Everyone had their physical and magical damage resistance increased by Vandalieu’s Energy Absorption.

Their weapons had their attack power increased by Zadiris’s Blade of Wind Enchantment and their Agility enhanced by her Blessing of Wind. Just in case, she cast Arrow Evasion which made it easier to dodge projectile attacks and offensive spells. It was a little regrettable that many of the party members were Undead, so she couldn’t use light-attribute enchantments on them.

Eleanora’s time-attribute spell, Acceleration, allowed them to move even faster.

Finally, Vandalieu transferred Mana to Zadiris and Eleanora until they were full and then their preparations were complete.

Other than Borkus’s magic sword and Vigaro’s axe, everyone’s equipment had been enhanced by monster materials and items obtained in the treasure chambers of cleared Dungeons.

Many pieces of their equipment were enhanced by Earth Dragon or Rock Dragon materials, or made of Black Steel, a lower-value magical metal.

Bone Wolf let out a growl. He and the other Undead were the ones making the most extravagant use out of those materials, all of the major bones in their bodies had been replaced by those of Dragons whose shape had been changed to match their skeletons.

Even an Ogre would be incapable of breaking their bones now.

“Well then, let’s go,” said Vandalieu.

He raised a hand and began sucking the Mana out of the wall of ice. It was thicker than the other walls of ice he had removed, but the difference wasn’t great and the ice began melting steadily.

The Dragon Golem sensed this and made a loud, slow movement. Sideways.

One second, two seconds, three seconds passed. It wasn’t retreating or approaching; it simply continued sideways and stopped in front of its own severed head that was on the ground.

Could it be, it’s going to pick it up and put it back on – this is bad!

“Everyone, split left and right and retreat!” Vandalieu ordered.

Vandalieu obeyed the warnings his instincts gave him and stopped his spell. Everyone followed his command and split into two groups.

The shining black head of a Dragon came flying through.

The Dragon Golem had kicked its own head to launch it as a projectile weapon!

“It’s quite the smart Golem!” Borkus spat as he avoided the Dragon’s head that had smashed the ice like brittle glass and destroyed all of the Stone Golems that were supposed to be their meat shields.

“And that’s the metal of the gods, Orichalcum! The fact that it destroyed the cursed ice that only Vandalieu-sama should have been able to remove is proof of that!” Eleanora said in a slightly trembling voice, making it clear what the Dragon Golem was made of.

Orichalcum, Mythril, Adamantite, Damascus Steel, Black Steel – all of these magical metals are high-quality materials, the most precious metals in this world. It is said that only the gods can handle them.

One of these precious metals made up the entirety of the Dragon Golem’s thirty-meter-long body.

“Using it for weapons and equipment is one thing, but what an amazing goddess, using it for a Golem larger than a dinosaur!” said Eleanora.

“Uwah, if we brought all of that back, we’d be able to buy a country,” said Rita.

“Well then, please bring it back,” said Vandalieu.

“Eh?”

“Rita, Saria, Bone Man, everyone, please gather the pieces of that Golem,” Vandalieu ordered as he dashed into the chamber behind Borkus and Eleanora.

Letting out a noise that was difficult to tell whether it was a roar or the sound of creaking metal, the Dragon Golem thrashed around with dull but powerful movements.

“UOOOOH! Dragon Slayer!” Borkus struck the Dragon Golem with his prided, most powerful martial skill, but though it made a loud impact against its cracked arm, he didn’t manage to cause any new damage.

“Shit! GAAH!” Borkus swore as he was repelled by the Dragon Golem’s arm and sent flying like a ball in a sports match. The enchantments that had been placed on him broke like fragile glass.

“There’s no way you can get through Orichalcum that’s even harder than Adamantite, is there?” Eleanora said in exasperation as she flew through the air, trying to find an opening. Her objective was, of course, the spear embedded in the Golem’s chest.

I’ll pull it out and use it as a weapon. Even if I can’t do that, if I thrust it deeper into the Golem, it should deal some damage.


Vital spots exist for Golems other than those created by Vandalieu. Their heads or bodies contain cores that are the source of the Mana that powers them; a Golem hand-made by a goddess should be no exception.

Since the Golem already has no head, the core should be somewhere in that body. If it’s broken, the Golem will stop moving. If I’m going to aim for anything, it has to be that.

The current situation… Borkus was being stopped by Vandalieu’s Impact-Negating Barrier before he hit the wall. Vigaro had decided to give up on attacking after seeing Borkus’s sword have no effect, and it seemed that he was now devoting himself to acting as bait.

Zadiris was attacking with wind and light-attribute spells, but they were having no effect against the mass of Orichalcum that had even greater anti-magic properties than Mythril.

The ones who were playing the biggest role were probably Bone Wolf and the other Undead.

“UOOOOOHN!” roared Bone Bear.

They had been unable to increase their Ranks to surpass being Rotten Beasts, but Vandalieu had flooded them with his Mana to cause them to become Rank 5 Hell Beasts and, in Bone Bird’s case, a Hell Bird. All of the bones of their bodies were now the crimson color of fresh blood.

Their crimson bodies were picking up broken pieces of the Dragon Golem in their jaws, scooping them up in their arms and dragging them along with their claws to gather them up. This was to make sure that the Dragon Golem wouldn’t use them as projectile weapons like it had done with its own head, and also so that they could be used.

“Bocchan, do you think that you could make a Golem with this?!” Rita asked incredulously.

“… It’s repelling my Mana; turning it into a Golem is impossible,” replied Vandalieu. It seemed that it would be difficult to use directly.

“Vandalieu-sama, stop the Golem’s movements!” shouted Eleanora, as if to say that this would be her time to shine. Vandalieu answered her request by using Golem Transmutation to turn the floor into a Golem.

“UOOOOOHN!”

Countless arms extended from the floor and grasped the Dragon Golem’s legs.

However, the Dragon Golem moved with a creak and they broke like twigs. Its movements were slow, but its power was extraordinary.

However, it began focusing on trying to destroy the floor-turned-Golem at its feet; its decision-making ability seemed to be flawed from having lost its head, or perhaps it found the floor Golem extremely irritating.

“This is it!” Eleanora used Super-Acceleration to accelerate the flow of time around herself and flew towards the Dragon Golem’s chest.

She forcefully took hold of the spear’s handle, and pushed –

“Gah?!” Eleanora let out a gasp as an icicle made of cursed ice appeared from the magic spear she had grasped and pierced her chest.

She had been aware that Artifacts often rejected anyone other than their owners when touched.

“Impossible, even after two hundred years…”

However, she hadn’t expected that this weapon would still respond over two hundred years after its owner had perished.

The icicle had pierced Eleanora’s heart magnificently. There was no saving her. But Vandalieu would likely raise her as an Undead after her death and make use of her. In that case, I should push this magic spear even a little deeper into the Golem while I’m still alive, for the sake of my master who is the most fearsome being in this world.

For this purpose, Eleanora produced Mana Bullets behind her and released them at both herself and the magic spear. Even if the magic spear itself is made of Orichalcum, even if it’s covered in cursed ice that won’t let anyone near it, I should be able to push it at least a little deeper with this.

But the Mana Bullets she had created with the last of her strength vanished.

“NUORYAAAAA! DRAGON SLAYEEEER!”

“Iron Tear! Circular Axe Whip!”

Borkus and Vigaro, wielding misshapen lumps of metal that couldn’t be called swords or axes, struck the Dragon Golem with them.

The Dragon Golem’s body creaked and the cracks in its surface began to spread.

Even as Eleanora felt surprise at this sight, her consciousness became distant… And then the icicle was broken and tossed away. The next thing she knew, Vandalieu was looking down at her.

“I’m sorry. I could sense the danger, but I couldn’t stop you in time,” he said. “But please don’t try to accomplish things at the cost of your own life.”

“Kah… I… apolo…” Eleanora tried to apologize while coughing blood.

“It would be best if you don’t talk,” Vandalieu told her.

And then his claws grew longer right before her eyes.

“Because my body is small, this is all that I can give you.”

Vandalieu’s blood dripped onto Eleanora’s face. She reacted instinctively to the smell of its rich Mana, opened her mouth and accepted it.

Her heart began to regenerate rapidly. It should have been impossible for her heart to recover after being destroyed to this extent.

“I kept your death away,” Vandalieu explained. “As long as I have my Mana, no wound is fatal. I’m sure it hurts, but please do your best to heal.”

“It’s… already healed,” said Eleanora. “Thanks to your blood,” she added.

To think that I made a complete recovery after having my heart pierced through. Eleanora could feel power flowing throughout her entire body just from licking the remainders of Vandalieu’s blood on her lips.

If Vandalieu hadn’t ordered Eleanora to use her normal tone of speech, she would have been praising him as her lord and expressing her gratitude and loyalty by kissing his feet.

However, this was a time where she should express her loyalty through her work.

“Give me a sword as well,” she said.

“Umm, please wait a moment.” Vandalieu was unable to create a sword for her right away.

He was currently casting three spells simultaneously.

He had attach handles to broken Orichalcum fragments that Bone Bear and the other Undead had gathered and barely managed to alter the shapes of the lumps of metal so that at least the Swordsmanship and Axe Technique skills could be used with them, forming crudely-made Orichalcum weapons. They were trying to return to their original shape like a memory alloy, so the two instances of Golem Transmutation that he was using for the two weapons to prevent that were two spells.

Transforming the floor into a Golem to impair the Dragon Golem’s movements was another spell.

Making Eleanora’s weapon would be the fourth.

Maintaining the shape of the Orichalcum fragments was using up a particularly large amount of his Mana.

“Boy, you are so hot that my hands are almost burning,” Zadiris warned him. She was helping alleviate his symptoms by casting healing magic on his head.

“Please bear with it for a little while longer,” said Vandalieu.

“No, won’t you worry about yourself a little more?” Zadiris sighed.

“It’s alright; Surpass Limits is still taking effect.”

“Boy… Surely you are not under the impression that you can surpass your limits endlessly?” Zadiris showed her anger while wearing a smile.

“I don’t need a sword anymore! I’ll sit here quietly and watch!” said Eleanora, taking back her request.

Vandalieu decided to obey their wishes and stay put as well.

And it seems that things will be fine even if we just watch from now on.

With each swing of Borkus and Vigaro’s crude weapons, the cracks in the Dragon Golem’s body grew larger and deeper.

The Stone Golems that Vandalieu had rebuilt were acting as decoys for the Dragon Golem’s counterattacks, and each time more pieces of Orichalcum broke off its body, Bone Monkey and the other Undead gathered and discarded them so that the Golem couldn’t use them as projectile weapons.

The Dragon Golem that had limited options for attacking and dulled movements after being more than half-destroyed by Mikhail wasn’t even an enemy now that a method of inflicting damage to it had been found.

The only thing to be careful of now was the self-protecting mechanism of the magic spear that had pierced Eleanora’s heart. Borkus and Vigaro simply needed to make sure they didn’t accidentally touch it, so it wasn’t a substantial threat.

With a loud sound, the Dragon Golem’s right leg collapsed. Half of its one remaining arm dropped onto the ground.

And then its torso followed, crumbling as the Dragon Golem fell.

They had won.

Everyone believed it. The only casualties were the Stone Golems. Borkus, Vigaro and the Undead let out a shout of victory.

Vandalieu didn’t doubt their victory either. He looked towards the door on the wall far behind where the Dragon Golem had stood. The resurrection device that he had been unable to search for up until now was likely behind that door.

With this, he would be able to resurrect Darcia.

But then that confident belief turned into fear.

“Run –”

Countless icicles exploded outwards from the Dragon Golem, drowning out Vandalieu’s shouted warning.