Chapter 140 – Golem core.

“That should do it…”

Roland stood back while looking at his tamed beast. Agni was in the process of brutalizing a volcanic salamander. At level 49 he was already able to handle these monsters that were a tier above him, with a little help from his master that applied some chilling spells.

There were a few ways to gain the system in this world. Most of the experience went to the person that did the most damage thus it made last hitting practically dead enemies give low amounts of experience points.

The only option to power level others would be applying debuffs instead. These debuffs would count for less and could disable the enemies which was happening now. The monsters that required high temperatures to operate were very easy to disable with a simple chilling spell.

He could see some of the old evolution options still being there like the volcanic wolf and even the gemstone wolf. From the description, it seemed that the gemstone variant was quite big, if it was the size of a smaller horse it might have been mountable.

The Mystical Ruby variant was also there but Roland saw a small problem. While all the other options looked the same, the one that he wanted was grayed out. There was one explanation for this, some of the requirements have not been met.

“Well boy, I think you’ll have to work on your skills before we can evolve you further…”

Agni gained most of his levels thanks to sharing experience with his master. Due to this, he leveled up a lot faster than the other monsters. This meant that his skills naturally lagged behind as he could only progress with them when they were used.

“Woof…”

Agni gave out a weak woof this time around, it seemed that he knew what the problem was. The main skill that he gained from munching on mana stones had not reached the 9th level yet. His skills that controlled mana were not quite there yet as well, he would probably need to level them all up before this option became available.

“You can have some more mana stones back home but you’re not getting that big mana stone!”

Ever since returning from the last expedition, Agni has been eyeing the large mana stone he got from the dinosaur-looking monster. It was quite big for a tier 2 monster that had already evolved once.

He was saving it for something else, it would be melted down into aether alloys that would then be used for his own armor. With the quality of that mana stone, he was sure that he would be able to get a better grading on the metal.

“Before we go home, we still need to take care of one more thing, let’s go.”

The man and ruby wolf party went on their ways towards the deeper areas of the large open lower floor. There was one monster in particular that he wanted to hunt as he required parts of it for his next project.

After about thirty minutes of walking, he came into a section that the noble party evaded before. There he saw one, it was big and it looked dangerous.

It was a golem that was about four meters tall which made it twice Roland’s size. The ruby golem that he faced before was even bigger than this one so he wasn’t worrying as much.

This monster had a brownish orb sticking out from its left rocky shoulder. It was hard to notice as it was barely exposed but Roland had come just for it.

It was the golem’s core that spawned at random places inside of these golems. They were hard to spot which brought troubles to adventurers that tried to fight it. If this golem core was destroyed so would be the monster that had it.

He needed this item for his own golem as it was much easier to use a monster golem’s core than to fashion one instead. It was also a lot cheaper for him to grab one down in the dungeon than to buy one from the market.

Roland was already quite strong so he decided to gather his resources while also getting Agni to level fifty. Some might say that he was being a penny pincher as he could afford a golem core while just crafting. He could only nod to that accusation as if he had a way to save money that wasn’t too hard he would use it.

“Ok Agni, wait here. You might have leveled up but your teeth won’t do much damage on a golem.”

Agni whined a bit but stayed behind like his master ordered him to. With slow steps he approached the monster, the runic symbols on his gauntlets glowing blue as he got ready to cast a spell.

The monster finally noticed the human opponent approaching and started to sluggishly attack. Roland didn’t panic as he opened up his palms, a blue orb of chilling energy formed in front of them.

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Before the monster could get into striking position Roland activated his runic spell. While pointing the orb of blue light in the golem’s direction a burst of cold was discharged. The monster took a direct hit but continued to lumber towards its enemy.

Each step it took caused the bedrock below to crumble. Each time a thumping sound was heard and it was not stopping. Finally, it was standing in front of the human that was attacking it. The golem moved its lumbering hand up but as it attempted to move it down to squash the smaller enemy it found itself unable to.

“That should do it…”

The golem stood still as it was frozen in place by Roland’s magic. For someone like him, that could switch magic attributes for every occasion fighting monsters like this was quite easy.

“Now then!”

On his back, he had a large sledgehammer that he brought over for just the occasion. With one powerful swing to the golem’s leg, he brought it down to the ground. With a couple of more, its legs and arms were all shattered at the joints as he rendered the creature immobile.

The golems were hard enemies to beat for low level adventurers. They were resistant to bladed weapons and even heavy blunt ones had trouble-causing much damage. For Roland that boasted overwhelmingly higher stats and buffing effects, this was not a tough enemy.

After the monster was disabled Roland brought out a chisel and hammer from his spatial bag. These golem cores were quite brittle so he could not risk landing blows at the shoulder area. They were quite resistant to magical effects which made them perfect for runecrafting.