The professor pulled out a control device made from a piece of metal armor tucked away inside the pilot’s seat. It magically levitated and hung from the ceiling with a wire.
This is the control unit, in other words, the magic construct will move according to the movement of the one using the metal armor.
If the user turns his head down, the magic construct will also turn its head down, and when the arms and fingers of the armor move, the magic construct will move as well.
The fact that the gigantic object moves in accordance with the movement of a human means the probability of an accident is bound to increase.
In fact, there were many accidents during the two months it was used.
It has screwed up shovels, made big holes in places it didn’t need to be, made the edge of the hole collapse, etc…..
Honestly speaking, I don’t want the princess-sama to use this.
After all, whether in this life or my last, it’s the same.
If you get distracted even a little, an industrial accident will occur.
「So, am I supposed to put my arm on this thing?」
「I’m afraid so.」
The princess-sama slowly inserted her arms into the backless armor and moved her fingers.
As she did so, the giant Arachne wiggled its fingers.
「Princess-sama, here.」
I held out the handle of a shovel made of wood and she took it dexterously so as to not let the magic construct drop the shovel.
「Then, let’s dig」
「Have fun」
Under the princess-sama control, the gigantic shovel was thrust into the earth, lifting tens of tons of dirt into the air.
「What am I supposed to do with this?」
「As you wish」
「Then, I’ll move it off to the side.」
The magic construct twisted its body and threw what’s in the shovel without care to the left. The spilled soil and sand made a roaring sound like a downpour.
When the shovel was set up in the right place, the clod of earth thrown to the ground made a thud and shook the ground.
In my previous life, this kind of super noisy construction site would have been stormed with complaints.
「I wonder how usable this magic construct is for construction purposes?」
「The speed of progress is completely different without it. It took us six months to dig the first clocktower class building dock but the second one only took less than a month!」
While I was talking, princess-sama started digging again.
It seems like she’s digging in a place a little far from the big hole she dug earlier and about the same depth.
And this time, she began to dexterously pour the soil and sand she had dug up into the hole she had just dug.
Tens of tons of soil and sand mixed with rocks were being swallowed into the hole with a sound like a muddy river.
「This! I wonder if there will be a demand for this in the royal capital!?」
「There should be!! There are civil engineering jobs everywhere!!」
It was easy to build a pool or something if you had something like this.
「Comparing from what I’ve heard about it and now that I’m actually doing it, the experience is completely different from what I heard!!」
「It’s gigantic after all!!」
Princess-sama dexterously moves the lower half of the gigantic magic construct by herself while still using the upper body control armor.
Is she someone exceptionally skilled or are all royalty this capable……
While I was thinking about that in a daze, I looked at my sister-in-law as she scooped the ground with a shovel.
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「That spider, it doesn’t seem to be useful for war as I thought.」
Princess-sama said that with a resentful face at the dinner table after coming back home from playing with the clock tower class magic construct all day.
「At that size, it would be a good target on the battlefield. Its armor is also not strong enough to withstand even one magic shot. There is no problem with its mobility but it can’t be taken to the battlefield.」
「I-is that so……」
While elegantly eating the fried freshwater fish, gehageha, sister-in-law-san continues.
「In other words, father intends to use that spider as a rearguard in the frontline for ease of movement. It was the plan from the start.」
「Yeah. I heard that main target is to make one that has a city on its back.」
「A city huh. I guess they plan to send soldiers from there to the battlefield with their families and have them fight from sunrise to sunset as if they were just civil servants. Father is really sweet, they should be thankful.」
「Kariya, that’s enough.」
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