1st Person (Junichiro)
I raised both of my fists, to protect my face, while thinking of what the masked bastards had said earlier on.
「With this, we shall initiate No.56’s combat experiments. No.56, use your Dark Magic to destroy the doll in front of you」[Masked Bastard, earlier]
How the heck am I supposed to do that in this situation?
As I continued planning, the golem slowly trudges over once more.
“If this keeps up, I won’t have time to think. I need to stop it first, somehow.” [Junichiro]
I should force it down, incapacitate it so that it could not resist. Grappling it is the only way.
Fortunately, this golem behaves like a programmed robot, and is only capable of throwing large swings. This should be good.
“Here we go.” [Junichiro]
The golem gave its signature move once more, a large right hook.
Dodging the blow easily, I circled around the golem and gave it a sweeping kick, causing it to fall flat on its face. Jumping onto its body, I forced it down with my own weight, and gripped both of its arms, rendering it immobile.
“What, did you really think I am going to just stand there, and take your blow?” [Junichiro]
After saying that, I remembered what happened before, and blushed. Focus, myself.
I am able to see the mana particles, but how do I move them? Some light novels mentioned communicating with the particles to tell them what to do, but others were about controlling them mentally, as if they were a part of your body.
I am, going to try controlling them directly. It sounds really cool to talk to mana in novels, but looks really stupid in reality.
“Urgh…” [Junichiro]
As the golem struggled in vain, mana started to circulate around by body, before accelerating its speed, and condensing further. I could feel the magitech, embedded within me, starting to resonate with the mana.
I don’t actually feel anything uncomfortable about the mana. That’s probably because it is not in contact with my body.
As if it were sensing the flow of mana, the golem started creaking, and started to thrash around much more violently. At the same time, the mana had finished condensing into a gauntlet.
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With this, it’s over.
“Take that!” [Junichiro]
The moment the golem succeeded in throwing me off, I threw a straight hook with my right fist, coated with the black gauntlet. The gauntlet pierced through the hard armor like a drill, and punched through the golem.
“……..” [Junichiro]
Not seeing any movement from the golem, I threw myself down on the floor, just like that.
“I, I actually did it……” [Junichiro]
I was able to condense the mana into a black colored gauntlet, which also somehow strengthens my arm.
And the golem has completely stopped moving now. That is good news.
*clank*
“Huh?!” [Junichiro]
Wasn’t the golem already deactivated? Why are there still clanking sounds?
I sat up to take a peek at the golem.
Yup, definitely deactivated. It is not even trying to move.
So where are the sounds coming…
*clank**clank**clank*
The answer turned out to be really simple. There were more than one of these golems.
*clank**clank**clank**clank**clank**clank*
“………Shit.” [Junichiro]
The gate, where the clanking sound had been coming from, slowly creaked open. Beyond the gate, were a dozen golems, waiting to swarm into the hall.
All of them looked similar to the one I had just destroyed, with one small, but really important detail.
Every single one of them, wielded a double-edged longsword in their hands.
The golems entered through gateway in a single orderly file, lined up in front of me, and stared eerily at me, whom was still lying on the ground.
“What the fuck??!!” [Junichiro]
Up till now, under the effect of the various experiments, I had resolved myself for death countless of times, but never had I did so as much as I have now.
With unsteady movements, the golems held up their swords, as if to salute their combatant. With that, all of them started to slowly march towards me.
“……Fuck this shit.” [Junichiro]