Harry Potter: The Ring Maker

Chapter 554: Second task(4)

Fleur actually created a huge commotion in one of the buildings after seeing the golems wandering the ruined streets. Bright lights , loud sounds the whole thing and when the golems went to investigate in large numbers she directly shattered the supports of the building collapsing it on top of them killing fifteen at once. Even Nick was left speechless at the flat out terroristic tactic that he never even thought of someone using in this way. Even more Fleur merely moved the rubble in order to collect the treasures that had been hidden within the building.-

That tactic only worked once however as the golems now knew better than to go into a building en mass. 'How clever! She also realized that numbers were going to be her biggest obstacle and thus made it so that the golems wouldn't group up so easily again.' Nick thought approving her plan since it was a good way to make the task easier. Not trivial however as Fleur soon learned when she got into a fierce fight with four golems at once when she tried to pick off one that was alone only to find out it was a trap.-

The golems were semi sentient in nature so they could plan and make strategies as well. Nick didn't create truly artificial people however as that was a whole moral issue that he didn't want to deal with. The golems were more along the lines adaptive a.i with a hard limit encoded into them to keep them from truly blurring the line of what was and was not a person. He could make artificial people if he wanted to but Nick knew that was a whole thing best avoided if possible. If he really wanted Nick could probably create ACTUAL people in his realm but that also came with it's own set of issues.-

Anyways Fleur was actually doing pretty good so far as she had adapted to a far more cautious approach to the environment. Her current strategy involved disillusioning herself and sneakily casting knockout spells on the golems after checking to make sure they were truly alone. In a way she was acting the role of an assassin which more than a few people also noticed and mentioned. Her treasure collecting was far behind even Krum's but everyone agreed that was to be expected given the environment.-

It was simply far too time consuming to search out anything but the most obvious treasures and demolishing every building in the simulated environment would be a VERY bad idea since it would effectively place one on flat ground in sight of every golem in the chamber. It was clear that Fleur was aiming to get a full sweep of the golems instead in order to offset her lack of treasures which Nick was willing to admit was a perfectly valid option. Her environment favored combat over seeking treasure after all so the plan had solid viability so long as she was careful , which she was.-

The longer she behaved like an assassin the more she started to improve in it to an almost scary degree. She went from clumsily sneaking around to almost predatorily snuffing out each golem silently by the time she got near the building Gabriel was held in. Madam Maxime had a very concerned look watching this as it did not paint a good image of Fleur. Most of the crowd watching the task were starting to think she was actually an assassin. Thankfully the task was almost over as she finally entered the building cautiously but all the english wizards stiffened when they saw the guardian golem , a death eater.-

Unlike all the other golems that were weak dumb minions this one was borderline human in how it functioned. As a result it rolled out of the way when Fleur tried to catch it off guard like the other golems. What followed was a perfect example of magical combat as both Fleur and the golem traded spells and shields devastating every spot nearby as they took the fight outside to keep it away from Gabriel. Once outside things got even more heated as wide range destructive spells were used.-

Those who had seen actual combat watched on sternly at the uncomfortably accurate showing of the horror of the previous two wizarding wars. All of the judges gave Nick a hard look at this but he remained unfazed watching the projection. Eventually however Fleur managed to take advantage of a small opening to finish the golem off. Nick clapped at this much to everyone else's confusion until he explained that she had successfully defeated every golem in the task which deserved applause.