"You are next. Let's get you four closer to your friend."
Max started to run towards the other four golems. After finishing one, the rest of them were more cautious, knowing that the teenager could make them disappear.
The woman in the crystal was shocked. The one in front of her was the same person, but he had different moves now, more accurately, he was faster and stronger.
'This feeling is the same. But I know that my body can't keep up for too long, i think I can move like this for five more minutes if I focus only on speed, but switching it between speed and power, I don't know if I will last even one minute. This is troublesome. I need to finish this fast!'
Max tried to focus. The fight that he was in was not an easy one. He was against a group of four, and he had a limited time. Even if he focused them one by one, that will take longer than he has, but what other choice does he have?
Going against the first one, Max tried to punch him, but the golem blocked him. Unfortunately, another one tried to hit him at the same time from his left side. Seeing that, the young man switched from speed to power so he would feel less damage. Somehow the hit was weaker, but it still hurt him.
'Come one Max, you can do it, you MUST do it.'
Getting a hold of himself, he punched the golem that was closest to him, destroying it. Now, he switched back to speed and moved closer to another enemy, then focused on power and punched it.
Switching between speed and power helped him destroy the golems, making only one stand before him. Max was focused on what he felt, he learned how his body reacted to this kind of treatment, and now he understood that he was too untrained to use the full potential of his new technique. But now, he was too tired.
'Only one remaining...I can...do this.
Suddenly, he couldn't move at all. His body was too exhausted and didn't listen to him.
"Let me help you with this."
Max was speechless. The girl from before was standing right in front of him. He was ready to strike. She waited for the exact moment to do it. When the golem was ready to hit her, she dodged it before the thing even moved and Max could see that she clawed the golem.
He didn't understand what happened.
"What are you doing here, how did you find this place?"
"I told you, you are interesting."
She looked at Max smiling like she somehow knew that he was going to do something like this.
"I am more interested in what you have done. How did you move so fast, I am certain that you couldn't be this fast..."
"What happened?!"
The woman inside the crystal talked after a while, and she seemed pissed and confused at the same time.
"This wasn't supposed to happen. There is no way my prediction is wrong. I saw your future, you were supposed to awaken the fire inside you. I chose stone golems especially for you to be hard to burn."
"Wait, you summoned those, right? Why? Maybe a few minutes ago I felt fear from you, but now I am calm. So we can talk. Who are you? What was your purpose?"
"Child, don't talk to me like you and I are on the same page. I can summon more creatures, even that girl can't keep up with what I can do."
"Even if I don't want to admit it, she is right. She can summon things far worse than those five. Still, I am interested in this situation. What is this place?"
The girl next to Max was weird. She wasn't supposed to be in this situation or get involved.
"I will talk with you after this is finished. I thank you for helping me, but please don't get involved."
Max was talking with confidence and he was firm, like he genuinely knew what he was doing.
'What happened to him? He is the same, but the look in his eyes is different. Why do I feel fear when I look at them?'
Now, Max had a moment to breathe. He wanted the other two to be quiet for five seconds. Besides the woman and the girl, the teenager was more concerned with his system. After all the golems were defeated, the system finally showed up, and it wasn't pleasant.
~~~ Congratulations for partially unlocking the secret function ~~~
~~~ "???" The tab in the menu will show its content partially ~~~
'So now you show up. What happened to you?'
~~~ Quest cleared ~~~
~~~ Unlock hidden power ~~~
~~~ Error: Didn't meet full requirements ~~~
~~~ The quest's reward is on hold ~~~
'Neah, this is bullshit. Who designed you?'