Just like that, in no time, Min-Jae cleaned up the ten giants heading toward Osaka. They weren't the only ones, but they were the closest to reaching the city, so Min-Jae had prioritized them first.
The others remaining—according to Min-Jae's senses—were about nine more moving in this direction.
'This is a bit boring. Even with their strongest attacks, they can't get through Infinity, which means it shouldn't even take me a day to clear out, probably,' he thought, sitting on the corpse of one of the giants he'd taken down moments ago. He heightened his senses slightly. 'But those nine giants seem much more powerful than these. At least their magical energy is saying that.'
He stood up, brushing off his pants, and teleported.
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Min-Jae reappeared mid-air above the outskirts of Hakone. The landscape below was devastated—crumbled buildings, scorched earth, abandoned vehicles scattered like toys. Smoke rose from multiple points across the valley.
And then he saw it.
The first giant.
It was massive, easily twenty-five meters tall, with gray skin that looked like stone in certain lights. Its body was covered in thick, matted hair, and it wore crude armor made of metal plates strapped together with chains. Two large, curved horns jutted from its head, and its eyes glowed faintly with a dull yellow light.
It was moving through the ruins with surprising speed, each step shaking the ground. Its arms swung at its sides, crushing anything in its path without even trying.
Min-Jae landed on a rooftop a few hundred meters away, watching.
The giant stopped suddenly, its head turning sharply in his direction.
It had sensed him.
For a moment, neither moved.
Then the giant roared—a deep, guttural sound that echoed across the valley—and charged.
Min-Jae didn't flinch.
The giant closed the distance in seconds, far faster than something that size should have been able to move. Its fist came down like a meteor, aimed directly at the building Min-Jae stood on.
He stepped off the roof casually, landing on the street below as the building exploded behind him, debris raining down.
The giant didn't slow. It swung again, this time a horizontal backhand that would have leveled an entire city block.
Min-Jae stood still.
The fist stopped a few centimeters from his face, halted by Infinity. The force of the impact sent a shockwave rippling outward, kicking up dust and shattering nearby windows—but Min-Jae himself didn't move an inch.
The giant pulled back, confusion flickering in its dull eyes. It roared again and swung with its other fist.
Same result.
It tried again. And again. Each strike faster, harder, more desperate. But none of them touched him.
'It's fast,' Min-Jae thought, watching the giant's movements. 'But speed doesn't beat Infinity. Sadly for you.'
The giant seemed to realize this too. It stopped swinging and instead grabbed a massive chunk of rubble from a collapsed building—easily the size of a car—and hurled it at him.
The rubble stopped mid-air just like the fists had. Min-Jae raised his hand and flicked his wrist. The rubble reversed direction and slammed back into the giant's chest, knocking it backward a few steps.
The giant snarled, regaining its balance. Then it did something Min-Jae didn't expect.
It opened its mouth and roared—not just sound, but force. A concentrated shockwave of air and energy blasted forward like a cannon shot.
Min-Jae raised an eyebrow as the shockwave hit Infinity and dispersed harmlessly around him.
"Interesting."
The giant charged again, this time lowering its horns and aiming to ram him like a bull.
Min-Jae sidestepped at the last second, letting the giant's momentum carry it past him. It skidded to a halt, tearing up the pavement, and spun around with surprising agility.
"Alright," Min-Jae said. "Enough playing around."
He raised his left hand. "Blue."
A sphere of compressed gravitational force formed in front of him, glowing with intense blue light. The pull activated instantly.
The giant's feet left the ground. It thrashed wildly, trying to resist, but the gravity was too strong. It was dragged forward, unable to stop itself, crashing into the focal point and collapsing to its knees.
Min-Jae raised his right hand. "Red."
The repulsive force detonated.
The giant was blasted backward with devastating power, its massive body thrown across the valley like a ragdoll. It crashed into the side of a mountain, the impact creating a crater in the rock face.
Min-Jae teleported to where it lay.
The giant was still alive, groaning, trying to push itself up. Its armor was cracked, its body battered, but it wasn't finished yet.
Min-Jae walked over calmly. The giant's eyes tracked him, filled with rage and defiance.
It swung one last time—a wild, desperate strike.
Min-Jae caught its wrist mid-swing with his bare hand.
The giant's eyes widened.
Then Min-Jae punched.
His fist drove into the giant's chest with enough force to crack its ribcage. The impact sent a shockwave rippling through its entire body. The giant's eyes rolled back, and it collapsed, lifeless.
Min-Jae stepped back, shaking his hand once. "One down."
---
He teleported again, moving deeper into the southwest region.
Within minutes, he spotted the next giant. This one was slightly smaller but just as fast, tearing through an abandoned industrial complex. Its horns were longer, and its armor looked more refined—like it had seen more battles.
It noticed him the moment he appeared.
They locked eyes.
The giant roared and charged without hesitation.
Min-Jae stood his ground.
The fight played out much like the first. The giant was relentless, attacking from every angle, throwing anything it could find, using its horns, its fists, even its teeth. But nothing got through.
Min-Jae countered with telekinesis, lifting entire steel beams from the wrecked buildings and hurling them back at the giant. One of them pierced its shoulder, pinning it momentarily to the ground.
The giant ripped the beam free with a snarl and kept coming.
"Persistent," Min-Jae muttered.
He raised his hand. "Red."
The repulsive blast hit the giant square in the chest, launching it backward through three buildings before it finally stopped, embedded in the remains of a warehouse.
Min-Jae walked over, stepping over rubble. The giant was still breathing, but barely.
He finished it with a single punch to the head.
"Two down."
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The third giant was waiting for him near the edge of Hakone, almost as if it had been expecting him.
This one was different. It didn't charge immediately. It watched him, its yellow eyes calculating.
Min-Jae stopped about fifty meters away.
They stared at each other.
Then the giant moved.
It was the fastest one yet. It closed the distance in a blur, its fist coming down like a hammer.
Infinity stopped it, but the giant didn't pull back. Instead, it kept pushing, leaning its entire weight into the strike, trying to force its way through.
'Smart,' Min-Jae thought. 'But still not enough.'
He raised his hand and used telekinesis to lift the giant off its feet and throw it sideways. It crashed into the ground, rolled, and immediately got back up.
It charged again.
This time, Min-Jae met it head-on. He sidestepped the giant's fist and landed a punch into its ribs. The force cracked the armor and sent the giant stumbling.
It recovered quickly and swung with its other arm.
Min-Jae ducked under it and hit it again, this time in the knee. The joint buckled, and the giant dropped to one leg.
It roared and swung both fists down at once.
"Blue."
The gravitational pull seized the giant mid-strike, dragging it forward and slamming it face-first into the ground.
"Red."
The repulsive force detonated against its back, driving it deeper into the earth. Cracks spread outward from the impact point, and the ground itself buckled.
Min-Jae walked over and looked down at the giant, which was struggling to move.
He raised his fist.
One final punch.
The giant stopped moving.
"Three down."
Min-Jae straightened up, looking toward the horizon where he could still sense six more giants moving in the distance.
"Six more to go."
He teleported.