Light Online Book Three: Leader by Tom Larcombe

Author:Tom Larcombe [Larcombe, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TML
Published: 2020-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

Arthropod

Type: Golem

Level: 15

Armor: 75

Health: 257 (+/-)

Attack: ?

Special:

Stone Shell

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Well, that explains the weird blood, Eddie thought, as his pickax drove deep into the creature and a jet of very thick liquid oozed out. Although a golem with blood? I'm confused.

“It's got a stone shell special,” Eddie yelled. “Can anyone do anything about that? It'll go down a lot easier without it.”

The answer was a jet of flame shooting down on the creature's back, well away from any of the people fighting it. A few flakes of stone popped and exploded off its back, but that was all.

“Not me,” Dominic yelled.

“Maybe,” Tamshir called out. “One moment.”

Eddie tried to block the incoming pincer with his pickax, but it locked around both the weapon and his body, then started to squeeze.

Tamshir started chanting as Jern saw Eddie's predicament and extended his hammer to slam into the pincer holding Eddie. For a moment the pressure from the pincer grew, but then it went slack and Eddie backpedaled away from it. A moment later he was hit by a pair of healing spells, the relief from the pain nearly making him lightheaded.

Just about then Tamshir finished her chant and the stone shell on the Arthropod simply vanished, revealing something that looked like squishy pink flesh beneath the shell. The stone from the shell swirled about the air for a moment like a cloud of dust in a tornado, stinging and nicking everyone it came in contact with.

Charles drove the pickax into the creature again and this time the tool went straight through and into the floor beneath. He left the pickax in place then unsheathed his sword and started slicing away. Eddie stayed back, they were making progress now and he didn't want to run into one of those pincers again.

Arrows started sprouting from the flesh on the Arthropod's back and Eddie decided that he could get behind that. He trotted a few more feet away from it then pulled out his own bow and started firing over and over.

Within a couple of minutes the Arthropod was no longer moving. Final heals played their golden light over Charles and Jern before they finally stepped back.

“What the hell was that thing?” Jern asked.

“An arthropod golem, from what I could see of it,” Eddie said.

“A what?” Jern said.

“Yeah, I kind of had the same reaction,” Eddie replied.

Eddie recovered the two pickaxes, although the one Charles had been using was a little beat up. Then, as everyone else was looting the bodies, he walked to the very end of the tunnel to see what the shaman had been so interested in. As he saw the wall, he did a double take.

“Tiana, send a light over this way please?” he called.

When the light was hovering over his head, Eddie looked again. Sure enough the glitter of gemstones showed in the wall. One of them was nearly cut out of it and Eddie now knew just why the shaman had a rock hammer in hand when they found him.

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