Deathgod Golem

The Deathgod Golem is a human-shaped divine construct controlled through blood binding and powered by a divine jewel. Such golems combine a very tough material body with the absence of a soul, making them valuable physical guards and remote decoys. One captured at Moon Lake Castle became Delia's protector, while later chapters show other units used as expendable proxies; the cited record does not establish that those later units are Delia's original golem. (Chapters 470–473, 484, 664, 666–667)

History

Moon Lake Castle capture

Moon Lake Castle deployed twenty Deathgod Golems, although most were not equal to a genuine Highgod in overall combat ability. When Linley killed the controller of one golem, the construct immediately stopped. Bebe collected the now-masterless unit, and the group learned that a high-level Deathgod Golem could be worth roughly a hundred million inkstones—more than a Highgod spark. (Chapters 470–473)

Linley assigned the captured golem to Delia for the Fiend trial. It remained close to her as a physical shield, and she used it while escaping a Highgod and while forcing a path through collapsing stone. Those successes combined the golem's body with Delia's own wind-law techniques; the construct did not supply those laws or insights. (Chapters 484, 487, 490–491, 496, 499)

Remote proxies and battlefield decoys

Other owners later used Deathgod Golems to host projected awareness for meetings or battlefield communication. Commanders could control units lacking their own badge and soul aura, making them useful as false targets. Linley and Bebe likewise controlled golems as lures, but the narrative treats these as units of the same artifact class and does not identify them as the Moon Lake golem previously associated with Delia. (Chapters 613, 664, 666–667)

Their use as decoys also exposed practical limits. A controller had to operate the golem from within a workable range, a pursuing commander could outpace one, and vibration attacks could shatter a golem's arm or body despite its extraordinary hardness. Individual constructs were therefore expendable even though the class remained strategically useful. (Chapters 664, 666–667, 669–672, 677–678, 686)

Abilities and properties

A Deathgod Golem has no spirit or independent consciousness. Soul attacks therefore cannot injure the construct itself, while blood binding lets a master direct it and a divine jewel supplies its power. Its durable divine-artifact body can block or endure formidable material attacks and can wield ordinary physical weapons. (Chapters 471–473)

That immunity does not extend to the person behind the golem: spiritual attacks can pass the physical guard and strike its master. The construct also cannot perform spiritual attacks of its own, and its movement, tactics, and any law-based maneuvers depend on the controller. Superior material techniques can damage or destroy its body. (Chapters 471, 484, 491, 666–667, 669–672)

Ownership and custody

The Moon Lake unit passed from an unnamed castle controller to Bebe's storage when Linley killed its master, then from Linley's group to Delia for her protection. Later sources confirm continued use of Deathgod Golems by several unrelated parties, but do not provide a verified transfer, destruction, or final location for Delia's specific unit. Its individual custody after the Fiend-trial period is therefore unconfirmed rather than safely attributable to any later battlefield golem. (Chapters 471–473, 484, 499, 613, 664, 666–667)