七星影视

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"Sylphy!"

Aquarina ran to my side, but I quickly stood back up.

"No worries, I am fine!"

I stood back up, glancing at the golem who was being attacked by everyone else, explosions of various elements distracted him.

"Zack, Aquarina, use your senses to detect the other three golem cores, let\'s destroy them all before things get out of proportion!" I said to my friends.

"Eh?! And how exactly do you plan us to do that?!" Zack asked in disbelief.

"The golem\'s already pretty mighty, Sylphy…" Aquarina said.

"And finding the cores in all of that debris is…!" Zack muttered.

"Use your senses! The same way Teddy did! Expand your Mana and utilize it to detect a large source of Mana… We don\'t have much time, we\'ve gone through a lot together, so I am trusting on your judgement!"

"Shit… alright then!" Zack said while smiling. "I\'ll figure out a way."

"Me too… If Sylphy really think I can do it, I cannot betray her and say I don\'t trust myself." Aquarina smiled.

"Then let\'s!" I roared, we all jumped off the ground once more, like three blurs of red, blue, and green color, reaching the giant Golem\'s body and running over its stony exterior!

I glanced at Aquarina and Zack, both closed their eyes while expanding their Mana Senses, and then their eyes quickly opened.

"I found one!" Zack said.

"Me too!" Aquarina agreed.

"And me, of course." I said.

I had already detected it even before getting here.

I merely ran to where the core was, rushing over the stone path, which shaped as piercing spikes whenever I got too closer, the golem was trying to distract me.

However, it was already late.

His fate was decided by a single slash of my newly evolved Living Sword with her Stone Breaker Skill.

SLAAASH!

CRACK!

At the same time as that golem core shattered, Zack and Aquarina\'s attacks shattered the last two other golem cores, finally stopping the golem\'s movements.

"GRAAAAAH!"

FLASH!

A bright light emerged from the golem\'s chest, as it gave its last roar, and then, it began crumbling apart, falling over the floor into a pile of stone.

BAAAM!

As the golem crumbled, we finally achieved tranquility and peace, even if only for a little bit. I sat down over the pile of stones while looking at my surroundings, at the same time as I glanced at the EXP I got…

Ding!

[You and your party defeated the [Ruined Treasure Golem (Tier 5: Rank 1)] x1!]

[You earned 70000 EXP]

[Your Familiars have earned a large quantity of EXP!]

[Scarlet] Level has increased from Level 10 to Level 12!]

[Scarlet] Stats have increased!]

"And done… Finally… Finally done, uegh…" Aquarina cried, getting into the floor and gasping for air. "Gosh that thing was sure a pain in the butt!"

"A big boss after another, fate sure doesn\'t take kindly of our existences." Nephi said, quickly bringing some drinks to everyone. "Here, this is a mix of medicinal herbs that can heal exhaustion and muscle pain."

"Thank you Nephi." Zack sighed.

"Thanks a lot!" Aquarina drank it.

"Thanks, did you made this yourself?" I asked her.

"Yeah, I\'ve been foraging for herbs on our way here and made something up with the Alchemy I\'ve seen the young lady practice. The meld is quite simple but I hope it can relieve your exhaustion." Nephi said. "I\'ve imbued my own restorative magic into it as well."

"Let\'s see…" I drank the herbal mix, and it was rather bitter, but not so bad. It had a magical infusion to it and worked as a nice Stamina Potion as well!

Ahhh~ And it made me feel so nice, it had painkilling herbs in them because the pain in my shoulders I feel when I unleash powerful sword slashes was completely gone. My father says that once I grow strong enough I won\'t feel any more muscle pain when going all out… But how long that\'s going to take me?

"It\'s pretty good, well done!" I said to Nephi. "You\'ve got the knack as an herbalist, Nephi!"

"Herbalist… Me?" Nephi wondered, feeling slightly embarrassed.

"Yeah, not even Sylphy is as attentive as you, she was just concentrated into mining spirit stones." Laughed Aquarina.

"True, you\'ve definitely got a talent." Zack said.

"Hmm, that\'s right. If you were able to blend these herbs in just these last hours, that\'s certainly talented, especially without proper tools and all of that, out of your own sheer talent and magic." Celeste added.

"And that\'s pretty amazing already!" I said with a smile.

"You\'re exaggerating…" Nephi said while feeling more embarrassed.

"Well, anyways, are we opening the chest or not?" Aquarina was already at the side of the treasure chest. "Six Tier 4 Monsters and one Tier 5 Monster, whatever this chest has gotta be something big or I\'m quitting this."

"Alright, let\'s open it and see what\'s up then." I said, as we quickly walked towards the treasure chest and opened it at long last.

Creaaaak…!

The Treasure Chest finally opened, and from within… something resembling a little statue showed up. The statue was blue and gold and was in the shape of some sort of mermaid, it really resembled the goddess I remember seeing back then, the mermaid goddesses whose names I don\'t even remember anymore.

"This is… some sort of little statue?" Asked Aquarina.

"Huhh… I never saw something like this before." Said Zack.

"Weird…" I said.

"Has this treasure chest even been reported to the adventurer\'s guild?" Asked Celeste.

"No this Dungeon is not one of those special Dungeons Modified by the Ancient Archwizard, so it is a very simplistic and rudimentary one." I said. "In fact it\'s also an Ancient Ruin from the Age of the Gods. There are tons of these around. It transformed in a dungeon through Miasmic Infection over many years, but it doesn\'t produce as many monsters as the new age Dungeon that many explore in the Human Continent. Atlanta, a continent where the Gods once made their home, is filled with these types of "Ancient Ruin Dungeons"." I explained.

"Interesting… So this could be a first time found treasure, but what the heck is it even?" Wondered Aquarina.

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