The five golems, with their immobilized comrades in their arms, returned to their base using <>.
The receiving side's magic circle was located in a hall where the ceiling, walls, and floor were all made of metal.
There, five golems with their friends appeared.
You're back. ...... what happened?
asks the golems using magic wave communication.
>We have discovered that two of the people we are looking for are at the village chief's house, and we have surrounded it to secure them, when suddenly five of the golems stopped moving.
Golem also replies over the comm.
What was the cause?
<
Yes, that is correct. We know the location of our target, so there's no need to rush. We have enough time.
<
Take the stuck golem to the second workshop.
And the voice is silent.
The five golems carried their five stuck comrades to the second workshop as instructed.
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"Oh, what's going on?"
The technical golem in charge of the second workshop looked at the five golems brought in and asked the golem that had brought them in.
"I don't know. They stopped working all of a sudden. I need you to repair them and find out why they stopped moving."
"Okay."
The five golems then left the second workshop, leaving the other five stuck golems behind.
The next stop was workshop 3.
"You're back. ......mm, what happened to the other five?"
asked the technical golem in charge of the third workshop.
"They malfunctioned during the mission, so I left them at the second workshop.
"I see. So you've come here to service the body, right?
I'll take care of it.
I'll take care of it.
The five golems were then fixed to the work hanger and serviced by the technical golem.
"Well, they were hardly worn out at all.
"I guess so."
"The damage to the exterior is also slight. It seems there was no real battle.
The five of us, yes.
But the five that are stuck are ......?
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In the second workshop, a technical golem was disassembling and repairing the five stuck bodies.
What the hell does this mean?
"I don't know."
"It can be repaired. We can repair them, but we can't guess what happened to them.
In a way, we don't have much information.
The fact that the magic conductor inside has been broken while the exterior is completely undamaged.
<
In such a case, thinner and weaker parts would be damaged.
However, all of the five bodies had their thick magic leads broken. And that too, once and for all.
"I can only come to one conclusion: they were cut by engineering magic."
"...... is beyond our control. < and let them handle it.
I agree.
The status of all five units is recorded and then repairs are made.
The record is passed to by the support golem.
I see, I understand.
I see, I understand.
, who received the report, understood what had happened in a short time with his superior thinking ability.
The key is the airship.
>
The person I was talking to was one of the 5 that returned safely, the leader of the 10, the one that confronted Reiko.
had given her a detailed situation report on the failed mission.
Then the support golem brought new information, which made it possible to make a more accurate guess.
Yes. Perhaps the owner of the airship did .
<
The village and the people we're looking for don't have that kind of technology.
<
That's right.
<
Mm-hmm. I think it's possible that they were cloaked in invisible wards and attacked with engineering magic.
<
And the owner of the airship is most likely either a Magecraft Meister or a deus ex machina.
Large airships and advanced technology. No one in the known world possesses both.
It was not difficult to guess the owner.
If it is one or the other, is it a coincidence?
asked himself.
But there is no answer. I don't have enough information.
I am still a work in progress. ......
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The interrelationship of events...... sounds difficult, but the point is the connection of events.
Jin came here because <>.
And the timing of this visit is because of the incident in Hurek town.
The incident came to light because of the kidnapping of , the magic brain.
<> carried out the kidnapping at .......
And thus, the cause can be traced back.
The cause is the result of the cause, and therefore the cause can be inferred from the result.
Of course, there are some things that cannot be determined without a large amount of data, such as events with divergent possibilities, probabilistic events, and events that seem to be only coincidental.
It is because of this lack of control that called himself .
And we must consider the next strategy.
To get closer to < .......
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>
If that one ......, if it hasn't been noticed, leave it be.