Word of a Steel Beast appearing in the Death Plain, within the Saint Roland region, spread like wildfire.
For a time, everyone in the surrounding areas, from the streets to the alleys, was discussing it...
"Hey, have you heard? A monster appeared in the Death Plain!"
"What a joke! Who hasn't heard by now? I also heard that monster is as huge as a house, sounds like muffled thunder, has a strange enormous mouth, can spew thick smoke, and even eats mud."
"What do you mean, it eats mud? I heard that monster eats people. Several criminals serving their sentences in the Death Plain have already been eaten!"
"No, no, that's not right. I heard that monster can change forms. One moment it turns into a cloud of thick smoke, and the next it becomes a giant beast covered head to toe in steel..."
The existence of the Steam Excavator lay completely beyond the common knowledge of the people in the Saint Roland region.
On top of that, many people had never seen it with their own eyes. As rumors spread from mouth to mouth, the gossip surrounding the Steam Excavator grew more and more outrageous.
While frightening quite a few residents of the Saint Roland region, it also made them curious about this Steel Beast.
At the time, the State Religion's missionary group, which was carrying out its mission in the Saint Roland region under Joan's leadership, used solving the mystery of the 'Steel Beast' as a promotional hook for its missionary activities.
Needless to say, the event drew a massive crowd!
They had underestimated how bored people in this era were, while also underestimating the growing appeal of the State Religion in the Saint Roland region.
The State Religion had consistently taken practical action and continually helped the