The Emerald Cat Golem - Wizard Craft 3.0 #11

0:04 Hey, hello, friends from across the nation and around the world. I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories, the podcast that takes listener ideas and turns them into bedtime stories. And recently it's been a midweek tradition to make my second story of the week a wizard Craft story, and that's exactly what I'm going to do today. Now.

0:30 The story for today's episode is a little bit strange because I got a message from one of my Patreon sponsors, Cayden. Hey, Cayden, how's it going, to let me know that he'd sent me a speak pipe message about an Emerald gol om or about Emerald Golams that replicate really quickly. So I went in to speak Pipe and I searched for messages about Emerald Golams and I found them, not paying attention to the name of the person who put them in, and I made up the story, and then I realized when I came here to record it that it was actually a second Emerald Golum suggestion. And I have no idea where Caden's is, so Kaiden, I can't. I don't know what happened. There were a couple stories I got where I couldn't actually hear the suggestion, so maybe one

1:24 of those was yours. But yeah, I'm going to kind of incorporate the two of them together, so Kaiden's idea about replicating Emerald Golams as well as this one.

1:36 Hi, my name is Nora and I'm from a Red Deer County, Alberta, and I would like to suggest a story for the wizard Craft series where you find an Emerald golmspell book and the Emerald Golmes can turn into cats, and the first one you make has is a gold collar with emeralds in it, and you can make one once per week. Thank you, I love your podcast.

2:13 Thank you Nora, and thank you Caten, because I'm going to kind of put those ideas together for today's episode replicating Emerald Golams that can also turn into cats. The cat thing was the hardest, the hardest one to come up with. Now it's time to close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does. Now, if you don't remember from last time, we actually ended it in a safe room and a bit of a dungeon where we just got some cool stuff, and that's that's where we'll be starting tonight. You week up with a set of words floating in front of your eyes.

3:03 Wake up. You mentally select yes, and the world slowly forms around you. Only this time you're not inside your house or in the still unnamed mountain village. You're lying inside one of three beds in a strange Dungeons safe room. For a second, you completely forget where you are. Then another screen appears. Congratulations. Character progress summary available. Current player level level six, Current skills unlocked, lock picking level three, Ninjitsu combat level two, Rcane Engineer level three Cyborg. You can create magical machines that connect directly with the mind and body. Current wizard abilities adept Wizard. All spells cost half their normal mana. Current spells unlocked. Stone golum, copper golum,

4:19 iron golam, golden golum, diamond golum, fireball, level two, Telekinesis level three, Earth Magic level two, Lightning Magic level two, Animal Control level two. Current equipment Iron Sword, Sword of Stolen Skills, Diamond goldam mech Sude, upgraded armored car, current mounts, giant hawk, young void Dragon, Current location Dungeon realm safe room objective. Continue exploring the Dungeon realm. The prompt disappears, and you look around. JD is asleep in the bed beside you, and Grayson is on the other side. Surrounding all three beds or three diamond golams and three golden Golams standing perfectly still, exactly as you order them to do.

5:31 And further across the room are three massive diamond golam mech suits, powered down with their arms hanging at their sides. Oh yeah, you say, dungeon. Then your eyes drift towards your inventory and you remember something considerably more interesting. The books you reach into your inventory produce the first book.

6:02 It's the Wizard's Skill Tree book you found inside the massive golden chest after defeating the three diamond Golams yesterday. You hold it out in front of you. All right, let's see what this does. You open it and time freezes around you. The pages begin flipping on their own. Memories suddenly crash into your mind, but not memories of any particular spell, this time memories of magic itself. You remember standing in front of targets and creating tiny flames again and again without wasting even the smallest amount of mana.

6:48 You remember learning to pull magical energy from the world around you into your body faster and faster. You remember casting spell after spell, feeling your mono drain away and then refill. When the pages stop flipping, the book dissolves and another prompt appears. Congratulations, you have unlocked Advanced Wizard.

7:22 All spell Mona costs have been reduced by half again. Mona regeneration speed has been doubled. Your mona bar flash is bright blue. Okay, that's useful, you say, now useful. JD asks, Well, apparently everything costs half as much mona again, so compared to when we started. Yeah, I can cast a lot more magic now, man it comes back twice as fast. Yep, Grayson walks over. That's almost unfair, you shrug.

8:10 I'm okay with unfair. Then you reach into your inventory again and pull out the second book. A picture of a golam with glowing laser eyes is drawn across the front. Oh, I definitely want this one. You flip open the Laser Golum spell book once again. Time freezes. Memories begin to pour into your mind. You remember standing in front of stone golums copper golums, iron golams, and well stranger golams you've never even seen before. You Remember reaching into that magical spark that gives a goldam life, and not removing it, but changing it. Remember creating little pathways through their bodies, mono pathways that gather magic energy and directed upward into the head, into the eyes. You see Golum's firing beams

9:17 of concentrated magical energy powerful enough to burn holes through stone. Then you understand one final limitation. The book slams shut and disintegrates. Congratulations, Laser Golum spell unlocked. This smell may be used once per week. Laser strength is determined by the power and material of the upgraded golum once a week.

9:51 Why is that, you say? Complicated spells take a toll on your mind. Increase in your mental fortitude may increase the number of times you can use spells in a given period, But for now, one time per week is the limit. How fine, Well, I think we both know what we're going to use it on today. Absolutely, jd answers.

10:26 You look at the diamond golm you created yourself. Diamond, come over here. The enormous creature walks forward what are your orders? H Do you want laser eyes? You ask? The Golam pauses thanks for a second, and answers yes. You place one hand against the Diamond Golum's chest. Your mana reaches inside. You can feel the spark of life placed there when you first created them. You follow that strange new memory you received, and magical pathways begin forming throughout the diamond Golum. Thin glowing lines spread upward from his chest, across his shoulders, through the neck, and finally into his head. Both of his eyes begin glowing bright red.

11:35 The spell finishes. The Golum looks down at you. Laser systems active. Well dry them, you say. The Golum turns toward a stone wall. Two beams of bright red energy explode from its eyes. The lasers instantly burn two holes into the stone. Everyone stares. The Golum turns back. I like the lasers. You laugh, good, I'm glad. Can mine have lasers? JD asks next week? Ah? Once per week is once per week? You look around at everyone. All right, well, I guess it's time to continue. You walk over to your diamond golam mechsuit. The back opens up and you climb inside. As the diamond darmer closes around you, the neurro connector presses gently against the back of your head.

12:49 For just a second, you feel that strange, tingling sensation. Then your mind connects. Your body suddenly feel enormous. Your arms aren't really your arms anymore. They're huge diamond mechanical arms. Your legs are several times longer, and you can feel the magical power sells inside your chest like their organs or something. You look towards the doorway and your two shoulder mounted lasers instinctively turn with your eyes JD and Grace and activate their suits beside you. Ready. JD asks through his mech suit. Ready, you say, you look toward your six golams. Everyone follow us. Understood the golams all answer at once. You leave the safe room through the doorway at the opposite end. Immediately, another purple poor comes

14:00 to life. Wow, Grayson says, I guess that's where we're going. You stemp through the world flashes, and suddenly you find yourself standing in a gigantic green stone chamber. Emeralds glow from the walls, Emeralds glow from the ceiling. There are emeralds everywhere. Wow, this is promising, you say, and then something drops from the ceiling. A humanoid creature lands directly in front of you. It's a golum, an emerald golum.

14:46 It's only about the size of one of your stone golums, considerably smaller than the diamond ones. But something about the way it stands seems different. It crouches low, one leg forward, both hands open, like some kind of ninja, and then another one drops beside it, then another, then a whole bunch more, And if that weren't bad enough, the golams start to glow. They split in half and stretch apart into two golams each. Did they just replicate? You ask? Congratulations, you have discovered self replicating emerald golams. Self replicating emerald goldams have the capability to replicate once certain conditions are met.

15:54 Luckily for you, these golams have met those conditions. Have fun. The first emerald golum suddenly disappears. A what something slams into your back. Your entire mech suit stumbles forward. You spin around just in time to see the emerald golum leaps straight over your head. It flips in the air, lands on one hand and kicks both feet into the side of your shoulder. Now you swing at it, but it dodges. It's fast, really fast. Three more Emerald Golums leap onto your diamond golums. One runs straight up the side of your laser diamond Golum flips over his shoulder and kicks him in the back of the head. The Diamond Golum turns slowly, his eyes glow red zap. The Emerald golum barely manages to leap aside as twin lasers

17:05 cut across the chamber wall. I like lasers. The diamond golum repeats, Hey, buddy, me too. Everyone attack you yell, and the room explodes into chaos. Golden golums transform their arms into blades. Diamond Golums swing enormous fists. J D and Grayson start to fire lightning from their mechanical suits shoulders.

17:40 You reach out with your telekinesis and grab one of the emerald golums in mid air. It struggles against your magic. Normally, maintaining a telekinetic cold while fighting would drain your mana quickly, But now the mana bar barely seems to move. Must be the advanced wizard thingy. You slam the Emerald Golum into the floor, but it bounces back up. You slam it again. Then the laser Diamond Golum looks down and zap.

18:19 The Emerald Golum disappears in a puff of green smoke, leaving behind some Emeralds. Of course, more attack. One leaps toward your head. You instinctively raise your diamond arm and catch it. It kicks and twists trying to escape. I got you, you say. You throw it across the room and JD blasts it with lightning before it hits the ground, causing it to disappear into smoke as well. Another rushes towards you. You jump up in the air and stomp.

18:56 At just the right time, Earth magic spread heads through the floor and a stone pillar or erupts directly beneath the Golam, launching it into the ceiling. Graceon blasted with a shoulder laser on the way back down between the nine of you. The battle starts turning quickly. The Emerald Golams are incredibly fast and well thanks to that whole replicating thing at the start. There's a lot of them, but your team is still incredibly overpowered. And over lasered, especially now that one of the diamond golums can shoot lasers out of his eyes as well. Eventually, the last emerald golum attempts to flip over your head. You grab it with telekinesis, hold it in the air in front of you, and fire both shoulder lasers at once, instantly

19:55 making the thing disappear in a puff of smoke and little emeralds behind. For a moment after the last one's destroyed, everything is silent, and then the floor starts to rumble. A green chest rises up out of the stone. Oh good, JD says loot. You walk over and the chest clicks open. Inside is a single book, a spell book. You pick it up, and across the cover is the image of a bright green humanoid creature. The all knowing voice immediately speaks, congratulations, you have discovered the emerald Golam spell. You stare down at it. Emerald golams can be created once per week and are capable of self replicating when certain conditions are met, most importantly proximity to other emeralds and an abundance of mana.

21:11 You stare down at the Emerald Golums spellbook all right. Then you grin, I guess I know what I'm reading. Next, you mentally suck the book into your inventory. JD looks over at you. Those were definitely faster than our other goloms. Yeah, diamond golams are stronger, but those things move like ninjas.

21:39 Grayson steps over to the piled of emerald pieces left behind by the fight, and together you absorb as many of the emeralds as you can. Then the group moves forward. You pass through a long emerald hallway before reaching another portal. One by one you step through the world flashes, and suddenly you find yourself standing on a huge grassy field.

22:14 What you look around you and you see blue sky, trees, tall grass, even clouds. It looks like you're outside, But when you look straight up, really far above you, you can just barely make out stone, a stone ceiling. So we're still in the dungeon, Greason says, apparently. Then you hear something, a growl, a very deep growl. The grass ahead begins moving, and something huge rises out of it.

23:03 A lion. Only this isn't like any normal lion. It's bigger than an elephant, its paws or almost as large as your mech suit. Its mane glows with faint golden magic, and behind it, something else rises from the grass, a tiger, also gigantic. Then another creature, a house cat, just an ordinary looking house cat, except for the fact that it's like forty feet long. JD pauses, that might actually be the scariest one. Why you ask, because it's just a house cat, but it's huge. The giant cat looks at you and it's pupils wide. Then it crouches. Oh no, the cat launches itself through the air. You barely get your arms up before it crashes into you. The four sends your entire mech suit sliding backward. All right, everyone,

24:19 I guess. Attack. The lion roars and rushes the diamond golams. The tiger jumps onto one of the golden ones. The gigantic house cat tries to bite your mech suit's head. You push against it with both hands. Get off of me. You focus your telekinesis, and the cat lifts slightly. Then your increased mone a regeneration kicks in. You pour more power into the spell. The giant creature suddenly flies backward through the air. JD raises both mechanical hands and unleashes a blast of lightning. The bolt hits the cat. It flips backward, lands on four paws, and immediately charges again seriously.

25:17 The lion smashes into your laser golum. The golum barely moves its eyes light up. I like lasers. The Golum's eyes begin to glow and zap. Twin laser beams hit the lion directly in the chest. The lion disappears into a puff of smoke. I really like lasers, the golam says, you've mentioned that. The tiger leaps onto Grayson's neck. Grayson grabs it around the middle. A little help here, one of the golden golams transforms both arms into huge blades and slices towards the tiger. The tiger jumps away your diamond goal and rushes it. Tackles it, and the other two diamond golums grab it, one by the tail and one by the front paw. Then you j D and Grace and all point your shoulder lasers at the thing and unleash a blast of laser fire, all at once.

26:38 The tiger explodes in a puff of smoke, leaving only the giant housecat. It crouches again. You know exactly what it's about to do. You reach your mana down into the earth, and two enormous stone walls explode out of the ground on either side of the cat. You clap your mechanical hands together and the walls smash inward. The cat leaps straight up to escape, but you are expecting that.

27:13 Your shoulder lasers track it automatically, and fire Graceon joins you, so does j D. Six powerful laser beams converge and the giant cat while it's still mid air. There's a flash and the creature disappears in a puff of smoke. You look around, everybody good. You ask good, JD says, guid Grayson replies, Your golums look mostly fine too. One of the golden golums has a huge bite mark on its shoulder, but it quickly liquefies and repairs the damage the ground and starts to rumble. A large stone pedestal rises in the middle of the field, and sitting on top of it is another book. You walk over and pick it up. The cover shows a person turning into a cat. Congratulations, you have discovered the cat transformation spell book.

28:27 Cat transformation. JD looks at you. You're definitely going to read that right Well, eventually, you say. You absorb the book into your inventory. At the far end of the field, another doorway opens. You walk through it. The next section of the dungeon is much quieter, just a long stone hallway that seems to lead directly to and makes it portal.

29:00 No golams, no giant cats, no slimes. Honestly, that makes you feel even more suspicious. There must be something else around here. You move slowly, your shoulder lasers scan left and right. Grayson suddenly stops. Wait what is it that wall? He says. You look to the right. It looks like a wall mostly, but one section of stone is just a little bit different. The lines don't match or something, or maybe the blocks are newer, and there's a tiny draft coming from one of the cracks. Secret room, you ask, Definitely a secret room, Grayson says, you ain't. Both your shoulder lasers. Everyone stand back, They don't bother you. Fire and the lasers blast into the stone wall. Chunks explode outward, dust fills the hallway, and when it clears there's an

30:20 opening behind It is a laboratory or at least something that used to be a laboratory. You step inside. Broken tables cover the room. There are burned books everywhere. Some are nothing but blackened covers, others have a few pages remaining. Shelves line the walls, filled with old bottles, bits of emerald, piles of gold and strange crystals. Grayson immediately starts looking around. Wow, wow, what you ask? This stuff is old? Useless?

31:08 Old?

31:08 Or useful?

31:09 Old?

31:10 You ask potentially very useful old. You absorb some of the loose emerald and golds into your inventory. Then you see something in the back of the room. A machine. It's sheaped like a tall, metal large with two platforms beneath it. Copper wires twist around the sides. Strange crystals line the top, and the middle is a round glass lens.

31:42 Any idea what that is? You ask? Greson walks closer and takes a very knowing look at the machine. Now I have no idea what this is. That's comforting. You place your hand against the side. You are cane engineer skills activate, bits and pieces start to make sense, power conduits, mono channels, storage compartments, But the whole machine you just don't understand. It. You lean closer to examine the controls, and there's one large button. You press it. Why would you press that? JD asks? I wanted to see what it did. The machine suddenly hums, the crystals light up, and a beam of energy shoots out. It hits you directly in the chest. For one terrifying second, everything turns bright white. Then the machine turns off and you look

32:57 down at yourself. Okay, congratulations, you have successfully combined two spell books into one using a spell combining machine. You stare blankly, oh what? The voice continues, as no target spell books were provided. The machine automatically selected compatible spell books from your inventory. Your eyes widen. Oh no. You open your inventory. You look for the Emerald Golum spell book gone. Then you look for the Cat Transformation spell book also gone. In their place is a single book, bright green. On the front is an image of an Emerald Gol'm transforming into a cat. J D steps closer.

34:07 What did you do? You pull the book out? Emerald Cat Goldum spell book. Grayson stares at it. Man't combined them? Apparently, that's incredible, also slightly annoying because they didn't tell it to. You press the button yeah, okay, that's fair. You stare at the machine, So theoretically we could combine other spells.

34:42 Grayson looks almost too excited. Do you realize what that means? Yes, you answer, you didn't even know what I was gonna say. Well, it means we're definitely coming back to this machine in the future, Grace and smiles. Exactly what I was going to say. You look at the new spellbook. Well, I guess there's only one way to find out what it does.

35:14 You mentally deactivate your mech suit. The armor opens and you climb out the back. Then you sit at the edge of the broken laboratory and you open it up. Time freezes and the pages begin moving. But this time the memories feel wrong or strange, or something not dangerous in any way, just weird. You remember Emerald Gola magic creating the body, the joints, the fast movements. Then suddenly the memory changes. You remember Cat transformation, magic, bones changing shape, muscles, rearranging, a body getting smaller, And then the memories sort of crash into each other goal em Cat Emerald transformation. The two sets of knowledge twist together in ways that clearly weren't originally meant to you see an emerald golum fold

36:28 its arms inward, its shoulders rotate, its legs collapse and twist, Its head changes shape. Its emerald body compresses until a cat stands where the goalum used to be. Then the memories reverse the goal of unfolds back into a goal, and the book disappears. That was strange. You say, congratulations, you have unlocked the emerald cat golum spell. This is a unique combined spell, one of a kind due to the unnatural integration of two separate magical disciplines. This spell cannot easily be transferred to another person. You may create one emerald cat goldum per week. Warning. Like emerald goldams, emerald cat golams can reproduce when certain conditions are met.

37:36 You stand up, well, we have plenty of emeralds. You dump a pile onto the floor, reach into your mana, and the emerald pieces start to rise. They spin, they smash together, legs form arms a body ahead. The finished golam is smaller than your diamond golams and even a little bit smaller than an iron golum, about the size of a stone golum. Its eyes light up. What ah your orders? You grin. I want you to turn into a cat. The golam pauses, and then its body begins moving.

38:24 Its arms fold against its chest, its legs bend backward. The emerald plates rotate and slide over one another, like pieces in some kind of complicated machine. Its head folds down, its back compresses, Its entire body gets smaller and smaller, and suddenly, standing in front of you is a green emerald cat, about the size of a regular house cat.

38:57 The cat looks up. Ah, your orders. The voice is exactly the same. Everyone stares. JD speaks, that is the weirdest thing you've ever made. The emerald cat sits down. It licks the back of its pawd rubs it against its emerald head. Ah, just follow us for now understood, the cat says. The emerald cat begins trotting along behind you.

39:35 You climb back into your diamond Gola mech suit. The three of you continue deeper into the laboratory and back down the first hallway you found to the final portal door. The door lights up and you step through. The world flashes, and suddenly you find yourself standing back inside the final diamond level of the mind, right beside the original dungeon realm portal. You turn around, the portal behind you disappears together three giant mech suits, six giant golams, and one medium sized emerald cat that's capable of turning into a golum.

40:27 Enter the large elevator and go back up to the top of the mines. Golums. You say, go about your business, understood, the golums say, before walking away from the area. You, JD and Grayson head down the steps and pull your gol of mech suits up to the town hall. You deactivate them and step out the back. I don't know about you, guys, but I'm tired. Yeah, me too, JD says, and so you head home. You look behind you to see an emerald cat following happily behind you. Simply shrug your shoulders as you enter your house. The cat runs inside, curls up beside the bed, and immediately begins to sleep.

41:28 Looks like you have a new bodyguard. You lay down in the bed, pull the covers up over yourself, and close your eyes. Immediately, a prompt appears, Sleep. You select yes, and a wave of fatigue passes over your body. Your arms and legs melt into the mattress, and with each breath her mind begins to wander off the thoughts of new dreams and new adventures to come. Good night everyone, no no thing, no more game.

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