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“Is that a human...? N-No! What on earth is that?” Anthem Howard couldn’t help shouting. He stared in disbelief at the shadows that were slowly creeping up the stairs of the underground passage.
Clank― Click―
A sharp metallic resonance, like machinery stirring to life, rang out, and the figures turned their gazes toward Anthem and Karyl. They were more or less the size of an adult male, their sturdy-looking frames adorned with unfamiliar devices. Their faces resembled wooden dolls, with eyes devoid of pupils.
Amazingly, they were golems.
“Golems can’t operate without a pilot... Can someone fit inside those things?”
“Nope.”
“Then how...?”
“They’re sentinels, designed to carry out the orders they’ve been given. They’re relics of the Magical Era. As you know, there were golems that could move without pilots back then.”
Anthem was also aware of the sentinels that had been encountered occasionally during excavation of ruins.
Particularly, at the ruins of the rock cave where they discovered Enderus—the golem of the Muir royal family of dwarves—the principality suffered significant losses due to the numerous sentinels. Most citizens of the principality knew about that.
Apart from ruins, it was well-known that golems capable of moving...
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