I've been running through this gloomy maze for over two hours now I'm pretty sure my team members are all dead and I failed the test. There's no way they can survive the golem attack for three hours straight, I can't even find a trace of the magic tool.
As she must be in perfect condition her energy must not be being released into the air so the only way, I can see her is to approach her, the energies on the cave walls are pretty solid but they have a pretty solid pattern, any break in it means I'm close to the magic tool.
I've been catching a lot of my aura and elemental energy going through a maze with no obvious pattern or marks on the wall, they could basically be smooth because their imperfections are repeated throughout the entire tunnel and I've been using that to my advantage.
I've broken one of the stakes in the corridors, this one and my way to mark the path I've already passed this is the best way I've created to avoid going in circles. Only when I stayed in this cave for five whole hours did I find a variation in the cave and that led me to the magic tool.
In front of me there is an altar with a small crystal scepter, this must be the magic tool I'm looking for, but there is a second object on the altar that catches my attention even more than the scepter, it's an origami of a turtle waiting to be opened. As I approached the turtle it unfolded into a message.
'Congratulations on finding the magic tool, but unfortunately I have some very harsh and sad truths for you, Ulric. The first truth is that your team doesn't need your help, they are facing their own custom challenge, the second truth is that your test is not just finding the magic tool but surviving and activating it, good luck and try not to die.
When the green sheet of paper caught fire in my hand, I feel a tremor from the cave and all the mana and elemental energy on the cave walls becomes chaotic, the cave I'm in was sealed when a wall sprouted from the ground, closing off the only entrance to the cave. living room. From the walls several stone golems began to emerge and surround me.
These golems look like golems, which is quite comforting, I admit I would be disturbed if the walls and floor began to sprout warriors and mages or if they were monsters like the Amazon orc that Isabela killed during the second test. These golems were warriors of stone or clay, they were shaped like armor, their weapons ranged from swords, axes and spears, but they all carried a small shield in their hand secondary to neither one using a two-handed weapon, which is something weird.
The mana and earth element energy the golems had in their bodies had a peculiar density, they may not have enough mana and elemental energy inside their bodies to be a challenge for me, but I have a bad feeling about them. As I am surrounded by several enemies that walk towards me like a horde of zombies waiting for me to make the first offensive move.
When using my sword to cut the body of one of the golems I realized that its defense was great, I had difficulty cutting its body, even though the golem barely reacted to my attack and those who were on its side made a very robotic attack and slow, I realized how difficult my test was.
The golems aren't golems with great combat skills like the ones I faced in past tests, they were golems made for the purpose of draining my energy, to cut your body quickly the golems and keep from being buried by them, I'll have to use my aura and elemental energies in my blades or i won't be able to kill the golems at a good speed, which will prevent them from being able to kill me with this stupid but extremely efficient strategy.
I started to destroy the golems with simple moves to avoid draining my resistances, but as the circle created by the golems was large, I had to start moving in a circular pattern around the room to kill the golems without being surrounded in a small circle by the golems. golems. Thanks to my improved control by the latest aura art, I learned I was able to keep as little aura and elemental energy flowing through my body and weapons as possible.
This will allow me to fight longer without wasting aura, as I would have before I learned this aura. Without a large amount of aura strengthening my body, my speed, strength and defense will be lower than normal, but in my current situation I can easily handle golems with my speed and avoid being attacked by them, with these two weaknesses become not important.
And when my attack I manage to have enough strength in my attacks, thanks to my elemental energy of the wind element, it increases the cutting ability of my blades so I can continue to cut the golems' bodies without much difficulty. My endless fight with the golems continues and the number of golems destroyed must have already passed a hundred and the test seems to have just started.
I finally realize a very important fact that I missed, I'm fighting in the dark now, I'm so used to doing it I forgot it's abnormal I let it go without me realizing it. Even though this test is a form of punishment it is very unlikely that they would design this test without a form of help.
My attention turns to the scepter that is still on the altar, maybe this scepter can help me take care of these golems. I deviate from my current cumin to get the scepter and try to use them on the golems, but when I take it and dump my aura nothing happens, so I tried my fire element and just like that the scepter lit up.
The scepter was able to light up the entire room when a white flame formed inside its body. I tried to use the scepter but it was just a glorified torch and I'm even more screwed now, I only have one hand to fight now that I'm holding the scepter.
I drop the scepter to the ground only to find it still lit, the white flame within it continuing to burn emitting a light strong enough to illuminate the cave. Which was useless for me.
As time goes by, my aura and elemental energy already decreases to less than half, I'm stuck in this endless loop of killing golems, for over an hour, my body won't heat much more of this, even though I still have aura and elemental energy. What caught me off guard was that the remains of the destroyed golems are reabsorbed by the room and it is expanded, the size of the room has already tripled and with it the number of golems in the room as well.
The pressure created by the test brought me into a new focused state, I wasn't absorbed in my control or my own aura and elemental energy, it was like I was in a state where my mind separated from my body, my movements became completely automatic, I already tried to move because of my reflexes created by the years of repetitive training.
But the state I'm in now is different, as my body moved by itself my mind is more active and because of that I can pay even more attention to my surroundings, that's how I noticed the staff that was lying on the floor of the stone chamber. it was still intact. The flame inside him went out, but thinking about the staff I could remember that the light in the cave only disappeared after a considerable amount of time.
The flame created inside the staff is a strong flame, despite being created by little elemental energy and it gave me a stupid and suicidal idea, but I believe it will be my escape from this endless loop. I pick up the staff from the ground and start pouring out my fire element which luckily, I didn't have to use much of it in this test.
The white flame inside the staff not only ignited, it was growing at a great rate, the more elemental energy I put into the staff the more the flame grew. When I poured most of my elemental energy into the staff it was already completely engulfed in the white flame.
The clear crystal staff became a staff of pure white fire, when I insisted on putting even more energy into the staff the crystal casing started to crack and so I discovered the staff's limit. I guided the golems to one side of the room, I did it easily, I just had to run in small circles in this part of the cave and the golems started to huddle and that's an exact stealth, they started climbing each other to try to get to me.
His intelligence is not very high, I use without a single restriction my aura and wind element to scale the golems to break the siege that has formed. I basically put the rest of my fire element into the staff and play it hard on my golems as I move away from them using my wind element and prepare for the explosion.
I only got a few meters of advantage as I ended up throwing the staff with a lot of force, I don't want to take the risk that it doesn't break, that would be a very humiliating situation. I protected myself by creating a shield of aura and elemental energy and with the golems close to me I curled up against the floor only to see a wave of white fire break through the golems, it was expanding across the entire room and I thought I did a lot of shit this time.
The white flame was not only consuming the golems, it was melting the entire cavern, and that's when I realized my mistake. I greatly underestimated the destructive power of the flame and put a lot of elemental energy into the staff, but thanks to that the flame didn't explode in a straight line but ended up expanding basically throughout the room in an inhomogeneous way.
White fire seems to ignore basic physics, it looks like it's consuming everything around it to grow and its favorite food is golems and the cave is getting caught in the crossfire. This gave me the opportunity to run even farther away from the flames, but since the cave wasn't that big even before it expanded several times, I found myself on her wall.
I use my blades to make a makeshift hole in the ground to bury myself, the flames continuing to devour the golems and expanding across the room. With my new hiding place done I hide until the commotion in the room is over.
The room was swept by white fire for only a few minutes but all the golems were destroyed, and much of the cave is deformed because of the damage of the white flame. danger.
I think I managed to survive this punishment test. I just hope I didn't go too far, because as I walk around the room, I see that the white flame creates several tunnels on that side of the room, and as if the white flame was going after more food, I think I created a monster or released it.