Devil C325: Trial Run for the Safe Zone (1/2)
‘So the entry point for the lava will be initially set as three to four meters deep, as for the depth and width of the zone itself…hmmm…I guess we can make a decision when the situation arises. Sheltering all the worms clearly isn’t possible but it’s still worth a shot maximising the number we can squeeze in.’
‘After all, the more worms we protect, the more meat we have…’
“If I were to have you start work on the recruitment point and the safe zone simultaneously, you would still be able to handle them both right, No.6?”
“Master, if this lowly one were to work on both tasks at once…this lowly one feels that…the manpower would probably be insufficient for that…” His brows knitted together at that, most likely due to the sheer difficulty of what I was expecting, or perhaps he was just worried that I might just start doubting his abilities.
A while later, he finally came clean with the situation: “Honestly, it wouldn’t be hard for this lowly one to juggle between the two sides, but our manpower…even constructing the recruitment point alone is tough, let alone this massive task of digging a safe zone…it’s just too big. Furthermore, this lowly one still has no idea as where the royal capital is after all this time.”
“The royal capital, huh… Hmm, that was an error on my part, forgetting to tell you where the capital actually is, it’s that way.” I pointed in the direction of the capital. “If you were to travel in a straight line, this planned zone would probably span 300 miles or so…as for the diggers…what do you think of those Abyssal Golems?”
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Having said that, I signaled in the direction of the seven meter tall Winged Abyssal Golem standing not too far away from us.
“Those giant…golems…” No.6 gulped at the point, his face showing what had to be the most expressive look he had shown thus far. Even at this distance, just a mere look was enough for the pressure of the golem to overwhelm his body. “Your lordship is sure about using those giants to dig out the safety zone? But if they are merely ten…there just doesn’t seem to be enough.”
“I never ever said that I had only ten Abyssal Golems.” My lips curled into a mysterious smile before diverting the subject in another direction. “The manpower required for the safety zone isn’t something you need to worry about. Just make sure the construction of the recruitment point doesn’t fall behind either, we can’t have any delay on that front either.
“For now, I’ll hand over the management of our new captives to you. No.3 will stay behind to aid you as well. As for the control rights of the Abyssal Golems…I’ll give you temporary rights over them. However, you’ll have to follow me back to the royal capital first.”
My plan right now was to have the golems dig up the safe zone while my new subordinates would be given the task of building a recruitment point. The reasoning behind that was that constructing a recruitment point required more finesse than just digging up a manmade lake. With how large the golems were, how strong they were and also how clumsy they were, there was just no way we could use them to construct buildings. On the flip side, these qualities made them perfect for digging the safe zone; that task merely required brute force after all.
Up till this point, I could safely say that the initial skeleton of the safe zone had been ironed out. Before Nola left however, I needed to conduct a test on this plan of mine.
I commanded five Winged Abyssal Golems to dig out a pit measuring twenty meters deep and spanning ten meters wide. Having done that, I planned to have two openings for this newly dug up hole, one being the exit point and the other being an entry point, both connecting to the lava lake. Once done, the two bodies of lava would form a U-shape together.
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For now however, we only had the entry point dug out.
In the final plan, the guards would be my Abyssal Golems. But with how precious my Winged Abyssal Golems, numbering only 127 as of right now, only my ordinary Abyssal Golems would be expended for this task. These golems were five meters tall so, with that in mind, I ran some estimations and had the entry point set as 3.5 meters deep. That was the depth that could maximize lava flow while ensuring that these golems wouldn’t sink.
As for whether or not these bodyguard-like golems would malfunction under lava…they came with my guarantee of being waterproof, fireproof and also seniorproof, hah.
(TL: Just a reference to a Chinese couplet/joke on the internet. Goes something like this:
Love your country, love your family, love your junior sister,
Watch out for fire, watch out for thieves, watch out for your senior brother.
With the way Chinese translates into English, the phrase can be fireproof or watch out for fire. Since watch out for water/fire didn’t make sense there, proof would be better. There are multiple versions of this couplet’s starting. )
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I had to admit, the speed at which those Abyssal Golems dug out the pit shattered even my greatest expectations. Their hands might as well have been giant excavators with how fast they dug out a huge chunk of blackened earth…honestly, with how efficient they were at building…they could probably build a hundred walls, without funding too.
(TL: Didn’t want to waste more time on this section… Original text was about a technical university and how people made fun of them for the ads they put out. The joke was the golems were as efficient as 100 graduates from that university…not going to waste time on this section any further.)
“Over here, here and here…You go dig up that spot too…as for you, get here and toss those darn rocks away, they are in the way…”