Chapter 599 - Setting a Trap (2/2)
Aside from the small benefits that Andonara offered, Roland had spent three days thinking about how to deal with this golem.
It was powerful, extremely resistant to magic, and had an extremely high physical defense.
It had almost no weaknesses.
But after three days of thinking, Roland still came up with a new tactic.
He felt that it was quite reliable.
It was necessary to use Dimensional Anchor first to prevent the opponent from escaping. Then, fight the opponent in close combat as an Elemental Lord, but this would only be a distraction. His real intention would be to find a way to control the golem.
And then bury this golem in the ground.
To do so, he used his data on magic nodes to temporarily improve the ability of Elemental Embodiment.
Some of the properties of Hand of Magic were incorporated into it.
The nature of the stone Elemental Embodiment was subsequently altered a lot as well.
The outer layer of the stoneman was now no longer just an Elemental Embodiment, but stone armor.
The real Elemental Lord was still the size of a normal human and was hidden within the huge stone sh.e.l.l.
It was like piloting a robot.
While the intelligent golem was slicing up the stoneman wildly, Roland’s real Elemental Embodiment dove deep into the sand layer under the stoneman’s sh.e.l.l.
He then manipulated a large number of earth elements into countless stone elemental hands and grabbed the legs of the golem.
“Let go of me!”
The golem grew anxious and fearful as its spirit roared, and it lowered its legs slightly, then propelled with its legs, trying to use its sheer strength to break free of these annoying stone elemental hands.
But what it didn’t expect was that just as it pushed upward, it seemed to step through something for a moment, and its legs sunk, going deep into the sand and dust.
What’s going on!
The golem looked down and its soul was almost scared out of its body.
Somehow, the sand and dust beneath it had turned into a swampy terrain.
Stone to Mud… the name flashed through the golem’s mind.
It struggled desperately, its eyes emitting intense rays of red light, trying to roast the swamp dry.
“You’re not going to get away with this, sc.u.mbag.”
This quick wit of his was more than good, and the water in the swamp quickly dried up under the glare of the light rays, turning it into black, hardened earth.
Seeing that it worked, the golem became excited.
“I told you, you won’t get away with it.”
It increased the power of the rays’ output, two red pillars of light that were almost three meters wide in diameter.
The swamp quickly turned into black land.
But Roland, deep in the sand, saw this with his mental power and smiled instead.
“This idiot.”
After the golem steamed the swamp all dry, it tried to tear off some stone elemental hands on its body, and then braced its hands on the ground firmly, trying to pluck itself out.
But then there was a brief pause in his mental power.
Then came ripples, and these ripples grew denser and denser, cras.h.i.+ng into each other, and finally became monstrous waves.
It couldn’t pull itself out.
Roland burst into laughter deep in the sand layers.
After the mud hardened, they were just chunks of rock.
The golem fixed the lower half of its body in the rock. It would be a wonder if it could pull itself out.
According to the principles of mechanics, trying to hold its ma.s.sive body up with both hands was a difficult task in itself.
Add to that the fact that the lower half of its body was immobilized and there were plenty of stone elemental hands gripping it.
These three factors combined made it so that it would have to use a force that could lift three times its own weight to pull itself out. However, even if it could exert three times as much force, the ground its hands were touching would not be able to support such a large force.
In other words, there wasn’t a large enough area for the force to be applied.
If it used all its strength, its hands would sink right into the ground like piercing tofu. Sure enough… realizing that it couldn’t pull out after some effort, the golem panicked and immediately used all its strength. With a slush, its hands pressed straight into the earth.
What happened!
Under the sand and dust, Roland was grinning from ear to ear. He used his magic power to turn the sand layer near the hardened black earth into mud again.
This time the golem could no longer struggle, and it could only watch itself sink with a bunch of rocks and dirt.
It sank faster this time. But it still put up a lot of resistance before it sank into the mud.
It frantically tore up stone elemental hands and s.h.i.+ned its two rays of light everywhere.
The look of a complete lunatic.
The ground was trembling.
It wasn’t until after it had sunk completely into the mud that Wright finally came over with the men.
He saw this scene from afar and exclaimed, “As expected of the strongest Mage, such quick thinking.”
With those words, he waved his hands. “Fill the pit.”
Players now fully understood what filling the pit meant.
Players who knew the spell Mud to Stone made a strong effort to turn the mud into rock, and in a short time, a semi-circular lid that was fifty meters high and about a hundred meters in diameter was pressed on top of the swamp.
Roland wormed out of the sand layer, changed back to human form from his Elemental Embodiment, and then sighed in relief.
Wright came up and asked, “How is it, can this hold it down?”
“The ground is over three hundred meters deep,” Roland said with a smile. “What do you think?”
“It’s definitely not going to pop up,” Wright said admiringly. “You’re still the best. Even if we thought of this method, we wouldn’t be able to do it.”
Roland smiled and felt that this was indeed the case.
Humans never lack good ideas, but they lack the capital to turn them into reality.
For example, someone knew that an artificial sun was the future of mankind.
But they were only the leader of a small African country, overseeing a population of a million or so. The number of undergraduates was less than four thousand, of which two thousand were literature students, one thousand five hundred were finance students, the other four hundred were doctors or something, and only about a hundred were studying physics.
The local university lecturers were all hired from abroad.
In this case, even if one knew that an artificial sun was the future, they couldn’t make the technology for an artificial sun even if they put the whole country’s money on it.
There probably wouldn’t even be enough to build a few kilometers of major roads.
Only when the foundation was laid and when there was enough strength…
…A good idea would be a good idea, and a good plan would become a good plan.
Otherwise, it would just be a pipe dream.
That was the case now, and some players had thought of burying the golem alive.
But Rock to Mud took time to cast, and the larger the range the longer it took. It would take them nearly a minute to make the large swamp that trapped the golem.
In that time, the golem would’ve realized and ran away.
But Roland only needed a dozen seconds.
And Roland had a way to temporarily control the golem.
This was the difference between the number one Mage and them.
In just a few fights, he could figure out a method and execute it.
“So it’s quite prescient of me to be a casual player.” Wright sighed deeply, then looked at the other commanders in the back and gloated, “At least I won’t feel such a terrible blow.”