Its golems move towards the three. Each one is like a puppet made from the snake's flow and abilities. However, they're kinda weak. They have decent physical strength and durability but compared to their master or other primeval beasts, These golems are nothing.
"This is pretty interesting, A wild beast knows a doll technique." Graham has no idea how a wild animal learns a flow technique like this but it's an interesting peek at how animals interact with flow. He takes his sword formation and shreds one of the golems. It gives little resistance to his raw strength. "I shouldn't burn too much stamina against these things."
"Doll technique? Graham, Stop saying things that most of us don't know." Leslie sounds pretty annoyed at him. She smashes one of those golems with her powerful punches. Whatever that means, these golems are a result of it. Her crystals are getting more brittle as she loses stamina.
"It's complex to get into but basically, You remove some of your own flow and create a puppet using it." Graham quickly explains while cutting down a few more. These are likely a distraction for it to recover from their attacks. He's worried about its next trick- The ground rumbles as a giant snake head made of dirt and stone rises from it.
"So, It's weakening itself to make these things?" Leslie lets her guard down which allows one of them to get a clean punch to her face. It's nearly strong as one of those common primeval beasts. She's starting to understand that flow is more like stamina or flow and stamina are the same. That huge snake head is a massive shock.
"Probably, Flow can be used for extra strength but it's not the source of it." Graham has a better understanding of flow and how it works but the power is pretty wild in how many uses it has. He cuts down another golem that goes at him; that giant snake head suddenly shoots a giant stone spear towards him.
He deflects that spear with his sword formation but the blade gets a serious chip in it. This comes as a shock to him from his skill in forming weapons. It's getting risky for this fight to be more drawn out if his flow has weakened this much. He's not even sure if that giant head even has its body in there.
"I've adjusted my scanner, It's under that giant head." Alloy suddenly reappears by Graham who was uncertain but this clears things up. She was changing some settings to track the snake while it was underground. It's using these golems to distract them as it recovers. How could they get it out of the ground?
"I got the golems, Focus on killing that damn snake already!" Leslie shouts while beating two golems into clumps of dirt. She's slowly burning through her remaining flow and it's showing with how brittle her crystals are becoming. She cannot fight something that strong like this.
Caelan and Graham dash towards the giant snake head. Both of them have to avoid minor ground spikes that shoot upwards at these two. It's getting more defensive but their vision can see its dolls are slowly breaking down. He pulls back his starry blade with it turning into a liquid form.
"Let's finish off this big old snake!" Graham yells that out before whipping forward his starred darkness like it's a grappling hook. It manages to hook into that giant snake head before he suddenly shoots towards it! He's retracting his darkness at a high speed which is pulling him to it.
"Huh- This guy is going to get himself killed like this..." Caelan finds it clever but that's not a completely wise thing to do. They realize that he's not being attacked by it? It suddenly shoots out a spear toward them but the stone head isn't reacting to Graham at all. They nearly get hit by the massive spear.
"This snake is pretty smart and skilled by using a hollow doll construct with it having a limited vision to preserve flow." Graham holds up the starred darkness and forms it around his fist before punching downwards. It causes massive cracks to form on the giant head, Not enough to make it crumble.
He grins as the cracks start to fill with his starry darkness and like water breaking down stone, The top part of the head falls apart when it expands. He reforms it into a giant spike while using the gravity to pierce into the snake's skull. "Good fight, big snake!"
The Snake does some death throws as Graham applies pressure to his spike. It slows down and goes limp. He looks around this space under this giant snake head; No life is left inside it after its creator died. The wall suddenly gets blown down by Leslie's crystal fist! "Graham, You killed it this time?"
"I wanted to help, You're going to get yourself hurt if you hog the action." Caelan pops their head through from the side. They're really annoyed at his reckless jump towards the giant head because it was a bit stupid. There was no plan for any of this and that's not a good thing.
"Yeah... Anyway, I managed to kill this thing." Graham makes sure it's completely dead this time and It's probably brain dead, So It might still move. He steps off its remains to start climbing up towards the opening which Leslie made. He struggles a bit with his shoulder injury that's still healing. "Ugh, My shoulder is going to be awful for a few hours..."
"Hey Graham, could you look at my body for a bit?" Alloy floats up to him for repairs on her android body. She doesn't like bothering Graham for repairs even if he wants to do it but she really wants to check out that tower. It managed to knock out her systems for a few seconds which sparks her curiosity.
"I was going to repair it soon..." Graham knows that Alloy is shy in asking for repairs. He quickly walks to the androids before opening up the knee area to check for the damage. His eyes are able to see the little details better than normal people. It's hard to explain how the world looks to him but It's a bit different to even some super humans.
It's a simple repair for him. Some parts just came loose due to the impact but there might be minor joint damage. He's not able to replace them for now, especially because they have no blueprints for them in the workshop. Alloy is going to be moving a bit slower to avoid more damage.
"Welp, That will do for now! Oh yeah, Are we checking out that tower?" He looks toward it and whatever the tower was doing seems to have stopped. He's curious as well about It even if it might be a bit dangerous. He looks at Leslie and thinks for a bit. "You should rest in the ship, It's good to give your crystals time to regenerate."
"Oh... Way ahead of you, I'm about to pass out from that fight." Leslie just starts to walk back towards their ship. The crystals have become sluggish from burning through all her stamina. A long nap will be great after today's chaos. She gave Graham a small wave as he left with Alloy and Caelan.