"...I know we said we were going to kick this thing's ass, but what's the plan?"
"Uh, I don't know, you're the one who fought him. Aren't you the one coming up with those?"
"..."
"I mean, plans are just the ways for the weak ones to fight back, so I'm not great in that matter, you know."
"...Fuck you, I don't need no plan to beat your ass. And right now, I'm pretty sure charging in like a bull will result in us getting squashed."
"Sure, sure...Chicken."
"What did you say?"
Glenn and Sahro looked at the Three-Eyed Golem hiding in one of the marble walls of the quarry, its three red crystals hidden under thick white dust. The two young men were still hesitating to attack the creature, struggling to find a way to defeat it without dying or critically injuring themselves in the process. The Black Heir rubbed the back of his head, sighing.
"What did you even come here for, anyway? The golem is practically immune to magical attacks, aren't you just going tickle him with your attacks?" jested Sahro away. Glenn didn't reply and tried creating a Gravity Manipulation field around the golem, but as soon as his Mana touched the Blumar composing the creature's body, it was disrupted and disappeared into nowhere, effectively wasting the Mana he invested.
"I can't even influence its surroundings. Shit, that thing is just too strong against mages..." Glenn clenched his fists, turning his head away.
"...Am I forced to just serve as your support? Damn, being the sidekick sucks..." The young man sighed as Sahro chuckled silently.
"Oh no, little Glenn is required to not act like the main protagonist for once, how terrible and awful!" Diamanes mocked aloud, succeeding in making Sahro laugh. Glenn gritted his teeth, leaning his head back.
"Are you guys allying yourselves against me now? Fuck..."
Glenn pushed himself from the ground, staring at the immobile golem. There weren't many things he could use to help Sahro in the battle. He took a deep breath and clenched his arms together.
"Alright, let's resume one last time. That golem is tough, resistant to magic, mightily strong, and extremely fast for its size while retaining a high intellect. Thank God, it's limited to physical attacks. If it was able to shoot lasers or something, that truly would have been an unstoppable opponent..." He shook his head, while Sahro warmed up his right arm, an electrical current appearing into thin air where his left arm previously was.
"Let's get to it, shall we?" The Black Heir sneered, before unsheathing his sword and jumping down without any hesitation. Glenn cursed and followed his friend in the fall, summoning a magical platform under his legs to slow his descent.
'We don't even have an idea of what we're doing! Couldn't he have waited like three more minutes?!?' Glenn thought exasperatedly, gently landing on the ground. Sahro rolled on the ground and charged his curved sword with a dark-red Aura, his muscles bulging as he readied himself to shoot out a powerful blade of pure energy. The golem flinched, making the dust fall off its body. It slowly dislodged itself from its socket in the marble wall, making it rumble and crackle under the heavy weight change.
"Hah!" Sahro shot out the blade of crimson Aura, readying another one as soon as the attack left his sword. The blade flew through the air with a sharp sound, cutting through the golem's body like a hot knife in butter.
Or so it seemed.
The Black Heir turned his head toward Glenn and flashed a smile at him.
"Aura-users supremacy!" He raised his sword to the sky until he realized that his friend's expression had changed to complete fright. Glenn gulped, and instantly entered Overload, willing his Circles to run at their maximum speed. A grinding sound echoed in his body as his Mana Heart went over its natural limit, charging with an enormous quantity of Mana. The golem's body had indeed been cut, but only in the part where the Blumar was missing.
It seemed like the Mana-resistant material could also defend against Aura. Sahro cursed and ran back.
"Shit! It also stops Aura! How are we supposed to get rid of this thing?!" He yelled before flashing away in a blue electrical current. Glenn clenched his teeth and controlled his raging Mana as best he could, using the excess to fuel Diamanes' power and summon the chilling freeze of Nitrogen.
"...Let's hope the Nitrogen Lance will be able to do at least a little something to him..." He mumbled while a bead of sweat fell from his forehead. The golem glanced down at the superficial wound Sahro inflicted on him, before completely getting himself out of the marble wall. It stepped toward Glenn menacingly, its three jewels shining evilly, but the young man didn't react and only continued to prepare his spell. A single movement would disrupt his concentration, and it would be a terrible loss to just waste all this Mana.
The golem's fist rose, covering the young man under its threatening shadow, until a flash of blue crackled in front of him. A second later, the golem's right leg, half-marble and half-Blumar, shattered like porcelain, bringing the golem to its knee. The Blumar remained, but with the loss of all that marble, the golem was destabilized and lost its balance. The ground shook heavily, but it didn't stop Glenn from casting his most powerful spell yet.
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A raging blue laser that swallowed everything in its path shot out of his joined hands, piercing through the golem and making the marble wall behind it explode. A thick layer of ice covered everything in the range of the attack, shining in every color of the world under the light of the sun. Steam evaporated in the air as Glenn took a step back, stumbling as he held his chest with a pained expression. It felt as if a seared iron had been lit up right inside it, burning him from the inside.
"Yeah, I'm not sure using Overload is a sustainable option in fights. At this rate, you're just going to end up as a kamikaze, mate," Diamanes remarked aloud, its mouth appearing in Glenn's purple palm. The young man winced as he forced himself to stay on his feet while he drew as much air as he could. Each breath seemed to calm the pain in his chest as if the air was cooling down the overheating Mana Heart.
Sahro suddenly appeared next to Glenn, gasping for air.
"Gasp, it looks, phew, it looks like it worked. Damn, that spell looked cool as hell. Is that what you used back against the undead horde?" Sahro asked curiously, trying to hide his legs shaking. Glenn nodded, doing his best not to look at Sahro trembling.
'It seems like his electrical power is taking quite a lot from him. As much as Overload takes from me, I suppose. Power always comes at great cost, after all...' Glenn wiped off his forehead, smiling weakly.
"This wasn't an easy fight, but nothing that couldn't be resolved with a bit of effort, as always—"
A loud banging sound cut Glenn off as the cloud of steam that rose from the attack dissipated, revealing the golem's skeleton. All of the marble covering it was practically gone, spare for some minuscule bits here and there. The young man could barely distinguish the creature's shape, the Blumar shaping its body making it seem like a crooked skeleton. The magic-resistant stone, originally of a deep, dark blue, was now searing red like a hot iron. It was sizzling loudly as more steam came out of it, creating an ominous cloud around the strange shape the golem now took.
"Oh. Is that the second phase?" Diamanes innocently asked. Glenn gulped and felt a chill being sent down his spine. A looming threat of death, unavoidable and unstoppable. A flash of blue suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he found himself a few dozen meters away, Sahro gasping heavily next to him. Glenn looked back to its previous position, discovering in horror that the Blumar Golem was standing there, a claw-like arm cutting deeply through the ground. The creature with a previously well-balanced body covered in heavy marble now possessed extremely thin legs seemingly sculpted for speed, while its arms separated into three long but thin blades that seemed able to slice anything up. Its chest was gone, replaced by a circle of Blumar serving as the main structure holding everything together.
"We need to target the jewels!" Glenn yelled when a flash of blue light appeared once again and carried him away. The young man's vision warped and he suddenly found himself on top of one of the quarry's marble walls, staring in awe at the golem standing right where he previously was. Sahro fell to the ground beside him, an electrical current running through his body madly. The Black Heir's trembled for a few seconds until he finally managed to take back control of himself.
"Fuck, this thing is too fast! I could barely see it!" He spat out, huffing heavily with exhaustion as he tried to push himself from the ground. Glenn winced as he pulled his friend back up, the pain in his chest had not receded entirely.
'I need to precisely attack its jewels...As disgusting as that sounds, that's our best solution!' His mind raced as he tried to find a solution against this opponent. Sahro was exhausted due to overusing his unfamiliar electrical current, and their attacks did nothing to the golem. A gust of wind suddenly surged as the golem appeared in front of the two young men, its head bent up to the side weirdly, its trio of red crystals staring at them. Glenn gritted his teeth and thrust his hand forward, aiming for the jewels. The golem surprisingly didn't avoid but instead blocked with its two crooked arms.
Too bad for him that the attack wasn't aimed at its jewels. The wall they were standing on suddenly crackled as Glenn artificially increased its weight with Gravity Manipulation. The golem's Blumar feet sank into the ground, dispelling the Mana, but Glenn still smiled wickedly. The marble crumbled under them, the golem sinking into it uncontrollably. Electricity crackled around Sahro as he tried to use a little more of his powers, but it disappeared with a spark.
"...Shit, I'm out," whispered the Black Heir, feeling his legs give up under him. Glenn tried to cast a magical platform under the both of them, but the Blumar Golem's influence disrupted his magic, making it impossible.
"Fuck!" The young man cursed, and both he and Sahro fell into the rubble as the marble wall crumbled on top of them, swallowing the golem along. Suddenly, the two young men fell inversed, and instead of descending, they began to...ascend. Well, it was more Glenn dragging Sahro behind him as he fell...up?
'Oh shit, I feel like I'm going to puke,' Glenn struggled to form a thought as he concentrated his Gravity Manipulation on his own body and inversing his fall. Sahro clenched his hand harder, his eyes bulging as their body throttled through the air while rising against the fall of the rubble. The golem's three red crystals shone brightly as it stared at the two young men escaping, and suddenly flared up with an ominous light. Glenn barely managed to catch a glance of the wave of light as the golem self-detonated and blew them away. The shockwave propelled even further up in the sky, their bodies flying away like feathers in the wind, free from the restriction of that silly thing called gravity.
They soon reached the hundred-meter mark, still ascending without stopping. The quarry became ridiculously small beneath them, and in his panic, Glenn dispelled his spell. Their rise slowed down in the sky, allowing them to appreciate the incredible spectacle of Blumar's quarry and the forest that surrounded it, as the bright sun began its descent to the horizon, painting the treetops an orange and magenta hue. The air was the purest Glenn had ever felt, but it was a pity that he felt it was the last breath he would ever take in his life. Time seemed to come to a standstill... until it resumed back.
"Heh, what a view!" Diamanes bellowed through the wind, having the time of his life.
"Ohhhhhhh shiiiiiiitttttt" Glenn and Sahro screamed as they began free-falling, the wind whistling in their ears as they dangerously came back closer to the ground, threatening to transform into meat crepes any time now. Glenn clenched his eyes tightly shut as he summoned any wisp of Mana left in his body to try and reverse their gravity again, and an instant before they landed, their bodies rolled through the air and gently arrived against the ground.
Glenn dismissed his Mana and fell hard, cold sweat covering his back, the young man gasping madly for air. Sahro was huffing heavily next to him, lying face down against the marble.
"Fuck...I almost pissed myself there..."
"Same bro, same. Shit..."