[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier":3,"chapter-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-53":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Awakening a 10,000x Skill Proficiency Multiplier in the Apocalypse",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1480564,1927,"Chapter 53: [53]: The Golem Foundry, Scrap and Skulls","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-53",53,"\u003Cp>Sanctuary was rapidly filling up with people. But bodies alone didn’t win wars against the monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian walked down the grand spiraling staircase into the deepest sublevel of the Citadel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The five-kilometer perimeter outside was massive. Even with a thousand terrified laborers holding rusty pipes, they couldn’t possibly defend the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human soldiers were fragile. They panicked. They bled. And worst of all, when they died, they turned into Infected and attacked you from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed guards that didn’t complain, didn’t sleep, and didn’t have a central nervous system to hijack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached the Guild Core room. The massive diamond of the True City Core floated above its obsidian pedestal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It pulsed with a slow golden heartbeat. It was the anchor tethering this digital fortress to the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian stepped up to the console. He needed a master crafter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only one NPC degenerate enough to build the horrors he required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed his hands on the glowing runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Guild Master Override. Initiate targeted real-world summoning protocol. Target: Galleon, Master Artificer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system chimed. It was a harsh grating sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Summoning a high-tier Ethereal entity into physical reality requires a massive expenditure of Real-World Mana. Physical backlash imminent. Proceed?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck it. Proceed.\" Sebastian gritted his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the drain instantly. It wasn’t like casting a spell. It felt like his life force was forcefully siphoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian dropped to one knee. He gasped for air as the dark violet veins on his arms bulged and burned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ARGH!\" he coughed. He spit a speck of blood onto the polished glass floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the pedestal, the space violently tore open. Blue data streams cascaded downward and weaved together in a chaotic frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smell of cheap ale and vomit instantly flooded the pristine room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive broad figure slammed onto the floor and groaned loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Galleon. The dwarf was covered in soot-stained leathers. His fiery orange beard was matted with questionable fluids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clutched his head. His eyes were squeezed shut against the bright lights of the Core room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the First Maker’s hairy ass.\" Galleon groaned. His voice was like grinding gravel. \"My head is splitting. Did the tavern collapse again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dwarf cracked open one bloodshot eye. He looked at the flawless dark glass and the pulsing True Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he looked down at his own hands and wiggled his thick fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell is this?\" Galleon whispered. His eyes widened. \"The textures... the rendering. This ain’t Ironhold. The graphics are too high-def! I can feel the individual grains of dirt in my beard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome to reality, stubby.\" Sebastian wheezed. He slowly pushed himself up from the floor and wiped his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I pulled you out of the server. You’re physical now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Galleon stared at him. Then he let out a massive booming laugh that echoed in the chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The real world?! You pulled me out of the code? Boss, you are a certified grade-A lunatic! I love it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tell me you have a forge! Tell me you have ale!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have something better.\" Sebastian said as his silver eyes gleamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have thousands of tons of unregulated scrap metal and a mountain of dead bodies. I need an army, Galleon. And I need it in an hour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later, they stood in the massive open-air courtyard near the eastern wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian’s newly organized labor division had been busy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the terrifyingly efficient gaze of Valerie and the silent patrols of assassin squads, the workers had dragged piles of material into the center of the stone plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were massive heaps of rusted iron rebar, crushed concrete blocks, and twisted steel girders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But right next to the metal was a far more gruesome pile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a mound of pulverized bones and blackened skulls harvested from the thousands of Infected that had cooked themselves against the outer barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Beautiful.\" Galleon wept. He wiped a tear from his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dwarf walked around the pile of scrap and skulls and patted the rusted metal affectionately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No regulations. No safety limits. We can build horrors, boss.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We lack manpower.\" Sebastian explained as he stood next to the pile. \"Standard golems take too much refined clay and pristine mana crystals.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We don’t have that. We have garbage and death. I need you to forge the frames. I’ll provide the spark.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want me to fuse steel and bone?\" Galleon grinned. He pulled a massive rune-etched hammer from his back. \"Say no more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dwarf went to work. It was a terrifying display of master-tier crafting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Galleon didn’t use a furnace. He slammed his hammer against the earth and channeled raw kinetic heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He violently beat the rusted rebar and the charred human bones together. He forcefully bent them into jagged hulking humanoid frames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were ugly. They were lopsided nightmares of jagged metal spikes and exposed scorched ribcages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heads were simply clusters of three or four human skulls welded together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Galleon stepped back and panted. He admired the fifty empty shells he had hastily forged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are ugly as sin, boss. But they’re sturdy. How are you gonna power ’em? We don’t have soul gems.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have a glitch.\" Sebastian stated flatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked up to the first massive jagged frame. He didn’t use a high-tier artificer spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dug into his memory and pulled out a basic pathetic Necromancy hex used by beginner warlocks to make dead rats twitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Basic Animation]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian pressed his hand against the fused cluster of skulls on the frame’s shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Action Registered: Cast Basic Animation.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Nexus Glitch Activated: Proficiency x10,000.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system shrieked as the code was violently stretched to its breaking point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Basic Animation leveled up to 10\u002F10! Max Level Reached!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evolution Requirement Met. Basic Animation evolves to Tier 1: Corpse Puppet!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proficiency Overflow Detected! Corpse Puppet leveled up to 10\u002F10!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evolution Requirement Met. Corpse Puppet evolves to Tier 3: Blood-Forged Construct!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proficiency Overflow Detected! Blood-Forged Construct leveled up to 10\u002F10!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[WARNING: Concept Threshold Breached. Necro-Mechanical Law Unlocked.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Blood-Forged Construct evolves to Conceptual Law: Soulforged Animation.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pulse of deep crimson light exploded from Sebastian’s palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It washed over the fifty empty scrap frames and sank directly into the charred bone and rusted metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The courtyard went dead silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the skulls began to chatter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CLACK-CLACK-CLACK.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The empty eye sockets of the skulls ignited with a furious burning red light. The metal gears and rusted rebar ground together with a horrendous screeching sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Scrap Golems rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stood ten feet tall. They weren’t elegant magical statues. They were terrifying amalgamations of industrial waste and human remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were held together by sheer necromantic will. They radiated an aura of pure violence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, sweet mother of machinery.\" Galleon gasped. He dropped to his knees in pure reverence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian stepped back. His eyes scanned the abominations. They didn’t have weapons. Their arms ended in jagged rusty hooks and heavy blocks of concrete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s test the perimeter defense.\" Sebastian commanded. He pointed toward the heavy titanium gates of the inner courtyard. \"Open them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie hit the console from a safe distance on the balcony. The gates ground open and exposed the inner courtyard to the devastated outer rubble zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scent of fresh magic immediately drew a crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pack of twenty massive mutated Demon Rats bounded through the gates. Each was the size of a wolf and their yellow teeth snapped wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Scrap Golems didn’t wait for orders. The Soulforged Law programmed them for absolute defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SKREEEEECH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Golems charged. They moved with a terrifying jerky speed. Their heavy concrete feet cracked the marble floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an absolute slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The leading Golem didn’t punch the first Demon Rat. It simply reached down with its rusted rebar claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It grabbed the massive rodent by its upper and lower jaws and violently ripped its arms apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SNAP! SQUELCH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rat was torn entirely in half. A geyser of black blood and intestines rained down over the Golem’s skulls. It painted the rusted metal in fresh gore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other Golems crashed into the pack. They stomped on the rats and crushed their spines into paste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They used their concrete fists to cave in skulls. They painted the walls of the courtyard with violent streaks of red and black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rats tried to bite the Golems. But their teeth simply shattered against the thick steel and magically reinforced bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than ten seconds, the pack was entirely wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Golems stood amidst the twitching carnage. Their red eyes burned brightly in the gloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian nodded. He was completely satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Galleon.\" Sebastian said. His voice was flat. \"I want a thousand of these on the walls by midnight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dwarf practically squealed with joy and hoisted his massive hammer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll need more skulls, boss!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t worry.\" Sebastian replied. He looked out at the burning red sky of the ruined city. \"The world is about to deliver plenty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1489,"2026-06-06T03:26:14.952Z",1,"novelbin.me","2d4a0648b8a85478d8f019a147c98c7bbf19586663207f89eb8e275fc6af6f4e","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-109","awakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-chapter-108",198,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fawakening-a-10-000x-skill-proficiency-multiplier-cover.jpg"]