Antaeus essence

He charged again. Fortunately Il’d had some experience fighting giants. | dodged sideways this time and stabbed him under the arm. Riptide’s blade was buried to the hilt in his rips. That was the good news. The bad news was that it wrenched out of my hand when the giant turned, and | was thrown across the arena, weaponless.
Antaeus bellowed in pain. | waited for him to disintegrate. No monster had ever withstood a direct hit like that from my sword. The celestial bronze blade had to be destroying his essence. But Antaeus groped for the hilt, pulled out the sword and tossed it behind him. More sand poured from the wound, but again the earth rose up to cover him. Dirt coated his body all the way to his shoulders. As soon as the dirt spilled away, Antaeus was fine.

BotL ch.14