Chapter 9: I Use Rock as Well!
Seeing that the dent appears to change compared to what he remembered, Azrael's face immediately beamed with a hopeful smile as his grip on his sword becomes even firmer, his heart racing quite a bit not from the pressure of facing against this humongous golem but rather due to the fact that once again, he starts seeing a light at the end of the dark tunnel that is being stuck in the Ethereal Tower's first floor just one day short of a decade.
'It shouldn't be the tower toying with me again, isn't it?' as he once again observes the dent on what is supposed to be the face of the humanoid golem, the young man thought to himself, quite paranoid after all the things he had experienced all this years, yet despite all the worry, he still decided to take a risk since the worst thing that could happen to him is being beaten to a complete pulp and experiencing hellish pain.
In comparison to that, this meager chance of breaking through this rut that plagued him for almost ten years is an opportunity that he just couldn't pass up on, after all, despite already getting used to the calm and peaceful atmosphere of the first floor, he still has his own desire of ascending higher floors of the tower.
"Let's risk it, nothing ventured nothing gained" he mutters to himself as he looks up, his eyes focused on the golem's head, intending to reach it in one swift motion as he bent his knees and tighten his lower body, preparing to explode in force and jump to cross the meters of gap between him and the golem's head, this plan seemingly about to go awry as his opponent already figured out where he is hiding right now.
Seeing a large stone palm heading towards his direction, Azrael immediately change his stance as he relaxed all of a sudden, knowing that the moment this golem figured out his location, he wouldn't be able to cross that distance in a single jump, hence he starts going for the second-best chance, to move as agile as he can going upwards by running around the golem's body.
A good thing for him as it is something that he's already used to given how much opportunity he has to fight against this creature, his reaction to the hand clearly aiming to squash him calm as he swiftly moves away from its path, immediately leaping up as it passes beyond his previously location, his feet landing perfectly on the golem's forearms.
Meanwhile, feeling like it hadn't captured the little creature hiding underneath it, the golem pulled its arm back as it knew that the little creature shouldn't be going away, both its arms now prepared to launch another attack the moment it managed to find out the location of its opponent once again.