Chapter 638
“Your Highness, the maintenance of the Titan has been completed.”
“Right. Good work.”
Receiving Adelia’s report, the Grand Duke was reading a book in the research barracks.
“Your Highness, at this point, further maintenance or upgrades of the Titans are unlikely. The point of reaching the next battle is expected to be faster.”
“Okay, just keep the existing equipment, and you don’t have to consider installing it anymore.”
“Can we say that Titan is complete as it is?”
“I guess so.”
By design, the Titans are only supposed to fight two battles in the future.
“The next two times, Titan will only be used up to that point. It’d be better if the Titans weren’t used after that.”
“okay.”
Adelia nodded at the Grand Duke’s words.
It’s better not to use such a huge weapon of war.
When the Gate Avalanche is over, it should not be used for anything else, even though it may be used to deal with the remaining monsters.
So there was no need to upgrade the Titan beyond this level.
So, both Adelia and the Archduke had to get out of the time they were clinging to Titan and always keep Titan in its current state.
It means that you are now free from heavy duty.
Adelia looks at the Archduke sitting in a chair.
Perhaps because he no longer needed to study Titan, the Archduke was reading a book rather than a research document.
There was almost no talk about things other than work with the Grand Duke.
That’s why the archduke was reading a book regardless of Titan, so there was no choice but to be curious.
“if… … . May I ask what book you are reading?”
Looking at the complicated contents and the schematized Jin, I could roughly guess that it was a magic book.
“It is the family’s vision.”
“yes? Oh, sorry. … … That was not my intention.”
How dare you read the secret book of the Saintoine family and look sideways at it.
I knew how important the secret book was, so I couldn’t help but blush at the presumptuous question.
The Grand Duke smiled faintly at the bewildered Adelia.
“… … You said it wrongly. sorry. That said, there was nothing that would interest you. It is something you already know.”
The Grand Duke closed the book and revealed the title.
[Magic Automatic Device-27]
“… … ?”
magic power device.
Adelia, of course, knows what it is.
“Is this a book about golems?”
“Strictly speaking, it is a book about all devices that use magical energy as power. Golem is one of those things, so I can’t say no.”
It has a magic train, a warp gate, and a golem.
Adelia’s talent, magic crafting, is a talent specialized for it.
It is a very comprehensive study, but it would mean that there are up to 27 such incredibly thick books.
And while Adelia made the titans, she understood and acquired almost everything about golems. Most of them were passed down from the Saint-Ouan family, so even if you haven’t read them yourself, you’ve read them all.
That’s why the grand duke said that you wouldn’t be interested in it because it was something you knew.
But Adelia admires the other part.
The Santoine family doesn’t touch the law and the dark powers, but that means they care about all areas of magic other than those unholy powers.
The scale of the vision that the Saint-Ouane family has built over a long period of time.
There are more than 27 books on magic devices alone, with a thickness like that, but how many other visions are there?
Adelia felt the weight of that time overwhelming.
Without such accumulated knowledge, Titan could not have been created, Adelia could not help but think so.
But it was strange.
The Archduke said there was no need to improve the Titan now.
However, he is seeing a family vision related to the golem. Even if you remember pretty much everything.
The Archduke shook his head as if he knew what Adelia was feeling.
“It has nothing to do with Titan. That’s not what’s written in this book.”
“ah… … . okay.”
“Precisely, research on remotely controlled neural networks that go into magic devices is recorded.”
“Into the Master Orb… … . Are you talking about the system?”
“I belong to one of them.”
The Archduke and Adelia use an orb called the Master Orb to start and control the Titan.
remote control neural network.
Adelia couldn’t understand why the Grand Duke was looking at it now.
Of course, the Archduke couldn’t explain why he was seeing this.
Because of the request of the Demon King, I cannot say that I am thinking about how to neutralize the Immortal.
It is a magic that even the Archduke does not know about Immortal.
So I don’t know how to neutralize it.
I can only imagine.
I was in the process of grabbing that strand now.
“Have you ever been to Arnaka?”
Arnaca, the capital of the Principality of Saint-Ouane.
It is the hometown of the Archduke and the hometown of Harriet.
At that question, Adelia shook her head.
“sorry. Not even once… … .”
The Grand Duke laughed at Adelia’s words.
“What would you be sorry for? It can happen. Let’s go after the war.”
Adelia thought that the Grand Duke was a little strange these days.
He is always a solemn and solemn person, but at the same time he is also a kind and gentle person.
But what about the fort?
I think you laugh often.
Is it because the end of the war is near?
If it was a person who could see that solemnity, solemnity, and unwavering pride.
There, now it seems like a person who is prepared for something.
After all, the Archduke seems brighter than before.
Adelia couldn’t know the details of the inside story.
“Anyway, Arnaria doesn’t use a single guard. There are very few vassals.”
“ah… … . I heard. You replaced it with an automated golem.”
“okay.”
It wasn’t really a secret, so Adelia naturally knew that much.
The capital of Arnaka, Arnaria, the White Palace, is guarded by automated golems.
It is only natural that those with strong authority attach great importance to protecting their possessions.
For Arnaria, variables caused by people are perfectly controlled.
That’s why it’s very safe, but it’s a very lonely place, Adelia remembered hearing such a story once.
“It outlines visions of how to automate those golems and build some sort of neural network to control them remotely.”
“Oh, I see.”
The largest golem in the allied forces right now is the titan.
But, of course, the golem power isn’t just the Titans.
Steel golems made of metal are fighting by moving quickly across the battlefield with short-range teleportation and blink magic.
Before the Titans were deployed, and even after they were deployed, the golem power was still a great help.
Now, the archduke is reading a book about how to build an army of golems.
How to automate the golem.
how to control
The study of how to link the armies with magical neural networks and manipulate them from a distance.
it is written
So, it is a technology that has already been applied and is being used in practice.
Since the family’s vision had already been applied, it would not have been the first time the Grand Duke had read that book.
In other words, the Archduke is now reviewing.
Adelia wants to be of help to the Grand Duke if she can.
“Have you found anything that needs improvement?”
And magic crafting is also Adelia’s talent. So, if the Archduke faced some difficulties, he wanted to do something more since the work related to Titan was over.
Whatever it is.
I want to help if I can.
“No, not really.”
However, the Grand Duke looked at Adelia as if that wasn’t the case.
The Archduke has nothing to do, so is he rechecking the knowledge he already knows?
In Adelia’s eyes, the Grand Duke seemed to be thinking about something.
“I just wanted to consider that possibility.”
“If it is possible… … ?”
“I think the lack of guards in Arnaria might be a weakness.”
“weakness… … What do you mean?”
“Adelia, let’s assume that you can interfere with the neural networks that control Arnaria’s golems.”
“yes… … ?”
“Then, Adelia, since you can control Arnaria’s golems even while you are outside Arnaria, can’t you actually open and close all the gates of Arnaria?”
Steal control of the golems.
“If such a thing were possible, wouldn’t Arnaria’s safety in the palace depend on just one mage?”
“I don’t think about it, but if that happens… … . It seems dangerous.”
A network has been built between the golems of Arnaria.
If that network is stolen, it will result in all the golems being stolen.
“I was thinking about whether such a thing is possible or not. It’s just something no one has tried yet… … . I was thinking about that.”
Arnaria is just an example.
The Archduke was talking about something entirely different.
However, Adelia, who has no way of knowing that fact, is troubled.
There is a network of golems already formed.
Intercepting it in the middle and taking control of the golems.
Is that possible?
“I do not know. But no one has tried it… … . It seems certain.”
“In the past, means similar to dispels were used to neutralize golems. But like I said, it’s a thing of the past. There is no reason to make a golem that cannot resist dispel.”
There is a way to deal with Dispel, so I make a golem. The method of resisting magical interference also belongs to golem technology.
However, not neutralization, but a method of interfering with the golem control neural network.
direction is different.
The Grand Duke is thinking of magic that has never existed in the world before.
If there is such magic, it is dangerous.
It’s not just Arnaria’s problem, it’s because the Golems that the Grand Duke is currently operating, and even the Titans, can be intercepted by someone.
What has never been thought of has never been studied.
So, it suggests the possibility that the method may be possible surprisingly very easily.
Adelia wondered if the Grand Duke was thinking this way to strengthen Arnaria’s defenses.
In any case, even if the Grand Duke’s worries were useless, the fact that he was worried did not change.
I want to help if I can.
“Then I’ll think about it… … .”
– Your Highness the Grand Duke.
The moment Adelia was about to say something, there was a voice calling out to the Archduke from outside the research barracks.
“What is it?”
One of the wizards who entered the barracks pointed outside with a firm expression.
“There is something you need to check.”
It wasn’t urgent, it was something rather puzzling.
* * *
The grand duke’s sons were also present there.
“Father, are you here?”
“What is going on?”
It was an attitude that no one could understand.
“It’s a golem.”
“yes.”
A golem fell in front of the gathered wizards.
Medium Iron Golem. The only magic inherent is Blink, a short-range teleportation magic.
However, the explosive physical force exerted from the giant body sweeps away the battlefield.
Recently, there are monsters that emit super-heated breath, but it was one of the countless golems of the Grand Duke who were always doing their part on the battlefield.
Like Titan, golems can be recovered and reintroduced through a restoration process if the part corresponding to the core system inside is not damaged.
That’s why the number of the Archduke’s golem army didn’t decrease that much.
“As you can see, the outside looks fine, but it doesn’t restart at all. In the last battle, I retrieved the one that was abandoned without the reverse summoning magic being activated, but it couldn’t be restored.”
“is it.”
There was little external damage. No, it was at a level where he had barely fought a battle.
So, since the golem was abandoned on the battlefield with its motion stopped, I retrieved it.
However, no matter how hard I tried to bring it to the camp and restart it, it didn’t work, so I finally called the Archduke.
At the words of the eldest son, the grand duke examines the golem.
However, the Grand Duke also narrows his brows.
“The internal magic circuits are all destroyed. No, it’s not even destruction. All parts are fine.”
The Grand Duke seemed to know why the other mages had called him.
“Only the planted magic ‘evaporated’. Is this possible?”
If it’s completely destroyed, it’s understandable. But, of course, there is no external damage, and the internal parts and devices including the mana stone are intact.
Only the enchanted magic was erased cleanly.
So, now the Grand Duke was looking at the golem destroyed in the strangest way in the world.
“Even a strong dispel magic seems to have hit… … .”
The Grand Duke just said that his golem could not be affected by Dispel-type neutralization magic.
Of course monsters don’t use dispels. And even if it was used, there was no way that the Archduke’s golem would be affected by such neutralization magic.
Do monsters use magic now?
A dispel powerful enough to neutralize the anti-aircraft golem?
So what about Titan?
What if it was a titan, not a golem, that fell victim to this mysterious method?
If that had happened, all wizards might have been in despair.
“I… … . May I have a look?”
While the Grand Duke was lost, Adelia cautiously opened her mouth.
The Archduke as well as the other wizards paved the way, and Adelia began inspecting the golem.
As the Grand Duke said, it was bizarrely neatly ruined.
The core parts and the mana stone were all intact.
However, all the magic circuits for the golem to function as a golem have been destroyed.
No, not even destruction. If it was destruction, no trace could be found among the destroyed circuits.
It disappeared neatly, as if someone had ripped off the whole magic circuit.
Is it possible to neutralize such a sophisticated and precise dispel, and even a golem that already has countermeasures for dispel?
It was an absurd thing for the Archduke as well as the Archduke’s magicians.
It was because the most intact golem among the recovered golems was the most damaged.
Everyone is terrified at the thought that the monsters might use powerful dispel magic.
“ah… … . I think I know what’s going on… … .”
However, Adelia could intuit what this was going on.
* * *
After reassuring the Grand Duke that if his thoughts were correct, there was nothing to worry about. Adelia headed somewhere.
It was none other than the Temple Garrison, and it was also the Royal Class Garrison.
Adelia has no choice but to find out who the culprit is.
“Golem… … ? me?”
“huh. Do you remember?”
It was Scarlett, a girl with red hair.
