The rock giant was taller than the roof of the royal palace on the cliff, and its shadow covered half of the noble district.
If the appearance of the tree people just now only made people panic, then this rock giant made many people completely collapse. The streets were full of people running away. But Laura could see clearly from the air that they actually had nowhere to go. Whether it was the civilian area across the river where demonic beasts were rampant, or outside the city walls where tree people and beasts were everywhere, it was almost a dead end.
Laura finally understood where her fear came from. The earthquake just now was caused by the revitalized rock giant. A group of magicians flew out of the Royal Mage Tower and began to attack the rock giant. They saw that the giant was driven by vines, so they also used fire magic to attack it. However, the vines on the golem had grown in the Temple of Nature for who knows how many years. They were perennially stained by divine power and had strong resistance. The mages cast various fire magics, but it was difficult to ignite it.
Perhaps the attack by the mages angered the statue, and it started walking towards the Royal Mage Tower. Every time its legs, made of huge rocks, touched the ground, it would cause the entire capital to tremble. If it happened to step on a house, that house would be crushed into ruins.
The stone statue took only seven or eight steps to the location of the Royal Mage Tower. When the mages saw its movement, they hurriedly increased their output. Even the mages who were originally exterminating the tree people in the palace flew over. Countless brilliant magic lights hit the stone statue like fireworks. Holes opened on the tops of several Royal Mage Towers, and huge crystals rose from the middle, starting to gather magic rays and hit the stone statue.
The vines on the statue withered and fell off under such an attack, but the mages had no time to be happy. The huge stone that made up the body of the statue began to emit a bright green light, and the vines began to grow wildly, not only restoring the parts they had destroyed, but also growing more, wrapping the statue more tightly.
The stone statue ignored the attacks of the magicians, raised its huge arm and punched the Sky-Splitting Tower closest to it. The shield outside the magic tower was not able to block it and was punched through. The huge stone smashed into the middle of the Sky-Splitting Tower, and a large web of cracks appeared on the magic tower.
The loud bang of the blow made Queen Laura tremble with fear. She never dreamed that the Royal Mage Tower, which had stood in the royal capital for thousands of years and always existed regardless of the changes of dynasties, would one day be attacked like a target by such a monster.
The stone statue did not stop, and swung its left fist back to hit the Mage Tower. The Sky-Splitting Tower could not withstand the second blow, and a crack appeared on the tower, which destroyed the magic facilities in the magic tower. There were constant explosions and flames in the cracks. When the third blow came, cracks appeared in the middle of the Sky-Splitting Tower, and the upper half of the tower began to tilt, and it seemed that it was about to break. Many mages jumped out of the windows or cracks of the tower in fear. Some of them were on fire and could not cast magic. They fell to the ground screaming.
The stone statue struck the same spot with its last punch. The upper part of the tower broke off with a loud noise and fell to the ground, destroying several houses. Smoke and dust covered half of the noble district.
The statue was like a child punching a sand castle on the beach, and the mages were just ants and flies that disturbed the child. There was nothing they could do to stop it except make some noise. After the statue smashed the Sky Tower, it continued to punch the Healer Tower.
However, Laura saw that after the upper half of the Sky Rift Tower collapsed, several people appeared on the top of the broken part. They were the current masters and elders of several magic towers. They surrounded Julian, the master of the Sky Rift Tower, and set up a magic circle. Julian flew out of the magic tower wearing a gorgeous robe and holding a staff as long as his body. He and several magicians around him cast a large space cutting magic together.
The stone statue focused all its attention on demolishing other magic towers and didn't pay any attention to these villains. This gave them enough time to prepare. When the Healer's Tower was also broken by the stone statue, the mages finally completed the magic. The space crack created by Julian appeared on the right shoulder of the stone statue, and the space crack cut the vines on the golem's shoulder. Its waving arms suddenly fell to the ground.
The stone statue noticed these annoying little bugs, turned around, and smashed its left fist hard on the place where Julian had just cast the spell. The stone statue's movements seemed slow, but it was actually an illusion created by its huge size. When its fist smashed into the broken part of the Sky Rift Tower, some mages were beaten into pulp before they could fly away in time. However, Julian, who was good at space magic, launched a teleport in time and appeared in the air not far from Queen Laura.
He saw Laura also floating in the air, so he quickly flew over and asked, "Your Majesty, why are you here? Many people should be looking for you, right?"
"I... I don't know what to do. This is a punishment from the God of Nature." Laura looked distraught.
"Divine punishment?" Julian asked in surprise, "What's going on? We still haven't figured out what happened."
"The battle between the Divine City and the Tower of China failed. The God of Nature was angry that someone in the human world opposed him. So he released the power of the Divine City to clean up the continent. What you see now, the tree people, the beasts, the stone statues, are all the result of the explosion of the power of God."
"So that's how it is. But we have always been on the side of the City of God, and Fahs even made a promise..." Julian fell silent here. The man who had made the promise to him disappeared since the day the City of God descended. Although no one knew where he went, rumors had it that he died at the hands of the City of God.
"Sir Julian, haven't you realized it yet? In the eyes of the City of God, we are completely insignificant. What about in the eyes of the gods? What are we? Ants that can be easily stepped on to death by stone statues?" Laura asked.
“Your Majesty, you can’t say that. This is God’s will. As mortals, we shouldn’t speculate on God’s intentions.” Julian put away the staff in his hand. “If this is the case, we should find a temple to pray to God, or hide first and let God’s apostles complete their duty to cleanse the world.”
"Apostle?" Laura stared at Julian, "Julian, aren't you going to fight the statue?"