The sea steadily became shallower. I must be close to the continent. Underneath, the seabed slowly approaches. It became even more shallower until my feet grazed the sands below. Finally, I stood amidst the waves as I couldn’t swim anymore.
I arrived at a beach. This is it! Dry land! At this very moment, I finally arrived at Zaikalta where humans lived!
Fufufu. And because it is dry land, I can even advance while rolling in the sands! Tou! Thunk, thud!
I fell on my back and lied down. With my hands atop the sandy beach, I splendidly curled my body and tried to roll forwards. Unfortunately, my metallic body wasn’t made soft so I ended up abandoning rolls. Metallic bodies aren’t flexible.
With nothing better to do, I continued to lie down instead and look up to the sky. The sky sure is blue. What a nice weather to have today. It seems the sky is also pleased upon my arrival.
I became happier and rolled sideways. Although rolling forwards is impossible, I can still do it sideways. So, I continued to roll around.
Although not a single footprint marred the beautiful sandy beach, it still left traces of my violent rolls. A commemoration of my first landfall! I’ll engrave my body into this beach from one end to another.
A little while later, I am still rolling. Just like a rhythmic note, gorongorongorongoron. Slowing down, go-rogorogo-rogoro.
Shoot me, the beach is larger than I thought! I’m still a quarter along the way. Let’s speed it up a bit
I started building up momentum. Gororongororongororongororongorogorogorogoro. Bang!
Ah, the rock was hit. Finally, I reached the other end. The bad news is, the place I made landfall was at the middle of the beach. I have to mark the other side as well! Quickly, I made my way back.
Osu! I’ll start marking the other half.
Somehow, I feel like a rolling specialist. I think I like this illusory feeling of free rolling.
Gorogorogorongorogorogorogororongorogorogorongorongoorogorogorogorogorogorogororogoro. Fua~
Oh look, I’m on a grass. With this, I finally left traces of my body at this half of the beach. I then rigidly stood up and stared satisfied at the messy sandy beach. Honestly, it was a good rolling session!
[Log: Due to the effects of 【The Enlightened One】, excitement is forcibly extinguished.]
It seems I got a bit tipsy at being away from dry land for so long.
I didn’t arrive here just to roll around like this. That said, I don’t know what to do after this. I had no plans at all. Well, let’s just go on with it. For starters, let’s visit the first human settlement I’ll find. At this moment, I only need to find the mermaids.
With that out of the way, I left the coast and searched for any sign of humans.
For now, I walked straight ahead. I expected to find a road along the way but in fact, I couldn’t. Before long, I found myself inside a forest. There was no road.
I picked up a twig that fell from a tree using my right hand and waved it around like a musical maestro. Honestly, its difficult to walk inside this dense jungle. Might as well walk straight and avoid smashing into the thick trees as the insects and leaves doesn’t bother me at all.
Uwa, why would a spider’s web be here?
From the dense foliage, multiple monsters came out. I see a gargantuan red bear. Another was a pitch-black tiger with two tails. And then a huge serpent that can totally swallow me whole. Seeing me, the monsters lunged at me without hesitation. However, they couldn’t put a dent on me. At best, their laughable attacks can only push me back a little.
Seriously, can’t you all be a bit more self-aware? If you bunch lived at a true dog eat dog world then you’ll all surely die if you couldn’t even gauge the difference between yourselves and your opponent.
Eh? Aren’t their numbers a bit too much? Naturally, it’s a one-sided victory but the monster attacks are endless. Could it be because of my golem constitution that I do not have an oppressive aura? Am I that small, or perhaps they’re just testing me?
No, no, no. Monsters won’t do such things.
This sparkling metallic body would surely be full of domineering aura. While lost in thought, vines suddenly emerged and clamped on my feet. Without any time to react, I was swallowed by a giant flower.
I heard a rumbling sound and an unknown liquid oozed out. Gastric acid…? Am I being preyed upon? The digestive fluid gradually crept upwards and soaked my body. It won’t cause chemical reactions and make me rust, would it? This is unacceptable!
For a few seconds I was immersed in digestive fluids until I felt relieved no reactions happened. I am a bit sticky so I’ll just wash it off later. I want to take a bath, I really do.
Bath… that’s right! A bath!
I’ll take a bath after finding a human settlement! As I thought, journeys are unacceptable without fun. The early bathhouses. from the Roman Era should still be mixed baths. Even in modern Japan, there are still places that were mixed baths and this world might have one too! I must visit them! Now I’m getting excited!
[Log: Due to the effects of 【The Enlightened One】, excitement is forcibly extinguished.]
Tensing, I instantly tore my bindings and shredded the humongous flower that trapped me. Gastric acid gushed out until it couldn’t support the flower anymore and directly wilted.
[Log: Golem dealt 120 damage to Plant.]
[Log: Plant died.]
[Log: Golem has leveled up to Lv. 12]
Oh, my level rose for the first time in a while. Let’s see my status.
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Name: Golem
Race: Metal Golem
Lv. 12
Stats:
Max HP: 578
Max MP: 551
Atk. Power: 255 (+0)
Durability: 255 (+0)
Mobility: 213
Intelligence: 209
Luck: 255
Skills
【Fixed Status】
【Restoration】
【Activation】
【Vain Struggle】
【Interpretation】
【No Touch】
【Play The Fool】
【Swimming】
Titles:
【Eternal Construct】
【The Enlightened One】
【Persistent】
【Friend of the Voice】
【Playboy】
【Instigator】
【Friend of the Mermaids】
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Umu, it’s progressing nicely. Except leveling up to 12, there are no major changes. My status is definitely fixed.
However, I leveled up and didn’t learn new skills. Are skills perhaps tied to titles? If it does, then its bad I can’t do anything about it. The possibility of possessing magic skills slightly decreased. It’s a shame I couldn’t use magic even in another world…
[Log: Due to the effects of 【The Enlightened One】, depression is forcibly extinguished.]
I’ll not dwell on that much longer and rather think forward instead. Let’s now wash this sticky acid. I smell terrible. But, because of the horrible smell, the monster attack has temporarily relented. In parallel, my mood grew increasingly worse. I hate to say this but its better to be attacked by monsters.
Admittedly, I cannot escape from them.
After a while, I heard the sound of flowing water. It’s a river! I reared to go so I started running. Oh, it’s kinda small but it’s definitely a river. So it’s a brook then. With a bit of splash, I entered the water. Yea! The water level only rose to my thighs. I then fall sideways and sunk into the creek.
Ah~ this is nice. I recalled missing dry land when I was underneath the sea but now, I missed the water.
To wash liquid off, I scrubbed it using my hands.
Gikii~!
A strange sound reached my ears. I’m underneath the water so it’s a bit muffled but it sounds like the unpleasant grinding of chalk to a blackboard. Though I said it like that, I knew it came from my body being scrubbed.
It’s a bit irritating… With this, even washing is becoming a nuisance. But I don’t like being smelly and sticky all over. My days are getting worse.
2 Days Later.
It is I, Golem!
As I was not in a hurry, I relaxed myself submerged in the brook. And because there nothing I do, I passed the time rolling around to ward off pessimistic thoughts. This in itself is an optimistic outlook that greatly helps me wash the acid off.
The creek itself was narrow so it turns out I can only roll twice before hitting the edge that’s why I’m repeatedly rolling over and over. Because of that, the bottom became deeper around the area I was in. My bad!
After a while, I was finally able to get rid of the gastric juices sticking into my body. This is great! After arriving into a human settlement, I’ll definitely buy a brush or towel so that it won’t happen again.
I just washed away all the digestive juices. Before, after entering the brook, the water level’s only around my thigh but now, the water almost reached my head. The power of perpetual continuity can truly do everything!
I somehow felt a sense of accomplishment so I left the brook and walked straight.
****
As I thought, rolling underneath the brook paid off.
Though my smell seems off. The monsters that attacked me earlier began to once again appear. With this, I no longer feel like a bumpkin. At first, I thought the monsters were just mindless beast who cannot properly gauge the oppressive might of the strong but over time, I found something different.
They cannot resist the sparkle of my metallic body. In addition, there is something stronger that shrouds the sheer oppressive aura I emit. I hypothesized that it is some kind of a cloak of benevolence that conceals my might within. A perceptible gentleness that cannot be hidden and it seems the monsters can feel it too.
That’s why they all flock towards me. They’re monsters. It’s in their nature. Well, it couldn’t particularly get a rise out of me either. 【The Enlightened One】is not cool. For me, demons are like children who wanted to seek attention and they sure did a good job out of it.
Look, they surrounded me once again.
They’re wolves. A pack composed of six wolves. Among them, a particularly huge wolf lunged forward. Here we go again. It can’t be helped. With a swift punch, the wolf yelped and instantly ran away. I think it’s their boss or something as the pack immediately scattered after sending the alpha away.
By the way, I still think its better to hold back than needlessly killing. I’d rather not risk killing my opponents barehanded after all. At most, I’ll knock them out senseless so most people would survive.
Fuu~ infamy is troublesome.
Hi guys~ It’s been a while so let me cut through the chase.
First, I’m sorry for not posting for quite a while coz there’s some school work that needed priority; a public speech that I needed to memorize (2 pages long), a certain 20-25 page long assignment, an art assignment, and complying scholarship forms. There is also the issue of how my youngest brother stole money from my father and such but I digress.
The point is, my weekend will be hectic and I might not have the time to post chapters tomorrow and the subsequent week.
That said, I sincerely hope for your understand and please continue to support me.
Thank you.