Around him, more and more apprentices were flooding into the square.
The news was still spreading.
Colin stepped forward at the opportune moment.
He walked to the feet of the Cyclops—or more precisely, to the side of one of its toes.
In comparison, his height didn't even reach halfway up the Golem's instep.
But his voice was loud, cutting through the clamor of the square.
"Fellow students, esteemed visitors, welcome to the New Western's 25th Anniversary Special Exhibition!"
Colin pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and raised a sound-amplifying rune tablet.
"The Golem you see before you, codenamed 'Cyclops,' is the second advanced War Golem independently researched and built by the founder of New Western, Lord Allen Wesren, during the planar battlefield expansion led by the Ring City Alliance."
A collective gasp went through the crowd.
The second one, which meant there was a first.
