620 Relic, Riches and Instability, The Golem, The Treasures, and The Slaves Minds (1/2)

Mark held the rough papers containing the records about the golem as he started at the humanoid contraption.

According to the records, this golem was made way before this Kingdom was established. They found it within the ruins where the Spire Tree Castle currently stood. That was right, the ancestors of the Black Duendes built this Kingdom upon the ruins of an ancient civilization within the Spirit Dimension.

Unfortunately, the ruins were too destroyed to the point of recognition, only leaving a few things for the current people to see. Among those relics was this golem that the Black Duendes tried to restore for hundreds of years.

They did their best and managed to fix the golem. Researching and tinkering, the Black Duendes recreated its whole body.

The sad thing, however, they lacked the most crucial thing. A core to make the golem move. And to the dismay of the researchers, there was no known method to create it. At least, not in their knowledge.

And then, the reign of Luserio came. As the new King reigned as the most powerful compared to his predecessors, he deemed the golem worthless. And such, the research on it stopped, and the researchers that were deprived of their passion left the Kingdom.

All of these happened more than two hundred years ago. It was such a long time.

Fortunately, everything was preserved well in this treasury, and even the golem and its records were kept in good condition. Although it could be seen how Luserio saw this thing as worthless as the valuable documents about it were left in the open near it and not stored somewhere safer.

The stack of old papers on Mark's hands was quite thick that it could be bound into a textbook already. There was no way that he would be able to read everything in one go. And thus, he focused on the four-meter tall contraption.

”Mei'er, do you have any space inside your ring?”

Mark asked, measuring the size of the golem with his eyes.

”Umm... Let me see.” Mei replied as she closed her eyes and activated her [Spatial Ring]. ”About a quarter left. It's filled with the things we picked from the street.”

Mark smiled wryly at that. The storage space in their rings that was as spacious as an extra-large hotel suite room was filled with items they picked up in this Kingdom. Most of it was the armors and weapons of the soldiers that littered the street after they turned to dust. Not all of it was magical weapons, as it was also rare within the large number they managed to get. It was just that the items were made of strange materials that Mark found interesting. In fact, there should be more of these items. However, they left the armor of those dead bodies that did not turn to dust after they died.

”I'll free up mine then. Store the things I take out in yours.”

”Master, you're going to take this big thing back?”

Amihan asked as she flew towards the face of the golem, poking where the eyes should be located. She could not understand it, after all. Like how Luserio disregarded this thing, once one was powerful enough, this thing would be useless.

And Mark, who easily defeated Luserio, was far more powerful. Even the base might have no need for this as it was doing fine with several layers of defenses. In fact, Amihan thinks that it was currently overprotected.

”Why not?”

Mark asked Amihan.

”It's missing a core, though.”

Amihan replied, circling at the golem.

But then, Mark smiled.

”We have three, though?”

”Huh?”

Amihan turned to Mark, confused.

It was when the three girls took out something from the bag that Iola was carrying. Each of them showed a different colored stone ball on their hands.

”AH!” Amihan finally remembered. ”The gifts from Bathala!”

It was the gift that the three girls received from the God of Creation of Philippine Mythology. The hearts of living dolls. This might have a different name in Bathala's words, but living dolls were, without a doubt, golems.

And now, they one in front of them that was missing its own.

”Master! Let's try it! Let's try it!”

Amihan danced around, exited. She completely forgot about the t gifts that the three received.

”Let's try it later. Or else, I might have done that already.” Mark rolled his eyes while he waved the stack of documents he had. ”I haven't read all of this yet. It's better to understand everything they knew before trying it out.”

That was right. Mark knew almost nothing about this thing. Just because they found one did not mean that they should immediately jump in to try something idiotic.

What if the core could not be retrieved anymore? Or what if this thing could not be customized at all?

Even Mark would feel bad if his little girls received something they did not like.

In any case, this golem they found as the base, Mark would be able to study it and create his own golems in the near future.

”Okay...” Amihan grumbled. She might not find the significance of having a golem, but in the least, she wanted to see if it could really move. ”By the way, are you three always carrying those?”

Of course, Amihan would ask that. Such precious items were being carried everywhere, and not even inside Mark's or Mei's [Spatial Rings].

”Because we want to?”

Iola replied.

”Don't bother asking them.” Mark interjected. ”I asked them the same before, but they always kept it inside Iola's bag. They don't even want to keep it inside our rings unless necessary.”