Chapter 693
The Golem ignored Morok, turning around to focus on Lith . When the first hammer struck, the back of the construct exploded, spraying the nutrients stored inside its hunch all over the corridor .
The second hammer hit the Golem's side, it pierced through the stone shell until only its handle was still visible .
"Now you ignore me? Now? Too little too late!" Morok's hammers struck in a flurry of attacks, sending debris, flesh, and blood flying around . By the time the Golem managed to react, its power core was destroyed .
Morok fell to his knees due to exhaustion, too weak to even hold his weapons any longer . Both the Odi and the humans were astonished that another Flesh Golem had fallen so fast .
"All right, stop . Hammer time will resume in a jiffy . " He said panting .
Normal Golems would have frozen now that their protocols were contradictory . Back when Jiira had ordered them to kill the Golem slayer, only Lith fit their bill, but now there were two .
Unfortunately, the human side allowed them to understand an order beyond its literal meaning, so they simply split .
"Never screw with the Healer, because the next time you go down, you stay down!" Quylla had never stopped moving, grabbing the nearest Golem . She was glad to discover that the Forgemastering process for all the constructs was identical .
That way she already knew where the three runes she had located when Scanning the first Golem were located in the life force of the other enemies .
Her Chisels broke them all at once .
"Lith!" She yelled while tackling with her small body the third Golem that Phloria had been facing until a second ago . The construct wasn't stupid . Its orders were to bring the bodies alive, not intact .
The little girl had already paralyzed two of its kin, and even though the poor woman grafted inside the Golem wanted nothing more than to be put out of her misery, her self defense protocols forbid her to allow any damage to be willingly inflicted upon the enchanted rock that was now her body .
The construct struck Quylla with a backhand slap, sending her slamming against a wall . Even with the Skinwalker armor's protection, the hit was strong enough to break her jaw and nose .
She fell limp on the ground, leaving a trail of blood on the wall where her head had struck .
Lith swallowed his rage to not let her sacrifice go to waste . He ignored the still active Golem and ripped off the power core from the still stiff construct, further reducing their numbers .
Now only eighteen were left, yet they were likely to be seventeen too many of them .
"We have to retreat . We can't hold them for much longer . " Yondra was the most vigorous Professor thanks to her rejuvenated body . She quickly conjured a Warp Steps and gestured her colleagues to get into it .
"What about me?" Morok was still wheezing for air, cornered like a mouse between two walls . The eight golems around him had yet to attack only because they were taking position .
"Blink, you moron!" She replied while Phloria used that very same spell to rescue Quylla and bring her past the dimensional door .
'The Golems are charging up their arrays, we have to be quick!' Solus warned Lith, who Blinked as well and dragged Yondra with himself . He knew that unlike Wardens, a construct only needed a handful of seconds to activate an elemental blocking array .
Yondra's plan would have failed if everyone wasn't already close to each other . Not even five seconds had passed since the moment the Warp had been opened and it was already about to be closed .
No Comments Yet
Post a new comment
Register or Login