With the death of the Overlord, the Giants had realized that things were not going their way, and began to retreat towards the portals.
They were in for a shock when they got there, as Rae and Niall had killed anything that moved in the camp on the other side, and then had returned here to ambush an Overlord together.
It was good to see Rae making friends with similar interests.
Karl rejoined the others as the Giants ran away, but didn't let down his guard.
"Keep ready. They're going to find a massacre on the other side of the Portals, and they might come back." He warned before Niall could.
The Monarch leading the other team came over to shake his hand with a smile. "I've already greeted the others. I am Lady Othello, Head Knight of the Silver Blades." She introduced herself.
"Karl, The Beast Master."
She smiled. "I gathered that much from the Cerro. I must say, young Thor is quite the cavalry unit. I don't think that I've ever seen a breaching charge quite so effective."
Thor stomped his feet and wobbled his head in pleasure at the praise. Gravity Slam and Earthquake worked amazingly well to put the Giants off balance for him to charge into the defence lines.
"I appreciate the rescue. Even with a paladin of my power, we were having issues. But what is that combat power you have? Not your beasts, which are an unfair advantage to start with. But your personal combat power." Lady Othello asked, an excited gleam in her eyes at the chance to gain new knowledge.
"I can share some of the skills and physical stats of my beasts. With five of them at Monarch Rank, I would estimate that my base physical abilities are twice what an average Monarchs are. Mostly, I only use a few of the most efficient attack skills, though there are more."
"Like Soul Chain?" The Overlord Rank Paladin asked.
Karl shook his head. "I have a weapon with Soul Steal and Soul Damage on it. That's the effect you're seeing, not one of my personal skills."
She shrugged. "Either way, you should have seen how terrified they were when you literally ripped the soul essence out of a Monarch Ranked Giant.
It makes a bit of a spectacle, and I do hope that you have a plan for when they start to focus on you to eliminate the threat."
Karl nodded silently, while Rae transformed back to human and rode one of her Golems over to the conversation.
"Are we making plans to deal with the Mountain Giants? I vote genocide." Lady Othello looked confused at the new arrival, but Niall just laughed.
"Lady O, meet Queen Rae Bloodbath. One of Karl's bonded partners, and a Monarch Rank Bloodbath Spider." He explained with a wink toward his counterpart.
Othello smiled at Rae. "I saw your handiwork today, and I have no doubt that it is an actual possibility."
Tabitha came over and cleared her throat. "I hate to break up the happy fun time, but the Giants have clearly advanced past our lines. We need to scout them out and find the advance strike force teams that have made it past the defenders."
That brought everyone back on task.
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