662 From Bad to Worse (Part 4)

The following hit produced a thunderclap as the hammer stuck in the cracked stone was turned into a giant nail that shattered the Golem's protective shell and revealed its power core.

The construct had managed to move it out of harm's way in the nick of time. The power core was a spherical purple mana crystal as big as a basketball, with its entire surface covered with blue runes of power.

"Darn it. I missed it by an inch!" Morok said.

Lith had been able to see it moving from the Golem's chest down to its abdomen thanks to Life Vision, so he already knew that Morok's plan would fail. He used spirit magic to keep the Golem away from the ground and from the materials it needed to fix the hole in its chest.