[Current location: Guards barracks.]

"Look! I'm telling you! We need to go!"

"Are you crazy!? There is no way this ain't normal! Think about it!"

"She isn't wrong…. There is good chance that there maybe some sort of leader monsters involved."

"But aren't golems just constructs? Can they even have a leader?"

"SHUT IT! JUST STOP COMPLAININGAND THINK IT STRAIGHT!"

"Then will you finally stop shouting?!"

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!" – as the knights, guards and adventurers started complaining and shouting at each other, somebody entered the massive hall.

It was the lord alongside the mayor who entered the barracks.

"I want to know what the hell is going!" – shouted the lord as he walked towards the table. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"NOW!"

"…"

"It isn't good… My lord…" – replied knight captain.

"There were 3 golems attacks-"

"Wait, 3?! I've heard about 2?!" – said lord, interrupting his loyal knight.

"…We just received the report…. About the third…." -replied the knight captain.

"…"

"Fuck…" – said the stressed-out lord.

"…"

"How…. How many people we have on standby? How many monsters are we dealing here with in total?" – asked the stressed-out lord as the people gathered started whispering amongst themselves.

"Well… We have some people…. But-"

"Not many adventurers, if you are wondering about that." – said the female Chhipakalee adventurer.

"We have some adventurers that were left here in case of incident, but a lot of us already left to deal with other problems."

"This territory in the first place wasn't really dangerous, so the adventurer's guild here isn't extremely big or full of regular adventurers… Mostly travelers."

"If you want some reinforcements, you will have to send requests."

"As for the knights and guards… Well, there are ready… However… Some of the groups that were sent to search for the Silver Talons or the traces of the terrorist… They should had came back by now… There is good chance that they may had encounter with the golems on the road." - said the knight captain.

"Some people here, who spotted the golems… Were also spotted by them."

"Some escaped… But some didn't."

"Sir… Based on the information we had gathered, the golems are attacking several places all at once."

"We believe that they had split up their forces and went in all directions."

"But why?!" – asked the panicking lord.

"I mean, the Crow Watchers apparently had dealt massive damage to the golems! They shouldn't be able to move!"

"Not only that, from what I've read and heard, the golems don't have any need to for food or anything!"

"SO WHAT HE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!"

"…"

"Dungeon master of the golem dungeon." – said the dwarven adventurer named Randolf.

"The one pulling the strings and the one giving orders to the golems is non other than dungeon master."

"But didn't that dungeon master wanted peace?!" – asked confused beastman adventurer.

"Idiot. It was the trick made by the Silver Talons." – said annoyed human adventurer.

"He is right." – said human mage.

"Based on what happened, the Silver Talons must had been the ones behind the whole 'peace' talk."

"The empire maybe specializing currently in golems, but that doesn't mean there are no golem specialist outside of empire."

"If anything… How do we not know if the dungeon wasn't by any chance fed by somebody?"

"…"

"We can theorize about this all later." – said Randolf.

"But for now, we need to deal with the current threat as soon as possible."

"Then shouldn't we aim to destroy the dungeon now while it is abandoned?" – asked the beast-human warrior.

"No! Are you stupid?!" – asked the female dwarf adventurer with bangs covering her eyes.

"If we focus on the dungeon now, these monsters will straight up murder anybody they can get their hands on!"

"She is right. We don't know if slaying dungeon master will shut down the golems." – said Randolf.

"Not only that, we don't know the current state of the dungeon."

"What if it has now several floors and multiple boss monsters?"

"There is also question regarding the dungeon master danger rank."

"It is definitely around C rank… Maybe C+…. However, there is also good chance that it also a B rank."

"Not only that, what if we raid the dungeon and the dungeon master can somewhat call back all of its golems?"

"It will be a freaking disaster then."

"Em…. I don't know if you could do that?" – replied the female mage.

"I mean, golems are like familiars, aren't they? I may not know much about them, but I think I get somewhat a picture about them."

"You need to have your familiars within the radar for them to receive any form of signal from you and vice versa."

"….Still… No. It is too risky." – said Randolf.

"We need to exterminate all the golems that are currently going on the rampage."

"However… We have a massive problem." – said the dwarf.

"W-what do you mean?" – asked the worried lord.

"…"

"We lack information." – said Randolf.

"We only made theory, but we still didn't obtained crucial amount of data…. If we sent our people at random, we may just end up missing the golems…. And that in turn would allow them to continue freely."

"But we need to sent people to chase them! If we delay taking a solid actinon, the casualties will keep pilling up!" – said the knight captain.

"But are you freaking idiot?!" – asked the towering adventurer in full body armor named Arthur.

"Even when we were dealing with the golems, we were never able to obtain full information regarding the enemy."

"Not only that, there is good chance that the information provided to us by the Silver Talons regarding existence of the boss monsters maybe real."

"They may had provided real information in order to help them out in hiding their identity."

"But even if they did lied, there is still good chance that there are several boss monsters on the loose."

"The dungeon was in the break state for a long time, wasn't it?"

"So what!? Are you saying we should really just wait as the people are getting slaughtered out there right now?!" – asked extremely pissed off knight captain.

"And you want to get us all killed like fucking idiots for no reason?!" – shouted Arthur.

"You want us to just go there and take a freaking gamble!?"

"HECK! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THESE CROW WATCHERS?! WHY THE FUCK THEY LEFT THEIR FUCKING JOB UNFINISHED?!"– shouted the giant adventurer as the heated argument between all gathered people starting getting slowly out of control once again.

Anger and insults started being thrown as everybody wanted to go with their own idea.

"…"

"What do we do, lord Vincent?" – asked the worried guard captain.

"…"

(HOW SHOULD I KNOW!?) – thought the panicking lord who wanted to escape out of the room as soon as possible.

(It is not like either sides are wrong.)

(We can't just send our people willy-willy… Heck! What if it turns out that we would sent our people after villages, but then we find out that we were too late and the golems would be already marching towards the city, while it itself would have no forces to protect it as everybody would be out, hunting the golems?)

(Then again, the longer we wait, the more casualties will pile up.)

(if I make a wrong call here, people will die, and it will be all on me.)

"…"

(But can I even prevent casualties from happening in first place?!) – thought panicking lord as he needed to grab his left arm to make it stop shaking.

"…"

"Hey…." – said the lord, but he was muffled the arguing people.

"Hey…."

"HEY!" – shouted the lord on top of his lungs, finally gaining some attention.

"…."

"Fuck…. Listen to me." – said the lord as he still held his left arm.

"…"

*Inhale*

*Exhale*

"…"

"How much would it take to gather the information?"

"?!"

"My lord! You can't be serious right now?!" – asked the panicking knight captain.

"OF COURSE FUCKING I AM!" – shouted the lord.

"My job is to protect the people."

"But right now, there are two possibilities I want to avoid."

"Either the villages get wiped out."

"Or the villages get wiped out, alongside all the people gathered here."

"They are both worst possibilities and I want the avoid them no matter what…. But do you really think we fucking can avoid them?!"

"No! We can't!"

"I know this is straight up abandoning the people…. But do you really think we have any say in this situation!?"

"…"

"I want the nearby adventurer guild to be contacted and be made aware of the situation."

"And I want as many forces have available to spread out and find out WHERE and how many golem groups and numbers we are dealing with here!"

"Upon confirming the enemy movement, we will then begin the extermination."

"This is your plan, right?" – asked the lord as he turned towards the dwarven adventurer.

"…"

"Yes… That was the plan." – replied Randolf.

"Good…. Good." – said the lord.

"Then get to fucking it!"

"We need to deal with this situation as soon as possible!"

"You hear me you bastards?!"

"GET TO THE FUCKING WORK!"