CH 97.5

A lever was pulled down.

The cable extending from the end of the machine with the lever goes to the sky at once, and on the way, it is connected to the magic crystal supply device on the magic construct’s back via a big drum magically suspended in the air.

From there, magic crystals are supplied, and the gigantic magic construct is now ready to go.

「Begin startup position.」

「Startup position, okay!」

When a lever connected to the lower body was operated, she stood up on her eight legs by stretching them out of her belly.

Ah…..and a surprised scream came from the inspection table behind me.

「Arms operation check. 」

「Arm operation check, complete!」

「Start operation」

When I operate several levers at the same time, the elbow of the right arm of the giant monster rises and turns its shoulder in a circular motion.

Even though I was watching it from a distance, it was much more powerful than I had expected.

「Professor Marino, please maneuver the fingers.」

「Yeah.」

I operated the lever to raise the magic construct’s arms to the sky and Professor Marion put his hand into what the wooden, burly robotic arm.

As expected, it was difficult to operate fingers with levers so the fine finger control were to be moved in a way that the movement of the magic construct’s hands would follow the movements of human hands.

There was a suggestion to do the same for other body parts but……

The purpose of building this gigantic clock tower class is to serve as a construction machine to a much bigger city class magic construct.

If the arm of a construction magic were to follow a human arm and move agilely and unsteadily, it would definitely cause an accident.

I guess that would be okay if it will be used as a weapon though.

「Commence finger maneuver」

Professor Marino opened the fingers of both of his hands and the clock tower class opened hers in a snap.

As he folded his fingers from pinky to thumb, the clock tower class’ hand did the same.

For some reason, the dignitaries watching in the back applauded.

No, I know…..

It is indeed a strange and moving experience when something this big moves as what humans want it to.

「Put the arms down」

「Affirmative!」

At Professor Marion’s order, I operated the lever and let the magic construct’s arms down.

「Walking test, begin. Five steps forward.」

「Five steps forward!」

「Commence walking」

The legs are not controlled as finely as the upper body, only changing direction and back and forth movement.

The legs’ control circuitry is designed to automatically balance so it is impossible to lose balance.

This is a kind of protection device because this clock tower class is too big and heavy to demand perfect operation.

When the levers for forward and backward movement in the lower body are moved, four of the eight legs are lifted and move forward.

Loud zuuuuunnnnnss were heard……after that, the other four legs were lifted and moved forward.

The dignitaries behind us seemed to be clapping again or something but I could only hear them intermittently given how noisy the footsteps of that magic construct, which was more than a hundred meters away, were.

「Walking test, end.」

「Walking test, complete!」

「How’s the path?」

『No abnormalities, the ground did not sink.』

We also did not neglect to check for safety through the communication magic construct.

Even though we’re on a bit of a high ground, we can’t see around the giant clock tower class from the inspection seats.

I think the fool who goes on the way of something like this deserves to die. However, we are in a noble world where you can’t just get what you deserve so we have to take precautions.

「No damage to the feet, turn right.」

「Turning right!」

When the lever for turning the lower body to the right is moved, the four legs of the clock tower class are lifted and moved one by one.

I like the spider’s eight legs, they are very stable.

Bipedal robots often appear in anime for generations but why did they bother to make giant robots that could be destroyed by their own weight if they fell down……

Well, I guess because humanoid robots are cool.

「Turning complete, turn left.」

「Turning left!」

Turning left and right are the same. The turning test is over.

All that’s left is to move back and do a general check.

「Get the magic construct back to its initial position, five steps backward.」

「Five steps backward!」