Chapter 470 - Ruins of Imperial Dungeon 2 (2/2)

The guards, who were outside the stone gate, were confronting the stone statues.

The dolls in the shape of fairies, elves, and dwarves that they passed by to reach the cell began to move.

Well, when he saw the empty pieces on the wall, Luke had already figured it out.

‘Golems? No, in here, they must be the dungeon guardians.’

The Golems moved under the control of a wizard. However, it was different for the dungeon guardians. They acted on their own will.

‘But how can they move?’

Dungeon guardians came in a number of varieties.

Some were living creatures like monsters and chimeras, and the others were made of stone and iron such as Moving Armour or Gargoyle.

However, they all had one thing in common.

Their mana was charged, so they could move.

It was a form in which the mana get charged while waiting and detecting the intruder.

However, on his way there, Luke couldn’t feel any mana from the stone dolls.

So he just simply passed by them without thinking twice.

‘Is someone secretly injecting mana in those? We will have to deal with her.’

Produced to protect the lands and dungeons during the ancient Mado era, such stones dolls had unprecedented combat power and couldn’t be dealt with unless one was a Sword Expert class knight.

Luke, who had gone through several dungeons as Saymon, knew the powers and weaknesses of the dolls.

So he immediately asked the flustered knights.

“There is no need to be so shocked! Stab their heads or hearts with your swords! Break the magic stone and they will stop!”

Luke tried to stab a gargoyle to demonstrate what he was telling them.

However, something unexpected happened.

His sword simply bounced off.

‘What? How did this happen?’

It was alright if the sword was just deflected, but the aura disappeared from the sword as well. It just got absorbed into the stone.

The screams of his men entered Luke’s ears.

“Your Majesty, our swords aren’t working!”

“It isn’t just that. The aura is being absorbed!”

Just throwing back the sword was annoying enough, but those stones were absorbing their aura too.

It was observed when a knight showed it to Luke.

‘Magic too?’

In any case, Luke used Fire Bolt toward a doll.

The magic flames that flew toward a lycan and dwarf stone twisted in the middle and flew toward the fairy.

And just like what happened to his aura earlier, the magic got absorbed and then was fired back to Luke.

“Tch, this only brings back unpleasant memories.”

An unpleasant memory of something sucking one’s power.

Luke could remember his feeling of despair when he fell into Nanas’ trap while avoiding the Fire Bolt.

“Kuek!”

While Luke managed to avoid the dolls’ attacks, one of his men couldn’t avoid it and got killed on the spot.

However, everybody stopped moving, including Luke.

‘How are we supposed to smash them?’

If he used stronger magic or demon abilities then they could be smashed.

However, that would make Luke extremely exhausted.

Moreover, the way the dolls moved and attacked seemed very violent and cumbersome.

The dwarf and lycan wielded an ax and a mace, and the elf had stone arrows. Also, what looked like a fairy doll seemed to use fire and ice magic.

The combination was very difficult to deal with, and Luke and Philip were the only ones who could attack them.

They couldn’t hide in the prison.

The moment they stepped anywhere else, they would become rats waiting to be killed.

“Your Majesty, what should we do?”

“Your Majesty!”

The stone dolls grew in number, and the men who were dealing with them were collapsing.

In such a situation, everyone looked at Luke.

They expected their master with exceptional abilities to overcome this.

‘I can’t help it. I have no choice but to push through.’

Thinking so, Luke ordered Philip.

“Push through! Do your best!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

Luke and Philip attacked the stones in front of them with Impact Aura.

Count Ferrero, who was behind them, borrowed a sword as he knew that the situation was turning against him.

Thud!

Bang!

And Luke’s thoughts were right. There was a limit to the power that could be absorbed. When hit with Impact Aura, the stone dolls crumbled.

“Once a path opens up, follow me…!”

While saying the word ‘follow me’, Luke’s eyes went wide.

The stones, which were smashed, began to piece back together.

‘What the hell is this?!’

Luke frowned at the unseen things happening in front of him and made a shield to block the arrows and magic attacks coming at him.

The stone dolls were all aiming for Luke as they considered him to be the most dangerous among all of them.

Preventing the attacks, Luke began to curse under his breath.

‘Those Abaron bastards! Why did they have to make such annoying things?!’

If it wasn’t for the situation, Luke would have been impressed with the powers of the ancient fairies who created such skilled dungeon guardians.

But he couldn’t do it then as he had to get out of that place safely.

‘I need to find a way! There must be some way out of here!’

Not wanting to have the dungeon be his grave, Luke thought desperately.