"Dang!... Dang!... Dang!..." the sound of the pickaxe continued to clash.
"Master Sage, isn't Rocky tired?" said a child who had been staring at the stone golem.
Master Sage who was next to him glanced at the child beside him, his fingers had a golden yellow circle of light and there was a rope that extended and ended in a complicated arrangement that surrounded the legs of the Adamantipun spider in front of him.
Master Sage looked up and looked at the Golem he knew by the name of Rocky who had been mining and was now continuing his work in front of him, "they are actually objects without souls that can move Lylah... they also can't feel any feelings... and if asked if they are tired or not, I can be sure that the answer is no unless they have a soul... but it's not his body that is tired but his soul that will be tired, it takes a strong mentality if your body is a Golem"
Master Sage's explanation did not make Lylah feel better, for some reason she still stared at Rocky who continued to work, especially when she saw Rocky who suddenly sat down like someone who was contemplating losing his entire life.
After a while Master Sage had finished his work, he stood up and approached Rocky with his handicraft, "enough Rocky... the stones collected are already very many"
Hearing Master Sage's words, Rocky immediately stopped he turned around and at almost the same time Master Sage threw something towards Rocky.
Rocky deftly caught the object and he could feel and describe that it was a large sickle that was even longer than himself, a large sickle made of adamantium spider legs from the sickle to the sharp tip like a spear.
"That's your payment... I'm not very good at making weapons but the front legs of the spider monster seem to have a little Mytril metal so just try it" explained Master Sage.
Rocky immediately checked he swung the sickle several times and turned it a little, he felt beside him there was a pillar of mana stone and tried it.
"Sling....Sling..." two sideways slashes were made by Rocky, and instantly the stone pillar was cut and left a smooth cut and a large chunk of mana stone.
Rocky was satisfied and turned around but, "DAK!" a blow from Master Sage's magic staff was thrown at his head.
Rocky who was shocked could only stroke his head which now had shards and cracks that slowly began to regenerate, after which Master Sage thrust his staff at him. "You!? Don't you know that cutting mana stones/mana crystals using Mytril metal makes the quality continue to decrease until empty huh!? Quickly destroy the cut part of the pillar before the mana inside it disappears!"
Rocky immediately nodded and quickly destroyed the smooth part of the pillar and directed the chunk at Master Sage, and sure enough Rocky could feel that there was mana seeping out of the part of the mana stone he cut.
"haah.... in truth mana stones or mana crystals are a collection of crystallized mana, so anything related to mana you do near it will cause the mana inside it to come out and erode" explained Master Sage while absorbing the mana inside the Crystal that Rocky cut.
on the other hand Lylah also approached and joined in filling her mana like her Master did, "hihihi... you know how Rocky feels! this time you get karma for slapping my butt!"
on the other hand Rocky now also sat down and took a small piece of the pile of mana stones that he had split earlier, "damn you kid! watch out I'll get back at you!"
"never mind! here I'll give you something good!" said Lylah who handed over a helmet, a helmet made of Adamantium spider shell.
at first glance the shape of the helmet looks like a Corinthian Helmet but on the top there are thousands or even hundreds of white hairs, the eye part is covered by Adamantium spider eyes, so it looks bright when hit by the slightest reflection of light, especially if it is made in such a way that the eyes look like a knight who continues to pay attention to his enemy.
in addition there is a modification to his mouth which is shaped like a mouth full of rows of teeth that extend to the cheeks making it look more like a monster mask than a knight's mask.
Lylah gave the helmet/mask to Rocky who immediately accepted it, Rocky felt it for a moment before he put it on.
"Hmm! Rocky you need to know! I have given the helmet super vision on the eye part that functions like a telescope, and extra olfactory support so that you can smell and distinguish odors like a dog!" said Lylah proudly.
"Plak!" but a direct punch he got from his Master, "what are you doing! Rocky is a rock why did you add those things to that weird helmet !?"
Lylah rubbed her sore head and suddenly she came to and looked at Master Sage, "hehehe ... that's right ... Rocky!"
"Kyaak!" but instead of a rock hit but a loud scream from a Spider monster that came out of Rocky's mouth.
-------------------- back to the house.
"now you try this Rocky!" said Lylah who handed him a bucket filled with various strange objects, there was even something that looked like tentacles moving in it.
on the other hand Rocky was shaking with what Lylah gave him, he was always the subject of strange experiments that she used.
Previously, he only needed to drink or eat something strange from Lylah who he called "Alchemist" to make him talk, but when he found out about his uniqueness when wearing a helmet made by Lylah that could change his voice which was originally just a friction and collision of rocks into a scream of a Spider monster, it increased Lylah's curiosity and desire to make Rocky talk.
For some reason, Lylah was so sure that the results of her erratic Alchemy were what made him like that even though Master Sage himself had said that Lylah's Alchemy was a disaster, even though Master Sage and Rocky were sure that it was because of the helmet that Lylah made carelessly.
"Are you two still not finished?" said Master Sage near the entrance to the Laboratory.
Lylah turned to Master Sage and found that her Master had carried a bag on his back. "Master? Where are you going?"
Master Sage rubbed Lylah's head, "Master is leaving for a moment... guarding the house with Rocky"
Lylah immediately stood up straight and immediately saluted. "Ready Master!"
"Hmm! Okay... and you should stop entering this Alchemist laboratory." Master Sage ordered.
"hm? why master?" asked Lylah confused, but she didn't get an answer because Master Sage ignored her and left.
but her question was immediately answered when she saw Rocky who was going to drink (or eat) Alchemy made by Lylah, the bucket container used was destroyed and melted and hit Rocky.
and of course Rocky's body that was hit was also immediately eroded slowly, "ro-Rocky!"