Corduul raised his machine gun and sprayed it in every directions. The powerful recoil would enough to break a Platinum Rank warrior with no trouble but his firm arm of steel held the weapon with absolute ease. Coupled with his quick processing brain power, he manage to precisely fire the bullets right on the face of the enemies, exploding one head with every bullet.
His sniper rifle wasn't at bay, it constantly aimed left and right, firing at a rapid tempo. When a bunch of fools approach him, his steel whip tore their bodies apart.
Four low Diamond Rank magicians manage raised their hand and froze the whip in motion, making it in stuck in the air. Two of them rushed towards Corduul, their palms glowed with mysterious green light.
"What a weird looking golem, be destroyed!" one of the magician shouted as he pushed his palm towards Corduul's face.
With deep mechanical voice, Corduul spoke: "It always amuse me how the so called-magicians considered themselves as the supreme being of every living entities. But yet, their attacks are too slow."
Right after that statement, the large mace crackled with bright electricity and then it slammed towards the magician with the speed of a lightning.
Bang! Crackled!
The magician's head exploded, followed by electricity running through his whole body, killing all of his organs at once.
The other magician was shocked to see this. He wanted to escape, but Corduul's hand that was holding the battle-axe elongated and then cut the man in half.
The two magician in the back widened their eyes and quickly retreated.
"My master told me to give no mercy to our enemies."
He aimed his sniper rifle and fired twice, creating a hole through the chest of the two magicians.
Right after doing that, Corduul jumped high into the air, his machine gun fired nonstop, killing dozens in minutes, before he landed on the ground, slamming his hammer.
The hammer created a shock wave that pushed hundreds of attackers, throwing them in the air.
Khebar saw the weird looking golem and frowned. "His father truly love his son, sending a powerful golem like that. That thing must be expensive to make. Humph! I must destroy it. His son killed my dragon, so I will kill his most expensive golem."
He then looked at the two subordinates beside him. They wore thick robe that hid their tall figure.
"You two. Fight him."
"Yes, sir." They nodded and vanished.
…
Corduul spun around, swinging his battle-axe, giant hammer, large mace, and steel whip, all the while firing his machine gun and sniper rifle at every direction. The close-range robots and the gunner-robots were all around him, killing as many people they possibly could.
The scene was like a massacre as the enemy barely had any chance to approach him.
Suddenly, two small daggers flew towards him. Corduul pulled one of his arm, and the steel whip knocked the daggers away.
The daggers spun and landed near his feet. Then they exploded into thick black mist that disturbed his sensors.
"Heat detection malfunction, vibration sensor malfunction, motion sensor malfunction… began repairing process. Repair succeed."
All of this dialog happened in a fraction of a second, but it was enough for the attackers to appear in front of Corduul and drive their long sword into his body.
Corduul reacted swiftly, his battle-axe came swinging at them, making them retreat. But Corduul never think one step at a time. He was always ahead.
So right after, making them retreat, his sniper rifle pointed at them and fired.
The two men did not expect that, and the bullets tore their their arms.
Corduul's whip came from above and slashed one of the man in half.
"Fuck! This thing is too strong!" The man threw a black orb into the ground, creating another thick black mist before running away.
In a second, he was hundreds of meters from his original spot.
"That thing shouldn't be able to chase me this far." He looked back and suddenly saw a giant hammer flying at him, wrapped in electricity.
Bang! Crackle!
His whole body exploded into blood mist, and the hammer flew back to Corduul's hand.
In the secret room where a bunch of teachers gathered to spy on Tom.
"Is that thing really a golem?" one of the teachers said.
"Then what do you think? Look, it has metallic flare and those weapons they called 'gun' or something. We only know that only Aldred can create something like that."
"It seems to be too powerful to be a golem."
"I think we are missing the point here."
"What?"
"Who send the attack? This is more important than any other question. Nobody should be able to send this many soldiers to the students' dormitories, so it has to be one of us."
The Withokere University had a strict protection for their students. There were so many traps and so many monitoring magic that it was impossible for anyone to sneak in not to think to send an entire army inside. The only way it could be possible was if a teacher or staff disable those traps and monitoring magic temporarily.
In other words, it had to be an inside job.
"Hmmm, there's also a barrier 5km in diameter. Nobody outside this space can see or hear anything out of the ordinary. The attackers come with preparation so they must know that Tom has a legendary skill."
"So what do we do? Do we help Tom or the attacker?"
The teachers looked at each other.
"Maybe we should just watch and consider our options later."
Magicians had a lot of ways to escape precarious situation. If they help the attackers, and Tom manage to escape, they would gain a very powerful enemy that could bring them down.
In a high-level environment like this, one wrong move could spell their death and everything they had fought for their whole life would be gone for good.
This was the reason why a lot of Diamond Ranks exile themselves to the wilderness or the sea to find freedom. Only those who wanted power, influence, and wealth stayed. Naturally, since most people that able to reach Diamond Ranks were full of ambition, only a handful of them chose freedom.
"Wait, who is that person?"
"That's… isn't he Khebar? He was one of our student. Didn't he exile himself a long time ago?"
"Did he return for the legendary skill?"
"Khebar is a talented student. I wonder how strong he has become since decades ago."
…
Khebar leaped from the top of the mountain and landed a few meters away from Corduul.
Corduul's eyes flared with blue light, scanning the person in front of him. "High Diamond Rank warrior."
"A speaking golem? Nothing new, but one that can analyze my strength? I never see one like that before. Your creator must be a one-of-a-kind."
"My master is indeed one-of-a-kind."
Khebar laughed. "I wonder how he will react if I destroyed you. You are expensive to make, right?"
"My master will lose nothing but a bunch of scrap metals should you destroy me."
"Humph! Are you the one that killed my dragon?"
"That will be one of my robots."
"So it was you. Perfect. Let me destroy you here and I will kill that boy afterwards."
Corduul's eyes shone brighter than before. "For that I shall not allow you."
"You think you can defeat me?" Khebar laughed and then the ground beneath his feet exploded as extremely powerful aura came out of his body.
"Hoo… not bad. Khebar has improved his strength tremendously. He is not at our level, but its quite impressive considering he doesn't have the resources that we do," one of the teachers commented.
"Now, I want to know how long the golem can hold him."
"We will see."
Khebar glared at Corduul and closed the distance in rapid strides, feet exploding the ground for every step.
In the next moment, Khebar appeared in front of Corduul, raising his hand. A sword magically appeared, then he slashed down, his muscles bursting with energy.
Corduul raised his axe and hammer to block the blow like a shield, however, it still sent him hurtling a few meters in the air.
The robots nearby turned their attentions towards Khebar, charging at him with their blades raised.
"Out of my way!" Khebar slashed in a wide arc, cutting all the golems in half. Then he rushed towards Corduul again.
This time Corduul reacted properly. Dodging and parrying Khebar's attacks.
They both were flying back and forth, throwing powerful strikes at each other that created ripples after every clash.
As they fought in close combat, Corduul found his chance to point his sniper rifle at Khebar and fired right on his face at point-blank range.
"I am a warrior! It's not that easy to attack me!" Khebar quickly slashed the bullet that came at his face in half. And then he swung his blade once again, hitting Corduul's shoulder.
The blade went past his chest then got stuck there.
Corduul aimed his machine gun. "My turn."
