Inside the ruins, nothing seemed to have changed since my last visit.

Some of us breathed a sigh of relief at Paule Raid's words.

"As you may have guessed, no giant ants have appeared since then, so we were able to conduct our investigation with peace of mind. Of course, we are not letting our guard down. We are always thinking about all possible contingencies."

Everyone is listening intently.

But then a voice came up.

"I'm sorry. I believe you said earlier that <>.

"My apologies. I will explain about that in the next few minutes and continue with my report.

Paule Raid bowed and continued.

"The members of the survey team thought that such large ruins could not have simply contained giant ants.

And this was the same thought in the home kingdom of Egelea.

"After two full days of investigation with no results, we put our heads together and discussed the possibility of changing our minds.

As Jin listened to the explanation, he wondered in a corner of his mind if this chronological explanation, as if he were reading a diary, was a characteristic of the knight.

And it is correct. It is customary for a knight, or at least a knight of the Kingdom of Egelea, to give his report in the style of a diary.

"The conclusion was that there must be some clues in a different place from the cave where the giant ants were sealed up.

Jin thought that was a correct inference. There was no way that they would put any materials in the place where the GIGANTH was sealed.

It is also hard to imagine a place too far away from the Giant Ants. It would make less sense to put the materials there.

"Then we searched for two whole days again. Just when I was about to think that it would not work again, one of the members of the team came up with a funny story. One of the men found something strange."

Everyone listened without coughing. Jin knew what it was because the old man had told him.

It was a magi crystal polished into a perfect sphere. ......The meaning of making a sphere of magi crystal is, as some of you may know, one is a control core for golems, etc., and the other is a control core for magic tools such as a paralyzing wand (stun rod). The other is the core of magic tools such as a paralyzing staff (stun rod).

Actually, as far as Jin knows, there are two more. One is to use it as the pole of a barrier-generating magical tool, and the other is to use it as the detection part of a magic detector (magi radar).

In both cases, it is polished into a perfect sphere in order to emit a ray of magic power with the same intensity in all directions.

"In any case, the discovery of artificially polished magical crystals (magicrystals) means that there are artifacts hidden nearby. We searched the entire area under the setting sky.

The old man had told Jin about the area.

"And before it was dark, we found a hollow buried in the ground.

There were shouts of "Oh," from everywhere.

"We were afraid to excavate in the dark of night, so we decided to call it a day and started excavation early the next day.

Then the wait was over.

"Wait a minute. You said you found a hollow in the ground.

It was Defense Minister Jude asked the question.

"I beg your pardon. ...... We had a long spear-shaped sonde and used it to pierce the ground. As a result, we found a cavity about 1.5 meters deep in the ground."

Jin thought this made sense. He had not heard about this point from the old man in detail.

According to the whole story, the sonde was a magical tool with an earth magic < on the tip of its long stick.

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(You got the reference, didn't you?).

For example, if you put this effect on the tip of an arrow, you can make an arrow that can penetrate most things.

"......We had confirmed that there was nothing dangerous inside through the hole we had made earlier, so we all set to work excavating. After about three hours, we were able to excavate the desired cavity."

Jin stops thinking and concentrates on listening again.

"It was originally a one-story or semi-subterranean building. We don't know if it was buried in the ground over the years, or if it was buried to contain the giant ants.

His listeners are intrigued.

"The inside of the building where they were buried was cleaner than I expected. It was probably because it was sealed up."

The building has seen the light of day for the first time in hundreds of years.

"There were some documents inside. There are some documents in there about the threat of giant ants and the installation of golems.

A voice said, "Oh, I see.

"I'll leave the details to the specialized department, but I'll give you a rough idea of what it's about. It seems that ...... giant ants are a mutant species of giant ants (mega-ants).

Jin and the others were aware of this.

"Giant ants (mega-ants) have become gigantic for some reason and have become ferocious ......, and these are called giant ants (giga-ants)."

Jin and others believe that this lies in too much free magic element (ether).

The mana produced in excess in the cells causes in humans, while in the case of mega-ants, it seems to encourage them to grow even larger.

Jin and his colleagues thought that most of the creatures called "demons" were caused by the uneven distribution of free magical elements (ether).

"This demon appeared from the depths of the mine, causing damage, but was contained and a golem was placed to hold it down. In addition, they piled up a large number of magical crystals (magi crystals), which act as attractants, to prevent the giant ants (gigantic ants) from going elsewhere, in order to prevent them from making holes in other areas and entering the ground."

The large number of Magi Crystals found in front of the building had such a meaning.

"I should have said that the giant ants crawled out, but I said that they were contained, because I read this record.

Paule Raid offered an additional explanation.

"The golem, as you know, was to counter the giant ants that crawled out. And the document seems to have written about the golem.

Pohl closed this section by saying that he could not go into details about the golem.

He then gave a brief report on his return,

"That concludes my report," he said.

The meeting ended with the words, "That concludes my report.

Any questions?

The facilitator, William Hex Sard, looked around the room and said, "Any questions?

First, a man who looked like a knight raised his hand.

"Here you go."

"Yes. ...... I know you went to the ruins on foot before, but this time you did it from the air. How did you find your destination?"

A good question, Jin thought. Jin and his team could use < and observation satellites <>, but how did they do it?

"I was going to report on this point separately, but I think it's a good time to explain it now. ...... As you say, the way you know where you are on the ground is different from the way you know where you are in the air. In other words, it is very difficult to know your location in the air. In a town, you can use a conspicuous building as a target, but in an unknown land or over an unchanging forest, it is not so easy.

"Hmm."

"So we used the compass on board the airship to determine our direction and to set up landmarks along the way. The landmarks were made of <><><<<>, etc., and were worked or marked in such a way that they could be recognized."

Jin recalled stories of lumberjacks and others who went through the forest and carved machetes into the trunks of trees to mark their paths.

"It took a long time, but we couldn't think of any other way to do it now. ......"

"Okay. Thank you."

This should have been the same when we sailed on the open sea.

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However, the art of navigation is still in its infancy.

Just as lighthouses are useful for sea routes, Jin thought it would be good to have such a < for air routes as well.

"What kind of materials were the walls and floor of the buried room made of?"

Another person asked.

"Yes. We are not experts, so we don't know, but they were relatively soft stones."

Jin knew about the stone. <.

This stone was found in many places in the former Leonid Kingdom and was widely used because it was easy to process.

So,

"Is this the same kind of stone used in the potrocks of Elias Kingdom?

I advised him.

"Oh, yes. I have been there and I think it is the same. Thank you for your advice.

The facilitator, the Minister of the Interior, thanked Jin briefly and continued.

"Are there any other questions?"

A mature man who appeared to be a technical expert raised his hand and opened his mouth.

"Are you going to announce any details about the golem?

"We will announce it this afternoon.

Listening to this exchange, Jin remembered the man's name.

（Jade Nephroy, as he recalled. <, or something like that.)

I had talked with him for a while at Duke Bruu's place, so I vaguely remembered him.

"I'm looking forward to it."

Jade Nephroy sat down with a really happy face.

After a few more questions and answers, the morning session came to an end when all the topics had been discussed.

The technical report would be given in the afternoon by another person in charge.