Animation Producer in a Fantasy World

The magical border  that exists between the Empire and the Kingdom, commonly known as the Great Forest.

This place, with an environment similar to a jungle and teeming with naturally occurring monsters, was by no means an environment where people could live.

No, it was more than that – there was even a phenomenon where monsters poured out of the Great Forest at regular intervals.

And now was precisely that time when monsters were pouring out, so both countries were stationing troops around the Great Forest.

No matter how bad the relationship between the two countries was, they couldn’t put pride first at times like this.

In fact, when the two countries joined forces, they could easily repel the monsters no matter how many came.

So even the soldiers of the Empire and Kingdom stationed at the frontline yawned with somewhat relaxed discipline.

“Hmm, it seems the monsters won’t be jumping out of the forest today.”

“We’ve killed so many monsters in the past week. If those things have any learning ability, they should have learned not to jump out of the forest recklessly.”

“Haha, that’s right.”

So the soldiers of the two countries were chatting while feeling relaxed for the first time in a long while.

And the most frequently mentioned topic of conversation among the soldiers was none other than animation.

“Hey, did you watch episode 15 of “Machine God Chronicles” that we lent you yesterday?”

“Yeah, damn it. Thanks to that, I couldn’t sleep properly yesterday. How could I sleep when the new Machine God pilot Luke dies like that?”

“We Empire people experienced that a long time ago. So don’t complain too much.”

“Damn it. If I had known this, I wouldn’t have watched “Machine God Chronicles” from the beginning.”

“Really?”

“No.”

Originally, the relationship between the soldiers of the two countries wasn’t this harmonious.

Rather, they were the kind of relationship where they would be busy hurling insults at each other when they met.

But over the past period, they came to recognize each other while crossing the line between life and death in the process of killing monsters together.

And decisively, when the Empire’s soldiers lent artifacts containing the content of “Machine God Chronicles” to the Kingdom’s soldiers, their relationship rapidly improved.

“So, when can you lend us episode 16?”

“Sorry, but that’s not possible.”

“Why?”

“Because we don’t have it. The artifacts containing the content of “Machine God Chronicles” are extremely expensive. We barely bought episodes 1 to 15 by pooling a month’s salary of our unit members.”

“…Damn it.”

As the Kingdom soldier made an expression as if the sky had fallen, the Empire soldiers smiled slyly watching him.

“Oh my, it seems our friend is very disappointed that he can’t watch more of “Machine God Chronicles”?”

“Yeah, yeah. Should we tell you the content of episode 16 of “Machine God Chronicles” instead? Isn’t it great to know how the story unfolds without watching the anime?”

“…Shut up. Really.”

“Wow, look at how angry our friend is.”

“We might get hit if we’re not careful. This is scary.”

Just as a somewhat warm atmosphere was being created between the soldiers of the two countries, despite the harsh words.

Kuaaaa-!

“A-Attack!”

“The monsters are invading!”

Just when it had been quiet for the past few days, the monsters crawled out of the Great Forest again.

Well, monster attacks were like a daily occurrence in the Great Forest, so it wasn’t particularly surprising.

But.

“…Why are there so many?”

“Damn, could it be that all the monsters in that forest have jumped out?”

Until then, only about hundreds of monsters would invade in one attack.

The monsters visible now seemed to number well over thousands, even by the most conservative estimate.

“This… Could we be in big trouble?”

“We might die today.”

Just as the soldiers were looking at the rushing monster horde with stiff expressions.

[Guoooo-!]

From somewhere, a roar reminiscent of a fierce beast echoes.

It was such a loud roar that even the monsters rushing madly towards the soldiers momentarily stopped in their tracks.

And that roar was something all too familiar to most of the soldiers present here.

Because, without having to go far, it was a sound they had heard through the artifact just yesterday evening.

“This is…”

“Could it be?”

But that was only a fictional existence appearing in stories, there’s no way ‘that’ could really exist in reality.

But then.

Kwaaang-!

The next moment, everyone present here trembled as they saw the form of something that suddenly fell from the sky.

“Good heavens, that’s…!”

“A Machine God, it’s a Machine God!”

“Impossible! Weren’t Machine Gods only supposed to appear in “Machine God Chronicles”?”

That’s right.

The being that suddenly dropped from the sky and completely crushed all the monsters that were there was none other than Machine God Unit 0.

Grrrr?

Kieeek!

The monsters were wary, seeing the steel giant that suddenly appeared and killed dozens of their kind in an instant.

Taking advantage of the moment when the monsters hesitated, someone inside the Machine God addresses the soldiers.

“I’ll take care of this. So all of you, retreat to the back!”

“No, this voice is?”

“C-Could it be Her Highness the Imperial Princess?”

Hearing the Imperial Princess’s voice echoing from inside the Machine God, the soldiers unconsciously open their eyes wide.

But only for a moment.

“Imperial Princess! Her Highness the Imperial Princess has boarded the Machine God!”

“Her Highness the Imperial Princess has declared she will dispose of the monsters!”

“Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Long live Her Highness the Imperial Princess!”

The soldiers cheered when they realized who was here.

For ordinary soldiers, the royal family was like a kind of immortal, existing above the clouds.

They couldn’t help but cheer when such a noble Imperial Princess came to the frontier of the Empire and said she would repel the monsters on their behalf.

Meanwhile, Kaya whispered in a small voice to someone through secret communication, watching the soldiers.

“…So, Director. Please.”

“Leave it to me, Lady Kaya.”

And up there, Ragna and his master Aris were flying in the sky, hiding their appearance with magic.

That’s right.

Currently, the Machine God wasn’t being controlled by the pilot Kaya, but had a structure like a puppet remotely controlled by Ragna outside using magical power.

‘I was originally a liberal arts major, how could I make something like a giant robot.’

Well, it’s true that someone is ‘controlling’ the Machine God, so isn’t this much passing the grade?

“Are you ready, Master?”

“Anytime, my disciple. I’ll thoroughly match your movements.”

So Ragna, who was actually controlling the Machine God in the sky, and his master Aris immediately began to act to subjugate the monsters.

Kyaaaaa!

Meanwhile, the monsters charge towards the Machine God again, having forgotten their fear, perhaps because the shock of seeing the Machine God for the first time had disappeared.

Seeing the movements of such monsters, Ragna snapped his fingers.

“Deploy field.”

Giing-!

The next moment, a powerful octagonal barrier formed in front of the Machine God.

And.

Tueong!

Of course, the monsters’ attacks couldn’t even scratch that barrier.

Rather, only the bodies of the monsters who unknowingly hit the barrier were shattered.

“As expected… its power is certain.”

And seeing that sight, Ragna nodded.

The true identity of the field was none other than the wall of the heart that every human has.

Therefore, the field cannot be penetrated by simple physical force.

The only solution is to neutralize the space by deploying the same field.

“My disciple, what on earth are you talking about? You just used a barrier magic just now, didn’t you?”

“…That’s how it is in the setting, Master.”

Isn’t it human courtesy to just let it slide at times like this?

As expected, Master doesn’t understand a man’s romance-

Ragna inwardly let out such a lamentation.

Anyway, now that the opponent’s attack had been blocked, it was time for this side to attack.

“Master, please.”

“Alright.”

Hwak!

The next moment, flames that spurted from under Aris’s feet began to engulf her entire body in an instant.

One of Aris’s unique magics that temporarily amplifies the power of heat-type magic by surrounding her own body with flames.

At the same time, Ragna also draws up magical power and applies magic that temporarily makes the Machine God’s fist tens of times harder than steel.

And the next moment, just as the Machine God raises its own fist and then plunges it into the ground.

“Super Fusion Explosion.”

Giiing-

Aris also dropped the most destructive heat magic she knew from the sky-

Kuung-!

A huge flame rises and the earth melts at the same time.

As soon as the Machine God’s fist touched the ground, the extreme heat overturned everything around and engulfed and burned everything that walked on two feet on the ground.

Kyaaaaa!

Kihik, grrrr!

Naturally, the nearby monsters disappeared without a trace.

A huge crater was created centered on the ground where the Giant God’s fist touched, and seeing that hellscape where magma was boiling, the soldiers were finally at a loss for words.

“A-Amazing.”

“As expected… since it’s a weapon made to defeat Outer Gods, I guess monsters are nothing to it…”

“Look at that, even after an attack with that much power, there’s no damage to the Machine God. It’s proof that an attack of that level just now was no burden at all to the Machine God.”

But unfortunately, it wasn’t true that the attack just now was no burden to the Machine God.

To be more precise, it was a huge burden on the pilot inside the Machine God.

“D-Director! I-It’s too hot! And I feel like I’m going to get motion sickness! Please control it a little more gently!”

But Ragna deliberately ignored such communication from Kaya and sighed as he looked at the devastation created by the Machine God.

‘Fewer monsters died than I thought. At this rate, it’ll take time to kill them all.’

Just now, the combined attack of Ragna and Aris had truly terrifying destructive power if only considering its power.

‘Originally, the God Blaze Cannon is strong enough to even burn fellow Triple Environment Gods.’

But if there was a problem, it was that the number of monsters here was too many.

The number of monsters killed in one blow just now would be about 10% of the total.

Then, by simple calculation, we’d need to use that one-hit attack about 10 times to clean up all the monsters.

No matter how great a mage Aris was, it was impossible to fire that level of magic 10 times.

Then, at this rate, it means we might not easily achieve the goal of cleanly sweeping the monsters present here…

“…There’s no choice. We’ll have to use that.”

Hearing Ragna’s such mutterings, Kaya lets out a voice as if terrified.

“…You’re not planning to do that, are you? N-No. That really makes me terribly motion sick. My stomach churns, and my head spins-”

“This is all a noble sacrifice for humanity. Endure it.”

So Ragna lightly ignored Kaya’s plea and muttered in a small voice.

“Activate berserk mode.”