Sword Art Online Volume 16 – Alicization Exploding Chapter 18 – War of the Underworld 32 In that moment. A foreign sensation that was, however, not all unfamiliar ran up his spine. Cold. Numbing. Like being pierced through with needles of ice. He had tasted this sensation a long, long time ago. In the «Fledging Valley» not far from his village. His first trial. When he went to steal snapping birds’ eggs, in that moment the mother swooped down from above… Sigrosig continued his charge even as he widened his two eyes and searched for the origin of that sensation. He saw a small, small human at the front of the Human Empire ranks, in the exact middle of the gorge. Long hair with a slender body. A female—a knight adorned in glistening silver armor. He saw a dragon knight of the Human Empire soaring beyond the mountain range at the edge just once before. He had thought to crush that knight upon landing, but the knight flew away into the mountain range after circling two, three times in the sky. That bunch was worthless. Nonetheless. In that female knight’s black eyes. Sigrosig vividly felt the gaze from the knight despite their distance apart exceeding three hundred mel. The fear or fright, which should have been present, were missing, making up less than even a speck of salt would after falling in a large kettle of hot water. Instead, it had the coolness of ascertaining and targeting one’s prey. …Hunt, him? To hunt him, Sigrosig, the giants’ chief and thus, the mightiest warrior among the Dark Empire’s five races? “Hgg……”