The Lady's Butler: I Reincarnated To Serve The Villainess

Renelle and Adrian appeared outside the dungeon, beneath the lake and the next second, a crumbling sound was heard behind them.

The duo turned around to see that the door that led to the dungeon had completely crumbled.

But, the next second, the crumbled rocks started trembling before they started stacking themselves and soon enough, they took shape.

Renelle’s eyes twitched as she watched the creature formed before her.

ROAR!!!

Before the two was a monster made completely of rocks, one that Adrian immediately recognized,

A golem.

It had golden glowing orbs for eyes, and similar glowing texts on its body, at its center was what seemed to be a core.

The golem looked at their wrists, spotted the bracelets and then let out another roar that caused the ground beneath them to tremble.

Without warning, it launched itself towards the two and slammed its fists where they stood.

BOOM!

The ground shook as the golem’s rocky fist landed on it, but when it removed them, the targets were gone.

"Isn’t the guardian supposed to appear before we enter the dungeon?" Adrian said with a frown, "not after."

He and Renelle were now standing in the complete opposite direction of the golem’s attack.

"Clearly, this one didn’t get the memo," Renelle replied coldly.

The golem slowly turned towards them and Adrian finally noticed its gaze towards the bracelets.

"It’s not guarding the entrance," he said, his gaze moving to the bracelets on their wrists, "it wants these."

Curious, he allowed more mana to flow into his glasses and that’s when he noticed that the same mana that connected the two bracelets was the same coming from the golem’s core.

"So that’s it," he muttered before turning to Renelle, "that’s what remains of the core that these were made from."

"I see," She muttered, looking at her bracelet, "so the dungeon was being powered by the same core that these artefacts were made from and now that the dungeon is no more, the core is trying to recover its other pieces."

"Precisely," he nodded.

But for the core to be powerful enough to affect its environment to this level, to the point of morphing the rocks into a makeshift body, meant that it was at least as powerful as a dragon’s core.

Which wouldn’t be a surprise for someone like the founder to own.

He once stood at the pinnacle of this world, probably still does from what Adrian and Renelle had just seen of the trial, so gaining a core with mana comparable to a dragon’s would be light work for someone like him.

ROARR!!!

The golem roared, probably annoyed at the fact that they were ignoring it, before it moved again, a lot faster than it bulky size should’ve allowed.

But this time, instead of teleporting away, Renelle suddenly moved her hand and a massive wall of ice erupted from the ground, colliding with the golem mid-charge.

BOOM!

The golem slammed into the ice wall and stumbled, an action that shook the ground they stood on.

But it soon regained its balance and let out a roar in anger, its core and eyes glowed even brighter in response.

It pulled its fist back, about to slam it into the ice wall, but just before it could reach the wall, a dark object suddenly pierced through the ice wall, aiming directly for the golem’s fist.

As if an illusion, the object harmlessly went through the golem...or at least that’s what it seemed like.

BOOM!

The golem’s fist slammed into the ice wall, and it seemed like it was about to breakthrough, but the next second.

CRACK!

No, that was not the sound of the ice wall breaking, instead, the golem’s arm was now frozen solid and multiple cracks were forming on it.

"So that’s how it works," Adrian muttered as he looked at the golem’s arm crumble, "interesting."

Apparently, the bracelets acted as more than emotion transmitters, feeling the mana flowing within was enough to tell the two that.

It also allowed one wearer to add a trait of the other wearers element to theirs, allowing Adrian to add freezing properties to a shadow spike which was the cause of the golem’s frozen arm.

"Is that so?" Renelle said as the watched the golem angrily recover and finally shattered the ice wall with its other fist.

"Then let’s see if this works," she opened her palm as ice mana started gathering within it.

The air around turned cold and an ice spear was formed, but unlike her previous ice constructs, this one had a swirling mass of darkness within.

Looking at the golem, she pulled the spear back before hurling it with so much force that there was a slight distortion in the air.

The golem was about to lift it remaining hand to block the incoming spear when its very own shadow morphed into a chain and wrapped around the arm, pulling it down.

It struggled to break free, but it was all for naught, as the next second,

BOOM!

The spear collided with its head, sinking cleanly into the rock, but that was far from the end.

The black swirling mass of darkness within the spear was released and it formed a cocoon around the entire body, as if it was some sort of coffin.

The golem struggle within, but try as it might, there was no escaping the dark, icy prison that was wrapped around it.

Renelle then lifted her hand towards the golem and then clenched it into a fist, causing spikes of dark ice to pierce through the golem’s entire body.

The golem’s struggling suddenly stopped and after a few seconds, Renelle released the dark icy prison that held it.

Its massive frame collapsed, breaking apart into lifeless rubble that scattered across the ground.

She lowered her hand slowly, before muttering, "that was easier than expected."

"Hmm," Adrian nodded in agreement, "it seems the artefacts are a lot more interesting than I initially thought."