Volume 2 - Chapter 1 – GLIDER GOLEM (2/2)

「I guess so… the gold one, you are Soleil, the silver one, you are Luna」

It was much more decent than Jin.

「Yes, I am Soleil」

「Yes, I am Luna」

With this, the labour shortage is considerably resolved, and Jin decided to continue working on solving the problems.

「Reiko, even if its effective to use this island, I can’t do much without knowing the topography. Do we not have a map?」

Reiko had a slightly troubled face when asked that,

「That is… things have changed considerably from the time Mother was here, therefore you’ll need to remake a new one」

Reiko said that it seems to have risen during the past 1000 years.

「I see… then understanding the whole birds eye view of the island is urgent」

Folding his arms, Jin pondered.

「The survey can be done much later, but I want to know the topography and size」

Taking an aerial photo would solve it in one go, however there is still no means to fly in this world. Jin continued to ponder,

「I know! Reiko, please help me for a little bit」

Coming up with some kind of idea, Jin headed to the workshop.

「What are you doing Father?」

To the puzzled Reiko, Jin,

「I want to roughly understand the topography of the island by surveying it from the sky. For that purpose, I’m creating a Golem to fly in the sky」

「T-The sky?」

Even Reiko was surprised about it. The predecessor didn’t think about such a thing.

「Un, well, although I say fly in the sky, it’s just gliding after launching with magic」

Simply put, a glider. He made a model glider, a Golem which would survey the ground while gliding and would produce a map after it returns, that was the process. For now, he decided to reduce it to a roughly decent scale.

「I understand what you said, but will it really fly in the sky?」

Since only a partial amount of Jin’s knowledge was transferred, Reiko was dubious about it.

「Un, well, seeing it for yourself is better than hearing about it, let’s try it out」

With that said, he created one Glider with 《Light Silver》, equipped with a core of a Golem, and a 《Magic Crystal》was equipped to ensure vision. Though the core is small, the movements are operated using the 《Elevator》, 《Rudder》, and 《Aileron》[2]. It was shortly completed.

「So this will fly?」

「Aa, just look」

Jin also left the laboratory to perform a flight test of the Glider Golem on the open front yard that Topaz and Aqua had already prepared.

「Okay, I’m throwing it」

It lightly pushed forward first. The glider glided straight ahead, landing after flying about 50 metres.

「It really flew」

Reiko seemed to be deeply moved. Though it didn’t really show on her face.

By repeating this several times, he memorised how to control the Glider Golem. And finally, it was time for the real thing.

「Reiko」

「Yes, Father」

「Throw this up with all the power you’ve got」

With all of Reiko’s power, it would easily reach 3 kilometres in the sky.

「Understood」

Reiko got into a throwing stance.

「Glider Golem, go survey the appearance of the island and memorise it. Then come back here」

At the same time Jin gave his instructions,

「Here I go!」

Reiko threw the Glider Golem with full power. In the blink of an eye, it soared to a high altitude and was no longer visible to the naked eye.

「How is it?」

Jin asked Reiko who could still see it.

「Yes, it is still rising. Still… ah, it’s begun gliding. It is slowly descending…」

The Glider Golem landed in front of the Laboratory two hours after that.

The map of the image of the island stored in the core of the Golem was completed the next day.