CH 151

Golem

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After returning to Volzard, I moved to where Basten was, handed over the video camera, and taught him how to use it.

Basten continued to move with the army of Margrave Havre Calvine, and was now nearing the royal capital of Aldaros.

The tall tower of the royal castle could be seen in the distance between the trees on the road.

When I looked at the royal capital from the top of the tower, I felt that it was spacious, but if I looked a little farther away, I could see dense forests and rural landscapes.

[ Kent-sama, the group is scheduled to arrive at the mansion in the royal capital by the end of the day, and Havre and a few of his entourage should be stationed outside the royal capital. ]

"The fast horse should arrive at the royal capital by the end of the day, so the news will reach Havre, right?"

[ Yes, since he is a man who makes plans like that, he should have his own information network. ]

"Then, although it's quick, can you use the video camera I brought to gather irrefutable evidence?"

[ I understand ... I would like to say, but I can't handle it well ... ]

I explained the video camera to Fred, whom I called to Basten, but he was a muscular knight who lived in a world without television or video, so it was a little difficult to get him to learn how to use it.

There were no words for liquid crystal, sensor, video, etc. , so I started by explaining what they were called, but in the end, I ended up explaining things like pushing this to move it and pushing this to stop it.(TN:People don't need to know the inner workings of something, just a general, 'this is how you do it' is plenty ...)

Even so, he managed to remember how to see how much battery was left, how to charge it, and how to replace the memory card.

The sight of a skeleton pulling out a small memory card from the video camera was quite surreal.

In the middle of the explanation, I received the news that Celia had arrived at Volzard, but I had told the garrison over there, so I put it off for later.

If I could find the time to teach everyone in the Kobold Corps how to use it, not just Basten and the others, it seemed that my followers would evolve into a high-tech intelligence unit.

"Then, I will return to Volzard, so Basten should monitor Havre, and Fred should monitor the First Prince faction."

[ Leave it to me, Kent-sama. ]

[ There's no mistake ... leave it to me ... ]

Thinking that Takayama would be in high spirits, I grinned and went to the castle gate of Volzard, where Yaksha was waiting for me.

Oh, Fujiyama, Tempura, Yaksha Girl ... This isn't the time to joke around.(TN:I'm sure this is a reference to something, but search turns up completely empty.)

Cold sweat ran down my back and dripped down.

"Welcome back, Kento. Let's speak slowly."

"That's right. I want to ask various things too."

"Yuika ... Manon too ... Why are you here?"

"I heard from my mother that an important friend of Kent-sama's arrived in Volzard, so I contacted the two of them and asked them to wait here."

"Riche ..."

I wish she hadn't shown her ability to communicate as a secretary so quickly ...

By the way, it seemed that Takayama burst into tears the moment he met Celia-san and was comforted by Flosche-san.

It seemed that the three of them went straight to the house that Takayama had rented, but I think it would have been better if they had confirmed whether it was ready for them to live in.

That being said, right now I didn't have time to worry about Takayama.

The chairman, who usually wrapped her arm around my right arm, gave a signal with her chin to follow her, and started walking to her room.

Manon also glared at me with scornful eyes, but she left with the chairman.

"Come on, Kent-sama, let's go!"

"Uuh ... Why does Riche seem to be having so much fun ..."

"I'm not completely convinced either ..."

For the time being, she's entwining our arms, but it's not like it's a fun date, it's better to call it an escort situation.

When I arrived at the chairman's room, I was naturally sitting in seiza.

Sitting down on a bed or chair, the three people with their arms folded were looking down at me.

With the chairman in front, Manon on the right, and Beatrice on the left, I'm surrounded from three sides, and I'm being watched from my expression to my complexion, so I can't escape.

Why did Seraphima ask me to marry her, why didn't I refuse, what does she look like ... And so on, I was thoroughly questioned and made to confess.

"I am terribly sorry."

When I finished cleaning up and confessing everything, I bowed my head again.

Yeah, it's a dogeza style that even you will fall in love with.

"Haa ... Kento, you think we will forgive you if you apologize, right?"

Uu, is she figuring it out ...

"I know there are circumstances, but ... It's no good after all."

Yup, I understand a little bit about Manon-chan's feelings.

"I have no intention of losing, but it's better to have fewer rivals."

"No, it's not rivals, everyone is on good terms ..."

"It's not that easy. What would Kento think if I went on a date with Yagi-kun?"

"No good, no good, that's absolutely no good, anyone but fake glasses."

"Then, if I, umm, have an affair with Gilik-san ..."

"No good, no good, I won't forgive you for being with such a mutt."

"Hey, even Kento would think so. Think about our feelings a little."

"That's right, it's as Yuika says."

"I will do as Kent-sama likes ..."

"Beatriche ..."

"I, I'm joking, Yuika-san."

Yup, I wonder if it's just my imagination that the chairman seems to have the personality of a final boss.

"Umm ... What should I do ..."

"Fuu ... As punishment, Kento will spend the whole day with us tomorrow. It's forbidden to go to Japan, Resenburg, or Barshania!"

"No, but I said that I was consulting with Yagi-tachi about the future tomorrow ..."

"Can we discuss it together?"

"W, well, that's true, but ..."

I wonder what it would be like to go out in a harem state to consult with a non-Normie group.

"Or maybe you're secretly going to be with a girl again ..."

"No way! I really only have a consultation tomorrow, so please come with me. Please."

"It's fine if you understand ..."

The chairman uncrossed her arms and squatted down to make eye contact with me who was sitting on the floor.

"Kento ..."

"Yes ...?"

"I told you Camilla is no good."

"Higuu!"

"I told you it's no good ..."

"Yes ..."

I won't speak. If I talked about Camilla now, the fire of my life would definitely go out.

[ Buhahaha, you have a rough road ahead, Kent-sama. ]

[ It's no longer a laughing matter ... ]

In the end, starting with eating breakfast together the next day, having dinner together, and spending time together until I send everyone home, I somehow managed to be forgiven.

Hmm ... Seraphima must not have thought that I was having such a hard time.

I was finally freed from the chairman's sermon, and when I checked my e-mail after hiding in the shadows, Suzuki-san had sent me a schedule for the State Minister of Foreign Affairs.

They wanted us to be ready to leave the Nerima garrison at 10:00 am the day after tomorrow, Japan time.

In Volzard, it would be around noon, so in consideration of my physical condition, I told Oda-sensei that I would like to delay his return, and he agreed.

I will inform Beatriche of the schedule, and have her contact Klaus-san.

Finally, today's schedule should have been finished.

I was also curious about Havre Calvine and the movements of the First Prince's faction, but I'll leave it to Basten and Fred.

After I returned to the boarding house and ate dinner, there was something I wanted to do.

I calmed down Meisa-chan, who was pouting, wondering if I was going to do something bad again, and moved to the Devil's Forest training ground.

[ Kent-sama, wouldn't it be better for you to rest? ]

"Yeah, just a little bit, I'll make a golem."

[ Oh, is it for the usual contact? ]

"That's part of it, but I'm interested in the golem itself."

When I think of golems, I have the impression of a robot that moves with magic, so if possible, I'd like to make something like a giant robot.

According to Reinhardt, golems were clay dolls with magic stones at their core, and a skilled earth-attribute magician controlled multiple golems.

I'm going to try making a golem right away, using the Goblin's high-ranked magic stone that's lying around in the shadow storage as a core.

Even so, I didn't know how to make it at all, so I put my hands near the ground where the magic stone was placed and chanted out loud while imagining it.

"Golem Create!"

Yup, yup, shouting out the technique name while using magic is something good ...

A clay doll with a square head, body, and limbs was created by enveloping the magic stone.

[ Ooh, as expected of Kent-sama, to be able to make a golem so smoothly. ]

"How is it usually done?"

[ I don't know the details either, but I have heard that you can't make a golem unless you chant for a long time. ]

"Hmm ... I haven't seen the real thing, so I'm not sure."

I felt that the completed golem was connected to the path of magic power, just like all of my genus.

After issuing a command through the path, the golem slowly began to walk.

However, as soon as I let it walk, I realized there was a problem.

To put it simply, the movement was horrible.

[ Hohou, as expected of Kent-sama, it looks quite good. ]

"No, no, it's no good at all. It's movements are too bad."

[ However, it looks like there is no problem with the movement of the golem. ]

"No, such awkward movements are no good."

The reason the golem didn't move well was because it didn't have joints.

The hands and feet of the clay doll were forcibly bent and moved, so there was not even a fragment of smoothness.

Another drawback of a joint-less golem was its lack of body strength.

If the body was stiff, it would be difficult to bend its limbs and it wouldn't be able to move properly.

On the other hand, it's unreliable with a squishy body, and it seemed that its uses would be limited.

When I issued a command through the path, the golem returned to the earth.

"Hmm ... I wonder if I could make ball joints like a figure if it would work well ..."

I tried to make a golem with ball joints, but it didn't work.

Since the structure was complicated, it couldn't be made in a single process.

Since it couldn't be helped, I made parts such as hands, feet, and neck separately, hardened them, and attached them to the body of the golem made with magic stones, but this time the path didn't connect to the limbs and I couldn't move it.

It seemed that in order to pass the path through the hands and feet, I had to make them all at once, and it was too difficult to make the joint structure if I tried to make them all at once.

I wanted to make a smooth-moving golem, but I suddenly hit a wall.(TN:Earth magic, dude ... of course you'd hit a wall.)

"Hmm ... It doesn't go as I expected ..."

[ If you're making a golem like Kent-sama envisioned, isn't it like making a golem with several bodies right now? ]

"Several bodies huh ... huh, several bodies?"

[ What is it, Kent-sama? ]

"Is that so ... several ..."

The head, torso, arms, upper arms, upper limbs, and lower limbs were divided into a total of 10 parts, and ball joints were attached, and magic stones were placed in each part.

In other words, it was a strategy to combine ten golems into one golem.

I thought it would work, but unfortunately it was a failure.

If I didn't issue a command to each part, it wouldn't move, so it would be jerky and fall down without balance.

Normally, when we walk, we don't move while thinking about how to move our hands, when to raise our thighs, and when to stretch our legs while swinging them.

In the case of the integrated golem, I had a vague idea of how it would move, but since it was divided into parts, the operation became complicated.

"Hmm ... I thought it was a good idea ..."

[ Kent-sama, is this a collection of golems? ]

"Yeah, that's right ... But, I can't move it well ..."

[ Earlier, Kent-sama said that golems are like artificial monsters. ]

"Yeah, golems are artificial monsters, and they feel like earth-attribute genus that I made."

[ Then, how about using one of them as a superior species to lead the other golems? ]

"I see! That's it, Reinhardt."

I immediately put a slightly larger magic stone in the head part and created it while imagining that it would play the role of leading the other golems.

When I sent an image of myself walking to the newly created head part, it started walking with a smooth movement that was incomparable to the one-piece golem.(TN:No, it's not a pirate golem.)

[ Ooohhh ... It looks as if there's a human inside. ]

"Yeah, it's hard to say it's a perfect movement because it still doesn't have many joints, but it looks like I can make a golem that moves smoothly with this."

In the experiments that followed, I learned that if I created a high-ranking part to lead first, and connected the arms and other parts to the high-ranking parts from the beginning, then I only had to connect one path.

If it was like this, it was possible to make an elaborate golem like a magical android.

[ By the way, Kent-sama, is it okay if you don't add the function for contact? ]

"Ah, that's right. It was fun to move, and I completely forgot about it."

[ If you want it to use the shield of darkness, I think you have to give the golem the dark attribute, but I have never heard of such a thing. ]

"Yeah, but Lizardmen, Kobolds, and Storm Cats were originally monsters with different attributes, right. In that case, wouldn't it be possible to give even golems the dark attribute?"

"I see, when you say it that way, it feels like it's possible."

That's why I tried to give it the dark attribute by using the ball-jointed prototype golem, but it didn't go well.

Like when I made everyone into my genus, I tried to connect a dark attribute path, but it didn't connect well.

"Hmm ... I thought it was a good idea ..."

[ Isn't it difficult to give two attributes? ]

"If it's impossible to give it two attributes, should I just give it one?"

Come to think of it, when I came up with the communication golem, I was thinking of making it a stationary golem that specialized in maintaining the shield of darkness.

"I wonder if it's better not to have such a complicated golem ..."

The ball-jointed prototype golem was in a state where the part golems were connected to the commander golem, so it seemed necessary to give new attributes to all the golems in order to give it a different attribute.

Therefore, I decided to create a communication-only golem as originally planned.

It was a stationary type, so I thought of making it a statue of some kind, and tried to make it look like the Moai Statues of Easter Island.

[ Kent-sama, does this shape have some meaning? ]

"This is an imitation of a famous statue in our world that is full of mysteries about how it was made and who made it."

[ I see, from my point of view, Kent-sama's magic is also full of mysteries. ]

I tried to give the dark attribute to the strange golem that couldn't move by itself, but that didn't work either.

The structure couldn't be simpler, so why is that.

In this situation, the only way to secure communication between Japan and Volzard was to continuously use magic.

[ Kent-sama, why don't you follow the same procedure as when you made Zae-tachi your genus? ]

"Same procedure?"

[ Yes, it means that you will end its life once. ]

Certainly, just as Reinhardt said, when I made everyone a member of my genus, I took their life once before making them a member of my genus.

"But, is a golem originally alive ... I see, should I cut the earth-attribute path?"

When I cut the path that was connected to the stationary golem, it became a Moai Statue with a magic stone inside.

In that state, just like when I made everyone into my genus, when I was conscious of connecting the dark attribute path, I could feel the magical power being pulled and the path passed through.

Then, when I ordered the shield of darkness to open through the dark attribute path, the shield of darkness unfolded in front of the Moai Statue.

"Alright! This is fine. After that, it depends on how long the magic stone lasts."

[ Amazing! As expected of Kent-sama, is it possible to create golems with fire-attribute using the same method? ]

"I wonder if that's possible. Let's try it."

I thought it would be best to keep the shape as simple as possible, so I made a cannon-shaped golem, cut the path once, and tried to connect the fire-attribute path again.

"Hmm ... It looks like it's no good. If I'm being conscious of the fire attribute, the path won't connect."

[ I see, I guess it's because it's the dark attribute that it can be made into genus. In other words, it's like turning a golem into an undead. ]

"If fire attribute could be made into my genus, I thought it would be possible to line up cannons and attack, so it's a bit disappointing."

[ However, you were able to create the golem you wanted, so it's good, isn't it? ]

"That's right. But, if the golem can maintain the shield of darkness, I wonder if it's better to use a wired connection rather than a wireless one ..."

If the shield of darkness could be maintained, I felt that communication would be more stable if a base station was installed by pulling a cable from Japan.

However, I was worried about what would happen to the cable running between worlds if the shield of darkness disappeared.

So, I should give it a try.

[ Kent-sama, what's wrong? ]

"Yeah, it's a little late ... But, I'm wondering what would happen if the shield of darkness disappeared while we were still inside it ..."

I tried to erase the shield of darkness with a bat-sized branch that had fallen at the edge of the training ground.

"Uwaa! What is this, it's refreshing!"

When I erased the shield of darkness, the thick branch was cut off where the shield had been, and the remaining part was lying in the shadow space.

[ Hohou ... Kent-sama, couldn't this be used as a weapon as well? ]

"That's right. Let's try something else."

I tried it with a knife this time, but without any resistance, the blade of the knife fell off with a 'porori'.

"Uwaa ... This, could be a little bad ..."

The only ones who could pass through the shield of darkness were me, the person who I enchanted with my magical power, or my genus, but if I got the timing wrong, they might get sliced into pieces, so I have to be careful.

However, if you put the weapon of the opponent inside and cancel it, it seems that the weapon would be destroyed.

It seemed better to refrain from pulling a cable from Japan, considering the time when the shield disappeared.

For the communication golems, I made two paired bodies, decided to actually connect after listening to the opinions of those around me, and decided to return to the lodgings tonight.

Tomorrow, I have a date with the chairman and the others, so I'll go home and rest.

Yes, it's a date, it's a date, no matter what anyone says, it's a date.