The Golem Mage

[Status]

Name: Hive Tyrant

Race: High Zerg

Level: Mid Tier 7

Affinity: Poison, Biomass

[Status]

Name: Abyssal Brood Lord

Race: High Zerg

Level: Low Tier 8

Affinity: Fire, Metal, Bones, Telekinesis

The moment Alec saw all that, he started wondering just how long his walls would hold before everything came crashing down. For the first time, he truly felt that in this battle, he might have to abandon his city and run for his life.

The Blood Moon Region hadn’t even officially begun its second-wave phase yet, and still they were already about to descend on him, it made him wonder why things always had to be different in his case.

In some corner of his heart, he even found himself wishing there would be some kind of penalty placed on them for breaking the rules of the Blood Moon like this.

And then, just as that thought crossed his mind, a system message appeared before him.

[ A catastrophic level of Zerg has been detected near your region, minutes remaining before summoning restriction is undone: (3 minutes). All restrictions will be broken as a penalty for the Zerg invasion. Stay safe, Human Lord. ]

Seeing that message made Alec curse whatever power had placed the Blood Moon restrictions in the first place, but it only took him a moment to realize what it truly meant.

And then he started laughing loudly.

[ Summoning now available. ]

[ Free upgrade of your City Heart to Level 2. ]

“Come out, my creations,” Alec said as he channeled mana and called for his main golems, completely ignoring the other notification message that had appeared alongside it.

And just like that, magical portals formed from different types of power systems began opening behind Alec in mid-air as his eight main golems finally arrived on the battlefield.

Titan. Legion. Hive Queen. Butcher. Magnito. Saint. Oni. And finally, Hunter.

Only then did Alec truly feel at ease. Now, he believes even if he went all out, he no longer had to worry about who would defend the fort if he ever ran out of mana.

Normally, there were many ways Alec could have gone wrong with his setup, first of all, the Blood Moon battle was something meant to be faced with an army.

When lords joined a region, the one who invited them was supposed to explain the pros and cons, tell them what they needed to know, and even provide a small number of soldiers from their own army until the new lord settled in properly and his able to fully integrate his citizens into his army to fight for their cause, however even the residents of Alec’s city were low rank mages so it wouldn’t even mean much in the grand scheme of things.

The Blood Moon arena was never meant to be fought alone. Lords entered it with their armies and clashed against other lords there, if they managed to kill an abyssal lord of another race there, they would be able to seize the lord token and possibly anything else of value on that person.

After offering the token to their City Heart, they would immediately gain the location of that city and could then decide whether it was worth conquering, or if it would be better to use the token to upgrade a subordinate city under them instead, leaving the city once tied to that token to fall into ruin.

However, Alec had just been unlucky enough that the one responsible for bringing him in turned out to be a very lazy man who never bothered to check in with him personally to explain the finer details.

Nor was Alec given any support, especially when that same man knew his neighboring enemies were High Orcs, though the Wilderness was a dry and impoverished region, the old man had still neglected his duties badly, it was one of the reason no one thought highly of the wilderness region lords until Alec came around and took the first place in the Tier 6 leaderboard they were still skeptical about it wondering if the wandering and unreliable old man has finally changed.

That was why Alec had come into this alone, with no idea there would even be a summoning restriction, luckily for him, he was not the weak type. Otherwise, he would have died in the very first wave.

“Human Peasant, shiver and tremble, because your end is near, one of the Monarch Lords of the Zerg race has arrived to make sure your elimination goes smoothly,” the Brood Lord that had spoken to Alec earlier declared, turning toward him with complete confidence.

However, behind Alec now stood his eight golems, and most of them were rascals. One thing they hated above all else was anyone speaking to Alec with disrespect.

Bang!

A loud sonic blast rang out across the battlefield as Legion pulled his eye away from the scope of the sniper rifle he had just fired.

“Oh, you dodged that? I really thought I had you with that one,” Legion said casually, as though he hadn’t just tried to blow the Zerg’s head off, the only reason the Brood lord had survived was all because the Tier 8 Abyssal Brood lord had made a move using his telekinesis to move him slightly out of the way if not his head should have exploded from that shot.

“Who the hell dares claim to be a lord in the presence of our Master?” Butcher said as he lifted his massive thunder axe with one hand and rested it across his right shoulder.

Alec almost tripped after hearing his golems blow his own horn, though he was still suspended in midair, he could only roll his eyes.

Still, with his troublemakers now beside him, he no longer felt like running, for the first time since the battle began, Alec truly felt that he could hold the Zerg horde at bay easily.

His only concern now was deciding who to leave in command if he made a move on the Tier 8 Zerg Lord, the Abyssal Brood Lord had a towering figure, its body lined with curved bone spikes as it calmly stared toward Alec’s city.

Seeing that they still weren’t making any move, Alec finally descended and landed in an open space atop the city wall, with his golems doing the same around him.

However, just as everything seemed to have fallen into a standstill, the Brood Lord—whose head Legion had nearly blown apart—finally gave the order to attack.

“Kill them all.” he said, as the newly evolved Zerg army, which had seemed to fall into some kind of hibernation, let out a deafening screech and surged straight toward Alec’s city once again.

“Finally, some fun. I’ve been waiting for that bastard to make a move, it took a little longer than I expected, but in the end it’s still the same mission,” Legion said as the weapon in his hand began to change.

At that moment, all of Alec’s golems turned toward him.

“Master, can we go wild?” Titan asked, he was usually the one who spoke the least unless he was arguing with Legion, so the fact that he was the one to ask this time made Alec pause for a minute to think.

Though Titan’s face remained expressionless, Alec could tell that beneath that calm exterior was a golem on the verge of exploding.

It was then Alec realized that maybe his golems truly hadn’t liked the way the Brood Lord had addressed him, even the ones who stayed quiet seemed to have their own way of venting that anger, just like Titan.

“Well, why not? But one of you has to stay by the city gate, ready to pick us up the moment something goes wrong,” Alec said with a smile.

He too had started wondering what it would feel like to truly go all out without having to act restrained and proper while watching over others, his group wasn’t here now, so he intended to do exactly that.

“I can do that master, my children will join you on the battlefield anyway, so I can still help from here,” the Hive Queen said, as they all nodded.

By now, the Zergs had finally reached the city walls after being lead by those in the Tier 6 realm and were climbing up with ease.

This time the arrows of the Amazon archers were no longer enough to kill them in a single shot like before, because this new wave was not only stronger and faster, but their bodies were far tougher as well.

“Ice Golems Emerge,” Titan said as he walked toward the gap in the city wall that one of the Tier 6 Zergs had broken through after slaughtering the barbarian warriors stationed there, his every step causing frost to spread as ice runes started to light up beneath him.