Walking in the Question and Answer System of Heroic Spirits

The Second Emperor had also inspected the place and found it to be so distorted as to be beyond repair. Using magic lightly could easily generate a large number of evil spirits, thus he abandoned any thought of unsealing it.

The three slowly approached the location and could see from afar that the old school building had been completely destroyed, as if it had been ravaged by a tornado.

The area that was originally the school building's main hall has sunk, revealing a vast, dark space beneath.

Kenneth: "The old classroom of the Modern Magic Department, there's actually a place like this downstairs!"

Koles: "This was probably Hartles's doing too."

Weber: "Just how much planning did this man do for this day?"

Lion's Robbery: "Could this be Albion down there?"

Kenneth: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Kenneth: "If this place were connected to Albion, it would have been discovered long ago!"

[Flatter: "Underground, underground, all underground. Grey's hometown is like that too; I always feel like I'm turning into a rat."]

[Sphinx: "Isn't this a place that's not very familiar to us?"]

[Flatter: "Oh, because we're magicians."]

[Sphen: "I'll go down first."]

Without hesitation, the daring Sphinx jumped down, followed closely by Reines, leaving only Flat, unable to descend, complaining above.

The cave wasn't very deep; we reached the bottom quickly.

Reines: "I didn't expect Zara to have a place like this?"

[The two saw a huge object in the darkness. Reines recognized it, yet for a moment she couldn't believe it.]

He reached out and touched it; it was indeed the familiar chitinous shell—this thing really is...

[Sphinx: "Is this the corpse of an insect?"]

[That's right, this thing in front of us is a woodlice, but it's over three meters tall and ten meters long.]

Besides this thing, there were several other insect corpses lying scattered throughout the vast underground space.

Ilya: "Ah!!!"

No matter how cunning you are, you can't help but feel a chill run down your spine when faced with these insects.

Rin Tohsaka: "How disgusting! How can these bugs be so big!"

Sora: "I'm never going to Zara's place again."

Waver: "This is probably because the magic in the air is too concentrated. Therefore—"

Kenneth: "..."

"No, no, no! This can't be possible!"

Reines exclaimed in disbelief, "This scale! No matter how sophisticated the barrier, burying something like this underground, neither I nor the students in El-Melloi's classroom could have gone unnoticed for years. If that were possible, we would be utterly foolish!"

[Moreover, the hollow area is clearly not limited to the old school building. Magicians walk around it every day, how could no one have discovered it for so many years? This doesn't make sense!]

It's as if this enormous hole was created just minutes ago.

Setting aside her wandering thoughts, Reines slowly said, "This should be the corpse of an Albion creature."

[Sfin: "Albion's?"]

Reines: "I can't think of any other explanation. If you search the whole world, there should be foreign lands where such creatures lurk, but it's absolutely impossible for two or more to emerge from underground in the suburbs of London."

"Is the part of Albion unusually close to the surface connected to the underground of the modern magic department? Or did these insects dig through the soil and end up here? Or perhaps I'd much more accept the idea that Hartres actually built a nuclear power plant underground. Ahem..."

Just then, Reines suddenly felt something was wrong and began coughing violently.

[Sphinx: "What's wrong, Princess?"]

"Cough cough, I'm fine..."

Despite the discomfort emanating from her demonic eye, Reines spoke up, "Sphinx, you should also quickly activate your beastly magic to its fullest extent, extending it to your respiratory system. The dense ether might damage your internal organs."

[Sphinx: "I understand."]

Even the air itself exudes a dense mystery. It's the kind of environment only the spirit tomb Albion could have.

No matter how hard it is to accept, we have to acknowledge this fact now.

[But what's going on here? Did Hartres attack Sla specifically to show off these things?]

Chapter 336. Hartres's Source of Funding

Feng Xi: "Director Ken, what were we talking about again?"

Kenneth: "...cough cough—"

Weber: "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore."

Webber: "But I never expected that there would actually be an Albion passage underground in the former site of the Modern Magic Department."

Lion's Tribulation: "This passage has clearly existed for many years."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Hartles' funds."

Rin Tohsaka: "What?"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Before, we were wondering where Hartres's funding came from for the Mystic Eyes Train and the Twin Towers, but now we know."

Weber: "Cursed body, smuggling—"

That's right, this explains why Hartley had so much money despite disappearing from the public eye for so many years.

Kenneth: "With such a pathway, it would be a piece of cake for him to obtain the cursed body."

At this moment, Sphen, who had been observing the insect corpse in front of him, sniffed and focused his sharp gaze on the insect's back.

[Having fully activated his beastly magic, his sense of smell was at its peak.]

Reines noticed Sphen's expression and cautiously asked, "Are you there?"

"Yes, although it's still quite a distance."

Without hesitation, Sphinx dropped to all fours and said, "Princess, please sit on my back."

Reines: "Can you guarantee a ride like an Aston Martin?"

[Sphinx: "If you accept the wild horse."]

Reines climbed onto Sphinx's back, and he instantly became like a gecko, defying gravity as he strode from the earthen wall towards the ceiling.

After advancing for a while, Reines finally noticed something unusual.

"That's—a crack?"

Indeed, the rifts that lead to the Albion cemetery, which exist only in four places in London, have opened here.

Beside the crack, a massive war chariot stood.

[It's Hephaestion's Noble Phantasm, "Wheel of the Demon God," and Faker and Hearts are naturally on the chariot.]

Kenneth: "The fifth route... Hartley really struck gold."

He had already begun to consider whether or not to take over this place.

But the biggest problem now is still Hartres.

If the real Hartres has also disappeared without a trace.

Hartles is like a time bomb, you never know when he'll explode, so you have to be extremely careful.

"Oh, you've arrived?"

Seemingly noticing something, Hephaestion revealed a sinister grin.

"That's great. I thanked Master for giving me the battlefield. If you hadn't come, I would have looked like a fool."

[Hartles: "Hmm, the timing is a bit bad. I didn't expect to run into you... No, this isn't a coincidence."]

Rin Tohsaka: "Have we been found out?"

Weber: "No, that's not right. His tone doesn't sound like he's talking to Reines and the others."

Shiki Jie Li: "So there are other people involved... I have a pretty good idea who it is."

Weber: "Me too."

Toosaka Rin: “???”

【"Wait a moment!"】

Just as Sphinx was about to jump out, Reines suddenly stopped him.

Reines felt that the other person wasn't referring to them.

"Haha, I originally came here to get my cigarettes back."

A familiar voice rang out, and the orange-haired magician emerged from the darkness, calmly looking at the other person.

It's Aozaki Touko.

Rin Tohsaka: "Touko Aozaki! Oh dear, how could I forget about her?"

Shishikage Kairi: "Head of the Tohsaka family, your daughter isn't quite quick-witted."