Buying Time

From one claw, a huge monster gradually climbed out of the valley and revealed its true appearance.

"A turtle?" Theo widened his eyes and started gasping for air just by looking at the monster's appearance.

The monster was two hundred feet tall above the ground and its length could go as far as five hundred feet. Even if Theo and Alea used all their speed to escape, one step was all it took to reach them.

The appearance itself was like a turtle, but the skin was white and had some dirt covering its black shell. They could see many holes on the turtle's shell, releasing a black aura that eventually formed a skull covered in purple smoke.

"Theo! Theo!" Alea shook his body to wake him up from his trance. She gritted her teeth because if she didn't have the blessing of the God of Fortitude, she would have been in the same state as him.