Magicraft Meister Part 3

Now, the location has changed, to the west of the Rasheel continent.

On November 2nd, the two golems dispatched by <> arrived at the target area.

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And <> allowed them to act autonomously.

From now on, I will call myself <<1> and you will call yourself <<2>.

No objection. Then I am 2 from now on. ......1, what do we do now?

Mm-hmm. We know from prior information that they have been breeding plants at their destination, the Oeste base. First, let's look for any anomalies in the vegetation.

No objections.

But let's try to stay stealthy first.

Mm, that sounds reasonable.

Are you sure about the warding?

I'll take that as a yes.

Good.

The two of them have set up a ward to minimize the amount of leakage magic.

This will make them undetectable by magic.

That's good.

Then let's get started.

The two units roughly search the area around their destination. The reason is that the anomalies in the vegetation cannot be localized, considering how long it has been there.

And it hits the figure.

1, what about this?

2 pointed to a vine crawling on the ground.

It is a plant similar to the kudzu that grows in modern Japan.

It is a member of the Fabaceae family and has rhizobium in its roots, making it adaptable to poor soil. It is a perennial plant, so the above-ground parts die in winter and the underground tuberous roots overwinter.

It is tolerant of low and high temperatures, as well as dryness and humidity.

Like the Japanese kudzu, the starch contained in the huge tuberous root is edible.

Mm, that's probably true. This plant is found on the Laurentian continent, but not here on the Rasilian continent.

Then, we should investigate the distribution of this plant, and find the Oeste base near the center of the plant, right?

I agree.

With that in mind, the two of us began a search of the area to determine the distribution of kudzu.

However, the kudzu is very fertile, and the total land area they investigated was 200 square kilometers.

But thanks to their efforts, they were able to find the center of the area.

This must be the center. The margin of error is about 20 meters.

That's good enough. Let's see if we can't find anything.

Got it.

The two units split up and begin searching the area.

Even though the two-person cell is the basic method of operation, they are in a circle with a radius of 20 meters. There was no problem at all.

Half an hour later, 1 (Uno) discovers an unnatural rise in the ground surface. It was a cylinder-shaped rise about one meter in diameter and one meter high.

It was covered with soil, stones, and plant roots, but its center seemed to be made of metal.

It was too thin to be an air vent or ventilation opening, so it must have been part of an antenna.

So you're saying there's something underground we're after?

No, it's too early to tell. It's hard to imagine an above-ground facility this high above the base that would be vulnerable to detection.

Indeed.

So the two of us decided to find another one, preferably two, of these ground installations ......, or what's left of them. So they decided to find another one, preferably two, of these ground installations, even wreckage.

That way, they could pinpoint the location of the base more precisely.

This time, we need to search a larger area than before. Let's widen the radius to 50 meters for now.

Should we split up?

No. We'll be too far away from each other this time. We should keep them closer to each other, even if it's less efficient.

So, they decide to search at a distance of 10 meters from each other.

And then .......

There it is. Antenna tracks.

Dos, I got one here, too.

If we can find all three, we should be able to pinpoint its center.

Let's do it.

We will search for the three antenna traces, hypothetically forming a triangle with its vertex at the center ......, or in this case, the center of gravity .......

How's it looking?

I can't find it.

Are we looking in the wrong place, ......?

We've used the traces of three antennas as a baseline, but that's not enough to determine the base's location 100 percent.

It's also possible that the magical minds controlling ...... the Oeste base are thinking in a very particular way.

What's that?

That's what Jonathan told me. Oeste Station had a new generation of masters, whose ideas may differ from those of the old generation.

But we don't seem to know how they differ," concludes 1 (uno).

I don't have that information. Why is that?

The reason is in the contrast.

Contrast?

Yes. It's like the , you can't have many things that are the same, but you can have things that are different, that are in opposition to each other.

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The is a way of thinking in which one comes up with a non-A (antithesis) to an A (thesis), and through the exchange between the two, one comes to a higher, super-A (synthesis).

However, , being an individualist, seems to have stayed with the theory and rarely put it into practice himself.

The advantage of Golem is that such a conversation takes less than a second because it does not use voice.

We must find a clue to the Oeste base at any cost.

......, how about a change of scenery?

What?　What does that mean, 2-dozen?

Instead of looking for clues, we need to get them to contact us.

You have a point. But we're under strict orders to avoid extreme measures.

No, we're just supposed to come and go as we please around here.

Hmm. ......

had heard from Marikka D. that a hostile golem that had been hanging around the area had been disabled.

There is a strong possibility that it was the golem of the < that did it.

And we know that it is highly unlikely that they will turn their attention to us.

No matter how much we have lost touch with them, they are descendants of our people, or fellow creatures, and will not attack us without question.

That's true.

Based on this expectation, the two bodies have been suppressing the leakage of magic power, but they have decided to break the boundary.

This will make them easier to detect.

Let's search the area.

Got it.

Since there is no use in just wandering around aimlessly, the two bodies walk around slowly, searching the ground surface as well.