with people, which naturally stems from her upbringing.

Annie lifted her chin, her pitch‑black eyes staring directly at Fulade.

Two golden ponytails behind her swayed continuously as she lifted her chin, and together with the innocent human‑like face she now had, she looked even cuter.

However, when she saw the pair of huge, full breasts that were extremely mismatched with her petite figure.

A strong contrast instantly stood out.

It gave a vivid impression of a childlike face with massive breasts.

(End of Chapter)