It had been 3 weeks since Aunt Sera left. An entire week of that was Luis adjusting to surviving without her, he hadn't realized how much he relied on her until she left. Additionally, it was getting harder and harder day by day to keep up with the baby rock golem antics, they never learned, and Luis never got a chance to rest, having always to make sure the baby rock golem was safe. The worst part was setting up camp alone as he would have to set up camp near to where the baby rock golem would move.

However, it was not all bad Luis had learned how to survive by himself just off fruits and fish. (“This is finally getting easier, this last week should be the easiest, but if what Maria and Rico said is true whenever they got used to their training it would get harder, that means Aunt Sera might just make me suffer more”) Luis thought to himself.

2 days later Luis found out that his hypothesis was correct. In the form of an adolescent rock golem a rank 2 low-tier creature(1 rank above the sand rats and the baby rock golems). Luis had been told by Aunt Sera what Adolescent rock golems were. They would form when ten baby rock golems all fall down on the same rock fusing with it. This is a very very uncommon occurrence but a dangerous one. The adolescent rock golems are 4 feet tall with hands and feet that support their body weight. Being made entirely out of stone they are hard to cut or break. Their biggest threat is that they perceive anything or anyone near any baby rock golems as predators.

Luis had spotted the adolescent rock golem before it saw him but the only problem was that the baby rock golem Luis had gotten the blessing from was headed in its direction.

Taking a big sigh Luis spoke out loud just enough for the golem to not hear him. "Aunt Sera I know you are the one who made it appear because you think the training is easy for me now, but I don't have any way of defeating it can you at least give me hints"

Luis did feel crazy talking out loud while no one was there and it didn't help that even after a few minutes he did not hear a response back.

Thinking inwardly (“Well I guess I'll have to deal with it myself. What would Aunt Sera say when I can't win a fight? Hmmmm oh right set traps, run, and negotiate if possible. I guess I can't negotiate, they are said to be low intelligence meaning communication is not possible. Wait its legs are injured he's not moving a lot. Maybe Aunt Sera isn't that bad after all. It's still walking though but slowly, maybe there's other stuff she did to help me”).

15 minutes later
A slope 30 meters away from the adolescent golem. (“Okay the terrain is littered with uneven rocks, there's also big pieces of dislodged rocks on top of the hill I can throw down, this is perfect”)

Luis started off by launching small pebbles at the golem he imbued them with aura but they only left scratches on the golem. However, it did the job of distracting the golem as it came rushing towards Luis, it would also tumble and fall because of the uneven terrain further damaging its legs. When it got close enough Luis mustered all the strength in his body while using aura and threw down the dislodged big rocks.

Rumbling sounds echoed and a dust cloud arose where the golem was "Its…. Immobilized let's gooooo" Luis yelled loudly. (“Now let me test something else out, I wonder if I could have destroyed him with an aura punch”) Luis thought as he stood above it closing his eyes gathering all his aura in his fist, and swung with full force. Leaving a gaping hole in the golem.

Unable to contain his grin inwardly thinking (“It takes me about 15 seconds to charge up but I can destroy one with my fist. That was easier than I thought. There are only 7 more days left let's go. Oh, wait shi.. I forgot about the baby golem”). Luis ran full speed towards the baby golem it was luckily only stuck in a dead bush and had not fallen over.

Luis thought the rest of the days would be easier but the numbers of the golems kept increasing every 2 days. His new plan was to just grab the attention of all the golems and run until they got far enough away from the baby golem, which is when he would use the aura in his legs to quickly run out of the adolescent golems eye line. This would leave him more and more tired every day as on the 29th day 5 golems appeared but luckily all of their legs were still injured.

Sadly the last day was different, Luis was a mess drained from running every day, which would exhaust him, and making sure he did not run in the same directions as other golems he led astray previous days also limited his options, making it so on some days he had to run even further away. Luckily while he was not with the baby golem it had not received too much damage, it looked as if it could still survive five falls.

As Luis woke up on day 30 to face off against another five golems, to his surprise there were only three but unlike the rest, they were not injured. Luis realised he couldn’t outrun them (“I can't outrun three of them and it looks like all the bad terrain I saw on the path here all just disappeared overnight….. I have no advantages”)

Luis had about 30 minutes where he would have to stop following his golem because then the other three older ones would spot him. Making him have a minimum of 30 minutes to come up with a plan. (“This is bad")

The thing that scared Luis the most was not the golems but it was the thought that Aunt Sera might make him do it all again if the baby golem dies.

("That is a dumb plan but that might be my only chance.") Luis thought

With what Luis had observed over the last few days the baby golems fell twice an hour and looking at how damaged his was he had 2 hours to make it back here on time. Otherwise, it was gonna fall and kill itself.

("Okay I can do this there are about nine other adolescents surviving golems, with their legs being injured they are more clumsy, and when there were more they were causing more harm to each other than I was too then. I just need to hope that I can make the golems with working legs crash at high speed into the golems with injured feet")