The moment they launched forward, the titan moved.
Its roar split the sanctuary sky, a thunderous, guttural sound that sent shockwaves through the entire landscape. Trees bent as if in reverence or fear, myst vapor rippling through the air in sickly green waves. Every footstep the golem took cratered the earth, sending tremors racing outward like ripples on a pond of soil and stone.
Liam reached first. He hurled his javelin with pinpoint accuracy toward the creature's glowing chest—but the moment the weapon made contact, the titan's bark-plated torso pulsed with a blinding burst of emerald light. The javelin was absorbed, incinerated into ash, and the titan's body erupted in a ring of retaliatory myst.
