The Golem Mage

47  Equipments & Gears

It was finally the day of the blood moon, and every family member was extremely nervous.

No one was ready for it, as every blood moon was accompanied by lots of deaths and casualties, The mothers didn’t know if their sons would come back, and the wives were unaware if their husbands could make it back from this war against the Second Dimensional races.

In a courtyard, five teenagers were preparing for battle, wearing their armor and other equipment.

While Knight and Agnes seemed nervous, Alec, Arthur, and Brandon appeared unconcerned, as if they weren’t about to enter a life-and-death battle in a few hours.

Their nonchalant attitude only made Knight and Agnes even more nervous, doubting if they had chosen the right team.

However, when they thought about the powers displayed during their training and sparring sessions in the past few days, Agnes became convinced that she made the right decision and didn’t want to regret it.

“Hey, I like this new sword, Thanks, Agnes. There was no way I would have been able to describe my needs to the forger like this,” Brandon said,

Caressing the new sword that Agnes helped him acquire, Since they were about to enter the battlefield, the clan gave them the option to choose between a spirit weapons or spirit armor to increase their survival abilities.

Brandon chose a sword because his old great sword was not a spirit weapon, but only a normal one he loved swinging around even before he became a mage.

Over time, the sword had developed some cracks and wear due to his increasing powers, but he hadn’t been able to change it due to the costs of getting a good sword and lack of materials to provide in creating a better version of the sword he wield.

Fortunately, the new sword arrived just in time, courtesy of Agnes, who had taken on all their small tasks, and It turned out to be a Tier 1 spirit weapon.

Arthur, on the other hand, received armor that made him look like a god of war, and he couldn’t wipe the smug smirk off his face.

He had thanked Agnes over a hundred times already because she seemed to know what they wanted without even needing to ask.

Arthur’s spirit armor was forged from a power crystal acquired from a Tier 1 wild demonic beast, whose primary element was metal element.

It fit him perfectly and glowed with a golden radiance, reducing the consumption of his mana whenever he casted metal element spells or used skills that was linked to metal element.

The armor also had an active skill where, if he directed part of his mana to the crystal at the chest, it would release shards of metal blades, capable of performing a sneak attack that could even kill a Tier 2 mage at a lower level if he was close enough to him.

After all, it was crafted from a demonic beast that had reached the peak of the Tier 1 realm and was about to evolve into a Tier 2 metal elemental demonic beast.

Arthur couldn’t help but show off his armor, especially since the clan had been generous enough to provide it.

In these few days of training, he realized that the armor made his attacks more lethal, cloaking any weapon he used with the golden glow of the metal element and increasing their sharpness.

If he used his metal element to create a sword, its damage would be doubled.

“Who cares about your smelly sword?, My armor is still the best,” Arthur said proudly to Brandon, raising his nose in arrogance.

“There’s no need to feel so proud. You should all be thanking Agnes for her efforts in acquiring these,” Knight interjected.

“ However, it is undeniable that My cloak is still the best.”

Initially, Knight sounded like an elder trying to control the kids, but he suddenly took a U-turn and started praising his own spirit equipment instead.

“Come here, let me spank your ass, shadow boy,” Arthur said in anger, feeling jealous of Knight’s cloak, which covered him completely.

With this cloak, he could easily cast his Sinking Shadows spells and has became incredibly strong.

The cool down for each of his shadow spells had been reduced and the cloak also reduced his mana consumption.

The cloak’s attributes just made Arthur and Brandon more annoyed at Knight’s luck, The forger who crafted his gear just happened to have a breakthrough while forging the cloak, making it a quasi Tier 2 cloak.

Its upgrades and benefits surpassed their own gear and equipment, making them want to beat him every time he showed off.

They had been competing amongst themselves before the bastard decided to butt in and show off in front of them.

But as much as they wanted to beat him, they were aware that unless they went all out, it was impossible to hurt him.

Alec had warned them about using their full power in his courtyard, as they were becoming stronger than his courtyard could handle.

He even considered throwing them out, but Arthur’s shameless attitude had rubbed off on Brandon, making them both refuse.

So now, Alec had become the father of two mages that acted like homeless kids, and He also didn’t allow Agnes and Knight to sleep over as he wasn’t ready to acquire two more mages acting like homeless kids, but they still came to his courtyard every day to train.

Because of Alec’s training methods, Agnes and Knight’s have made great progress.

Although they hadn’t advanced to the next stage, they felt that if they were to battle their past selves, it would only take a few moves to defeat them.

Their battle awareness, power, and survival abilities had all increased, they had gone through three days of gruelling sparring sessions with Legion, who made sure to test all his sadistic new skills on all four of them as they attacked him together.

They saw Alec as the best teacher, unaware that he was using his system to monitor their skill improvements and make them focus on the skills that were close to levelling up.

Whenever they made progress, they attributed it to Alec’s great insights, and the shameless guy didn’t seem bothered at all, taking credit of his system like a mysterious master.

Alec looked at Agnes and noticed she was holding a wand.

While she had gotten Knight a shadow cloak to enhance his abilities, she had gotten Arthur armor to allow him to attack more without using extra mana for defense.

As for Brandon, she had gotten him a new great sword that could handle his increasing power.

However, the weirdest thing of all was that she had gotten herself a wand, but Alec was certain she wouldn’t have gotten herself something worse, especially since she had gotten great equipment for all of them.

Alec wasn’t too concerned about what she had gotten for herself anyway.

He looked at the armor she had gotten for him, which was pure black with traces of red and brown at the edges.

It looked plain, and the multi-colour crystal on the chest made it appear even more unimpressive to Alec.

Alec placed his hand on the armor as the notification he had seen before popped up once more.

This time, he was prepared to go through with it.

[ X: The system has detected a Tier 2 spirit armor which still has flaws.] n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

[ Use 500 system points to repair the spirit armor? (Y/N) ]

It was in this moment that Alec realized how broke he was, All this while, he had been hoarding the system points without fully understanding their potential.

He had always felt he had enough points to purchase whatever he wanted, but now he saw how naive he had been.

Agnes had made sure his armor was forged by an experienced Tier 2 forger after bickering about how it belongs to the young master of the clan, but surprisingly, the system was still able to detect its flaws.

Alec opened his status tab to check his system points.

[ Status Tab ]

Name: Alec Gordons

》 Race: Human

》 Level: 6

》 Tier: 1 [Mid Tier]

■ Exp till next level: 675/1000

[ Attributes ]

》 Strength: 14+

》 Agility: 16+

》 Endurance: 13+

》 Mana: (259/500)

Affinity: Earth (High)+, Fire (High)+

Available points: 12

System points: 689

As Alec looked at his status tab, he realized that he only had around 689 system points, which wasn’t much. Even though his heart was bleeding, he still pressed “yes” to repair the armor.