The Golem standing in front of him weighed about 90 kilograms and stood 1.7 meters tall.
The earthy yellow surface of the body was constructed from a loose, damp y. It had four distinct limbs and a head, but all were very coarse. Also, it didn’t have as many joints as a real human.
Its legs were two thick y pirs, which seemed to merge with the soil on the ground beneath its feet. Its arms seemed to be able to move in any direction, and on these arms were a pair of gigantic palms, which would likely be able to tightly clench things. It didn’t have a face, but there were some protrusions where a face would normally be.
If looking at it from afar, this y Golem would appear to be a bald guy wearing a yellow leather armor. If a robe was put over its body, it could be used to deceive an enemy.
Greem ordered the y Golem to walk up and stand in front of him.
This y Golem was truly a creature of the Earth, as it could move its heavy body over the soft and damp soil without making a single noise. Its movement was quicker and lighter than a leopard, and no traces of its passage could be found on the ground. However, it did leave strong traces of Earth Elementium in its wake!
When Sinbad’s core was obtained, her soul was captured inside it. As a direct result of being made from a high-quality demon core, this y Golem possessed an intermediate intelligence, which was not as rigid as other Titans and Golems. Through the Mind Control runes he had carved on the core, Greem only needed to give it amand and it would do its best to smoothly carry out the order.
Staring at the y Golem standing in front of him, Greem stretched his arm out in front of him and touched it. Its skin was rough and solid. Although it was constructed from soft y, it still had a decent defense. He took out a dagger and stabbed the y Golem’s waist a few times. The dagger simply poked through the skin and left behind some marks, which soon disappeared as a faint earthy yellow glow appeared around the mark as the golem regenerated.
Good, it had a basic defense, was mostly immune to piercing damage, and could heal itself. In brief, the basic defense of a y Golem was equal to a human fighter who wore a full set of leather armor. Of course, it couldn’t bepared with that of a Stone or Iron Golem, and the only feature worth mentioning was the self-healing ability.
Greem walked in a circle around the y Golem. He thought the 1.7 meter height of the golem didn’t make it look powerful enough. Thus he tried to make the y Golem bigger.
Following Greem’smand, the quiet y Golem started to grow taller and bigger. However, the once solid y body actually became soft and light. When it finally reached a height of four meters, its entire body looked like a clump of gray mist. The once solid y body had be a gas-like Earth Elementium body.
What was wrong?
Aftermunicated with the Chip, Greem finally understood. The demon core used to create this y Golem only had the ability of an Advanced Apprentice. Hence, it could only control a total of ny kilograms of Earth Elementium. Once this weight was exceeded, it would lose any substantial form it formerly had.
The height of 1.7 meters was the most optimized height after extensive calctions performed by the Chip. Being at such a size, the density of the Earth Elementium was at an optimum level, giving it its maximum defense ability. If he attempted to make it taller, the total volume of the Earth Elementium remained unchanged, making the defense strength of y Golem drop significantly. So, although it looked taller, its density decreased. As a result, it was going to be difficult to protect the core hidden within its body.
Sighing helplessly, Greem had no choice but let the y Golem resumed its former form.
Next, he needed to test the few basic skills that came with this y Golem.
Although weakened, the Quake skill that came with this golem was still an offensive ability. When it was activated, the surrounding ground would shake as the y Golem moved around. Greem had tested it, and the vibrations had a greater impact on smaller creatures, as they could hardly stand still around the y Golem, let aloneunch attacks against it. It could also be used decently against middle-sized creatures. As forrger creature, this skill was useless.
The second offensive skill to test was Clod of Mud.
In order to test it, Greem had the y Golem lure three lurking Ghost Nannies from a nearby pond. As a result, the y Golem and the three Ghost Nannies put on a ‘big fight’ for Greem.
Strictly speaking,pared to a Ghost Nanny, who barely had any good offensive or defensive skills, the y Golem, who was the equivalent of a pseudo-summon demon, could easily suppress them in all aspects. No matter how these three Ghost Nannies kept scratching or biting on its solid skin, all the scratch marks would disappear in the blink of an eye. But when y Golem attacked with its heavy fists, the Ghost Nannies would be knocked away, suffering heavily.
Following Greem’s orders, y Golem grabbed a Ghost Nanny with one of its hands and squeezed it until a cracking noise could be heard. Then it threw it off into the distance. While the Ghost Nanny was still flying through the air, the y Golem grabbed at the air above its head and, immediately, a meter long spear of hardened mud appeared in its grip.
It threw the spear through the air, prating the Ghost Nanny’s weak body and nailing it to a Killer Tree growing at the edge of the pond. As a demon itself, the Ghost Nanny had a strong vitality. Although its body had been punctured by the spear, it still restlessly struggled and tried to free itself.
A second spear was released, mming straight through the Ghost Nanny’s head. It was left hanging motionlessly from the Killer Tree.
At this moment, the two remaining Ghost Nannies hung themselves on y Golem’s body like two mad dogs mping onto a meaty bone. With both arms, y Golem forcefully pulled them away from its body and threw them onto the ground. While they were struggling to get up, the y Golem raised both of its arms high up into the air. In the next second, countless dirt spikes poked up through the ground and turned them into two shish kabobs.
In a brief moment, all three Ghost Nannies had been annihted, and the y Golem remained undamaged.
Throughout the entire process, Greem had remained an indifferent spectator, letting the Chip collect real-time data from the battle so that it could work out a better-optimized strategy for using the y Golem inbat.
Soon, detailed battle data of the y Golem was projected into Greem’s mind.
Through this detailed data, Greem was able to have a better understanding of this y Golem he had created.
Judging from this data, the y Golem was merelyparable to an Intermediate Apprentice. But, upon considering its self-healing andck of fear towards death, it could unleash a basicbat strength that was simr to that of an Advanced Apprentice.
ording to Greem’s understanding, the damage that could be inflicted by a spell cast by an Advanced Apprentice Adept was around 20-30 points, varying based on the caster’s Spirit. As for the defensive spells of an Advanced Apprentice, they had a defensive value of around 30-40 points, so two attacks from a simr level opponent would be enough to rip a defensive spell apart.
In this aspect, a y Golem’s offensive strength was rather weak. If faced with an Advanced Apprentice, the y Golem would need offensive support from Greem. Only then would it have a possibility of defeating the enemy. After all, Greem’s Fire Arrow spell could inflict 13-18 points of Fire damage and 6-7 points of Physical damage. If he and y Golem worked in tandem, they might be able to break the defenses of an Advanced Apprentice in a single round of attacks.
And once the enemy lost his magical defenses, unless he was a Body Refining Adept, he would just be like a tame sheep that Greem could kill easily, not even worth mentioning. So, as long as he didn’t have to face someone like Evil Bugs or that frightening little Loli, thebination of Greem and the y Golem was enough to threaten even an Advanced Apprentice.
But, too bad, the Underground Cave Investigation mission exceeded the abilities of an Advanced Apprentice. Most likely, he would be working with a group of Pseudo-Adepts, thus, although he had a y Golem now, Greem was still too weak.
ording to the requirements of the mission, they had to set off in half a month in order to arrive at the mission location. So, Greem was left with fifteen days to prepare. Such a short amount of time was, clearly, not enough for Greem to improve his magical abilities. Therefore, he had to keep digging into the potential provided by Golems, so he could increase his strength while he still had the chance.
Greem remained where he was, pondering upon what this meant for him. Finally, he looked off into the distance, to another area of the swamp, which was obscured by thick fog.
He was looking toward the habitat of the Giant Alligators, which he reckoned were also Earth demons.
If he could kill the Giant Alligator King in there, he would likely acquire another handy Earth Elementium core. As for the Water Elementium core, Greem just couldn’t think of a demon in this swampynd which fit the requirements.
“Fine, I’ll spend the next few days fighting those Giant Alligators!”
With a ferocious look shining in his eyes, he viciously spoke that while facing in the direction where those Giant Alligators lived.
After that, he motioned at the y Golem, making the human-sized Golem copse. Freed from the bounds of the Earth Elementium, arge amount of y had formed a pile where the golem used to be standing.
Greem grabbed the summoning core, rolled it around in his palms, and examined it closely. Initially, there were two illuminated energy nodes, but now, one of them had slightly dimmed. ording to this consumption rate, with all four energy nodes illuminated, perhaps this y Golem could only fight in an intense battle for fifteen minutes. If it was not a fierce fight, perhaps it couldst longer.
As the energy stored in y Golem was not suitable to hunt that Giant Alligator King today, Greem put away the summoning core. Then, using the Burning Hand, he ignited all three broken bodies of the Ghost Nannies. He pulled up his hood and disappeared into the misty fog.