72 Stone Golems (1/2)

The golems were troublesome opponents as they didn't feel pain and could restore themselves automatically. Battling with them was even more exasperating than fighting with Yale as his regenerative speed was slower Than the golems', and his tolerance to pain couldn't compare with theirs either.

Furthermore, their defenses were extremely strong, weak attacks had no effect on them.

Battling with swords alone wasn't enough to destroy them, everyone needed to use their best Combined Skills, and even using them, it was still difficult to damage the golems.

There were two ways to create a golem; one was with the caster supplying him with magic directly, the golem would be eternal as long as the magic provided by the caster didn't stop.

The first type main weakness was that the caster didn't have an unlimited supply of magic and could get exhausted. Furthermore, if the caster died the golem would also disappear.

The other type didn't require the caster's magic energy, that type of golems obtained their energy from a core which could absorb energy from the world. The rate of the absorption would be weaker in an environment with little earth, but inside a mountain, the chances of the core exhausting its power were zero.

The second type would only stop once they core had been broken. If the core were just exhausted, at most the golem would stop its actions until absorbing a bit more energy.

Yale and the others were battling was the core-powered type, they needed to destroy their cores to end them, but reach the cores wasn't an easy task as their external defense was extremely hard.

The only ones who could damage them enough to reach the cores were Yale, Kermu, and Durgan because they were at the expert stage and their attacks with the swords were far stronger than the attacks of the others.

However, even being at the expert stage, they only managed to reach the cores using their best skills, Yale was using the Water Battle Armor and Kermu his sword skill which used the space element.

Durgan was using a rapid skill related to the thunder element, but even being of the thunder element that skill was able to affect the stone golems.

Durgan's slashes were all quick and sharp, Yale wasn't able to determine the true nature of the skill as it was more complicated than what appeared at first sight. Durgan was worth of the title of a sword genius in a sword-focused noble clan.

While they dealt with six golems each one, the others were trying to fight with the other golems, but even with the help of Aizu's magic as support, the battle was a hard one. Their only chance was winning enough time to let the three expert stage swordsmen finish their golems first and come to aid them.

Hyrk alone was also fighting with six golems, but he was only defending, there were too many to win against them with his abilities, but he could endure a lot of time battling with them due to his high defenses.

Yale wasn't restraining himself to hide his real power from the Larken Clan, the situation was dangerous enough that didn't let him hide anything, he was even using Bloodline Force to be able to battle at the same level as Durgan who didn't even have the boost that Nurvey cast into him.

Without Nurvey's boost or without Bloodline Force, Yale wouldn't be able to damage the golems.

Durgan's battle prowess was the highest Yale had seen in someone at the 3-star mortal realm, Yale didn't know what kind of boost skills he had, but his physical strength and agility surpassed by far the limits of his realm.

Durgen smiled after seeing Yale's prowess, he felt that his previous decision wasn't wrong as Yale was able to battle at the same level as him; Durgan didn't know about Nurvey's spell, so he overestimated Yale's power a bit.

Yale didn't use the Minor Boost he learned before because the cost couldn't compensate for its effects as the level was still too low. If he had used it his prowess without Nurvey's boost would increase, but he wouldn't last for too long with that consumption rate, and he would still be weaker than with Nurvey's boost.

Fortunately, Yale didn't need to use Time Healing or Absolute Protection, so no time ripples appeared that could give clues about his secret identity.

The other four members of the Larken Clan suffered a lot of injuries before Yale, Kermu, and Durgan finished all the golems.

Even if they were able to finish all of them, they didn't do it quickly, and the members of the Durgan Clan didn't have Hyrk's strong defense which was even boosted by Nurvey's spell.