People are forbidden by magic, just become mercenaries

"Bishop Lola, don't you think this is a great opportunity to weaken the Roman Orthodox Church?"

"Master Nicholas, I understand your thoughts, but I don't think now is the right time to act. Rather, if we plan to 'take advantage of the fire', we might be judged as 'disturbing the stability' instead, right? "

"Don't worry, we don't want to send out magicians to launch an attack or something. We just need to say 'accepting our asylum will be safer, the Roman Orthodox Church is full of careerists, and it will burn us sooner or later'."

"Well, interesting suggestion. But Bishop Nicholas, if you are willing to listen to my advice, then please don't make such an attempt. That mercenary is not an idiot, and such an easy-to-understand reason cannot be hidden from him."

"That's right. That's really a pity..."

At the communication terminal, Nikolai Tolstoy, looking at the book in front of him, whispered like a beast with a ferocious expression.

"You pretentious bitch, relying on Britain's good relationship with that mercenary, you just say such sarcastic remarks..."

Watching his subordinates send back the report of the detection of violent magic power fluctuations, Nikolai Tolstoy directly ignored the reply of "ignoring" the instructions.

"This is not going to work. Although there is no problem in the short term, as time goes by, the overall situation on the magic side will irreversibly fall in the direction of the British Puritan..."

Nikolai Tolstoy looked at Russia in the middle of the night. As the current actual leader of the Russian adult religion, he felt an inexplicable sense of responsibility in his heart.

"Yes... definitely can't go on like this!"

Chapter 470: Private swimming pool, the eve of chaos

"You guys are really good at hiding?"

"Some time ago there was a lot of trouble, first in Scotland, then in Venice..."

He casually picked up the fruit tea at hand and drank it. It was rare that this mercenary didn't choose coffee as a summer drink. Maybe it's because coffee really doesn't go well with things like "sunbathing in the swimming pool", right?

This is the third school district. There are many external facilities, and there are also several international exhibition halls. Generally speaking, Academy City will choose to borrow various new equipment exhibitions every year, or art exhibitions led by some colleges. Here's where the venue is used.

Moreover, as the reputation of Academy City in the general world has become more and more famous in recent years, many so-called "artists" for the sake of gimmicks also tried their best to hold their own exhibitions here.

For this reason alone, Academy City can generate several hundred million extra "extra money" every year.

At the same time, the level of hotels that can support the deployment of "foreign exhibitions and sales" is not only in Academy City, but also in the whole of Japan.

At the same time, most of the security guards in the third school district are elite guards with outstanding achievements. In order to prevent the noise from the airport from affecting the accommodation facilities, Academy City specially arranges the external welcome facilities in the No.20 third school district, which is far away from the airport. Very far away from the [-]rd school district.

As the gateway to the outside world, No. 20 No. [-] School District has a direct railway to the No. [-] School District, and the secrecy is classified as a level A or above secret, in order to make it safer for some important people to come to Academy City.

"Scotland and Venice, it seems that you guys go to places with good attractions. Be honest, did you take that maid lady to travel with public funds~"

"Sylvia has been in Academy City for a while, and I heard that a few days ago, she went to give additional training to the students of the Luan Ran Home Economics Women's Academy. It seems that those maids are planning to participate in the 'Balloon Hunter' competition at the Daha Star Festival this year, so I invite Sylvia to help them They are specially trained."

"Then you just went to eat and drink with the public money?"

"They all have good attractions, but the definition of so-called 'attractions' has become increasingly blurred in modern times. Even a milk tea shop can be labeled as a 'famous' and become a check-in attraction."

"But Scotland and Venice are indeed very good tourist destinations, aren't they? By the way, what are you doing there? I remember that there are no cooperative agencies under Academy City in those two places, right?"

Wearing a two-piece swimsuit, Mugino Shenli was lying on the beach chair next to Sigurd with sunglasses.

This private swimming pool is the place where Maiye Shenli rented the right to use it for three years in one go. The cleaning work here has come to an end a while ago, so in the hot summer and the Dabaxing Festival is being held and it is full of people everywhere, "props ( item)" the four of them even brought Sigurd here to escape.

As a member of the Anbu organization of Academy City, the main task of the four "props" is to prevent the failure of high-level officials, including the governing council.

At the same time, it is also to balance the mission of another dark organization "school" that supports "superpowers (level.5)".

Although it is said to be an official organization established by the government, the nature of the "props" can be regarded as close to half a mercenary squad.

When he is not working, "Props" will occasionally receive orders such as "assassination" from his superiors, and use this to earn extra money.

"It's very complicated to explain. You can roughly understand that there are people with abilities that are completely different from Academy City making trouble."

"'Original Stone'? Did you say that someone finally broke Academy City's monopoly on superpowers?"

Sigurd shook his head, breaking Academy City's monopoly on superpowers, under normal circumstances, the outside world may not be able to do it in the next century.

After all, several plans for the research on superpowers during the Cold War have all gone bankrupt now. Except for the "magic side" countries that are not interested in "powers", they are still staring at the "powers" in Academy City. There is only one America left.

Watching Kinuhata's favorite swimming back and forth in the pool, Flander, who was wearing a rather large swimsuit, was fighting with her own ice cream on the other table, and Takitsubo Riku, who was wearing a life jacket and floating motionless on the water. , Sigurd put on the sunglasses and fell on the beach chair.

"How is this possible? Being ahead of the outside world by two, 30 years is just for other people to hear. In fact, when we delve into technology and craftsmanship, it is too conservative to say that it is a century ahead in some fields. Those who want to follow closely behind and master superpowers develop Isn’t that the end of the Academy City?”

"That's the 'rough stone'? If that's the case, it makes sense, right? You're going to recover those running around mice? Places appear at the same time?"

"So it's complicated to explain clearly."

Touching the small table at hand, Sigurd seemed to want to get the ice cream that the waiter had just delivered.

But after touching it for a long time, he didn't touch the glass containing Bellic at all.

"You're a little too laid back, aren't you?"

"Sylvia?"

The ever-changing maid outfit and apron are still so conspicuous. Seeing the maid holding a large portion of luxurious parfait with one hand, Sigurd took off his sunglasses with some doubts.

"The break is over, it's time to get back to work."

"Oh, it's time to work, Sigurd sama~"

"Don't be weird here, even if I have a job, you won't be able to do well."

"Indeed, because the person who issued this mission is the general director of Academy City himself."

"?"

Mugino Shirley looked at Sigurd, and Sigurd looked at Mugino Shirley.

Including the mission issued by the chairman himself, this kind of thing can be said to be rare in a hundred years.

If it is necessary to dispatch a "Kihara" and an Anbu team with "superpowers" at the same time, then the problem may not be easy to solve.

"What kind of job is Chao? If Chao needs Brother Sigurd to move with us, things will probably be very bad, right?"

Kinuhata, who heard the conversation, swam over immediately, bringing along Takitsubo Riku, who was still floating on the water.

"I don't know, but the Hanged Man said that someone took advantage of the crowds of the 'Daha Star Festival' to sneak into Academy City, and didn't say how many people there were, but..."

From Silvia's eyes, Sigurd already fully understood what kind of guys the so-called "infiltrators" were.

"Is it true that you don't have a clean day?"

Chapter 470: Internal Sacrifice

This is the seventh school district, and even the central area of ​​the entire Academy City.

There are all kinds of commercial buildings around, but the colors of the signboards and lighting tend to be uniform, and you will feel tired after looking at it for a long time.

Although it feels like a "characteristic building for emphasis", it is actually a means for Aleister Crowley to perfectly control the flow of people through the position and height of the building.

The exterior of the entire "windowless building" is white, with a height of 100 meters. The upper edge slopes inward to form a prism-shaped top. As the name suggests, there are no entrances and exits such as doors and windows at all, and even vents cannot be found.

Therefore, in order to truly enter it, the only way is through some power that can ignore the law of the third dimension.

(It's almost time to come...)

The moment the "human" named Aleister thought this way, as if they were in harmony, three figures suddenly appeared in front of the cylinder.

One is a girl with spatial mobility who is petite but has a good figure.

The other two were a tall girl who was sent in by the girl, and a boy in a researcher's white coat.

The two were holding hands, and the girl with long brown hair was holding the hand of the girl in the winter coat of Mirigaoka Women's Academy.

After arriving here, the three people let go of each other.

The girl with spatial mobility didn't say a word, just nodded slightly in greeting, and then disappeared into the space again.

In the darkness, only Aleister, who was floating in the tank, and Shiguri Mugino and Sigurd who had just arrived in this space were left.

Since there are no windows, the room is permanently in darkness.

But from a distance, on the mechanical device surrounding the cylinder, there are a large number of signal lights and screens, shining like tight stars in the night sky.

The cylinder has a diameter of four meters and a total length of more than ten meters. It is made of strengthened glass, and it is filled with red liquid.

The walls of the spacious room are full of mechanical devices, and hundreds of thousands of cables and pipes extend out, connect to the central cylinder along the ground.

In the cylinder filled with red liquid, there was a person wearing a green surgical suit, suspended head to foot.

The governing chairman of Academy City was once a member of the "Golden Dawn", a "human being" who actually developed and popularized modern magic theory.

Aleister Crowley

"I said what the hell are you doing again, the security is too lax?"

"It doesn't matter, I know exactly where the intruder is."

"It doesn't even mean the same thing. Now is the period of the Daiba Star Festival. Shouldn't it be the time when Academy City's security is almost tight all year round? How did those guys get in here?"

Facing Sigurd's questioning, Aleister did not make any substantive response.

The eyes of the "human" floating in the tank were closed, and it looked like he was asleep at first glance.

Sigurd's tone and words at this time were extremely rude, and even Mugino Shitoshi, who usually made jokes about Sigurd, shrank his neck and did not dare to intervene.

Anyone who is familiar with Sigurd can understand that Sigurd is in a bad mood at this time.

Now is the Daihasei Festival, a gathering where Academy City presents its achievements to the world.

It is a performance venue that gathers hundreds of colleges and universities in the entire Academy City and millions of capable people.

During the Daiha Star Festival, the Academy City gathered tourists from all over the world. If there is a terrorist attack at this time, the problem will inevitably expand into an international problem.

At that time, the balance of the world will definitely be impacted, and if a solution is not only very likely to cause further chaos.

Facing Sigurd who was here, Aleister continued to speak in an unhurried tone.

"When the countermeasures began to gather in Tokyo, we had already locked Liu Fang's whereabouts, but the reason why I didn't take action was because this was an excellent opportunity."

"Are you trying to piss me off on purpose or what?"

Sigurd brutally slapped a document on the cylindrical glass jar.

It was a report document, which recorded the characteristics of the operators found so far.

But from the method of recording with parchment and pen, it can be understood that this document was not written by intelligence personnel on the scientific side.

"You should understand how troublesome those guys are?"

"I think with Sigurd-kun's strength, even if those guys multiply their strength by ten times, they can't compare with you."