Age of Adepts

Chapter 36: Experiment with golems

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This is a 1.7-meter-high humanoid clay puppet weighing 200 pounds.

The khaki-yellow body full of rough particles is made of loose and moist soil, with obvious torso, limbs and head, but all the outer surfaces are quite rough, without the delicate and numerous limb joints of humans.

The mud golem's lower limbs are two thick pillars of mud, and there are some signs of fusion where the bottom meets the mud. The two arms can also be bent and twisted freely, and a pair of big palm-like hands are even more comfortable to hold. The head and face were blurred. If it wasn't for Greem's mental communication, he could barely outline some eyebrows and eyes. Otherwise, let the clay golem choose for himself, and it would definitely condense into a ball of earth.

From a distance, the clay golem looks like a bald man wearing yellow leather armor. If he puts on a burqa, it is also possible to deceive the enemy.

Greem drove the clay golem to come to him.

The mud golem is worthy of being an earth-type puppet creature. Such a heavy body is silent when walking on the soft and wet soil. It is lighter than the agile mountain leopard, and there is not even a trace of the ground it walks on. . However, the remaining earth element is a bit thicker!

When Simba's core was captured, Simba's soul was also stored in it. The direct consequence of such a high-quality monster core is that the clay golem in front of him has already possessed intermediate intelligence, and is no longer as dull and dull as ordinary golem puppets. Greem only needs to issue a vague command through the consciousness rune brand, and it can execute it very well.

Looking at the clay golem standing in front of him, Greem stretched out his hand to touch it. The surface of the skin was rough and hard, and it didn't become defensive just because the constituent element was clay. Greem took out a dagger and stabbed the puppet's waist a few times, each time slipping past, leaving only a series of white shallow marks on it. And these shallow marks quickly disappeared in the khaki fluorescence.

Well, it has basic defense, can effectively avoid the damage of small arms and piercing weapons, and has a certain self-replenishing ability. Generally speaking, the basic defense of a clay golem is comparable to that of a human warrior wearing a full set of leather armor. In terms of defense, it is definitely not as good as the Stone Man and Iron Man. The only bright spot is that it can heal itself.

Greem walked around the clay golem, always feeling that the 1.7-meter height was not powerful enough to deter the enemy, so he couldn't help but try to make the clay golem grow bigger.

Following Greem's order, the clay golem standing quietly began to grow taller and thicker, but the body of the dirt lump that was originally solid became soft and dense. When it swelled to a height of more than 4 meters, the entire body was already gray, and the originally solid body turned into an aerosol-like earth element.

What's happening here

After communicating with the chip, Greem understood that the monsters that make the clay golem only have the strength of senior apprentices, so the total amount of earth elements that it can control is only 200 pounds. If it exceeds this weight, it is beyond its ability.

The height of 1.7 meters is also the best height obtained by the chip after a large number of calculations. Under this body type, the density of the earth element can reach the most reasonable level, maximizing the defense effect. Once the height is stretched, and the total amount of earth elements remains unchanged, the defense of the clay golem will plummet. In this way, although he has height, his body is also weak. How can he ensure the safety of the crystal nucleus hidden in his body

Forced to do so, Greem could only restore the clay golem to its basic shape.

Next, we need to verify a few basic skills that the clay golem has mastered.

The weakened version of Earthquake is an active skill. When it is activated, the ground around the clay golem will vibrate slightly as it moves. Greem experienced it for a while. This kind of vibration had a great impact on small creatures. They couldn't even stand firmly around the clay golem, let alone attack. For medium-sized creatures, it also has a significant effect. As for large creatures, it simply doesn't work.

The second active skill tested was Dirt Throwing.

For this reason, Greem ordered the clay golem to lure the three lurking hags from the nearby quagmire. Thus, the clay golem and the three hags staged a "dragon-tiger fight" in front of Greem.

Seriously, a semi-summoned elemental monster like a clay golem can restrain a hag who wants to attack but not attack, and who has to defend but has no defense. No matter how the three hags bit and scratched on its tough and fine mud body, the claw marks left behind disappeared in a blink of an eye. And the mud golem's heavy fist hit the hag's body, forming a deep depression.

Under Greem's instruction, the clay golem grabbed a hag, squeezed its body until it creaked, and then threw it viciously. When its body was still gliding in mid-air, the clay golem grasped with one hand, and a clay spear more than one meter long appeared in his hand.

Whoosh...

The spear flew out, straight through the hag's frail body, and nailed it to a crooked ghost tree that grew on the edge of Tan. As a strange monster, the hag's vitality is also extremely tenacious. Even if her body is pierced by a spear as thick as a goose egg, she is still struggling.

Whoosh...

The second spear flew out, directly piercing the hag's head. The unlucky ghost finally dropped his limbs powerlessly and remained motionless.

But at this time, the other two hags were still nailed to it like a mad dog biting a bone. The clay golem moved its big hands left and right, tore them off, and threw them on the ground fiercely. While they were struggling to get up, the clay golem raised his hands high, and after a violent fluctuation of the earth element, countless ground spears rose from the ground where the hag was hiding, piercing the two of them into skewers.

In an instant, the three hags were all wiped out, while the clay golem remained intact.

During the entire battle, Greem was completely on the sidelines, and the chip was constantly collecting actual combat data, using it to formulate more optimized fighting methods and means for this clay golem.

Soon, the detailed battle data of the clay golem was projected into Greem's mind.

Mud Golem.

Combat semi-summoned golem creature.

Strength Rating: Advanced Apprentice (Inferior)

Basic attributes: strength 12, agility 4, constitution 14, spirit 7

Talent skills (active):

Earthquake, Area of Effect

Soil Throwing (single-body), earth attribute piercing single-body spell, physical attack 12 points (affected by strength attribute), earth attribute damage 7 points (affected by spirit attribute). Attack range: 5 to 80 meters. Cooldown: 3 seconds.

Ground Spear (Range), earth attribute piercing range spell, physical attack 7 points, earth attribute damage 5 points. Spell effect range: 10X8 meters. Cooldown: 11 seconds.

Talent skills (passive):

Soil self-healing, a trigger-type soil attribute passive ability, can extract soil elements from the soil under your feet to make up for your own loss. Can repair 7% of body damage every 1 minute.

With this battle data, Greem truly understood the clay golem he created.

Just looking at the basic data of the clay golem, it is only the quality of an intermediate wizard apprentice, but with the advantages of self-healing and fearlessness, it can also display the basic combat power of an advanced apprentice.

According to Greem's knowledge, the sorcery attack of a senior wizard apprentice is basically between 20 and 30 points, which will fluctuate slightly depending on the level of the individual's mental strength. As for the defensive witchcraft of senior apprentices, the defense degree is basically between 30 and 40 points, and it is difficult to withstand two attacks from opponents of the same level without collapsing.

So from this aspect, the attack power of the clay golem is still a bit weak. If they really faced opponents at the high-level apprentice level, the clay golem would still need Greem's witchcraft assistance to defeat the enemy. After all, Greem's flame attack also has 13-18 points of physical damage and 6-7 points of fire damage. This should be coordinated with the clay golem. A round of attack can break the defense of advanced apprentices. of.

And once they lose their protection against witchcraft, those apprentice wizards who are not body-training types are lambs that can be snuffed out at will, not worth mentioning at all. Therefore, as long as they don't encounter abnormalities like the evil bug Entik and the scary little loli Alice, the combination of Greem and Clay Golem is still capable of fighting against high-level apprentices.

It's a pity that this task of exploring the dark crypt is beyond the scope of senior apprentices. It is very likely that all the quasi-shamans and first-class horrors will be present, so Greem is still alone with a clay golem.

According to the mission requirements, if they want to arrive at the mission location in time, they must leave in half a month. So for Greem, the time left for him to prepare is only 15 days. In such a short period of time, it is obviously too late to improve your witchcraft ability, so you must continue to tap the potential of the alchemy puppet in front of you, so that your strength will have an explosive growth in a short period of time.

Greem pondered on the spot for a long time, and finally turned his gaze to another swamp shrouded in thick fog in the distance.

It is the habitat of the giant swamp crocodile, and the giant swamp crocodile seems to be a kind of earth-type monster.

If the crocodile king inside is killed, it is also very likely to harvest a suitable soil crystal nucleus. As for the water system crystal nucleus, Greem thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of any monsters in the magic swamp that fit this requirement.

Well, I have spent the past few days with this group of giant swamp crocodiles!

Greem's eyes were fierce, and he said viciously towards the distant swamp.

After saying that, he waved his hand at the mud puppet, and the summoned puppet, which was as tall as a person, fell apart with a crash, losing the restraint of the earth element, and a large amount of soil collapsed, forming a small mound.

Greem took out the summoning crystal nucleus from inside, held it up in his hand and observed it, one of the two energy nodes that were originally lit had already dimmed. At this rate of energy loss, a clay golem with all four nodes lit up can probably fight for three quarters of an hour at high intensity. And if the fighting intensity is lower, the duration will be longer.

The clay golem's energy reserves were not sufficient, and it was really not suitable to hunt the crocodile king today, so Greem put away the summoning crystal nucleus, ignited the twisted and broken bodies of the three hags with his burning hands, and pulled up the hood , quietly submerged in the swamp mist.