Lord Of Puppets

[3 days later.]

"Huh... This is truly interesting." – said the woman wearing a hooded cloak as she and 5 other people were each ridding their own horses.

"This dungeon can truly create all sort of golems."

"Ones that can build."

"Ones that can pull carts."

"And ones that fight."

"Our nations also uses golems extremely often in construction too, but they used alongside other people who directly control the golems."

"So how does that work? Are these golems here more advanced than the ones that we use?"

"..."

"Princess, with all due respect, I think it would be wise if you were to refrain from those kind of questions." – said one of two hooded men wearing mask on the right.

"I know." – said the hooded woman.

"..."

"Your majesty. Are you sure about us not coming with you?" – asked the hooded masked knight on the left.

"True. The dungeon master had never did anything before... But still, he is a monster."

"Yes. That is true." – said the hooded woman.

"But so, are the vampires."

"And yet? They live like people."

"I’ve didn’t trusted them at all myself; I was expecting them to betray us at the moment notice."

"But all the openings they had to betray us had passed."

"They straight up cannot betray us anymore at this point."

"And they did that to themselves willingly."

"As for the dungeon master? I honestly still don’t fully trust that guy either, just like my brother."

"But the fact remains that he is useful."

"However... What exactly is he?"

"I want to find out."

"..."

"We are about to arrive at the work site." – said Wikan as he and his two warrior companions were leading the trio of the hooded people into the construction site where the wall was being build.

However, unlike before when Wikan and his comrade came here few days ago... The entire place was quiet. There were no golems working and making noises around.

The golems were there.

But they didn’t moved or anything.

The golems who were standing guard just walked away, opening a pathway for the group to pass through.

"...I see it." – said the hooded woman as she saw a building in the distance, a defensive outpost base which surrounded the entrance to the dungeon.

(Still, why is that wall that far away from the dungeon though?) – thought the hooded woman as the group continued moving forward, passing the wall and heading closer and closer towards the dungeon.

(If there is so much distance between the wall and the dungeon... Then the city he is planning to make will be extremely massive.)

(But why though?) – thought the hooded woman as she stopped her horse in tracks.

"Okay. That is enough." – said the hooded woman.

"I will be heading on my own now."

"?!"

"Wait! But princess! We are not even next to that building!" – said the knight on the right.

"We should-"

"No." – said the hooded woman.

"This is my direct order."

"Unless you think you can stop me." – said the woman as she glared at her escort, instantly freezing them all up in place.

"..."

"I thought so." – said the woman as she had her horse start moving once again.

"Don’t worry."

"If that monster dares to raise his hand against me, I will cut him down right on the spot." -said the hooded woman as she continued journey on her own... Before several moments later arriving at the heavily guarded outpost.

She arrived in front of the gate, where a lone messenger golem was waiting for her.

The woman dismounted her horse, before then approaching the lone golem.

"Greetings." – said the woman as she grabbed her cloak and removed it, revealing a tall muscular body with hourglass figure, wearing a military outfit as well as being equipped with a sword that hanged on her waist.

"I’m Endera Warmin, the first princess of the Gorijy empire." – said with long dark green hair that was tied into a pony tail and also had somewhat beautiful face with sharp orange-colored eyes.

"I’ve came here for the purpose of meeting the dungeon master of the golem dungeon, Thauma."

[The first princess of the Gorijy empire – Endera Warmin]

"..."

{"Greetings."} – the messenger golem shown the piece of paper with message written on it, before in the very next moment the gate right next to the golem opened up.

{"Please. Fallow me."} – the messenger golem shown another piece of paper, before moments later leading the woman right into the dungeon.

The woman fallowed the golem without hesitation.

However, she wasn’t defenseless. She had her sword on her waste... But even so, she wasn’t asked to hand over the blade or anything.

She just fallowed the golem while having her hands behind her back.

"..."

(Weird. There should be a good number of golems now... Yet nothing?) – thought princess Endera as she saw the messenger golem leading her to the passage at the end of the road, which she crossed without hesitation alongside her guide.

"?!" – and the moment she crossed it, she saw it.

The dungeon was no longer just one long path... No.

It had been completely changed.

It was now one massive space underground , with several different massive pillars stretching all the way towards the roof.

(That is... Different?) – thought confused yet bit alarmed princess.

(I know we haven’t really explored this dungeon or anything, but from what I remember from those old records, the dungeon was said to be a single long path type dungeon.) – thought the princess as she fallowed the golem.

(...Not only that... What the hell is this?) – thought the princess as she could see a massive horde of the golems in the distance.

(This place, it is straight up swarming with the golems. I barely see any space between them.)

(Does this happened when the dungeon isn’t cleared at all? It is filled to the brim with monsters?!)

(...)

(I see some of the golems that we had bought from the dungeon....)

(Anyway, he isn’t leading me towards that army... But wh-)

"!"

The messenger golem didn’t led towards the center or the deepest part of the dungeon.

Instead, it led to the set up one massive table and chairs which were located near the entrance.

And sitting in one of these chairs was a humanoid looking doll.

"..."

"Greetings. Dungeon master Thauma." – said Endera as she remember the humanoid doll golem from before.

{"Greetings. Princess Endera Warmur.} – Thauma shown its message note.

{"Please. Take a seat."}

"Thank you, I will." - said the princess as she took the seat beside the table.

{"First thing first. I’m sorry for the uncomfortable situation as well as the pressure which my golems maybe causing you. However, I haven’t finished remodeling the dungeon and I’m also forced to produce as many monsters as possible in order to develop the Mevon territory as well as to give the empire soldiers per the contract."}

"I understand."

"And please, don’t worry about this. It is my fault for this sudden request for a meeting."

(Thauma.) – thought the princess.

(A golem dungeon which is supported by one of the most dangerous beings in this world called Ariava Brywa.)

(Nobody knows why she is supporting the dungeon, nor why she went to such length to support to the point where is straight up working for us.)

(I doubt he would reveal anything... But this isn’t my goal here.)

{"There is no problem, princess."}

{"However, are you sure you don’t want your escort in here? I’ve said already that I’m fine with you bringing them here, even in large number if necessary."}

"No. There was no need to."

(So she isn’t even hiding that she wants to have this meeting kept as secret?) – thought Thauma.

"Anway, I’ve been wondering about something ever since I’ve came here."

"You are making a city, yes?"

"From what I’m understanding, you are aiming to make it something like a defensive line to protect the dungeon... But is that it?"

"Are you hoping to make it something like public place where merchants and all sorts of people gather?"

{"I don’t know."}

{"Or more exactly, I don’t know what I will use this city for, just yet."}

{"The main purpose of this city is defense, but beside that? I don’t know if I will use it for anything else."}

{"I’m still thinking about what to use it for."}

(Is he lying? Or does he really don’t know?) – thought the princess who didn’t trusted too much the golem monster, wary of its of the words it has spoken.

"I understand." – replied the princess as the golem nodded its head in response.

{"Anyway, it maybe rude to ask you this since you just arrived."}

{"But I would like to know the purpose behind your visit."}

"...Straight to the main topic? Eh?"

"Fine."

"Thauma."

"What do you want?"

"?"

{"I don’t understand this question."}

"Let me rephrase that."

"What is that you want?"

"Like, do you have some kind of goal, desire, just anything."

"Normally the dungeons are the places where the monsters are born, which in most cases are hostile to just anything."

"Dungeons are sources of the disaster... And from what I know, you were apparently the same at first."

"But, you wanted to obtain the peace afterwords."

"Why is that?"

"Why do you, a dungeon master, wants a peace?"

"..."

{"Because I like it."}