Chapter 12 Part5 (1/2)
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[Unable to resist. Requesting reinforcements.]
[Blocking enemy until reinforcements arrive.]
The highland's golems could only move simply, as per their prior inputted commands, but due to that, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was able to grasp their limitations quite easily.
When they realized that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was too much for them, they immediately switched to a defensive position, and waited until reinforcements came. They were certainly a lot different from the undead or monsters that just attacked while following their faintly remaining instincts.
”But your timing was off.”
[Ceasing function.]
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo smiled bitterly and shattered their bodies one by one with his axe. They didn't come at him aggressively, so the fight was boring; it was simple. No matter how long they waited, reinforcements wouldn't come.
Perhaps those reinforcements did indeed exist when these golems were first built and were inputted with commands, but a lot of time had pa.s.sed. It was highly likely that those reinforcements either no longer existed, or the connection had been severed.
”Isn't that kind of worrying?”
With a single swing of his axe, he broke apart the golems; Jin, who was training the skill he'd just learned, 'Steel Body', tilted his head and replied to the words Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had just thrown out.
”What do you mean that their connection's been cut?”
”Well, it's just that there are heaps of stone golems out here, even though they're set up with an emergency call feature.”
[You have acquired 3,100 Perium.]
[You have acquired a Lv3 Stone Golem Bone Core.]
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo picked up the loot and surveyed the area. Although they had returned to the highlands less than an hour ago, there was less than a quarter of the Stone Golems remaining.
”I feel like there's a new dungeon here.”
”How about asking about it in the chatting channel?”
”I asked about it before. Apparently, some of our seniors hadn't even discovered this area before, and there are also some who have pa.s.sed through this golem infested area.”
Currently, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo felt really suspicious, so how could his seniors not feel the same?
His seniors were sure that there was a dungeon somewhere nearby and told him that they'd disa.s.sembled the golems, a.n.a.lyzed the cores, thoroughly investigated the surrounding magic responses, and if all that didn't work, they'd just dig up an area which seemed suspicious to them and searched the area. After all of that, the results were...
[Prince Altania: There's no secret facility nor a dungeon. Definitely not. If it's something that the extraordinary Fire Magician, Altania can't find, then there should be nothing there. There isn't. End of story.]
Apparently that. Meaning that his senior heroes couldn't find it. However, Jin softly gazed at Lee s.h.i.+n Woo and spoke.
”You're going to go looking for it, right?”
”Yep. How did you know?”
”You're easy to read.”
Truthfully, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was somewhat confident. He didn't even need to mention his track record of finding the secret facilities in the sewers. Didn't he have an ability that differed from his seniors? That ability was none other than Bone Reinforcement.
”Bone Cores... Will you really be able to gain the memories of it from them?”
”When I tried it last time, there was definitely some recorded information about it inside.”
But there was a problem: the memories were limitlessly vague and were difficult to accept. Was it best to describe it like reading a letter in computer code? It would be a difficult, long-term war, but Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was confident. He already had an idea of what part he had to latch onto.
”I just have to keep absorbing them until I understand. It's not impossible.”
”What exactly were you doing in your own world before all this?”
”I was just a normal salaryman.”
”You're kidding me.”
If Jin knew how much effort someone had to put in to become a normal salaryman in South Korea, he wouldn't say something like that. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo just clicked his tongue.
While conversing, his hand didn't remain idle. Whenever he discovered a golem, he would immediately dash over to it, break it apart with his axe, or throw his axe... It was only possible because his strength had increased by leaps and bounds after leveling up to level 4.
'Moreover, Rule of Bone reinforces the bones that make up my body. Plus, the mana that I absorb in real time can replenish the maintenance cost...'
It wasn't on the level of a skill that just launched a bone or controlled it from a distance. Rule of Bone was a cheat skill that would buff anything that was related to bones.
The buff wasn't very significant right now, but the higher he leveled the skill, the more he'd be able to make full use of the ability. Maybe he'd acquired a skill that was like the Avenger skill, which allowed him to overcome the limit known as levels. He suddenly felt gracious towards the Treasure Eater.
”Have you sorted everything out now?”
”There's nothing else, so... Probably?”
Three hours pa.s.sed. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo and Jin maintained their incredible mobility and searched the very outskirts of the highlands, all while neatly taking down all of the Stone Golems. Regardless of where they went, the Stone Golems would call for 'reinforcements', but they never appeared.
Yet the Stone Golems in the area adjacent to them wouldn't move. He was absolutely sure by now. Their command system had already completely collapsed. They had either been thrown away or abandoned.
'If that's the case, then there's only one question left. Why were so many golems left here, when there's nothing even here? It's unlikely that they moved here from where they were originally or that their previous owner told them to move here. There must be something around here that has a deep connection with their last command.'
He completed his thoughts and raised his head. He hadn't yet absorbed the Bone Cores that he'd collected. Before he absorbed the Bone Cores, he studied them to confirm they'd have an effect on him. It's likely that if he collected more Bone Cores, the outcome would be even greater.
”So if we go to the centermost area, you're saying that level 4 golems will appear, huh.”
”That's true, but they seemed really rusty. Apparently, they were called Bronze Golems.”
The Bronze Golems came after the Stone Golems. Based on the sequence of these names, wouldn't a level 5 named, elite Iron Golem appear? Lee s.h.i.+n Woo felt slightly excited and entered the middle of the highlands.
[Ceasing function...]
[You have hunted a Lv4 Bronze Golem. You have acquired 5,120 Perium.]
[You have acquired a Reinforced Autonomous Defense Type Core. The Reinforced Autonomous Defense Type Core has transformed into the Reinforced Autonomous Defense Type Bone Core.]
The Bronze Golem was definitely a lot st.u.r.dier and heavier than a Stone Golem, to such an extent that they could certainly boast that they were level 4 monsters. Though each of their strikes were powerful, they hadn't been maintained over a long period of time, so just like Jin said, they were rusted.