Volume 10 Chapter 18 (1/2)

We had returned to Avalon.

Immediately upon our return, I used [Floor Swap] to move the city floor back to being the first floor of my dungeon.

In order to keep the humans within the city, we announced that monsters were attacking the city's walls and closed the gates. In truth, those monsters were just monsters resurrected by Duke's [Enhanced Resurrection].

Thankfully, it was now fine to put an end to such an act.

And so, we made the Silver and Gold Golems exterminate the resurrected monsters.

I cherished each of Avalon's monsters and despised losing any of them, but that didn't apply to the ones resurrected by Duke. For me, they were expendable units.

When we announced our victory, loud cheers came from the city.

In order for the confined citizens to watch Avalon's might, we made use of Rorono's Divine Revelation to broadcast the fight happening outside.

Such monster attacks could happen to any city. If we could show that we could deal with monster attacks swiftly and easily, the citizens' sense of security would increase. So, instead of suffering a decrease in appeal, Avalon should only grow more popular.

”That was quite the show, Procell-sama.”

”Well, Avalon's a city, so we have to pay attention to these kinds of things more than an average dungeon would.”

If Avalon had a weakness, this would be it.

”This might be staged and all, but those marvelous walls and the golems that fought outside should be able to take care of ordinary enemy forces, you know.”

”Maybe. But those golems aren't part of our main force. Those are though.”

I pointed to the numerous artilleries lined up on top of the walls.

Those were actually golems. Unlike Rorono, the strongest golems that the Dwarf Smiths could make were only as strong as C rank monsters.

Because of that, their golems' total power was quite low. To somewhat compensate, they specialized each golem's role. In this case, the C-Rank-equivalent-golems were made into fixed artilleries. Compared to golems that wielded a heavy machinegun, these golems that were made into the weapons themselves could exhibit greater firepower, accuracy, and loading speeds. Moreover, because these golems' programming was limited to only what was needed to barrage the enemies with bullets, the overall shooting quality have considerably improved.

The fact that the Dwarf Smiths could make such golems by themselves—and without Rorono's help—couldn't be stressed enough. That made it possible to line up the outer walls with such golems. Like this, if a real fight breaks, these golems could rain bullets down on the enemies. Not to mention, these golems could also act as anti-air measures and take down flying enemies.

Depending on what was needed, these golems had no trouble switching from ordinary shotgun shells and armor-piercing rounds to high-explosive shells.

We definitely could count on it to protect Avalon.

”My, what a sight to behold. That reminds me, I have a request, Procell-sama. I want to see that dungeon room of yours where those 1,000 monsters were confiscated. I have no doubt I'll learn a lot from it!”

”Understood. Let's go there before we celebrate.”

Even if in the end he was a traitor, there was no sense in hiding that floor from him since he could just ask the other members of the anti-Procell alliance.

I also wanted to hear the more detailed reports, so going there now was quite a good idea.

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I used my Demon Lord powers to transport myself to the defense-focused floor. Meanwhile, Belial and the others were transported by Tiro via Transfer.

I instantly noticed Rorono and the Dwarf Smiths who were busy repairing things.

”Rorono, this room was quite effective, wasn't it?”

”Mhm. Its simple design made it strong.”

We were currently in a cave-type room which looked a lot like the room guarded by machinegun-wielding Mithril Golems.

Its width and height were at the minimum value, but its length was set to the maximum possible of 2 kilometers.

Large monsters wouldn't be able to pass through, and those that could, would have to deal with the lump of metal that filled every inch of the path.

”……ahahaha, it certainly isn't easy to get pass this one, I'll tell you that.”

In our desire to find orichalcum, we had amassed a large amount of other minerals. The orichalcum and mithril we've gathered were used in our equipment, but the other metals such as iron, gold, and silver were left mostly unused.

Some portion of those metals were used as currency to pay our transactions with the humans, but there were still a lot left.

And so, we decided to use it to fill this room from end to end. Digging a path through this 2-kilometer-long lump of metal was bound to be time-consuming. Moreover, because of the width and height of the room, only one or two human-sized monsters could fit per row, making the act of digging a path even more time-consuming.

”If the enemy side has a Rorono-class alchemist, it'll be a different story, but most ordinary monsters should have trouble breaking through, if they could at all.”

”Mhm.”

In fact, the 1,000 monsters that were confiscated after about 30 minutes haven't even made it 40% of the way through.

Actually though, the blockade wasn't a simple lump of different metals.

It consisted of multiple 3-meter-thick metallic plates that were then stacked together. Each plate had increased toughness via the Dwarf Smiths' [Unchanging Status] enchantment, so even if there was a mineral or alchemy expert among the enemies, they still shouldn't be able to tunnel their way through easily.

Because the Dwarf Smiths were B rank monsters, their enchantments were quite strong. Even an A rank monster of such kind should have their strength drained from the effort.

There were almost 700 of these plates stacked in this dungeon room. Moreover, never were the same kind of metal plates stacked together, meaning each plate needed a different type of alchemy or mineral-type magic. The more magic done by the enemy, the more exhausted they become.

This dungeon room might not deal any damage to the enemies, but in addition to buying time, it also made them more tired, which was perhaps more important.

Last but not least, 3 such plates were made of orichalcum and were prepared by Rorono who could use double enchant. These three special plates were without a doubt the toughest. Even Kuina had trouble breaking it.

”Master, once we've gathered enough materials for this barrier, let's make one more room like this one.”

”Yeah, sure. But hmm, you know, more orichalcum's never bad, and we've still got some DP as well as some golems to spare, so why don't we make another [Mine] room while we're at it? Oh, but if we're going to make another trap room, making it exactly the same is not interesting, to say the least. I actually have a couple of ideas. For example, what if we make a room with a downhill slope and when the enemies have reached the last third of the room, we let loose concentrated sulfuric acid from behind them?”

”I think that's a great idea. But I think I have something better than sulfuric acid. I'll think up of some other new methods too.”

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this room would be vital in our defense in the future.

By the way, the other two dungeon rooms in this floor also specialized in defense and buying time, but each had a completely different way doing so.

We were grateful to have confirmed the usefulness of one room out of three before the enemies were confiscated, but having tested all three before would have been more ideal.

”What wonderful ideas. I'd very much like to copy these rooms, if you don't mind.”

”I don't mind, but without a workforce that'll continuously dig in the [Mines], I think it'd be difficult to copy.”

We were able to implement such a room thanks to the golems that tirelessly work to gather the materials as well as thanks to the B rank Dwarf Smiths that not only made those golems but also prepared the metal plates.