Type-Moon, joins the Lion King at the beginning

Chapter 24 Automatic Defense Device
'So easy?'

Although he achieved victory with one strike, Li Ye was not happy.

It was so easy that Holmes didn't even want to pretend in front of them. He led Li Ye directly to the sand dunes, and the journey was smooth.

It’s like being here all over again!
"Mr. Holmes, this——" Li Ye raised his hand to indicate the deep pit below. Holmes beside him understood and smiled: "Mr. Li Ye is aware of the existence of the singularity, right?"

Hearing this, Li Ye's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he nodded in acknowledgment.

Holmes continued, "I accepted a commission in a certain singularity to investigate the cause of the disaster, so I came to this singularity. As for how I found out the location of Atlas Academy, this is just a simple deduction using existing conditions.

That’s common sense, my friend.”

After Holmes finished speaking, Li Ye smacked his lips unconsciously.

He didn't quite understand this reasoning.

Holmes's thinking was still too difficult for Li Ye to understand.

After Nitocris used her familiar to explore below and confirmed that there was no danger, Li Ye and the other two jumped directly into the deep pit.

A silent tunnel appeared in front of Li Ye and others. Candlelight illuminated the darkness, and the walls made of mottled bluestone continued to extend.

"Is this the Atlas Institute?" Li Ye looked around and thought that the treasure house of knowledge advocated by Wang Hassan - Atlas Institute would have some futuristic architectural style.

I didn't expect it to be such an old cellar style.

The air around was relatively fresh, without the corruption that had been sealed for years. It seemed that there was gas circulation with the outside world.

"Is this the abnormality that Pharaoh mentioned?!"

The three people had different reactions. Nitocris, who had a mission, immediately summoned her familiar to quickly transmit the information here back to the Holy City and inform Osmandis.

"After all, the Atlas Institute was established before the Middle Ages, so this style is extremely normal."

Holmes, holding a pipe, answered Li Ye's questions in a considerate manner.

"Mr. Holmes seems to be very familiar with Atlas House. Can you explain to me what Atlas House is?"

Li Ye was not polite and expressed his confusion generously.

Hearing this, Holmes lit his pipe and said with a smile, "What exactly is Atlas Court? That's a good question, Mr. Lee."

"It is an academy for alchemists based in Egypt's other Atlas Mountain. It is also known as the Giant's Cellar. It is one of the three major departments of the Magic Association, the Institute of Savings and Measurement."

Holmes bit his pipe and continued under Li Ye's gaze, "Different from the mainstream modern alchemy since the Middle Ages, this is a group of alchemists who aim to investigate the origin of magic and the principles of the world;
It is said that although they are magicians, they are all apprentices who lack magic circuits. The conclusion is that they do not rely on magic power in the process of learning magic, but rely on a large number of props. This method is similar to the development brought by science and technology, which is similar to the spirit particle, using the soul as observable energy to create life with magic circuits, that is, artificial people. "

"Has their technology developed to the point where they can create life? For example, they can transform the human body into other organisms at will?"

After hearing Holmes' explanation, Li Ye asked curiously.

Holmes' explanation reminded him of Maggie and Aleka, whom he had met earlier. Were they using this type of alchemy?

"Of course it can be done. The alchemy of the Atlas Academy has reached the pinnacle of human intelligence."

Holmes chuckled: "[We don't need to be the strongest, we just need to create the strongest], this is the motto of the alchemists of the Atlas Academy. They took this as their creed and created many weapons.

As the rumors have long circulated in the magic world, Atlas Academy has produced seven weapons that can destroy the world - of course, at this stage they have recognized their own limitations and sealed these weapons away. "

"How powerful would a weapon that destroys the world have to be?"

Li Ye's breathing paused for a moment, but he continued to listen without changing his expression.

"There are many different theories as to why they created this kind of weapon, and it is still an unsolved mystery in the magic world—"

"In any case, this place is a storage of [Magic Gifts] that is unmatched on earth. Although it is actually just a wasteland, the alchemists of Atlas have repeated their inventions and created failed works, resulting in a mountain of terrible weapons."

As they chatted, the three of them continued to go deeper into the tunnel. Apart from the candlelight, there was endless silence.

"Something is approaching—"

Li Ye, who was walking in the front, stopped and stared at the tunnel deep inside.

Very obvious magical fluctuations were coming from the depths, and there were so many of them!
The air was shaking, as if something huge was approaching.

Soon, Li Ye and his companions saw three giant machines with strange shapes flying out of the darkness.

Suspended half a meter above the ground in a gravity-defying posture, three three-meter-tall green machines seemed to meet Li Ye's gaze!

The whole body is green, like a mysterious machine composed of several cubes.

"It seems that the defense device is still working. It was a good decision to follow Mr. Li Ye here!" Holmes smiled and retreated behind Nitocris, and continued: "Now my existence is not very stable and I can't fight. I can only look forward to the fighting power of Mr. Li Ye!"

"Want to see my strength?"

“Then you cannot use the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception—”

Li Ye didn't look back. The moment Holmes said that he couldn't fight, he understood what Holmes meant.

He simply wanted to see clearly Li Ye's current strength. The punch that pierced through the yellow sand was not enough to make inferences, so Li Ye needed to show more information.

"It's an open and aboveboard conspiracy."

Li Ye's mouth twitched, and he drew his sword despite knowing the conspiracy, and then shouted: "Mr. Holmes! What are the weaknesses of these familiars?"

With Li Ye's current knowledge, he can also see that these automatic defense devices have extremely strong defensive capabilities, and the magic power they exude is almost as good as his!

Li Ye felt it would be a bit difficult to end the battle quickly in this narrow space.

His current fighting style is too aggressive, and he is not sure whether Atlas Academy has other security measures. The best way is to find the weaknesses of the robots and launch targeted attacks!

Finding weaknesses requires a very high level of magic knowledge, which Li Ye obviously does not have, but fortunately -

"Mr. Li Ye, I need some time to observe——"

The world-famous detective, Charlotte Holmes, was standing next to him!

"Okay! Miss Nito!"

After getting Holmes' answer, Li Ye didn't waste any words and stomped his feet hard!
With a muffled explosion, Li Ye rushed towards the approaching automatic defense device like a cheetah!
"Mirror of the Underworld—show yourself!" Nitocris held the Scepter of Vance in her hand and slammed it hard on the ground. The rapidly spreading black mirror seemed to swallow up all the light.

(End of this chapter)