Chapter 201: Brutal Strike
After a hundred meters, he finally managed to stabilize his body.
The end of his left arm had disappeared.
The chest of the golden armor was deeply dented.
Meanwhile, I had already retreated to the edge of the forest.
Now I could safely analyze the battle.
The Giant’s weakness had become obvious.
His body was composed mainly of condensed Elemental energy.
Against magical attacks, this was a huge advantage, but against extremely powerful physical attacks... The story was different.
However, the golden light began to flicker.
The destroyed arm lit up.
Particles of Wind Elemental were drawn toward it, and before long, the arm was reconstructed.
The regeneration system was working.
But then...
— ROOOOOOOAR!
Lorgy roared and charged forward again.
There was no need to insist on close-quarters combat.
My consciousness connected directly to the primary core.
Distance was not a problem.
My magical energy transmitted the command.
The Giant stopped.
His golden eyes glowed, and he understood that he was supposed to continuously attack from a distance with beams of light.
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The Giant Elephant advanced like a machine of destruction that had never known the meaning of the word fatigue.
The ground was covered with enormous, deep footprints.
In contrast to that monstrously brutal creature, my Light Golem moved like a spirit.
It continuously flew around the Giant Elephant, maintaining enough distance to avoid its attacks, but never moving far enough to allow its enemy to regain its rhythm.
Successive explosions of energy illuminated the forest as my Golem continued circling its enemy, drawing its attention and launching attack after attack.
As the battle progressed, the information analyzed by the Biochip became increasingly detailed.
When I had created the Light Golem, I practically knew nothing about the theories required to construct an elemental creature of that level. I had managed to make it work thanks to the elemental core and the projection of magical energy, but that did not mean I completely understood its structure.
In fact, I was closer to someone assembling a machine by following a manual than to a true expert.
Because of that, the Biochip had previously only been able to provide rough estimates regarding my Golem’s strength and abilities.
But now that it was fighting, a new projection appeared before my eyes.
[STATUS]
[Name: Light Golem]
[Race: Golem]
[Level: Pseudo-Mage]
[ATTRIBUTES]
[Strength: 10]
[Vigor: 18]
[Agility: 18]
[Mana: 19]
[Abilities]
[Wind Vortex — Passive]
[Light Armor — Passive]
[Light Shield — Active]
[Light Spear — Active]
[Light Whip — Active]
[Wind Blades — Active]
[Light Storm — Active]
[Sequential Lights — Active]
[Light Jump — Active]
My Golem was clearly a creature focused on ranged combat and speed.
Its physical Strength was not particularly impressive. If it were forced to fight a monster like the Giant Elephant in close quarters, it would probably be destroyed in a short time.
However, that did not mean it was weak.
Quite the contrary.
Its high Agility and Vigor, combined with a wide variety of offensive abilities, made it the most powerful Golem I possessed at that moment.
And judging by its current performance...
It had not disappointed my expectations.
During the second half of the battle, the Light Golem practically took control of the confrontation.
It continued circling the Giant Elephant, firing Light Spears and Wind Blades whenever it found an opening.
The enormous Elephant leaped into the air, but it could not even touch my Golem’s shadow.
However, I knew better than to underestimate a creature of that level.
After repeatedly failing to reach the Light Golem, the Giant Elephant finally demonstrated why a powerful lineage was not something that should be taken lightly.
Its chest expanded.
Then it opened its mouth.
— ROOOOOOOOAR!
The roar tore through the forest.
For an instant, even the air seemed to tremble.
[Warning!]
[Spiritual ability detected]
Immediately, the data appeared before my eyes.
[Spirit-Soul Body Lethargic Roar]
[An ability capable of launching a powerful spiritual attack over an area of approximately fifty meters.]
[Any creature struck by it would have its consciousness momentarily destabilized, entering a state similar to an absence of the soul for three to five seconds.]
For an ordinary human...
That could mean instant death.
Three seconds were more than enough for a monster of that size to turn someone into a smear of blood on the ground.
The second attack also appeared soon afterward.
The Giant Elephant bent its arms and gathered energy between its enormous palms.
A mass of stone began to form.
Within a few seconds, an irregular rock nearly two meters in diameter appeared.
Then it hurled it.
The rock crossed the air like an artillery projectile.
Zoshhhhh~~
My Golem disappeared in a flash of light.
The enormous rock struck part of the forest and exploded against the trees.
Fragments flew in every direction.
Despite possessing few abilities, the Giant Elephant had an extremely dangerous combination.
Its Spirit-Soul Body Lethargic Roar created an opening.
Its physical power took advantage of that opening.
And any enemy who remained immobile for a few seconds would probably die before managing to recover their senses.
Fortunately...
My Golem did not possess a soul.
It was a creature composed of elemental particles.
Spiritual attacks were practically useless against it. For a spiritual attack to be effective, it would have to directly strike all of its cores at once, and that would be extremely difficult.
The Giant Elephant continued roaring and chasing my Golem.
For a moment, I began to believe that victory would be simple.
Then everything changed.
The Elephant’s gigantic body began to glow.
The lineage energy receded.
And, in the next instant, the enormous creature disappeared.
In its place...
Was Lorgy.
The man in silver armor.
His eyes immediately turned toward me.
Then I sighed.
Had he finally recovered his brain?
No idiot could survive long enough to become an Acolyte.
During the battle, the rage and influence of the lineage had disturbed Lorgy’s consciousness. The Giant Elephant had practically taken complete control.
But now, after so many useless attacks...
Lorgy had regained his reason.
And reached an extremely simple conclusion.
I was the weakness.
My Light Golem might be fast.
But I was merely a relatively weak human.
If Lorgy managed to defeat me, the Golem would lose its controller.
It was a logical and irritatingly effective strategy.
— Biochip, how many mana points do I have left?
[Remaining Mana: below six points.]
Summoning the Light Golem had consumed seven points of Mana.
I was not in a position to continue wasting energy.
I looked at Lorgy.
He transformed again.
The Giant Elephant reappeared.
Its eyes turned red.
Then it slammed both hands against the ground.
BOOOOOOM!
And leaped directly toward me.
I did not even need the Biochip to analyze its thoughts to understand what it intended.
If I ordered the Golem to block that attack...
It would be a terrible decision.
The Giant Elephant possessed enough physical power to destroy my Golem in close combat. And if the elemental cores hidden inside it were damaged...
I would lose one of my most powerful weapons.
So I made another choice.
I took out a crystalline elemental core.
— Show yourself, my Black Rock Basilisk!
CRAAAAAACK!
A huge crack appeared in the ground.
The earth exploded to both sides.
Then a gigantic creature made entirely of rock began to emerge from the depths.
The Black Rock Basilisk emerged directly in the Giant Elephant’s path.
And coiled itself. In the next instant, the two monsters collided.
The scene before me looked like it had come straight out of some absurd fantasy.
A gigantic Elephant fighting against a colossal stone serpent.
Perhaps, under other circumstances, I would have stopped to appreciate that battle.
But I was not an idiot.
I used a Speed Potion, and a green glow appeared around me.
Then I ran without looking back.
Only when I was at a safe distance did I stop.
The green glow around my boots began to disappear.
I took a deep breath.
Then I turned my head.
The battlefield was still trembling.
And above it...
My Light Golem hovered in the air.
Its two arms were raised.
Above the Golem’s body, energy began to swirl.
A huge funnel-shaped formation appeared.
The Light Storm was slowly growing.
And its lower end was pointing directly at the Giant Elephant.
Even in the middle of the battle, the creature sensed the danger and tried to escape.
But the Black Rock Basilisk was still wrapped around its legs.
Its body had been nearly destroyed by the Elephant; several parts were cracked and broken.
Even so... It refused to let go.
Then the energy finally reached its limit.
The Light Storm was completed.
And the night sky illuminated the forest as brightly as day.
A gigantic tornado of light tore through the darkness.
The light descended directly upon the Giant Elephant and the Basilisk.
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