Golem Summoning Stone
The Golem Summoning Stone is a Peerless-grade artifact that Karl creates for Carnage, allowing its user to summon two Epic golems selected from forms the user already knows.
History
Earlier stones share a name, not an identity
Two earlier objects are called summoning stones, but their incompatible construction and effects make them separate items. Grand Mage Sandra's Chapter 219 “Summoning Stone” is an ingestible research product that strengthens mana and may awaken [Durable Constructs]; Dana consumes it during testing. The Frost Giants' later summoning stone produces troops or clones and is destroyed by Magma Elementals before Karl's group can recover it. Neither object has a custody or transformation path leading to Karl's later artifact, so they are homonyms rather than earlier forms of the Golem Summoning Stone. (Chapters 219, 298, and 302)
A renewable opponent for Carnage
After surviving a wagered fight with Carnage, Karl learns that the ancient Wrath Demon wants reliable opponents and that ordinary guards need time to heal or flee when he vents on them. Karl uses an Immortal-rank fire elemental stone, inscribes it to activate [Epic Golem], and applies [Breath of the World] to finish the artifact. He immediately gives the resulting Golem Summoning Stone to Carnage as a source of opponents that can be called again instead of permanently injured. Carnage accepts it enthusiastically, while Karl warns that its available forms and any unusual behavior will require experimentation. (Chapter 1645)
Abilities and properties
- The artifact is Peerless Grade and Immortal Rank. It summons two Epic golems of a type known to the caster, making the user's own experience the boundary on available forms. (Chapter 1645)
- Karl expects creatures and demons encountered as dungeon bosses to qualify from his own knowledge, but cannot establish which of Carnage's far broader memories the stone will recognize. The eligible catalogue is therefore user-dependent and partly uncertain. (Chapter 1645)
- The golems are intended as repeatable sparring partners. Karl warns that Oathbreaker, one possible model, remembers things that version should not, suggesting that repeated use of certain forms may produce behavioral complications; changing forms is his proposed precaution, not a demonstrated reset mechanic. (Chapter 1645)
- No activation cost, cooldown, golem duration, resummoning interval, or repair process is given. Karl also apologizes that he cannot create Supreme-rank opponents at his current power, establishing Epic grade as the stone's demonstrated ceiling. (Chapter 1645)