'That was close'
Reiji thought as he dodged another attack from the parent golem.
With his good eyes, he was doing great at dodging but his attacks are just too weak, even when reinforcing himself with mana his attacks are incredibly weak.
This shouldn't be happening because any affinity user's attack is extremely strong right off the bat. But Reiji was an anomaly. He didn't have an affinity. He can only manipulate mana. After fighting with the parent golem for a while he found out about his shortcoming.
But he doesn't want to think about it now. Rather, He can't think about it now or he'll die.
Boom!
The parent golem punched again. Reiji somehow manages to dodge its attack or so he thought because another punch has connected to Reiji's right side.
Bam! Crack!
This punch was from a baby golem. By now all the baby golem has closed in to fight by their guardian's side.
Cough!! Cough!?
'What?!' Reiji coughed a mouthful of blood when he felt a searing pain on the right side of his chest. His right ribs were broken, one of those bones has pierced his right lung. He was dying.
Although his unique skill can heal indefinitely it doesn't mean he can heal instantly all the time. His body's healing will not be able to keep with the speed of his death.
'Am I going to die....again?'
Reiji thought everything has slowed down in his vision the golem and its army were slowly but surely approaching him. He was trying his best to maintain a distance but it's all for naught.
'No, I can't die here! I will live. The herbs will save me'
He thought. Because he was an apprentice alchemist he has to give all the pills and potions he makes to his teacher, but he has the herbs to make those potions. These herbs contain impurities that are more or less poisonous, however, he didn't care. He knows that he will eventually heal from poison if he lives that is.
After thinking it hard. He chomps down all the herbs that were useful to him.
he then gets healed in a few seconds. Though the poison from impurities is still there his healing will eventually heal him.
This entire time the parent golem was smirking at the pitiful boy who was struggling for his life. But when the boy stands up with a cold expression. The golem's smirk stiffened it can feel that something changed around the air of the boy.
"I am not dying. You bastards!"
Reiji screamed and dashed forward to fight with the hoard of baby golems and the golem.
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Crack! crack! Bam!
It's been few minutes since Reiji started fighting with this golem and Reiji is on his last straws. so far he manages to destroy around a dozen baby golems however, constantly fighting, dodging, and running has taken its toll on the boy, and now he has become slower to a noticeable point. Each time he dodges he can only Dodge them by hair's length, and block the other strikes with his hands, his hands had been broken several times now. If not for the skill
That's when he finally manages to come up with a plan. This time he wasn't trying to fight them instead he was just running around them baby golems are fast but they have very poor reflexes that's why once a baby golem throws its punch it cannot stop its attack neither can the other baby golems dodge. Reiji was using this tactic to confuse these creatures and in the cover of chaos, he was destroying the baby golems at an alarming rate. He would have annihilated all the baby golems by now but he has to keep a lookout for the parent golem. just when things are looking good for him an ear-ringing roar covered the vicinity.
ROOAARRR!!!
'What was that?!' Reiji looked at the source of the sound and noticed it is the parent golem. Before he could think of anything all the remaining baby golems started running toward the parent, on the way they also picked their sibling's corpses as many as possible when the went close to the parent golem they merged and combined into a rock behemoth.
'What? were you not strong enough before?' Reiji stared at the behemoth with blank eyes and a pale face.