Lord of Myths: I Can Summon and Fuse Divine Powers.-Chapter 40: Stone Guardians in the Abandoned churChapter

The stone of the statues creaked slightly, as they came to life by magic.

Anansi reacted immediately, putting her hand in her pocket while pulling out a wooden staff.

It was an artifact she herself had created, with a quintuple spiritual core inside it.

Spiritual cores are crystallized spirits created to power magical artifacts.

That staff had a multiple spiritual core: fire, lightning, ice, water and light.

So it allowed performing spirit magic of those same elements.

Then, the woman’s pupils changed, now her pupils were green, and had the shape of a cross with a semicircle.

It was a mystic eye that allowed seeing the weaknesses of the targets.

Anansi saw how each statue had risen, and now stared at her.

They were armed with swords, axes, spears and stone maces.

Anansi didn’t hesitate, the first statues ran toward her, with their weapons in hand.

The tip of the staff glowed at that same moment, releasing a current of electrical spirits; lightning.

The lightning shot out against the first statue at an unsurpassable speed, striking the Golem head-on.

Upon doing so, the statue exploded into a thousand pieces, leaving a fragment of its core to fall to the ground.

That didn’t stop the statues, who at great speed had already gotten close to Anansi, raising their weapons against her.

The witch hesitated, there was no fear in her eyes, only cold and calculating determination.

With a small tap of her staff on the ground, a great wall of frost rose, trapping the golems in mid-attack.

The woman continued with her attack, blocking the ice block that had formed with the tip of the staff and releasing heat through its tip. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

A great burst of fire and steam occurred, pushing the golems backward and breaking them into a thousand pieces.

"Is that all? I’m surprised the church’s defense is so shabby," the woman said.

Perhaps the only reason the barrier was so powerful was because of the nature of the Devastra of whoever created it.

And apart from that, the rest of the defenses weren’t that important.

However, those words seemed to affect the golems, whose eyes glowed with an intense blue.

Then, lines on their bodies of the same color began to glow, running through their bodies.

Suddenly, the golems’ speed multiplied, in an instant one of them had already arrived in front of Anansi, and was bringing down its stone greatsword against her.

The woman acted with reflexes that didn’t seem like those of a mage, but those of a warrior.

The stone sword struck the ground, without grazing the witch, who with a gesture struck the golem with the staff.

Upon coming into contact with the stone that made up the statue’s body, it turned red-hot, until finally melting completely.

More statues arrived, launching attacks at the witch, who danced elegantly between each attack, while counterattacking with a staff blow which melted the golems.

In a dance of rock and magma, Anansi finished destroying the last statues.

"Well, I hope there are no more inconveniences from now on," the woman said calmly, as her pupil returned to normal.

The reason the golems had been destroyed so easily was because she struck where their cores were, causing them to burst easily.

Without that, perhaps the statues would have lasted a little longer.

"Huh?"

Then, something caught Anansi’s attention.

The golems’ cores were strange, instead of being a sphere, they were like a fragment of one.

Then, each one began to tremble, as if an invisible force were affecting them.

Then, a blue glow was emanated by each fragment, as sparks began to emerge from them.

"So it’s not over yet," the witch complained, as she watched how each core began to come together into a larger core in the air.

Anansi didn’t hesitate for a second, she wasn’t stupid enough to wait for whatever was happening to finish.

The woman pointed at the sphere that was forming with her staff, and from it emerged a golden radiance.

A beam of light emerged from the staff, going at great speed against the half-formed core.

However, upon impact, the blue energy around it absorbed the beam, nullifying it.

"Huh? How strange," the woman said surprised seeing that.

As she watched, more fragments began to gather into a single sphere which was beginning to spin.

The woman raised her staff, above it a water sphere of great volume began to form.

The water sphere immediately divided into multiple pressurized water jets that shot out to hit the core from multiple angles.

However, again, the blue energy absorbed the attack, while glowing with more intensity.

The witch looked at that strangely. Something was happening.

Unable to avoid it, the core finished forming, into a single stone sphere with multiple engravings on it, formed by pieces similar to mandarin segments.

Her pupil changed, now it looked like an abyss of black ink, contaminated by a golden liquid, which moved as if it had a life of its own.

That eye allowed her to see reality as if it were a book, interpret the images as if they were words.

That’s when she realized her mistake.

That blue energy was capable of absorbing spiritual energy, but it also analyzed it.

Therefore, each attack Anansi had made beforehand had only served to program and empower a larger enemy.

Now it was too late.

The core began to absorb all the matter around it.

The benches rose and shot toward the core, as did the walls, the remains of the golems, and even fragments of the floor.

Anansi knew that if she attacked now she would only strengthen the Golem that was forming.

So the only solution was to wait for the Golem to be built.

The air was also being absorbed, causing Anansi’s lilac hair to dance with the wind.

Then, when the golem’s complete core absorbed enough raw material, it stopped spinning.

And at that instant, it released a great shockwave of blue light.