399 The Denouncemen (2/2)
Seizing the chance, Lucien took a step forward and avoided the attack of the heavy hammer. With all his strength, Lucien managed to hack the knee of the golem.
Bang! This was Lucien's first time attacking the golem. A layer of ice climbed onto the golem's knee. Although the thin layer broke into the fine pieces as soon as the steel golem moved, it slowed the monster down for one second. Very decisively, Lucien attacked the other knee joint of the golem.
A strong wind blew, which turned into many ropes. The neck, knees, elbows, wrists of the golem were all constrained, and now it was moving even slower.
Lucien's fighting had inspired Sophia. Now she knew what to do to help him!
It was time for Lucien to launch his full attack. Like raindrops in a fierce storm, Lucien's sword fell on the body of the steel golem without stop.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The smile on Lucien's face was confident. He felt that his blood was burning because of the fight!
The golem's red-light eyes shone. It's iron jaw opened, and from it, a greenish-yellow gas came out.
When Lucien was about to dodge, the gas was pushed backward by the strong wind.
Dissipate Smoke. Sophia chose the proper magic again!
With his feet pressing against the ground, Lucien rushed forward again. His swift movement made the heavy hammer miss its target again. With another successful hack, the steel golem moved very slowly like it was already rusty.
However, Lucien's level-four sword could only leave some shallow cuts in the golem. With so many cuts, its knee joints were still able to move. For a few times, Lucien was almost hit by the dangerous, big hammer.
Still, at this time, Lucien felt a strong pulling force from the opposite direction, attracting the sword in his hand. Meanwhile, the golem was even not able to move forward an inch at all!
After around ten seconds, the low sound of metal cracking came from inside of the golem. The two red light spots dimmed. Then, the steel monster collapsed like a falling small hill.
It seemed that Sophia had finally come up with the idea that the spells creating a strong magnetic field worked best for beating the steel monster. So she cast her talent magic spell - the level-five spell, Magnetic Field Shock.
Lucien was glad that right now he was not in his teacher's palace, the Lord of Storm, since most advanced steel golems produced by the Congress of Magic were still able to fight in a strong magnetic field for a few minutes, and during those few minutes, a steel golem was able to kill most middle-rank sorcerers and grand knights.
Gasping hard, Lucien felt very exhausted, yet he also felt very good after the great workout. Ever since he became a sorcerer, he hardly ever fought physically anymore. For a few times, he almost used magic.
From the fight, Lucien realized the importance of exercise again.
As usual, his brain was filled with many strange thoughts.
Seeing that Beaulac was gasping hard, Sophia approached him with her flushed face, ”Sorry… I was too nervous. All the knowledge that I learned… did not come to me until later. Are you alright?”
”I'm okay. It's your first time facing a real monster, and you did very well, Your Highness,” said Lucien, who felt that his power was recovering very fast when his blood was running fast. At the same time, he was wondering if the power of wind was equal to electromagnetic force in this world. This was because he was told that Princess Sophia had the blood power called the Angel of Wind, but her talent still allowed her to cast the spells that created strong magnetic fields.
According to what Lucien knew, the Congress of Magic had redefined the four elements. Many arcanists had agreed on the statement that the element of wind represented electromagnetic force, and the element of earth was created by gravity. However, there was no agreement on how the element of fire and water were related to the other fundamental forces.
”This was a cruel fight. It is so nice having you as my knight,” said Sophia gently.
”My pleasure.” Lucien pretended to be very excited.
Sophia nodded, ”We take a short break and then move on.”
When she was casting the spells to check the corridors ahead, Lucien looked down and slightly shook his head. He believed that Sophia was testing him during the fight.
Unless she was scared out of her mind, or no one had taught Sophia how to stay focused, there was no way that the interval time between two of her spells was this long! Within a minute, Sophia had only used four spells. Even taking into consideration the time she needed for thinking, it was still too slow.
After a while, Lucien and Sophia set off again.
To avoid all the rooms filled with dangerous magic circles, they somehow arrived at another hall directly from the original one they were in.
In this hall, more than ten nobles were already gathering!
Relph and Claire were standing in two separate corners in the hall, and each of them had two to three young nobles on their side. In the opposite corner of the hall, Arthen and his helpers were ready for the fight.
In the middle of the hall, a few bodies were on the ground, with blood and flesh everywhere.
Their faces were written with fear. They were scared by the real death right in front of them.
From their numbers, Lucien guessed that probably most of the nobles had not found the correct way, or they had been scared out of their mind and were now trying to find a safe place to hide, like Duda. For those nobles who were there, they had already proved their competence. If they were still alive when they got out of this place, they would probably become the leaders of their generation.
”You! You changed the magic circles! Beaulac!” Seeing Lucien and Sophia, Arthen cried out loud, with his sword in his right hand and shield in left hand, and his voice was filled with strong hatred, ”You want us all to die here!”
”Among us, only the princess is a caster, and she is able to change the magic circles. And she supports you!” shouted another young noble.
”Claire, Relph! We should kill Beaulac together first!” Another noble also yelled.
All of the young nobles were more than furious.