The Metal Heart

[Little Girl's POV]

Hello my name is Aria Light a twelve year old 'Priestess of the Moon' for my people of the Elves and I am here today with my father to see how much our scholars are able to learn about our Ancient Ancestors from beyond the stars who once lived in these ruins or labyrinth. Our Warden Rangers have been combing these ruins ever since the Ruins were discovered 4,000 years ago even before I was born. I always wondered why was it that our ancient forest was where we elves appeared in the world and found out that these ruins have similarity to all of our legends and customs of the "Moon Goddess" who guided our people to this land and forest. Even our Religion of being one with the forest and respecting the spirits are shown in "Ancient Hieroglyph Carvings" on the walls as I pass by with my father who is the Great Elder of our people who has fought against many threats of Human, Dwarf, Dragon, Dark Elf, Demons, Beast-men, Demi-Humans, as well as Slavers for a very long time. Yes Slavers are prone to attack us because we are a very rare race that are really beautiful and fetch a high price by many of those in power in the world.

Now you are wondering why is it that my 2,000 year old father and I have come down here now are you?

Well as my father thought about my safety after a worse case scenario that he nearly died to an invading army. he became determined of enforce our Rangers with Warriors so that we may be able to repel more threats and better isolate ourselves from the whole world and due to our pride we tend to not accept alliances easily. That is why father has been looking into "Armored Golem" sorcery that our Ancient Ancestors used frequently to fight off their civilizations threat that for some reason caused our Ancient Civilization to Collapse to how we are today.

when we finally passed through the labyrinth of a floor we came upon a door. My father lifted up his right hand and muttered a few Ancient Words that we still possess and then the door opened. entering the room I noticed that were were in a huge room that looked like a wizards room with many tube like things  containing whatever materials were inside them.

after advancing into the room a bit my father and I came upon a tube containing a human shaped heart that was made with flesh and metal. Staring at it curiously, my  father spoke to the head scholar who was researching something about this heart and calling it a " Core Unit."

Looking at it for a while I noticed that it was emitting a faint blue and a type of small light appeared in front as if it just woken up. Upon further observation I noticed that the light is moving around as if looking at its surroundings and then coming back to me. I wondered why was it like that until I overheard daddy and the head scholar mentioning how this core unit was suppose to activate with a soul. Thinking about it that was a bit scary and interesting because I have heard of "Soul Magic" that can ripe out your mana as well as your soul from your body. Then I slightly tugged my daddies robe and he asked wondering why I tugged.

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[Aria]

"The core thing  looks like its active."

while pointing at it after I said that and looking at the core unit again with wonder.

[Great Elder POV]

I never thought that the core would be active at all, while listening to our head scholar about having to activate this "Ancient Golem Heart" that was named core unit in our ancient language. After my daughter tugged my robes and pointed it out.  we all noticed that it had became active and was surprise cause the scholar have never ever gotten the damn thing active before and for the record his mumbo jumbo about how it activates are from him and his apprentices attempt to translate the ancient language at all. We only have been successful in having our friendly earth and wind spirits possessing our makeshift golem armors that we reverse engineered from these ancient broken armors in the ruins. Hell even the battered armors in this room were not even working at all when we found them. Only this Golem Heart dubbed Core Unit is in perfect condition preserved in this tube like magical device. I know that this particular thing can be used to create a powerful golem that will be able to protect my sweet little angel. Seeing that it has become active and snapping out of my shock I turned to our head scholar and spoke.

"Can you now install it into one of our armored golems?'

snapping back to his senses from my words he said "we can now" tilting his head with a puzzled look of thought.

[Aria]

after my father asked  the head scholar they began working on moving the core unit carefully with magic to its suppose body is at ready for battle or start up. Moving from the wizard like room we went to one of the rooms on the upper or more like transfer from floor 5 to floor 2 where father had a specially made armor lying on a makeshift alter for infusing spirits with armored golems.

"Father isnt this armor simple? and it is only chain armor with leather bits to hold it together and the helmet isnt even elven!?"

[Great Elder]

"child this armor is made with the best material that we have available and has been scribed and etched with runes so that it will be powerful."

"the helmet is of human make and is there so that if you should travel outside of our forest, it will make it appear as if an experienced soldier is protecting his noble lady."

[Aria]

"but father it would just look like a soldier and how is it going to be incorporated into the armor anyway?"

[Science Elf]

" ah let me answer that"

"ahem, the core will just be put on top of the golems chest and then it will just fuse with the armor and become its heart without having to use a ceremony to summon and ask the wind and earth spirits to enter the other golems."

[Aria]

"hmmm, then will it talk as well?"

[Science Elf]

"we will find out if it will once it has completely fused with the armor."