Glenn blinked, before turning back toward the dozen golems charging at them.

'What is this idiot talking about?'

An arrow enveloped in a dark Aura flew above his head, shooting for one of the golems' crystals. An explosion burst out as the light was snuffed out, and one of the golems crumbled down to the ground. The golems charged through the dust welcomed with a hail of Drilling Bullets. Glenn clenched his teeth as he aimed and shot magic without interruption, trying not to pay attention to Sahro gasping for air beside him.

'The hell happened for him to be that tired?' thought the young man as he destroyed another golem. The pile of stone fell to the ground, instantly replaced by two of its brothers, hurling their stone fists at him. Glenn charged his legs in Mana to jump over the attacks but remembered what caused him to break his arm, and chose instead to summon a Triple Magic Wall, which as its name let one guess, was just three Magic Walls piled together.

Simple and not very efficient in terms of cost-efficiency, but it worked. The golems crashed on the barrier and stumbled backward, bouncing off the protection. Glenn felt his magic break and dismissed it without hesitation, rushing forward to the closest golem. He jumped on it, summoning a magic spear in his right hand. He quickly climbed to the level of the crystal and willed the spear to spin at great speed, using it to pierce through the red crystal. The golem crumbled when its other counterpart jumped on its remains to try and crush Glenn with all of its weight.

The young man launched a burst of Mana to propel himself out of the way while firing a Drilling Bullet upwards, aimed at the jewel. Glenn frowned as he saw the projectile pierce just beside the crystal.

'Miss. Shit.'

He rolled backward, before bending forward, an immense weight passing right over his head. Another golem tried to punch him from behind, already preparing his other fist to crush the pesky human in front of him. Sadly for the golem, an arrow pierced through the air before shattering its red crystal. A blade of crimson Aura cut through the dust and stones, destroying another golem.

Glenn coughed from the dust, before summoning a Blackhole and throwing in the direction the golems came from. All of the stones from their corpses flew toward the Blackhole, creating a storm of stones that destroyed everything on its way.

The young man jumped back and took a breather as the Blackhole slowed the golems a little. He turned toward Sahro with an awed expression.

"What the fuck did you do?!?" He screamed over the cacophony, Sahro only pointing at the huge amount of Blumar behind him. Glenn shook his head, and shot another Drilling Bullet at one of the surviving golem, this time hitting right in the crystal and destroying the golem. The dust was swallowed alongside the rocks, letting the group discover that only five golems were remaining.

"Wow, we took care of them much faster than I thought we would have," Glenn remarked, before smacking himself on the head. The moment he said that rubbles rose from the ground around red crystals and four more golems, totaling nine giant moving rocks.

'Yeah, maybe you should just shut the fuck up,' Diamanes laughed at his host's expenses. Sahro drew a deep breath before charging his curved sword to his side, preparing yet another Aura-charged slash. His eyes flashed with a crackle of blue electricity, and he suddenly disappeared from Glenn's eyes. A blue line appeared in the air, and one of the golem suddenly fell apart, split in two. Sahro stumbled forward, swearing while holding his right foot.

Glenn sneered, before concentrating and manipulating his Mana carefully. The golems' attention had switched to Sahro after his flashy charge, so he had a few seconds to come up with a way to deal with them. His mind raced as he tried to create a new spell with his Astral Sorcery.

'Think, think... Space, stars, blackhole, gravity...gravity?!'

The young man drew a deep breath and stared at one of the golem charging toward Sahro. His Mana burned madly as he designed his spell in real-time. The golem took another step forward, and, pushing forward, suddenly flew into the air uncontrollably. The Black Heir reflexively shoots out a blade of Aura at it, splitting it in two in the air, but missing the red crystal. The remains pulled themselves together, stitching back into a golem, only, it was floating dozens of meters above the ground, and still rising.

The golem tried to move its limbs hazardously but couldn't control its flight. It looked down at its brethren still fighting on the ground as if slowly flew away. Glenn grinned and twisted his hand down, willing for the polarity of his spell to change. The golem suddenly came crashing down, landing on the other golems and crushing them all into fine dust. Glenn huffed as it looked at the result of his little experiment.

"Gravity Manipulation seems like a good name for that, don't you think, Diamanes?" He mumbled, looking at Sahro cutting down another golem, its red crystal exploding in a cloud of crimson dust. An arrow flew out again, shooting out the last golem still standing, its body crumbling down in a white cloud. Glenn rubbed his neck, smiling with a satisfied expression, before remembering that these golems didn't attack for no reason.

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"Sahro, care to explain why the hell we just got attacked by half of the quarry?" He asked menacingly. Sahro raised his hand innocently, before pointing with his chin at the Blumar he brought back.

"Well, I think I took the equivalent of their child away from them."

Glenn blinked, before smacking his lips together.

"...What?"

Maybe he just understood wrongly. Sahro walked beside the Blumar and touched it with the tip of his sword.

"I searched for the Three-Eyes Golem but didn't find him, so instead I looked around, and I found that stuff lying there in a small cave. So I took it, and suddenly a dozen golems appeared out of nowhere. I chose to come back and regroup, which, worked pretty well in the end, didn't it?" The Black Heir explained with a wide grin.

Glenn sighed, rubbing the corner of his eyes. He shook his head and crouched next to the piece of Blumar. He picked it up, frowning when he realized that it was at least ten times heavier compared to the piece of rock he got on one of the golems.

"I wonder how much that piece is worth..." He mumbled, before looking up, noticing Lefeivre staring at the chunk of Blumar with his jaw hanging on the ground. The foreman ran next to them, practically stealing the material out of Glenn's hand, taking out a magnifying glass to check the rock out.

'Imagine having your whole house made out of that stuff...' The young man thought while staring at the light-swallowing, deep blue rock. Lefeivre took a few notes in a booklet and weighed the stone precisely with the help of a copper scale. Lefeivre breathed out shakily, storing his tools back with trembling hands. He slowly gave the Blumar back to Glenn before rubbing the edge of his nose.

"So, phew, for a piece of that weight and purity, we're talking about..." Lefeivre flipped his notebook open, verifying a certain data before nodding to himself, "... forty-nine gold, fifty-three silver, and twenty-one copper. Cough, of course, that's without taking into account the taxes from the kingdom, but it's still around forty, forty-five gold. An... an incredible find, if I dare to say," said the foreman with a shaky voice.

Glenn looked at Sahro, who looked back at him. The both of them looked at the Blumar at the same time, the ember of greed lighting up in their eyes.

"...Around forty-five gold, you say...?" Glenn huffed as he felt his hands holding the Blumar trembling. Sahro slowly sheathed his sword, before pointing at the deep blue rock.

"...That...That stuff is worth as much as six months of a Gold Fixer's hard work?" He let out with a rasp. Lefeivre nodded excitedly, a huge grin decorating his face.

"Yes, this is that expensive. But we need to do some extensive testing to see how pure the Blumar is. The purer the material, the more it resists magic attacks, but that'll have to wait—"

Pang!

Lefeivre took a few steps back after something just whistled past his head. Glenn looked at the Blumar with a shocked expression, the material still unchanged and unscratched.

"Shit, I just shot a Magic Bullet at that stuff and it just ricocheted? Hey, should I try using a stronger spell?" He asked, turning toward Sahro. The Black Heir hesitated for a second, then took a few steps back.

"Yeah, yeah, go for it!" He replied with a thumbs-up. Glenn shrugged and shot out an Implosion without hesitation.

Boom!

A cloud of dust arose from the impact as the chunk of Blumar flew through the air, threatening to crash down on the ground at any moment.

Lefeivre's face paled as he scrambled to his feet, catching the deep blue rock at the last second, at the cost of his clothes and own body.

"Phew, alright..." The foreman stood up carefully, holding the Blumar like a precious baby, before verifying it. There didn't seem to be any changes on the Blumar, as far as anyone could tell. Glenn's hand rose slowly, but Lefeivre snapped his neck at him.

"NO! You stop with your bullshit! This thing is worth more than your life, so stop trying to destroy it!" A big vein pumped on Lefeivre's forehead as he hid the Blumar behind his back. Glenn raised an eyebrow.

"...But didn't you say we needed to test it?"

"Shut up! Leave me be!" Lefeivre quickly ran away with his prize, an ecstatic expression on his face. Glenn and Sahro exchanged a gaze, before shrugging.

"Well, that's one less chunk of debt we need to take care of, I suppose," Glenn sighed, putting his hands in his pocket. Sahro chuckled and walked off, before freezing in his steps.

"...Glenn?"

The denominated turned his head confusedly.

"What?"

The Black Heir licked his lips voraciously.

"Didn't you tell me that the Three-Eyed Golem was made of Blumar?"

Glenn's face lit up and he smiled wickedly.

"...Indeed, a big part of its body is made of it, yes. Do you want to...?" The young man trailed off, before looking back at the camp. Sahro followed his gaze, biting his lower lip.

"...I mean, they'll survive if we just leave for a little while, isn't that right?" Sahro tempted Glenn. The young man hesitated, looking back between the camp and the depths of the quarry, where a literal goldmine was waiting to be harvested.

Glenn opened his mouth, rubbed the back of his head, and sighed.

"Hah, I suppose we'll have to wait a bit. I don't even have a weapon right now, and that damned golem is half immune to magic attacks. There's nothing we can do..."

Sahro raised an eyebrow.

"...Okay, I'll go alone then," said the Black Heir while slowly turning around to head back for the depths of the quarry. Glenn turned around, forcing himself not to follow him. He ground his teeth, split in two between the two terrible decisions. How could he choose between the safety of his camp and money—

A few seconds later...

Two men were running in the labyrinth of the Blumar Quarry, heading for a specific point in the depth of the excavation site.

"Alright, so we turn there, then we jump there, oh, that's where I beat up the first golem, then there... Ah, here's the bastard!" Glenn exclaimed, dusting the white dust off his pants.

Glenn and Sahro were standing on top of one of the marble walls, staring at an expertly hidden trio of red gems lodged under a thick layer of white dust, barely visible under the light of the burning sun. The Three-Eyed Golem hadn't moved at all from his spot from where Glenn had left him previously. The two young men exchanged glances, smiling greedily. Glenn rubbed his hands together while Sahro licked his lips, both already imagining the price Lefeivre would give them for such a find.

It was time to pay their debts, and to make some money on top.

And in bonus, they got to fuck up one mean son of a rock.

It was bound to be a fun one, this time.