It was after 9:00 at night. In a sense, this is the time when things are at their most relaxed. The night shift is starting to move in, and those on regular duty are taking a rest.
Confusion runs through the fortress at night.
A guard at the service gate has been found unconscious.
The guards on the outside are not returning.
Two guards in the basement. They've fainted.
Reports keep coming in, but I don't understand them.
"What the hell is going on? Report it to me so I can understand!"
Intact Marzecilia de Galvani, the sixth branch manager, yells at the top of her lungs, but that doesn't make things any better.
Oh, my God!
What is it now?
What is it now? - There are no prisoners!
What? What's going on?
Intact was almost confused.
"Branch Manager, please calm down. I can only think that someone from the outside has entered the building.
Marcello, the vice director of the branch, said to him. He is also a magecraftsman.
"Someone? Who are you?
Marcello had no answer to that question.
"Yesterday, a pigeon came from headquarters, remember? Remember that?
"What? Do you really believe what that upstart Purcell told you?
"I'm just saying, let's consider it as one of the possibilities.
That was the closest thing to the truth, but Intact wouldn't listen. Marcello had no choice but to give his own orders, and that's when he was hit in the face by something.
He felt a blow on his face, something passed in front of him, and at the same time he heard a dull thud and saw a hole in the wall.
"What the hell was that? What was that?"
I touched it, and blood was dripping from my face.
The next moment, there was a dull sound, and this time there was a hole in the wall behind me.
I have no idea what just happened. Marcello, a reasonably competent magecraftsman, had no idea what had happened, nor could he even guess.
In the next room, a soldier on guard duty was panicking when a hole suddenly appeared in the wall and something snatched his arm and ripped off his flesh.
But Marcello was able to think calmly.
"What did it say ......, <>," he said. No way. ......"
"Branch Manager! A hole suddenly opened in the wall and two golems on standby were crushed!
Something is lodged in the wall facing the river!
A report comes in.
"Take out the thing that is stuck in the wall and bring it to me.
I go around to the front of the fort and look out through a small hole for observation.
"What? What is that?"
There were several figures about 100 meters away. It was too dark and far away to make out their faces.
"From the direction of the hole, I wonder if they are the ones who did this to us.
After thinking for a while, I decide to send out two battle golems. Of course, they are the lowest class golems, just to see what happens.
"Go. And if they're enemies, capture them and bring them to me."
* * * * * *
"Well, we should have some kind of reaction by now."
Three railguns are fired and ten minutes pass. Jin stared at the fort in the darkness, his helmet in night vision mode.
Reiko, who has even better eyesight than Jin in night vision mode, spots two golems coming out of the fort.
"They're coming on foot. They are golems. They don't look very good.
You can tell the quality of a golem by the way it moves. If it moves awkwardly, it's a low-grade golem. Simple strength, however, cannot be measured by such a scale.
When you get as close as 20 meters, even Jin can tell it's a golem. And the quality of the workmanship.
It can't be friendly.
The two golems did not seem to have the ability to speak, and they approached Jin silently, without stopping their steps, and tried to grab him.
"What are you doing?"
Reiko took a swing of the railgun in her hand.
Both Golems were crumpled up and immobilized after being hit by the railgun, which was made of adamantite and weighed about 50 kilograms, heavier than Reiko's. "How fragile .
"How fragile ......"
The exterior is bronze. Jin has no idea what this golem was sent out for.
"Let's get a little closer. Yes, Ash, Elm, take the golem.
Yes, Chief.
SP, Ash and Elm carry one of each of the stuck golems. Land 50 and 51 are with them.
In the darkness of the night, Jin and his teammates approach the Golem within about 40 meters of it.
"All right, let's smash that golem against the wall of that fortress. ......That's right, let's ask Rand to do it this time. Lando 50, Lando 51, please.
"Yes, master."
Lando 50 and 51 lifted the golem at the same time and threw it as hard as they could at the wall above the fort.
Incidentally, the maximum output of the army golem is about 20 percent of the current Reiko's. It is outrageous in its own way.
The golem was thrown with such force that it hit the wall of the fort and fell down halfway into the ground.
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"What, what, what are they?"
As I was observing the outside, a golem suddenly flew out of nowhere and slammed into the wall.
Seeing this, even Marcello was stunned. But he quickly cooled down and began to think.
"Hmmm, that power, the golem he is carrying is the strongest golem that was active at the Golem Party, isn't it? If so, is he Jin Nido?"
The information from the golem garden party matches the information from yesterday.
"It's time to be sparing no more. ......<"
Marcello produced three balls of light and floated them in front of the fort. The darkness disappears and the light becomes bright.
There were four golems that appeared to be battle-ready, and a man wearing a strange helmet who seemed to be ordering them around.
And what is hard to understand is that a person who looks like a girl is standing there holding a strange weapon that is bigger than her height.
"Is that them who attacked you?"
Marcello turned toward the voice and saw Intact, who had recovered and was looking out through the other observation window.
"It seems so. The lower golems were no match for him.
"Well, I'm the only one who can activate the advanced battle golem. I don't care who or what you are, you'll see.
And with that, Intact pulled back and activated all of the battle golems and sent them into battle. He then activated all of the battle golems and launched them into battle, saving the strongest battle golem and the all-powerful golem as trump cards.
As Marcello watched, he immediately saw fifteen battle golems rush out from the front of the fort.
"More than double the strength difference. Well, I guess that settles it."
* * *
"There is someone behind the surveillance window on the fort. It seems to be observing us.
As Reiko was saying this, a ball of light came up and illuminated the area.
"It finally noticed us. Then I wonder if it will attack us with all its might next time. Barrier."
The reinforced clothes have a high defense, but just in case, Jin put up a barrier.
Not long after that, fifteen golems burst out of the open door at the front of the fort.