Lord Of Puppets

(B-rank...) – thought worried Porai as the rampaging fight went on.

(I mean, I knew that there was a possibility, but it is still too early!)

(True, this guy can put up a proper fight against C-rank adventurers.)

(But it ain’t perfect. He cannot just send one boss golem and think that is done with.)

(True, Thauma did upgraded and created far more powerful golem variants.)

(But there is fucking difference between C, C+ and B!)

(It takes time for the adventurer to reach B rank... For some even decades.)

(Thauma can cheat because of his existence allowing him to not only work 24 hours a day, and he can also swap around his body, making it far more suitable to training compare to any human.)

(Heck, he could make even a body that will help him out in learning some skills bit better.)

(But there is limit to it all.)

Birth skills are the skills that are physically part of the being’s body.

They either obtain them by evolving or possessing them at birth.

As for the learned skills, the skills you can obtain by manifesting their power, there are many different ways they can grow.

And what sort of form they will take.

Some skills will evolve – Just taking on a stronger appearance, a molding process per say.

While some skills will create a branching skills, a skills that are offsprings of the specific skill that either enchants specific power of a skill, allows the main skill to easily take on specific form.

However, there is also a chance to create a brand-new skill with the help of specific skill.

(Skills does makes ones strong, but they don’t make anybody into "somebody".) – thought Porai

(You need to have your own set abilities and what not.)

(Thauma has potential, but he is still NOT READY TO FIGHT PERSONALY THE B-RANK ADVENTURER!)

(He may have gotten stronger and far more advance, but his growth isn’t instant! He needs more time! And right now? The current him wouldn’t be able to win against B-rank if it comes to 1 vs 1 situation... He will get destroyed.)

(Still, his dungeon does have a lot of strong and annoying monsters... So there is still a chance.)

(B-rank isn’t some kind of god or anything, he still have his limits and there is no way he is perfect in everything.)

(He can die. This army of golems can kill him.)

"..."

(But something is still not right.)

(The enemy should have somewhat good understanding of the enemy strength.)

(And this ain’t no suicidal force that is meant to gather information about the enemy.)

(So far the invaders didn’t really lost anybody and beside the guy with the big axe, there is a lot of strong bastards.)

(But they should be wary or at least scared after the bomb attack!)

(Hell! I KNOW THAT ONCE THEY REACH THE PROPER RANGE TO FORCE THE CLOSE-UP RANGE, MANY GOLEMS WILL DIE!)

(But at the rate things are going, the enemy will also suffer some heavy casualties!)

(So what the hell are they planning?!)

The invaders weren’t letting up.

Even as the hound golems threw their own bodies at them.

Even when the ballistae and crossbow golems were firing once again.

The enemies weren’t giving up as they moved forward, pushing away or destroying the hound golems that got in their way.

Even when they started getting wounded, they were pushing forward.

However, a second volley of explosives came flying in, but this time the older brother reacted in time alongside the two hooded figures unleashed their magic.

[Water Magic: Water Wall]

[Thunder Magic: Thunder Shock]

The wall of water caught the explosive projectiles while the thunder wielding users detonated the explosives with their attacks, getting rid of the bombs before they could reach the group.

However, the two other groups didn’t perfectly countered the bombs like the third group, resulting in them suffering noticeable amount of damage.

"Shit! Boss this ain’t good!" – shouted Den as he used his water magic to push away several hound golems and making the golems soaked, allowing the two thunder mages to unleash their electricity that struck every single one of the soaked golems, dealing critical damage to them.

"These bastards are far more durable than we had expected! They must had gotten way more upgraded that the info said!" – said the older brother as he was given no time to rest as more hound golems ran at him, forcing the mage to unleashed a powerful dragon like breath of fire which hit the beast golems charging at him.... But they didn’t cared about their damage as they ran through the flames and leaped right at the mage.

(FUCK!) – thought older brother as he was about to get bitten by one of the hounds.

However, just in the last moment, the massive long bladed axe came in and smashed each of the hound golems, launching them away from the man.

"..."

(He isn’t wrong.) – thought Gerald.

(The situation is far worse than we had predicted.)

(At the rate things are going, we will be falling one by one... And who knows how many people will be able to reach the dungeon?) – thought Gerald as the boss monster he was fighting was destroyed... But there was still one more which his comrade of his group was dealing with.

"..."

"Unleash the demons." – said Gerald.

"!?"

"Wait, you sure about that?!" – asked Den.

"Do not fucking argue. Unless you have better fucking idea!" – said Gerald as he held back the damaged hound golems, before then knocking them back and running straight towards the second boss monster his group was dealing with.

"..."

"Tch!"

[Fire Magic: Firework]

The man unleashed a sphere of fire into the air which made a whistle like noise, before the exploding and unleashing a somewhat small spectacle of sparkles.

"!"

"THEY ARE DOING SOMEMTHING!" – shouted Porai, warning Thauma about the enemy’s next move.

[Wind Magic: Wind Launch]

The wind user of each of the group took out a weird crystal shards with had a mix of black, purple and red colors, before then using the wind magic to form a barrel that launched the shard towards the golems, reaching the frontlines.

"!?"

(WAIT! THESE ARE-)

Porai recognized what these crystal shards were, but she wasn’t able to give a warning in time as the shards shattered, and transformed into a massive volume of black smoke which was moving violently and spinning around in place.

"THAUMA! ORDER YOUR GOLEMS TO BACK AWAY NOW!" - shouted Porai in desperation.

"You hear me!? ORDER THEM BACK!" – shouted Porai as the black smoke started disappearing and revealing something... Weird per say.

A tall long-limbed creature with seemingly bare-naked body was standing right between the golems as it towered over them with its sheer size, easily standing out and getting instantly spotted by both Thauma... And terrified Porai.

However, that creature wasn’t some kind of naked humanoid.

No.

Its waisted and head were covered in thick fur, while its arms and legs were not only also covered in fur, but were extremely massive to the point they were as large as the creature’s whole torsos.

Not only that, but each of the massive limbs were equipped with several claws; to be specific, every feet and hand was equipped with 10 claws each.

"GGGGGGGGGGG!" – the creature opened up its head vertically, revealing a massive jaw filled with countless sharklike teeth that was hidden beneath the fur alongside an extremely long tong that looked like a snake.

(THE HELL ARE THOSE?!) – thought confused Thauma as from each one of these crystals, the same monster appeared and began making a scream like noise which resembled somewhat a sound of an elephant trumpet like noise.... Before then without warning starting to swing around their arms, smashing the golems around them.

"THEY ARE DEMONS!" – shouted Porai as she ordered her flying golem to retreat.

"These bastards fucking summoned demons to their side!" - shouted Porai.

(And they are fucking Limoses no less!) – thought alarmed Porai.

"Tch! Fuck it!" – said Porai as she put away her headgear device into her briefcase.

"Sorry Thauma, but change of plans. I’m heading to the frontlines! At the rate things are going, things will be fucked!" – said Porai as she began running before Thauma could say anything.

"Take care of my equipped!"

(Limos.) – thought Porai as she ran at full speed, using her liquid metal to cover her feet and boost her already incredible speed, allowing Porai to quickie cover a noticeable amount of distance.

[Metal Magic X Enchantment: Booster Armor]

(I know about these bastards.)

(I’ve encountered them once before.)

(A demonic beast.)

(A savage creature of hunger and hunt.)

(They are known as the scavengers of the hell that devour anything they can find, be it rotting flesh... Or a living flesh.)

(They are demonic beasts of gluttony.)

(BUT HOW?!)

(How the hell they have these freaking berserker demonic beasts on their side?!)

(Especially Limoses too! These are bloody berserkers!)

(For crying out loud! Why the fuck everything is getting so fucked?!)

"..."

(Good. The demons should give them enough trouble for us to get rid of these fuckers and move forward.) – thought Gerald as he cut in half one of the metallic hound golems as if he just cut down a piece of lumber.

"MOVE FORWARD!" – shouted Gerald.

(Honestly speaking I didn’t wanted to use the demons now... But by the looks of things, we really had no choice, if we wanted to be smart about it.) – thought Gerald as he noticed several different looking hound golems running at him.

"!"

(These ones are different!) – thought Gerald.... But he didn’t cared about the appearance as he swung around his axe, cutting top shreds the golems.

"?"

(Wait, why it was much easier-)

Gerald instantly realized that something was wrong... But it was too late.

Those were the bomb hound golems.

And right after he down his foes, they in return unleashed explosions that swallowed the man instantly right on the spot.

"!?"

"LEADER!" – shouted Den.