Sword Art Online Volume 16 – Alicization Exploding Chapter 18 – War of the Underworld 33 A shrill shriek, unsuited to his grim expression, leaked out from the depths of his throat. Strength left his two legs and the large hammer in his right hand grew terribly heavy. Sigrosig’s posture crumbled as he stumbled over. An instant. Zubaaa!! A ray of dazzling light shot out from the sword the female knight propped up with that buzz unlike any sound he had heard before. It stabbed through the right side of the chest of the giant running right in front of Sigrosig without any resistance. If Sigrosig had not tumbled, that light would have blown away his heart next. Instead, the white light vaporized part of the giant chief’s disheveled red hair and his right ear decorated with his prey’s teeth. Piercing through another two of his allies running behind, it dissipated into specks of light, leaving behind those fatal wounds. Sigrosig’s consciousness could hardly register the three giants who lost all of their Life in an instant and fell like logs. Even the intense pain burning at the right of his head was stabbed like some tiny insect before the humongous emotion assaulting him. That was, in short, terror. Sigrosig shamefully continued sitting on his backside as his jaw chattered in his trembling. Even when he witnessed the upheaval during Dark General Shasta’s rebellion, while he was surprised, there was no fear. The ones Shasta killed after turning into that black tornado were no more than a feeble assassin and those goblins. Though he had to admit Emperor Vector’s power, he had no issue there as he was no human but a god of old.