Chapter 172: Mountain Golems (2/2)

However, everything changed at the arrival of the mountain golems as the two mages panicked and ran away, leaving behind their damaged device. That was indeed the wrong decision as Kazko did not miss his opportunity.

•Lacerating Slash•

He dashed forward and swung his blade. A red streak of sword aura slashed through both mages as they were split in half and died instantly. Kazko then had to figure out a way to evade the mountain golems but first, he should return back to the girls to see if they were fine.

Liz on the other hand had just used a spell to create an ice board that she then cast the spell, ”Gravity walk” on as she placed Rain on it. After an inspection, it would seem the Disintegration aura had only been pushback by her healing skill but her lack of any resistance after using up her stamina and pushing herself too far had caused it to continue destroying her from within.

Even with the healing scrolls she had, she had only succeeded in delaying the inevitable and thus she needed to take her back to the castle for Erin to purify her as that was her only hope.

Placing Rain on the ice board, Liz used the spell ”Fight” and hurriedly flew out of the mountain range without holding back. As the spell Gravity walk was a transport spell, anything it was used on would automatically trail behind the spell caster by a few feet. (Something Tyler had been unaware of when he had first used the spell.)

She soon met up with Kazko on the way and although she was tempted to not stop for him as she was in haste, she still took the time to pick him up on the board as well as they flew towards the exit of the mountain range.

However, if one could so easily escape the gaze of mountain golems, they would not be such a fearsome creature even with their complicated magic resistance and high physical Attack resistance.

|Magnetic Pull.|

As though the force of gravity had changed, an invisible force suddenly began to pull Liz and her Ice board back towards the horde of mountain golems. At first, the force was not that strong as she could still resist it and fly away even though her flight speed had been somewhat reduced.

However, as more and more of the mountain golems used that same skill on them, her flight speed had reduced to that of a crawl.

”Not now.”

Liz said angrily as she tried to force her way out of the skill's range but before she could even do anything else. One of the mountain golems picked up a rock that was at least the size of a small house and hurled it at them with immense strength and speed.

Its aim was true as the rock flew at them with great precision as though guided by a laser. Liz frowned as she quickly cast the spell wall of ice but judged it would be insufficient and double cast it once more. Creating three large and sturdy walls of ice in the sky.

Just as she had thought, the massive boulder had completely destroyed two of the ice walls and only barely stopped at the third. Kazko who had wanted to stop the boulder with his skill was suddenly relieved he hadn't tried as he had greatly underestimated the strength of a single mountain golem.

”Annoying.”

Liz grew anxious and impatient with each passing moment as she saw another mountain golem pick up another boulder and hurl it at them. Several more mountain golems also did the same and more than five boulders flew rapidly towards them.

”Ice fortress.”

No longer holding back herself, Liz cast one of the highest defensive magic she could as sheets of pure crystal clear ice lined up in the air and rapidly formed a massive fortress of ice around them. The sturdy ice fortress was able to withstand the power behind the five boulders that slammed into it, the fortress disappeared almost as fast as it came when its work was done.

Still floating in the air like a goddess of sorts, Liz touched the artifact iris tear once more and the temperature in the mountains immediately cooled down to near absolute zero which in turn, slowed down the movements of the mountain golems. Even Kazko was shivering at this point.

Not stopping there and not wanting to give the golems any chance to retaliate, she immediately cast a spell to top off her grand icy performance.

”Max Overtier Magic - Blistering Glacier.”

It hadn't been snowing up to this point but the moment she cast her spell, it did, and like a mountain glacier, an extended mass of ice formed from the snow falling and combined with the ones that had already accumulated on the mountains and moved.

Unlike an actual mountain glacier though, it moved with a speed that made it look like an avalanche on crack, most of which were descending from the high mountains.

The mass of ice soon slammed into the horde of mountain golems that were already close to them at this point and although they were practically immune to Magic attacks, there was still nothing they could do about the accompanying effects of such elemental magic attacks as most of the trip and were swallowed up by the glacier while the others were restricted in place and thus could not move further.

After exhausting almost all her mana, Liz wiped the sweat off her face and immediately flew away with the ice board floating behind her.

However—

Their numbers and resistances were not the only reason why the Darkin mountain range was such a dangerous place. Another reason was also that mountain golems were one of the most persistent monsters in the world and once they were disturbed, they would stop at nothing to kill their opponents.

The moment Liz turned around to leave, all three mountain golems that were still above the ice turned their heads to face her.

Their eyes glowed brighter and a purplish-white beam of energy shot out from the eyes of the golems at her.

•Paralysis Beam•