Chapter 85: 85: Fighting the Golems
They followed Jin\'s plan, and they isolated the golems from each other and scattered them on the battlefield. It was their only way to reduce the strength of the gravity field.
Yes, gravity increases drastically when the golems are near each other and weakened when they are far apart from each other. This result surprised them and they only discovered it when they led each golem away to their kind.
Now, it was her and Johan versus one golem. Then Dunn engaged against one. She didn\'t worry about Dunn because she knew how flexible and smart he was. Then there\'s also Jin who took one golem like Fushigiro. And lastly, Tamasai, who holding two golems on his own.
Thinking of this, Rina began to focus on their opponent. She knew that she couldn\'t afford to give her attention elsewhere. After all, they were fighting a golem that could affect gravity and regenerate at an inhuman rate. Not only that, just one punch on the gigantic fist of the golem was enough to bury them and crush all the bones in their bodies into powder. now
Just as Caleb and Rina dashed and took the initiative. They felt an immense pressure act on their bodies. It was as if they were carrying 150 pounds of weight in their bodies. Significantly slowing them down. They also felt it was harder to breathe under such circumstances.
"Conserve your energy." Rina reminded. She felt that she became 30% slower due to the gravity hindering his speed.
Thirty seconds passed, and violet energy had fully integrated into the blade of his Odachi. Seeing the fist coming towards him, he covered his left foot with taboo energy and kicked the ground three times.
Caleb vanished, causing the fist to cause its mark and land on the ground. The ground was like a spiderweb and slabs of broken stones flew in all directions. Caleb, on the other hand, appeared under the crotch of the golem. \'Hmm... So golems don\'t have genders?\'
This is his thought when he suddenly saw the crotch of the golem neared his face. \'Crap!\'
He would get crushed to death. He didn\'t expect the golem to crouch.
"What are you doing right there!?" Rina danced gracefully, slashing the feet of the golem with her smooth, flowing combo.
The sound of metallic collision against the rocky body golems sounded continuously. The problem is, her sword couldn\'t even chip any rocks on its skin, proving the durability of the stone. "Just how tough is this!?"
Caleb had already Deka Stepped his way out of the way. The golem was currently sitting in his previous place. Coincidentally, his eyes met the yellow-toad pupils. He didn\'t know if he was imagining it. It was as if the golem was looking at him with disdain.
\'The fuck?\' Caleb didn\'t know if he should feel insulted. At the current moment, he was more speechless than anything. "What are you looking at? Dumb stupid of a rock head."
The golem didn\'t give a reaction since it couldn\'t understand human language. It stood up and raised its right foot, trying to kick Rina away.
Rina had expected this. She ducked a little and successfully evaded the golem\'s bulky foot. However, another one was coming on her way.
She felt breathless moving dodging with such different gravity making her movements a bit rigid and stiff.
Just like that, the foot of the golem swatted Rina away like a fly. Her body catapulted farther away and hit the tree.
"This is bad, isn\'t it?" Caleb did a squat to gather momentum and generate force from the muscles on his calves, hamstrings, and thighs. Then he also boosted his feet using taboo energy. "Let\'s see, that thing is hiding." Like an arrow released on its bowstring, Caleb leaped four meters high, heading towards the chest of the golem.
When he reached the chest, he thrust his sword. He didn\'t feel a bit of resistance as he impaled the golem\'s chest with his taboo-infused Odachi.
Then Caleb\'s body went to the other until the force and acceleration decreased and his body fell to the ground. He was slammed to the solid ground, causing him to grunt in pain. Fortunately, it was blunt damage. However, the impact wasn\'t enough to break bones in his body. A smirk emerged on his face. When he turned around, he saw the chest on the back of the golem started to mend itself. "This is cheating. Where is the damn core!?"
"Don\'t you have any idea how to locate that? I mean, you\'re intelligent, aren\'t you?"
"I don\'t know. The core can be on the head or in any part of its body. And smart doesn\'t mean knowledgeable. The two are different. People really tend to confuse those two." Caleb sighed.
Intelligence usually pertains to a person\'s ability to recall, comprehend, reason, analyze, and memorize. Knowledgeable, on the other hand, simply means you know a lot of damn things. An intelligent person might not become knowledgeable if he doesn\'t make an effort to study. The opposite is also true, a knowledgeable person who doesn\'t have a high IQ. After all, even stupid people can learn a lot of things if they work hard enough. Albeit, slower than those geniuses.
High IQ just gives one an advantage in speed of learning how far they could advance their knowledge and how in-depth they can reach with it. That doesn\'t make them automatically know things that they didn\'t study.
Caleb felt it was silly to confuse intelligence with being knowledgeable. Just like how stupid it was to confuse intelligence with wisdom.