Chapter 400 Titan (6)
After leaving the central area of the state, Billy's group immediately found Alexander and his students heading East. When he found Billy's magic tank, he waved his hands like crazy. Seeing that he would just annoy him a lot, Billy decided to ignore him and keep heading northeast. Alexander gets too talkative when he spends many days without seeing his wife and Lara, and that is annoying for Billy since he was the opposite. It couldn't be help,ed so it was better to leave him alone for a while.
"That was uncalled for, big bro," Samara said.
"I can leave you with him, and then you will understand my annoyance," Billy said. "He just didn't shut up when we were clearing that dungeon… Imagine hearing him complaining about not seeing Lily and Lara for two weeks straight… When he was almost hit by the corrosive attack of the dragon, I hesitated in protecting him since he was that annoying."
"That was even worse… It didn't help your cause," Samara said while frowning.
"You two work together all the time, so you must have one thing that the other does that annoys you," Billy said. "It is just like that. That moron and I have been working together for even before you two were born. While it is a problem that comes with the package and we are used to it, it still is irritating. Besides, it isn't like pointing our bad points at each other weakens our friendship. You can ask him, and he can probably say half a dozen things about me that annoys him as well."
In the end, those two understood the messages. They complained about their bad habits to each other all the time as well. Still, they usually do when one is looking since it isn't like they were actually fighting, and that also makes them look childish.
In any case, they stopped thinking about that when they saw one village being attacked by fire Golems. They also saw some people running away in the distance, so it seemed that they managed to evacuate. Still, that didn't mean that they shouldn't stop the destruction. Billy approached while bombarding the enemies with ice cannon, and once the enemies took notice of them, they jumped from the vehicle. Billy thought of giving support to the twins, but they tried to attack using their ice magic instead of taking their spears. Since they had Sage Wisdom, Spiritual Core, their magic power wasn't something to laugh at. Still, it was difficult to make their projectiles pierce the enemies' heads until their core was hit.
"You don't have to use ice, you know," Billy said. "A good sharp, spinning stone can do the trick. I am only using ice because I want to practice."
Billy used Earth magic all the time in the tunnels, and while it can be useful many times, Billy needed more diversity in his attacks. Still, the siblings insisted on ice magic.
"You can make a golem using Earth magic as well, you know," Billy said.
Once they heard that, the twins began to use earth magic. In the end, it was a lot easier than using ice, and their goal was so obvious that Billy couldn't help but shrug. Still, it wasn't like he couldn't understand them. He felt that his Golem was pretty cool. Controlling it was even more fun than driving a super-speed remote control car.
In any case, Billy stopped the monsters by freezing their legs, and the twins did the rest of the job. It was quite troublesome that only fifty fire Golems could destroy half of a village so fast, and its inhabitants couldn't do a single thing to stop them. Billy thought that spreading his knowledge might help the world, but it didn't seem it was happening… Unfortunately, he couldn't be an wandering teacher either and wasted his second life teaching magic to people all over the world and preventing situations like that. Nevertheless, he decided to stop thinking about that and kept moving when the villagers returned.
"There are many traces of burned ground… but it is hard to tell which ones were fresh unless they still create smoke. I can't tell at all," Billy thought while driving and moving around.
In the end, he decided to head north since it would be the area in which his friends would take the longest to arrive. The more he did that, the fewer enemies he found. That was starting to look weird… they moved faster, but even though the fire golems weren't that fast, they should have arrived in those parts of the border by now…
While he looked for the fire golems, Billy began to wonder if they were only spreading for some reason… like they wanted to fool the state's people into hiding their true target. Dungeon monsters aren't supposed to be smart… but they are born with the instinct given by them from the dungeon core… what would be that instinct that they had now? What was their goal? If dungeons truly were a creation of the gods and goddesses of that world, then Billy knew that things couldn't be as simple as an unfortunate incident.
"Nah, I can't just assume that Icarus' assumptions were right… maybe it is their nature. The fire golems attack the places with most people. After that, they lose some of their numbers and powers and become easy targets for others," Billy thought. "In any case, I am here to help, so I don't need to think about that either."
Billy and his siblings hunted the fire Golems in the area for three days until Lily's group joined them. Once that happened, it became easier for them to move with the others and organize since the state soldiers were helping and using messengers. In any case, they divided their numbers even further as they closed the encirclement of the area that the fire Golems reached and slowly returned to the central area of the state and hunted the remaining monsters.
