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Chapter 48: Puppets Part 1

Cassie Rose continued to watch the match before her as she continues to pet Winslow. So far, this Tournament has been boring in comparison to what she can do.

But she's nothing compared to Jess. It doesn't matter if she fights harder, Jess fights smarter.

She looks to her cloaked escort to her left, glancing at the rings on her fingers that have demonic effects as they're disturbing to look at.

'Soon it will finally happen, and everything will fall into place...' she thought excitedly as she glanced at her left, looking at the one armed, cloaked girl. 'then I can finally get rid of you...'

Winslow glanced up at his master, his eyes flashed crimson for a brief second as he sent a mental message to her. '...'

'I know, I know.' She reassured. 'I'll be patient...'

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"Now, for our next fight...!" the announcer pulled down a name form above. "The late entry, Jeimass, versus..." he pulled down another. "The Order of the Pig!"

The grey-cloaked girl raised an eyebrow at the declaration, but immediately shrugged it off. She walked to the teleporting rune and was transported to the battlefield; which has now became a flat desert.

Jesse faced his friends. "Remember, once we beat her, we forfeit the match so Gill can win."

"Still, it's going to be a bit sad we don't get anything out of this..." said Axel.

Olivia slapped her soon-to-be husband on the shoulder, giving him a mild glare. "We are. We're getting Jennifer back, and possibly Jess."

"We will." Reassured Petra. "That girl, Jeimass, should be easy to beat. Her level is way lower than ours."

"Not to mention she doesn't have a lot of muscle mass," Said Axel. Using physical combat all the time does give you insight of the body. "Which could mean that she doesn't do a lot of physical combat."

"Or she heavily uses magic." Warned Jesse. "We still don't know what her Class does, so we end this quickly, and don't kill her. She can respawn in the Tournament, but I don't like killing."

They all nodded. One by one they stood on the rune and teleported down to the battlefield, leaving Gill all alone as he pondered his dreadful thoughts.

They stood on one side as their opponent stood the opposite. The announcer was in the middle of them, talking at a normal volume.

"Remember: everything is allowed, and don't worry about affecting the audience." He gestured towards the transparent field above them, giving them a smile. "Go nuts, and give the crowd a good show!"

He then teleported out as the competitors pulled out their weapons. Jesse and Axel never really used any combat equipment since the former uses magic, and the latter uses his fists.

Petra pulled out her iron daggers, and Olivia simply stood behind everyone as she adjusts the straps on her backpack; containing various redstone related materials.

"Remember everyone," Whispered Jesse. "We end this quick."

They all nodded, double-checking their iron armor as they watched Jeimass pulled out something form within her sleeve, briefly exposing her bandaged arms.

Two chests. She placed both of them on the ground; one on her left and another on the right.

"FIGHT!" The announcer's voice boomed.

Quickly, various materials floated from the chests; wrapping, linking, and locking in with each other to form five humanoid constructs that are two blocks tall.

They have no noticeable features whatsoever. They have no face, no eyes, no mouth, and no soul. These are Jeimass weapons, these grey colored golems.

Watching from the competitors box, Gill used the monocle.

[Puppet] Level 150

A golem made out of metal, created by Jeimass. This puppet is used for combat despite its bland appearance. Be careful as this construct has many hidden weapons.

The Order of the Pig was briefly stunned at the golems before shrugging it off. But unlike Gill, they don't know anymore about the golems other than it being controlled by Jeimass.

But Gill knew this is a bad situation. Now it's four versus six.

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Axel charged forward while Petra and Jesse flanked to the side. Olivia stood her ground, channeled her Mana to construct multiple turrets; using her magic to quickly lift and place the redstone materials from her backpack.

Axel ran at the five golems a head of him, cocked his fist, and punched the closest one. The construct flew back, flipping once in the air before briefly landing on the sand.

While that happened, two other golems charged at Axel. Both constructs leaped into the air as Axel heard a faint click coming from the golems.

Suddenly, they protruded razor claws from their hands. Slashing at Axel, who barely dodged it as he tried to counterpunched.

Only to get thrown to the side as something collided into his left side. Getting up from the ground, rolling out of the way of another downward slash from the previous golems, he saw another golem that has dispensers on its shoulders.

He then saw a faint red energy emit from it. Panicking, he was briefly stunned by surprise until Olivia's turrets shot at it. The construct unfolded a shield on its right forearm to block the arrows.

Olivia ran to Axel, helping him get off the ground. Axel glanced at the two turrets Olivia created. There are three dispensers on a metal rod, rotating and aiming at whatever Olivia wants to with her Red Mage Class.

"Are you okay?!" she frantically asks over the fighting.

"I'm fine." He lied. His left side hurt like hell as that brief, numbing pain become horrible. "What are these things?"

"I just can't believe it..." said a shocked Olivia. Watching as the golem, that was blocking her turret's projectiles with a shield, destroyed her redstone constructs with a brief laser blast from the dispensers on it's shoulders. "I thought I was the only one..."

'The only one? What's she talking about?' Thought Axel. "Olivia, do you know-DUCK!"

She then felt Axel tackle her to the ground, shielding her as the golem's right arm lengthened and became segmented, connected by metal wire. It swung its extended limb overhead, balling its metal fist as spikes protruded from it, and sent it to smash into Olivia.

The flail-like limb would have slammed into her if Axel didn't shield her. The problem was that the spikes are still imbedded into his flesh.

Grunting, Axel gripped the limb, and pulled on it with his immense strength. The golem was forcibly pulled toward him as he cocked his other hand into a fist before smashing the puppet into large pieces.

But not before the golem blasted energy one last time into Axel's chest.

CRASH!

The limbs and head of the construct were scattered across the sand as he saw the internal components of the golem.

"What... what do we do?" grunted Axel, holding his wound. If one thing is for sure, he really underestimated Jeimass.

"I know what to do." Olivia said, helping up Axel before running away to the edge of the battlefield.

"Olivia, what are you doing?!" screamed Axel, his panic overcoming his severe pain.

"Just buy me some time!" Screamed Olivia as she willed her redstone parts to form a large dome around herself.

Axel wanted to say something else, but then he noticed two things. One, Jeimass wasn't commanding her golems to attack him anymore.

Second, his body felt numb. He collapses onto the sand with a thud as he looked at Petra and Jesse fighting the remaining golems.

But then he realized why Jeimass wasn't attacking him anymore. He's already dead when that golem's flail wounded him. Even a mere scratch will give you a huge disadvantage.

'I... got... to warn them...!' Were Axel's last thoughts before he died, respawned, and was rushed to the medical wing of the Tournament.

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Jesse launched another chunk of sand at the golem, knocking it back as another one tried to pounce on him. He erected a pillar under him, lifting him out of the way of the spiked lance that golem protruded from its right arm.

"Jeeze, these things won't stop." Grumbled Jesse. He jumped off the platform as two other golems with claws appeared, and destroyed his sand pillar.

He then heard a faint click from behind him as a pair of metal arms wrapped around his waist from behind; pulling him closer to the golem that has him in its grasp.

Jesse saw the head become segmented. It split open like a blooming flower to reveal dozens of tiny rotating spikes! With wide eyes, Jesse grasped the edges of its head, trying to distance himself from its 'mouth' as the golem tried to bite his head off.

"Get off!" he shouted. He willed the sand to hit the golem, but it didn't loosen its grip. These things can't feel pain, they're not living people. Jesse's face inched closer and closer to the tiny spike as the noise from their rotation became louder and louder...

It was then Petra drove her iron dagger into the mouth of the golem, jamming it as she spun around it and stabbed another one into the base of its neck before decapitating it.

The body fell with a clunk, motionless as Jesse scrambled to get it off him. Petra helped Jesse to his feet. "You got to be more careful, these things already took out Axel."

They looked at Jeimass. The puppeteer is simply controlling her, now three, golems as they're running towards them.

"We got to do something." Said Petra. "Axel's out, Olivia's is in that stupid dome, and it's us two against those thing!"

Jesse then saw Jeimass' hands move as he faintly saw blue threads made of Mana connecting from her fingers to the puppets.

'So that's how she's controlling them!' realized Jesse. 'If we cut the source, then these things should go down.'

"Two of the golems have claws, the other has a lance." Said Jesse. "I'll distract them, go after Jeimass since she's controlling them."

Petra nodded and flanked as Jesse unleashed a wave of sand towards the golems. At this rate, if they attack the golems, they'll just waste their strength taking them down.

Then they still have to deal with Jeimass, and they still don't know what her limits are. For all they know, she could have even more lethal surprises up her sleeve.

While they have never been hit yet, Jesse and Petra are starting to get exhausted.

As Jesse concentrated on the wave of sand, the golem with the lance had protruded another one for it's other hand. It's legs shifted and become more lean and flexible as it lunged out of the way of the wave of sand.

The other two golems weren't so lucky as they got buried under the wave of sand.

Petra ran around the edge of the sandy battlefield as Jesse threw compressed sand at the lanced golem as the construct dodges and lunged at her friends with great speed.

Petra saw the Jeimass watching the fight as she uses her Mana threads to control the golems. Petra crouched out of sight, watching her until she quickly ran at her and pulled out her iron daggers.

She held them in a reverse grip as she silently ran at the puppeteer, ready to stab her in the neck and quickly kill her. Jesse said not to, but she doesn't have time for mercy. Too much is riding on the outcome of this fight!

But to her surprise, two pairs of clawed hands to burst out of the ground under her; catching her by surprise as one of them managed to scratch her face.

She rolled out of the way when they tried to swipe at her, blocking her way to the one controlling them. Petra saw in disbelieve as the claws rearranged themselves to be in a circular arrangement, and turned onto rotating saw blades.

"You got to be kidding me!" Petra complained as she ducked a swing that was aiming for her head. A golem lifted both of its arms and brought both saw blades crashing down on Petra as she used her daggers to block them.

Petra watched in panic as the saw blades started to cut through her daggers as sparks flew everywhere. The golem's strength was overcoming hers as he knees started to buckle.

She glanced to her right as the other golem with saw blades is charging right at her! She couldn't move, not unless she wanted to get hurt.

But if she's going down, maybe she can make it easer for her friends to fight these things. She loosen her grip on her daggers as she barely twisted out of the way, and gotten a minor gash on her arms as the saw blades torn through her iron armor to shreds.

She grabbed one of the arms of her attacker, and pulled it in the direction of the other golem that's flanking to her right. Both of their saw blades collided into each other's chest as the rotating blades shredded their internal components.

And gravely wounding Petra as she was sandwiched in between the metal constructs. She took one step before falling onto the ground, the jumbled mess of metal and sparks of the golems are still clinging to her bleeding body as the other saw blades slowly stopped rotating inside her back.

Her body felt so numb, and yet full of pain. But Petra noticed with blurry eyes that all of the weapons of Jeimass' puppets have a green substance coating the weapons.

'So that's the secret...' bitterly thought Petra as she closed her eyes before she respawned. 'Not a bad tactic... hope Jesse can figure it out before it's too late..'

A/N: Sorry for not uploading. School, ugh...

And am I being a jerk for making this a multiple part fight? Probably.

Will you have questions that need immediate answers? Yes.

Will I answer them? Eventually.

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