The Golem Mage

Due to the upgraded water-screen system, people could also watch anyone high in the rankings by linking their mana to the team they wanted to see.

And that’s how many viewers opened the feed showing Alec Gordons, who was representing the second team of the War God Mage Academy.

It was amusing to them that the other major academies, who had split their squads in two for the purpose of occupying two ranking slots and pushing others out, didn’t have any of their second teams make the top ten.

Yet it was the War God Mage Academy, the one academy almost no one expected that did, the moment Alec Gordons’ feed opened for many in the crowd, they were surprised by what they saw.

Alec was sitting atop his tower on an earth chair that looked quite unique, he was in sixth place for kill points, and they couldn’t believe he’d reached it while appearing to do nothing.

But when they used their mana senses to expand the screen and make it their centerpiece, they noticed a massive stone shield, which seemed to have been compressed until it had a black-metal sheen, and was floating in mid-air, blocking the light gem from danger.

That alone drew sharp breaths from many mages, because Alec looked so at ease that they hadn’t realized he was using mana to levitate such a huge shield.

As if that wasn’t enough, they finally saw Legion in all his glory, standing at center with the Shadowforge Repeater in his right hand, while his left hand flicked forward, ordering his cyborg golems into position before the second wave was summoned.

All ten of them moved with purpose, taking cover behind massive chunks of debris and ruined buildings while aiming into the darkness, each summoning a scanner-like lens over the left eye that granted night vision.

[6th position.]

[The second wave starts now!!!]

The mechanical voice that had been speaking to Alec all this while spoke again, letting him know not only his position in the top ten ranking but also that the second wave was about to begin.

As soon as Alec heard that, he stopped acting carefree and leaned forward from his chair, wanting to see what differed between the first and second waves; because even its announcement seemed to carry an unusual urgency.

He even activated his energy eyes to catch any movement in the dark.

And then it happened, from nowhere, a surge of mana was injected into the space from the air, however, Alec and his golems had made a slight mistake of assuming the enemies would only appear from the dark corners.

Through his energy eyes, Alec picked up numerous sensitive readings around them; even the mid-air was rippling with mana, especially the one above him.

“Kill!” Alec heard another metallic voice, however he knew that this one was not the system talking to him, but a grating sound like metal grinding in his ears and it came from above.

He didn’t even have time to study the newly improved robots appearing everywhere, because directly above him and the gem was a unit that was free-falling with its weapon aimed down.

The worst part was that it wasn’t an ordinary rifle he could block by simply sliding the shield into place to diffuse incoming rounds from the light gem.

This weapon was shaped like a grenade launcher, and he doubted his earth defence shield would be able to stop it.

Since those robots lacked life flames, he couldn’t read their realm properly, but he had classified the first-wave robot attackers as beings equivalent to Tier-5 mage prowess.

Because these new units carried more advanced weapons and had more developed bodies, he assumed their firepower would be far higher than the ones that appeared in the first wave.

He felt even if there was an upgrade in their firepower, they should just be at the Tier 6 realm, so he did the best thing he thought was right at that moment, he used his right hand to pull the kimono sleeve of his left arm, leaving his left hand bare.

His left hand was covered in dark-and-white tattoos of his evolved spirit Wolf, which seemed to give off a frightening aura to those staring at it.

With his left kimono sleeve dropped, his left hand was now freer; before the robot could even pull the trigger, Alec bent slightly and pushed himself off the ground, heading toward the shield he had in mid air, he then angled it to cushion him.

After he placed his right foot there, he used it to propel himself farther into the air and directly toward the robot, which tried to redirect the position of the gun to face him; however, Alec suddenly placed his left hand on the hilt of his bone katana, and in the next moment a blur of motion followed as he drew the katana.

This blur passed by the robot that was about to shoot, and Alec landed on the other edge of the tower, sliding his katana back in place, while the robot’s body was sliced cleanly in two and fell to the ground.

Alec slowly walked toward the body of the robot that had fallen, with its weapon lying nearby; he then bent to pick it up to see if there were any similarities between it and the main guns used in his past world.

Funny thing was, after picking it up he felt incredibly familiar with it, and he knew at that moment he could use it; however, one nagging thought sat at the back of his mind, and that was how the hell was this space able to create such machine-form robots?

He couldn’t tell if it was because he was a native of his past world or if this was just data of opponents the envoys had saved in the space and it was a coincidence that he had to be the one to face them.

Below him, Legion’s cyborgs had gotten into a gun battle with the robots shooting back and forth; in fact, even Legion seemed to have joined in fully now as he walked forward, and raised his left hand which manifested a body-covering transparent light shield.

And he set his Shadowforge Repeater at the edge, firing as he walked; no matter what was shot at him, it all just pinged with a tink against the light shield he had up.

Boom!

A loud boom resounded as an RPG was fired at him, Legion didn’t even bother trying to block it, he swiftly composed himself and flew into the air, with his jet pack behind him gliding him upward as the RPG shell shuttled through toward the lower part of the tower.

Seeing this made Alec curse; he wasn’t about to let that shell reach the tower, to deform it, or throw it off balance, which would make it much harder to defend in the next waves that came.

At that moment Alec could only think of one thing that would stop the RPG shell blitzing toward his tower, the weapon he had salvaged from the robot.

He moved his left hand to adjust it properly and took aim, as the weapon gave a shrilling whine, its edges lighting with a faint white glow as if it were coming alive, and then he pulled the trigger.

Boom!

The shell from the grenade launcher propelled out with a black trail behind it, as the weapon’s recoil lodged against his arm, but Alec’s strength was beyond reason for a normal Tier-6 mage, so he wasn’t affected.

The grenade shell flew through the air and met the RPG mid-way, blooming into a beautiful explosion and cleanly achieving Alec’s objective.

A loud blast followed, sending a strong aftershock wave across the collision area.

Even Legion’s cyborgs avoided damage only because Number 6 had casted the Aegis’s Dome shiel

d special ability again, keeping them safe from the explosion’s after-effects.