Blade slammed violently into the ground, where he lay sideways for a long moment, unable to regain his senses as blood pooled beneath him.
The crowd of people waiting in line at the medical center witnessed this scene, and the place instantly erupted into chaos. One by one, they abandoned any thought of seeing a doctor and scattered frantically in all directions.
When Fu Zhu saw his Iron Golem suddenly return, a look of delight spread across his face. Now he finally understood who the white giant walking the Path of [Preservation] mentioned in Fu Xuan's divination was.
At the same time, as the Iron Golem teleported back, Nous left a message in Fu Zhu's mind.
[Question: Why has it been completely uncooperative with my experiments these past few days, refusing to even speak a single word? Additionally, in accordance with the transactional customs of humanity, I have bestowed some power upon it as a reward.]
The Iron Golem had been buffed again?
Fu Zhu couldn't help but feel a surge of joy. The Iron Golem had already been enhanced once by Qlipoth in the Path-Space, and although its appearance hadn't changed much, Fu Zhu could see that its health bar was already beyond comparison to that of an ordinary Iron Golem.
In fact, the health of the Golem that had embarked on a Path was even greater than that of some elite monsters from his mods!
So, how much stronger would an Iron Golem that had embarked on the Path of Erudition as well become?
Thinking of this, Fu Zhu stored away the Sword of Divine Meteors in his hand. He didn't plan on making a move today; he wanted to see just how powerful this dual-Path Iron Golem truly was.
March 7th and the others had also hurried over to Fu Zhu's side, each one looking on in astonishment as the Iron Golem strode with heavy steps toward the fallen Blade.
"Fu Zhu, who is that? Is that the white giant mentioned in Great Diviner Fu Xuan's divination?"
Fu Zhu nodded lightly. Remembering that he had been whisked away by Nous the moment he created the Iron Golem back on Jarilo-VI, and that March 7th and Xing had likely never seen it, he began to explain.
"Remember back on Jarilo-VI when I said I wanted to show you some interesting technology? This is it. This is the bodyguard I made."
"A bodyguard?!"
Hearing this, Xing's eyes lit up. She stared at the Iron Golem's back and asked Fu Zhu excitedly, "Doesn't that mean I can take it with me whenever I go out shopping from now on?"
Going out with a bodyguard—wasn't this the exact treatment befitting the Second Miss of the Fu family!
With this, she was truly the Second Miss!
At this thought, Xing couldn't help but straighten her posture and cross her arms. She felt it was necessary to go out and buy a pair of sunglasses.
Compared to the matter of the Iron Golem's duties, Yanqing and Qingque were more concerned with the fact that Fu Zhu could actually create such an unprecedented, intelligent mechanical life form!
This was not something an ordinary person could achieve.
Qingque, remembering Fu Xuan's instructions, quickly took out her phone, started the video recording function, and aimed it at the Iron Golem.
By now, the Iron Golem had reached Blade's side. It raised its iron arm and brought it smashing down toward the man lying on the ground.
Just as the attack was about to land, Blade's eyes shot open. With a sideways roll, he narrowly dodged the blow.
"Hmph..."
Blade crouched to one side, glancing down at his caved-in chest with a tinge of regret.
That last punch from the Iron Golem had given him a sense of death's approach. It was a pity it hadn't actually killed him. It was clear that this strange life form before him was also incapable of severing the curse of immortality that bound him.
Having understood this, Blade decided to destroy the Iron Golem before him and leave. According to Elio's script, he needed to be captured by the Cloud Knights tomorrow—not now, and certainly not by Fu Zhu.
Elio had repeatedly warned him: he absolutely could not let Fu Zhu disrupt the script.
In that fleeting moment of distraction, the Iron Golem's iron arm swung toward his head. Blade immediately raised his longsword to block the iron limb.
Although Blade had forgotten many things from his past, some things were still preserved deep in his bones, such as his intimate knowledge of various ores.
A quick glance at this mechanical life form was enough to tell him that its body was most likely composed of common iron.
The longsword in his hand was more than capable of slicing it into pieces!
However, when Blade's sword struck the Golem's incoming arm, a loud clang of metal on metal rang out. To his astonishment, he discovered his own sword couldn't even leave the slightest scratch on its surface.
In the next second, Blade was sent flying, crashing clean through the wall of a nearby medical center and vanishing into a cloud of dust and debris.
Watching this from a distance, Fu Zhu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.
He hadn't expected the Iron Golem's attack patterns to have changed. A normal Iron Golem would only have a knock-up effect, but it seemed this one had now gained a knockback effect as well.
As for Blade's attempt to cut off the Iron Golem's arm, Fu Zhu had to stifle a laugh.
As his creation, the Iron Golem was also blessed by MC's properties. And in MC, unless you installed a specific mod, the Iron Golem—just like Steve—had a body that was a single, indivisible entity.
Furthermore, it possessed the knockback resistance that Steve could only gain by wearing armor!
If you wanted to deal with an Iron Golem, you either had to learn from Steve and act like a cowardly three-block man, or you had to wear it down with ranged attacks.
Except now, wearing down this dual-Path Iron Golem probably wouldn't be so easy.
At that moment, after sending Blade flying, the Iron Golem strode quickly in pursuit, its speed much faster than that of an ordinary golem.
It charged straight into the medical center. When it encountered the broken walls blocking its path, it didn't bother going around them like a normal Iron Golem would. Instead, it walked a straight line, punching a massive, man-shaped hole through the already damaged structure.
A few muffled thuds then echoed from within the cloud of dust. Fu Zhu and the others could vaguely see the silhouette of the Iron Golem inside, mercilessly pummeling the downed Blade.
A moment later, Blade burst out of the dust cloud, with the Iron Golem following close behind.
Blade was now covered in blood, while the Iron Golem before him remained completely pristine.
Frowning, Blade pondered. What kind of monster was this mechanical life form?!
No matter how he attacked, the other party acted as if nothing had happened. He couldn't even find its core.
The longsword in his hand had even been shattered into fragments by one of the Golem's punches while parrying. Although his sword was special and could re-form itself, its toughness was far beyond that of any ordinary blade!
The Iron Golem gave Blade no chance to recover and charged at him once again.
A cruel smile crept onto Blade's lips. Today, either he would cut down this Iron Golem, or he would let this Iron Golem beat him to death!
Trading injury for injury—who was afraid of whom!
Fu Zhu, who had been enjoying the show from the sidelines, suddenly thought of something. He turned his head and asked Yanqing.
"Is a dead Stellaron Hunter acceptable for delivery?"