Roaring Heroes Battle the Overlord (Ainz)

With the formidable duo EeDeChi and Barrett assisting in combat, the gnoll offensive crumbled like snow under the scorching sun, disintegrating instantly. Knights and militiamen harvested the fleeing gnolls, leaving the snowy ground littered with dirty footprints, broken weapons, severed limbs, and patches of blood-stained earth.

EeDeChi, shouldering her war hammer, felt no urge to pursue the retreating enemy. A gentle breeze, carrying the scent of blood, fluttered her brilliant golden hair. Just as EeDeChi was about to pull down her scarf for a breath of fresh air, a knight on a brown horse approached her.

The knight's face was gaunt and aged, but his figure remained robust under his silver full-body armor. He removed his helmet and introduced himself with a smile: "Warrior, we owe this battle's success to you and your companion's valiant efforts. I am the local lord—Martin Smith. May I ask where you hail from?"

EeDeChi was about to respond but suddenly thought better of revealing her accent, so she turned away, ignoring him.

Lord Martin's smile froze for half a minute, an awkward expression settling in, but EeDeChi still didn't answer, maintaining a proud demeanor.

Another knight, his armor covered in sword marks and carrying three gnoll heads still dripping with blood, rode up and circled EeDeChi twice. Clearly displeased with her attitude, he barked loudly: "HOW RUDE! You are in the presence of a viscount personally titled by the king and the lord of Greenbriarshire—Martin Smith. Answer the lord's question at once!"

Martin gestured with his hand, indicating that there was no need to trouble EeDeChi. Yet the knight persisted. Just as he was about to speak again, a thunderous sound of footsteps shook the ground, drawing everyone's eyes toward the forest.

"WHOOSH!"

A tree trunk flew out from the dense woods like an oversized wooden spear, smashing through both a gnoll and a militiaman in its path.

With their chief and shaman slain, the remaining gnolls scattered into the forest. The knights and militiamen looked anxiously in the direction from which the "wooden spear" had come, wondering what could possibly have the strength to snap a large pine tree and hurl it like a spear.

Crackling sounds filled the air as countless branches snapped, and snow cascaded down. A massive stone golem, as tall as the trees in the forest, broke through the branches, advancing toward the people on the battlefield.

This stone golem resembled a walking sculpture of an ancient warrior, with lifelike armor engravings on its body. It appeared as if it had just awakened from the earth, its squarely carved face smeared with mud, and its stone feet clad in withered moss.

The joints of the stone golem retained the texture of rock but moved like living flesh and blood, a testament to the power of magic. Its huge eyes, devoid of pupils, "looked" towards the soldiers on the battlefield.

The militiamen trembled in fear, for the golem seemed to them like a statue of a holy warrior come to life from within a temple. A few bold mounted archers drew their enchanted longbows and fired several arrows at the golem, but the arrows simply bounced off with ease.

At the golem's feet, a man in a red robe was running. He was not particularly short, but he only came up to the golem's knees. He looked up and sprayed a series of fireballs, but they merely splattered against the golem like raindrops, disappearing without a trace.

The golem noticed the man and lifted its foot to step on him like one would crush an ant. Contrary to everyone's expectations, its movements were not clumsy at all.

The man in the red robe awkwardly rolled away, narrowly escaping a gruesome end. The golem's foot missed, but it swiftly kicked out with its right foot, scraping the man in the red robe, who was sent flying backward through the air.

The massive stone golem leaned forward slightly, its rocky fist hammering down towards the fallen man in red.

Just as it seemed the red-robed man was doomed, a silver-haired girl burst out from the forest. She cast a spell akin to "Telekinesis," dragging away the limp body of the man in the red robe before scooping him up and sprinting away.

The silver-haired girl called out to the knights on the battlefield, "Hurry to the Mage Tower and find a high-ranking mage! This Constructs creature is beyond our capability to handle!"

Constructs, akin to robots but driven not by electricity or gasoline but by magic, vary greatly depending on the material they are cast from—be it clay, iron, stone, or flesh. As unstoppable behemoths, golems exist solely to obey their master's will, whether to guard or to attack.

The master of this stone golem had long since perished, his whereabouts unknown at the time of his death, leaving the golem to act merely on an instinct to "expel outsiders."

The terrified knights and militiamen had already scattered in all directions. The golem moved its massive, sky-high legs at a steady pace. Its gait was not agile, but because of its long strides, it was faster than the cavalry.

In an instant, the golem crushed a militiaman who was too close, with a bone-shattering sound under its stone feet, reminiscent of a crushed biscuit.

"Lord, we must leave this place," urged the knight who had earlier rebuked EeDeChi, turning his horse around. He discarded the gnoll's head he was carrying, his voice full of terror, "It can easily catch up with us at its speed."

Martin also advised EeDeChi, "Warrior, hurry and leave. I've heard that only a dwarven-forged mithril mattock can scratch the stone golem Constructs, ordinary weapons and magic are useless against it."

EeDeChi remained silent and walked towards the golem. She knew she had to deal with this giant; otherwise, the slower-running militiamen on the scene would be trampled to death by the golem—at least half of them. Not to mention the uncontrolled golem, which would soon cause destruction and loss of life in nearby villages.

Despite the risk of exposing her identity, only she could handle this stone titan now. She had to step in.

The "golden hair" adventurer weighed her war hammer in her hand. Even though the hammer was forged with adamantite, it was just an ordinary hammer.

She swung her arm in a full circle and hurled the hammer. It flew at high speed, friction with the air creating dazzling sparks, like a meteor shot straight from the earth, smashing the golem's head.

Stone fragments fell like rain, but the headless golem did not fall. The head seemed to be merely decorative, and losing it did not affect the golem at all. It charged towards EeDeChi with its legs.

EeDeChi, with a sigh, pulled her giant sword from her spatial ring and leapt to the same height as the headless golem. She brought the giant sword down with force. Despite this strike, the golem's surface only showed a few cracks. It swung its hand up to grab EeDeChi in mid-air.

"So tough!"

EeDeChi inwardly marveled at the stone golem's sturdiness as she stepped on its fingers to leap up, slashing at its torso with five swift strikes of her sword. The once invincible stone golem finally shattered and crashed to the ground, breaking apart like delicate porcelain into a heap of rubble.

Lord Martin Smith rode up to her, his admiration genuine as he exclaimed, "Warrior, you are as mighty as the legendary war god, Aucisius!"

EeDeChi did not respond to his praise. Instead, her attention was caught by a dark gold skeleton of a transparent box amid the ruins of the fallen golem.

She picked up the cylindrical box, slightly larger than her palm, framed with dark gold metal and segmented inside by crystal panels into five compartments.

Three compartments were empty, but in the others, one held a small metal figure. The figure was encased in a sleek, full-body armor with sharp, defined edges. In another compartment lay a stone statue, its face identical to that of the formidable stone golem she had just defeated.

EeDeChi cast a 5th Tier Magic: Artifact Appraisal. A string of characters appeared before her eyes:

[Item Name: Constructs Storage ]

[Box Material: Unknown]

[Quality: Divine Artifact]

[Function One: Stores Constructs.]

[Currently stored: 2/5 – iron golem "Savior Titan", stone golem "Guardian Smile".]

[Note: You could think of this as a model robot storage box or a figurine case. Except, the figurines in this box possess simple autonomous wills, can enlarge, and can kill. A massive killing machine now portable! Absolutely essential for home and travel. ]

[Function Two: Seize Constructs Note: Can forcibly store others' Constructs and alter the Constructs' command wills. The holder of the box becomes the new master of the Constructs. In simple terms, it can take the Constructs others have painstakingly created and use them for oneself. For unethical reasons, we highly recommend doing this. ]

[Congratulations! Since you have slain the guardian of an unclaimed object, now, the two golems, along with the storage box, are yours.]

EeDeChi's eyes lit up, realizing she had indeed stumbled upon a treasure. She examined the Constructs Storage Box carefully. At the dark gold base of the box, she discovered an inscription in the common tongue:

"Imperial Year 1339, the Great Expedition began.

"I followed eight emperors, with no chance to turn back. Elsa, I leave this small toy for our child yet to be born.

"Goodbye, my love, do not wait for my return."