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Chapter 49: Puppets Part 2

Jesse saw Petra die right before his eyes. Rage filled him as he felt gratitude towards Petra's sacrifice for taking down two more golems.

He willed the sand to completely wrap around the last golem, his anger fueling his motivation to kill the construct. He wrapped layer after layer of sand before compressing it to the size of a pumpkin.

Jesse let the compressed sand fall so the ground with a thud. Tired as he is determined to take down his opponent, who's fishing something out of her sleeve.

"I thought you would have died from that." Said Jeimass, still reaching up her grey sleeve. "Although it would have been disappointing if you did."

"It was tough." Admitted Jesse. "But I noticed two things..." He said, causing his opponent to raise an eyebrow.

"First, when you're being attacked directly, you're puppets lose mobility since you concentrate on avoiding attacks." Stated Jesse, remembering the large wave of sand he sent after her. "That's the weakness of your Class: focusing too much on your puppets over a long distance leaves you open for attacks."

His opponent said nothing but narrowed her green eyes.

"Second, Axel and Petra died because of a hidden feature you put on all of your puppet's weapons." Said Jesse. "That green substance, that coats all of the hidden weapons, is poison."

"..."

"Am I right?" asked Jesse, but took her silence as a 'yes'. "That's why Axel went down when he wasn't gravely wounded. It's the same reason why Petra's movement became sluggish after she received a scratch."

"... as expected of you, Jesse." Complimented Jeimass. "Always calm, and always finding a solution no matter how dire the situation is."

"True. All of the weapons are coated in poison," She admitted. "But now that you know, you'll be on the defensive as this fight is will drag out longer than it needs to be."

"Still, I never thought I would have to use this," She then pulled out two orbs; one green, which is covered in fragments of stone, and the other yellow, which is producing gentle breeze. "I guess I over prepared for this fight, but I'll still be wasting time if I just sent regular puppets at you. Although, I imagined myself outnumbered by your teammates when I use this."

Despite the numbers and hidden surprises of her golems, Jeimass is at a disadvantage since Jesse can use earth magic to manipulate the ground.

So if she kept sending regular puppets, Jesse will simply destroy them, and prolong the fight longer than it needs to be. Sure she could try and weaken him with regular puppets, but Jesse is simply too strong.

So she'll just have to use something even stronger.

Jesse watched as she threw the orbs onto the ground. Tossing the green to her left, and the yellow to her right. Both orbs had spawned new creatures that have a humanoid upper body.

The green orb spawned a monster that has an upper body made out of grey stone, and long, thick arms of stone that almost touch the ground. It's upper body hovers above a large green vertical rod, with four smaller one orbiting around it, which seems to be its legs. And it has a golden core, with veins of gold spreading from it to frame its body, and to its green eyes.

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The yellow orb spawned a creature that's more elegant, per say. With its body being cloud white, with gold decorating its upper body with green and lapis blue here and there to give a sense of grace. But its eyes are blue, just like the golden-framed blue block that it hovers upon in place of a lower body.