Krishna has a new production model?
Under-Golem The Ancient Giant Soldier
How many Mailles did this just propel itself?
Rygart..
A Golem from Athens?!
What do I do?
You're an interesting one.
But it's time to die!
Earlier.. it was the pedals..
I've got the scatter rounds loaded!
It stepped back, the foot drew itself backwards.
I lifted the pedal.
The pedal!
Push it forwards!
Get away from me!
I'm saved..
I hope whoever's inside is not dead..
Hey wait-, if I didn't kill it, what should I do if it gets up again?
To get it to turn..
I can control the torso using the higher lever..
How do I get it to grip something?
..Good, I'll be able to defend myself for now..
..Who am I kidding?
What, you're still here?
Get out of here already!
And also, you need to get reinforcements!
King!
It's been a while, Hodr.
Or should I say, Krishna IX.
Is that Zess?
I shall have your custody.
But before that..
Wait, Zess!
Rygart is inside!
Rygart?
Stop with your pathetic attempts at buying time.
Rygart could never pilot a Golem.
Zess?
What do you mean drop out?
Rygart! Do you understand that it was a miracle that you, who could never affect quartz,
even managed to be promoted two class years?!
If you choose to drop out now, all you're doing is proving the naysayers right!
It's a financial problem. He doesn't have a choice.
Hodr,
the moment I bring you into custody would be the same moment as the end to this ridiculous war.
I know full well that you would not resort to ridiculous lies to protect yourself.
But there is no way that Rygart could be here!
No! Zess!
Captain Konoe Sakura, I just received word that His Majesty has headed out to the quartz excavation site outside the city!
What?!
Stop it, Zess!
Zess! It's me!
He can't hear me!
Stop it!
My Lord!
General Baldr!
Keep your frame low, shields high!
What is with the mobility on that thing?
And it's carrying a large caliber pressgun.
Hold your shields at an angle!
It will pierce through if you take one full on!
My Lord, I am glad you're safe!
Lee, Are you alive? Lee!
Captain!
Good, if you can move, pull out first ahead of me.
Rendezvous with Erekt.
Captain, the Krishna king is ahead!
Don't expose yourself!
A shield wall?
We're retreating.
We're in a canyon.
If they cut our retreat off by circling behind us it's over!
That crest on that Golem.. It's the famed General Baldr.
Lee! Hurry up!
We're having so much difficulty even with these many Golems.
This is the little brother I've been hearing about.
The enemy is in retreat!
Do not pursue!
The defense of His Majesty is our top priority!
Zess!
What's going on with you? Zess?
That's such a large round!
That one's going to Queen Sigyn's personal research hangar.
There's no room in there anymore, it's not possible!
Get them to make room for it!
Rygart!
I heard you fought using the Under-Golem! Is it true?!
Are you hurt?
Are your eyes seeing proper?!
I can see!
Well, actually,
it was really easy to get that going, the Golem.
You're studying that, right? Hodr told me so.
But, how did you?
It's manual.
You know, the cockpit?
There's like, something like a quartz interface on the right side, a bit to the front.
Right about like so. When I touched it, everything fired up.
Rygart.
I want a report.
What?!
What you did, how you did it. Everything. Immediately. Thanks.
Captain!
Cleo was on mess duty today!
It's a seaweed dish again, though.
Thanks.
It's okay. You can leave it here.
It's not okay!
You said that yesterday and you ended up not having-..
Stop interrupting the captain!
You should go relief Argath on guard duty.
What? Not me again! You do it, Lee!
What's this I hear? Cleo talking back?
Isn't your only talent being able to operate Golems for extended periods of time?
Argath and I have maintenance to do on the Artemis in preparation for the second raid on Binonten tomorrow.
While you can't even do the basic adjustments on the pressure valve injections for the jump module.
Am I right? Miss "Zero-Kills" Cleo?
Even so, ..I'm still pretty useful!
Aside from that ridiculously well-developed body that doesn't belong to a 12-year old's body, what else have you got to be proud of?
My grandma's secret bean recipe! It's pretty delicious!
So what?
I can do.. the laundry.
So what?
I can operate a Golem for long periods of time and not feel the slightest bit of fatigue!
That's what I am telling you to do!
..Roger!
Is Cleo really the only daughter from the renowned family of Sabrath?
Captain Zess!
Mr Argath! Let's switch! I'm taking over!
Stop making a racket! You're performing guard duty!
Lee, you said something?
It's related to the new Krishnan Golem we saw just now.
It had a capability for movement far beyond what it's equipment suggests.
Ah, the strange looking Golem.
There isn't much to worry about, is there?
Skimping on the checklist will cost lives!
Let's hurry, General True is waiting.
Rygart.
How long do you guys plan on working?
All I can do is pretty much sleep once the sun sets.
We're outfitting this Golem with non-reactive hardened quartz for additional armor.
Huh?
What for? I heard they were going to take this apart since it's really gone for good this time.
We're unable to disassemble the inner-frame of the Golem from the exterior.
With our current technology, I fear all we can do is to destroy it.
Destroy..
How did the ancients even manage to construct such a thing with their technology?
It's unbalanced.
The ancients, unlike us,
relied more on metals and oil, materials that had better tolerance for heat.
But for some reason, the inner-frame alone was crafted entirely of quartz, a material that had very little tolerance for heat.
The external components have suffered serious corrosion,
but the inner-frame itself looks almost as though it were in mint condition.
If we assume that the ancients had none of our understanding of quartz and proceeded to purify the crystals in such a way,
judging from the state of the malleable quartz, we can only say that their technology was primitive.
As if..
the Golem was pushed into a rushed production in order to perform a final service.
Hey..
Miss Sigyn..
Rygart.
Hmm?
Redo the report.
W- Why?
Because I don't consider this to be a proper report.
Why? I wrote everything I know down properly!
How is this a report..?
Fine. I will do the writing instead, you can start by telling me what happened.
..all my hard work..
How did you manage to get the Golem on to surface level from excavation site #118?
How did you manage to get out of the mine?
Oh, it jumped.
Treat this seriously.
That was at least 20 Maille deep.
Without any form of acceleration, there's no way it could jump that high!
Even the new model from Athens can only capably handle 10 Maille.
It's true!
Ask Hodr or the guards if you don't believe me!
Really?
What about the impact when you landed?
You know..
Describe what your body felt like!
You're just, really close.
Close?
Yeah, maybe, take a step back.
I can't use any magick at all but I should remind you I'm a guy.
Your magick ability is completely unrelated to our situation.
Redo the report. And no doodles this time.
So this is the scrap Golem that the ancients used.
General True!
You have returned!
Yes, I just arrived.
Now that I am back, Athens will no longer be able to do as they please.
We will be needing more hangar space from here on out.
Isn't that Golem no longer operational?
Get rid of it quickly! It's in the way!
Whoa, now.
But.. Queen Sigyn has been rather attached to it lately.
Oh, the Queen is..
Fair enough. Let's go!
It looks just like a damaged sword.
A "Broken Blade".
Look at how they run their mouths on you.
Don't pay them any heed.
Me, my brother too. They say that about us as well.
Rygart could never pilot a Golem.
Zess..
He's gone home by now, hasn't he?
Hodr..
It doesn't seem like there's anything left for me to do here.
..Gram?
..What do you want?
Captain?
Krishna possesses 200 Golems, more or less.
Eventually, a 100 or more of these will have to be relocated for the defense of various other locations.
It should be safe to assume that there will only be 80 odd Golems remaining in Binonten.
Our mission objective is to inflict at least 20 casualties on the enemy Golems.
We will show them the gap between our nations and demonstrate what a mere five of our Golems can do,
by destroying a fourth of their forces stationed for the defense of the capital.
Hodr..
You are a clever man, you should know the right choice is to surrender.
They've come!
..it's fast!
They're back!
Sounds like it.
It's no good, it's not reacting at all to whatever I do!
Well, don't tell me that.
Rygart!
Sigyn!
What are you doing here!
I was just explaining.
More importantly, is Zess back again?
..Yes. Probably.
Why is this happening?
Let me have a go.
Rygart!
Hodr..
What exactly did you expect from me?
I told you!
Huh?! Were my gloves in the way?
Sigyn!
I need to have a word with Zess.
Get the General, I need him to buy me some time!
I'll talk some sense into Zess, make him withdraw!
I refuse to believe this war is what he wants!
I'm borrowing this for the time being!
No, wait!
Watch out!
As I guessed..
Queen Sigyn..
My queen!
Look for General Baldr!
30 minutes after Rygart left the cockpit,
all the internal systems started shutting off.
And even up to that point, no one was able to affect the system in any way.
Could it be that..
we who wield magick freely, are not recognized as the descendants of the ancients..?
What could have driven you to come invade Hodr's country?!
Not-Bad. Cease-fire negotiations.