The Potential of a Golem
“Eeh, so let’s begin the session of Kehma’s excitent from bathing in at-chan’s pee-pee…”
“Wait a sec. That’s a very spiteful interpretation of what happened. It was an accident, judge!”
As for the matter of peeing being leaked to Rokuko, the dungeon master ordered her to be quiet about it.
Since she instantly quieted down, he decided to make more golems today.
“at, bring a bit of clay. The sa amount as yesterday.”
“Yes.”
So, at rembered how to leave the master room and left holding the shovel.
Which reminds , I wonder how much work the clay golem (mini) got done?
… Right, there was sothing to confirm first.
“Hmm, let’s see here…”
Bringing out the dungeon surveillance monitor from the nu, he checked the room the golem was ordered to dig through. The clay golem (mini) was desperately scratching the wall. How praiseworthy. But wouldn’t it not advance at all like that? The clay golem’s hands aren’t strong enough for the surface rock of the wall.
I was thoughtless. It’s no good without a pickaxe huh…
“Hmm, it’ll continue on as is endlessly unless you tell it to do sothing.”
“How long will it continue to work for?”
“Eh? Well, probably until its mana expires right? It’s a golem after all. Though because it’s in the dungeon where mana gathers thickly, it’ll never stop you know?”
That’s amazing, that it doesn’t have any maintenance costs is seriously amazing.
I nearly fainted at how much its performance exceeded my expectations. Wouldn’t it be fine even if I just leave everything to the golem and go to sleep?
“No no Kehma, the Golem can’t work decently. It isn’t even digging a hole though you told it to dig one, check it out.”
“Hm?”
I looked at what Rokuko pointed to on the monitor. Yeah, the clay golem (mini) is scratching the wall… huh?
Looking closely, sothing felt out of place. The Clay Golem (mini) was clawing at the wall.
However, it’s hands were wearing out. Using its hands to grate against the stone wall damaged them, but it foolishly didn’t stop digging. It did nothing but continue trying to dig.
“That’s awful…”
“Right? Golems are stupid you know. I don’t need to say it, but it won’t do anything else. So it will continue trying to dig a hole even if it can’t.”
Yeah, awful. That is awful.
However, I’m thinking of sothing very different than what Rokuko is.
I couldn’t stop myself from grinning.
For now I’ll tell the golem to return and wait on standby temporarily. I’ll fix its hands.
“I-I’m back…”
at returned, carrying the clay and breathing heavily.
“Welco back at. Good job, excellent… now then, ti for an experint.”
Since at brought the lump of clay, I accepted it and used [Cleanup] while patting her head.
It was a simple apology, but right now I want to try sothing out for a bit.
While thinking that, I used the [Wow] magic, [Create Golem].
I poured in magical power while kneading the clay.
*
“… Well, is it finished?”
“What, this?”
I created a golem the size of my palm that ‘only’ had three arms of different lengths.
Inserting a shaft into the center of a palm-sized bowl-like container, it was a golem with three needle-like arms stretching out from the axis.
“No no no, how is this a Golem? No way, eh, what’s with its shape?”
“It’s a [Clock], a [Clock].”
Right, this is a [Golem Clock]. After assigning numbers to each of the three arms, I ordered each of them with [One rotation every sixty seconds] to the first arm, [One rotation every sixty minutes] to the second arm, and [one rotation every twelve hours] to the third arm.
In other words, they were the second hand, the minute hand, and the hour hand. It turned into a clock that would keep working so long as its mana continued.
… Adjusting the ti was a hassle though.
By the way, when I realized that the hands didn’t even need a normal shape to begin with, they turned into needle-shaped arms right away. Though the clock was entirely clay, you wouldn’t think it was a Golem at a glance.
“A-a golem with a shape like that… Wooow, Kehma, you’re ignoring common sense.”
“What’re you talking about after summoning from another world? How the heck would I know this world’s common sense?”
Even so, it was surprisingly easy to make a modified golem.
Moreover, since it was just arms without almost any joints, or maybe thanks to excluding the function to process vague orders, I used considerably less magical power. Feels like around tenth of what the clay golem (mini) used?
“Well, what now? If you wanted to see the ti you could look at the nu you know? You didn’t even need sothing like this.”
Now that I think about it, the dungeon master could make the [nu] display the ti…
“… I’ll give it to at. Yep, I just made this for the sake of experinting anyways. Since I learned from it it’s not particularly useless.”
For that reason, I gave the [Golem Clock] to at as a gift.
And, though I noticed it… now that I think about it, at was still barefoot and wearing rags for clothing. Oops.
I imdiately spent DP for [Cheap Clothing (Dress: 8 DP)] and [Cheap Shoes (For Children: 10 DP)], as well as [Knee Socks (White: 70 DP)].
Then, when I noticed at didn’t have ‘them’ on when I saw her change, I quickly bought [Girl’s Underwear (20 DP)]. That was dangerous.
Though it took a bit of DP, I got another set.
It wasn’t a problem having one set of clothing including underwear but it helped.
Their materials weren’t bad, I wanted to deck her out with cute things eventually when there was a lot more DP though. Ah, Rokuko too.
… Or rather, I wonder. I feel like knee socks arbitrarily improved her sohow.
She’s already worth about three and a half goblins. Is she a luxury good?
I hung the [Golem Clock] around her neck using a [String (5 DP)].
When I said I was giving it to her, she looked at the [Golem Clock] motionlessly.
Do you like it? Though I thought that, she didn’t know what kind of thing it was.
Right, she was a slave, she probably doesn’t know about a lot of things… yep, I’m going to start teaching at various things starting tomorrow. But Rokuko-
Wait, rather, what is Rokuko even doing? Is she doing anything? Let’s change that a bit. She’ll do it instead of .
… That won’t work. She can’t see anything but the future of her Goblin Paradise.
*
I nded the hand of the clay golem (mini).
I turned one of its hands into the form of a shovel made of stone since it was specially made. It was pretty easy after giving it a go. After changing the shape of the clay and pouring enough magical power into the stone, it quickly took the shape of a shovel.
… Revised clay golem (mini), ver. shovel hand!
It made sense that the clay required less magical power to process than the stone. If it was a human-sized golem, it’d probably be fine to just give it a pickax if the Golem was made from clay from the start.
After experinting with this clay golem (mini) as a prototype goes well for a while, I’ll probably make a human sized version of it. Though it was long and tedious to call it clay golem (mini) each ti, I didn’t know if it was even a clay golem anymore since its hand wasn’t made of clay anymore.
So I decided to na it. Since it was a golem made for trial purposes, an experintation-like na would be good.
“Alright, you are Tester. Tester is your na. Got it?”
Tester, forrly known as clay golem (mini), understood what I said and nodded.
I then ordered Tester to fetch clay from outside of the cave again.
It’ll probably co back with about a basketball’s worth of clay. I wonder if it would bring enough materials back before I wake up from sleeping?
… It won’t stop moving inside the dungeon, but I wonder about how long it’ll last outside of it? I should look into that.
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