48 Episode 48: A Giant Golem and a Physical Monster.txt




 A dozen or so giant golems slowly approaching.

 These man-made demons are unable to make complex movements and lack any means of attack other than swinging their arms down, but their strength and size alone make them a serious threat.

 An ordinary adventurer would need to make careful preparations just to take on one of them, but in this place, they could only be destroyed unilaterally.

''Too late, too late!''

 Garnet leaps onto the golem's fist as it slumps to the floor and runs straight up the arm, smashing the rocky lower jaw with a sharp spinning kick.

 The blow shatters the magic letters at the core of the control technique, and the golem is reduced to a mere humanoid mass of rock and dirt.

''Second body!''
"......! Garnett! Behind you!

 The golem behind him swung his fist down at Garnett, who landed on the ground.

 It's a good idea to be able to have a good time with the people you're talking to.

 The floor under his feet was shattered by the impact, but there was no damage that seemed to have been done to the body that had been stripped of magic power.

'Stay down, white wolf! I'm going all out!

 As soon as he shouted that, Garnett clung firmly to the rocky fist and made a sideways rotation with all his strength.

 The huge body of the golem floated in the air and, using its grabbed arms as support, it made a grand one-turn turn.

''Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!

 The swinging golem is slammed into the wall with the other two wrapped around it.

 -- what an absurd feat of strength!

 Shards of the shattered golem and crumbling walls rained down all around.

 It's like a disaster that has taken on the body of a young girl.

 In terms of speed and accuracy, Sakura is overwhelmingly superior, but in terms of power and toughness, this one is incomparably more tremendous.

 The only weaknesses would be a weakness for surprise attacks and a lack of confidence in the duration of combat.

 This type of skill is optional and continuously consumes magic power, so it is often difficult to surprise or fight for long periods of time before it is activated.

 However, because of this, the explosive power while the true value is available is extraordinary.

''d*mn it, ...... I'm being too tense!
I haven't been able to be serious these days. I need to unwind for a change.
What happens if you try too hard and run out of magic?
It'll be over before then. It's like they're serious about it.

 Out of the corner of Garnett's eye, Travis was unbeatable in his onslaught.

''Hahahahaha! So many of them are worth a beating!

 The blow unleashed haphazardly crushes the leg of the golem.

 And then a follow-up stiff fist is slammed into the golem that falls to its front.

 The chest area is shattered. The arms of the rock tearing off. A faceless head that tumbles down.

 There was no need to even aim at the weakness of the magic letters, just pure destruction to make the golem unable to fight.

 The reason he crushed the legs first was only to make his fists reach the golem's torso.

 If the opponent had been a small golem, it would have been destroyed with a single blow.

''Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry! I'll deal with you in turn!

 Travis readied his fist filled with magical power and unleashed it straight at the empty space in front of him.

 The impact of the enormous amount of magical power instantly released blows away several large golems.

 While the fallen golem struggled to get up, Travis attacked the other golems and crushed them again in the blink of an eye.

'Follow the boss!'
Let's get our asses kicked!

 Travis' men were also making fierce attacks on the golem.

 Some unleashed magic, some pierced the golems with skillfully emerged projectiles, while others threw explosive bottling projectiles to shatter the surface of the rock.

 Although they can't be single-handedly warriors like Garnett and Travis, they are steadily reducing the number of golems through skillful coordination.

''Lu, Luke-san! It's coming down this way. ......!

 As the engineer who was evacuating with me shouted, one of the large golems collapsed close to us, and it hadn't lost its function yet.

 Moreover, it hadn't lost its function yet, and it stretched out its arms to crush us as it lay on the ground.

''Uhhhh!''
Get back!

 Thrusting his hand against the giant palm, he poured his magic power into it and activated 【Degradation】.

 Unlike living creatures, the golem's arm, which has no magical resistance, shattered easily with just that.

 Furthermore, he even ran up to his face and shaved off the first letter by showering 【Degradation】 on the magic letters engraved on his mouth as well.

''Great ......! Luke, you can fight too!
'No way! Because he was down! If it's straight up, you have no chance of winning at all: ......

 As we tried to run away, an unharmed golem stood in front of us.

 A head-to-head battle that we had just tried to say we had no chance of winning.

 Even if I wanted to [disintegrate] its legs and make it roll over, there's even a chance that it would be kicked away before it could do so.

''Haha ...... is this guy bad?''
You don't want me to!

 Garnett's flying kick struck the golem's side.

 It's not just a matter of time before you'll be able to get your hands on a new one.

It's a good thing that you're a part of my job to protect you. I'm not going to be able to be destroyed while you're looking elsewhere.
It helped, but it was a little close for that.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can't move around like a cherry.

 After a short exchange of words, we escape the vast crypt with Garnett's escort.

 Back to the intricate passageway, you can still feel the sounds and vibrations of beating down a pack of golems.

 It's a fierce battle, but if Travis is there, victory should be unassailable.

'...... Well, the white wolf. As I recall, Noir said that a golem was deployed in the Demon King's castle. I don't think it's possible, but wasn't this place an armory for the Demon King's army or something?

 Garnett looked around warily.

 When the engineer man heard the hypothesis, he cringed and cowered in fear.

 Certainly, it's not impossible.

 If this ruin was originally a military base, even though the passageway seems to be nothing more than a pointlessly intricate one, if this ruin was originally a military base, then the practicality of daring to make a complicated design in order to mislead intruders would arise.

'I'm just saying there's no chance of that happening. I haven't seen the actual golem in the Demon King's Castle, so I can't say for sure, but ...... even if it was a golem built with the same technology, I can make another hypothesis.
Another? How so?
The pattern is that both golems were created by different demons, and the demon king's army excavated them and made them into an asset. In that case, the owner of the ruins is also a different demon race than the dark elves of the demon king's army.

 Garnett thrust his fist into his palm with a satisfied look on his face.

''Well, the dark elves have been overworking the dwarves and making them dig mines. Maybe they're not only looking to dig up ore, but also golems. ......
When we escape, the first thing I'll do is report to the Golden Fang Guards.

 Me and Garnett nodded to each other and rushed out of the ruins in a great hurry.