He was imprisoned in Nibelungen for a thousand years, only to find out upon his release that he was

"Indeed! I observe all the magicians' organizations in the world: the Clock Tower is rotten and riddled with internal strife! The Atlas Institute is complacent and a mere gatekeeper! The Wandering Sea is inactive and a mere shell! Today, the only contender for supremacy in the world is my great United States!"

"Make America Great Again!"

The video ends.

Beryl chuckled and tossed the surveillance tapes back into the drawer.

boring.

This speech was arranged by someone he had hired beforehand.

Ha, these old men from America are no match for Lord Maris Billy. They're just a bunch of nouveau riche who don't understand the true terror of the mystical world.

"I hope you'll still be able to laugh when things officially start."

Beryl put his hands in his pockets, wandered around the dimly lit room, and calculated the estimated start time.

It's still early.

Pity......

After all, he had just uploaded the spell data for the outer shell projection. Even if Chaldea's functions were powerful, it would still need a long time of continuous adjustment and improvement. Finally, after multiple rounds of testing, it officially simulated the lights of human civilization 100 years from now.

This is similar to a large-scale role-playing game, requiring a massive amount of data and computing power, as well as continuous iteration and updates over a long period of time. Moreover, running this thing on Chaldea is extremely energy-intensive.

Fortunately, the school board members were clueless novices in the magic world, naive and rich, and easily fooled.

As for whether it will succeed, is it just boasting that the researcher Amresh from Perry Computers claimed to be "capable of operating an entire virtual world"?

Beryl shook his head inwardly.

He had always believed that Marisbury's statement was correct. Since the former monarch had ordered him to seize that technology, it proved the development potential of this shell projection, which might really be able to complete the final piece of the Chaldea puzzle.

This wasn't because Beryl trusted Maris Billy's character, but because he felt it was a message left before his death, impossible to fake. Furthermore, a magician would absolutely value his family's heirlooms and wouldn't leave behind misleading information.

"You seem to be in a good mood, Beryl."

A tall man with long golden hair walked in from outside. In the dim light, the shimmering golden light, the snow-white Western-style uniform, and the peculiar cane inlaid with magic orbs made him look like an aristocratic, blond young nobleman.

"Hey, it's the guild leader!"

The person who entered was the student council president, Kirstalia Wodem, the most prestigious and renowned genius among the students of Kassel College.

Beryl immediately raised her hand in greeting, feigning a sigh of relief, "I just got back from over there and happened to see some very strange accident happening on the British Isles, it scared me to death!"

"Luckily, I slipped back fast enough. If I had run back later, I would have had to worry about what terrible situation I might have run into! As soon as I got back, I put together the 'last piece of the puzzle' for Chaldea. I've been so busy worrying about this plan that will take many years to complete!"

Since Kirshtalia, as Marisbury's top disciple, was aware of Marisbury's plan just like Beryl, Beryl used "the last piece of the puzzle" as a euphemism, and Kirshtalia obviously understood what it referred to.

"I see......"

Kirshtalia slowly stepped inside, approaching the celestial sphere device.

"Oh, about the incident on the British Isles...?"

“Ophelia mentioned it to me when she first came back. Judging from her expression, it seems like she made some amazing discovery. She even tried to probe me about the details of the plan. No wonder she was a top student in the Spirit Conjuring Department.”

Kirshtalia leaned on her cane, looking back at Beryl. "But is your 'Odin sighting report' true?"

"..."

Beryl scratched his cheek. "Oh dear, it's a little embarrassing to talk about this. Miss Ophelia was doing a good job with her spell probing when suddenly the figure of the Great God appeared!"

"I can't tell if it's true or false, but ordinary illusions and tricks can't fool people like us."

"That scene reminded me of... it was like... yes, like the 'Odin incident' mentioned in that Snowfield City report!"

"Although it seems unbelievable, the divine fluctuations and power are indeed real."

"From Xueyuan City..."

Kirshtalia murmured, "I investigated there and even used some methods to obtain secret communications records from the school board."

"It seems reasonable to conclude that the direct cause of the 'Odin Incident' in Snowfield City was the misuse of America's special department's investigative techniques—"

"No, it shouldn't be called a misuse. It was due to insufficient consideration of the spiritual veins and environment at the time. The exploration technique was severely interfered with by an environment similar to the battlefield of the Age of Gods."

"This caused the procedure to get out of control, and some real-life scenes were accidentally revealed through those images."

"This must be the origin of the 'Odin incident'."

The procedure went out of control...

Beryl's face darkened as he pondered the scene where Ophelia used a spirit summoning spell, which in turn allowed him to glimpse many scenes.

Could it be... that the scenario they both encountered was similar? Did the great god Odin really appear in Britain?

And what if that place becomes a battlefield of the Age of Gods...?

The Clock Tower, no, all of Britain, will be plunged into chaos and destruction!

But why did Odin, who should have appeared in the snowy city, end up in Britain? Is it really related to Lord Marisbury's execution by the Clock Tower?

Did Lord Maris Billy hide another plan from him? Did he tell others something as well?

Thinking of Kirshtalia, who inherited the mantle as the eldest disciple, and Ophelia, who came from a Nordic family and had a sharp personality... Beryl suddenly felt a chill.

"Beryl".

"Ok?"

Beryl looked up and saw Kirstalia carefully examining the celestial sphere.

"Are you sure... this is a celestial sphere that hasn't been fully developed yet?"

"Yes!"

Beryl adjusted his glasses; he had just put the puzzle piece in.

Chaldea will inevitably need many years to slowly accumulate data and refine it until it can predict the lights of human civilization 100 years from now.

This is beyond doubt.

As Maris Billy instructed him, this was a somewhat agonizing process.

In order to keep the school board members in line and continue to invest money, Beryl had to find ways to keep them in check during this period.

Thinking about all this, Beryl became a little worried.

"Huh? In my opinion, I'm afraid not."

Kirshtalia frowned, watching the Chaldea system operate smoothly, occasionally emitting fluctuations, and even flashing red light, which probably corresponded to America's position.

All of this is completely different from the bleak appearance of the previously imperfect celestial sphere.

"This is clearly Chaldea, who has already committed himself!"

"Based on my simple adjustments, the smoothness of Tianqiu's operation is a level that would take at least several years of normal operation to achieve."

"The efficiency in calculating the spatiotemporal location of singularities is quite high, which indicates that Chaldea has already accumulated observational data on multiple singularities!"

After Kirshtalia finished speaking, he secretly sized up Beryl.

He had heard of this man's infamous reputation at the Clock Tower, and after careful observation, he made his judgment:

Beryl is adept at self-deception; he can even perform tasks he dislikes with genuine sincerity. No wonder the teacher bypassed him and chose him to do shady things.

Kirshtalia was also aware of her teacher's ideals. In order to fulfill the mission of protecting humanity, he would inevitably make urgent arrangements for everything before his execution and spare no effort to achieve his goal.

For example, they used various empty promises to negotiate and induce the board members to fund the operation of Chaldea. As far as he knew, Beryl was in charge of this matter from the very beginning.

So, teacher, is it possible that you assigned Beryl other tasks, asking him to find ways to speed up Chaldea's progress?

After all, many major decisions regarding Kassel College are made by the Board of Trustees, and there are too many variables over several years. Waiting it out is indeed unstable, and probably unacceptable for the teachers.

Kirshtalia had a guess in his mind.

Given such a significant change in the celestial sphere, and considering that Beryl just uploaded something...

That must be what Beryl gained from this trip.

By the way, both Beryl and Ophelia specifically mentioned Odin.

Odin...

Could this rapid change and anomaly be related to Odin?

The teacher was executed because of Odin. Were the charges mentioned by the Clock Tower in this matter correct?

The secret instructions given by the teacher, the content of his private conversation with Beryl before his death, are related to Odin?

"what?!"

When asked, Beryl exclaimed in surprise.

He acted as if he knew nothing about the changes in Chaldea.

...because Beryl truly didn't know.

He looked at the "completely renovated" Jiaqiu with a strange expression.

It was working fine when I uploaded the external projector.

It's only been a few minutes, how did it suddenly change?

Who can figure this out?!

Before Beryl could recover from his shock, Kirshtalia had already turned to look at him:

"Beryl, during this period, you were the only one accessing and uploading updated data, right?"

Kirshtalia said.

Meanwhile, he silently pondered, 'Why did Beryl choose to pretend he didn't know? Was it because it involved Odin and anomalies in the celestial sphere, so he and his teacher concealed it together?'

'No, my teacher clearly told me the plan. Any further concealment on the celestial sphere would be pointless. These technical issues simply cannot be hidden from me, who inherited the celestial magic of the Animusphia family.'

'...So, it's something outside this scope...Odin?'

'This time, Odin has appeared in Britain, the entire island is sealed off, and its interior appears to have transformed into a battlefield from the Age of Gods... Is this related to the teacher's plan?'

"Beryl, could I ask you to investigate the cause?"

"After all, this matter involves our plans, so we can't be careless."

Kirshtalia probed the issue with a voice.

If Beryl chooses to actually investigate the British Odin incident, it means his suspicions are basically correct, almost certainly true.

"Ah, this..."

Beryl had no choice but to accept Kirshtalia's reasonable request, since it was his responsibility and he would have to deal with any problems that arose.

Beryl had no choice but to suppress his frustration and agree.

"Alright, alright, Boss, what you said makes a lot of sense."

But... is this really such a coincidence?

Beryl knew exactly what was going on. He uploaded the spell data and then looked at the saved virtual images for a while. During this process, the celestial sphere Chaldea did not experience any abnormalities.

However, it was precisely at the moment Kirshtalia entered the room.

Beryl's attention was diverted, and the two greeted each other and exchanged a few words.

As a result... Kirshtalia "coincidentally" discovered the anomaly of the celestial sphere!

In this case, Kirshtalia is probably more suspicious than I am!

Come to think of it, when I was in the Clock Tower, I was a murderer in name only, a member of the Botany family.

Kirshtalia is the real expert when it comes to celestial magic.

Chaldea is the supreme family ceremonial attire and heirloom of the Celestial Sciences.

If Kirshtalia had secretly tampered with the celestial sphere while I was away, and then passed the blame onto me, I might not even understand it or discover it in time!

Thus, when Kirshtalia began to doubt his teacher and Beryl—

Beryl also began to suspect in his heart that Kirshtalia and Marisbury, the master and apprentice, might be hiding something.

In the dimly lit room, the atmosphere seemed to drop to freezing point.

Beryl thought unhappily, "These two, master and apprentice, are both from the Department of Astrophysics. It's normal for them to have some things that are not for outsiders to know."

But Beryl himself didn't understand astronomy.

The clues he currently possesses seem to connect.