Meera blasted out of the ruined village so fast that she was sure she must've broken the sound barrier. So many of her armor's mirrors were trailing behind her that the cold wind bit at her exposed skin, but she didn't care. There was murder on her mind.

She didn't even stop for a moment to consider how she would kill an unkillable beast. That would be a problem for later. First, she had to find that thing, and she knew how.

She blasted straight up, until she was so high that she had crossed nearly half the Mantle's height. She stopped when she was barely touching the clouds. She surveyed her surroundings and didn't take long to find what she was looking for—a thick blanket of clouds. Clouds that peppered the ground with ice and snow.

For Valan traveled under the cover of such clouds. They were far to the west, almost directly in the line of sight of the Winter Spire. That was good, for what she was about to do, she wanted the Hierarch and his pathetic Cult to hear the creature's screams.

She zoomed in with her eyes, and through the thick snow, she saw the shadow of a giant moving slowly amongst the trees. Without a second thought, she blasted off towards the giant.

As she closed in on it and broke through the small blizzard, she saw him. He was a giant, with deep blue veins running across his sky-blue skin. Valan's face was grotesque. An assortment of scars and pimples marred his already hideous face. He had dark blue hair falling in dread past his shoulders. He stood over thirty feet tall and, save for a dirty loincloth, wore no clothing. He held a wooden club, which looked to be a tree trunk that was frozen over.

He roared when he saw Meera coming for her. She was about to smash straight through its chest, but she stopped as she wouldn't make it this easy. She wanted to make this thing hurt. Besides, she didn't know what skills this giant had. After her encounter with the basilisk, she was wary of touching unknown creatures.

[Ice Giant – Level 729]

Meera would've smiled if she weren't so angry. I'm really going to enjoy killing you.

Valan swung his mighty club at her, and she dodged. He tried again, and she dodged again. They did this dance a few times, and she realized that he wasn't so fast. Though whenever the club crashed into the ground, icy spikes exploded outwards.

She must've angered Valan, for he roared in frustration. It hefted its club and swung it through the air and hurled ice spikes the size of tree trunks at her. They came at her in a wave. She dropped to the ground and avoided them altogether.

But Valan had anticipated that, or his reflexes were simply that good. He stomped on the ground, and ice spikes erupted out of the ground and raced for her. She littered the ground with tiny shards from her armor and teleported to safety.

Another shout of frustration escaped his throat. He pounded on his bare chest with his free hand and shot a shiny beam from his hand. Meera ran to the side and dodged the beam, but whatever the beam touched, it froze solid. Thankfully, Meera was far enough away that it didn't affect her, but if she were even slightly slow, she would've frozen solid by now.

Valan made a frustrated sound. "Why do you run, coward? Come face your death."

That gave her pause. She didn't know he could talk. All this time, she kept thinking it was a beast like the Glacidrak, with a singular purpose. For some reason, this gave Meera some satisfaction that she would make this giant realize the folly of his actions before dispatching it.

She stepped out from behind the tree and rose into the air until she was face to face with him.

"I see you are not a mindless beast," she said.

"What made you think that I, the great immortal Valan, was mindless?" He sounded angry, as if Meera had hurt his pride. "I am the strongest of my kin. They all call me Rudai and pay tribute to me."

"A tribute of blood?"

He huffed. "What other sort is there?"

Meera clenched her hands into fists. "I see…I'm here to repay you for what you did last night."

He frowned. His scars made it seem like he had no eyes at all. "You come from that puny human village. They were hardly worth the effort. They used to cower in that hut of theirs, thinking I didn't know where they were."

"You didn't know where they were," Meera countered. "If you had, you would've found them much earlier."

More frustration passed his face for having been called out on his bravado. Then he took a deep breath. He sniffed the air. "Ah, so it was you. I knew I had smelled something delicious…something powerful in that village. You must've left quite the smell for me to find that village."

Meera faltered. "W-What?"

"I came looking for you, but found only those pesky humans, but you're here now and will satisfy my hunger. I've never had an Ascendant before. Oh, how Elrasil would love to get his hands on you, but no, you will go straight into my belly. Maybe you might even find some of them alive down there. Those humans you so love."

Meera trembled with rage. She didn't even want to think about his claim that he had gone to the village for her. If she thought about that now, she would fall into a well of guilt that wouldn't let her focus on the fight. Instead, she made the simmering guilt to power her rage that would kill this beast.

"I'm going to rip you apart piece by piece."

She launched several of her chakrams at the giant at once. They blasted off from her back at such speed that they were nothing but streaks of light. That was what he thought as well, until they ripped through him. He didn't even cry out in pain as dark blood spilled out from his wounds. Then the blood receded into his body, and the cuts sealed themselves. It didn't even leave behind a thin scar.

If it were a healing skill, it was as good as her Greater Vitalize, perhaps even greater. By the looks of it, that was what it looked like, as the giant hadn't even flinched in pain, but she had to make sure if that were the case.

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She recalled her chakrams and teleported aside to dodge his response, which came in the form of an ice lance the size of a large tree. It froze everything where it landed.

Meera shot him with a Mirror Shard Fury. Sharp, jagged mirror shards drilled into his leg.. He buckled to this side and steadied himself by jamming his club into the ground. She didn't wait for him to respond, and instead followed up with Mirror's Wrath, and blew up all the shards that were sticking out of his leg and littering the ground around him.

An explosion sounded in the late afternoon. Meera was sure the sound must've carried for miles, maybe even to the Winter Spire as well. But she didn't care about being discreet at the moment. She wanted to hurt this creature and bad, for what it did to that poor girl.

Valan's leg blew up. Chunks of its flesh rained down on the forest floor, as the rest of the leg was severed from its body and went flying off into the distance.

Let's see you try to regenerate that.

Valan hobbled on his other leg, which had been damaged by Mirror's Wrath as well. Eventually, he lost his balance and crashed to the floor. Now, he cried out in pain. His other leg, which was still attached to his body, started healing immediately, but the one that was not remained a stump. It didn't heal, nor did fresh skin grow over the damaged area. It simply remained an open wound.

Valan wailed in pain as he sat up, looking around for his leg. When he found it, he extended a hand towards it, an ice pole extended out from his hand, speared his severed leg, and he pulled his leg back to him with amazing speed. He put his leg to his thigh, and it just like that reattached itself. In mere moments, his leg was perfectly fine, like it had never been hurt at all.

I see…So, you do have a healing skill.

"You're not immortal at all," Meera stated. "You just have a strong healing skill."

He scoffed. "Two attacks and you think I am not immortal. I haven't begun to show you what I can do."

"Then bring it on. I wouldn't want you to think that I overpowered you too easily."

He stood and shook his club around and thrust it into the sky. The clouds overhead thickened, and the blizzard fastened. Snow fell in such droves that the world might as well have been hit with a white carpet. It covered her mirror shards, which stopped her teleporting momentarily, but she could fix that, no problem.

Before she could make a move, he vanished. She looked all around, and he was nowhere to be found. It was as if the snows had eaten him up. Then the winds picked up to her right. A massive wooden club appeared out of nowhere and smashed into her, sending her flying.

She hurtled through the trees before she came to a stop. Her entire right half was burning with an intense pain. Her arms and legs were mush, and several of her ribs must've punctured her lungs as it was tough to breathe.

She activated Greater Vitalize right away, and the pain subsided. It was a testament to her injuries that the pain did not vanish completely but only lessened to a dull ache as the healing skill fixed her broken body.

Valan laughed as he stomped over to where she lay. "Was that it? Are you dead already?"

She still couldn't see him, which terrified her. Thankfully, she lay in the shadow of a tree, so she activated Shroud of Shadows and turned invisible herself. Hoping that he didn't know where she was and that it would buy her some time to heal herself.

Then, to show him that she wasn't done, she activated Heaven's Wrath. He had already brought the clouds, so it would be a shame not to make use of them. They darkened to storm clouds, and then the rain of lightning bolts fell.

Thunder rolled through the air as bolt after bolt fell to the ground, igniting several trees. Then there was a distinct cry as one of the bolts must've hit the giant, and smoke rose off nothing.

Meera smiled. Found you.

He was close enough, so she extended her good hand towards him and ensnared him with a Nightstalker Bindings, and he stilled. She started to drink his Health, and hers recovered at a remarkable pace. In moments, she was as good as new. She dispelled her lightning storm, as even now, it used a lot of Mana.

Then she was about to launch her chakrams to cut him down to pieces, but ice spikes shot out of his body and broke her chains. A cool breeze permeated his feet and froze everything on the ground. She took to the air, just in time before it touched her.

Then he extended a hand to the sky, and the falling snow started to coalesce into a massive snowball in his hand. She thought he would hurl the snowball at her, but instead, he stuck the snowball onto the top of his club and made it into a mace.

Then he swung his mace.

And whenever he did, ice spikes hurled out of the weapon. She dodged a few and protected herself from others with Mirror Tower Shield. Her shields were strong enough to power through at least one wave of the spikes.

Meera was tired of only dodging and went on the offensive. She hurled a chakram at him, but the snow swirled around him like a fluid armor and smacked her chakram off course. She tried it again, and the same happened again.

She gritted her teeth and concluded that she needed to get him out of this infernal snow.

She armored up fully and flew straight for him. His eyes shone in triumph as he raised his club high in the air to finish her off.

But what he didn't know was that she hadn't recalled the chakram that he had smacked into the trees. Using Mirror Bolt, she was levitating it behind his raised arms. She activated her chakram's effect, increasing its size, and then recalled it to her.

Her chakrams would cut through anything to get back to her. Her big chakram smashed into his wrist and spun like a buzzsaw and cut through it like it was nothing. His club fell as the giant cried out.

She caught her chakram in both hands and didn't shrink it down to size, but instead held it out in front of her. She picked up the speed and slammed the big chakram into his chest.

He gasped as the force of the blow forced all the air out of his lungs, and the chakram must've ruptured a lung or two. She poured Mana into Mirror Bolt and pushed him out of his blizzard. He could do nothing as she flew him out of there. Trees smashed into his back, and he hung there on her big chakram with no hands, and bleeding stumps.

She didn't stop even when they were out of the blizzard and the forest. She flew him to the Pale Mantle and then changed directions to fly straight up the glacial wall. Her Mana was depleting at a terrible pace, and she hoped it lasted long enough for it to do what she wanted to do.

"Stop!" He cried. "What are you doing, you mad bitch."

That one word sealed his fate.

She thrust one hand into her Hoard Belt, pulled out a Mana potion, and drank it, without slowing their ascent. With her Mana refilled, she smiled a wicked smile and flew him up the glacial wall.

To the very top.

Last time, it had taken her an hour, but this time, it only took mere minutes, as this time, she didn't care about preserving her Mana.

When she deposited him atop the White Ember wasteland, she didn't even give him a moment to take in his surroundings. She punched her chakram through his chest and cut him in two.

He screamed a bloodcurdling scream as the two halves of his body fell.

But then he proved he truly was immortal as he didn't die. He was very much alive, in excruciating pain, but alive. And the two halves started to pull themselves together by using his dark blood as ropes.

She put a stop to that by severing his head, clean off.

As soon as his head came off, his blood fell to the ice. She figured that he must've been consciously or subconsciously healing himself, and no one, not even an immortal, could do so without issuing the command to do so. So, she cut off the source.

And even still, the ice giant didn't die.

"So, you're truly immortal, huh?"

"My kin will kill you for this," he shrieked. "They will—"

"Do nothing," Meera finished. "For they will never even find your body."

She activated Druvis Might and kicked the two halves of his body off the glacial cliffs.

Valan's eyes widened, and his breath caught. "What did you do…"

"Made sure that you don't go around eating other people ever again," Meera said. "Your body will be broken into so many pieces that if every Cultist started working together, they still won't be able to find all of you, if that fall will leave anything but mush. I'm sure you will nourish some predators for days."

He had no words in response, but the sheer terror in his face was answer enough.

She gripped his large head by his hair and took to the air. "Come, there is a group of evil crones that would love to meet an undying head."

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