Return of the Fallen Volume 7 Chapter 21
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Kazuki’s eyes slowly opened to the resounding clamor of a hammer striking metal.
He was a little surprised at himself. He could go literal weeks without requiring sleep yet he had fallen asleep like it was nothing. Enjoying the fun atmosphere, he was able to vent his troublesome thoughts while at the same time relaxing. In the end, he sank deeply into a chair and fell asleep like a small child.
Now though he was wide awake. His eyes drifted off to the side.
*Bang clank clank*
Deeper into the back room, Sid was shaping something with a heavy hammer.
Kazuki slowly got up and stretched like a lazy cat.
Sid saw this and after a few more blows with his hammer, he took the hot material and put it into a bucket filled with a black liquid of some kind.
*Tssss*
The black liquid started to boil from the residual heat and steam spread out. Sid took off some googles and walked over. Grabbing a ladle of water he drank a bit of it, spilling it down his chin before taking the rest and dumping it over his head.
*Phew*
“So you’re finally awake I see. I thought you’d never wake at least I didn’t expect you to sleep as I hammered away for as long as I did.”
“How long was I out?”
Sid shook his head.
“Can’t say for sure as I fell asleep first but I know I didn’t sleep for more than two hours or so. Sorry about waking you up but as soon as my eyes caught the light from the rising sun..well I can’t sleep if there’s light out. That’s just the way I was built.”
At the end of the room was a small single window. A peel of sunlight just barely slipped inside but from the amount of light, Kazuki could tell the exact time by how high the sun was in the sky and knew that he had slept for nearly a full hour. Even though it was a single hour, it was more than enough for Kazuki and he felt superb.
Kazuki opened his ring and pulled out some meat he had as well as a few different fruits and some slices of bread.
“Give me the meat, I’ll cook it up for us.”
Kazuki tossed Sid a hefty chunk of meat and Sid walked it over to his anvil. Grabbing a clean flat piece of metal from nearby, he set it down overtop his anvil and held it in place with a pair of thick metal tongs. Sid tossed the meat into the air and as it was falling his ring glowed and a cleaver appeared in his hand. Just before the meat hit the flat piece of metal, Sid cut the meat and divided it into plenty of thin slices. The moment the thin slices of meat hit the flat piece of metal, they began to sizzle and cook fast.
*Tssss*
Sid looked back at Kazuki, a shit-eating grin on his face.
“Bet you didn’t think I was a chef as well.”
Kazuki shook his head.
“This early and your already spouting crap. Old man, you really can’t stop can you?”
Sid chuckled to himself and didn’t respond.
With the anvil being hot from moments before, the flat piece of metal over top of it was incredibly hot and cooked the thin slices fairly quickly. In no time at all, the room was filled with a complex smell of hot metal along with cooking meat.
Sid saw the meat was done and asked behind him.
“I don’t suppose you got a table in that ring of yours do ya?”
“No, that’s not something I usually need.”
“Hmm, no matter, just clear one of the tables and we can eat.”
Kazuki found a nearby table and cleared enough space so the two could eat. Sid came over and simply sat the hot piece of metal in one of the cleared spots. He then unceremoniously took his hand and pushed half the meat to one of the clear spots. Sid didn’t care about plates or utensils and just started to eat right then and there. Grabbing at the bread and meat he stuffed his face and avoided the fruit like the plague.
Kazuki didn’t think Sid was this scruffy but he wasn’t bothered by it either. Kazuki also didn’t have a fork or anything to cut or eat with but he also had gotten used to eating in the underground trench and didn’t need anything to eat with. He as well just grabbed the food off the table and stuffed his face like a wild animal. After escaping the trench, and having such a struggle with food for so long, Kazuki didn’t play when it came to food and scarfed it down even faster than Sid.
Sid licked the juices from the meat off his fingers and burped.
“My boy, you eat like a beast.”
Kazuki finished all the food in front of him in seconds and took out even more food. Though he could now sustain himself on magical energy again, something in his head was different now and he wouldn’t hold back when it came to food. Once he started eating, he would eat a lot before he stopped.
Sid watched with amazement as Kazuki ate hundreds of pounds of food in seconds. Kazuki then proceeded to take out even more food and start scarfing it down once more. Eventually, Sid got bored of this repeated show and after patting his stomach a few times he got back up and walked back over to his anvil. He held his hand over the bucket containing the black liquid and his material. Feeling no heat coming up from the liquid, Sid nodded before reaching in and grabbing what he had left to cool down.
Kazuki took a casual look and saw a strange cord-like shape. It was a black color and looked like strands of black metal coiled around each other or braided. Sid walked over to the Golden table and laid it down.
Taking a moment to breathe, Kazuki asked.
“What’s that?”
“This is the beginning of your Golem. You see I need some way to transfer energy through your Golem, these cables will act like a nervous system running through it. Though instead of feeling touch, it will move energy through these cables instead.”
Kazuki didn’t understand why Sid would need these.
“Isn’t this different from the designs. Besides, Orichalcum is 100 times more efficient than magic gold. Can’t you just inscribe the ancient language directly on the surface of the Golem to move energy through it. Why use these weird things?”
Sid shook his head.
“The Orichalcum is indeed the most efficient material I’ve ever come across but this metal is not simple and these designs were meant for Golems that are made out of regular metal or rocks or crystals, not legendary god metal. All of this is based around the magic core of the Golem. The Magic core is like the heart or battery of it and although the efficiency is incredible for the metal that doesn’t align with the magic core. If the amount of energy is too much for the core, it could overload it and then Kaboom. The core needs some type of buffer between it and the metal, something to process the energy so it doesn’t overload the battery aka the core. The magic core that you won’t let me see or study but what you’ve told me about it, I will definitely need a type of conduit to connect it to the structure of the Golem. That is why I’ve had to change the designs slightly. If you would just let me take a look at the magic core you have inside Tilly’s ring I don’t think I would need to change anything. I’m sure I could find a workaround to get the magic core to work with the orichalcum but again, you won’t let me have a look at it so…”
Kazuki now understood Sid’s dilemma. The amount of energy flowing out of the core was not the problem but instead when all of that energy returned to the core. These Golems were capable of absorbing energy from their environments and keep going. If energy went out of the core and was in the limbs for example and the Golem then absorbed energy from the environment until it was full and then the energy returned from the limbs back to the core, the core would have no place to put all of that energy. This would then most likely result in catastrophe.
By placing these magic cables within the golem, Sid was attempting to add something like relief valves. That way if the core was full, the energy instead of returning to the core would be released hopefully safely out of the golem.
Kazuki could solve Sid’s problem by simply showing Sid the magic core but he knew how Glacious felt about that. If Sid saw the magic core, out of all people in this world, he would be the person who could potentially recreate it and that would be a danger for anyone who wanted that knowledge.
So far, to Kazuki’s knowledge, the only people who understood the magic core that powered the golems was Kazuki because of glacious’s memories and Glacious himself. The two of them could contend with such dangers but Kazuki didn’t wish for Sid to take such a risk…to hold such a burden.
Shaking his head, Kazuki simply said.
“The danger for you would be too great. This knowledge is something you can not protect and therefore I can not show it to you.”
Sid huffed.
“Yea yea, I’m a delicate little flower. Bah, whatever! I won’t pester you anymore but on my death bed you better show it to me or I’ll never forgive you, you hear me!?”
Kazuki smirked before nodding.
“If I’m still alive, and you’re definitely going to die, then sure, I’ll show it to you.”
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