Grandmaster Golem, Alchemist Extraordinaire

wave of red-yellow fire, this supposed Explosive Pot

, striking Durri in the chest, but the accompa

ssbow bolts protruding from h

ht delay, came the

suddenly burst outwar

hat's from the sea s

s head. As he watched, toothy spines gr

the nearby wall and tore i

se tentacles are growing! There's only so much room i

, his clay flesh squeaking on the appendage's slimy skin.

the wizard... I wonder

hough a dozen sea monsters were all trying to squeeze through the same tiny crack in the air

ughed. "It's going to bri

ed to Durri's cell. He ran down this corridor, peering down

, a spiral staircase at the very end. If only I'd just kept g

ath Durri's fee

hed as flat as Colfax. Do I die and go back to the witch's curse, or am I trapp

r, and the stairs passed through what appeared to be an elegant living room. Every pi

Durri stepped off the stairs just long enough to

if you'd just let me leav

he ground only two feet away, and tent

ed all the way to the bottom of the tower. "All right! I guess it really '

it and slid down for nearly ten feet before stumbling into a crumbling kitchen. In his

es things on fire, then summons tentacles which pulverize any man-made object for two m

kle. "I wonder if 'I' cou

down amid pasta, mixing bowls, and what was e

bled off his fair share of scaffolding. "Have to stay limp. Don't clench up!

sailing clear of the debris, and lan

Durri

ead, and stared in awe at the sigh

e tentacles had fallen onto that floor. It gave the ef

he laughed. "So he got free after

e lightning bolt after another at the looming, writhing tentacles. "D*mn you all!" he kept screaming. "You took

do nothing at all, but the fello

s brought an imag

thanking him for bringing her cheese, even if they didn't have h

"Mama, you deserve better than that little retirement village. I told you I'd earn enough money to buy y

d fade in only moments. Whatever the madman did after th

until he came to a high ridge. He climbed the tallest tree upon this ri

fe as a human! I wonder exactly how much time has passed since that witch cursed me. Surely not more than... not

y, I won't have to worry about learning a new language or getting used to new f

ly stoppe

t that he was no longer huma

not since that war Grandpa fought, in wh

If someone saw Durri walking around in the present day, the military

uction work than my original human body was! All those garrisons the king ordered across the country should still

tunately, alchemy required ingredients, and the ingredients for valuable potions would co

onstruction of sharpened logs. "That wall might keep o

the wall, then scurried up like a statuesque mud crab and flop

pt from house to house until he found a ragged cloak hung on a line to dry. "I'll

on and rolling carts, he rose and meandered through the waking town until he found som

the procession turned his head

e deep in the recesses of the hood. His forearms and hands

days, that wasn't too much of an issue in most civilized towns an

ems... after the enemy sorcerer-king cast his army-breaking spell, all the golems died and the animation spell stopped working. I

nt creatures, though slow-witted. The army had made good use of their incredible strength and toughness, until the

ground. "So, you some kind of a lizard man? You got

g it covered in cracks that indeed gave the effec

way that could be easily found out later, but neither did he want to give up hi

rd men are real tiny, though.

is that I'm strong and have been laying bricks for fiftee

't got n

t the last job site I was working. I'm, er, traveling. Wanted to make some coin while I'm in t

down a well two days back. You can use his tools. Mi

'I suppose I can't get much more curs

considerably cleaner than the rest Durri had seen. Many buildings seemed to have bee

lly reached