Chapter 937: The Golden Mountain

Chapter 937: The Golden Mountain

ACADEMY GUARDIAN

Species: COLOSSUS

Class: ELECTRON

Health: 64%

Traits:

- BODY 150

- MIND 80

- REACTION 95

- PERCEPTION 50

Skills:

- ATTACK

- GUARD

- ACROBATICS

- ATHLETICS

Weakness: EARS

An all-out fighter... there could be no doubt that the colossus had been created specifically for this purpose. It was very possible that the emperor had somehow removed all the needless skills during the leveling up process. The choice of material was no accident, either. Combining sun gold with another magic metal to negate the effects of magic was just what someone distrustful of mages would do.

This had to be a secret that even the archbishop didn’t know, otherwise there'd be more examples of it. A metal that rendered a target impervious to magic. Quite a feat, unless the person who had discovered it also happened to be a mage.

It must have been quite the dilemma for you, Jeremy, Dallion thought, amused.

Given enough time, Dallion might uncover the exact composition of the alloy and make use of it. For the moment, his goal was to defeat the colossus.

Flying up to the guardian itself, Dallion performed a dual spiral attack. His harpsisword, as usual, was infused with magic, while the aura sword had magic threads within its blow.

Taking advantage of its high body trait, the guardian swiftly moved to the side. Despite being enormous, the body easily managed to evade the most devastating effects of the attack.

MINOR STRIKE

Dealt damage has been increased by 10%

The spiral attack barely singed the chest of the being, while the magic attack bounced off, completely repelled.

“Have you fought anything like this before?” Dallion asked, filling the air with spark infused line attacks.

The glowing threads of destruction sliced through the vines and vegetation of the realm like a scythe through grass. Unfortunately, none of them managed to touch the Colossus.

Without warning, one of the being’s massive fists blocked out the sky, flying straight towards Dallion. Thanks to his reaction trait, Dallion was able to spot the attack. His body movements alone would have been too slow to escape, but thankfully the flying spell he had cast was affected by thought alone.

For half a second Dallion flew back, the colossus’ fist mere feet away from him. Aether barriers appeared by the dozen, cast by a single slash of Dallion’s aura sword. All of them were shattered, not even remotely slowing down the guardian’s attack. Finally, after what felt like minutes, the distance from the golden knuckles widened.Cheêck out latest novels at novelhall.com

Leave it to the emperor to come up with something like this, Adzorg said, almost with admiration. The perfect counter for a mage. With such a high body trait and invulnerability to magic, there wouldn’t be anyone capable of stopping it.

“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” Dallion snapped. Yet, even he had to admit that the counter was perfect. Remove spells from a mage and they become extraordinarily weak. Even the noble exceptions would hesitate, which was more than enough time for the guardian to dispatch them.

The force of the blast pushed the colossus back down before he could reach his target. All the speed he had was wasted into the air.

Realm section damaged!

Overall completion 59%

The entity slammed into the ground, sending a shock wave throughout the entire realm. Ripples formed through the mesh of magic threads that composed the ground, slowly settling once they reached its limits.

Unsummoning the weapon, Dallion immediately replaced it with a new one.

Once the dust had settled, the results were a lot less impactful as he had hoped. Some might even call them underwhelming.

In the real world, such an attack would have been enough to destroy living armor. Here, they had merely scarred the guardian. The most serious wound—located slightly above the shoulder—was barely the size of a jab. As for the rest—they were just scars.

“Jeremy must have improved you a lot.” Dallion resorted to his music skills. In his mind, he knew that this was the method, yet he had to rely on the colossus’ weakness. “How many times did you go through this?”

“Why do you want this domain?” The guardian stood back up. “It won’t increase your level.”

“If it’s so useless, why not just surrender and give it to me without a fight?” Dallion smirked.

The colossus didn’t react.

“See? It only doesn’t matter as long as you have it. We both know that no one will allow so much magic to go unused.”

“You just want to feed your dragon.”

“I’m sure that Jeremy did the same.” In his mind Dallion was calculating possibilities of how to get the guardian to face the right direction so he could initiate a killing shot.

“He did, but you’re greedier.”

The response was surprising on several levels. When he said it, Dallion didn’t believe it to have been true. According to everything he had learned in the Learning Hall, the first Emperor Tamin had transformed his companion familiar into a great dragon, through lots of magic and leveling up. Nowhere was it said that the entire domain of the Academy had been used as a grazing ground. Yet, that would explain why the area was so sparsely built in relation to its size.

MAJOR HEAL

Your health has been increased by 50%

A green rectangle emerged. Lux had managed to restore a large chunk of Dallion’s health, and not a moment too soon.

“Get me to his ear,” Dallion ordered, bursting into instances.

Hundreds of versions circled the guardian’s head, yet each time the result was the same. The Colossus’ speed was just too fast for Dallion to do anything about it, even with his magic boost. Of two hundred instances, forty-one managed to get anywhere close to the guardian’s head. Less than a third of them managed to fire, and in all those cases, the guardian twisted his head, causing the rockets to explode on his face. Damage was dealt, though it was a far cry from the kill shot that Dallion needed.

“Jeremy used that millennia ago.” The colossus grabbed a patch of ground and threw it in Dallion’s general direction.

The speed was impressive, fading half of Dallion’s newly created instances.

“He did, did he?” Dallion unsummoned the empty crossbow. “Then how about something new?”

Summoning his usual two blades, Dallion spun in the air, casting point attacks throughout the realm.

“Predictable.” The colossus dashed from one place to another, using his left arm to shield himself from the magic attacks, while avoiding the spark infused ones. “Jeremy used that twice.”

Not quite this, Dallion thought.

The issue with someone incapable of seeing magic was that they couldn’t tell the difference between a destructive and an effect spell. A large part of the aether point attacks were not mere attacks, but effect spells surrounding a small magic core. Coming into contact with the threads on the ground, they changed into symbols, patiently waiting to be connected. There was no way for the guardian to see that, and because of the devastation to which the area had been submitted, there wasn’t anyone nearby to tell him.

Got you! Dallion said to himself, completing the magic circle. It extended for miles, only visible from high above. The effect, though, was something no one could miss.

In a split second, the ground that the guardian had been running on lost its firmness. With a massive splash, the colossus vanished beneath the surface, like a carriage falling through thin ice into a river.