It was developed almost 3,000 years ago by the ancient civilization "Mashimagna IV Empire"... the latest mobile dungeon "Shelter Labyrinth" at the time.

Niko-chan, a toddler from the "artificial life form Homunkurus", which was the core of the living thing, is still awake.

I'm watching along with Fumina, the manifest spirit of the "Magic Shield Thousand Hand Shield" and the "Funeral Spirit Shield", who is waiting for me to wake up worriedly.

And I'm still listening to her.

The manufacturing technology of "Homunkurus" seems to be the same as the production technology of the monster, which is the core technology of the artificial labyrinth.

In the first place, it was about 500 years before Mr. Fumina was able to successfully develop and move the artificial labyrinth.

The manufacturing technology of "Homunkurus", the production technology of monsters, 500 years ago when the labyrinth was in operation... 3,500 years ago if we start from now... basically, it was established.

It seems that the technology for producing monsters has been gradually improved over the course of 500 years.

However, it seems that the manufacturing technology of "Homunkurus" has been temporarily discontinued due to various problems and humanitarian aspects.

It seems to have been a virtually destroyed technology without research for hundreds of years.

It seems to have resumed at the end of the empire in which Fumina was present.

At that time, it seems that the manufacturing technology was rebuilt based on the improved monster production technology.

An acquaintance of Fumina's scientists said that the original Homunkurus manufacturing technology had been destroyed, there were no documents left, and it seemed to be a lost technology.

So rebuilding was almost the same as building from scratch.

Therefore, it seems that the "Homunkurus" manufacturing technology of the Empire when Fumina was around and the original "Homunkurus" manufacturing technology held 500 years ago were recognized as different technologies even if there were similarities.

At the end of the Empire, the manufacturing technology of "Homunkurus" was redeveloped, but it seems to have resumed with the aim of creating a strong human being as a reinforced human being.

It seems that the end of the Empire was excited in various fields to overcome the "Thousand Year Curse".

The "Thousand Year Curse" was a superstition that the civilization that inherited the name of the "Machimagna Empire" would perish in a thousand years.

Here, I remembered the information about the "Magic Machine Civilization" that the Duke of Euphemia taught me before.

That information......

There is a supermassive civilization called the "Machimagna Empire", which perished about 15,000 years ago.

Although it has been a supercivilization for nearly 10,000 years, it is said that there are few remaining ruins and relics.

Three thousand years later, a new magical mechanical civilization emerged called the "Machimagna II Empire".

It is said to have accomplished this with the aim of reviving the lost "Machimagna Empire".

However, this empire was destroyed in about a thousand years.

Three thousand years later, the forces that marked the "Third Masimagna Empire" started the country and built a magical mechanical civilization, which also perished in about a thousand years.

Then, three thousand years later, a country named "The Fourth Machimagna Empire" emerged and perished in about a thousand years as well.

Apart from the first "Machimagna Empire", empires like the imitations that followed repeatedly disappeared in a thousand years when they appeared in a 3,000-year cycle.

They say "Thousand Years of the Curse" and "The Wall of the Thousand Years".

Some people say that there is a curse on the "Machimagna Empire" of the main house.

... it was about...

At the end of the "Mashimagna Fourth Empire", it was also recognized that it was the end of this millennium, and it was said to be the "thousand-year curse".

In fact, the battle against demon kings and demons is happening, so people at that time probably felt the fear of extinction as something realistic.

However, they all thought that the "Nine Heroes" had avoided the "Thousand Years Curse" by winning.

However, in reality, there is also the intervention of invisible demons, and it seems that civilization has been destroyed by self-destruction.

To avoid the Thousand Years Curse, Homunkurus's manufacturing technology was reproduced under the ideal of creating a strong human being, but it was also affected by the crisis facing it, and it was only then that it was completely converted into a military force.

Humina said that there were about a dozen "Homunkurus" children who were caught up in battle and there were only two left, but somehow... I don't feel like it was used as a tool for battle.

I didn't dare ask Fumina about it.

If my expectations were correct, you wouldn't want to remember.

Then, the story of the age when the artificial labyrinth was created coincides with what Minoshaw from Minotaur's Little Labyrinth told us before.

Minoshaw was saying that more than 3,500 years ago, he gave a hint to the humans of the "Fourth Magna Empire" to analyze the structure of the natural labyrinth.

Based on that hint, the person was able to figure out some of the mechanisms on his own and create an artificial labyrinth.

Minoshaw hinted because he talked about his ideals of enriching people with the grace of the labyrinth and promised not to use the labyrinth for war.

In fact, the promise seemed to have been kept, but he also died and was forgotten every generation.

In the end, he lamented that the promise had been broken and that civilization had perished in the form of self-destruction.

By now… the latest mobile dungeon has been completely converted into a weapon and ran off by the devil's hack, destroying his own civilization, which Minoshaw might have said.

Fumina also told me about the characteristics of the monsters created by the artificial labyrinth.

As for the production of monsters in the artificial labyrinth, it seems that it is produced by a cloning technique.

It seems to be catching the original monster and creating an individual like it.

Unlike normal monsters, however, it seems that activities cannot be sustained without constantly absorbing a lot of magic elements.

When you are in the Labyrinth, there is no problem because you are supplied with lots of magic, but if you leave the Labyrinth, it seems that unless the magic is too thick, you will be stopped.

Unlike normal monsters, they are in a state where they can't move without constantly taking in the magic elements.

I don't know if it's going to happen technically or intentionally... but it could end up like insurance.

If a lot of monsters go out of the labyrinth, they won't be able to move for a while.

Considering that, the release of monsters from today's mobile dungeon "Shelter Labyrinth" would mean that most monsters were no longer able to move.

I just couldn't wait for that, so I was right to take it down quickly.

In fact, I don't know whether it is a few hours, a few days, or a few months that the activity is stopped.

In the meantime, the damage would be enormous, so it was the best way to defeat it.

The fact that the monsters in the labyrinth are produced in a form of copy production, and the fact that they cannot operate outside the labyrinth, is consistent with the information I have heard from Daritou of the labyrinth management system of the "Ibirah Labyrinth", which I am a dungeon master.

The Ibirah Labyrinth is the second labyrinth for testing in the Fourth Reich.

"Appraisal" of monsters produced in the Labyrinth seems to show the same way as the original monsters.

It must still be a clone.

Technically, it seems to be less adaptable to the environment than the original monster.

Before, Daritou of the labyrinth management system said that when cells are cultivated and formed into monsters, it seems that the soul resides at some point.

And it means that the mechanism has not been clarified.

Is it the mystery of life?

The monsters made in the artificial labyrinth... are supposed to be copying monsters in nature, but just like the original monsters, if you can use parts, you can eat meat, and you can take the "Magic Core".

If we use it, we can certainly enrich people's lives.

Strange story, but it looks like you raised a monster.

Of course, I can't tame the breeder.

After all, there is no good or evil in the technology itself, and it depends on how it is used.

It is terrifying to think of it as a tool to attack people like this one, but it is also a tool that can enrich people if operated correctly.

I thought that innovative technology always has light and shadow, and how it is used is important.

For example, automobiles are a tool to enrich people's lives, but they are always exposed to the danger of taking lives.

I think the artificial labyrinth is exactly the same.

As a dungeon master of many artificial labyrinths, I must remember my liver.