While Cashew was trying to sleep off the head pain, outside the Cabin was quite peaceful. The guards never came back to bother him. Cashew wouldn't know as the Golem can't speak, so he can't get a report on what's been happening, but he assumes it's safe and fine.
Cashew stepped outside and called his Stone Golem over, who immediately got up and came forward.
Cashew: Reveal your core. I'm gonna give you more Mana.
Cashew said while clutching his head. Staying inside for 3 weeks and seeing the Sun again also isn't helping his head pain.
The Golem immediately complied and turned around and Opened up its back so that it's Core is visible. Cashew responded by putting his hand on its Core, flowing Mana inside the same way he would a Mana Crystal.
Receiving the Mana, the Golem now appears more Hyper than usual, as if it doesn't wanna sit in one spot anymore, which Cashew noticed, looking at it with squinted eyes due to the Sun.
Cashew: You wanna go hunt and fight?
The Stone Golem let out a noise that seemed to be affirmative.
Cashew: *Sigh* ok, give me a few minutes, I need to eat something too. Plus get used to this new head pain I'm going through...
After saying this, he went back inside and grabbed a Fox Carcass, he got that meat when he first constructed the Golem, its not rotting due to the Ice magic on it.
Grabbing the Fox Carcass, Cashew noticed the dragon meat that he also collected that day he killed a Crystalized Mont. He had 16 Slices and non of them looked any older than they did when he collected it.
Cashew: Does Dragon Meat not rot?...
He questioned, the Dragon Meat is not much newer than the Fox Carcass and the Fox carcass had Ice Magic cast on it to keep it fresh, but the Dragon Meat still looks fresher than the Fox meat.
Cashew: If Dragon Meat doesn't age, then it's best to save that for last.
He said to himself, taking the Fox carcass outside to cook it.
During the cooking process, he also realized that the cackling of a burning fire doesn't help with his permanent head pain. Or the sizzling of food on the pan as it's cooked over a fire. Even the smell of cooking meat doesn't help with his head pain. It seems like he is gonna be in constant pain for the rest of his life.
Cashew: Well, I could probably get rid of the pain if I could have my head destroyed again and someone cleans the fragments, getting the dirt out and then putting the fragments near my body so it can rebuild my head without dirt. But there is nobody in my life I can trust to do that... I guess I could trust the Golem, but I'm not sure it even knows how.
After he finished eating, eating hurts him now as well, he slowly got up, still clutching his head and approached the Stone Golem.
Cashew: Ok, come. Let's get you a fight or two.
The Golem quickly fell behind Cashew, following him as they walked through the forest. Cashew never stopped clutching his head in pain The entire walk.
Still walking, Cashew turned and looked at the Golem for a moment.
Cashew: You know, I can't help but wonder. If your entire body was destroyed, but your Core was fine, when you rebuild your body, would you still be the same Stone Golem you are right now? Or would it be a case of "Different Body, Different person"?...
He turned and looked at the Golem, who didn't seem to comprehend the question and just stared back with its head tilted.
Cashew: If I'm anything to go by, then I assume you'll remain the same Golem unless your core is destroyed.
Cashew Chuckled then immediately clutched his head in pain. Laughing seems to cause head pain now.
They eventually reached the area that was full of monsters. The area Cashew saw a Dragon and a Crystalized Mont fight. The area with carnivorous trees. They finally reached this area.
Cashew: We are here. You'll get lots of fights here. Although some of them might be out of your league.
Looking around, Cashew noticed that the baby Dragon Carcass is still there. It doesn't look rotted at all still, but it's missing a lot more of its flesh, which means the other monsters and animals had started to eat it, but aside from being consumed upon, it doesn't look any older than it did 5 minutes after it died.
Cashew: Well, you wanted a fight, so go ahead. Help yourself to any of the animals here that seem like they'd be a good fight. But don't get yourself killed.
The Stone Golem stepped Forward, scanning the surroundings. There are many different monsters and animals to pick a fight with. There are more Crystalized Mont's, there are some animals that look like a Crocodile with longer legs and hair instead of of scales, there are animals that look kinda like a Bull, but no horns and carnivorous teeth and shorter back legs thwn front legs, there are also... Monkeys?...
Cashew looked ahead in shock, there was an animal that honestly looked like a Capuchin Monkey, but the size of a Large Dog instead.
It didn't seem to notice Cashew and the Stone Golem, but it was still cautiously approaching the dragon Carcass, Climbing on top of it and sniffing it, then looking around, then climbing in-between the Dragon carcasses exposed Ribcage and looking around, approaching what you can assume is the dragons heart. It sniffed the heart, then took a bite out of it.
After biting into the heart of a Dragon, the little monkeys viens started to glow red snd steamy as it's entire body got bigger and bigger, it eventually grew too big and was being contstrained by the rib cage.
The now muscular monkey grabbed the ribcage and let out a menacing Roar as it ripped the Ribcage apart and continued to grow, its body getting bigger being what broke the rest of the Dragons ribcage.
Cashew was clutching its head in pain as the Massive monkey kept roaring and stomping and making noise.
All of the Ruckus scared away all of the other animals except for the Carnivorous Trees, and eventually attracted the attention of the Stone Golem. The big one that scared away the Mother Dragon weeks ago.
The Monkey, who originally started as the size of a large dog, was now 3 Times as big as the Dragon it ate the heart of and feeling very aggressive right now. Seeing the Natural Stone Golem arise and stare down on it.
Thinking that the Natural Stone Golem was belittling it with its stare, the Monkey slammed its hands against the ground, roared and charged, throwing a punch which the Natural Stone Golem took and didn't even budge. It looked at the Monkey, who was staring back in shock and lifted its hand to flick the monkey in the head, sending it flying backwards and deeper into the forest.
After a few moments, the Natural Stone Golem looked at Cashew and his Stone Golem Summon. Cashew was on the ground about to lose consciousness from the pain caused by all the noise, but the Natural Stone Golem looked at Cashews Stone Golem, reached forward and tapped it on the head, as if giving a head pat. It then poked Cashews Stone Golem in the stomach/chest area, kept it's finger there for a second and pulled away, moving back to its napping place and deconstructing itself.
Cashews Stone Golem felt its head and the spot of its torso the bigger Golem touched, confused, but eventually deciding to pick Cashew up and carry him back to the cabin.
Cashew eventually settled down as they got farther away from the Natural Stone Golems territory, and his head pain became more bearable.
Cashew: Uhm. You can put me down... I can walk. Thank you.
The Golem put Cashew down rather roughly, which caused his head pain to surge again, but not to the point of losing consciousness.
After taking a breather, Cashew and his Golem walked a little more and reached the cabin, Turning around to face the Golem,
Cashew: I thought you wanted to fight? Did you get your fight?
The Golem didn't respond. It just looked at Cashew and headed to its spot and deconstructed itself. Cashew went inside his cabin and layed in bed, looking for a comfortable position to lay in with the least amount of head pain.
Cashews eyes suddenly Jolted open, realizing something.
Cashew: I've been slacking off with my exercise!
He clutched his head immediately because he said something too loudly, curling into a ball under the blanket, holding his head in pain.
...
5 Years Later... (8 Years and 1 month since Cashews Birth.)
Cashew has been living at the cabin for a while now living a decently mundane life.
He'd wake up in the morning, Do his exercise while food cooks in a large clay pot over a campfire, he developed a preference for soup and stews now. His teeth are perfectly fine, but the dirt he has in his head from his head injury, it seems to have done something to his teeth, and despite not having any cavities or anything, it still hurts to eat anything solid. He thinks the issue will sort itself out once his grown up teeth start coming in, he lost 1 of his baby teeth recently and dirt started to flood out of the tooth hole with the tooth itself, so he assumes he can eat regular food again once he gets all his grown up teeth.
After eating and finishing his exercise, he crawls into bed again and tries not to cry from the pain of having dirt inside his brain.
Cashew: I swear, if I was still in my Old World like this, with all that dirt in my head, I swear id be turned into an insult or slur on the Internet.
After trying not to cry, he would get out of bed and fill up his Mana Crystal and his Stone Golems with Mana and go out to hunt for food.
Thanks to the Dragon Meat, he still finds himself on most animals kill list, so he doesn't need to set traps anymore, just take a stroll through the woods surrounding his cabin and animals will come to him hoping to kill him, eat him, and gain power and human like intelligence. It never works and they end up being Cashews next meal, though.
As for Golems, Cashew now has 4 Stone Golems, including the original, who he named "Billie Nelson." He didn't give the Other 3 a name, but the Golems mostly don't do anything all day. All 3 of the new Golems eventually had an encounter with the big Natural Stone Golem and calmed down heavily, being much more willing to sit on the ground deconstructed for months at a time.
Cashew also made a couple of Wood Golems. 6, to be precise. he mostly made Wood Golems to help him with Crystal collecting. More specifically, Cashew would find a Crystalized Mont, start a fight with it, and once it discarded some of its crystals, The Wood Golems would rush in and steal the Crystals while Cashew Distracted the Crystalized Mont.
He obtained Well over 1,000 Crystals over the past 5 years. 16 of them are massive, 3 of them are bigger than Cashews entire body, 7 of them are the size of Cashews Torso, and the rest are about half that size.
Cashew: Hehehe... I'm not even a decade old yet I'm gonna be richer than that Old Man in the Merchants Basement! I think I'm old enough where the guards won't recognize me, maybe I can return soon.