"…"

(Something is off.) – thought Thauma as he was experimenting with a new standard model golem that had multiple new reinforcements as well as new spiked feasts.

(Few days has passed and the golems had barely sustained any form of damaged caused by either weapons or magic.)

(I don't believe I've had destroyed all them all…. Did they just gave up and retreated?)

(…)

(No. I doubt it…. If anything, this weird silence is worrying.)

(They are planning something…. And I can't see what.)

(Dammit! If my vision wasn't so limited, I would at least have some real clue about what is going on out there.)

(….)

(Should I order my golems to go outside the forest?)

(Thanks to Ariava, I know how the area outside looks like and where the forest is located.)

(She even managed to obtain me a map... But where they hell are they?!)

(I mean, sure. I have a map, but what I can do with it? It won't show me the location of my enemies and... Hm…. Maybe I should try to make something that would pin point location of my enemies?)

(Ariava told me that there are skills that can help out in detection or there are mages that home their detection ability, allowing them to act something like "scanner".)

(Hm….. Yes…. YES! THIS IS PERFECT!)

"…"

(But how do I do it?)

(Thanks to Ariava, I've learned how to detect mana, since it was very needed for the mana craft and I've even obtained skill [Mana Detection], which enchants my mana sensing abilities.)

(But not all objects have mana and there are always ways to fool the detections that uses mana.)

(For example, too weak mana sources may not be detected, so some beings pretend to have much weaker mana source or they have ways to completely negate the detection ability.)

"…"

(Then again, it is a good approach. I doubt that every single soldier out there can hide their mana.)

(But…. I'm nowhere near a level where my ability to detect mana could affect extremely long range.)

(Not only that, but the [Mana Detection] skill only improves my basic ability, in other words if I don't learn how to improve my mana detection, that skill will do straight up nothing.)

(….)

(No…. Improving my mana detection abilities won't do.)

"!"

(Oh! What if somehow manage to relay the view of my golems to me?!)

"…"

(But how would I do that? Do I need to create special eyes that would be connected to some device?)

(But…..Hm…. How would that work…. Nah. I don't think making a special dungeon monster of this would work…. Or maybe it would work? I just need to give the golem modification after it manifest…. But how exactly I would be able to make two different magic devices that would be connected with each other from far away? Not only that, wouldn't my golems be considered as monsters and be hunted down? So, is trying to make a golem that would see for me worth it?)

(Hm…..)

(….)

(Honestly, this experiment is worth investing my time in.)

(No! I need this!)

(I need to have a way to gaze outside my dungeon sight!)

(I need to see the outside world.)

[Meanwhile – Camp right outside the forest.]

"Still nothing, eh?" – said the wolf captain.

"Yes sir. The golems did not seem to changed their pattern one bit. They are still doing the same thing." – said the human soldier.

"Patrolling and hunting anything they can find."

"Be it animal, wild monster…. Or us."

"Besides that, they behavior pattern did not changed even once."

"Huh… This is interesting?" – said female cat beastman captain.

"I thought by now we would see at least some minor change…. But no? They are keeping up with this?"

"I'm not really complaining about this…. But I honestly wish if we exterminate these golems as soon as possible." – said wolf beastman captain.

"Hey. What about the reinforcements that was requested? When they will arrive at our location?"

"Well, from what we were told, they should be arriving today and- "

"?"

"What is that commotion outside?" – said the wolf beastman as he began hearing something outside his tent, alarming the two beastman captains as they quickly ran out of the tent.

"!"

(What the-?!) – however, they immediately stopped in tracks as they spotted a large bear male beastman in a armor, ridding a giant lizard monster.

"General Oranox!?" – asked surprised wolf beastman.

"Hm? Oh! You two. How are you bastards?!" – asked smiling bear.

[General of Garmfon kingdom – Oranox Bearmight]

"W-we are f- NO WAIT!" -said the wolf beastman.

"Why are you here general?!"

"Hm? Well, I was nearby when I've heard about the commotion from one of my men and I've also find out about request for the support, so I've decided to see how the things are going." – said the bear beastman as he got off his mount.

"I – Em -What?!" – the wolf beastman didn't knew what to say and how to react to the situation.

(General Oranox?! One of the strongest people in our entire kingdom as well as known here?!) – thought the wolf beastman.

(HE PERSONALY CAME HERE?!)

"Anyway, may we go to your tent? I want to hear details regarding the situation." – said the bear beastman.

"Y-yes! Of course! This way!" – said nervous wolf beastman before then leading the general to the wolf capitan tent alongside cat captain.

"Well then, first thing first." – said the beast general as he took out the document and put it down on the table.

"According to this report here that you had submitted alongside the request for the support, it is stated that the culprits are golem type monsters."

"This is correct." – replied nervous wolf captain.

"I see… I see….." – said the bear beastman.

"By the way…. Why are you so nervous?"

"…"

"You should show him." – said the cat beastman.

"Yea, wasn't planning on hiding it." – said wolf.

"Please wait a moment." – said wolf beastman before then leaving the tent and then coming back with few soldiers, carrying different parts of the golems.

"So, these are the golems you have been dealing with?"

"By the way, is there a specific reason why you wanted me to see these things?"

"…"

"It's... Okay. The situation is bit complicated." – said the wolf captain before then explaining in details about the shocking value of each and every golem body part.

"…"

"Are you sure about this?" – asked bear beastman.

"Yes…. This is real iron and we even had a proper guy who knows how to make weapons, confirming that my judgment of these weapons were correct."

"The weapons that are produced from that dungeon are mass produced "forged" weapons, not molded"

"The quality of the mana crystals isn't also half bad either."

"This is massive."

"This is a – "

"Gold mine." – said the bear beastman with a huge smile as he started inspecting the blade produced from dungeon.

(No wonder the report sounded bit weird when I've read it!)

(It is because of this!)

"…"

"By the way, in the report there was stated that the golems are bit odd acting, what does that mean?" – asked bear beastman as he started inspecting other weapons that belonged to the golems.

"Well, they are not leaving the forest?" – replied cat beastman.

"They are just staying inside the forest, guarding it."

"They are aggressive and attacking anything in sight, but they are just staying inside of the forest no matter what."

"Not only that, there is also abnormality regarding the dungeon "dormant" state. For some reason this dungeon straight up went dormant." – said wolf beastman.

"It did grew in power, since these new golems are nothing alike to the reports that were stated before, but even so, the dungeon never had a single dungeon break after the Rabbit town was destroyed."

"If there was one, then there would be some golems wondering around before, but when me and my men were stationing here, setting up the checkpoint, there was nothing."

"We wondered in the forest, but no reaction what so ever."

"Only when the bandits that were running away entered the cave made all things go to hell."

"Hm…. I see." – said the bear beastman.

(The dungeon behavior is definitely odd… In more than one way.)

(But….. Damn! This is way too good to be true!)

"Well then, I will be taking control of this operation, you don't have any problem with that, right?" – asked bear beastman.

"O-of course not sir!" – replied wolf beastman.

"Good….. Then here is my order." – said the beat beastman.

"We will be exterminating every single golem in this forest while keeping our distance away from dungeon."

"And don't worry about any surprises that may suddenly pop up."

"I will be personally leading the extermination force."

"…"

(OKAY! THIS IS OVERKILL!) – thought wolf beastman.

(But this also became way too easy?!)

(I honestly thought some annoying high ranking noble would try to make some move and quickly, so I've written in the report to keep situation hidden as much as possible until proper authorities takes over, but before we could have somebody do it, the general already came here?! Not only that, but he brough with himself his own elite soldiers?!)

(Huh…..I…..I wasn't expecting this one bit?)

(I guess the matter will be resolved quiet easily and quickly then?)

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