章節 147: If you're not laughing, You're Cry'stallin

The elevator reaches the top and reveals many disfigured mutated hollows wielding crystal weapons and armour, it seems as if Seath either experimented on them or the Primordial Crystal is more dangerous than initially thought. Solaire and Reima prepare for battle but are confused when the two Sorcerers don't seem to be moving, apparently they're giggling to each other at finally reaching the biggest stockpile of knowledge in this world. These two might be insane after all?

Reima kicks away a Hollow who had almost his entire body corrupted and encrusted with Crystals, while it's not aesthetically pleasing it does seem to provide a good amount of protection against Slash damage. Solaire's sword bites into the shoulder of the hollow but it's momentum is stopped by a Crystal embedded in it's chest, the shield provided by Reima proves to be effectively at blunt force trauma as the hollow's neck tries to bend 180° from the force of Solaire's smack to it's head.

The two sorcerers realise that they are in combat when they hear the loud snap of the hollows neck, the start firing Sorceries at the enemies but they don't seem too effective against their Crystal enhanced bodies. They think to themselves how lucky they are they didn't attempt this raid alone, if they had to battle through an army of magically resistant enemies they'd likely not last long.

Reima had just stabbed another hollow in the eye after deflecting it's haphazard blow when he sees a large golden monster approaching from the stairs, it seems to be the golden crystal golem that shouldn't be in this location yet... It slams it's arm on the floor making golden crystals burst underneath his feet, Reima quickly casts Quen which repells them but his shield is quickly destroyed. The others don't seem to be injured so he starts charging a Great Chaos fireball before throwing it at the lumbering mass of crystals, it hits it's chest and explodes causing it to back away due to the impact before thrashing around due to the napalm like lava, apparently Pyromancy is effective against what essentially is Crystallised mana as it uses the magic as fuel to continue burning. The Crystal Golem is slowly enveloped by fire and slams itself into the nearby wall shattering part of it's arm, causing shards of burning Crystal to be flung across the room. Reima is amused at it's large reaction to the fire and casts Aard to prevent the shards from hitting him or his party members. The shards are redirected and hit the attacking hollows, causing a few to drop dead instantly.

He hears Logan grumble about uncivilised fire brutes before he summons multiple Heavy Soul arrows to finish the rest of the visible enemies off.

Reima "If the boars weren't a warm enough welcome then I guess this is..." he says before spotting a glowing gold orb where the Golem had died, he picks it up and finds the broken pendant, the same prendant needed to go back in time to Oolacile to obtain the Dark Soul. He stores it away while thanking whatever is allowing him the skip the steps you had to take in the game, usually you'd have to kill the hydra and rescue Princess Dusk for the Golden Golem to spawn. Apparently that's not required any longer, which is a boon to Reima as he doesn't have to go on a treasure hunt just to access certain areas.

The two Sorcerers skip up the stairs and into the huge room with towering book cases filled to the brim with knowledge. Logan almost gets stabbed in the back as he tries to pull a tome from the nearby bookcase without checking for enemies. Reima had been keeping an eye on the two due to their peculiar actions since arriving, after slamming the sneaky crystal hollow into a fine dust he grabs Logan's shoulder. "Look at me! First eliminate the enemies, then you can look at the books!" He says harshly to the old man who starts looking around the room, he seems to try to warn Reima of something when a Soul arrow beats him to it.

It hits Reima in the back, dealing no physical damage but dealing a good portion of damage directly to his soul. He stumbles forwards and knocks Logan over while quickly casting a Quen shield, he does not want to be hit by that again... It's like being punched in the liver except directly on your brain. The person responsible for the soul arrow is dancing while waving it's staff in the air, it looks like the channeller that was present in the undead burg church. Reima's about to retaliate with his own spell when a lightning bolt pierces it's chest causing it to drop to the floor, a smoking hole where it's heart would be.

Solaire shouts at him, "Come on my friend! Jolly battles don't fight themselves!" he says as he uses his swords pommel to slam into another hollow's head. Reima can only chuckle at his companions attitude, if he weren't in a library surrounded by many priceless flammable tomes he'd start incinerating anything and everything in sight, unfortunately the only ranged options he currently has available are Sorceries. He starts launching a multitude of spells that are as varied as Soul arrows to Crystal Soul spears for the really annoying enemies.