Chapter 303: Metal Golems

"Ying Emperor, swallow him." Muria reached out and held Ying Emperor, who had also become the size of a five or six-year-old human child, exquisitely carved, in his arms, targeting the tower spirit in front of him.

"Okay." Hearing Muria's command, Ying Emperor happily responded, her voice clear as a bell.

"Ah woo!" The cute-looking loli stared at the tower spirit, opened her mouth slightly, and just made a swallowing motion. The tower spirit's projection, purely an elemental entity, twisted and turned into a light shadow, entering Ying Emperor's mouth.

"How is this possible..." The swallowed tower spirit only let out half a cry of astonishment before falling silent. As the tower spirit's projection disappeared, countless runes in the corridor where Muria and others were exploded at that moment, innumerable spiritual lights and flames ignited in an instant, and after the dazzling strong light, the corridor fell into darkness.

The tower spirit could condense its form thanks to the runes in this corridor. With such a large scale of runes supporting it, it should not have suffered any damage because attacking its projection was meaningless. As long as the mage tower remained, it could continue to condense.

But it never expected there to be an existence like Ying Emperor, who could follow its projection and destroy all the supporting runes, completely unreasonable.

"Well done!" Seeing such a scene, Muria hugged Ying Emperor and praised her. He didn't have the ability to destroy such a large-scale formation in an instant.

"Hehe!" Hearing Muria's praise, Ying Emperor turned around, climbed onto Muria's neck, and laughed proudly, "Then shouldn't you give me a little reward?"

"What reward do you want?" Muria asked.

"That blue, cool, hard thing." Ying Emperor crisply answered.

Muria's mouth twitched, knowing exactly what the so-called hard thing was. High-grade extraordinary metal, Azurite Steel. At that moment, Muria once again felt the urge to throw Ying Emperor away. Making a move once required a piece of extraordinary metal, who could bear this.

"Can we change it?" Muria's smile slowly faded, "How about elemental crystals?"

"No, I want that." Ying Emperor shook her head, pouting at Muria, looking like a sulky little girl.

"Fine, I'll give it to you." Muria, expressionless, put Ying Emperor down on the ground, handed her a piece of Azurite Steel, then walked forward with gritted teeth. He was in pain, such level of resources was enough for Muria to take seriously. He had a grand goal to achieve.

Muria continued towards the top of the mage tower, seemingly due to the passage of time, he encountered little resistance because most of the tower's formations were damaged, a small portion completely collapsed and lost their function.

Even the remaining formations had lost most of their functionality, in short, the mage tower's defensive formation system was almost collapsed. Collapsed to the extent that an ordinary tooth dragon could take away a bottle of top-grade bloodline potion.

"The defensive formation system has collapsed, even the guardians have decayed." Muria stood in front of a pile of rusty metal, sighing slightly, "Time, ah!"

"How long has it been?" Fiona, in the form of a beautiful woman with green hair, squatted in front of Muria, exposing her voluptuous curves to the eyes of this noble being who had just entered adolescence. In her hands, she held a piece of metal about to rot away, "Even the fine steel golems have decayed to this state."

"It's just the most ordinary fine steel golem, there should be higher-grade iron golems above." Muria had just sighed when he continued climbing towards the higher levels of the mage tower.

Normally, such a large mage tower should also have a complete teleportation system to facilitate the movement of beings living within the tower, saving time.

But most of the teleportation circles had already collapsed, and the remaining few were damaged. Even if they could be activated, Muria dared not use them. In this mage tower, where the tower spirit still existed and was hostile towards him, using a teleportation circle was guaranteed to cause problems.

Next, as they progressed, Muria saw higher-grade metal golems, also decayed beyond use, unable to continue fulfilling their duty of guarding the mage tower.

"The preservation level is getting higher." As Muria approached the top of the tower, he encountered higher-grade metal golems, no longer just a pile of scrap metal. During their creation, they were mixed with varying weights, quantities, and grades of extraordinary metals, determining their grades and power.

Unfortunately, so far, all the golems Muria encountered had lost the ability to move. The long years had eroded both their elemental souls and the inscriptions in their bodies to nothing.

Golems are powerful, magically created construct beings. They differ from other constructs in that they are imbued with lifelike power—golems gain life from elemental souls.

The process of creating golems binds that soul to a specially prepared vessel, merging with it and obeying the creator's will.

Golems have no consciousness and won't do anything unless commanded. They follow simple and clear instructions and can't understand complex strategies or tactics.

"Drive... away... invaders." After Muria forcefully destroyed a formation, for the first time, the mage tower's golem defense system responded, and Muria finally encountered a moving metal golem.

Thud! Thud! Heavy and slow footsteps sounded, under Muria's gaze, a majestic golem wielding an axe and clad in armor, standing twelve meters tall, walked down from the central platform of the hall—when there were no external invasions, it just stood there as a decoration.

"Who wants to go?" Muria turned his head to ask.

Hearing Muria's question, several soul intent-level green dragons involuntarily shrank their necks. From the shining runes on the golem's body, they knew it was completely made of high-grade extraordinary metal, so it resisted the erosion of time and could still move after thousands of years.

"Worthless." Seeing the green dragons shrink back, the red dragon Otrera scornfully cursed.

"Good, Otrera, you go." Hearing the red dragon's insult, Muria looked towards the three-meter-tall red dragon.

"Hehe, Prince Muria, this..." The old red dragon chuckled awkwardly, instinctively backing away.

"Go, Otrera." Muria grabbed the old red dragon by the horns and threw it towards the high-grade extraordinary alloy golem.

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