Volume 6 - Chapter 29 – Overwhelming (1/2)
06-29 Overwhelming
“Lotte’s… Sister?”
The Prince looked perplexed. While smiling, Lotte nodded and pointed with her left hand that had let go of the sword.
“Yes, over there.”
Lotte pointed at the left side entrance to the hallway. Right now, it was the spot where the most golems were gathered, and the most chaotic spot.
From there appeared a girl wearing a light blue dress and a white apron dress.
“It’s Elder Sister Reiko.”
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“Father!”
Scattering the rows of golems, Reiko rushed into the hall. Whether the obstructing golems were chore golems or knight golems made no difference and they were all similarly blown away, as she headed towards Jin’s location.
“Oh, it’s Reiko! I was just thinking that you’d be here any time now.”
Reiko smiled delightedly at the admission of trust, and,
“So, what would you like me to do first?”,
She asked Jin for instructions. Jin had just one order.
“Protect the people, and disable the attacking golems.
“Yes!”
Reiko kicked the floor with force, and jumped into the fray of the swarming golems. With a swing of her right arm a knight golem was blown to pieces, and with a swing of her left arm a security golem sunk into a wall.
When Reinhardt saw it,
“Ah, Reiko-chan has come!”
“Eh? Reiko-chan?”
Elsa and Beana looked towards Reiko, their eyes wide.
The amount of the grouped up golems was decreasing noticeably. Not just by one or two golems, but in groups of five to ten golems.
“Alright, now’s the time! Schwarz Ritter, rescue the remaining survivors!”
Reinhardt saw it was a good opportunity and leaving the handling of the golems to Reiko he decided to use all of his strength in rescuing the survivors.
“Behave yourselves!”
Reiko blew away the golems.
She had already defeated more than 60 of the rampaging golems, but knocking down one after another there were more golems to come.
Seeing that, Jin worked out a plan and gathered a bunch of metal fragments of the golems scattered about,
“[Fusion].”
He melded them together,
“[Forming].”
And then shaped them. What he made was a blunt weapon called a mace. Its weight was about 200 kilograms or so.
Finally he applied [Hardening] to increase its endurance, and it was finished.
“Heeey, Reiko!”
Even though she was in the middle of a melee, Reiko caught Jin’s voice and immediately came to his side.
“It’s hastily made, but try using this.”
He pointed at the mace he had made. Reiko immediately sensed its usefulness.
“Understood, I will gladly accept it.”,
She said, picked up the mace with one hand, and said,
“Then I’ll continue cleaning up.”
With those parting words she again thrust herself in the middle of the group of golems.
“……”
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Watching the whole exchange from beginning to end from nearby were Celuroa Kingdom’s special envoy Dominique, and the Magi Craftsman of the same Celuroa Kingdom, Stearina.
Both Reiko’s strength and Jin’s Craft Magic were so far away from their standards they were lost for words as they watched.
Reiko swung the mace, and four or five chore golems were blown away in one go.
“This is fine, isn’t it.”
As far as Reiko’s concerned, even wielding nothing more than a wooden pole would have an extraordinary effect.
In front of the whooshing mace the golems scattered and were sent flying as if they were scarecrows. Ten golems, twenty, thirty.
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After ten more golems, most of them had disappeared.
And, after Reiko spotted the remaining golems she swung once more.
But that swing was stopped.
“That’s…Tauros!”
The golem Duke Blue brought with him, Tauros, blocked the mace Reiko swung with its giant tower shield.
“So you can block this. It seems you’ve got a bit of strength.”
Reiko gripped the mace she had so far wielded with one hand with both of her hands, and with a big windup,
“Let’s see you block this!”
She struck at Tauros.
A thunderous roar rseounded through the hall.
The mace Reiko wielded was smashed up, and Tauros’s tower shield along with its left hand that held it were pulverized.
“Rather robust, aren’t you.”
Reiko dropped the unusable mace, and faced Tauros with her slender body.