Spoiler [No, not this Lava Golem]

  [colpse][Brian POV]I was looking at the surveilnce video with Sana in the trol room. Our tle live feed of Christina, Aneesa and St. Joan fighting against some imps.

  The battle began with Christina blowing one imp away with a stone spear. I hope Alice learn a dark spell with simir power so she take down monsters with ease.

  Then Aneesa cut through an imp irike. Is that the power of a mithril sword? Or is it because of her skill?

  “Isn’t Mreat?” Sana asked.

  “She really is.” I agreed. “She must have trained a lot to have skills like that.”

  I ’t really pare her to adventurers, as I haven’t seen adventurers fighting against something like this, but I would guess she is at least k, perhaps even B.

  But even with Christina and Aneesa one-shotting imps, St. Joan was making them look unskilled. She had quickly collected the imps in the room into a single group, making them an easy target for AoE magic.

  And Christina did just that. She used ah spell that looked like a giant mouse trap, flipping the dungeon floor onto the imps, crushing them.

  “That was a .” I ented.

  “Of course it was. Madam Christina is a great magi.” Sana sang the praises of her … mistress? Lady? Yeah, let's go with Lady. Calling Christina a mistress makes her seem like a dominatrix MILF. Not that that would be a bad thing. It would just be… strange. You know. To see the calm and friendly Christina as a dominatrix. But I know some people would enjoy it.

  After the earth mousetrap crushed just over half of the imps, St. Joan quickly cut up the rest of them. Again, she is making the other two seem like outcssed babies.

  As they left that room and made their way towards the big room, I looked ahead so I would know what monster would be waiting for them.

  “Ah golem.” Sana said as I pulled up the view of the room.

  So it is a golem. I thought so as well. It's a slightly humanoid pile of earth that moves around. That means it has to be ah golem, right.

  And it wasn’t alone. Some imps were with it in the room. This could be a little rough. I should probably warn them about it.

  “There is a rge monster in the room. There are also some imps with it. Take care.” I said to them with the PA-system.

  It really is too bad that we ’t actually hear them while we are in the trol room. This dungeoo add some microphoo its security cameras.

  (Laura, will they be alright? Should I order Christina to summon Dark Magi?)

  (Ah golem of that size is no problem for them. Based on its size it is a k golem and St. Joan alone could easily kill it.) Laura said.

  (... ok. Yeah. Of course she . She is super strong.) I thought, more to myself than anything. I often fet that even though she is humanoid, St. Joan has power almost equal to a Blue-Eyes. Of course some golem wouldn’t be an issue for her. She could probably kill it in one slice.

  St. Joan charged into the room with the earth golem. She quickly sliced up the imps and was now leading the golem around the room.

  Then a hole appeared in the dungeon floor and St. Joahe golem into it. I guess Christina used earth magiake that hole.

  The golem struggled in the hole, but it seemed to be stuck as it couldn’t get out no matter how it tried. Did they use a sed spell to lock it in?

  “Ooh. They are going to use it!” Sana said o me as she glued her eyes on the video feed.

  “Use it? What are they using?” I asked.

  “Their bination spell. I’ve never seen it used, but Mother does tell me about it.” Sana said.

  bination spell? That sounds powerful. Based on the sounds like a spell that needs multiple people to use. Perhaps even people with different main attributes, bining their spells into one.

  As I was watg them, a rge quantity of earth and roed something like a cleaver above the earth golem, before crashing down onto it.

  After the dust settled, we saw the remains of the golem. It was sliced in two down to its waist.

  “Wow.” I said as I looked at the golem.

  “They are amazing! That spell was so powerful!” Sana was fangirlio me.

  “Yeah, it really was.” I think that spell might even kill something like the sword-horn bull if it hit it well. But at the same time, they might need a way of keeping their target in pce while they use it. Perhaps I should toploader a copy of a binding spell or trap and give that to Christina so she use it to keep a moill while they cast that spell on the monster.

  (Master, that golem is not dead yet. It’s gathering up more mana and miasma. It will likely still be able to repair itself.) Laura warned me.

  I immediately acted on the information she gave me and told Christina’s team about it. “Be careful. That golem is gathering more power. I don’t think it’s dead yet.”

  We looked as the golem melted down. It was noile of va. ma? Well molten rod earth.

  (It would be va. It’s only sidered magma if it is still underground.) Laura told me.

  Then, the va golem rose from the hole. It was a bit smaller than it had been as ah golem, but given that it is now made of va, it’s a lot more dangerous.

  they even take on something like that?

  “NO! That ’t be real!” Sana yelled o me.

  … yeah, but it is. But I’m sure St. Joan take on a va golem. Probably. Well the Lava Golem in Yugioh is 3000/2500, so if this is as strong as that is, it might be a little much. Hopefully they will be alright. If things seem to go bad, I'll o head over and help.

  [Christina POV]

  I looked as the golem got back up from the hole. Now made of va, it has definitely gotten a lot more dangerous. Just being close to the molten golem is dangerous, if you don’t have fire resisting equipment. It could catch our clothes on fire and that would not be good at all.

  “Madam, we should retreat.” Aneesa said. “We don’t have the equipment to deal with a va golem.”

  “No. We are taking it down.” I said to Aneesa as I took out the sed card Bria me borrow. “We have this as backup. Dark Magi.”

  I didn’t waste any time summoning the seonster. I’m not sure if that swordswoman take down a va golem. She might be able to, given that she said a metal golem would be something she siders a threat, but I’m not taking any ces.

  The magi I summoepped out of a card like he was using it as a door. I think he did the same when Brian summoned him back at the manor as well.

  But this time, the magi was dressed in a red robe. I think st time it was dark-purple color. Perhaps he kneere taking on a va golem and ged to a fire resistant robe. These monsters are so mysterious. How they know about the outside world before they are summoned?

  “Lady Christina. Do you wao take care of that golem?” He asked after looking around and assessing the situation. He seems to have more respee than St. Joan does.

  “Yes. We could use your help with that. you hold it in pce while the rest of us attack?” I requested.

  I read the report about the wyvern fight. Apparently, this magi has a spell that hold wyverns still so perhaps it would work on a va golem as well.

  “I , but it won’t hold still for long. Binding fire with darkness isn’t that effective.” He responded. “I believe you should use earth to bind it and have St. Joan and I attack afterwards.” He gave his pn.

  “Sorry, but I don’t think I bind a va golem. It has nothing solid to hold onto.” I told him.

  “Just make a cage of earth around it. That should work.” The magi said.

  “But won’t the golem just e through it? It’s a va golem, not ah golem.” I asked.

  “Even a va golem still has solid parts within its body. Otherwise it wouldn't stay upright like that. It’s not a sprite, after all.” The magi said.

  “I see. Then we will do it.” I decided. “Aneesa, help me out. We are trapping that golem in ah cage.” I ordered my maid. I could do it alone, but I might be too slow if I tried. Making walls with earth magi’t the easiest or most mana effit thing you do.

  “Yes, Madam.” Aneesa responded as she once again took my hand a her mana flow into me.

  “ell will we use?” Aneesa asked.

  “We just o make four walls to surround that golem, so I thih wall will work. Then we adjust from there.” I told her.

  In all hoy, it’s not as good as I think the magi is expeg, but it's the best we do without any preparations. Making an actual cage made with bars of hardeh would be a lot more difficult than just making walls to keep something in pce. And with full walls, we won’t have to worry about the golem shooting va at us.

  “Yes, Madam. I’m ready. Please take the lead.” Aneesa said to me.

  I prepared the image of the spell I wao cast in my head. As I was the one trolling the spell, this was left for me to do. It is also the first step in casting any spell.

  Then I thought of a t that would work for a spell. A t isn’t actually required to use a spell, but it buys time for the mana movement inside and outside your body. Not ting is a great way of failing at a spell, especially if it is a spell you aren’t that familiar with.

  “Earth, make walls that surround and trap our enemy.” I casted the spell. Aneesa repeated my t o me. This is why only people that know each other well use bination spells like this. If you ’t follow the t, the spell will be thrown off bance.

  ““Earth Wall.”” We said the activation word perfectly together. The activation word is the final part of the spell and is what triggers the spell. It’s also the only part you have to say if you quick cast a spell.

  I’ve been told that with instant cast, a skill that is the superior version of quick cast, you don’t eveo say anything. You just think of the spell and activate it. I’ve tried doing it, but I just ’t. Even with the most basic earth magic spells. My big sister Angelina says it’s because my mana trol is not high enough in level, even though I have level 6 mana trol. By the way, out of all of my sisters, only Angelina use instant cast. At least as far as I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mariina could use it by now as well.

  The spell seemed to have been a success as walls rose around the va golem, trapping it in the middle of them. … Actually, why didn’t we just make a rge pitfall for the golem to fall into? Wouldn’t that have aplished the same thing?

  “Not bad.” Dark Magi ented as he looked at the result. “Not quite what I had in mind, but we work with this. Do you two still have enough mana to attack?”

  I had a quick feel for the mana inside my body. I think I have just under half of it left. Using the stone guillotih Aook a lot of mana. I could use the status s to see the exact amount, but we have been taught not to do it in the middle of bat, as it takes attention away from what is actually important.

  “I have some left, but I would prefer to save it.” I told the magi.

  “Sorry, I only have enough for a few basic spells.” Aneesa said. She never did have as much mana as I did.

  “I see. Then we shall take the golem down.” He said before flying up and floating above the trapped golem.

  How does he fly? And he did it with no t at all. Is it an instant cast spell? Or perhaps a skill of some kind?

  It might be telekinesis, but using it like that would waste huge amounts of mana. There is also the sky walking skill, but that is usually only used by warriors that have high physical abilities. And standing around like that with sky walking is not that easy.

  I looked up at him and wished he would just finish off the golem. I hear it pounding the wall we made and that wall won’t st long.

  “Joa up here or I’ll take care of the golem myself.” I heard the magi call on the swordswoman.

  “Hey, don’t hog the glory. You know Master is watg us, right?” St. Joan responded before two wings grew from her back. The wings seemed to be made of light, so perhaps a light magic spell?

  “Dark Magic Attack.” The magi used his attack. A rge clump of dark energy flew down into the golem trap.

  “Shining Bde.” The swordswoman said as she swung down her bde, sending a ssh made of light flying towards the golem.

  With a boom, the attacks ected with the golem and some va flew out of the tai. They nded around the room, cooled down and hardened into aphanitic rocks.

  But based on the banging, that thing didn’t go dow.

  “Another round I guess.” The magi said as he prepared for a sed attack.

  “Of course this thing is dumb enough to survive the first attack. It just wants to feel more pain before it dies.” The swordswoman added.

  I don’t think golems feel pain.

  With their attacks, the duo did something different. Dark Magi used a spell to find the golems core and brought it up to the surface of the golems body. Then St. Joan sliced the core in two with another Shining Bde, killing the va golem. Of course Christina couldn’t see this as the walls she made were blog her view, but Brian had a good view with the surveilnce video.

  “We are done.” Dark Magi said as he nded o me.

  Phew. I was holy a little worried when the earth golem transformed into a va golem, but I guess that much really is nothing for Brian’s monsters.

  But I still think this will have to be it for our hunt. Going on with our current mana levels would be just inviting danger, so after abs the remains of the golem, I ordered everyoo head back to the core room.