74. Guardian Golem

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"Cough...cough! What happened with the crimson demon lord? Don't tell me he got decimated in that attack?" Kosei coughed from the lot of dust blowing in his face. He tried to look at what happened with abyss trinity but as the dust was still blowing around so he waited and his imagination ran wild for a second.

"Huh! Don't tell me he got killed or worse devoured by his own magic. No..no..no, that would ruin my plan. Huh! I can still sense him, Woah!" Kosei freaked out for a second then he tried sensing him through his magic and found that there is still little presence in the centre.

After the dust settled down, the first thing he saw was a cleaned-up place in a circular perimeter, with no rubbles or broken stones anywhere as if they have devoured clean by the magic blast earlier.

In the centre of it, Abyss Trinity was lying with half of his consciousness intact and was groaning with tattered clothes and deformed armour on him.

"Tsh...tsk... What a poor sight, a mighty crimson demon lord from an alternate world, lay defeated under my feet!" Kosei clicked his touch and commented sarcastically but he didn't get any response from him.

Kosei felt it was useless to pay attention to him anymore and left from there leaving Abyss Trinity to his own devices. Kosei came over and met with the rest of his group.

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"Are we in right place? Don't tell me you forgot where to go so you took us in the wrong direction?" Levi commented after looking at the place Lugh took them all.

"No, I am pretty sure this is the right place or at least that was supposed to be in the past when I came here!" Lugh denied Levi's accusation and still looked at the Kosei with confidence that she wasn't wrong about the place.

"Well, maybe! Library did something about that." Kosei replied looking at the wrong face Lugh, feeling if he didn't reply soon she might start crying.

Going inside the hall where a lot of vines are growing on the pillars and mosses on the stones which made up the walls made them look very ancient.

Just as they progressed further inside the hall suddenly a large stone looking like a golem peaked its head inside and looked at them then suddenly the jewel-like eyes on its socket turned red and then it moved its entire body towards them and tried to catch them with its stone hands.

"Leave this to me to handle this stone guardian golem!" Levi step forward with kunai in one hand and bust of speed she avoided the stone golem's out-stretched hand and jumped nimbly on his hand, she reached near his head and struck directly from the neck of the guardian golem.

"High Ninja Art: Thousand Hand Shadeless Slash!" Levi shouted and performed her attack.

Thousand of hands came from the shadows and in instant, they cut through the thick stone golem into multiple pieces.

Levi landed with a double backflip on the ground with graceful movements.

"Ho, way to go Levi. That was badass!" Kosei made a thumbs up and praised her for being swift and clean.

"Hehehe! That was nothing!" Levi laughed cooly covering her lower mouth with the scarf and went ahead to hide her grin emerging on her.

Just as they moved inside and came to another large hallway, they again encounter another guardian but this one was slightly different his outer appearance looked like he was wearing some sort of full body armour made of alloy.

"I will take this one!" Lugh said and moved with her armaments help in full speed and tried to cut in half from the shoulder but just as her weapons made contact with the Guardian's outer skin.

"Clannnnnnng!!"

Instead of cutting him in half, the swords stopped and made clanging notice like her swords collided with very hard metal.

"What...!!" Feeling very surprised, Lugh retreated and made the distance from the golem.

"Well...well...well... What have we here, this guardian is very much different from the last one that Levi took care of!" Kosei looked surprised as he never thought there would be multiple guardian golem, he felt a little weird that Levi had handled the last one too easily. So once he inspected with his magic and felt obstruction from the golem, he concluded that the library security system has strengthened this golem and made it have anti-magic properties.

Meanwhile, Lugh feels competitive with Levi and feels lost with her. Lugh attached the golem again but this time using all three armaments abilities.

"Clannnng!" "Clannng!"

"Haasaa!" "Shwissssh!"

"Craaaack!"

After the constant strike of Lugh on the guardian golem, there was a slight crack on the surface of the left shoulder plate armour with a slight scratch here and there.

"Hahahahahah! Mighty Lugh-san is finally able to crack his armour, even if it is just a very small amount at least you were able to deal damage on him!" Levi laughed finding this situation very funny so she made fun of Lugh with sarcastic words.

"Huff...huff... Humph!" Lugh stopped attacking and caught her breath as a rapid speed attack sapped away her magic and stamina very fast so she became breathless for a bit.

Lugh humph and made a slight pouting face, then moved to a corner and started to draw circles in the ground with a dark and gloomy aura.

"Levi, don't tease her too much. It's not her fault that her attack doesn't work, it's just the golem has anti-magic properties so that's why most of the attacks were non-effective against the guardian golem." Kosei does find it funny but still, he stopped Levi from further upsetting Lugh and then he explained why the guardian golem is unharmed from Lugh's attacks.

Lugh listening to Kosei's words felt why her attacks didn't work on him. She felt a little better knowing her approach was wrong from the start.

Even Mira wasn't able to analyse the golem properly as just like Kosei, she also felt obstructed.

Akio hearing that magical attacks won't work on the golem made, a grinning expression with her finger cracking for some action.

"Wait... Hold your horses for a second, are you seriously going to attack like that without any preparation!" Kosei hurriedly stooped to Akio looking at her grinning expression and knowing her nature.

He felt that Akio sometime act in a very stupid way, just like now. If the stone golem has an anti-property that even Lugh can't scratch then that means it has strong physical might.

Kosei again explained that point to her and looking at the Lugh fight with the golem, its speed was not that weak to take lightly of and if by chance its fist landed on you then you will end up with a few broken bones.

Akio understanding what Kosei wanted to explain to her nodded her head in acknowledgement.

"Okay, then it looks like I have to use 'that', even though I haven't mastered it yet but it's enough to give me an edge over this big guy!" Akio said with a large grinning smile and used her magic suddenly which turned into a large enchantment like magic circle above her and covered her entirely.

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