Obligatory Duty (Undergoing Revisions)

Chapter 5: Easy

"Itsuo, lend me your power. Lure that thing to the courtyard and buy me a couple of seconds. Please?" I asked, trying my luck.

Expecting that I have to cajole and bargain with him several times before he would agree to it, he surprised me by immediately agreeing. 

With a smirk that would appear on someone trying to do something foolish, I fitted my combat gloves on both of my hands. Who would have thought that just on the first night and I would already be thrown into a life and death situation? How amusing, hahaha, feels so damn scary, I want to run away so bad. Heaving a deep breath, I grabbed the item needed for this conquest out of my back belt pocket. 

Glancing at Itsuo's way, I set to work. It seems as if he was doing his work well, keeping the golem busy while slowly advancing towards the courtyard. My plan was a simple one, there were large pillars, even bigger than the golem itself. Probably built to show off the might and prosperity of the army. But today it would have a different use, some other use other than simply aesthetics. 

I tied an almost unbreakable, modified steel wire to the two closest pillars. So you see my plan? A cliche, overused, simple plan. However, all that matters is that whether it works or not. Who cares if it was cliche? And also let me quote this overused line as well.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall..." Yes... I am absolutely not embarrassed by the tiniest bit in saying this.

The rest happened as you would expect. I switched with Itsuo and told him to get out of here and then proceeded to bait the monster towards the location of my trap. What? You say there is a loophole in my plan? What if the golem walks over the wire completely, not touching it at all?Well, that's such a simple matter. 

Of course, I would repeat the process over and over till he trips on it, even if it takes a thousand times 

I am quite a persistent guy, after all, once I put my mind into it, I will not stop till it's done. Fortunately, though, he tripped on it first try. Update the log in my head, another weakness of golems is that they are not so very bright and that their luck is even worse than mine. Ha! I got something to look down on the golem. Yes, I'm so sorry for being so pathetic. Being happy just because I'm better than an inanimate object... 

He collapsed face first onto the hard earth. A couple of pillars toppled in the process though, puffing up a cloud of debris. Hopefully, the military would not expel me for destroying those? Also if you ask me where I got those wires from? It's a trade secret. 

Even before the dust settled, I climbed upon its back like some kind of overgrown monkey. 

Let's give a crash course about golems, shall we? Golems are an animated being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter such as clay or mud. If you don't get that, it doesn't matter. I was just trying to show off. What matters is that they are beings with low intelligence, controlled by magic through direct control of a person located far away or are free to roam with a simple, straightforward command. 

Since, its moves so inexpertly and clumsily, the controller must either be an amateur, which is unlikely, or that the golem has been left to its own devices with a simple command such as destroy all humans in the base or something.

Why does all this matter you ask? Well, something controlled by magic has to have some traces of magic. If we erase that trace of magic, the golem would just be an inanimate lump of clay. The traces of magic that I am talking about is a magic circle. 

Normally in this giant of a beast, the magic circle would be somewhere on its head, neck or somewhere high up, where it was hard to reach. That was why I toppled it down so that I could get on top of it. 

Bingo! 

I'm so damn smart, aren't I? Again, I apologize for bragging but then I just have this compulsive bragging tendency to attend to.