Chapter 296 – Golem

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The ascending machine of the disc that the party rode up entered the inside of the fortress through the lower part of Valhalla.

When you feel the disc stop and look around, with a vibration felt from below.

Is it a structure that can send the resources mined on the ground directly to the warehouse?

I saw metals similar to some of the metals on the discs piled up in the dark space.

“…Utgart…”

Those who felt that there were no enemies around them who could attack them disappeared, but for a short time, they felt depressed at the thought that their colleague had sacrificed themselves.

Even Cleon couldn’t find words to convince him to stop him.

That much, he said, had it not been for his sacrifice that he would not have been able to overcome the crisis.

Cleon muttered his name and clenched his fists, and Sif clapped them.

When everyone’s eyes are focused on her, she talks with the eyes of the rune hidden under her her eye patch that she took off.

“Now. Let’s forget about Utgart for a moment. If he bought time for us, what we need to do is to achieve a purpose, not a memorial service.”

[She is right. Currently, it has not been discovered yet, but if someone enters the warehouse, Edin will notice it immediately.]

At Hermes’ words, Cleon nodded his head.

Everyone present could tell that Sif, who shared the deepest sympathy with Utgart, was pretending to be strong.

“What is that expression? Are you worried?”

Perhaps reading everyone’s expressions, Sif puts her hand on her waist and smiles bitterly.

“I told you earlier, I was prepared. It would be great if this fight ended with no one lost and a happy ending… But everyone knew how difficult it was.”

Saying so, she drew her own speargun, Nir, and looked up.

“My spear also wants to avenge Utgart. It’s time to act rather than cry and grieve.”

“… I salute you, Dark Elves.”

When Freyja, who had been quietly listening to Sif’s words her, said that, Sif shook her head while maintaining her wry smile.

“Revenge is the specialty of Dark Elves. It’s a racial trait. So Cleon? Are you going to investigate the surroundings?”

“…Yes. That would be nice.”

After Cleon nodded her head at Sif’s words, she first looked around her once again, examining the piles of metal that had risen with them.

All the walls of the warehouse were surrounded by thick bulkheads, so getting out seemed difficult.

“Are these all the raw materials for Soul Eater Metal?”

Cleon raises her hand as if wondering that she can’t feel anything from the metal.

Because of his experience his in El Cairo, I was nervous because I expected that the moment I raised his hand his, a feeling of energy being drained from his body his would come over me.

Unexpectedly, that didn’t happen.

“What is the sword doing?”

“No… I think it’s different from the Soul Eater Metal I’ve seen before.”

The color was closer to gray than black, and all I could feel was the coldness and hardness peculiar to metal.

I don’t feel any magic power or bad temper in it.

[It has properties similar to our world’s Soul Eater Metal, but the essence is different. Besides, things in our world are cast using human souls as materials in the process of processing.]

“…Then, since there is no human soul in this, is it just acting like a kind of ‘vessel’?”

[Okay. However, it seems that the strength to hold the soul is much weaker. So, when the body is destroyed, the soul is released as well.”

Cleon held the Soul Eater Metal while listening to Hermes’ explanation.

“Is it impossible to get rid of the bulkhead with this?”

“…It would be impossible if there was no way to smelt it.”

At Freya’s words, Cleon nodded as if he knew.

Peru Luca, who had been listening to the story, carefully raised her hand.

“…Uh, uh… S, Master says he knows a lot about that metal. …Uh, what should I do? Can I get it out?”

Peruluca awakened to her power as a dhampir, and completely reversed the relationship between Crowley and her body domination over her.

It seemed that without her permission to her, Crowley would find it difficult to even bring her consciousness to the surface.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes, yes. I can take the initiative right away if you want. Hehe…”

Peru Luca, who speaks as if she feels good about the fact even after she says it.

When Cleon nodded her head, she slowly closed her eyes and—

Yet. When she opened her eyes again, her eyes were sharp and furious, full of humiliation.

“[Such nonsense… How did I suppress this guy’s true nature… Magic Swordsman, what did you do…!]”

“Did you come to the surface to talk about that? Explain what to do with this metal.”

As Cleon speaks coldly, Crowley clenches his fists in anger and approaches Soul Eater Metal.

“[Strictly speaking, this is different from our world’s Soul Eater Metal, as the ancient artificial spirits said. But it has the same properties in that it can be a vessel to contain a soul.]”

“How do I use it?”

At Cleon’s question, Crowley shook his head, curling the corners of his mouth down.

“[A furnace and a hammer? If there is no such thing, it is impossible. But if it can contain a soul, it can contain other souls before it contains the souls of its subordinates.]”

“Where are you going to get such a soul?”

When Sif scolded Crowley with a bemused expression, as if to stop talking nonsense, Crowley turned to Sif as if to ask what he was talking about.

“[The ejaculate is also a soul. Is that so?]”

“…Ah!?”

Sif heard that and his eyes widened as if he realized what he was asking him to do.

“Don’t talk about things that only the two of you know, and explain properly…!”

As Gray urged, eyes twinkling with curiosity, Cleon nodded and demanded an explanation from Crowley and Sif.

“I summoned the ejaculation spirit with my spirit art…”

“[With my golem making magic, I’m creating a metal golem with the ejaculatory spirit as its core. I’ve mastered the art of making elemental golems hundreds of years ago. Remove this wall too, and you guys can use your hands and feet to control golems. With this in hand, killing two with one stone. No, considering the reduction of the opponent’s power, killing three with one stone. After all, this is me. Huhaha.”

Crowley brushes his bangs while laughing excessively.

“…”

Cleon listened to Crowley’s explanation and stayed quiet for a while.

“Is it possible with Peru Luca’s body her? She seems to have said that with her body her, she can only cast curses that affect the target’s mind…”

“[… Aaaaa!

Crowley screamed and grabbed his head, as if he had finally thought of it after hearing Cleon’s words.

As he said, the body of Peru Luca he was wearing now could only use curse magic because Crowley hadn’t taught him properly.

Even if he had his own best magic book, the Book of the Law, he did n’t have enough time to cram magic techniques into his body from now on.

“…Then, I can’t help it. I have no choice but to find another way or give up on what to do with this metal and go find that Cleon’s colleague who was captured.”

Freyja shook his head and let out a sigh, and Crowley salivated, ‘Kuh…’And rolled his eyes as if his pride his had been hurt.

“[Now, wait a minute. Surely, there must be some way. Did you forget Cleon?

“But you didn’t teach me. Now, turn back to Peruluca.”

When Cleon says that, Crowley raises his hand.

“[Listen to the story, you rude bastard! You intermingled with Peruluca earlier.

“…Mix your body…?”

Sif hears the story and opens his eyes wide, while Freya looks at Cleon with an almost trashy face.

“Wait, I think you two have a misunderstanding…”

Cleon tries to solve that side first, but Crowley grabs Cleon’s head as he turns his head and makes him look his way.

“[If you carve a mark on Peruluca’s body, and adjust your body with it, you can inject the magical knowledge I have into this guy’s head through that gap. Not only golem magic, but also attack magic, As for the healing magic, whatever you want.]”

“…You’re desperate. Is it necessary to go that far?”

When Cleon asks that question, Crowley clenches his fists as if he had no intention of doing so.

“[This guy is talking from the inside. If it doesn’t help, he’ll erase my consciousness itself. That, that’s not enough…!]”

‘I think it’s self-employed, but…’

As Cleon said, he nodded his head as if he could not help it.

“[Jo, okay. Hey disciple! That’s how it happened, you come out! I’ll prepare the transfer of knowledge from the inside!]”

When Crowley shouted that, she stumbled and almost fell, then stood up properly and opened her eyes.

Again, she had returned to her original Peruvian Luca eyes.

“Ah, ahaha… Joe, a little… Is the method reckless…?”

When Peru Luca asked that question, Cleon shook her head and replied.

“No, that person would have to do this much to get what he wants. Well done Peruluca.

When Cleon said that, Peruluca took Cleon’s hand hers.

“Oh, it’s okay! Anyway, I have no intention of doing such a thing with anyone other than the person who gave me the first one…”

“…If you’re really okay with that…”

“They gave me the first…”

When Sif whispered to Freyja, Freya silently closed her eyes and shook her head.

“If it’s Cleon, it’s an ordinary sword. All I know is that there are women around-“

“Gray.”

When Cleon laughed and called Gray that, Gray trembled as if goosebumps ran through her whole body her.

“…It’s the first time I’ve seen Cleon smile like that…”

[Don’t provoke him more than necessary.]

“I was just trying to tell you the truth…”

Cleon, ignoring the whispers around him, places his hand on Peruluca’s her.

Then, he closes his eyes for a moment, summons his remaining existence her inside her, and finds a way through her body her for magic power.

The stamp of dominance is engraved in the place where mana works best.

In Sasha’s case, it’s near the heart, and in Quon’s, it’s like a short circuit.

Each person is different about the place.

“I’m sorry…”

Somewhere, when Peruluca felt a tickling sensation pass through her body, such a voice came out of Peruluca’s mouth her.

Gradually, I felt the flow of magical energy gathering around her neck.

Then, on Peruluca’s neck her, a zigzag line appeared around the surface to form a loop.

If the black lines are connected as if making a leash.

“…Done.”

Soon, the imprint of great control was completed on her neck.

“Uh, I can’t see what shape it is…”

Yeah, it must be because it’s on the neck of her.

Luca, Peru, felt something strange about her neck and felt it with her hand her.

“Are you okay? Don’t you feel strange?”

“Stomach, there’s a bit of a sense of incongruity, but it’s okay.”

Cleon nodded her head in relief, and then Cleon placed her hand on the inscription.

Feeling the touch of his hard fingers her on her neck her, Peruluca blushes a little.

Just like when a cat touches her neck her, when she blushes and lifts her chin slightly.

As the imprint glowed weakly, she began to adjust her body to her.

“Laugh…Ugh…!”

With Peruluca’s small moan, something like sparks flew from the surface of the imprint.

Cleon also felt that something else of her will intervened in the coordination of her own imprint of her, and her vast amount of information spread through her body through the imprint of her.

Her time was less than one minute, but Peru Luca felt that moment close to hours, so the amount of information from her was enormous.

After a while, when the light from her imprint her faded, Peru Luca was able to chew her her knowledge of her golem magic her, letter by word, inscribed in herself.

“Really… Magic to me…”

Peru Luca showed a slightly thrilled expression on her face.

“Are you okay? I don’t have much time, so I’ll do it right away.”

Sif cautiously spoke to Peruluca.

“Ah, yes, yes! Go, it’s possible! If you follow what I’ve learned…!”

Sif nodded to Luca’s answer her in Peru and prepared to call her her ejaculation spirit her using his spear her as a staff.

“…Then. I’ll go. I’ll take the soul. You’ll make the body.”

“Yes Yes…!”

Luca, Sif, who is clearly nervous, is a little worried about whether she’s really okay, but then she closes her eyes and begins to recite her spell her.

“The family of darkness. The passion of the heavens and the earth. The blackened soul becomes a scream of condemnation and echoes in the present world. Throw off the veil that covers the darkness and descend here now.”

Dark magic thins the wall between the world where the spirits hide and the world of humans, and summons an ominous existence from beyond.

The ejaculatory spirit Sif summoned had no attributes and was in the form of a pure yet primordial soul.

That would be more suitable for serving in a vessel called metal.

It was like black mud that crawled out wrigglingly through a hole in the air. It was a slime-like spiritual body with no eyes, no mouth, and no nose.

Although both Freya and Gray saw it and felt a visceral revulsion.

They had no choice but to admit that the abomination was on their side.

Then, Peru Luca held the book of the law in his left hand and held it to his chest his, while his right hand his stretched out toward the piled up metal and began to move his mana his.

“Star. Star with malice and goodwill. Star of creation. Because of you, I was born, because of you, I grew up, and because of you, I die. Just as you shaped me, I want to pass through my life , my soul, and my breath. I made a doll to bear the guilt. This is a being that does not know death and does not know life. Your name is-“

The spell that created a golem whenever the successive chant, Chinese sentence, and Chinese sentence moves moved the metal used as a material into one place and gradually formed it into a giant.

However, only the body was created, and the soul, which had to be in charge of it, crawled on the ground following Sif’s guidance and soon penetrated into the metal giant Peruluca created.

Just when everything seemed to be going smoothly, Peruluca’s chant stopped and the metal body began to tremble.

“…? Peruluca. What’s wrong? Finish the chant.”

“That, that’s… This, because this part has to be named original…”

At Peru Luca’s words, Cleon shut his mouth for a moment, then tilted his head when he understood the meaning.

“Can you name anything?”

“The name of a golem also affects the shape of that golem, so you have to be careful. Peruluca, calm down and create an image of a strong ally in your head and give it that name.”

Sif seemed oblivious to her, Cleon’s words to her, giving her her advice.

“…Well, then… Keuhmm…”

Peru Luca seems to be troubled by her words for a moment, then she takes a deep breath as if she understands.

“That, your name is. Cleon.”

──

The next moment, the metal golem’s eyes flashed and shone.

Started moving on its own.

“Good, good! The golem moves without any problems!”

“Yeah, that’s right. …That’s the way it was, just now. The name of that golem, what…”

Sif nodded, but with a confused face, asked Peruluca again, wondering if he had just heard it wrong.

“Hey, it’s Cleon… “

“…”

Everyone fell silent.

Except for Gray.

“Awesome! It’s a metal golem! It’s different from an automata, it’s an object that moves purely with magic!”

[Grey calm down and lower your voice.]

Gray nodded at those words, then looked down at the pendant with Hermes.

“Did Hermes just say that?”

[No, no. What I just did is-]

[My name is Cleon. A metal golem created to protect you. Until this body reaches its limit, let it be your shield, sword, and siege weight.]

“The golem said…!”

“Uh- wait. Was it natural for the golem to talk?”

Sif looked at the scene and said it as if she was dumbfounded, but Peruluca only tilted her head.

“Su, most of Master’s golems were able to talk… They looked like maids, so they waited on me from morning till night… All the while, they kept praising Master… ”

‘Crowley… He’s a great person in many ways…’

Cleon, whose thoughts were closer to sarcasm than admiration, looked up at the golem that had been given the same name as himself.

[Was my name inherited from you?]

“Should I say it was inherited…”

“D-I heard that he was a reliable ally, so I didn’t know…”

Peru Luca bowed her head apologetically.

Looking at Luca in Peru, Cleon shook his head as if he couldn’t help it.

“I can’t help it since it’s like this.”

[Okay. Anyway, more important than my name is my own role. Absorb all the other metals to reinforce yourself, and help defeat the Thunder Lord Edin.]

“As expected, it’s Cleon!”

“It’s a story to which side.”

Cleon let out a sigh but nodded as if he couldn’t help it.

With this, to a certain extent, it reinforced the power to resist Edin.

It was then.

[Detection of abnormal magical movement in the warehouse. Close the area and send troops.]

“… I guess you noticed. Saved me the trouble of destroying the bulkhead.”

Freya grabs her bow, and she and her party her prepare for battle.

“… Amelia. It’s coming soon.”

Cleon felt her presence close to him beyond the imprint, and pulled out the arondite.

“Let’s go. Everyone.”

As each answer resounded, the door opened.

The fight against the Einhejars pouring in from beyond was about to begin.