Volume 9 - Chapter 34 – Repelling the Enemy (2/2)

“!?”

He witnessed two pitch-black golems standing in front of him as if they were protecting him.

They were the SP Erica and Lobelia Jin had secretly sent to protect Prince Ernest.

“Y-you are?”

To the prince Ernest who reflexively asked, one of the pitch-black golems opened a part that seemed to be her mouth.

“We are those secretly protecting Your Highness.”

She said, and along with Lotte, they surrounded the royal family.

Because their affiliation was unknown some suspicion remained, but everyone was glad to have their combat potential augmented. Just when they thought so,

“Eek!”

Airi who had been guarding the stairs was blown away.

Three golems came down from upstairs.

Now the total of golems aiming for the royalty was 11.

“…”

The Minister of Defense Judol felt a chill down his spine.

Airi of the Imperial Guard magi knights had used up her Magic Energy, and although she appeared to be alive her injuries made her a non-combatant. And her younger sister Laila was still inexperienced.

The captain of the Imperial Guard knight troops Kelly was outside giving orders to defend against the attacks from the mysterious flying balloons, so only the vice captain Bruno and his three subordinates were here.

The Minister of Magic Kelhidore was capable in magic warfare, but he was entirely unsuited for hand-to-hand combat.

As for himself, his right arm that had been broken at Golem Party still hadn’t healed, making him unable to swing a sword properly.

“I have no other choice than to protect them with my life when the time time comes, do I?”

Just when Judol had prepared himself.

“Wh-what!?”

Another ten new golems showed up.

They were golems he had never seen before. They were almost perfectly human-shaped and of a light brown metallic color. They were holding swords.

“Is this where it ends…”

Judol touched the short sword on his waist and prepared to at least take one, maybe even two golems with him. However.

The ten golems that had appeared raised their swords and began fighting against the eleven golems in front of them.

“Are they friendly?”

The sharpness of the swords the light brown golems wielded was inconceivable; they easily cut through the spears two of the enemy golems were holding.

“Ooh?”

“How very…”

No matter how sharp and good a sword was, cutting through metal itself required a fair amount of power.

But in front of their eyes, as if slicing fruit with a knife, pieces of the enemy golems’ bodies were cut off and sent flying.

The enemy golems tried to hastily avoid the attacks, but the light brown golems were faster.

And with their might the enemy golems’ hands, legs, and then torsos were cut off. In the blink of an eye, the eleven enemy golems were rendered silent.

“Just, just how…”

Even the king was wide-eyed.

“Judol, Kelhidore. Might I ask if you were the ones who prepared these golems?”

There was no way they could answer the king’s question.

“N–no, the affiliation of these ones is unknown.”

But they had no choice but to.

However, even though he didn’t voice it, prince Ernest had a hunch he could guess who had built these light brown golems.

And when Lotte sensed their Magic Energy pattern,

(Thank you, Father.)

She sincerely thanked their manufacturer Jin in her heart.

Once the golems were taken care of, only the flying balloons remained.

Everyone there looked up at the sky. Then they noticed that hey, aren’t the flying balloons slowly coming down?

Two people were in each of the baskets hanging down from the balloons, and they appeared to be panicking.

“They’re coming down, but they seem to be panicking about something.”

The Minister of Magic Kelhidore said so under his breath while straining his eyes.

Then the five balloons all landed down inside Asunto’s inner castle.

Ten of the same light brown golems who defeated the enemy golems captured the crews. Now the total amount that had showed up was 20.

“Hey… when did they get in?”

The Minister of Defense Judol was surprised.

He couldn’t believe that the castle Asunto which had been said to have impregnable walls could be infiltrated this easily by these mystery golems. Even if those golems were friendly.

And then his surprise increased furthermore.

“Uwoaah, that, that’s a–!”

A golem even taller than the ten-meter-high castle walls appeared and peered in the inner castle.