103 74: Artistic golem production.txt





 We left the garrison with Deidre, who had escaped from the Konoe Guard garrison, and we left the garrison and headed for the Lachman Mine, which was further south from the city of Inverness.

 We left the garrison at midnight, and although we had flown carefully along the road at night, everyone's sleepiness was showing its limits by now.

 They could already see the morning sun beginning to rise from the horizon.


 I'm sure that the Konoe Guards have prepared their own pursuers and are chasing us, so I've come here, leaving Deedle, the ground, and Dimol to keep an eye on us from the air.

 But Susana's chariot, which is leading the pack, has been meandering to the right and left for some time now, and has been on the verge of veering off the road.


 I decided it was dangerous to pull my diddle over to the wagon driven by Susana.


Susana, I think we've made a lot of distance, and I think we should take a nap. You look like you're half asleep too.

Yes? I'm not sleeping. Yes, I didn't sleep!


 A completely sleepy-eyed Susana told me she hadn't been sleeping, and I felt the need to rest.


 I was completely asleep at the wheel.

 And there's a drooling mark at my mouth.


'All right. All right, we'll hide the wagon in the woods over there and rest.

Oh, I see. Okay, I'll just pull it up there.


 Deedle came in to sleep in, and I've been running all the way through, so I'm at the end of my sleepiness.

 Noelia also took turns driving the wagon for me a few times, but I'm exhausted from the unfamiliar night roads and I'm at my limit and sleeping.

 He needs to rest and get some sleep or he's going to have an accident.


 I followed Susana's carriage into the depths of the forest, whistling for Dimol in the air above us.


 We split into the forest and came to a point where it was hard to see from the road, and it looked like we could finally rest there.


'Huh, you guys are tough, by the way. I had to go to bed before you did because all-nighters are bad for your skin.


 A leather-covered Cinzia could be seen perched on Susana's head as she collapsed in the guru's seat.


'Lady Cinzia, you look fine, may I ask you to be the sentinel? I think I'm going to take a nap, too.

'What a pain in the ass. Why don't you just let the golem out? If it's a golem, it's connected to the surgeon's consciousness even while he's sleeping, and you can give it orders to attack on its own if something strange comes near it.

'Wow, that might be useful. If you place golems in conjunction with the sanctuary, it seems like an ironclad interception net could be created.


 I was also too sleepy to think deeply, so Cinzia's suggestion and my own ideas seemed like a very good idea.


''Syntzia-sama, as I recall, emissary magic is about imagining the original substance and what form it will take, right?''

'Yeah, right. I think most substances can be used as golems if they have the magic power of a flick. The magic power consumed by each substance is different and its performance is also different, the easiest is probably earth.


 Syntzia descended from Susana's head to the ground, poking at the dirt with the tip of her beak.


 An earthen golem, or maybe the Sentinel can cover each other's vision if they can stand up in roughly eight directions, so let's make a bit more than eight of them.

 I've heard that Noelia has already succeeded.

 It's a good idea to be able to use the magic that master can use, or else you'll be embarrassed.


 I had decided to make a golem, with my head not spinning well from sleepiness.


I'm going to make a puppet doll. Puppet Doll (Sammon Golem)


 Touching the ground and chanting, he imagined an earthen golem in a human-like form.

 The magic power that was released began to move the soil and the ground seemed to ripple, and then the earth doll that resembled a human form began to float up.


 Oooh, it looks like I'm going to succeed.

 It's pretty well done--.


 As the ground that had been rippling showed signs of settling, I was almost satisfied with the workmanship of the floating earthen golem, when it almost exploded and transformed into an unsightly mess.


''Bufu! Nice. That's a flick. That's a high art form. This is a level of work that's hard to find. But to activate it with a single shot is indeed a waste of more magic power than Noelia.


 The resulting earthen golem barely retained its human form, but for all intents and purposes, it could only be described as a golem zombie.


''It's my first time, and. It might be a bit awkward, but I think it will work properly--how are you going to give me instructions?

I told you that the Golem is connected to your consciousness. In other words, it is like a demon that shares its vision and senses. If you want to do this, the golem will move according to your consciousness.


 It's true that the moment the golem was created, I had a different sensation than I had at the moment it was created.

 Should I turn my attention to that?


 I tried to sharpen my new senses.

 Then I felt my vision and body senses switch to that direction, and I gently grabbed Cinzia on my shoulder.


''Hey-. Hah-nah-nah-nah-nah! We'll go out of business! If you link your senses too much, you could die of shock when that golem gets hit. In your current state, if that golem gets hit, you'll die. You can be dumber than that.


 Cinzia, who was flailing in my hands, could see that my consciousness had shifted to the golem.


 Maybe more bluntly, or maybe it's harder than I thought.

 Sounds like it takes a knack.


 Cinzia told me to dull my senses, so I try to move my consciousness away from the golem.

 The goodness of my body's reaction and clarity of vision is lost, but the original sensation of my body remains because of it.


 I see, so the movement changes with the strength of my consciousness.

 It's not like I'm making them fight right now, I'm only alerting them of their surroundings as a sentinel, so a minimum level of consciousness might be enough.


 As I adjusted my consciousness connection with the golem in this way, I began to find a place where the level of consciousness was just right for everyday use.


'It's a bit, slow, but I can't help the movement, right?

I think it's a great success for a first time, except for the sculpting. And why did you make eight of them? Just because you have a lot of magic power for nothing, doesn't mean you should do something like that--

It's for the Sentinel. I thought if I put them in each of the eight directions, I'd have an all-directional view...


 I said that and shared the vision of the eight golems I had generated with myself--


 What the hell! Look out!

 There's something wrong with my vision!


'Huh, God, you're an idiot. You know that if you share the vision of eight bodies, you'll at least know that your own vision will go crazy. In that case, you only connect when you have a reaction! The rest of us are on standby!


 When I was unable to walk straight due to the sight of the linked golem, Cinzia taught me how to deal with it with a sigh.

 I put them on standby one by one and cut their vision, and gradually their vision returned to normal.


'Huh, thank God. I wondered what would happen. I thought that if I was always watching, I could react quickly, but I didn't know I couldn't walk properly: ......

The reason for this is that it's a lot more complicated than you might think. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work. Do you want to try to master that one as well?

'No, no. If you can't handle your emissary magic perfectly first, there's going to be an accident. I'll master this one first.

'Yes. I've been teaching Noelia only emissary magic for a while now. Maybe it's a good idea for me to cut off all the necromantic magic that deals with human consciousness on my own.


 Cinzia stopped at my shoulder and muttered this in a slightly sad voice.