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The old man, the brain of Horai Island, decides that further attack is futile, and orders an attack on the ships on the left and right.

There are no automata on board to give commands, and their reactions are sluggish.

The battleship <> was hit by three volleys of main guns and lasers and was heavily damaged.

The whole story is described in the following paragraphs.

The four members of the Duchy of Jagus aboard the <> witnessed the whole thing.

"Ummm... ......"

"What an offensive force. ......

"You're no match for them. ......

The difference between an adult and a child is even greater. ......

All four of them were horrified by the deus ex machina's (supposedly) awesome power.

"Oh, their ship is going down!"

Niestor Cirillo Jagus, the Duke of Jagus, was feeling a sense of dread.

The experience he had just had had a profound effect on him.

（But we cannot be too happy. (But we can't be too happy. If that force is directed against us, ......)

It was a frightening vision of the future.

(How to prevent such a thing from happening: ......)

Lord Niestor's mind seemed to be changing little by little.

* * *

"Uh-oh!"

"We're going down!

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The remaining sailor golems, battle golems, and 5 automata are helpless.

In the first place, there was no such thing as a <> on board.

Jin and the old man guessed that it was because it was not designed for human passengers.

The only means of escape was by <.

> Larva was aiming for it.

With a physical ability far superior to that of a 5<>, he was able to move around the tilting ship without any problems.

"Well, we have identified the problem this time. We can make use of them next time.

And then he stepped into the escape hatch and .......

Larva is gone.

All that remained was the tilting, sinking fleet.

* * * *

After stepping into the escape hatch, Larva disappeared ...... and appeared a moment later in a facility on the west side of the Pandor continent.

And then.

"What, what, the power ...... is gone ............."

A trap had already been set there by the old man.

The name of the trap is called the .

It is the same magic machine that was used in the incident 400 years ago, when the brain of the superintendent of was controlled by .

Reiko's had cut it in two and stopped it, and then analyzed it to create an equivalent machine.

This is so effective that even the < at that time could not prevent it and stopped it.

Even if <> had been made based on the two captured <>, Jin and the old man thought that it would be powerless in the face of this magi-machine.

To counter this device, <> and <> or > for power are necessary.

This is because inside the <, <> is quickly depleted.

And even Larva, as expected, had never imagined that such a trap would be set at the place where he had evacuated.

As a result, he easily fell into the trap.

I was so surprised that I fell into the trap.

"It worked!

Even the , which used to be a countermeasure against <>, was helplessly stopped by the wards.

Jin and the old man were not wrong in their guess that it must be effective if it was based on the .

"Now, what should we do with this guy? ......"

Jin muttered in the command center of Horai Island.

It is too dangerous to bring Larva to Horai Island, so we have kept him inside the facility in the west of the Pandor continent.

Now he is completely stopped because he is deprived of all > by , but he will start to move if the warding is lifted for the purpose of questioning and answering.

"Jin D is in Aristotle's mind right now, isn't he?

Jin is worried. But Reinhardt, who was standing next to him, stood up.

"Jin, do you want me to go?

"Reinhardt?"

"Yes, I'd like to be useful once in a while, instead of staying cooped up all the time.

"Well, if that's the case, I'll go with you. I'm curious about the materials and I'd like to see the facility.

Saki also said she would go.

Since the old man said so, Jin asked Reinhardt and Saki to go and check on them.

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Reinhardt and Saki, 10 each, will be assigned as escorts and assistants.

"I wanted to go, too, but ...... I can't help it. Please, both of you. Take care of yourselves."

"Yeah, I'll take care of it."

I'll be there.

I'll be there.

Reinhardt and Saki, along with 20 companions, are transported to a facility on the western side of the Pandor continent.

"Oh, this is ........ I guess it looks different when I see it with my own eyes.

"Kuhu, it's been a while since I've had this feeling."

The two of them do not often go out on Ars, even if they do not intend to. On the planet Hale, they go from place to place.

We can walk around the facility without any problem, since we are checking with our Peeper Telescope.

"Come on Saki, let's go check out the captured first."

"Okay. ......"

Saki wanders this way and that, fascinated by the unusual view.

"This way, Mr. Reinhardt, Saki."

Led by one of the Land troops, the two headed for the room with the transfer magic circle.

It was the innermost room in the facility, and Larva was lying on the magic circle.

Above the magic circle, there is a hemispherical lid-like barrier. It is, of course, a <.

Surrounding the magic circle are four projectors that are generating the magic circle.

Reinhardt first adjusted the projectors to shrink the wards.

The < could not get close to them as it was.

Finally, the wards were reduced to a size that covered only <>'s torso, and his hands and feet were temporarily disconnected using engineering magic.

With this, is unable to move.

"That's it."

Reinhardt turns off the magic disabling wards and gets ready to talk to <>.