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Demitrius sighed as he sat and prepared to brew a living iron potion in an attempt to create a new variant of golem that would be superior to the rock golems. Shaking his head at the troubles he had to go through to set himself apart from the every day biochemists he reviewed his calculations. Logically it should be possible to substitute the mepsomite rock normally used in the potion for iron filings and dust. Frowning slightly he cracked his knuckles and began calculating the ratios needed for his first potion. It had been some time since he had last worked on his potions.

Iron Golem 1/11

Nodding as he began to set up his tools and equipment he looked around the small room he had created inside the cave he had stumbled across. Shaking his head at the Spartan conditions of his new ‘lab’ he decided he would have to cut a deal with someone soon. Kranila had seemed promising but he had heard of odd occurrences in the world as of late and it did not seem that safe. Shaking his head he reconsidered his options and outside of killing for money he just had to scrape by as best he could. On one hand it was nice to be free of the restrictions others would place on him but lacking assistance could be annoying as well.

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Shaking his head and refocusing his attention he began preparing the potion, to begin he placed a cup of zertish oil into a beaker and placed it over a small fire. There were advantages to having Shade along and the black dragon often took an interest in his experiments though he never helped. Demitrius smiled as he looked up at the black armored figure across from him and said, Are you taking an interest in my work to get rid of me or to see if I’m staying useful for you? The figure huffed lightly and responded casually, You are an annoying brat but useful none the less, so long as you keep doing interesting things I’ll uphold my end of the bargain.

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Demitrius nodded shortly and said, Fair enough, it is useful to have someone around to make fires, eventually it should be possible to create something to make things more interesting down the line. As he spoke he held a hand over the oil and felt waves of heat emanating from it causing him to nod. Extending his left hand he used the Hephaestus’ forge technique to draw a lump of iron up from the earth and mold it into the right size and weight before beginning to use his razor wire to shave it down into fragments. Once he had the shavings he looked over at the oil and used a small amount of magic to draw the water up from a separate beaker and spill a drop into the oil to test if it was boiling.

4/11

As the drop landed in the oil it began bubbling and spitting causing him to nod as he poured the iron shavings into the cup while mixing it slowly and setting the clear leaves to one side as the last of the shavings were added. Once done he would squeeze the eight clear leaves into a small bowl and dribble it into the potion mixture as it was cooling. Nodding slightly he waited for it to finish cooling as he addressed his ally and to a larger extent occasional body guard, Well the goal of this is to create iron versions of the golems I used against you, not giant ones just the regular size but should be useful regardless if it works.

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The black dragon was nodding as Demitrius took the potion and divided what he had brewed into individual containers hissing softly in vexation as he realized he was running low on them. Shifting his weight he contemplated what to do with the left over amount and decided that the most obvious course was to use it to test whether or not the potion worked at all. Creating golems took energy to begin with but he had never heard of it being tried with metal instead of rock before so he needed to find the balance to the potion and the capabilities of golems made of iron instead of stone. As such it only made sense to use the left over portion to field test the potion.

6/11

Interested in proving your dominance against my new creations? I could use a test to see what the capabilities of these actually are. Shade looked down at Demitrius before nodding shortly, exhaling he poured some of the potion onto the ground insuring it fell on an extra ore he had pulled to the surface with Hephaestus’ forge. As the potion splashed on the ore he channeled his energy into it gradually increasing the amount he put into it in stages. He started with the same energy he would have used to create a normal golem and gradually increased the energy into it.

7/11

As he moved past the amount for a normal golem and towards that for a golem maxima he sensed a change in the ore but it was not yet sufficient for what he intended, pouring the full amount of energy for maxima in he continued. It seemed that it was a similar amount of energy required as the ore began to expand and take on the form of a golem, a singular golem but made of iron instead of rock. Nodding slightly as he directed the golem towards Shade Demitrius began jotting notes in his journal as he listened to the slow and ponderous steps. The energy required was a good amount but even so he could easily form a number of them at once and as such he took steps to do so pouring more energy into the ores the potion had splashed onto.

8/11

As the potion soaked into the ore and his energy filled them he saw three more of the ores reacting while the rest remained inert showing a limit to the potion’s effectiveness. Nodding his head and annotating the results he looked on as all four of the iron golems moved slowly towards the yawning shade. As the first raised it’s fist and swung at the black dragon he watched Shade easily side step it and catch the fist with a grunt. The dragon then said softly, Good strength but slow as all hell. What would you do if they were used against you? Demitrius laughed at the question as he said, I have my razor wire which is just as good really but by all means test toughness too.

9/11

A loud clang sounded as Shade lifted the golem grunting slightly before swinging it into another resulting in an echoing clanging that was louder than the first. With a laugh the dragon ducked another punch before moving back as the first two slowly clamored back to their feet. Next a shriek of metal echoed outward as Shade punched through the golem and pulled his fist out with a laugh. It seemed the dragon was enjoying himself as he took apart Demitrius’ toys. The arachnoid nodded before making additional notes as the golem still reached for shade with the hole in it’s chest before the dragon ripped it in half and threw the pieces at another.

10/11

Clucking lightly Demitrius made careful notes on Shade’s performance occasionally asking him to rate how difficult it was to destroy, tear, or lift them. As he finished his notes he allowed the golems to become inert as Shade nodded to him saying, That was fun, if you could only make them faster it would be a nice challenge. Demitrius simply nodded before stretching and curling up for a nap. He hadn’t found the combat cat yet but had decided it was something to pursue at a later date. Exhaling softly he decided it would be a good idea to perhaps hunt some of the other creatures in the area and tame them in place of the combat cat for the moment.

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