Colossus Limit

Yet the forest titan had succeeded, for the colossus could not recover from its attack. The force of the blow ripped the stone statue's own arm from its moorings, and it cascaded to the ground with the sound of an avalanche.

Bolts of lightning shot from its metal-plated joints as the great statue slowly dropped to its knees, then sprawled forward, facedown, across the small stream that now ran red with blood and black with oil. The valley shook as it struck the earth.

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The Brother's War, Chapter 32