The Golem's delay for its attacks was becoming smaller because of the Frenzy. It kept a fast pace that was causing Murai to lose a lot of time, but he was still able to attack every so often. That was enough, in his stressed-up opinion, since his plan was already happening for the last 5 minutes.

Frenzy played one rather surprising and important factor. It enabled him to think and consider his moves more since he didn't have a lot of time for attacking. Dodging and intercepting the incoming swings of arms, or legs took almost all of his efforts and body. The use of his Mana Detection and common sense also played an important factor. His eyes and Mana Detection viewed the golem like a machine and a doll. It wasn't a living thing but it was a breathing construct, which was why it was possible to disrupt it from inside out.

The frenzy-charged Golem was like a killing machine that was moving according to a specific, yet chaotic pattern.

As for Murai's plan? That was the basis of magic rules itself and the use of Flame that he had for less than a few hours.

That wasn't a lot, but he had no choice but to pull this off.

For the last minutes, many cracks caused little stones to crumble from the golem's arms, legs, and shoulders. They were the easiest targets for his little height, but they weren't the most important and he knew it. In fact, the cracks always returned to the previous appearance in a matter of seconds, and not a lot of mana was lost. Golem had plenty of it even in this frenzied state, and that pissed Murai quite a lot.

The ability of such regeneration was a basic of the Earth Affinity. It may be at a common level, but it had an incredible advantage for non-living things such as golems. No living person could regenerate a lost limb at this level.

Acaman Golem with Earth Affinity could do so, since its Artificial Core was powerful enough, fueling it with a significant amount of mana without runes becoming unstable. The rest was because the core structure of the golem was stable enough and was built with high-quality materials. Those, Murai couldn't figure out, as they made the golem's whole inner body, and his Mana Detection only noticed the most obvious things. It was yet to become a thing that can view too complex and intricate details so it viewed the basic flow of mana and not the whole picture.

Using his plan against this regeneration and defenses was simple. His Beak's Fury wasn't that strong to penetrate deep into these massive stones and damage the mana veins under the influence of the Artificial Core, but that didn't mean he couldn't go deep enough for something else. He was unable to get close to the chest, which was his target for the last couple of minutes. He wouldn't be able to return in time, so Murai calculated the possibilities many times to make it happen.

Forgetting the main body, the limbs were impossible to damage all that much, even under Golem's normal circumstances. Yet, it didn't mean Murai couldn't do something to affect the flow of mana or the functionality of this golem. There was his plan, involving the golem's internal structure that would be useful for the victory, but he needed time, as well as some bravery.

I swear... I will run out of mana if it goes like this. I am wasting blade after blade. I would love some goddamned Mana Potion but I don't have one yet. Murai scowled, unable to do much but continue.

He was still a couple of minutes off from his main goal, but those minutes didn't mean his timer, but the limit of this madness. That included and required hitting the golem's upper sector, which was kind of hard since he would be wide open when hitting there with his beak.

It was also quite far from him to jump into since he was usually dodging aside, and a little bit upwards from the ground to dodge most effects of these brute swiping attacks. Murai had very few choices in his tactics, so he gambled instead for the only choice he had. Trying to solve this once and for all required a bit of tough love, and hopefully, he won't be punished for such a method too much.

Golem kept turning around, swinging the hand beside its side and cleaving the ground with many cracks. It was scrapping the stone to dust, but Murai always jumped away, and not even the visual problems mattered to him. His Mana Detection was his eyes at the moment, but adding both together was much better.

Amid this swipe, and no punch, Murai knew that the golem would soon stop this motion, so he used this opportunity instead. Murai jumped up, ending up on its hand, which was still turning wildly. He used the pressuring momentum to start crawling on its arm towards its head, where he leaped to the shoulders.

Golem wasn't that quick to follow it thanks to Murai's decision to attack the shoulder, and not the arm or the head. His Beak's Fury hit the part around the left section of the shoulder, right above the core of the chest that was flaring up with mana.

Murai followed his intent and did the second attack in succession before the golem's left hand appeared behind his back. It wanted to smash Murai to its body, but Murai knew this would happen. Before leaping behind its back, dodging the fist, he Shaped a small tingle of flashing Flame into the small crack which followed a swirl of mana along with a Flaming symbol. Everything was aflame, flaring up, and appeared surreal. It almost seemed incorporeal, and ready to crumble apart, yet the flame and that symbol flew to the crack, where they disappeared in a moment before the golem's body regenerated.

Another success! Great. Murai smirked, flipped his wings, and turned his body behind the golem's back. He used the back of the shoulder—which the golem hit with its left hand as a platform—jumping away from the other hand that wanted to grab him. The Frenzy made certain movements of this Golem slower, but they were too specific. Mainly, the more intricate the move, the harder was to finish the moveset. The simplest attacks were the quickest—swings of its arms, smashing the ground with a fist, or crashing down with all its might.

The core of Frenzy was more based on the functionality of the Acaman Golem as a whole, and not much for anything else. There was Strength that increased, and Dexterity moved up a notch. Murai knew the Frenzy added clear disadvantages to its runic formation, but it made the Frenzy added more dangers to him than that.

The golem already swayed in many such motions, whether it was too focused on one motion or if too many motions were happening too fast after one another. It made it hard to seek a chance to attack because chaos was hard to predict.

It was the delay, as well as the flaring mana that needed to be temporarily adjusted according to the runes inside of it. Core was the cause as well as the complicated process of its inner structure. The attack missed him by 1 second away from smacking him to its shoulder, but Murai managed to escape the danger while also successfully doing his attack.

That's the first shoulder, but I need to do the second. I don't know if it's enough because of the flaring core, and this unfamiliar structure that is sometimes flaring, and other times not so much. Freaking low-level Mana Detection... I can't sense enough in this dazzling manner.

Complaining didn't help him with anything. Acaman Golem didn't care for the wounds it suffered, nor it was agitated as living beings would be.

This was a rather boring battle from this standpoint, but it wasn't easy by any means. Lisa understood it and didn't even cheer him up. There was no point in that since she would make him angry instead. She already discovered that Murai was up to something a long time ago but she didn't know what it was. Even when she was feeling the mana herself, the speed and what Murai worked around the frenzied golem was complicated.

In the following minute, Murai tried to attack the golem's other shoulder but didn't find the right opportunity.

So, he used his own choice and created his own opening, which was rather stupid but needed. He fled to the nearest wall, where he jumped as high as he could. It was about 2 meters up, and he used his tiny fingers on his feet as claws to not fall down. He barely managed this, since there weren't any right-sized platforms or boulders for his small build.

Murai Shaped a pair of javelins, in the hopes of finishing the last choice that was up to him. Golem once again saw the fleeing enemy, which meant the obvious pattern. That was a basic leap forward with its right hand to form a punch. It was the pattern that Murai figured this golem did whether he fled and jumped around the length of its waist or higher.

If it failed or missed, the golem would swing with the other one, which was what Murai aimed for. This moment was the last shred of hope, so he used his body as a target to make it right.

With the front facing the wall, Murai was an easy target, and the golem acted according to his position. Punch was coming forward, and half a meter before the wall, Murai pushed forward his Javelins before jumping out of the attack. He had to do it with utmost precision not only once, but twice in such a position. Once to the right, and another up.

Golem's left hand missed right away since Murai flung his body by striking his own body. Punch penetrated the wall to dust and cracks spread through the wall, but its right hand was also coming next. Murai watched it coming, but the shockwave from the destroyed wall made him react slower. What didn't help was the Frenzy, which made this right uppercut too fast.

Hard times led to bitter solutions. Murai Shaped his two javelins to form a single, bigger one, which should be enough to ease some pressure between him and the golem's hand.

First, the javelin cracked apart upon the impact with the hand, but it was enough for Murai to use this change to use the left hand as a platform to leap towards the last shoulder above the Artificial Core.

Beak's Fury cracked the shoulder about 5 centimeters deep, while the attacks were yet to come, so he hit it again, and again. Small rocks fell off the shoulder, revealing further cracks. With this chance, Murai finished the basics he considered to be enough. He Shaped another flickering Flame along with a Rune. Murai pulled his shit together and had just enough Will in himself to let them disappear into the cracks before they closed.

Alas, he wasn't over. Leaping not out, but downward, towards the Mana Core, the flaring mana made his senses tingle nervousness, but he only needed a simple Shape to let this golem become scraps. Murai Conjured a simple speck of Flaming mana of no particular shape to the tip of his beak.

The golem got wind of something wrong, and it noticed Murai changing moves. It detected him after 3 seconds of delay, and both hands tried to catch him.

Murai felt it, so he pushed himself down to the Mana Core, ignoring the hands altogether. He was about to be enveloped by two massive hands. One on the left, and one on the right.

“Detonate you piece of an ancient relic,” Murai uttered, unbothered by the attack that would smash him to a pulp. He used his connection to strands of his mana within the golem's body: a few around the legs and arms, and one on each shoulder. The catalyst was the forced push of his beak to its core, acting as the key to the puzzle of his plan.

It took less than a moment, yet the hands were close.

Maybe too close to Murai's liking when his beak penetrated the core, letting the Flame in.

Like a chain reaction, the golem's mana flickered, and disruptions spread from the core to the limbs, stopping its movements as countless cracks and unnatural waves of crumbling veins spread. It was already hard to contain the mana with the constant state of Frenzy, so this little chain reaction within its body was more than enough to crack the runes inside.

Murai saw how the cracks appeared in many joints, and it all started in the shoulders where it put most mana. The hands were the most dangerous, so of course he knew what to destabilize first. He made the right call. Mana was no longer stable and stopped the hands 10 centimeters before Murai's falling self. They crumbled down the shoulders, falling down, and leaving him safe, according to his hopeful prediction.

Soon, even the Artificial Core destabilized, and the golem was starting to fall apart from the inside out.

It was no longer able to use its regeneration, or hands to attack. Its legs were the least effective, and last to crumble. Golem's torso fell to the ground, where it stood in silence inability to do anything but crumble to further pieces.

Inside its core were many pieces of high-quality material and some were even immune to the flames and the destruction. The good news was that the mana in this core had been in a destabilized state thanks to the Frenzy, so it made things easier, and destabilization happened instantly, rather than gradually which Murai feared.

Fortunate outcome went out of his plan and he succeeded. Landing with some difficulty below the crumbling golem, Murai felt glad even amidst his overdrawn mana. Still, he managed to stand and move towards the golem's core which was a piece of scrap at the moment.

“Well, the two were overkill I suppose. I think If I had overdrawn the hands much earlier, than the legs, or even the core itself from the start, I could...? Nah.. that wouldn't work without Frenzy that was used for so long. I played it safe, albeit in an overkill. I should've started small. Crumbling the legs to let its mobility down. Then, it would be... questionable because of the Frenzy and its long arms. That's all. I did good,” Murai nodded to himself, quacking in an affirmative manner.

What was before him was a treasure of mages, but it was in the past tense. The artificial Core inside of it was full of materials, with many alloys, crystals, and many kinds of diagrams and runes alike. This thing in itself was a treasure in any kind of sense, but when destroyed, it had no value. Even the precious materials weren't the kind that could be reused. It will never work again until someone skilled enough repairs it.

Murai wasn't such a person, and he didn't even care too much about this old relic, even though it was looking great in both, complexity and internal capacity. He wondered what this damned Golem used to be like in its prime. After all, the basic level of this golem should've been well over level 70. Forceful level squish to make this challenge possible for him consisted of weakened runes, and drastically lowered mana output. It was heavy, and many times more difficult than some Speedo Shark.

Not so far away from him, there was only Lisa, attending to watch this successful end of the battle. She watched everything with passion and seriousness, and Murai indeed succeeded in a strange turn of events. Floating from the air towards the crumbled core, she was fine to talk about this successful win. It was still in flames, but they were stopping, no longer having any fuel or something to burn with.

What do you think, Lisa? Interesting battle? Murai turned his head towards Lisa, feeling somewhat smug about his clever tactics.

“You... Did you use the premise of destabilizing the Mana Core of an unknown level of craft to destroy this golem from within? Well, the unknown is questionable. It should be over level 70 in its structure, but the dungeon made it lower, so it is your luck, I suppose. It was still a huge gamble not only from its principle but from a practical point of view.” Lisa argued, telling nothing but the honest truth.

“That is true and correct. I wouldn't do such a strange method in any normal fight, but the golem was under the strain of Frenzy, which you surely couldn't understand from such a distance. I had some trouble with getting this work myself, so your little mana as a Soul Form should be lacking to tell it. From the start, this golem was old, no longer what it used to be, so I felt confident. Will of the Battleworld told it too, so I gambled on that information and hoped it was not a joke on Battleworld's part. That was it...” Murai smacked the core with his beak, which wasn't in any flames any longer. “...and this is the result. Simple as that.”

Lisa speechlessly looked at the core, not having any argument that could make it any worse or better. Murai was once again making something hard to do into reality, which she wasn't that comfortable with. She was always a person of logic, while the Chaos only happened in... certain... heated situations.

But that was long in the past, and this life of hers was under the Murai's influence, and not her Will alone.

The next thing that came was obvious.

Will of the Battleworld descended, informing Murai of the surprising victory.

[Congratulation! What a turn of events in the last 2 minutes]

[Acaman Golem - Forced to Level 23 - destroyed completely from within in a fantastic manner. Excelent]

[Time Limit: 1 minute 20 seconds left]

[Rewards of both Trials of the Somalis Dungeon ~ Acaman Grounds, Acamaman Tower, are accomplished. Your rewards will come later when you return to the Tower]

[The state of the rewards will follow the state of the accomplishments of the gift, rewards, and time, as well as the improved threshold of rewards from the successful kill of a high-level opponent, albeit forcefully underleveled]

[1 minute and 20 seconds are overdue, so these seconds are going towards the selection of the rewards from the World Essence Trove]

[Trial of the Combat accomplished. You can choose any of the rewards from the Gate of Combat selection]

[2nd Trial can allow you to take 2 things from the World Essence Trove with the addition of purchasing power of 80 seconds. 1 second is 10 points. That is 800 points of purchasing power]

[God's Blessing is due but proceeds back to the Tower to accomplish the former rewards before moving to the rest]

Murai listened to the Will of the Battleworld and had no problems with whatever it told.

That in itself was surprising, but a welcoming change.