A Small Record-Breaking Achievement (Part 2)

I figured that I should warn the Smiths that I was going to need two swords so I made a small portal and tossed a note attached to another bar of mithitite through.

"They will get the message, for now, back to work."

All I had left to do was refining the arms and building the head.

"This guy's main purpose is to protect his allies, so we will beef up his shield arm," I added extra muscle to his left.

"He will only have to do one or two sword strikes, so we will only enhance the muscles he needs for those specific strikes." I enhanced his right but didn't enhance his shoulder along with the rest of the muscles.

"This looks weird, I'll give him a pauldron his sword arm to balance it out."

With that done I started work on the head. It was slow and tedious, but engaging somehow. I made all of its senses acute as I could, then I realized that I was using a normal spirit core and there was no way it could handle that much input.

"Hmm, I'll have to choose a primary sense..."

I pondered for a few seconds and decided on sight. The golem would need to take in precise details very quickly and wouldn't be fighting in the dark most of the time.

I shaped its head like rabbits or other prey, its eyes were on the side of its head so it could see all around it.

"Its secondary sense is going to be hearing, it will have no more senses." I gave it smaller than average ears but made them ignore lower-pitched sounds so it could focus on the ones that mattered.

"The biggest issue with Boel was his over-acute senses that stopped him from focusing on his target. With this golem, focusing on a target isn't useful, but seeing its allies and enemies at the same time is very useful."

I finished the head with the rest of the day. I slotted it on, put on some finishing touches, and spoke.

"Inspect."

Adept Golem

-Traits-

{Musculature} Wood - Alchemically enhanced (reflexes)

[Tough] Can take a hit, obviously.

[Structurally sound]

[Simple] Lesser spirit cores excel at controlling this golem, but it is limiting to greater cores.

{Head}

Armored (light): Steel

[Wide Sight] Can see everywhere except directly behind.

[Focused Hearing] Blocks out unimportant sounds

{Chest}

Armored: Steel

[Integrated Telespeak Amulet] Orders can be given mentally, reducing mistake potential.

[Integrated Changeling Suit] Appearance can be modified.

[Angular] More likely to deflect attacks

{Arms}

*Special case (differing arms, defaulting to individual scanning)*

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Golem part: (Arm: Left) detected, Capabilities calculated, Displaying

Strength: Excellent

Range of motion: Good

Flexibility: Poor

Durability: Masterwork

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Golem part: (Arm: Right) detected, Capabilities calculated, Displaying

[Efficient] Requires less energy to use.

Strength: Excellent

Range of motion: Poor

Flexibility: Good

Durability: Good

{Legs}

[Strong] Increased speed

[Wide Feet] Less likely to lose balance

-Statistics-

Armor Integrity: 98%

Eneru Efficiency: 27% (6 hours until sleep mode)

Top Speed: 40 kilometers per hour

Coolant efficiency: 89%

Core Capacity: Greater

I read through the statistics and cringed when I saw its Eneru Efficiency.

"I don't have time to fix it! Ugh! At least the graduation ceremony is only four hours long."

I got to work copying the golem, the second one was a one-to-one clone with no thinking involved.

The process took me all night and most of the next day. I was about to go to sleep when I remembered the swords. I quickly spun up Rift Garden and stepped through to Gond.

"You have my swords ready?" I asked.

"Sure do, take them and go meet your deadline." Fabiru tossed me my partial swords.

He pushed me back through with them in my hands.

I inspected the edgeless swords and found that they were of excellent quality.

"Up next is the ryustitite. There is no way to smith it after it's been refined, but it's partial to shapeshifting, so I can just enchant it to shapeshift instead."

Getting ryustitite to work with mimic on the same object was impossible without the Eneru forge that dad taught me how to make with the key, so I would have to do rely totally on the ryustitite for the blade.

I worked on both swords at the same time, scribing spirit paper as fast as I could. I had two Speakwrites and a Thinkwrite (that Spirit controlled) working together to scribe the enchantments before sundown.

"I just need to finish the second shield and activate the golems now," I said, after applying the enchantment and shaping the sword's edge to be blunt.

"Sucks that I can't use intuitive manipulation on ryustitite, it just goes wild." I shrugged and continued melting the Duratite.

I was reminded by Devin that he had a sealing foam that was heat resistant and so I used that instead of the cloth.

With all of the work done, I inserted the cores into the golems but didn't activate them, I didn't even have the Eneru to do that.

Sleep came willingly to me and I slept all night.

The morning came mercilessly and I activated the golems, taking a potion to have the Eneru to activate the second one.

"You! You are Sir Plien." Sir Plien saluted me with his fist to his chest. "You! You are Sir Fultz." Sir Fultz saluted me the same way.

'Follow me' I said through the Telespeak, leaving no room for interpretation because my intent was sent with my message.

We marched to the auditorium far before the ceremony so my golems could go into sleep mode in preparation for it.

The fact that I built the golems on such short notice already drew attention, but the fact that they weren't terrible hunks of wood impressed people who walked next to me. I activated the integrated changeling suits on the golems, formed them into vanity items like banners on their shields or ceremonial robes, and used them to cover the mistakes that a golem maker would notice.

'I am so going to need a nap after this.'