kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Chapter 142

I could melt iron with Fire Bears, but doing that in a tunnel would be suicidal.

It would be great if I could wrap their heads with water and drown them, but they wouldn’t suffocate, right? Hmm, they might rust and be unable to move if I doused them in salt water, but I probably wouldn’t be able to sell their materials afterwards.

Would I be able to cut them up with Bear Wind Magic? No, I would probably destroy the tunnel faster than I could defeat them.

I could try using Earth Magic to make a Bear Golem and pin the Iron Golems down, but I didn’t really want to use that in front of Jade-san’s party.

I could also make a pit to bury the golems inside, but if I dug up the floor like that everywhere, it might cause the tunnel to sink. Also, I wouldn’t be able to get the iron that way.

I wanted to give some of the Iron Golem bodies as souvenirs to Gold-san and Gazar-san, but I would also love to take some for myself and turn them into pieces of art.

I decided to just try using a random attack for now, while also watching how Jade-san’s party defeated them.

Since the floor had changed, I could now detect several Iron Golems, including five of them far away from us.

So, those were the five Iron Golems they had been talking about.

Huh? From what they told me, the golem that started this all should be behind the five golems, but my detection magic didn’t pick it up.

Was it not there, or was it among those five?

Overthinking wouldn’t help, so I decided to just defeat any Iron Golems that came our way for now.

When the first Iron Golem came into view, the party immediately moved into battle formation.

The Iron Golem looked just like an Earth Golem, but made of iron. Its thick arms looked like giant hammers; getting hit by those would surely mean death. If the golem could understand me, I would have definitely recommended that it become a carpenter…

"By the way, how do you defeat an Iron Golem?"

"Normally, there is no other way than to just keep damaging it until it stops moving."

"Though if we weren’t in a tunnel, we could defeat it with strong magic."

Mel-san muttered with a sigh.

I knew it, they had it hard because we were in a mine.

This location made it hard to use magic, which reduced the variety of usable attacks.

Well, this didn’t change what I had to do: approach the golem and hit it with a Bear Punch.

Using the mobility of the Bear Shoes, I drew close to the Iron Golem, which swung its giant hammers towards my head.

For an instant, I considered using the White Bear Glove to block it, but I realized that it could turn out badly and decided to avoid it instead, and the hammer-like arms hit the floor with loud bang.

After getting past its arms, I hit its body with a Black Bear Punch.

Normally, hitting iron would hurt, but thanks to the Bear, it didn’t hurt at all.

The golem was pushed back a few meters, but it didn’t collapse.

I knew it; it was different from Stone and Earth Golems.

This one was hard, heavy, and solid.

Yep, it was troublesome.

Just hitting it with enough power to take down Stone Golems wasn’t enough here. I had to hit harder.