Two weeks later, Harmony's Gate hummed with swirling mana cut by three gigantic figures crawling through the narrow opening. The plaza's neat slabs groaned under their knees as their fifty heads observed the surroundings.
"HAA!" Panicked screams rippled through the peaceful citizens the moment their eyes landed on the Hecatonchires. The grotesque faces, the one hundred arms, the pale skin stretched over absurd muscles. Everything was a show of horror they hadn't expected to see on this bright morning, a nightmare brought to reality by some wicked sorcery.
Winds whipped the blue uniforms of police officers charging to the scene, only for their hurried steps to freeze and their jaws to drop when the three intruders pushed themselves to their feet.
The territory housed a few jotuns, but they wouldn't even reach these three monsters' knees.