Chapter 518
He readily agreed to call His Majesty the King of Gandilis, a steel country, and ask him if he would personally sell me steel. Instead, she asked me to talk to her for a second. The Iron and Steel King talked to me? What is it...?
"If you go, you"ll see."
"Did you talk to him?
He said, "Oh, he"s waiting at the royal palace."
Answer that to Leanne and open the [gate] quickly.
c.o.o.n jumps into the [gate] first just to say he was waiting. Even with so much sudden cancer.
"Not at all anymore...... restless. Who does he look like?
"Whoa, you want to say me, "cause that"s what Leanne did when she was looking for Babylon"s" library "."
"I was a little more calm."
Whoa. Paula under my feet says, "Is that it? He"s leaning his neck. "
"Well, he"s a parent and a child, so it"s natural to resemble him."
"Right."
The two of us laugh face-to-face. Then from beyond the [gate] came a bit of a jito-eyed coun just neck out.
"It"s fine to be close, but why don"t we go quickly? I find it rude to keep His Majesty the King of Gandyllis waiting."
"Oh, yeah. Okay."
"Oh, yeah. Let"s go."
Somehow it stinked. We hurried through the [gate].
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"Oh, Father, I"ll buy you some hymythrills, too."
"Yes, yes, this one."
I throw a brilliant chunk of hymythrill into [storage] silver, just like Kuhn said.
After greeting His Majesty the King of Gandilis, he was immediately led to the Great Warehouse under the castle, which is a steel and resource storage site.
Various steel stones and alloys are piled up there like mountains, and products that have been refined and made of steel are also placed.
That"s a huge number...... That"s what you said about a steel country.
Gandilis, a steel country, is a mountainous country surrounded by various mines.
Due to the wealth of underground resources and advanced refining technologies, most countries of the Western continent buy steel from this country.
As a result, it has been invaded several times in the past, but has been retreated from it by the heavenly landscape and rigid golems.
Due to the availability of all minerals, there are many dwarves and many first-cla.s.s items of weapon protection equipment. Glad you didn"t bring Frey...
"I wish my country had a mine or something."
"You can"t help but disappear."
Leanne gives it back to me. Yeah, but come on.
Of course, I don"t know the subtle difference between ore. [M] Naturally [SEARCH] Something doesn"t catch on unless it"s a fossil or demonic stone that"s so easy to understand.
If it"s an easy shape to understand, like a misrill golem or an orihal congolem, it catches me.
Orihalcon Golem hunted a little too much when making Su"s Ortrinde overload...... Momentum that could become an endangered species.
I told him that and he was just p.i.s.sed off by the other kings. Well, it"s like you"re taking precious resources from other countries.
Though I managed to get some forgiveness for countries that have already hunted and annoyed me by telling me some habitats like Mithrill Golem and Diamond Golem.
"And I"ll buy a lot. So much for making one overgear?
"Required! I can"t tell you the details."
"Isn"t that true? You haven"t bought enough for yourself in a while, have you?
"Mother, I don"t know if I doubt my daughter. Oh, you can use this, too. Father, this is one thing."
With Leanne"s suspicion in mind, c.o.o.n will designate steel.
No, that"s really a lot...... I think it"s quite a bit of steel that was originally in the "workshop".
Overgear is bigger than frame gear, and to some extent I was prepared... Oh, will you make the money? I came here to buy it cheap, but when it turns out to be high, it"s a real fall.
It was me walking after my mother and daughter, feeling a little anxiety.
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"This is quite a lot...... I"m just wondering what you"re going to use it for, but let"s not pry."
The Iron King was surprised to see the list of things I had stored in [Storage]. I"m surprised, too. That"s more than double what I expected. Are you sure there"s so many of them? How many planes are you going to make?
I wonder if you are willing to make some underwater dedicated frame gear as well as overgear.
Kuhn won"t tell me just because he"s smiling. So does the Doctor, but the race in this hand is too secrecy. This one"s a sponsor, right?
"That"s how much you pay..."
"Oh, for how much?
Drink sagging and spitting at the words of the Iron and Steel King. When he ran the pen on the paper he held in his hands, he gave me the paper with the amount written on it.
Oh, is that cheaper than I thought? Are you sure? With this amount?
"Um, looks like they"re getting this pretty cheap..."
"Mm-hmm. Actually, it"s something I talked to you about on the phone... If you can do something about it, I"ll give you another half off this amount."
Whoa, I knew there was a good story behind it. What do you want me to do?
"Look at this map"
A map of the area around Gandilis was spread over the table in the reception room. This was made from a map of a smartphone I gave you. There is the King"s Capital of Gandilis in the centre.
"This is the city with the largest mine in this country, Mercurium. So, there is a king"s capital across the Gandra Mountains. The only way to transport steel to w.a.n.gdu is to cross the Gandra Mountains by airs.h.i.+p or take a detour through this town to the south."
Um, isn"t it possible to carry steel on a airs.h.i.+p? You can"t pile that heavy stuff on a airs.h.i.+p. I won"t be able to fly.
Take a detour south route. This is quite a distance, isn"t it? Ha ha. I kind of know what the Iron and Steel King is trying to say.
"What is it? I mean, dig a tunnel here, huh?
I slammed a thong with my fingers the mountain ranges that soar between the king"s capital and Mercurium. The Iron and Steel King also laughs n.i.g.g.ardly at getting my will.
"Well, that"s what happens if you blow it. I"ve had plans to dig tunnels here for a long time, but there are a few places where the ground is brittle. Even if I was forced to dig it, it would collapse, so I couldn"t do it because it was dangerous. But magic comes from the Oriental continent, and I wonder if earthly magic can do it."
I see. If you do have dirt magic, you can dig in while consolidating what"s about to collapse. It"s the same procedure as the s.h.i.+elding method.
"But this is quite a distance..."
We dug tunnels into the mountain ranges across the Kingdom of Belfast and the Reef Reese Empire when pulling the rails of the Magic Train, but nearly twice as long as the array. I mean, it"s close to a hundred kilometers. Well, there"s nothing I can"t dig, but I don"t want to spend too much time... Will I do it all at once?
"Okay. Let"s do it."
"Oh! Can you take it on!
"So, if you were to dig, how far from where?
"Um, I"d like to connect w.a.n.g Du with Mercurium in the shortest possible distance."
Next to me and King Steel continuing to discuss the map with their opponents, Lene gracefully was having tea with the queens of Gandilis. Leanne is also the d.u.c.h.ess of the Princ.i.p.ality. He tried not to be a disgrace to the country and dealt with it in a manner that seemed like a princess.
The problem is......
"Heh, you"re pulling an ether line to the drive system... Oh! I see, in an emergency, I"m starting to switch to this auxiliary power... interesting."
The problem is that it attaches to the Kingsguard Golem deployed at Gandylis Royal Palace in the corner of the room and there is a princess peeking inside through the gap between the joints. No, everyone in the steel country would recognize you as the son of my relatives, not as a princess.
The Kingsguard Golem, entrusted with the security of this room, kept upright immobility as if it were a figurine, without making it slight to the coun sticking.
"Something... sorry"
"Oh, no. It"s an honor to have you interested in my country"s Golem."
When I apologize, the Iron and Steel King gives me back a bitter laugh. I guess it"s frightening.
"That"s the golem of the royal palace, you use the finest lubricants, too. Oh? The wiring over here..."
Hey, it"s time to stop. Because blue muscles are starting to float in your mother"s temples drinking tea briskly over there. Oh, it"s too late.
Leanne said no to the queens, "Sorry Buckwheat," and as she left her seat, she grabbed straight under the coun and headed quickly. Wow, that"s enough.
Leanne"s two fists struck her left and right temples from behind, Kuhn, who was obsessed with Golem without realizing it.
"Hmmm, if we stay this way, we have a friction coefficient...... we are!? Oh, Mother!? It hurts!?
"K ~ n ~? Come on, lady. Come on. Are you gonna embarra.s.s me?
Grunting and Lean"s Grunting Attack burst. And when I saw it, Paula said, "Oh no...! "and was trembling in small pieces.
"Something... sorry"
"Oh, no..."
The Iron and Steel King no longer even tried to hide the laughter he had drawn.
In the meantime, I"ll see where I dig the tunnel and shoot the direction and distance with my smartphone. Also check the tunnel size when digging. Later, if the Magic Train pa.s.ses through here, transport will be even easier.
Darling, if you"re going to dig a tunnel, we can help.
"What, Mother? Me too?
"You have a responsibility, too, so help me."
"Ha ha..."
Kuhn responds powerlessly, freed from the Guru attack. Perhaps he thought that if he refused, the Guru attack would resume.
c.o.o.n, like Leanne, can use all magic but dark attributes. We can both use dirt magic, so if you can help us, we can dig a lot easier.
Do you want to start working with parents and children?
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"[Soil dressed in" Uruga ", spiral drilling, dig spiral]"
"" [Sat.u.r.day, come, earthwall, earthwall] "
The left and right arrayed leans and c.o.o.ns are applied to the horizontal hole about ten meters in diameter that I emptied to secure it from collapsing. The excavated soil is compressed with [Earthwall] and transformed into a domed wall and flat ground.
[TELEPORT] When it is finished fixing, go ahead and dig the hole again. You can dig about ten kilos at once, so if you do it ten times, you"ll get there.
"If we don"t tie the line after this is done, the Warcraft will come in."
If that happens, it is just a straight dungeon. And there"s no escape. Exactly. Gandylis would have trouble with that, too.
"I think we need a rest stop along the way."
"And a ventilatable trick."
The speed of the Golem carriage ranges from approximately twenty to thirty kilometres per hour. You spend four or five hours in the tunnel, so do you really need a rest stop or something?
If you dig about half of it, make a lot of s.p.a.ce and dig a small vertical hole for ventilation as well.
"But when you"re in the hole all the time, don"t get me worried like you"ve even been a mole..."
"Oh, darling, is Dwarf living more or less like this? Most of the time they"re diving for ore."
"You should hit the mine vein. It could make steel even cheaper."
Whimpering about that, the ground burst out before stiffening, from which a giant mole peeked into his face, with a sharp and large hook claw, Kagime. A frightened Paula clings to Leanne"s leg.
"Oh rare. Giant mall. You"re here, too."
"Cause your father says weird things.
"What, it"s my fault?
The mole must have come attracted by the sound of digging. I think he never came here because he heard our conversation...
"Guffa......!
The Giant Mall has crawled out of the hole and threatened both claws this way. Hmm, maybe he heard us coming after all. Misunderstood I found the bait.
Well, what do we do?
"[Water, come, clean blade, aqua cutter]"
"Ah."
"Guggioa!?
Kuhn"s magic burst into the Giant Mall before I even thought about it. Five or six meters is broken into two pieces into tangbamboo cracks, even if one giant mole sees it. Wow......
"Not at all...... Idiot, think of the magic you use."
"Huh? Fire magic is bad, and in this case water magic is the best thing?
"I"m sure of that, but I"m talking about figuring out a way to take it down. If you collect it in Darling"s [storage], the smell of blood stained on the ground won"t go away, will it?
Leanne was right, there was a smell of blood in the tunnel from the Giant Mall she defeated. Cool, no, it smells pretty b.l.o.o.d.y...
I immediately recovered the dead Giant Mall to [Storage] and used wind magic to push dirty air outside.
"If it"s water magic, you should have suffocated it, or frozen your whole body with ice magic and sealed it up."
"Mmm...... I"ll do that next time."
Leanne strokes c.o.o.n"s head slightly obstinate. I guess I feel reflexively out of hand. c.o.o.n"s smart, so if you think about it a little, you"ll understand.
How many of the same giant moles and giant mites came out afterwards, but c.o.o.n made it all icing.
I"m in the middle of nowhere. When this is done, we have to do some kingdom and reinforcement magic to keep them from coming in the tunnel.
With that in mind, when I activated several [Digspiral] times, I felt a different response than before. Did you say that the magic was emptied or pierced?
Is that it? Did you push through? No, we still have a lot on the other side, don"t we?
"There"s something like a cavity...?
"Oh. Did you hit the bell cave?
It"s dark in the tunnel, so the [lights] created by Leanne are floating over our heads. Not even that light reached the pockingly empty hole, and I couldn"t see it inside.
c.o.o.n created a new [light] light and ran over to the end of the collapsed hole. Oh, here! I don"t know what it is. It"s dangerous!
"This is...! Dad! Mother! Look at that!
"What the f.u.c.k? Is something wrong?
Me and Leanne rush to the end of the hole, too, to the coun that shouts out their voices.
"Oh, this is...!
There existed a blurry light like a hikarigoke apart from the [light] light that Kuhn had flown.
Something that popped into our eyes. It was a large city spreading beneath its eyes.
Buildings can be seen blurry on the road and even towers and pyramid-shaped things in the distance. It"s a completely underground city.
No, it"s more of a city trail than a city to be exact, is it? Unfortunately, the buildings and towers are partially collapsed and you should say abandoned.
Probably one of the ancient cities...... I didn"t know you were digging a tunnel and hitting something like this.
"It"s amazing! This place has not yet been discovered in the future world either! Big discovery!"
"You"ve dug a h.e.l.l of a lot. Maybe we can get some steel for free, huh?
"That would be nice. Do you want to go for dinner?"
Unlike the exciting c.o.o.n, Leanne slaps a light mouth at each other, too. Well, honestly, I can"t deny the strong feeling that I"ve found something troublesome.
But hasn"t it been discovered in the future? Does that mean the future is changing? Or is the future Gundilis hiding this underground city? I wonder what that means.
In the meantime, when I get in touch with the Iron and Steel King by phone, he looks as excited as c.o.o.n over there, and he"ll be right over there! The call broke with the b.u.mp when he was told.
No, it"s going to take a long time to get here in a airs.h.i.+p... I thought I"d pick you up from over here, but if you mean to come, wait. It"ll be an hour or two.
"Father, Father! Investigate! Investigate! Investigate if there"s any danger!
I was in trouble when I did. Until the Iron and Steel King arrives, I don"t have the confidence to keep this excited girl in check.
I do think it is necessary to check safety. It could also be a nest of warcraft operating in the ground like the Giant Mall and the Great Mimi just now.
We decided to follow Kuhn"s advice and descend from the pierced hole down. They smashed through the outer wall, which looked like a chopped cliff downstairs, but they safely stepped down to the place they opened using [Fly].
It"s like Central Square. There, the cobblestone is cracked and the building is showing partial collapse. Abandoned capital after all, huh?
"This continent is badly damaged because protective magic is not common. Even though Golem can be stored for a long time."
"It must have been difficult to protect the entire capital like our magic."
I"m talking about the Doctor. Ancient magic civilizations say that when building, they mostly fortified it with dirt magic, or protective magic to keep it clean.
There was to be such technology over here, but I guess it wasn"t widely and commonly used. It seemed like protection was limited to what was worth it.
Conversely, there may be something like a treasure that is protected.
Well, not c.o.o.n, but you"re getting a little excited.
The sound of Gashan in the abandoned capital sounded as if to water my heart.
"... what"s that now? Are you there?
From the abandoned capital that floats in the darkness, even more noise sounds. We were vigilant and ready to move at all times.
Gashan, Gashan and the likes of metal sounded more and more, and eventually a united golem emerged from the blurry dim.
He is as tall as a human being. He also looks like a knight in bra.s.s armor. But the part that hits my face is still a machine because the monocular eye like the camera lens is moving left and right.
Something like four cylinders are popping out of my back, and I"m blowing something like sparkling steam out of it. The vapor is leaking from the joints of the body as if it were about to break.
Many of those bra.s.s golems show up from all over town, not all in one piece, and come this way. I don"t have a weapon or anything in my hand, but that atmosphere that leaned against Jirijiri was like a zombie in a zombie movie.
"I don"t think it"s the underground city where Golem lives..."
"Darling, what do we do? Bust it all with extensive magic?
"Ha!? Oh my G.o.d!? Mother, I am a valuable ancient airframe, Legacy! If I break it, I may not be able to undo it anymore!?
"... you"re a real pain in the a.s.s with my daughter, this girl"
Leanne leaked her voice like she was heartbroken by the clinging coun. I know it"s a precious golem, but I won"t condone it if it attacks me.
But it"s c.o.o.n"s favor, so why don"t we just shut it down?
You don"t have to break it if you make it ice marinated.
When I tried to activate the sealed ice magic [Eternal Coffin], a woman"s voice suddenly echoed into the underground city.
"Everyone, stand back. I will not tolerate harm to them."
When we were surprised by the sudden voice, the bra.s.s golem slowly withdrew to the left and right, making its way as if it were Moses" Ten Commandments.
Ahead appeared a woman in a loose white one-piece cloth jacket called Toga, worn by the ancient Romans. Her hair s.h.i.+ning silver is long and her eyes s.h.i.+ning gold. In the dim darkness, only its beauty was demonically rocking.
"Welcome to the drone city of Agarta. People on earth."
That"s what the silver-haired Toga woman we met in the underground city said and laughed at us.