While Jin and the others were discussing on Horai Island, in the Principality of Jagusu, Miki Amerin, the director of the Information Agency, was frowning at a report by pigeon from the village chief of Saichi.

"......1 days to build a reservoir, a bridge, a public bathhouse, and other ...... unbelievable details. ...... But ......"

It is hard to believe that a brainwashed person would report a lie.

"If this is true, this is ...... horrifying."

Miki Amerin lets out a small sigh.

"Now we just have to wait for the report of the 99. ......"

It will be a few more days, it seems.

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By the way, on June 8, Manon, who was visiting the Principality of Juggs as a delegate to the <>, won a great victory in a mock battle against three battle golems.

However, this fact is known to only four people: the High King Niestor Cirillo Jags, the Prime Minister Beyax Gere, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Zain Meziebe, and the SS Chief Dopa Norres.

And because of the gag order, neither the members of the <> nor the Director General of the Information Agency, Miki Amerin, know that the Golem of the Principality of Jagus had been defeated.

How will this affect the future of the <>?

The <> are the descendants of Jin and Erza and the > of 400 years ago.

Though their bloodline has been diluted to less than a few hundredths of a percent, they are still the descendants of the <.

Even so, they had not given up their pride in being the descendants of the <.

There are now five members. Two of them are retired.

However, their passion for magical engineering has not waned in the slightest.

"Hmmm... this will improve the efficiency a little..."

<, looked up and spoke to his wife who was standing nearby.

The old man's name is Rodriguez. Both of them are members of the Progressors.

Both are members of the , although they are now retired and free to devote themselves to their research.

"You are more brilliant since you retired," Ariana said.

Ariana said.

"I guess that research under constraint is a way of shrinking your ideas," she said.

Rodriguez nodded.

Rodriguez nodded his head. But on the other hand, it's a problem that we don't get any money for our research.

"I envy your ancestors who never belonged to any country."

"Indeed. ......"

< are a secretive group under the direct control of the Duke of Jagus.

However, it is doubtful if it can be called a < as there are only 5 members nowadays. .......

Since they are under the direct control of the King, their first priority is to give shape to the King's wishes.

Free from the yoke, their spontaneous and free ideas were expanding in a way never seen before.

The world's greatest golem, the automata. I wish I could get as close to it as possible."

"Yes, that would be nice."

They had no children.

"A little girl automata that our ancestors always kept by their side. I'd like to see it just once.

"Of course you would, dear."

"...... because I couldn't have children. The automata I'm making now might be like a child.

"Yes, that's true."

The two engineers had spent the last five years making a little girl automaton on a shoestring budget.

"What about Leah?"

Leah is Ariana's nickname.

"Yes. <

"Yes. ...... But first, can you take a look at the <> and the <> that will increase the efficiency of the <>?"

"Yes, I see. Which one is it?

This one. Look at it.

Rodriguez showed Ariana the blueprints with the formulas scribbled in a messy manner.

At first glance, it looked like a scribble, but Ariana, who had been his partner in development for many years, was able to decipher it without any problem.

"I see...so, you have only used one stage instead of three .......3 stages, and you have replaced the subroutine part with a function?

"Yes, that's right. Yes. This speeded up the processing here. I think it was especially important to use functions instead of subroutines."

"That's because it's called so many times."

"That's what I mean. ......"

After this conversation, Rodriguez walks over to Ariana's workbench.

"This is it."

"What?　"Wow. It looks pretty neat at first glance."

"Yes. Yes. We only write in the necessary parts after completion.

Why is that?

"Because we realized that if we finish the write-in while the whole is still incomplete, the position of the information to be written will not be optimized.

"Hmm?　...... I see, I see."

Ariana's explanation was somewhat abstract, but Rodriguez understood immediately.

"You mean you want the to do the final fixation of the information?"

"Yes. It would be easier if we could use the legendary magic of transinfo.

They did not get the message now.

"With only <>-specific magic tools available, we have no choice but to search for the best method."

They owned one magic tool.

It is one that writes <> into <>.

If we were to compare it to something found in modern Japan, it would be like a combination of a personal computer and a ROM writer.

The part corresponding to a personal computer emulates the workings of the <, and the results are written into the <>.

IF Jin had been here, he would have been able to find out immediately if any member of the <> had the aptitude to do <>.

And they would have found that Rodriguez and Ariana had the aptitude.

"Overall, would this increase efficiency by more than 50 percent?"

"Yes. If we put your improvements and my improvements together, we can expect a synergistic effect of at least that much.

This was the result of five years of work on one automata.

"Before I retired, I wasn't allowed to spend more than six months developing a single automaton."

Ironic, isn't it?

"Yes, it is."

Nevertheless, even they could understand the king's request.

"With the other three duchies vying to annex the Duchy of Jagus, they will need as many battle golems as possible.

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< to to gather information about .

I thought that the <<<< Progressors were ...... willingly helping the Duke of Jagus to achieve supremacy, but in fact, they are half deceived?

Of course, it may be that they are grateful to the past Duke of Jagus for giving them a helping hand when they were in trouble.

But more than that, the fact that they believed that their country was being targeted by foreign enemies made the old man think of a new plan. .......