Before Wens could think further, all four golems turned to look at his location and then launched their attacks.
The golem with the hard shell was the first to charge forward. Wens intended to smash it directly, but he discovered that the golem was doing everything it could to enhance its defense, both in terms of materials and the circuitry attached to its surface.
My strike to its abdomen caused some damage and severed some circuits, but it wasn't a serious injury to the golem as a whole.
Moreover, he quickly discovered that the golem had been designed with a lot of redundancy in its Psionic Energy Circuit, so even if he cut a large gash in its ribs, it could still fight as long as it wasn't split in two.
After knocking him away, the ranged attacks from the other two golems immediately followed, clearly indicating that they had anticipated his actions.
If Wens knocks the former away, he will be hit in the face by the latter's beam; if he doesn't knock it away, then consider it a remote charging.
Wens managed to withstand the combined attack of two golems and dodge the pounce of a fourth golem before he was able to catch his breath.
He clenched his teeth, feeling that today was truly an unlucky day.
If you're at your peak, then facing these golems is certainly no problem.
He had just been hit by a self-destruct attack and hadn't even fully recovered his health when he encountered an enemy he had never seen before.
What bad luck!
Thinking this, Wens flew backward, only to crash into a solid wall.
When Wens looked up, he saw that a fifth alchemical golem had appeared behind him. The golem's breastplate and back seemed to have been specially modified, making it look like a shield that had come to life.
The next moment, the shield flashed with light, and countless metal spikes shot out instantly, piercing through Wens ' body.
The "puff puff puff" sounds continued, and Wens realized something was wrong.
These spikes are hollow. After they pierce into him, a pre-programmed Psionic Energy Circuit immediately starts operating, using these hollow spikes as needles to begin drawing blood from his body!
I'm a vampire myself!
He's being sucked blood!
Enraged, Wens unleashed his strength, shoving aside the enemy behind him and finally landing back in the Blood Pool on the ground.
With an almost endless supply of blood replenishing him, Wens looked up at the sky and discovered that new alchemical golems were being drawn.
This is... the sixth one!
How much is left?
Wens felt a little flustered, but the flustered he became, the faster he thought.
In a flash, Wens had grasped the problem, as if seeing a ray of light in the darkness. Wens suddenly realized that he wasn't without a chance of winning—
These alchemical golems are not powerful in themselves. Even with the selection of materials and enchantments, they do not reach the High Tier standard; at most, they are only relatively strong Middle Tier.
But where does this golem's power come from, allowing it to coordinate so precisely and even inflict significant damage on itself?
Recalling the battle just now, Wens noticed the key to the problem:
First, these golems cannot break through their defenses with every attack; rather, their strength fluctuates constantly.
Secondly, while the coordination of those alchemical golems appears ingenious, they rarely attack together. Most of the time, they take turns releasing skills, and even when they do attack together, they use the same attack methods to simply stack firepower.
What does this tell us?
There is only one possibility: these alchemical golems are not actually fighting automatically, but are being controlled by someone behind the scenes.
Furthermore, the manipulator behind it can only precisely control one golem at a time, at most two, but the actions must be similar.
Only the manipulated golems can unleash attacks powerful enough to break through Wens ' defenses; meanwhile, the golems that are fighting automatically can be temporarily ignored.
Having figured this out, Wens's lips curled into a maniacal smile.
I don't know where this young man came from, but he actually wanted to use me as a practice subject.
Since they are so reckless and ignorant, they should be prepared to pay the price.
"Bring it on!"
With a low shout, Wens launched the first attack before the seventh alchemical golem could be drawn.
Meanwhile, in Valhalla, Shattered Castle.
Ed's newly formed body was sitting in the corner of Willow's room, watching the lich show off his skills in front of him.
The newly High Tier lich lady was so busy that she didn't even have time to greet Ed.
Fortunately, Ed had a habit of bringing his own wooden chair wherever he went, and with just a wave of his hand, vines stretched out from the cracks in the stone bricks and began to weave and outline beneath him.
At this moment, Willow is both like a high-level hacker in a classic sci-fi movie who types away until sparks fly, and also like an ultimate puppeteer who has seven or eight accounts simultaneously matched up to fight, frantically switching between them.
Pale blue Psionic Energy flowed through her eyes like a stream of data, and Ed couldn't bring himself to interrupt her detached state of flow.
In short, Willow is now in Overload mode; this is the first time Ed has seen a lich so dedicated to something.
But when he thought about his opponent being Wens, he felt relieved and simply began to watch the game silently from the sidelines.
On the battlefield, Wens's strength was somewhat beyond Willow's imagination.
Even before she reached the High Tier, she was already training in tactics of taking turns manipulating alchemical golems to launch combined attacks.
After advancing to High Tier, she was certain that her mental abilities had been greatly enhanced, and she also quickly fixed many bugs in the alchemical golem.
Therefore, defeating Wens doesn't seem too difficult.
However, when they actually fought, Willow realized just how powerful this vampire duke, who had lived for nearly ten thousand years, truly was.
Even though he had never seen this new type of alchemical golem before, Wens quickly deconstructed its logic based on his experience.
At the same time, he tested Willow's ability to control the alchemical golem's full-force attack by observing the bottomless Blood Pool of blood he was soaking in.
Once Wens ' half-body rose again from the Blood Pool, the tide of battle quickly turned.
Confirming that his opponent couldn't kill him quickly, Wens switched from defense to offense, gradually suppressing the swarm of alchemical golems.
Even though two of his three dukes were dead and the last one was still quite far away, it did not stop him from fighting to his heart's content among the golems.
He even showed an expression of enjoyment; the balance of the battle was steadily shifting.
Willow has now deployed all ten of her alchemical golems. These golems are not the same; each has its own area of expertise, much like the Mark Series that Ed saw in the movies in another world.