Before Sanzo and Oto Touta set off, Bedivere, who had rested for a while, also volunteered to follow them.
With Arash, Cursewrist and Da Vinci staying at the stronghold, the defensive strength should be enough. Leaving Bedwell behind would be a waste of combat power.
Taking this into consideration, everyone agreed to Bedivere's request.
Before leaving, Omo Touta released his Noble Phantasm "Endless Rice Bag" in the East Village.
This is a purely auxiliary Noble Phantasm, its only function is to produce inexhaustible rice.
The new batch of crops cultivated by Leonardo da Vinci are being ripened using magic. Even if the power of magic is used, it will still take some time to harvest.
After accepting nearly a hundred refugees, Higashino Village was experiencing a shortage of food supplies. Omotouta's Noble Phantasm solved the village's urgent need.
Endless rice overflowed from the Noble Phantasm Rice Bag and soon piled up into a hill.
It's a pity that releasing the Noble Phantasm requires the consumption of Omoteta's magic power, and it cannot be reused in a short period of time before the Noble Phantasm is fully charged with magic power. Otherwise, as a local curser, Omoteta would have to travel around every village.
Even so, the rice Omotota produced at one time was enough for Higashinomura to eat for half a month.
Using the portal to send Tripitaka, Omo Touta and Bedivere to the desert, Lu Xiao prepared to rush to the place with the most magical power at the sixth singularity in advance - Atlas Academy.
With Fujimaru Ritsuka's sharp tongue, Lu Xiao believed that he could convince Ramses II to hand over the Holy Grail.
Originally, the Pharaoh had little interest in the Holy Grail. He only temporarily kept the Holy Grail to avoid endless competition from other forces.
The Lion King suddenly summoned the great witch Morgan. In order to deal with the threat of Morgan, Chaldea and the Mountain People planned to use the power of the Holy Grail to summon a powerful heroic spirit as reinforcement.
When Fujimaru and others established contact with Chaldea before, they only used the magic nodes outside Atlas Academy.
This time, Lu Xiao plans to directly extract the core magic power of the earth veins in the Atlas Academy, and use the connections of the earth veins to summon powerful heroic spirits who are destined to the local area.
'Perhaps a powerful pharaoh will be summoned again? Or a demigod hero from ancient Persia?'
…
Atlas Academy's tight defense is very difficult for ordinary magicians, but it is of no use against heroic spirits whose strength far exceeds the limits of human beings.
Along the way, Lu Xiao dismantled many of Atlas Academy's magic traps and destroyed a large number of alchemists' artificial puppets, easily breaking through Atlas Academy's seemingly tight defense.
There is no sense of life in the Atlas Courtyard, and there are no magicians except for a large group of artificial puppets.
When he arrived at the core area of Atlas Court, what appeared in front of Lu Xiao were three obelisks of different heights.
A virtual simulation of the blue sky appears above the towering obelisk by magic. The obelisk is surrounded by a large number of layered rectangular structures.
These three obelisks are one of the most important pieces of equipment in the Atlas Academy, and resemble the spirit calculator "Three-Pointed Hermes".
At the beginning of Chaldea's establishment, the Atlas Academy provided technical support, and the tricusp Hermes was the prototype of Chaldea's calculation device Trismegistes.
Tri-Pointed Hermes internally records a large amount of information from all eras of the earth. According to the theoretical design of this set of spirit calculators, any questions input to it can be answered through internal database retrieval.
In order to prevent outsiders from abusing the wisdom and knowledge of the Atlas Institute, the information stored in the Tricusp Hermes is locked at different levels, and you must have the corresponding permissions to unlock the corresponding information.
If it were a purely electronic device, Aletheia could crack it effortlessly.
However, the three-pointed Hermes was a magical product created by alchemy by the ancient alchemists of the Atlas Academy. Aletheia did not know much about magic and could not crack the authority system of the three-pointed Hermes.
Consus, who has been studying the rules of the Moon World, has seen some clues. The confidentiality agreement of Tricusp Hermes adopts a half-technology and half-magic method.
As long as they can crack the magic part, Aletheia and Consus can freely enter the spirit calculator to search for information.
However, it is easy to say but not so easy to do.
Even Consus, who worked hard to learn the rules of magic, was unable to crack the magic encryption structure of the spirit calculator in a short time. The time required would be at least years. This singularity obviously cannot exist for such a long time.
"Um?"
When Lu Xiao was at a loss what to do, the eagle eye vision that had been turned on suddenly captured a strange moving object.
The other party didn't seem to intend to cover up his whereabouts, and followed the dispelled magic trap of Atlas Academy all the way to the core.
Temporarily taking back Consus and Aletheia, Lu Xiao turned on the aura blocker to hide, silently waiting for the unknown intruder to appear.
"Da~"
When the unknown person who could not sense the signs of life stepped into the hall where the three-pointed Hermes was, Lu Xiao flashed out like a cheetah and reached out to grab the other person's right hand that was holding the staff of civilization.
‘Civilization stick? Modern heroic spirit?’
Before Lu Xiao could think about it, the hand he grabbed was twisting around like a boneless loach, trying to escape from his grasp.
"Don't move!"
"Boom!"
His free left hand slashed at the opponent's lower left arm as he tried to counterattack, and Lu Xiao's left foot also kicked the opponent's legs.
This person seemed to have eyes on his back, and his long and flexible legs were kicking with Lu Xiao.
'Lack of strength, but very good agility and skills. He doesn't look like a front-line hero who is used to fighting. Could this person be...'
Now that he had found out the details of the opponent, Lu Xiao used a rare skill to suppress the opponent with force. He pressed him half-kneeling to the ground, and his hands were locked behind Lu Xiao's back.
"It hurts, it hurts!"
"Mr. Heroic Spirit, I don't mean any harm. Can you let me go first?"
After the small-scale fierce fight stopped, Lu Xiao had time to look at the appearance of this heroic spirit.
An open khaki coat is worn as the outermost layer of the body. A jacket and a white shirt of the same color can be vaguely seen inside. On his legs, he wears a pair of slim pants that are convenient for movement.
With his navy blue hair styled in a meticulously styled back and a pair of snow-white gloves on his hands, he exuded the aura of a British gentleman.
Lu Xiao turned around and looked at the civilization staff that fell aside, narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who are you? Why did you sneak into the Atlas Courtyard behind me?"
"Sherlock Holmes."
The captured man still acted very calmly. He smiled and introduced himself: "I think I am quite famous. Sir, you should have heard of this name, right?"
'It's really you.'
“Conan Doyle’s Great Detective?”
Feeling no malice from Holmes, Lu Xiao released the restrictions on him and allowed him to stand up from the ground while rubbing his wrists.
After picking up the stick of civilization that had fallen to the ground, Holmes took out a pipe from his pocket and lit it.
"Huh~"
Exhaling a puff of smoke comfortably, Holmes bowed to Lu Xiao with standard gentleman etiquette.
"Thank you for your trust in the name Sherlock Holmes. Please believe me, I will not let my name be shamed."