THE RUNIC ALCHEMIST

Now that he thought about it, the monster he had bound with vines and kept in Dreamlight’s storage was also missing, yet the cooling potions still worked. The red wave must have hit it too, but monsters hadn’t been pushed out of the dungeon along with them.

Damian kept the discovery to himself.

Still, the only available option was going to Earth. Maybe from there, the ban wouldn’t work.. but he wasn’t hopeful. He didn’t want to raise their expectations only to crush them immediately afterward.

Pushing everything aside, Damian focused on the task at hand. He needed at least a day to prepare before doing anything. He had plenty of steel and iron. Over forty mana liquid containers. And he could generate more by making additional generators if needed. On top of that, he had an entire high-grade spatial storage filled with sacrium metal. That.. was what he needed to check first.

Damian took out a simple ingot of sacrium and wrapped it fully in his mana using over a hundred mana threads. As expected, the inside was just as insurmountable as before. Unlike most metals, which had gaps in their structure that could be filled with roughly half a thousand mana nodes for an average sword, sacrium had over a million in just that small size. Needless to say, imbuing spells into it would require an enormous amount of mana and focus—if it was even possible at all. The moment an average runesmith attempted it, the metal itself resisted, canceling the mana before it could enter.

Yet Damian grinned like a maniac. With his Archscript Sovereign skill activated, his mana threads weren’t being resisted in the slightest. They found the gaps effortlessly, forming a perfect structure of mana nodes. The only problem was.. it was just too fucking big. Covering every structural gap inside a single sacrium ingot took the equivalent of three full mana containers worth of liquid mana. If the metal was in an excited state—heated or molten—the mana cost should be 30 to 40 percent less.

Even so, Damian didn’t use the ingot yet. He carefully pulled back his mana without placing any spells inside. He had a limited amount of sacrium, and now that he could finally work with it, he wasn’t going to waste a single bit. As exciting as this was, it wasn’t the only thing on his crafting list today.

Opening the many mana containers, Damian began by constructing a giant version of Grace’s Air Step spell. Atop it, he unloaded a small pile of steel ingots and steel weapons. He wanted to make a golem at least seven to ten meters tall, and this much steel should be enough for one. Then, he created a massive runic circle for the Golem Creation spell, supplying over half a mana container’s worth of mana into it.

Before activating it, Damian stepped back and constructed a large invisible box around both the runic circle and the floating steel pile. The moment the box was about to be completed, he canceled the Air Step spell and gave the mental command to activate the golem spell.

The instant the invisible box was complete, it sealed all mana inside, the spell activated, pulling in the nearest materials to shape the golem. The mana pull was so immense that even Damian and Dreamlight could feel the attraction. Next time, he’d have to stand farther away before activating it.

A minute later, the brand-new steel golem stood before him! Damian canceled the invisible box spell and quickly flew closer. It towered over nine meters tall, built like a muscular humanoid beast. He was so thrilled to finally create a golem that he completely forgot he could have shaped it differently in his runic circles.

Still, he wasn’t disappointed. Connecting ten mana threads, Damian took full control of the steel construct. It mimicked his every movement perfectly, without a single delay. It even responded to mental commands, allowing him to control it without moving himself—a spectacular success. The mental strain was still high, but Damian had grown far too powerful. With INT surpassing 200, he could control multiple golems at once without feeling the strain that had once overwhelmed him with just one.

One by one, Damian continued the process.

He created over forty steel golems, each standing over nine meters tall. Then, he constructed ten colossal golems of iron, each towering over twenty meters. The smaller ones lacked power, so he opted for bigger muscles = more durability and strength.

He kept their forms humanoid. However, he experimented by crafting seven steel golems in a birdlike shape—but controlling them required far more focus and practice than humanoid figures. Still, he planned to imbue these seven with runic spells that would allow them to fly for real. The others would form his army, each imbued with various attack spells, while these seven would serve as high-speed battlefield transport.

With that done, Damian piled up all the sacrium he had, calculating what he could do with it. Setting aside enough to craft a full set of armor for himself and a few weapons, he estimated he still had just enough sacrium to create two human-sized golems.

One of them, however, wasn’t meant for combat.

‘It’s finally time, huh..’ The prince murmured.

Damian simply nodded. He was about to attempt the risky procedure—separating the guy from his body and attempting to transfer him into the golem. They theorized that a large enough mana stone could store multiple pieces of a human soul, but it was all just theory. They’d have to rely on trial and error to figure it out.

Still, he had one more experiment in mind.

Aside from the soul transfer, he could still create another sacrium golem—but there was something else that excited him even more.

The dungeon relic he had obtained, the Last Ember of Genica, should finally come alive with this..

Or so he hoped.

Damian was eager to see what kind of new species he would create.

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