Xaren remembered that elven mage with the magie—the same tome that had helped him learn the basic spells he koday. Unfortunately, his aptitude fi his past life was abysmal, so he hadn’t bothered to read past the beginner-level spells. Instead, the book had beeo gather dust in his suitcase.‘I wish I’d read more of it. Maybe there was some gravity magiside or something useful...’Lost in his thoughts, he almost missed the fact that the others were staring at him with curious expressions. Finally turning to them, he raised a brow and Ilya broke the sileh a questioone carrying a tinge of disbelief. “Xaren, you read?”Caught off guard by the simplicity of the question, Xaren blinked in surprise.“Of course, I read. What kind of question is tha—oh!”Midway through his response, realization struck him like a bolt of lightning. He was supposed to be a newbie demon, fresh out of the newborn zone just days ago. And here he was, casually admitting to reading a book—a magic book, no less!‘I slipped up. Either they’ll think I’m suspicious, or they’ll think I’m some kind y. Better steer this in a dire I trol.’Making that decision in an instant, Xaren heaved an exaggerated sigh and feigned reluce. He g them as though debating whether or not to speak. After a moment, he sighed again and muttered.“…I have a skill…”That was all he said, but it was enough. The others immediately nodded in uanding, their curiosity satis?ed. Just as he’d hoped, their thoughts turoward the idea of him possessing some rare skill that allowed him to read.‘Well, I do have such a skill so it wasn’t a lie…’With the slip-up ly handled, Kravok shifted his attention back to the summoning magic. His eyes lit up as realization dawned.“You want them t more elves here so we kill more elves a more EXP, right?”Xaren turo him, his dark red eyes narrowing in a mock-serious expression. “Seems like this guy’s the real smartass.”Kravok pu?ed out his chest, a proud grin spreading across his face. His moment of glory was cut short when Carack smacked him on the back of his head, rolling his eyes.“You ?nally got something right for once, and now you think you’re the smartest person in the world.”Just as their banter picked up, Bjorn, standing silently to the side, suddenly spoke in his usual broken ce.“More elves, more EXP. More EXP, more levels. More levels, low rank is closer.”He pieced everything together in his own way and then o show his agreement with the pn to let the elves finish their summoning.Ilya, also eager to get to Level 100 as soon as possible, crossed her arms, her gaze sing the chaotic battle?eld below.“Then shouldn’t we stop the other demons from killing the giants proteg the elves?”Xaren shrugged nontly, gesturing toward the glowing summoning circle as he responded. “Oh, that’s not really a problem. The spell’s almost done.”He poi the circle, direg their attention to it’s the rings around it.“From up here, we get a clear view. Look at the ring of light—it’s nearly pleted a full revolution. No matter how many demons are down there, they won’t be able to break through the giants in time to stop it. In other words, we should be seeing a bunch of new arrivals pretty soon.”Carack rubbed his hands together, a grin spreading across his face. “Wow, I wonder how many elves? Or maybe giants?”“Most likely giants alohey’re using the blood of giants as the summoning catalyst for the spell. So, yeah, probably just giants.”Xaren responded, but when he mentiohe summoning catalyst phrase, Kravok tilted his head, fusion evident on his face. “Summoning Catalyst?”Carack seized the opportunity to make fun of Kravok, grinning mischievously as he shouted.“You’re using too many big words, Xaren. Dumb it down for this idiot!” Kravok smacked Cara the back of the head with a heavy hand, muttering something unintelligible as Carack ughed. Xaren chuckled as well before a simpli?ed expnation.“Basically, sihe spell was cast using giants’ blood, what’s going to e out of there are giants.”Kravok scratched his head, ting on his ?ngers before he ?dently decred.“They should bring at least twenty-?ve giants at level 90—?ve for each of us.”Hearing that, Xaren nearly fell over in shock. His head snapped in Kravok’s dire, eyes wide in disbelief.“What the hell do you mean ?ve giants at level 90?! Y to kill me?!”Kravok blinked, momentarily fused, before realization dawned on him. “Oh, that’s right. Your strange weight magic is the reason why you rack up as many kills as us.e to think of it... what level are you, Xaren?”Xaren opened his mouth to respond, but before he could, the magic power from the summoning circle surged again aurned his gaze there.“Seems the spell has pleted.”Seeing the pilr of light shooting into the sky, they all stood at the ready, filled with anticipation. ons drawn and glowing with imbued magic, each prepared for the onsught they assumed was ing.“Twenty-?ve giants. Twenty-?ve giants. Twenty-?ve giants.” Kravok muttered to himself like a mantra, gripping his Warhammer tightly while Carack just ughed.Xaren, though silent, shared their anticipation. His thoughts ed with possibilities. How many enemies would emerge? Would it truly be a swarm of giants? Or was he wrong and it would be a mix of giants and elves?But as the spell’s energy began to coalesd the light dimmed to reveal the fruits of its casting, Xaren’s eyes widened abruptly.From within the pilr of light stepped a single ?gure. One giant.20 metres tall, he was. But he was still just One giant.For perspective, it would take at least ?fteen Xarens stacked atop one ao match his height.“What…? Just one?”Kravok muttered, his voice den with fusion. Ilya, Carack, Bjorn, and even the demons on the grouhe city tre were stunned into silehe sheer amount of magic that had been poured into the summoning suggested aire army, yet only a solitary giant appeared.Even more so, this giant had no magic power and no ons.“Is it defective?” Carack mused aloud, frowning as he observed the giant’s ck of ons.Even though giants were known for their paratively weaker magic, they always had enough to amplify their ridiculous strengths even further. But this one was void of any magic power as far as they could tell.Xaren, however, felt something else entirely. His heart thudded in his chest as his eyes locked onto the giant, unmoving.“Aura…” His whisper was barely audible over the wind, but Ilya, standing closest to him, caught it and turned her head.“Aura? What’s that supposed to mean?”Her words seemed to fall on deaf ears as Xaren tio stare, his body tense.Below, the demons ?nally snapped out of their stupor. With roars and battle cries, they charged toward the lone giant, seeing it as an easy target.“No… no, no, no!” Xaren’s breath quied, and his heart sank. And then he screamed.“NOOO!! DON’T!! RUN AWAY!!!!”His desperate cry echoed across the rooftop, loud enough that even his panions ?inched.But the demons below paid him no heed. Why should they? The giant was without magic, without ons. To them, it was nothing more than an oversized, defenceless sb of meat.That was the sensus of around 80% of the demons who saw the giant appear.But this was a grave misassumption.None of them had reinated like Xaren did. None of them had knowledge from a previous life. They were still young and hadn’t bee able to properly differentiate Existence Realms.And that was why none of them realised what Xaren had realised wheared at the t figure.The unnamed giant stopped in his tracks, seemingly drawn by Xaren's frantic scream. His massive head turned, and his gaze locked onto Xaren.For a moment, it felt as though the world itself had fallen silent.Then, the giant grinned.Slowly, he raised his colossal fist high into the air.“No! RU OUT OF THERE!!” Xaren’s voice cracked as he screamed again, but his warnings were too te.The giant brought his ?st down, and the grouh its knuckles cracked with a sound like the sky itself splitting.An unimaginable shockwave erupted outward, carrying with it a force that seemed to shake the very earth.The city tre instantly turned into a bloodbath.The collision unleashed a violent explosion of energy, the impact sending demons and other smaller giants alike ?ying as though they were nothing more than rag dolls.The force ripped through the air in powerful waves, ?attening buildings in its path. Stone and wood shattered, fragments scattering like deadly shrapnel. Eructures crumbled, crashing down on those unfortunate enough to be beh them.Dozens of demons screamed as they were crushed uhe debris, their bodies squashed in an instant.Even those with rather strong magic power and demoniergy were helpless against the overwhelming bst. Their magid demoniergy barriers shattered like gss and their bodies hurled through the air as if gravity itself had abahem.In the tre of the crater that was now the city tre, the giant stood unmoving as he raised his hand once more.On the rooftop of the bell tower building, Xaren’s panions could only stare in disbelief.“What in the Abyss…?” Ilya whispered, her voice barely audible over the still-raging wind. “That kind of power… without any magic?”Carack was visibly sweating, his fingers ched so tightly that his knuckles turned white. Beside him, Kravok’s arms trembled, the Warhammer in his hands feeling heavier than ever before. This tense silence was broken through by Xaren’s loud voice.“It’s Aura! That giant is using Aura!”Ilya, her posure crag, shouted back, asking the question all of them desperately wanted an ao. “What the hell is Aura?!”But Xaren wasn’t in a state to give a proper expnation. His gaze remained ?xed on the giant, his mind rag.In a strained voice, he spat out the words he khey’d uand.“That thing’s a Master Realm Existence! Above Level 100! Low-Rank Giant!”