The magical brain of the mysterious <, , after questioning Hope, came to one conclusion.
The golem before us, despite its appearance, possesses considerable intelligence and knowledge.
And for the time being, he would act friendly and let them take advantage of his knowledge.
The reason why we avoided a strong move was because we judged that even if we caught this person, he would not give us valuable information.
It would be better to be friendly to them and extract as much concession as possible from them.
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"Thank you very much, sir."
He has changed his address from to .
"So, what can I do for you?"
"I see. I would like some information too.
"I understand. But I would like to understand each other a little better first."
Knowledge exchange is a double-edged blade.
We can know what we want to know, but we can also know what we don't want to know, and there is a danger of knowing what we don't want to know.
(Except for Jin's trans-info).
Therefore, we are trying to exchange the necessary knowledge and information in the process of getting to know each other.
It takes time, but it is not a problem for the magic brain.
In other words, the magic brain can grasp the passage of time as a quantity, but it cannot <> the passage of time.
<> is longer than <>, but it is another thing to feel <> is longer than >.
And the magic brain cannot feel <>.
Let's take a break.
Deciding to exchange knowledge with each other after establishing a strong relationship, even if it takes a long time, the brain of the mage <> decides to give Hope a tour of the base as a start.
"Are you sure?"
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Declaring this, <> let the former guide Hope around the base.
"I am to guide you."
The <>'s wording changed slightly.
"I look forward to working with you."
"Yes. What can I do for you?
"No, not really. I'll leave it to you.
Yes, sir.
By the way, may I call you Spokesman?
"Yes. Yes, of course.
"Yes, thank you."
So <>......, whom we shall call <>, led Hope to the lowest level of the <>.
"From here, I'll take you up to the next level.
"Thank you very much."
"The bottom level is all storage. The least important ones and the materials.
Yes, sir.
The two of them head for the upper level without checking the warehouses at all.
However, the old man confirms that the <> is telling the truth by using his <>.
The second level was also a warehouse.
"This is a warehouse too, but there is something important here."
"What are those?"
"Some of it will be kept secret, but I'll show you what I can."
With that, the showed Hope one of the warehouses.
"This is where we keep our golems," he said.
"There are roughly a hundred of them."
"There are 104. Right now there is one more every five days.
"This is scrap. It will eventually be repurposed into materials."
There was a mess of wrecked golems and magic tools.
"It's less work to build new ones than to repair them," he said.
"That's logical."
Hope finished her tour of the warehouse, thinking that Jin would never discard a broken golem.
* * * *
"Okay, now the third layer.
Each layer is about 10 meters long, including the floor, subfloor infrastructure, ceiling, and various parts of the subterranean space.
The diameter is 200 meters, and the outer shell is about 10 meters thick, so the inner space is 18 Hope thought that the diameter of the inner space would be 18 meters, which would mean that there were 18 levels.
However, this is negated by this layer.
The third level was about 20 meters from floor to ceiling.
"This level is a factory.
"A factory? You mean this is where the golem is made?
"That's what I mean. I can't show you the factory, but I can show you the repair and maintenance shops.
"Thank you very much.
We went to the repair shop first.
There are 10 engineer-type golems waiting there, and they are supposed to repair golems and magic tools up to ...... medium damage except for catastrophic damage.
Next is the maintenance shop.
There are 20 engineer-type golems here as well, and they are in charge of maintenance of the golems working in the base.
"It's quite a well-equipped facility, isn't it?
"I guess so."
nodded in satisfaction at Hope's words.
The fourth level is the power room.
"The fourth level is the power room. I can't show you this."
"Okay."
So they skipped the fourth level and went to the fifth level.
This is another classified area. Let's go up.
"Yes, sir."
Hope and then proceed to the sixth level.
This is effectively the middle floor of the sphere, and the largest of the levels.
"A living area, apparently."
"I hear?"
"It seems?" "Mm-hmm. < to live in, but that's never been the case before."
"I see. May I see some of the rooms?
No problem.
Thank you very much.
With permission, Hope first opened the door to the nearest room.
It was a simple room with a single bed, a table, and two chairs.
It seemed to have a washroom, a simple toilet, and a shower room, which Hope judged to be adequate for emergency evacuation.
Hope also checked a room a little further away from the house.
The room was about 8 tatami mats in size and was a <>.
The other room was a little more luxurious than the other rooms they had seen so far.
Hope imagined that this room might be for the bigwigs.
"Well, this is the lower half. Now let's do the upper half."
"Please do."
While Hope felt that she had not gotten much out of the tour so far, she was a little excited about what was to come.