Swords & Sorcery: My Adventurer's Guide
Chapter 407

The gate of mist

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No words were needed. Faced with three advancing adamantine Golems, Renato and Klauthsura acted in perfect unison: they turned and ran!

Neither had any intention of fighting. Instead, they sprinted toward the direction Klauthsura had pinpointed earlier.

The more of these massive Constructs built exclusively for combat there were, the more difficult they became to deal with-often exponentially so.

Even a single adamantine Golem had forced the two of them to exhaust every trick they had just to barely defeat it.

Against the simultaneous assault of three massive Constructs capable of repairing themselves, he and Klauthsura had no chance whatsoever.

Such were the guardians of a Legendary Mage's tower. Even after the Demon Lord's power had left it rotten and decaying, and a thousand years had worn away most of its magical mechanisms and traps, four powerful adamantine Golems still guarded the area outside its core.

How powerful had Pure White been at his peak? And what incredible might did the Demon Lord, who far surpassed even a Legendary Mage, possess?

These idle thoughts flashed through Renato's mind as he ran, and a sharp rush of air sounded behind him. More than a dozen Fire Arrows shot from the firing ports on the central Golem's shoulders, streaking toward their backs with searing orange-red trails.

Klauthsura glanced back as she ran, psionic light instantly flaring in her eyes. An invisible Wall of Force formed precisely behind the Swordsman, stopping the entire barrage of Fire Arrows at its transparent surface.

But a moment later, another adamantine Golem finished charging. The armor plating on its chest opened, and a pale green magical crystal blazed with dazzling light. A thick Disintegrate ray shot toward them with speed and power far beyond the earlier attack.

The green beam struck the Wall of Force Klauthsura had

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