While Pinkie was busy making new Vault Crystals, after figuring out what each one needed and throwing the items into the device she had created, Octavia found that Steve and Alex wanted to talk to her about something, hence why she greeted the pair in her tower and a caretaker golem served them some drinks.
"So, what did you want to discuss?" Octavia asked, because Steve and Alex had been following her and Pinkie for some time now, or rather they were following them while they followed Pandora's wishes, and she was sure that they either wanted to get out of this or take back some control in their lives.
"We've spoke to the Elders, and they wish to add the battle golems to the exterior of the village, to keep monsters away from the walls." Steve replied, where he sipped on the tea, something he wasn't even going to ask about since it seemed like both Pinkie and Octavia were doing weird things now, while Alex glanced at the worker golems that were wandering around the tower, peacefully working while they talked, "It's not that they don't trust Pinkie's wall, especially since she added that layer of Deepslate to the exterior, but, after remembering the Blood Moon, the Illagers that assaulted this place, and everything else they've seen, they claim it would be better to have some additional defenses."
"You mean in case an attack comes while we're away?" Octavia inquired, though in her mind it made sense, especially since they made the Admins mad several times and the downfall of the Golem would have upset one of them, so they might seek to lay waste to this place at some point, to which she focused on her friends once more, "Very well, I have been hitting a lot of veins lately... Pandora likely created that dimension so I could make as many golems as I wanted, not that I think about it, some more... so I'll be able to make more battle golems and they'll be placed around the walls."
"They sketched out a rough idea of where to place them, to be handed to you as soon as possible." Alex said, where she pulled out the piece of parchment in question and found that it looked like a map when she unrolled it, detailing where all of the statues could be placed, showing her that her friends must have told the Elders as soon as she finished showing them the golems.
"Shouldn't be too hard... I might have this done before night is upon us." Octavia commented, as it would take a good bit of material to make the golems in question, but based on her calculations, and what was inside her personal dimension, it seemed possible for her to get this done in no time at all, regardless of when she started, though as she rolled up the map she noticed something, there was more they wanted to say, "Is there something else?"
"We're also planning on heading out tomorrow to kill some of the dragons in the surrounding area," Steve stated, where Octavia remembered the couple of dragons they had seen to the northwest of their village, ones that everyone had been worried about when they first laid eyes on them from afar, "We were planning on asking Pinkie to join as well, but right now she seems busy with those temporary portals she keeps opening and running into, which close when she steps out of them, so we decided to go with just the three of us this time around... we have the weapons, armor, and mounts, plus you have magic now, so we might be able to do it without needing her help."
Octavia said nothing to that, save for informing them that she would think on their request, and found that they left after telling her what the Elders wanted and what their own plans were, to which she sighed, grabbed her staff once more, and made her way back to the workshop that produced golems. She didn't lie to Steve and Alex when she said that she would have this done before night fell on the world, as she had been in the process of making more battle golems to expand her territory in the new dimension, the protective zone anyway, so it was far too easy for her to determine the number that was needed for the village walls and ensure she had replacements in her line up. Once Octavia was sure that she had the necessary amount of golems, taking a moment to double check her estimates and the provided map, she collected them from the press and left her tower, allowing her to move down to the area outside their village. Sure enough the Villagers on duty watched as she carefully observed the area that they were in, and the area that was on the outer edge of the walls Pinkie had made, before using the seal to mark down the region of each golem and placed one down when she was sure it was in the right spot.
Sure enough the Villagers were surprised when they laid eyes on the battle golems, since they seemed like statues to their allies, though as she placed the last one down she found that night was approaching and monsters were starting to come out of their holes, to which Octavia smiled as she jumped back and landed on the wall.
At first the Villagers through nothing was going to happen and that they were going to be overrun by monsters, or at least the walls would be besieged until someone lashed out at the enemies that were approaching the village, but that was the moment that a Skeleton stepped into range and started things. Octavia watched as the battle golems awakened from their stone slumber and engaged the surprised monsters, as several were crushed with ease and the rest remained alert, doing their best to stay away from them, and she found that the ranged monsters stood back. Such a thing caused her to let out a small chuckle as several of her battle golems switched from melee combat to ranged, as their stone weapons changed into bows that they loosed powerful arrows from, smashing the fleeing monsters before they could flee. The Villagers let out a cheer as everyone realized that they were safer from danger, which was the whole point of this, and Octavia smiled as she returned to her tower, as there was no reason for her to remain down here now that her golems were tearing the monsters to pieces.
When morning arrived Octavia joined Steve and Alex as they departed for the northwestern area, finding that Pinkie just waved at them after double checking their armor and weapons, to be sure each piece was in perfect condition, as she let them fly off on their Morocks, while she dived into yet another Vault. She really had no idea what Pinkie was looking for in those Vaults, other than wasting time by the looks of it, but she wasn't about to force her opinions on her friend, as she was doing what she wanted to do and that was all that mattered in the end. Instead she turned her focus on the beasts they would be hunting, the dragons who might endanger the village if one or more decided to attack at any moment, and she had no idea if her golems would last long against such powerful forces of nature, hence why she decided to join them in hunting a few of them down. She knew there was a black one somewhere near the area they were heading towards, or at least there used to be since everyone knew the dragons were beasts who fought over their territories and might have killed each other before their arrival, but she also knew they would find out how many of them were left soon enough.
What they discovered, however, was an alarming sight, there were a dozen dragon corpses, all fresh since the scales were still on each one, laying around the mountain range that Octavia and the others had seen the beasts in, in several sizes no less while coming in several different colors, red, green, black, and brown at least.
"What... in the world is this?" Steve inquired, as while he and the others were expecting to find some dragons and kill one or more, maybe three if they were lucky, finding a dozen slain by some unknown entity worried him, especially since they had to worry about Herobrine and the other Admins creating a new monster to deal with them.
"Could it be another Admin... a fifth we don't know anything about?" Alex added, because if there was another Admin she was sure it had to be one of Pandora's allies, though if that was the case she was curious as to why they would have been left in the dark about such an important thing.
"I don't know... honestly, I don't." Octavia commented, though at the same time she found something interesting, there were a few more corpses scattered around the area that they chose to land in, a figure similar to Steve and Alex that was wearing some odd robes, crimson colored while having black plating on the arms, chest, legs, and a hood that prevented one from seeing the wearer's face, causing her to wonder something as she found some intact armor and claimed it for her studies later, "However, I have a feeling that we'll soon have the key to dealing with our enemies, the key to invading the realms of the Admins so we can destroy them at last... we just have to be patient while we track down whatever has been killing dragons."
She was also hoping to find more Crimson Cultists, as they might hold the very key she had mentioned, but for right now they needed to make sure there was nothing dangerous in the mountains, even though she suspected that it would be some time before they found a clue as to what was going on, so they had to be patient and face whatever the future held for them and their village.