Heavenly Inquisition Sword

Episode 1294. Those parts are steel golems

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“If it’s like this everywhere else, isn’t it? Are you leaving now?”

Elio then turned to Luna Mylus.

“Sister, what should I do?”

Before Luna Mylus could open her mouth, Paladin Almet Hareb spoke first.

“Please be careful with your titles in front of outsiders.”

Elio readily accepted his point.

“What should I do, Holy Lady?”

Almet Hareb frowned, but said no more.

It was because I didn’t want to draw attention to Viscount Norton Sherwood for nothing.

“You should see more. You can’t know the whole thing by just looking at one.”

At the saintess’ answer, Fabian closed his eyes tightly.

My heart was already racing at the thought of going through a tunnel that looked like it would collapse at any moment.

“Open your eyes, Fabian. My head breaks while I wrap it around.”

“ha! Yes…”

Fabian let out a deep sigh.

I don’t know why I’m so afraid of mines, even though I’ve sailed the terrifying sea of demons and went to the legendary Celestial Castle without hesitation.

When the saintess said she would look at another tunnel, Viscount Norton Sherwood took the lead again.

‘Damn it, a woman’s liver is too big.’

Viscount Norton Sherwood wondered what was inside the saintess’ head.

After wandering around for a while, he came to a halt in an unsupported shaft.

“This is a tunnel currently under development. They are digging a hole in the direction of the crystal vein.”

Elio and the others saw the end of the tunnel.

As the viscount said, the miners were continuously hammering the earthen walls with pickaxes.

The person in front scooped up the soil and sent it to the back, and the person in the back put it in a sack and piled it on one side.

Then the person at the back took it and disappeared somewhere.

Viscount Norton Sherwood said as Elio glanced at the man carrying the sack.

“It’s about getting them out of the mine. The speed is slow because you have to carry the soil in a bag.”

“Shouldn’t we build supports in the shaft?”

“Of course you have to build it. It will take care of itself once the work has progressed to some extent. Their lives depend on it, so they do well even if they don’t have to do it.”

Then, touch the crystal vein with a pickaxe and say ‘Kang! Kang!’ and there was a sharp sound.

As Elio’s gaze turned towards it, Viscount Norton Sherwood kept his mouth shut.

Soon, crystals and mana stones fell down.

The miner sorted the pile of fallen crystals apart and pushed them to one side.

Another miner filled an empty sack with crystals and disappeared into the darkness.

“The work of sorting the mana stones in the crystal is done outside the mine. There is also a mana stone appraiser. how? Would you like to explore more places?”

Elio then turned his gaze to Luna Mylus.

He didn’t know it even though he saw it, so he left it to her.

Luna Mylus said in a calm tone.

“I’ve been looking at the top, so this time I want to look at the bottom as well. Oh, should I say northwest and southeast? To put it simply, I want you to show me the other side.”

For a moment, Viscount Norton Sherwood looked at the saintess with surprised eyes.

I don’t know how the saintess who first entered the tunnel called the anthill knows that.

It was a terrain he had barely mastered in the process of going in and out with the royal inspectors a dozen times.

Besides, northwest and southeast?

How can you tell the north, south, east, west, and west in the Abyss?

However, looking at the saintess’ calm face, it was difficult to refute.

“Oh, well… the tunnels look like anthills, so they eat them and walk wherever they go…”

Viscount Norton Sherwood reflexively made excuses and took the lead again.

Now he had no choice but to trust his cousin, Vicious Sherwood, whom he had sent earlier.

He maneuvered through the distracting tangle of mines with a flashlight (a magical instrument that emits light) at the fore.

Elio and the others silently followed the viscount.

Not everyone is like that.

Fabian, who was left behind, sighed with every breath.

“ha! Are you still far away?”

“Oops! it’s the head! Dig the shaft properly…”

“Viscount Sherwood! How much more do I have to go?”

“My chest is tight and I can’t breathe. Is this okay?”

Almet Hareb, a paladin I hadn’t heard of, said a prickly word.

“Smallly. After becoming a knight, the baron can’t stand this much.”

“You spoke well. Am I a knight, not a miner? What a knight does and what a miner does are completely different.”

“Ugh! If you can’t speak.”

Almet Hareb shook his head excitedly.

But the baron didn’t mean anything wrong, so he didn’t say anything more.

To be honest, I was very anxious about walking in a narrow tunnel.

This is because even a very small accident nearby can result in being buried alive.

At the height of his anxiety, Viscount Norton Sherwood stopped in front of a forked shaft.

Hesitating on where to go, he turned left.

“for a moment.”

Elio summoned Viscount Norton Sherwood and set him up.

The Viscount looked at Count Elio Lagoa with a puzzled face.

“Viscount Norton. I mean. It’s embarrassing to say, but I hate dark and confined places. You’ve put up with it a lot. Isn’t it?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Is your saintess sister Viscount Norton heading southeast?”

“No, we’re heading southwest.”

“Are you going to the other side even from below?”

“That’s how it is.”

“I can’t. I’m a trustworthy person…”

Viscount Norton Sherwood, who was listening to the conversation between the two, said with a puzzled face.

“On the other side of the bar? That’s a misunderstanding. Since the tunnels are entangled like a spider’s web…”

“It’s done. Fabian is having a hard time, so let’s go quickly.”

“Ah yes. Let’s hurry up a bit…”

Before he could finish his sentence, Elio spoke.

“I command you in the name of the southern sky pond (Yeonnamcheon), the son of the empty field (Gong Yaja) and the disciple of the ageless Pureum (Cheongbulno), so please answer honestly. Was a steel golem, a relic from the Mado era, excavated in the Ferdom Mine?”

“What do you mean… yes excavated. Oops! What am I talking about? Why do you have separate mouths?”

Viscount Norton Sherwood slapped my mouth with the palm of his hand.

Either that or not, Elio continued.

“Is the shaft where the iron golem was excavated to the southeast?”

“Yes, from the shaft to the southeast. omg! Are you using mind manipulation magic on me?”

Horror appeared on the face of Viscount Norton Sherwood, who belatedly realized the situation.

Since I was subjected to mind manipulation magic, I am concerned about the aftereffects.

“Nothing to be so surprised about. It’s different from mind manipulation magic. So, of course, there are no side effects. Instead, stop spinning around and direct me to where you unearthed the iron golem. Wouldn’t Viscount Norton also want to kick me out?”

“ha! Are there really no after-effects?”

“I swear on the honor of a knight. There are no after-effects.”

“I’m sorry, but since you’re a magic swordsman, please swear by mana.”

There is a knight’s honor, but there is none, so you can lie as much as you like, but the oath of mana is different.

If you make a foolish oath with mana, the blessing of mana will disappear.

So mages couldn’t lie with the oath of mana.

Elio was a spiritual practitioner, so he swore an oath, but the other party said he would.

“I can swear by mana that there will be no sequelae. Now, can you show me where the steel golem was excavated?”

“I will tell you one more thing. You shouldn’t tell anyone that you’ve seen the excavation site here. Can you do that?”

“Even if I try to brag, there is no one to talk to. My relationships are not that wide.”

Then Fabian suddenly interrupted.

“It is true. The human relationship with Count Lagoa is not smooth.”

Elio, furious at Fabian’s words, refuted.

“hey! Aren’t you happy? It’s because I didn’t have time to meet people because I was protecting the ice wall in the north. Does it make me a very strange person?”

“Haven’t you beaten half of the people you met along the way? I mean, I don’t like that.”

“That’s because the other person did something bad. I’m a person who stays still like a tree unless someone else touches it first.”

“Yes, it is a tree with deadly thorns. to kill or injure anyone it touches.”

“It’s not the tree’s fault. It’s the fault of the people who touched it.”

Elio also had a conscience, so he did not completely deny it.

Viscount Norton Sherwood, who was listening, said as if to confirm.

“Then I’ll just trust the Count’s promise and go.”

“Let’s not just talk Viscount Norton, let’s go. Hurry up and see.”

Elio shook his head in disgust.

Only then did Viscount Norton Sherwood return and enter the tunnel on the right.

After wandering around for a while, the narrow tunnel suddenly widened.

Not only that.

Flashlights were placed at regular intervals on the walls of the tunnels.

At last Viscount Norton Sherwood stopped.

Unlike the tunnels where only one person went in and out, a huge cavity about 10 meters wide appeared.

Dozens of miners were clinging to the walls of the cave, diligently digging pickaxes.

Every time that happened, chunks of steel, not crystal, fell to the bottom of the rain water.

Viscount Norton Sherwood said with a proud face.

“This is the mine where artifacts from the Dark Ages were excavated. As you can see, there are not crystal veins but steel parts buried there.”

“Steel parts?”

“That’s right. Iron Golems are not circular. Those parts are steel golems.”

“Did magic engineers assemble that?”

“no. There won’t be a magic engineer like that in the world. The parts come together to form a shape. Like that.”

Viscount Norton Sherwood’s finger pointed to one side of the joint.

The chunks of steel pulled each other and formed a certain shape.

There were golem fingers as well as those that looked like joints in arms and legs.

Elio’s mouth fell open.

To make a shape by moving it by itself without assembling it!

It was like seeing magic.

The assembled parts were loaded into steel crates – placed on two rails – and sent somewhere.

“Is that going to become an iron golem?”

“Here, pieces of steel are pulled together to make something, but when you go to the assembly plant, you need a little help from someone. If we don’t position ourselves to some extent, we won’t respond to each other.”

Then Luna Mylus spoke.

“That would be because of the weight of the assembled parts. If the weight is heavier than the force pulling each other, there will be limits to movement.”

“you’re right. Looking at the appearance of both sides, if you bring the parts that you want to fit together closely, they will stick together. Different parts do not stick even if pushed.”

Was it because they shared a secret?

Viscount Norton Sherwood explained the manufacturing process of the steel golem without asking.