Chapter 190 – Quinta

When it came time to go all-out in preparing the armaments, Jin consulted Laozi.

First was sorting the information about the Unifilers. The analysis of the Magi Crystal containing the branch head Purcell’s copied knowledge was left for Laozi to analyse.

The main task was strengthening Hourai Island.

“There’s a lot of things to do, but which one should I start with?”

“Let’s see. Intelligence, transport or mobilization otherwise, and military force. I think these three things are important. Don’t you think it would be a good idea to list each avenue for improvement in order of priority?”

Laozi said, and Jin followed his advice and thought. And the plan he came up with was,

1. For solid intelligence, send spies everywhere.

2. Development of new ways of movement.

3. Development of new weapons.

These three steps.

“For spies, I think that increasing the amount of current Ninja unit members should do, however…”

“I suppose. If you’d like my opinion, I think that if they aren’t used for the reason of guarding My Lord, they should be Automata instead of golems so they can mix in with people and disguise themselves.”

“Hmm, that sounds good. Alright, let’s do that. Let’s make roughly 100 of them, and call them the ‘Quinta’.”

“The fifth column were spies, weren’t they? A good name, My Lord.”

Laozi approved of it too, and for starters they settled upon the construction of the intelligence unit ‘Quinta’.

The adult-male types that would find it easiest to act numbered 40 and the adult female types 30. For camouflage purposes there were ten teenage boy types and ten teenage girl types, and finally ten small Reiko-types for a total of 100 Automata. Their foundation would be the same as that of Hourai Island’s SP’s, but they would be covered in Magical Skin and have hair to make them resemble humans. Jin would make the principal parts and Laozi would be in charge of the rest.

The next thing they started to work on was ways of movement.

“For movement, I want to make a VTOL or a helicopter.”

“Transport that can takeoff and land anywhere, I see. I think that is a fine idea.”

Finally, with regards to the armaments, because they would operate together with the intelligence and the transport systems, they weren’t in a hurry to make decisions.

Then