Lord Of Puppets

Chapter 275: Chapter 275 – Development.

<<About a month had went by after Porai had arrived at the dungeon.>>

<<So far? Things were going well.>>

<<Pretty much, all of the researches that I was conducing were going smoothly, as well as my own training.>>

<<As for the metal magic? I’ve managed to obtain the affinity!>>

<<It took me a LONG time to get it, I was pretty much working non stop to obtain it.>>

<<Still, this is only basic affinity.... It may take me few months before I can fully utilize this elemental magic.>>

<<As for the Porai learning about the Forget Skills? It is going great.>>

<<She is not at the level where she can start doing experiment... But it won’t be long before she can be called a proper.... What should I call it?>>

"I don’t know, you are the founder mate." – said Porai while using Thauma’s Forget Skill support device.

"Maybe something simple?"

"..."

{"What about the Forget Skill Sculpture?"}

"..."

"Meh. Will work."

"I mean, the Item Skill specialist is called the Item Skill Molder.... Somewhat similar... But different.... Yeb, It should work."

<<Welp, this name will do.>>

<<Forget Skill Sculpturer.>>

<<A person that possess ability and specialization in making the Forget Skills.>>

<<Porai has a talent for it, she is quickly learning and understanding things.>>

<<She does have a lot of problems, but she is fixing them one by one at the steady rate.... By the looks of things, it won’t be long before we can kick off the joined researched in the Forged Skills.>>

<<I wish that Ariava was also here, since she also wanted to learn the Forged Skills.>>

<<However, she was non stop busy with her work.>>

"Sweet hearth. I’m sorry, but I think this is going to take bit more time than I’ve thought. Please stay safe." – said Ariava through the communication device which appeared to be a grail like object with an orb attached on top of it.

"Love you. Bye!"

<<Ariava said that the things outside of the empire are somewhat rough....>>

<<Still, I’ve heard that the so called "Last Prince of the true Gorijy Kingdom" was exterminated.>>

<<From what I was told, he was the leader of the "fake" terrorists that were being supported by the outside forces.>

<<I’ve asked Porai about it, and she said that there was once a different royal family in charge of the Gorijy kingdom, which would later become the current Gorijy empire.>>

<<A royal family of dwarves, which dominated the entire kingdom.>>

<<However, due to extremely high corruption and the internal struggle that was destroying the kingdom, the people had said enough was enough, and decided to exterminated the corrupted nobles and royal family.>>

<<And the revolution worked.>>

<<This apparently happened very long time ago, before I was even born.>>

<<Anyway, the short story is.>>

<<The presence of the traitorous royal family that betrayed their own people would make things somewhat problematic, so the empire eliminated the leader of the terrorists as soon as possible, taking away one of the most dangerous form of chaos that the terrorist could had used.>>

<<The terrorists are still there, but apparently they will be now be taken care of over time, so they won’t have any chance at starting off the war.>>

<<Which means we have even more time.>>

<<As for the territory?>>

<<Well... It is nowhere near "under control" yet.>>

<<The entire forest that once hid my dungeon was completely cut down, with the wood being stored.>>

<<And no, I didn’t started making the city yet. I still didn’t had enough materials to even start it up.>>

<<But, I was allowed to "flatten" the area, prepare it somewhat before I could start the construction of the city.>>

<<As for the dungeon? Well, its growth is extremely noticeable.>>

<<The number of the dungeon hearts my dungeon posses had noticeable increased, allowing me to produce more monsters.>>

<<As for the layout of the dungeon.... Well, I’ve changed it somewhat.>>

<<I’ve changed it to be more like a "base".>>

<<Instead of expanding it downwards, I’ve started expanding it in all directions.>>

<<Trying to create another base underneath the soon to be made city.>>

<<This kind of change.... Will pose some problems obviously... But again, it will be far more benedictional for me, since I could do a lot of stuff with it.>>

<<However, I still don’t know if this will be like a one big layer only and the rest will be kept as classic, or I will be making several big layers.>>

<<I don’t know yet.>>

<<...>>

<<There is also another thing.>>

<<According to Porai, somebody tried to illegally sneak in.>>

<<The vampires had caught them when they tried to sneak into my territory during the nighttime and we had been informed who they were.>>

<<Spies.>>

<<They haven’t spoken up.... But based on the current evidence, they are suspected to be the spies send by the other nations.>>

"The existence of the golem dungeon is already known to the public....So no surprise there that the neighbors had heard about this place, it was already several months now as well since the whole contract was signed." – said Porai.

"Still, I doubt that it will be the last time that they will be sending people here."

"There may be a good chance that they will be sending next some more annoying hard to detect agents."

<<Porai warned me about this possibility of the enemy trying to get to the dungeon... But I’m somewhat ready.>>

<<The number of the golems that had been produced should be somewhat enough to control some parts of the territory with ease.>>

<<Not only that, I’ve asked Porai about the detection tools.>>

<<Specifically, I wanted to have golem with ability to detect stuff.>>

<<My golems can only react to two things.>>

<<A vision form of detection.>>

<<And the sound form of detection... But not an extremely powerful form of sound type detection like some animals do, extremely average, a human like version, maybe even bit worse.>>

<<They don’t have smell, nor have any ability to detect mana.>>

<<Not only that, the stealth type skills had been proven several times now that they can be used to avoid my golems’ detection.>>

<<Even if I have numbers, it would still do nothing if the enemy can use skills and sneak past my golems with their stealth skills.>>

<<So, I’ve needed to make new golems.>>

<<A golems with a detection type ability.>>

<<I need it to increase the security of my territory to the maximum, if I wish to protect it the moment the empire temporarily protection pact that was added to the contract expires, causing the empire soldiers to leave this territory.>>

<<....>>

{"Say. I’ve been wondering."} – written Thauma as it and Porai were working on the detection golems.

{"Golems can be given ability to use detection and even understand it."}

{"You can also add the communication device to them, allowing their master to speak through the golems."}

{"But I’m wondering, is it possible to add a voice?"}

"..."

"You are thinking about having to add a voice to the golem?" – asked Porai while she was assembling as she was carving something on the piece of metal.

"Well.... There are ways of pre-recording on specific devices, allowing the message to be heard later on."

"..."

"Golems can’t really speak, since they need to have somewhat train of thoughts and what not... Maybe you could give them a specific pre-recorded response to a specific question and what not."

"...And the reason why you are asking about it simple, isn’t it?"

"You want to obtain your own voice, don’t you?"

{"Yes."}

{"With my own voice, the conversation would be much faster and maybe more ’humane’."}

"Hm.... I agree with you.... You should have your own voice."

"But the question is, how do we do that?"

"..."

"I think the most basic way would be for you to have a recording of every letter."

"Like, somebody will speak into the device, saying one by one every single letter."

"You could then one by one, use each device, saying one letter after another in order to make a sentence."

"It will be definitely junky and it wouldn’t really be your voice... But it could work, allowing you to finally speak."

"However, how would we do that?"

"Several devices?"

"A one communication device attached to some sort of base where all the devices are connected?"

"Honestly speaking, I do wish that we would try this.... But dude?"

"You do remember we are already shit to hell covered in work, right?"

"I also have my personal work with the empire and you have also yours related to the management of the territory."

"So yeah.... We may have answer, but we have no time to do it.... Now at least."

"..."

{"Huh."}

<<Still, the fact remains that there is a way for me to gain a VOICE!>>

<<...Still, it wouldn’t be my voice, it would had been somebody else’s voice.>>

<<....There is also that research which we are delaying since we have no time for it either.>>

<<The False Flesh Body Project.>>

<<We don’t know if the man-made flesh body could work.... But according to Ariava, homunculuses can be made to have their own natural voices.>>

<<...Maybe.... Maybe I will be able to obtain my "own" voice.>>

<<...>>

<<That is only if that research could work.>>

<<We still don’t know if it is physically possible for me to have any "flesh".>>

<<Not only that, Ariava also told me that I would need to acquire some specific skills for the safety reasons as well, before we could even try to do that research.>>

<<...>>

<<Still.>>

<<The possibility is there.>>

<<And this is enough of motivation.>>

<<Still, there is a lot of job right now.... "On the plate"? It was it if I’m correct.>>

<<There is still lot of job on the plate right now that needs to be taken care of, so unfortunately, all of these attempts at gaining voice or flesh will wait.>>

<<And after we are done with some of current stuff... Well, there is already more stuff waiting in the line already, meaning that Porai wasn’t wrong about us not having any time.>>

<<There is still lot of things to be taken care of and I don’t know if something else may pop up in between....>>

<<Still, I do wish to once obtain my own "voice" in the future.>>