Chapter 23: Battle of the Golems
The Golem is an automatic device constructed from magical power, and the process of creating a Golem usually involves the rational use of basic magic, elemental energy, alchemy, and even necromancy knowledge, after all, the activation principle of the Golem is simply to implant a reluctant soul into an artificial body and make it act exactly according to the creator's will.
The mages and craftsmen who make golems generally choose more common and solid materials such as clay, rock, and steel to build the body of the golem, and the implanted souls are mostly considered from the summons of the elemental plane, but it is not excluded that some casters with special tastes or other ideas prefer to use the stump of the human body to assemble the golem.
The creation of the Flesh Golem is, in a way, the work of the latter type of spellcasters.
As a cobbled together creature of human stumps, the Flesh Golem looks like a large muscular version of a ghoul, but it does not have any undead qualities attached to it, and has the common benefit of "magic immunity" with other types of golems, making them immune to any spell effects that allow them to be negated by magic resistance during combat.
This kind of tricky enemy is a nightmare that low-level mage players would never want to encounter.
Urs, however, is neither a spellcaster, nor a fuel-efficient lamp.
The next moment the black-haired young man saw this group of constructive creatures, his brown eyes turned into murderous red with a scorching aura in his chest, and he took a charge forward directly with the giant sword in his hand.
At the same time, the silver-haired and white-robed wolf-eared priest girl tugged at the holy emblem in her hand. She stood not far behind Urs, the prayer incantation flowing word for word through her mouth, and then a white halo full of holy energy glowed on the young man's body—
Class Specialty (Barbarian) - Berserk (Advanced): 3 times a day, enter the Berserk state, gain +4 Strength and +4 Constitution, and be immune to Fear, Chaos, Hypnosis, Enchantment, and Shock.
Class Trait (Barbarian) - Fast Movement: Gains extra movement speed when the body is lightly loaded.
Priest 2 Ring - Aid (Confusion): Inflicts a blessing on a single target creature, increasing its temporary health by 1d8 and gaining a +1 bonus on all checks for a short period of time.
Triple bonuses to feats, traits, and magic buffs!
Fierce self-confidence and innate courage drove Urs in a state of rage like a beast locked onto its prey, fearlessly swinging his sword at the golem monsters that had clearly exposed their hostility and aggression to him and Thea just a moment ago.
The distance between the two sides quickly closed to a position close enough after a short three seconds to meet each other.
Challenging Level 14 secondary Flesh Golems with no autonomous minds.
The eight-foot-tall flesh golems unconsciously formed a long line of snakes, led by a large creature that let out a hoarse roar, clumsily raising a heavy fist made of pieces of flesh, strings, and a few screws in an attempt to smash Urs, who was rushing in front of it with a two-handed giant sword.
Urs's bloodshot red eyes glanced at its blank face with manic rage, and the +3 enchantment-level cursed blade struck its torso with a "bang" before the opponent's fist slammed down.
The heavy, muffled sound to the unsuspecting ear more like a crushing blunt blow than a sharp slash.
The flesh golem at the front of the queue immediately lost its balance under the young man's sword, and its stiff limbs swayed and slumped backwards with a comical movement, crashing into the other golems behind it, and the part of its waist and abdomen cracked a terrifying hole as if it had been hit by a cannonball.
It's just that no active blood is flowing from the depths of the gap.
But it seems to be enough to confirm that although the battle of the Golem is described as quite tenacious in various tavern stories by the Bard's Spit, it is a pity that Urs's body is almost like it was made specifically for battle.
Even from the level of game data, his strength and constitution in the berserk state have soared to 23 and 22 points, the original 16 agility points remain unchanged, ignoring the judgment bonuses brought by the cursed blade and the aid spell, they have all surpassed the 20 points of strength, 9 points of agility and "-" points of constitution of the secondary body golem in all aspects.
Yes – you read that right.
Not a "0", but a "-" that represents nothingness and non-existence.
As a willless machine, most of Castano's constructed creatures are man-made tools or weapons that do not have the two basic attributes of constitution and intelligence, and the concept of constitution is not as intuitive and practical as the word "hardness" in their bodies.
After swinging a fierce sword, Urs skillfully controlled the pace of his feet, keeping his body steady while twisting his wrists, shrinking the black greatsword to the waist position with the tip of the sword straight forward, his legs and knees half-pierced into a charged horse step, and the two lines of gaze in his eyes seemed to turn into a little focus to aim at the queue of several golems in front of him.
Seeing the young man she knew put on the posture above, Thea, as an auxiliary caster, immediately realized that she could complete the prayer of another magic as quickly as possible, and cast her second magic since the outbreak of this battle through the glowing emblem.
The name of that magic is called brute force.
Priest 2 Ring - Brute Force (Change): Cast a blessing on a single target creature, giving it +4 power temporarily.
The golems' uncoordinated hands and feet caused them to temporarily huddle together in the eyes of young men and maidens, and the effect of the magic was suddenly further manifested in the bulging muscles of Urs's arms and the bulging green tendons on the surface of his skin.
The black-haired young man could feel exactly how much strength he had gained in the blink of an eye.
In the next second, he roared and thrust the pitch-black greatsword forward, the sharp blade like a spear in the hand of a champion knight piercing through the hole in the belly of the flesh golem that he had nearly slashed a few seconds earlier.
There was a series of sounds, and the deformed pieces of flesh were immediately pierced into a string by this violent puncture, and then the giant sword in his hand was savagely lifted up, and smashed it vigorously against a high wall of a labyrinth not far away—
Boom!
【You have killed a secondary Flesh Golem x4】
[EXP +1240 (Kill Bonus x4)]
The deafening loud noise then burst out along with the minced flesh and parts in the golems' bodies, and even the prompt information that should have been divided into four parts in the young man's mind was integrated into two short pieces by the game system for a while.
Urs stood among the pieces of flesh that were scattered on the ground, his eyes of contempt and disdain glancing at his feet as if they were garbage, and the few barely recognizable human golem remains.
Magic immunity?
What are the eggs used for? Can you block physical attacks?
Joke.