Chapter 510: Chapter 534: The Female Giant’s Corpse Chapter 510: Chapter 534: The Female Giant’s Corpse “Since we’re out here, let’s take care of the body together,” Lancelot said as he took two shovels out of the Dimensional Bag and tossed one to Bruto. “Let’s dig a hole in the snow close by to push the giant’s corpse into…”

“Then bury her?”

“Burn her,” Lancelot said as he took the first scoop of snow. “Right next to us is the cave where we set up the Teleportation Formation, leaving the body unattended might attract some unnecessary trouble.”

“Makes sense,” Bruto nodded and also started shoveling. “She must have been quite a beauty among the giants, with the low temperatures of this realm preserving her body for a long time…”

“What are you thinking about? I’m worried she might turn into an Undead!”

“I… I was thinking… the corpse would attract those who feast on dead bodies, and this is a big piece of good meat,” Bruto scratched his head with some embarrassment. “By the way, who was this giantess? How did she find us?”

“She said her name was Gertie Oriel Sdottir, leader of a Frost Giant Tribe from a world in the Prime Material Plane,” Lancelot’s True Yuan flowed within him, and with one shovel he could turn up a pile of snow nearly as big as a dwarf. “But she didn’t serve Solheim, it was Olul.”

“You mean the Goddess of Ice we killed at the mountaintop?”

“That was just an incarnation, not even one-tenth of the main body’s strength,” Lancelot reminded the dwarf not to get too carried away. “She demanded the amulet from me, and as soon as I said we still needed it, she attacked.”

“I guess you moved to her back with the fastest speed and stabbed her in the back of the knee, and the rest was easy,” Bruto pointed to the bloodied hole on the corpse’s right leg. “That’s my signature tactic, you actually learned from me!”

“I didn’t realize it before, but now I find your strategy quite useful against tall enemies,” Lancelot went on to shovel again, only to find he had hit the hard, frozen ground. “Leave the ground to me; you just shovel the snow.”

Although Bruto had no supernatural powers, his natural talent derived from his bloodline made him incredibly fast at any excavating-related task. In just a moment, the two had dug a hole over six feet deep together. They pushed the giantess’s body down into the pit, and Lancelot even placed the severed head back in its original position.

“Your original worry was right,” Lancelot admitted to the dwarf as he looked over the body that seemed as if it were merely asleep. “She is indeed beautiful, and with the wicked nature of the Frost Giants, they would not let this body go to waste.”

“Are you still feeling guilty about having had to kill her?” Bruto gave a hearty pat on his companion’s back. “This is the Abyss, once a fight starts, there’s no room for turning back. If it were you about to be defeated, do you think she would have hesitated?”

“No,” Lancelot pursed his lips. “Thanks, I never expected you to be the comforting type with words.”

“Heh heh, what, you want me to give you a hug too?” Bruto laughed and pointed down at the body. “Those boots must be magical items, right? Don’t want them? And that wolf skin cloak looks quite nice as well.”

“Forget it; the scene of stripping clothes off a female corpse is too nefarious for me. I just can’t bring myself to do it,” Lancelot said, shaking his head helplessly and kicking a huge double-bladed battle axe over eight feet long at his foot. “I’ll just keep this as a memento.”

He spread his hands, and a lotus made of azure-green flames appeared in his palm, startling the Dwarf beside him. A mere five feet from Lancelot, the wave of heat that hit was so intense it was like standing in front of a furnace, his own beard and eyebrows actually began to curl at a visible rate.

“Wow, what’s this new trick?”

“Hmm… I haven’t thought of a name yet…”

With a gentle wave of his hand, Lancelot caused the Fire Lotus to float down onto the Giant’s corpse like falling snowflakes. The azure-green flames instantly filled the freshly dug pit, and although the firelight was not dazzling, it burned extremely fast. In just a moment, there was nothing left in the pit, not even ash remained.

“Fire Lotus of Karma, how does that sound?”

This was a new Divine Skill he had created, inspired by the azure fire that appeared when Frostslash activated the Qingyuan Sword Technique. It was the result of combining the Fire Attribute Enchantment. Drawing inspiration from it, he formed the Sword Qi from the Qingyuan Sword Technique into the shape of a lotus infused with the abundant fire elemental power from the Spiritual Energy of Abyss, resulting in this astonishingly powerful Fire Lotus.

As for the temperature of the Fire Lotus, like most Cultivation Techniques, those transformed from one’s own True Yuan would not harm him, so Lancelot could not determine its actual temperature. However, from the limited trials, it was certainly no less potent than Kalalin’s Fireball Technique, which meant that it might be tough against creatures like Bartez that were immune to fire damage, but more than sufficient against enemies like Trolls that feared flames.

“You can call it whatever you like, but please remember to remind me to stay away from that thing.”

After dealing with the remains, the human and Dwarf refilled the excavated soil. Then Bruto returned to the half-plane to continue resting, while Lancelot stood outside the cave watching as the snow once again covered all traces of the previous night’s events.

When day broke, he briefly explained the happenings of the previous night to everyone. Apart from surprise, the others were mostly grateful that he had single-handedly dealt with the enemies that had attacked during the night watch. During a journey of adventure, it was inevitable to encounter attacks while camping, which was why it was necessary to keep a night watch. However, the primary duty of the watchman should be to awaken the others timely, something Lancelot had clearly not done well enough.

After everything was packed up, the group once again boarded the snow sled pulled by the huge wolves, speeding towards the south. Their destination was Gjollgard Fortress, located three hundred miles from here. Even though traveling by snow sled was the fastest means of transport on this plane, the anticipated arrival time was still four days away.

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Unfortunately, that fortress was also where most Frost Giants from Warrior Village were headed, and those loyal to Kostcheqi formed hunting squads, patrolling back and forth between two strategic locations. Whether it was the Frost Giants from either side, the group did not want to risk being exposed and fighting them, so detouring consumed even more time.

By the time they finally arrived at Gorgiad Fortress, it was seven days later.

“Ah, how are we going to handle this…” Standing on a small hill, Bruto let out a helpless sigh.

“It is a bit troublesome,” agreed Alamir standing beside him, something rare for him to do, “Looking from here, that fortress isn’t even as big as my fingernail, but there’s no cover ahead, we can’t get any closer.”

“I think we could just head to the next location, there’s nothing we can do here.” The Dwarf shook his head and sighed, “How could that fortress be taken down? It’s just a death trap laid by Kostcheqi.”