"Thank you, but it would be best to save your magic for your attacks. I will be fine." She had to assume Trismegistus was some kind of minor summon that he could control. The idea was impressive to her, but she wondered if the others he spoke of had similar beings they called. Perhaps it was more common in his world...

She nodded in response to his question. Thankfully she'd discovered that her intuition regarding the monsters' similarities to the sand golems of Cleyra was correct.

"I'm not certain of their origins, but I know those stones act as a core for the larger ones. Once they're destroyed, the golems are as well."