Destroying My Own World

They were surrounded by dozens of stone golems, and they had been trying to defeat them, but they kept reforming their bodies after being beaten to pieces. They were confused about how to deal with them, even Mykel’s team was having a hard time killing them. So far, from dozens of stone golems they had tried to kill, only two didn’t come back to life.

"Rozan, have you found their weakness? It’s not like we’re tired, but it’s annoying to fight these things over and over again. Our weapons are getting brittle from hitting them," Sven said as he looked at his scythe.

"Well, it looks like there’s one stone in each golem’s body that we need to break. I think that’s the reason why those two stay dead, but even though I’m right about it, to find that stone would be hard," Rozan answered as he collected all the rocks and turned them into a giant boulder. "Perhaps this might work," Rozan said and crushed the golem with that boulder.

They looked at the crushed golem, and it should take a few seconds to come back to life. After waiting for thirty seconds, the golem stayed dead, and Rozan managed to kill the golem on his own.

All the mages looked at Rozan and tried to do the same to kill the golems. But, when they all wanted to create a giant boulder from small rocks, it crumbled because they couldn’t contain that amount of weight with their magic. They wondered how he could do that so easily, but that didn’t stop them from trying. They ended up doing it together and working to create a giant boulder like Rozan.

"Alright, you guys cover me while I’m trying to find the stone. It might give us a lead," Rozan said as he ran toward the golem he killed.

Sven, Vincze, and Gunnar ran toward Rozan and protected him from the golems that were on their way toward him. Jeanne and the others tried Rozan’s method and cut the golems into pieces to find the stone.

Lazarus looked at Jeanne and the others, and then he realized that Mykel wasn’t there with them. He looked around and finally found Mykel, but he was so far away in the distance with dozens of golems surrounding him.

Lazarus squinted his eyes and saw Mykel raise his left hand up to his chest with a purple flame around it. He kept staring at Mykel and when Mykel clenched his right fist, the flame dispersed around him. The flame was enough to melt all the golems around him and kill them instantly.

"Fuck this. I’ll go all out," Lazarus said as he stabbed his spear to the ground.

The sky was covered in dark clouds again, and they thought that the acid rain was going to come again, but then a thick bold of lightning struck the golem. The golem turned into crisp and the body started to crumble into dust.

He killed a golem on his own and that made Magnus a bit jealous and annoyed. He then swung his spear until the spearhead glowed a bright yellow that blinded whoever tried to look at it directly. He ran toward one of the golems and swung his spear at it, and when the spear hit the golem, the golem’s body turned into pebbles and exploded.

They both didn’t hesitate to use their strongest attacks even though it consumed a lot of their stamina. They didn’t care since they both didn’t want to lose to each other, and they weren’t the only ones who competed against each other. Every member of theirs competed against each other and showed what they were capable of.

Elena looked at Magnus’ spearhead and stared at the light around it. She could feel a tremendous amount of life energy coming from it, and it attracted her because she wanted to grab it and make it hers.

"Elena! Watch out!" Jeanne shouted at Elena and stared at the golem that swung its hands down right on her head.

Elena raised her hand and blocked the golem’s hands like it was nothing, and the golem’s hands crumbled. She turned around and threw a kick right on the golem’s legs to break them. When the golem was about to fall to the ground, Elena grabbed the body and sent the golem flying miles away.

Elena watched the golem in the distance still flying, and it took a while until it landed. Not long after the golem hit the ground, she could feel a small earthquake. The earthquake didn’t stop and it became worse that everyone started to feel it as well.

"What did you do?" Aurea asked as she looked at Elena.

"I think I accidentally woke something big over there," Elena answered as she pointed at the hill in the distance. "That’s not a hill. That thing wasn’t there before," Elena pointed out as the hill she pointed at kept getting higher and bigger.

"Alright, guys! I found it!" Rozan shouted as he showed the stone and it looked a bit blueish so that it glowed a bit. He realized that everyone was staring at something in the distance. "Uhh... is that the leader?" Rozan asked as he saw a ginormous golem that was at least fifty meters tall.

The giant golem growled and it was enough to tremble the ground and each step it took made everyone almost lose their footing. It was bigger than the giant Sandworm, and it would be hard to kill since its skin must be tougher than the other golems.

"Did you guys fight something like this in Montana?" Magnus asked.

"Yes, and that thing will open a new portal after we defeated it, but this one is bigger than the one in Montana," Jeanne answered.

"Do you think we can defeat this guy?" Lazarus asked.

"We can, but since our weapons are already in this state, it would take a while to defeat," Aurea answered and looked at her brittle sword. "Unless Mykel decided to kill it then it’s a different story," Aurea pointed out and looked at Mykel who was checking the remnants of the golems that he had defeated.

Lazarus and Magnus looked at Aurea with confused looks because they were skeptical if Mykel could kill that golem easily.

"Well, the good thing is that the bigger the golem, the bigger the magic stone inside it. As long as we can find where it’s located, that shouldn’t be a problem," Rozan explained as he looked at the magic stone in his hand. "We should find this stone inside that thing if we want to kill it,’ Rozan continued.

"And how are we going to do that?" Aurea asked as she looked at Rozan.

"Who cares how, I’ll do it myself," Lazarus answered as he walked to the front with his spear sparked by lightning.

Aurea raised her eyebrows as she watched Lazarus walk further to the front as the sparks around his spear became fiercer and fiercer. The giant golem was still far away from them, and it appeared Lazarus was charging his spear to create more power.

"I don’t think you will be able to kill it with just that," Magnus said as he walked past Aurea. "How about for once we try to do it together?" Magnus asked as his spear started to produce more light than before.

"Fine by me," Lazarus answered.

Everyone watched those two from behind as the giant golem walked closer to them with dozens of golems following it from behind. Both Lazarus’ and Magnus’ spears were shining so brightly that everyone couldn’t look at them directly anymore.

"That golem is close enough for me. What about you? Can you attack him from here?" Magnus glanced at Lazarus.

"Same here. Ready whenever you are," Lazarus answered as he held his spear with both hands and readied his stance.

They both fixed their footings and they both thrust their spears at the giant golem. The bright light from Magnus’ spear was sent away toward the giant golem as Lazaur’s spear released the thickest lightning bolt at it. The explosion was so big and that the shockwave was enough to send everyone to the ground.

"Did we do it?" Lazarus asked as he kept lying on the ground because he couldn’t move a muscle anymore.

"I don’t know. I can’t feel my body anymore," Magnus answered.

"Well. The damage was mediocre, but you didn’t hit the golem because it created a stone barrier to stop both of your attacks. Nice try though," Gunnar said as he offered his hands to both of them.

They both stood up and looked at the giant golem unscathed from their attacks. They couldn’t believe their strongest attacks didn’t even work on it.

"It’s impossible to kill it..." Lazarus said.

"Who are you to say that?" Mykel asked as he stood next to Lazarus. "I’ll show you why artifacts are just toys for me," Mykel said as he grabbed two stones from the ground that were as big as his fist.

Mykel threw one stone up in the air and then he threw the other one in his hand at the giant golem. He then grabbed the other one and immediately threw it at the giant golem. The stones traveled faster than Lazarus and Magnus’ attacks, and the moment the first stone hit the giant golem’s chest, it was enough to break through its thick body. Unfortunately, it wasn’t deep enough, but the moment the second stone hit the same spot, the giant golem crumbled.

The giant golem didn’t come back to life because Mykel knew exactly where the magic stone was. He checked the golems that he had killed, and all of them had their magic stones located on the chest like a heart.

"That’s how you do it," Mykel said as he walked away.