John's mind raced for some plan of action as the full-blood giant approached, the permanent scowl on his face even more pronounced now. All this time he had been the bigger one by far, and now he had to switch his mindset. He looked around the shed for something.....
...and then saw that the barrels he'd crashed into were full of blasting powder.
John's eyes widened as he snapped his fingers, a cigar appearing between his fingers. A quick second snap, and it was lit, the smoldering end ready to light the mountains of powder in the room and send the giant back to the earth he was born from. Hopefully he wouldn't be among those taken by the blast.
John thought absently that this was either one of his best ideas, or one of his worst, there was no in between.
He tossed the cigar into the air behind him as he watched the full-blood giant raise his maul to crush the shed with him inside. Before the cigar's arc ended, John activated a ring, feeling a tingling all over his body as jade-like stone covered him, deadening his senses and rendering his sight into shades of green. The second layer of armor would only last for a moment.
But a moment was enough.
A flash of white exploded in his vision, but he felt nothing. Hopefully the giant was close enough to be caught in the blast. A moment later and the jade began to crack, and John could move again, his vision and hearing coming back. The small house he stood in was blown apart, the walls and roof simply gone, flaming bits and pieces of wood strewn about the courtyard. The giant clutched his beard and burning tunic, stomping around the battlefield as he tried to put them out as a few soldiers clutched burning pieces of the house embedded in their bodies.
John stepped back out of what was now a smoldering, scorched plot of earth, giant chunks of burning jade armor sloughing off of him, exposing the silvery armor underneath. The soldiers close by that weren't hit by burning shrapnel looked on in terror at the half-giant. He was neither man nor golem to them, but something else. The three of them were aspects of judgment, implacable until they had taken their vengeance.
John readied himself. The giant was still alive, and by now had put himself out, but tilted his head, seeing with only one unburned eye and holding his hammer now with a single hand.
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