Chapter 174 – The Age of Golems (04)

Easy profit…

The soles of my feet were stuck to the cold cold.

As the glass tube opens, the cold air emitted from the inside momentarily condenses the moisture on the outside of the human body, causing it to stick to the soles of the feet.

I heard in the reviews of people working in refrigerated warehouses that they had a hard time with their feet sticking to their feet when they got wet.

Damn…

Due to frostbite, my skin became chapped and even the few tears covering my eyes froze, temporarily losing my vision.

“Don’t move carelessly. The human body… Is weaker than you think.”

Even if it wasn’t, I couldn’t move properly right now.

The moisture on the surface of my skin froze and instantly hardened my body.

Moreover, the cold air leaking from the open glass tube behind my back was penetrating my body in real time, so I couldn’t move easily because I was at risk of cracking my body and shattering it if I moved carelessly.

The good news is that the thin ice frozen inside the eyelids was not frozen clumsily but rather quickly, so it covered the eyes like a lens made of ice. Once I got used to it, I had no problems seeing my surroundings.

“I was watching all the way to this point. Through the golems that foolish people believed to be on their side, calling themselves dukes and royals.”

“Cook, cluck,” She said, smiling.

She revealed her red eyes and smiled as if she was revealing her true colors.

The Queen of Golems, with her front hair loose, was slowly approaching me with a bright smile on her face, and her steps made her look like an excited little child bouncing around.

The Queen of Golems came up to me, touching her, her scar, her with her, her fingers her her, which still had the imprint of her neatly cut her cut her, as if she had deliberately cut it with her sword, and placed herself on top of my frozen body. She folded the body her her her her.

“You can still hear, right?”

Then, I raised her heels, adjusted her height, hugged her in front of me as if she was clinging to me, put her arms around my shoulders, and started whispering.

“Until now, no matter what I did, it wouldn’t move, so I was giving up.”

There was both joy and madness in that voice.

“Surprisingly, the permanent organ started working again a while ago?”

The golem queen’s heart that touched my chest was not beating at all.

She was clinging to me, her body literally cold and submerged, not even the sound of her machine beating or whining.

“Originally, I was planning to build my own army by providing materials from stupid humans.”

Tak.

When she snapped her fingers, red lights came on around her, revealing items piled up along the stairs I came down.

At a glance, these golems are perfectly completed, with no gaps visible, unlike the crude battle golems roaming around outside.

Golems that looked like they were superior versions of the battle golems roaming around outside were tightly packed in the spaces between the stairs we had come down so far.

If you look at the number of golems crowded under the spiral staircase I stepped down, you can see that there are more than hundreds of golems stuck here.

“You asked where Melissa was, Aren?”

The Golem Queen patted my back and continued her words.

“Here. And the place you saw.”

“…”

“Okay. Now it’s time to be with Melissa, Aren.”

As the golem queen I was hugging stepped behind her, she opened a drawer that was lying near me.

Originally, when Melissa used it, there should have been various tools, but now there was a blade that looked like a well-sterilized scalpel.

“Melissa was always looking for you. So, this is for her too.”

As she lightly removed my frozen clothes, she was looking for the location of my heart.

“Until now, the battle golems made here have not been able to leave the vicinity of the golem factory where the power source was installed in advance… But if they can get their hands on Melissa’s perpetual motion machine, they can go everywhere, right?”

Pingrrr.

The Golem Queen was delighted as she twisted her scalpel between her own fingers.

“And if your heart is next to it, Melissa’s heart will beat along with it.”

“…”

“Is this what humans call eternal love?”

I could only stare at her as she smiled with her red eyes.

There was only so much I could do as I froze and watch until the Queen of Golems came towards me, her red eyes glowing.

To use [Shadow Ninjutsu] To pull out a wooden sword, you need to show a starting movement, but in your current state, you couldn’t do it, and you couldn’t even open your mouth and use your ‘voice’ to call Inori.

I just glare at her, her red eyes.

‘And… There’s no need to resort to any measures’

I feel it.

As the glass tube opens, the cold air that comes out decreases.

“Now that the chill is fading, can I finish the laundry? That way I’ll get it done before I feel any pain.”

I’m still frozen and need time to move properly.

Knock it!

What if the golem was made from the moment it was first created to be strong against the negative energy that cools the surroundings?

Easy profit…

Even though the cold chill was still radiating from her her her her her her, she wrapped her arms around me and used her left arm to catch her scalpel as it flew towards my heart.

A hand made of a special metal that cannot be touched by anything like a scalpel grabs the scalpel and holds it in place, and the right hand that comes from behind touches my chest and pulls me in its direction.

“…How…Did they take out all the power?”

Her red eyes are tinged with embarrassment, and in her eyes, the body of Golem No. 2 is reflected, moving with a silver perpetual motion device embedded in the solar plexus.

As my body temperature touched the surface of her cold body her her a stream of water was flowing down the surface like water forming on an ice pack, and her body moving in the dissipating cold, was emitting heat hotter than that of a human being. It has begun.

Easy profit…

My heart pounding, Golem No. 2 was holding me in its arms and warming my body, with a permanent organ that was pounding like a heart embedded in my chest.

Pop!

Golem No. 2, who had broken the scalpel in her hand simply by squeezing her her her her her, was protecting me again by wrapping her left hand around my body her.

“Golem No. 2.”

“-Yes. My charger-“

From Golem No. 2, I heard a familiar voice that was indifferently mixed with mechanical sounds, but it put my mind at ease.

The Golem Queen before her her her her eyes her her her had the appearance and voice of her her her her Melissa her almost perfectly.

However, because they are so similar, Melissa’s wish to ‘replace her’was not contained.

Melissa’s wish she was not in the same [Queen of Golems] As she was, but more in Golem No. 2, who is currently warming her body while embracing me.

“Melissa.”

As if responding to my call, Melissa’s her heart her her, [Perpetual engine drive], Embedded in Golem No. 2’s chest, begins to move.

“How?”

“-The body of Golem No. 2 is designed to be able to move in extremely low temperature situations that would freeze the body if moved by power alone-“

The Golem Queen, who had retreated behind her, saw me as her frozen body began to thaw, and while she was embracing me, she aimed her right arm like the muzzle of her gun to keep herself in check. Her Her Her Her Golem Her 2 Her I slowly glared at Ho.

The frighteningly cold red eyes were filled with embarrassment and anger.

“That’s right… It just takes a little time, and the condition gets a little worse…”

A light came on on the long, snake-like rotating staircase installed in the basement of the golem factory, and the battle golems that were crouched inside as part of the staircase began to open their eyes one by one.

“How many guns?”

“-If you compare the depth of this facility, the structure of the stairs, and the volume in which the battle golems are stored, there are at least 176 battle golems-“

“Is it worth doing?”

“-It’s the minimum. If they were double-stacked in an out-of-sight place, I think there would be at least 200 or more-“

Battle golems began to fall from above.

Kuuuuung!!

As the ground literally shakes, the battle golems begin to fall to the ground one by one.

The battle golems on the top of the stairs, far away, were jumping down and landing in front of us, with or without damaged leg joints, while the battle golems on the bottom of the stairs, close to us, were standing up and taking out their shields and swords stored in their bodies.

At the same time, the stairs began to collapse. To be precise, the structure that was thought to be a staircase was actually a huge battle golem storage space leading to the ground, made by folding these battle golems into squares.

‘If the noise was this loud, Inori would have noticed something was wrong…’

The empty structure of this place with red lighting and no special objects makes it difficult to invade using [Shadow Ninjutsu].

Of course, it doesn’t seem like it was made in preparation for [Shadow Family]

Swoosh-

Open the [Shadow Pocket] And take out the wooden sword.

Cooooo!

Wow.

Golem No. 2 stuck his fingers into his left shoulder and tried to pull it out.

“-I will clear a path to the ground-“

“In exchange for that arm? Now there’s no one to repair it.”

Golem No. 2 was something that even Melissa, who had the golden [Golem Maker] Trait, could not recreate if her memories she were lost.

“-Still, the creator would have willingly sacrificed his body for the charger-“

Without any hesitation, she tried to give up her left arm.

No, even with the rail gun she used in exchange for her fingers last time, she overheated to the point where her whole body was on the verge of burning, and if she used one of her arms as a whole, it wouldn’t be surprising if her whole body melted and disappeared as soon as she fired it. .

Melissa may have dealt with things in her own way after that, but there are limits to everything.

Moreover, at that time, Melissa’s affection level reached 5.0 and her companion training ball maximized her abilities, but now that she does not have such help, they decided to force the perpetual motion device embedded in her chest. Her. To activate. Talk.

That is, she will just shoot without cooling.

“-If this body overheats, immediately take the ‘perpetual engine drive’ and escape-“

There were many things I wanted to ask.

But first of all, there was only one thing I had to ask.

“What about that body? It’s Melissa’s body, right?”

“-This is the creator’s body intact, except for the replaced heart-“

And the heart was embedded in the body of Golem No. 2.

“-All I had to do was consume one golem to escape the crisis. Tools can be consumed as needed, and above all, if the creator returns to his original state, he could easily create a golem like this …-“

I ignored her words and rushed towards the battle golem approaching us.

Fast. And it is solid.

However, it was not at a level that could not be dealt with.

Whoops!

Break the golem, and break it again to create a path.

Probability, I know. Extremely low.

But now I know.

The golem queen who used Melissa’s body was not Melissa.

Now Golem No. 2, and the perpetual motion machine she carries.

This was the real Melissa.

Wow!!

I fought and fought the battle golems until the surrounding area was filled with iron pieces, but I had no choice but to retreat when battle golems started raining down from the air.

When I swung my sword, the battle golems came up behind me and it became a melee, so I had to retreat to the location of Golem No. 2, who kept me in check by shooting the mana cannon.

Although the wooden sword is strong, my sword is only one, and the number of battle golems approaching is only six.

I destroyed two battle golems and dodged or deflected the remaining attacks, but I had no choice but to allow two.

The edge of the shield hits my left shoulder, and my forehead is slightly scratched by the sharp sword, and my vision turns blood-red.

Whoa!!

“Pfft!”

“-Charger!-“

Although no bones were broken, a sharp pain reverberated through her left shoulder.

The Golem Queen seemed to seize her opportunity and pushed her battle golem even harder, and I stuffed her left arm into her pocket to keep it from rattling around, then swung her wooden sword with just her right hand and struck down her golems. He retreated, crushing it.

The situation is the worst.

As the blood streaming down from my forehead obscured my vision, I was roughly wiping it away with my right sleeve. While I was wiping away the blood, Golem No. 2 caught sight of what I was doing, so I flinched and stopped my actions.

Golem No. 2 tried to rip off her left arm again, but I stopped her by grabbing her shoulder.

“Don’t do it.”

“-But, there is no other way…-“

“I will never give up on you.”

Her frozen affection she was seen melting again.

As if in response, the permanent organ embedded in Golem No. 2’s chest began to pound.

Rattling.

Her affection, which had been frozen like white frost, began to melt.

Golem No. 2 had no affection level.

Originally, by transplanting and using the heart of the creator, Melissa, her affection was inherited from her, so when they existed together, the two shared the same affection.

Now that it has received Melissa’s heart, it has become completely one. It was frozen, but as it began to melt, the pink heart gauge filled all five spaces.

Holding her her own pounding heart her in her her hands her her her, Golem No. 2’s eyes oozed a blue light that contrasted with the Golem Queen’s, who radiated a precious red light from her eyes.

Shhh–!

The phenomenon seen previously in her body, which occurred when Melissa’s affection level reached 5.0, began to appear again.

– Perpetual engine driving device (completed) –

– A permanent organ created by adding miracle to miracle. The hearts of two girls became one where they should have been –

Golem No. 2 stands between the golem army and me, looking straight at me with its blue eyes.

Her perpetual motion machine shines and generates power.

On her back, the area near her wing bones opened for cooling, cooling her overheated body.

As a result of those two things, wings of hot light that radiated heat were emitting from Golem No. 2’s back.

She transformed into a mechanical angel-like appearance and spoke in a voice that resonated as if two people were singing in unison.

Melissa and Golem No. 2, with the voices of two people.

“-[Our hearts are beating for you]-“