The guardian's floor is always different, and this time it's a very large cave full of stalactites and stalagmites mirrored by the cave, the air in it and strangely dry the moisture that is usually present in the dungeon has disappeared, and with it the guardian is also absent.
There is not even a roar in the dark or enemy in front of us, even my eyes cannot find the guardian. The room is completely permeated by the shadow element, it is not just a mist but as if I were in my lake made with the shadow element and the first time, I am in an environment with such a large amount of elemental energy.
The strange thing is that the magic lantern is working normally the shadow element in the air is not fighting the light, so I can deduce that the guardian has no relationship with the shadowy figures the nature of the shadow element is different. The shadow element in the cave is like smooth wires, not the corrosive characteristics in the shadow element.
Despite having a feeling of being watched, the room was silent for a few minutes, but what broke the tranquility was not the appearance of the guardian, but the shadow element began to move like a tornado and concentrate in the center of the room.
A storm formed by the shadow element is growing in the center of the cave, with its intensity increasing the stalactites and stalagmites are being destroyed and absorbed by the sphere formed by the shadow element, and as I look at it, I notice the magic jewel in the center of it. I don't know where it came from but it just appeared out of nowhere as I didn't see a single mana in the whole room before, but now to a point where it's expanding by the shadow element and the earth element which is in the rocks that were absorbed.
A two-meter-tall golem formed, he was not deformed or rustic like the golems that appeared in the dungeon so far, he was a version of a huge knight. His maturity and body are formed by the shadow element and the earth element, he is smooth and without details and luckily, he doesn't even have a weapon besides his fists which are two slightly larger than would be proportional to his body.
The core of this golem is in the center of its chest protected by several layers of maturation and it is pumping an enormous amount of mana and shadow element throughout its entire body. When he stood up and roared like a beast not a golem, a cloak made of shadow element covered him the newly built body the golem became a shadow monster, much more animalistic than it was before.
The only news that can be considered an advantage for us is that the shadow element has disappeared from the environment and the light from the lantern is illuminating the entire cave when its light reflects off the stone. Torris positions himself to block the charge of the shadow guardian who attacks him using his black claws, which destroy the layer of earth element that is covering Torris' shield.
This attack has the strength of a tier two peak monster, which is weird since the golem is a boss rank tier two monster, its strength should match the power of a weak tier three monster, but already that this is not the case his attack may have a unique characteristic or his outstanding characteristic and his defense.
When I fired my arrows to my fullest power, they barely dug into the shadowy giant's body the arrow barely reached half its size, Raziel's whip barely ripped through the cloak of his shadow element revealing the solid body beneath it.
Ingredi used her magic to bind the monster with water whips and reduce the combat ability of the guardian who does not have a strong enough attack power to break free of his weapons and penetrate Torris' defense, which is being pushed back every time. blow I blocked; he should try to dodge some of the guardian's speed isn't very big.
As my bow proved ineffective, I joined the others, we surrounded ourselves and attacked the guardian from all sides. My attacks can go through the shadow element's cloak which is strangely weak, but his body is extremely hard and I can only create shallow cuts on his body, only when he attacks at the same spot more than once can I start to damage the guardian.
The rest of my teammates are suffering from the same problem, the more surprising to me that the battle has turned into a solid standoff. Torris is defending the guardian's attacks while Ingredi protects him with her magic, she is using her earth element to block some of the attacks and as obstacles to the guardian while her body is bound by her water element.
This situation is stable with the wounds on the guardian's shell accumulating, when some of his pieces started to fall from his body the shadow element is coming out with more intensity from the guardian's body because of the damage we did to his body.
The elemental cloak that covers the guardian's body is increasing and with that its effect reveals itself, the guardian's attack power is increasing because of the shadow element's cloak that is growing, its shape is changing slightly now to small black thorns forming on its surface.
The shield reinforced by the earth and aura element that Torris holds is being tested by the guardian, the earth cap over it is broken and rebuilt after each attack that is blocked, but because of the guardian's increased strength marks have started to appear on the shield that it has crooked edges.
Raziel focuses on using his whip imbued with the shadow element to break the dark cloak that is turning into a ripe, he is focusing on the claws in order to reduce their offensive power. Due to the increased strength of the guardian the fight became risky for Erick and Sten who are slower than me.
Hilda and Raziel have the advantage in range, but like the Holt brothers who use handguns like me. And when the golem's body began to shrink because of the layers we are breaking, his behavior changed, he became more aggressive, even a black horn appeared on his head symbolizing his aggression.
He didn't trust his fists anymore he started using his feet, he kicked with a huge momentum against Sten who luckily had a tough shield to block him. The kick passed through the two earthen walls that Ingredi quickly raised and hit Sten's shield, turning the metal shield into a twisted piece of metal.
When Sten was thrown a few meters only to end up hitting and breaking one of the stalagmites that survived the guardian's birth, with one less companion I ordered Erick to step back and remove Sten from the combat aria and use his bow later, if the guardian the hit also the team was in a bad situation, having to take care of two injured teammates, when the guardian becomes even stronger and more aggressive.
This battle has been going on for a long time, and the battle with a guardian is the longest I've ever been. A keeper of the defensive type and complicated to deal with, if Torris weren't a strong, well-trained shield warrior he wouldn't have enough stamina to maintain a solid defense after being hit so many times by the keeper.
But even Torris is reaching the limit, he has already suffered a lot from the bundling of fists, claws and kicks of the guardian. He dropped his weapon so he could sweat both hands to hold the shield to ease the burden on his main arm, but that's only postponing the inevitable. of the guardian's attacks.
The guardian's body was collapsing even faster than Torris's. Hilda concentrated her attacks with mine to break the golem's knee, to cripple the keeper, but when we managed to completely break the golem's knee, the shadow element came out of the wound and kept his leg intact, that part of the shadow element's cover if made a ripe almost completely solid, to replace the damage we caused.
The shadow element cloak has more functions than strengthening the guardian's attack. She is getting more and more solid. When Hilda and I are breaking the guardian's body which is becoming a pine cone of loose stones.
The cape became a thorny black ripeness, as solid as my ripeness. It can be easily cut but Raziel's whip wrapping has become less effective.
Ingredi and I have been aiming for the center of the guardian's body, after we discovered that destroying his joints is useless, but the more we dig inside his body the stronger his shadow ripening becomes he even started attacking back after we ripped it open.
But in the end the golem's chest was broken into pieces and its core was exposed for Hilda to destroy. His spear impaled the guardian's center and the shadow element of his body blew him up.
What was left of his rock body was destroyed and thrown by the explosion, Torris' shield may have protected him, but Raziel who was close to him was hit by the scabies and slightly injured.
With the guardian's death the only thing left was the elemental gem and an orb formed by the shadow element that was left after the explosion. I don't know how much it's worth, but I'm sure it's valuable the shadow element within it has a large amount and is extremely concentrated in the center of the orb.
After collecting the remains, we went to treat the wounded. Sten had his arm broken and three ribs broken, Raziel only cracked two ribs and Torris was the one who was most injured during the fight, if not for his aura keeping his body together, he would have collapsed he broke few bones, but his organs were injured during the fight and most of his bones crack slightly.
Torris will take at least a week to restore his body if he has the assistance of a green core healer without him it will take a month and a half to recover. After doing first aid on Sten's arm we left the dungeon.