The creature stood more than sixty meters tall. A single mistake, even a shy one, could mean his demise. But he held his ground.
The entity was too tall to recognize something as small as him, and that was what he focused on. He lurked beneath its limbs with the sharpest of senses.
The titan left destruction with each movement: blasts of wind that could bury him if he came close enough, and currents that would sweep him away without a second thought.
His weapons were no match for the creature. He could hurl his rocks and stones all he wanted, but nothing would faze something this size. That brought him to a stalemate for a while, before he finally settled on setting traps.
He was going to use the creature's height to his advantage. Even something this enormous would react to the pain of a piece of wood jabbing its toe.
He rushed forward, positioning himself ahead of the titan, and judging by its movements, predicted exactly where its foot would fall. Leo sharpened the sticks with his teeth and plunged a dozen of them into the ground. He backed away shortly after, putting distance between himself and the trap.
"When it reacts to the pain, I'll take the opportunity, climb onto it, and go for the eyes. That should bring it down."
A creepy smile spread across his face as he waited. For someone who was panicking not too long ago, he was quite thrilled about his plan.
Leo waited with anticipation as the creature drew closer to the trap. He was standing at just the right spot, close enough to climb onto it and execute his attack.
The smile on his face disappeared just as quickly. The creature stepped on the sticks and kept moving; not only did it not react, but the sticks remained standing, completely intact.
He frowned.
"Wait a moment…"
He started thinking clearly now. The creature left no footprints where it walked. He had been so fixated on its size and the destruction it caused that he missed it entirely.
"What about the sand? I saw it… it looked as though it could bury me alive. Where did it come from? Was that caused by the wind?"
The confusion grew thicker the more he turned it over in his mind. To be sure, he grabbed a stone and threw it toward the creature, but to his horror, it passed through it completely.
"Is this an illusion?"
His head jerked around, scanning for the person behind the illusion. To be fair, he still wasn't entirely sure it wasn't real. He was new to the supernatural world after all. But he didn't let his obliviousness get the best of him.
With a clearer mind, he started paying better attention to his surroundings. And between where the giant should have left its footprints, there were other prints, but strangely, they were smaller even than his own.
Then it clicked.
The entity he was after was the one walking, but the creature was projecting an illusion of something over fifty times its actual size over itself.
The creepy smile returned to Leo's face, the same one he had before confusion got the best of him.
He followed the footprints and soon spotted a bald little creature, barely four feet tall, strolling between the legs of the titan. It looked almost half asleep, as though this was nothing more than a midnight walk.
The creature was starting to irritate him, and Leomaris grimaced at the thought. To think something so lowly could make him feel so terrified.
He charged at the creature blindly, going for an ambush from behind, but before he could close the gap, the creature turned his way, and the swing of the titan's hand sent a massive wind that blew him off his feet.
Leomaris forced himself to his feet the moment he stopped rolling. He had bounced off the ground more times than he'd like. His back was hurting, but he couldn't give up.
"Calm down, Leo. You can't go on like this. You'll break your back before the journey begins. Just think… think."
This was no longer a question of if he could win but when. Unfair environment or nothing, he was going to take it down.