Chapter 552: Heart of Thunder and Nest of Blood-Crystal

The air in the Giant-controlled territories was heavy and oppressive, thick with a primal hostility that clung to the skin like damp moss. Jagged peaks clawed at a perpetually bruised sky, their slopes carved by millennia of wind and forgotten wars. Every shadow seemed to hold a lurking threat, and the silence between gusts of wind was a menacing presence in itself. The joint force of Karl’s team and Prince Guy’s Spellblades moved with a grim efficiency through a narrow, treacherous pass....