System Beast Lord

Chapter 8: Asphalt Golem

“I thought you said only fodder remained, you fool!” Nelson exclaimed as he ran alongside the others.

They were currently being chased by an Awakened Grade 7 Asphalt Golem, a humanoid Golem made of an asphalt like substance.

They had left their broken building shelter and were heading towards Amy's dojo when they suddenly came across it.

“Yeah! That thing is fodder compared to the rest of those monsters that descended from the sky crack.” Eric replied as he ran and huffed.

[Fatigue: 46%]

‘Dammit. Why didn't analysis pick it up tho.’

He was looking at his screen to figure out what happened.

‘Ah! The message was minimised?! It never left like the others.’

All other analysis alerts had disappeared but that of the golem still remained, minimised.

“Yeah, I can't keep running.” Erica said and stopped to look at the golem that was coming after them.

Looking at the thing, it was sufficiently big. At least as big as truck and as tall as a bungalow. Each step it took sent waves and tremors through the ground as it got closer.

“Oi oi. Even I don't need intelligence to tell me that that thing is way out of our league.” Chuck stopped and said, pulling on Erica's arm.

“There's five of us currently. We can beat it, it's just a grade above us.” Erica replied as she panted softly.

“We're not in tip top condition so we can't say how much luck we're gonna get in beating it. Plus, it's defense is top tier. Golem's sacrifice speed for high defense.” Eric replied as he also looked at the incoming golem.

“That thing is like sixty meters away from us, if we run, we can still lose it. I mean, look at the way it's running right now.” Matt said pointing at the golem.

The golem was trying everything in its power to reach them, running wildly and directinh killing intent towards them.

“I mean, if not for the fact that it's directing killing intent towards us, I would have said that thing wasn't even taking us seriously.” Matt continued as he was preparing to run off again.

“Sharp and pointy things won't do much damage huh?” Nelson muttered to himself,. stroking his chin.

He brought out his dagger from his inventory and checked the stats;

[__Equipped Item__]

[Item Name: Dagger of the Demonic Sun]

[Type: Weapon]

[Item Description: Forged from the blood clot of the Demonic Sun itself, this blade bears the wrath of the demonic deity even if it's a mild amount.]

[Class: Rare]

[Grade: 8]

[Attack Damage: 90]

[Critical Damage: 125(0.9% chance)]

[Durability: 1493/1500]

[Enchantments: Immolating Edge; Kinetic Thrust; Demonic Solar Arc; Heat Resistance (When equipped)]

‘Immolating Edge?’

He thought. He hadn't really seen what this enchantments were for really.

[Enchantment: Immolating Edge]

[Enchantment Type: Passive & Active]

[Enchantment Description: The edge of the blade is naturally hot and cuts through things with ease. When imbued with mana, the temperature of the edge reaches daring heights cutting through any adversary with relative ease. Immolating damage depends on the amount of mana imbued.]

‘Heat… Asphalt… I'm a grade 8 with a rare grade 8 weapon against a grade 7…’

“Hey Eric, Rare item class is equivalent to Awakened beast class right?” Nelson asked, looking at the golem inching towards them by the second.

It was now about thirty meters away from them, grunting as it ran slowly.

“Let's try our luck. Eric, here.” Nelson said handing over the dagger to Eric.

“You have more mana points than all of us here. So use its enchantment. I'm not giving it out to you, I'm lending it out to you. I'll collect it as soon as we're done.” He added as he pounded his fists together.

“What're you gonna do? Pound it with your fists?” Eric asked incredulously as he collected the blade.

“Yes.” Nelson said with the cockiest smirk on his face.

[Skill ‘Blazing Fists’ is active!]

[Blazing Fists: When in a fight and user utilizes his fist alone, he gets a boost in strength, speed and damage.]

[+25% Attack Damage; +4 strength; +2 speed; +25% damage to armoured opponents.]

‘Jesus! That's like +50% attack on the golem.’

A reddish orange aura covered Nelson's arms as he got into a boxer's stance.

Everyone got in position and was ready to face a monster a grade above them all.

Twenty meters and reducing…

‘Use Skill:Analysis.’

Eric gave the system a mental command and his eyes took on a soft blue glow.

[Skill, ‘Analysis’ have been activated]

[[Monster Information]]

[Name: Asphalt Golem]

[Race: Monster]

[Class: Awakened]

[Status: Alive]

[Grade: 7]

[HP: 350/350]

[Further Information requires more analysis.]

[Time to complete said analysis: 6 hours 30minutes.]

Eric looked at the last message with scorn and disgust.

‘No, what the hell!’

He clutched the dagger firmly and took a stance as well.

Ten meters and still reducing…

Nelson charged forward with insane speed, the aura around his arms blazing brightly. As he advanced, he covered his fists with scorching hot flames.

‘Ain't no blazing fists if there ain't no flames.’

Soon he was upon the golem, his friends behind him.

The golem roared and brought down one of its arms on its target, one that was easily dodged by Nelson.

As soon as the hand connected with the ground, a thick layer of frost covered the hand and cemented it with the ground slowing it down.

Nelson ran up the arm with his enhanced speed till he got to its shoulder.

POWWW!

Nelson fists connected with the golem's temple, jerking it to the side.

[-20 HP of Asphalt Golem]

‘Ah, this skill… it's OP!’

Nelson thought as he jumped off of the shoulder unto a destroyed vehicle nearby.

The golem freed its trapped hand only for another blast of frost to cover its entire head in ice.

Eric ran past the golem and went behind it, slashing the mana imbued dagger at the back of its knee.

[MP: 150/210]

[-5 HP of Asphalt Golem]

[Golem's HP: 325/350]

The blade went through it like knife through flesh, creating a orange glowing wound.

The golem stumbled and went down on its knees as it tried to break the frost on its face.

POWWW!

Another blow landed on the shoulder of the golem, nearly shattering the entire thing as nets of cracks ran all over its armoured body.

Several small rockets flew towards the disoriented monster and exploded on contact with it.

[-45 HP of Asphalt Golem]

Matt was holding a compound rocket launcher capable of shooting nine small rockets at once.

A wave of black wind blew towards the golem and covered it.

[Wind Of Death has been used in target. -2 HP every second for one minute.]

“Way to go fatso, let's keep it coming guys.” Nelson praised as he moved in again and delivered another -20 HP punch on its head.

Eric appeared above the golem and aimed to thrust the dagger into one of its crimson eyes. A blue aura covered him taking the shape of a hippo's head.

It worked well apparently, a little too well.

[Critical Damage done. -45 HP of Asphalt Golem]

[Golem's HP: 135/350]

“I'm not done! Kinetic Thrust!” Eric yelled using one of the dagger's active enchantments.

[Critical Damage done. -45 HP of Asphalt Golem]

[Golem's HP: 90/350]

Eric jumped off and another flurry of rockets hit the golem again taking away 45 of its health.

[Golem's HP: 45/350]

The golem was been overwhelmed with little breathing space.

Nelson came in again and smashed his fist into the jaw of the monster, taking another 20 HP from the monster.

Eric swung the dagger, creating an arc of blazing heat and enhanced it with his own mana causing a wide magma hot gash on the creature's torso. That took 15 HP away from the monster.

They all gave way for a giant lump of thick ice, big enough to flatten a truck, as it barreled down on the golem.

[-10 HP of Asphalt Golem.]

[Analysis: Erica Jason has killed the Asphalt Golem.]

‘We won!’ Eric almost yelped as he panted.

They had slain the monster with team effort and critical thinking.

[Analysis: An Awakened Grade 8, Orge Brute, has found your location. Be advised!]

‘Eh?’