With your newfound magical powers!

You doubt any physical attack you can make on a creature of stone could do any real harm to the creature, even if you had a weapon besides the gauntlet on your hand. But you have other options than to attack physically, don't you? That's right, your subjugating of the naiad had gifted you with a portion of her power and you had already tried that power out. You knew you could use it to attack and, even better, you could use it to attack from a distance. With a foe like the golem, which possessed such great strength that you couldn't hope to match it in a close-up physical match, attacking at range might be best.

That being the case, you start to concentrate that power within you once more, even as you again dodge to the side to avoid another of the golem's charges that sends it rushing past you and slamming into the wall of the cavern. You roll up to a kneeling position and bring your unadorned hand up as you had before, with hand held straight and flat as though it were a blade itself. Already that aura of blue magical energy has gathered at the edge of your hand and you, with sharp concentration, bring your hand down in an arc. A blade of water comes into being and cuts through the air and towards the stone giant that has just turned back towards you. The blade of water, which had sliced deeply into the boulder you'd practiced on before, cuts into the golem's stone skin. It does not cut deep, but it leaves a substantial furrow upon the stone "flesh" of the golem and causes the stone creature to rock back slightly from the impact.

You curse softly to yourself as you realize that the water magic you'd gotten from the naiad, while able to mark the stone creature, would not be able to cut it deeply. You see, though, that the point where your blade of water had struck the golem's body shows signs of cracking now. Small cracks, little more than lines, but they are there. And it is then that you steel your resolve. If one blade would not do the job then you would simply just have to attack again...and again...and again until you had weakened the golem's hard stone skin enough to do some real damage!

And so that's what you do, falling into a pattern of dodging the stone giant's attacks and then counter-attacking with your magical power. You aim each attack as close to the same point in the creature's midsection as you can, sending blade after blade into the hard stone and seeing the small cracks in its exterior become larger and larger. Pieces of its rocky flesh flake away, pebbles and chips already cracked loose from the golem's midsection. It's stone skin is weakening in that one spot and it is that one spot you know you must make a decisive blow to.

So after dodging another unwieldy blow from the golem, you gather your courage and charge it as it turns to right itself. You draw back your right arm, your gauntleted hand curling into a fist and gleaming with that red light of malevolent energy as you dash forward. You reach the stone giant just as it has turned towards you and, before it can react to you being so close, you strike out with a mighty blow from your gauntleted fist aimed straight at that weakened spot in the golem's middle. A cry of fury escapes your throat as you attack, the obsidian steel of the gauntlet slamming into the cracking, flaking stone flesh of the golem with all the strength you can bring forth.

Your focused strategy pays off as, with a sharp crack, the golem's midsection shatters and the hard exterior of its "stomach" blows apart, leaving it with a large hole in its middle where soft earth begins to flow out of it as though it were blood. It is then that the golem makes a sound, a rumbling roar of sound that seems to be more a vibrating of the rocks against each other than a vocalization. As you hear that, though, you also hear a strange cry echoed in your mind, a high pitched cry that seems to harmonize with the golem's roar.

You don't have time to focus on the strange dual cries, one audible and the other mental, as you know you now have to strike a decisive blow to end this fight. You may have harmed the golem, but it is hardly out of the fight. You need to press your advantage and bring this to an end here and now. But how?!