A new Pop-Up appeared on the left side of their interface. "It's just like in the original, huh?" Mumbled Kyaga to himself.

The Pop-Up depicted the face of the earth monster, it's name, Level and an HP-Counter.

Oris the Hill Giant. (Lvl. 3)

HP: 307/307

As soon as it was out of the ground with his whole body he threw his arms up in a swift, but very slow, motion and let out a scream.

"SHIZU!" Screamed Kyaga as the Giant thrusted his big arms down on her, making contact with something and throwing around basically everything around them everywhere, making it hard to see anything.

Kyaga and Itaka stopped in shock, just meters away from them and surrounded by earth and sand that was swirling all around them and fearing that the worst happened to Shizu.

But after maybe 2 or 3 seconds, that felt like a small eternity to them, they could see clearly again and saw Shizu holding against the hand of the giant with her sword.

"Shizu!" Said Kyaga and Itaka happily and almost in perfect sync.

She looked over to them briefly, the struggle of holding him off was more than visible in her eyes. "Stop standing around and help me!" She yelled over to them whereupon they instantly started to sprint again.

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AOS, as an RPG game, was, of course, not the most realistic game out there. Seeing a dainty girl like Shizu holding off a giant with just a small sword was really baffling over and over again in an otherwise so realistic game like AOS.

"It seems like a normal beginner monster." Commented Itaka. "Maybe the HP is a bit high, but the rest..."

"Yeah! But I swear I never saw it before." Said Kyaga confused. He fought so many years in this game and knew everything practically from memory without a second thought. But a Hill Giant that's disguised as a Hill and that in a beginner area?... He would've remembered that! And that's especially nothing that the Devs would've allowed. It was just way to sneaky for Beginners to handle.

Once the two finally arrived at the giant they instantly attacked his arm that still held strong against the blade of Shizu's sword, causing him to bump back a bit and finally relieving the whole pressure of Shizu.

She took two deep breaths and was visibly out of stamina. "Thanks, guys." She said with a smile. "But next time a bit quicker please."

The HP of the Monster quickly went down to about 250 from just two hits. It still seemed to be a low-Level Monster after all.

"Sorry, but good job Shizu. I almost forgot that you are one of the best players here on the Server as well." Kyaga said with a smug smile on his face, before jumping in for another attack.

He knew that Shizu was at least on one Level with most of the top ten in the World before being transferred to this World. She defiantly earned the badge for best female Player and 3rd best Fencer. That was how she could easily block such an attack with nothing but a beginner sword. AOS is not only based on in-game, but also many real-life attributes, which are transferred here too. Like for example reaction time for Shizu.

But he also knew that she was still a scaredy-cat when it came to unfamiliar situations like these, and he also liked to tease her with that.