[INTRUDER DETECTED.]
The voice didn't come from a mouth. It vibrated through the floorboards, a grinding tectonic sound that rattled my teeth.
As soon as the Golem awakened, the pressure in the room multiplied. The sheer weight of its mana presence was suffocating.
Beside me, Alicia stopped breathing. Her eyes were fixed on the twenty-foot titan rising from its kneeling position, her face drained of all color. She was paralyzed.
"Hey. Snap out of it."
I tapped Alicia's cheek—hard.
She blinked, but she was still in a dazed state, unable to process the reality in front of her.
"N-no…" she stammered, her voice pitching up. "That's a Golem! A High-Grade Combat Golem! How on earth are we supposed to catch that with just two of us? We're going to be paste!"
"If we just remove the force field, it's just a pile of rocks," I said calmly.
