To be honest, even I don’t know about this one from only the historical documents.” (Burkhart)
At least, since it is a large-scale trap, people seldom stumble upon it apparently.
Even Burkhart-san obtained his knowledge to the last only from historic books, it seems.
“Given that it is such a fearsome trap, it is possible that there are treasures ahead.” (Burkhart)
Since it was such dangerous trap, it is also possible to obtain this before ending up dying.
However, even talking about 『treasures and such』 during such time, Burkhart-san was after all a through and through an adventurer, I guess.
“Of course, only while ascending to the top… ” (Wendelin)
“Yea! It is common sense that there will have to fight monsters. Seeing the golem dragon in the situation here… ” (Burkhart)
Because the person having built the underground ruins was someone who had considerable confidence in the golem, I have no doubt that he should have deployed golems here.
The golem, constructed in the time of the Ancient Magic Civilization, is able to execute more complex commands than the devices nowadays.
The installed artificial personality is overwhelmingly superior.
“Then we are aiming to ascend to the surface, right? Since we have fainted for around three hours, the mana should also have recovered to a certain extent, shouldn’t it?” (Ina)
“As for me… ” (Wendelin)
“Hey, you don’t have to worry so much about it. After all we will repeat this a few times.” (Burkhart)
The meaning of what Burkhart-san is saying, we would get an understanding of it immediately after that.
After several more hours we were taking a break from climbing the stairway until the mana had almost recovered fully. Beyond that point, there was a small room once again having a door.
Opening it, there is once again a vast floor like the one where the dragon golem had been stationed.
As if filling the place completely, more than several hundreds of golems, which could be considered to be a soldier type with certainty, lied in wait for us.
Made entirely out of metal, their appearances like soldiers wearing armors, it was a crowd of golems. They were equipped with weapons such as swords, spears, battle axes, flails and bows.
Amongst the dozens of golems only one knight type, straddling a metal horse and preparing his lance, existed.
Indeed, it really feels like a golem army.
“That’s harsh… ” (Wendelin)
“Ah, their nature is a lot more vicious than regular military forces.” (Burkhart)
Since they are artificial, they don’t feel things like fear. They will fight until the last golem.
They won’t do something like deserting if the morale collapses like human troops.
No matter how many victims occur, the golems won’t get shaken or such.
Because they don’t feel any pain, something like small injuries won’t even hinder them to keep fighting as long as the artificial personality is safe.
In other words, it was necessary to annihilate all of them.
“Besides, even the material.” (Burkhart)
The soldier golem’s material seems to be steel mixed with very small amounts of mithril.
Burkhart-san, capable of using detection magic, appears to have recognised it immediately.
“They are a poor match for Erwin’s group. Unless you attack them with magic above a certain level of power, it won’t even be effective.” (Burkhart)
Since it is a large number, it will become a matter of unnecessarily wasting mana on the long-term.
Additionally, the the commander class knight golem on the horse seems to have a higher ration of mithril mixed into his materials.
Looking for him with the spell 『Detection』, his reaction is weaker compared to the soldier golems.
Finding out the contained percentage of mithril, which has an anti-magic property, from this weak reaction was the domain of a veteran.