Fareen Farmlands

"Ahhh!" The cries of some men as they go flying or are attack, burned, etc,.

Ram Jam was on the ground near one of the shattered golems after the blast, he coughed and looked up to see a glimmering green gem. Over the roar of battle, Ram managed to hear his leader's words. He began to get up and looked to his left to see a fallen conscript, clutched in his dead hand was a warhammer, quickly Ram scrambled over and grabbed the hammer.

He took a few breaths and lifted the hammer, running toward the rubble he swung the warhammer down to smash the gem.

Kenjin had kept his distance from the Golems and avoided getting into contact with them, using the mobility of his mount to escape their grasp and deny them any advance.

Meanwhile, Hametsu and his Ashigaru arrived to help out. "Hametsu," Kenin roared above the sounds of battle, "Yumi bows, green gems, loose! Protect Nishida!"

Hametsu held his hand up and cried out, "Yumi!" The Yumi Ashigaru knocked arrows on their bows. "Loose!" The arrows would be aimed at the golems, and away from any allies so friendly fire was not a concern. The Achigaru were peasants and not well-trained, but a barrage of these arrows? One of them had to hit the gems. The melee Achigaru stayed back and were prepared to protect the Yumi Ashigaru, who would retreat as quickly as possible should the golems approach them. Their main target would be any golem near Nishida.

Kenjin, on the other hand, continued to charged his Tachi no Akuma; he could feel enhanced strength, speed, and reflexes building within him.

With orders to make a fighting retreat finally being made, with casualties to both the Ashigaru and Aozora, the fighting group now has a much better chance against the roughhousing golems. Ram Jam's quick actions with the warhammer broke apart one of the exposed green crystals, having the once solid rock crumble back into the ground while the other crystal was quickly regenerating its protective layers and reforming the golem shell. This left 6 golems to deal with.

The fighting retreat would only keep the golems at bay, but for how long. The now known weakness of the green crystals are not shown on the surface of the golems, making the arrows of the Ashigaru useless as they gently tapped against the surface of the constructs. Though some men are being left behind, including the Watcher, now in the grasp of one of the golems, Dimitri whom is currently unconscious and unaware of what is currently happening, and Akiyama, whom is now staring down two new golems whom in turn are staring her down.

2 of the golems would move after the retreating forces, only lumbering after them, and keeping a large amount of space between them so any further 'castle busters' wont take out more than one of them, knowing that such magic, even by two characters, should be exhausting them. The other two kept engaged with Akiyama.

Akiyama latched onto the back of one of the currently standing golems as the one she dislodged a leg from, collapsed to the ground. The now crippled one did not appear to be regenerating, but just lay there. The construct she was upon, swayed in an attempt to dislodge her. Akiyama would not find any cracks or fissures for her to attempt to penetrate into the abomination. Sh would soon hear some rumbling as the prone creature has been making a wall of earth, cutting her off from the Aozora and Ashigaru. Should she be wary of her current ride, she would notice it lowly rumbling as well. The golem was going to spring spikes through her hands and legs to immobilize her so that she would be easier to deal with.

The two remaining golems were respectively reforming from its shattered form beside Ram Jam, and crushing the Watcher within its dual grasp.

Ram sighs with relief as his actions seem to have removed one of the threats. He lifts the warhammer back up and gets a good feel of the weight in both of his hands. The battle is still raging though; he can't rest for long, even though he'd like to. He sees the other golem near starting to reform and head for his allies, he must stop this one.

Looking down at his hands, he sees the familiar black wispyness appearing around them, a ghostly outline of hands over his own hands holding the hammer. "Betty... I'll need your strength."

Ram had been hiding Betty's existence long before he's known Shintaro, so not even he knows of the power. If it could be helped he would hope he could still keep Betty a secret, but now is when he truly needed the power and if he was found out, atleast he'd be saving lives.

A crackle of electricity sparks from the ghostly hands and they vanish. Ram runs toward the regenerating golem, bringing the hammer and swinging it once he was in range, his strength enhanced by the power of Black Betty. He roared and aimed for where he could still see the green glow shining through the cracks of the rock shell. "HUUURRAAAAAA!!"

Shintaro rejoins his men and acquires a new horse from one of them. Now that he was once again on horseback he could navigate the field easier to give his orders. A shadow appears over him and he looks back to see a boulder flying through the air, he turns his horse and yells out to the men, "Scatter!"

The first boulder crushes a few men, they start to spread out so that multiple people won't be crushed at once with the boulders. He looks among his men and doesn't see Ram, Dimitri or Tetsujin, he silently curses to himself, could it be they had already been vanquished? The casualties would be fully assessed later, for now he had to minimize his losses and figure out how to get out of this.

"Those with crushing weapons, maces, hammers, cudgels, stay and fight; all other continue the retreat!" Spears, swords and arrows would be of no use against these monstrosities. Those with crushing weapons would turn to fight as commanded. "Don't clump up! Each of you attack from a different side going for the chest and keep yourselves mobile!"

The men would form a loose formation around each of the golems those with the golems' attention would focus on dodging and keeping aggro while the rest would look for the opportunities to go in with their weapons and smash them. Shintaro would be nearby on his horse keeping an eye out on things, he would hear Tetsujin in the distance and would be somewhat relieved that he seemed to still be in action.

The damn thing was smooth stone... she was running out of options. Her hands were sweeping over the rock in some desperate hope to find a fissure somewhere, but alas there were none. And she didn't think her bombs would be enough, even by the handful, to break through the earthen flesh to the core - which seemed to be a gem? She thought she heard that in the yelling. But then the sounds grew more faint and muffled, and her head would snap up to see where the smoke was starting to part... a wall of stone still growing. It was standing between her and what sounded like those she sought to help.

She had been singled out and isolated - and now locked in combat with two golems alone, one still missing in the fog that remained. She didn't know it was the one she crippled - she assumed a duo threat at this point. With nothing left, she would have to call upon Taji's strength to tear these things apart. In her haste to formulate a plan, she didn't notice the rumbling within the creature she was on top of. Her hand came up quick to tug down her shawl and place her fingers to her lips for a whistle to ring sharp and loud -

It would cut short as a blinding, piercing pain suddenly struck her in the upper portion of her lifted arm and the opposite knee. Her position had shifted just enough to avoid having her limbs skewered and pinned like a frog for dissection, but it didn't save her from two of the spikes finding home. This would shift that whistle quickly into a short shriek before she clamped her jaw shut and bit down on her lip. Despite how badly it hurt, she had to move. She would struggle to either lift herself off the spikes, or break them off - and plummet to the hard earth below. Or rather, the passing Taji as he tore right by the beast in hopes of catching his rider on the run.

Each respective golem now had their targets. Two constructs, one fully combat ready and another with a missing leg are attacking Akiyama. The crippled creature has used a lot of magic to create the earthen wall now blocking off any retreat route, and is slowly starting to regenerate its missing leg. Akiyama herself would not have been impaled very far. The spikes only managed to penetrate her skin and cause a fair amount of blood to start seeping out. No muscle tears or broken bones, lucky girl. This would indeed allow her to pull herself off the golem and back onto her horse.

The golem grappling and attacking the Watcher, would not let up its attacks. It witnessed that the spells from this armor suit always began with its staff and a few moments of concentration. It's goal was to keep the Watcher distracted so he couldn't use anymore of his spells. The second golem of the area, still reforming its main body from it's earlier crumbling, didn't get a chance to react to Ram Jam's mighty swing. The construct was demolished by Ram's powered swing, shattering its minimal defended crystal into close to 57 shards, causing it to crumble back into rock and soil.

The final two constructs attacking the Aozora and Ashigaru were about to change tactics. One golem continued to dig into the earth and produce boulders for tossing and crushing, while the second bent to all fours. Soil and root began falling from the creature as it willingly changed its shape, truning into a 6 foot high at the shoulders wolf of earth and stone. It was pawing the ground, ready to start charging and demolishing the spread out troops.

As a bestial roar went out over the battlefield, all 5 remaining golems stopped their actions and looked in the direction of the battle cry. All action temporarily ceased, allowing their opponenets an opening.

Ram's hammer smashed through the golem with the help of Black Betty, but he still had more to do. He saw his comrades forming battle lines again and he ran to join them. Ram hears the roar of the wolf golem and he sprints to join the fight.