Lord Of Puppets-Chapter 166 – Welp, now I’m scared.
<<The time went by.... And honestly? It was much calmer than I’ve thought?>>
<<At first, I’ve thought I’ve fucked up a bit when I saw new army bearing the banner of the Miorio kingdom.>>
<<I’ve thought they came looking for the lost soldiers and they came to investigate the soldiers... But I guess it wasn’t it.>>
<<They just went past me.>>
<<As the days went, more people would move around in my vision range. Sometimes nearby, sometimes from afar.... Yet non attacks came my way.>>
<<So I guess I was fine?>>
<<....For now that is.>>
<<Still, because of all of this chaos, I will need to delay my message and focus on my personal combat training a bit in order to be ready in case something does comes this way.>>
<<However, my main research, the ability golems and earth golems will not only help me out in improving my craft, but also allowing me to understand better how to forge abilities AND how to possible apply them to myself.>>
<<I’ve already obtained the "base" of the research, a completed functioning prototype.>>
<<Obviously it still needs a lot of work, but still! Now that I have obtain the "base", the research should be in many different areas much smother.>>
<<Or I can use this research to support other researches in the future.>>
<<...And there is also another question I have in mind.>>
<<Should I do something regarding my "survivability"?>>
<<Unlike me, adventurers can use healing magic to close their wounds or use potions to recover.>> 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
<<But I? Hell! I can’t do that!>>
<<I can replace my body parts or use mana alchemy to conduct alchemy on my own body.>>
<<But a basic form of mana alchemy WITHOUT any form special tools will result in me just wasting a lot of mana for little results.>>
<<Maybe if I were to somehow master it... But that wouldn’t deal with material problem, now, would it?>>
<<And I can’t just... Carry?>>
<<...>>
<<Wait... No, I can?>>
<<SPACE MAGIC!>>
<<If I were to carry a spare parts in that subspace, I could possible... But I would need to make special adjustment to my body and obviously I couldn’t put everything.... Still, this does give me quiet few ideas.>>
<<...>>
<<Oh wait... What if I somehow add something very similar to the [Self Repair] skill to the golems?>>
<<The earth golems could have ability to recover... But with earth.... Hm... How would that work?>>
<<I mean, I did noticed that my own [Self Repair] has dropped in performance the moment I’ve changed from wood to iron.>>
<<I’ve tested it out on few different things... And yes. There are things that influences this skills performance.>>
<<Different materials will have different compatibility with this skill.>>
<<Earth was "easy" material and earth is.... Well, it also should be "easy".>>
<<Noted. I will try making it later on. Maybe I will get some extremely powerful golems in this way.>>
<<Space magic and ability to self-recover. Those are the two things I need.>>
<<I will also need to improve my traps.>>
<<Even though I’ve made them hard to notice, they still somehow were able to not only detect them but also easily counter them.>>
<<....No.>>
<<I need to think about redesigning the whole dungeon.>>
<<Dungeon can’t really move once I claim specific part of the territory as my own. It is straight up stuck.>>
<<Dungeon has also rule where I can only make monsters inside of the space that is in total dominion under my control.>>
<<For example, there is a cave.>>
<<I can take over the path inside of the cave, but that won’t work, snice the entire space isn’t mine.>>
<<I need to take the entire inside of the cave in order to fully control it and obtain ability spawn monsters.>>
<<I can somewhat use my golems to do some minor work, like help me build corridos or set up a traps... But I need to program them to do those jobs in the first place, still, it does help out in saving a lot of DP, since I don’t need to over use DP on everything.>>
<<Still... The hell do I make? What kind of structure would benefit me the most?>>
<<...>>
<<Yeb... There is a lot of work to do....>>
<<Still, I wasn’t really interrupted.>>
<<To be more specific.>>
<<2 months has passed since I’ve captured these soldiers.>>
<<The research advanced by a lot and the golems strength has increased.>>
<<But most importantly, I started getting hang of the space magic.>>
<<I still can’t use it, but I’m now somewhat able to.... Well, the changes I can do with it do nothing, but still! There are some changes!>>
<<I don’t know if I was going in good or bad directions.>>
<<Honestly speaking? I’ve though that this month will be more peaceful, since for the past few days there was straight up nothing. Just peace and quiet.>>
<<I’ve thought this month would be maybe something like... I don’t know.>>
<<"No worry month"?>>
<<For few days after this next month started, there was nothing. Just peace and quiet....>>
<<...>>
<<But... Unfortunately, it was short lived peace.>>
<<I’ve spotted some group of soldiers from afar... At first, I didn’t thought much of it, since it wasn’t the first time I saw large group of soldiers just coming by.... But as they came closer and closer.... I’ve realized something.>>
<<The sheer number of these soldiers was NOT something I was expecting to see one bit.>>
"..."
(Okay.... This isn’t.... Looking good!?) – thought Thauma as it used its scout golem to look outside.... And what it saw was something that instantly terrified the golem.
An army.
Not some small army or group of soldiers, but a massive army.
An army that consisted of thousands of soldiers.
The sheer number of the soldiers that his army possess was something that Thauma has never seen.
It could straight up not tell how many soldiers were there.
(W-w-what the hell is this?!) – thought terrified golem as it observed the army passing by in the distance.
(T-thousands? No! TWO- NO! NOT IT EITHER! WHAT IS IT!? HOW MANY ARE THERE?!)
(They....They are not here for me? Right? RIGHT?!)
"...."
(N-no.... They are not....T-they are just using the main road near my forest.... But who are they?!) – thought Thauma as it used its new scout golem model, with a build in Monocular eye. The eye itself wasn’t really that impressive as it didn’t allowed the golem to see extremely great distance, but it was still able to somewhat let the golem see things further away.
(There is truly many.... MANY of them.... No! This isn’t it! Focus!)
(Who are they?!) – thought Thauma as it tried somewhat inspecting the soldiers.
"..."
(Some shorter people....Some.... Beastmen?)
(And these creatures.... Wait....)
(THOSE ARE GOLEMS?!) – thought Thauma as it spotted army that not only consisted of many different races, like beastman, dwarves and human soldiers, but also spotted a large number of gorilla like monsters that were made out of dirt and iron.
These "Gorillas" were the standard model golems, an extremely common type of golems.
(Wait... If those are truly golems.... Then!) – thought franticly looked around with its scout golem... Before then finding what, it was looking for.
A blue background flag with a gryphon-like creature with a sword piercing right through the top of its head.
(....Shit.)
(Gorijy kingdom.)
(But wait, this doesn’t make sense!)
(True, their forces were nearby last time when they fought the forces of Miorio kingdom.)
(But these numbers? There is just way too many of them!)
(Is some sort of large-scale battle is going on?!)
<<Right after I’ve spotted that army, I ran straight into the prisoners and demanded answers.>>
<<....At first, they were confused... But after I’ve explained everything, I saw... Their expressions changed.>>
<<They were terrified.>>
<<I couldn’t really get anything useful out of them.... No... Actually, I did gotten one thing out of them once I’ve forced them to tell me what they think.>>
<<...And what they said... It wasn’t really pleasant news.>>
<<They think that the war with the elves may had already ended.>>
<<But didn’t that war started very recently?>>
<<I know elves were weaken and everything, but didn’t he said that 3 kingdoms are also somewhat fighting with each other.>>
<<Peace talk? I’ve heard about and I know what it does... But if that was the case, then why is that such massive army here?>>
<<No.>>
<<The war is still going on.>>
<<But the direction they are heading... Garmfon kingdom? But it is already fallen!>>
<<Are they... Are they planning on conquering the fallen kingdom? So does that mean the elves are already gone?>>
<<But if that is the case, then there is a war between 3 kingdoms going on?>>
<<...>>
<<...>>
<<I say that.... But honestly?>>
<<I’m terrified....>>
<<That army... It is MASSIVE!>>
<<I’ve never seen in my life that sheer number of soldiers!>>>
<<I’ve thought that large army of belonging to the Miorio kingdom was the biggest army I’ve seen in my life.... But this? THIS?!>>
<<Is this the power of a KINGDOM?!>>
<<If there were no wars or anything.... If one of the kingdoms out there would unleash THIS on me!? I wouldn’t stand a chance!>>
<<....Ariava.... She told me that kingdoms posses armies of thousands soldiers.>>
<<I was scared when she told me about them....>>
<<But now? After seeing THAT?>>
<<I’m properly terrified.>>
<<....If I remember the saying correctly.>>
<<"I’ve shitted in my pants", would be the correct statement, describing the entire situation from my perspective.>>
