Tyrants of Earth - The Legend of Artigan

- You know what the problem is? The Witch Bitch probably had a hundred mental mindsplits watching the internet at all times. But I bet we could just overwhelm it with technology. @[DELETED]

*Two cloud servers were taken down due to cooling issues. One server in Russia had its buildings collapsed. The Witch Tyrant denies any wrongdoing.

“Please don't use our servers to host botnets that make disparaging comments about the Witch Tyrant.”

-CEO of Realmsoft.

One could argue that Ryan should have gone back and searched the reliquary for more hints and details on what could have lain ahead. He would argue differently. The golems and the guardians were the hint. A guardian that got more dangerous the more time he wasted on the dungeon? That was all the hint he needed to move his ass.

Also, he really didn’t want to go snooping around a chamber with Kingsley’s guts lying everywhere.

His argument proved valid as he appeared in the middle of an enormous summoning circle. A completely flat surface with complex runes etched into the ground. Outside of the circle was a complete warzone. Small stone golems swarmed against a medieval army of humans.

Ryan couldn’t hear anything outside of the summoning circle. He’d bet anything that there was a barrier at the edges.

The diameter of the spell circle had to be half a mile long. Two purple crystals floated at opposite ends inside the circle. Both of them were about the size of his torso and slightly levitated from the ground.

Lights would periodically coalesce in a random part of the circle and summon a stone golem. Each golem came up to Ryan’s stomach and would run out of the circle and into the war.

The newest summoned golem turned away from its initial direction and towards something else instead.

A human soldier barreled his way forward, throwing off all the stone golems in his way, he cut a path straight to the summoning circle. They used skills and swung their polearm in a blurring frenzy. The soldier leaped from fifty feet away, high into the air—and swung into the barrier with all his might.

There wasn’t even a mark on the summoning circle’s barrier.

The soldier’s eyes met Ryan’s. He slammed his fists against the magical barrier and pointed at the crystals. The meaning clear.

The newly summoned stone golem jumped onto the soldier’s back. He turned to grab it—only to find another golem tackling him from the side. The soldier managed to fling off the one on his back only to be swarmed by every golem around him. The man went down under a mass of golems as they pummeled him into the ground. The Trial was making it clear. These were no dirt golems he could just ignore.