People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

Ahad sat quietly in the castle hall. Behind him was a huge oil painting, which vividly depicted a woman with red eyes and white hair, like a snow elf. It was a portrait of the family's first saint, Justisa.

After a while, the tranquility of the hall was broken. A mannequin dressed as a maid appeared in front of him, "Report to the clan leader, someone from the East Union Association is visiting."

Ahad slowly raised his head, looked at the android, and did not reply for a moment.

The android was stunned for a moment, then said: "The other party... directly bypassed the barrier. The technique is unknown. We were completely unaware of it. By the time the other party showed up, they were already at the door. We couldn't find a targeted plan... I'm very sorry!"

The android lowered his head when he said this.

"Got it," Ahad replied in an old tone, "You, go inform Sera and Lijelite to stop teaching Illyasviel today."

Surprised that he had not been punished in any way, the android said in surprise, "Yes!"

Ahad did not watch the android leave. His attention turned to the main door, which was opened and two people walked in, one in front and one behind.

The man in front was the first to greet him: "Hello, the head of Einzbern, nice to meet you. I am the Legal Affairs Commissioner of the East Union Association, Hishiri Kanano."

The person at the back simply introduced himself: "Attendant, Bazette Fraga Makremis."

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the other side.

Illya, wearing a purple dress, walked in the corridor of the ancient castle, like an innocent spirit of nature. She hummed an unknown local ballad and said to Sera beside her:

"Sera, there are really no classes scheduled for today? Really? Really?"

"Yes, Miss, the master has cancelled the class schedule." Sera seemed to sigh. She knew why Illya was so excited today.

By the way, unlike the parallel world of Mo Yi, in the hometown of Einzbern, Sera wore a pure old-fashioned conservative maid outfit, with even her hair completely wrapped up.

"Wow! So I don't have to take useless etiquette lessons, right?" Illya suddenly raised the volume of her voice, her mood was self-evident, "I don't have to take troublesome magic lessons, right?"

"Uh... yes, my eldest."

"Great!"

Illya cheered and ran away, while Sera wasn't paying attention.

"——Miss, the master said that we are not allowed to go to the living room because there are guests there..."

Before Sera could stop her, Illya quickly turned a corner and disappeared. Sera's advice turned into the vague sound of wind in her ears.

Illya and Sera are equally familiar with the castle, but Sera and Lijelite are just failures compared to Illya. Lijelite has fighting ability but weak emotions, and although Sera has obvious emotions and is responsible for teaching Illya knowledge, her fighting level is not as good as Lijelite.

Illya easily left the maid Sera behind. She seemed to have ignored Sera's advice and ran towards the hall. However, the hall was not her destination. Illya just wanted to run to the courtyard outside.

However, as they approached, Illya finally heard faint voices.

"The clan leader is in the hall? Strange... there's another woman's voice...?"

As a castle controlled by an artificial intelligence center and full of androids, it is usually quite quiet. In fact, except for Sera and Lijelite who can talk to Illya, other maids are basically not allowed to talk without permission. Therefore, the daily tone of the entire snow castle is silence.

Thanks to this, Illya also discovered the unusualness of the hall. She slowed down her pace, quietly stuck her head out from the railing on the second floor and looked down.

On one side was the clan leader grandpa whom she was quite familiar with, and on the other side was... a stranger!

It was rare that there were visitors in this castle. This was a very strange scene. Illya showed an interested expression. She saw two women. One was a black-haired woman in a kimono and wearing a pair of glasses. She seemed to be saying something. The female voice came from her. The other was a woman in a suit with rose-red hair.

Just as Illya was looking at her, the rose-red-haired woman suddenly frowned and looked up.

Chapter 262: Old man, it’s time to get gold coins!

"..."

Just as Hanano Hishiri was negotiating with Ahad, Bazette suddenly stared upstairs.

"what happened?"

Kanono Hishiri stopped talking and looked upstairs. There was no trace of Illya there, and there was nothing there except ordinary railings.

Ahad seemed to know something. "Oh, everyone, that's the child of my Ainzbern family. In all corners of this castle, there will be no suspicious people except the guests."

"Haha, that's true," Kanono Hishiri heard the hidden meaning in this sentence. After all, if they were originally "suspicious persons", but Einzbern couldn't do anything to them, so they could only be "guests".

"Master Ahad," Kanono Hishiri adjusted his glasses, "let's continue with our discussion - what do you think of the Holy Grail War ritual transformation plan proposed by our association?"

"..." Ahad was silent for a while. Logically, all he cared about was winning and getting the Third Method. Any modification to the Holy Grail ritual would be risky, and he should refuse.

However, strength has created the apparent situation, and Ahad has no choice but to refuse directly for the sake of preserving and running his family.

He didn't know that the East Union Association already had servant-level and even god-level standing forces. The "god-level fluctuations" caused by the London incident were a short-lived phenomenon and were quickly forgotten by people. Ahad didn't pay much attention to the war between magicians in the secular world involved in the Wave Plan. Anyway, it had nothing to do with their family.

It can only be said that they have been isolated from the outside world for too long. Even the Clock Tower has begun to use the Void system extensively, and the combat power alone cannot be compared with the past level. However, Einzbern still sticks to its old ways.

Therefore, Ahad thought that as long as the Holy Grail War started as usual, he could use his familiarity with the Holy Grail system to summon a powerful Servant (Hercules) first and at least gain an advantage.

So he decided to respond first: "...The plan you mentioned involves a lot of system modifications. Before I see the complete information, I can't judge its feasibility for the time being, but the problem is time... It's less than a year away from the Holy Grail War, and the adjustments to the Lesser Holy Grail (Illya) have been perfected. No matter what kind of modification it is, I'm afraid it's too late."

Ahad specifically emphasized the 'Little Holy Grail'; Illya's existence was his special bargaining chip.

"You seem to have misunderstood something," Kanono Hishiri's expression remained unchanged. "The time issue you mentioned is not a problem at all. The idle computing resources we have are beyond your imagination. You probably don't know how much cooperation we have with the alchemists of the Atlas Academy? To be honest, our president only needs to give the order, and naturally many alchemists will take up the commission and analyze the Greater Holy Grail formula."

"——In fact, you must know that we, formed by the union of two of the three great families, already possess a large amount of Holy Grail data. The only bargaining chip you have is the Small Holy Grail device. We can also imitate the Holy Grail container based on Justissa, the center of the Greater Holy Grail. What you probably don't know is that we don't actually need 'your child' or a manual imitation container, because we have more than one Holy Grail——"

"!" As a being infused with humanity, Ahad was inevitably shocked, and even more unbelievable. Was what Kanono Hishiri said true? No, that's not right. Atlas Institute had no dealings with his family, and he had never paid attention to the movements of those people. But what about the obviously outrageous statement of "there is more than one Holy Grail"?

Ahad certainly could not be convinced by this statement. "Sir, your statement is not supported by any actual evidence. Besides, the Holy Grail is synonymous with miracles. How could it be so prevalent..."

"Haha, you don't have to say more. In fact, this is indeed unconfirmed. After all, it is impossible for us to put the Holy Grail in front of you openly." Hua Ye Hishiri had already prepared the next move. "However, we have actually carried out a certain degree of transformation work based on the Holy Grail ceremony, and have achieved new results--"

Then, at the signal from Kanono Hishiri, Bazette stood up.

As Ahad looked on in confusion, she pulled a card from her pocket.

"'Lancer', limited expansion!"

Then, a red magic gun appeared in Bazett's hand.

An unknown magical reaction appeared in the hall, immediately attracting the attention of the castle's alarm system.

"Swoosh!" Lijelite, who was in charge of security, appeared in the hall with a spear in hand. "There is an unknown magical reaction... Chief?"

Lijelite realized later that the situation was not that of a tit-for-tat, but Ahad didn't care about Lijelite anymore, he stared at the magic gun closely.

"The original Noble Phantasm stored in the tool? ... No, it's the Servant's reaction formed by magic power...?"

After confirming the nature of this, Ahad was a little confused for a moment. He had never seen the power of the Servant descended in this form. What new form would the Holy Grail War take? A war in which the power of the Servant was controlled by humans?

"…I still don't believe your words about 'having multiple Holy Grails', but I agree to the transformation work."

After some consideration, Ahad agreed to the plan.

According to the requirements, Ahad will bring the original body, Eubusta Kuhaid, and all the androids, including Illya, to Fuyuki City to cooperate in completing the transformation of the Holy Grail system. However, Qin Xuan's corresponding condition is that Ahad can complete the third law, and he promises not to pursue the root. Qin Xuan has the heir of the first law, the second law device, the magician of the fifth law, and even a physical two-way ritual connected to the root, and a divine body, which does not count the parallel world.

So there is no need at all, it’s not like I have nothing to do.

In fact, Qin Xuan didn't care whether Ahad could achieve the third method. After cracking the Heroic Spirit Card, he had a new idea. After all, among the five methods, only the first and fifth methods were miracles that could only be achieved by reaching the root, and the second to fourth methods were just the paths opened up to reach the root.

That said, this isn't the only thing of this kind.

Even if it does not involve the areas of the second to fourth methods, similar effects can be achieved through other means.

However, the technology used by the original author to create the Heroic Spirit Cards is still unknown, and we can only infer that it is an unknown high-dimensional interference technology.

So Ahad did what he said and prepared to arrange for the androids to move.

However, Kanono Hishiri stopped him, "You don't have to go through so much trouble. If we want to move, we just need to move the entire castle, right?"

"???"

Chapter 263: Earth Vein Submarine (3000)

The spatial fluctuations, like ripples on the water surface, spread all around, but were ultimately confined to the area around the castle. The ripples extended from the edge to the top of the castle and the base below, forming a distant view with the texture of a water mirror. Then, the entire castle, together with the surrounding space, became a spherical glass mirror that refracted various colors of light, like a colorful giant bubble.

Then the "bubble" floated and faded away like an illusion, leaving behind a deep black pit with no white in its place. Then the next moment, the wind and snow began to spread gradually, blowing cold air towards the ruins of the ancient workshop. I believe that it will not be long before this place will return to a vast expanse of white snow, just like the false surface landscape of the castle obscured by the magic barrier at the beginning.

“…It’s an amazing skill.”

When seeing the entire castle being put into the mirror space device, Ahad was amazed, although his old face with wrinkles did not show much expression.

However, he finally understood the Clock Tower's feelings to some extent. It seems that the news about the Clock Tower being at a disadvantage compared to the East Union Association is true. This skill close to magic... doesn't seem to be the second method. Or is it the inheritance of the Age of Gods from that continent?

While Ahad was constantly guessing in his mind, Illya beside him was watching the scene with her eyes wide open, without blinking. Her expression was much more lively, but she didn't dare to shout. If the clan leader and Sera hadn't been nearby, she probably wouldn't have been able to maintain her ladylike demeanor.

The entire Winter City was built by the collaboration of only Kanono Hishiri and Bazette. Although this castle, which combines multiple functions such as alchemy workshops and living areas, is an ancient mysterious side site that existed before the Common Era, its structural complexity and connection with the earth veins are far inferior to Alexandria's underwater library.

Not to mention that the Alexandria Library is located on the seabed and is difficult to operate, and there is also a complex intelligence organization inside. In comparison, the most important part of the Winter City is the central artificial intelligence and the amniotic fluid workshop used to produce and cultivate artificial humans. As for the summoning of Hercules, Einzbern has not even started preparing. In order to cooperate with the relocation of the association, Ahad temporarily shut down the operation of the castle through the central center, and then other artificial humans suspended their activities. However, Illya and the two maids, Sera and Lijieli, were brought out by him and asked to follow him.

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"This is just a routine measure of the association. Of course, Ahad is in charge, and the technology is still kept secret from outsiders at this stage."

Kanono Hishiri expressed understanding for the old patriarch's behavior, but it is unknown what he was thinking in his heart.

She quietly waited for Bazette in the distance. After completing the storage work, Bazette closed the rectangular box he brought with him, then picked it up easily and returned the same way. No one could see the full picture of the mirror space device inside the big box.

"Everyone," Hanano Hishiri turned around, "it's time to set off."

She made a "please" gesture, and Bazett stood to her side.

"How do we get there?" Ahad asked. Since a specialist like Hanano Hishiri said so, she must have made arrangements and would not do anything that would lose face. Although Ahad seldom went out, he also knew that humans in the outside world could now take a means of transportation called "airplanes."

After all, the inner world of this world actually relies on the outer world for many daily expenses, and has no independent economic system, and the same is true for the transportation network. And the situation like the Magic Eye Collection Train, which only allows people with invitations to board, cannot be considered a regular means of transportation.

"Don't worry, just like before, you just need to wait patiently."

As he spoke, Kanono Hishiri looked at Bazette. Bazette took out a wind chime, and below the wind chime was a round pendant, on which were carved complex patterns consisting of the sun, multiple crescent moons, human figures, ouroboros, and rings.

This pattern is actually not mysterious. It is a bit similar to the Ouroboros cross logo of the Atlas Institute, but the styles are similar but the meanings are different. The logo of the Atlas Institute symbolizes the ideal of saving the world, while this logo represents more of the meaning of "the system itself that makes the world operate."

"Jingle Bell."

Apart from taking out the wind chime, Bazette did not make any extra movements, but the wind chime rang automatically, and then the surrounding environment changed miraculously.

Originally, the surroundings should be a vast expanse of white snow, and not far away there should be a forest of bare branches without a single leaf, and nothing else. But when the change happened, Einzbern suddenly saw the surrounding scene begin to "fade", from the snow-white earth to the distant mountain forest, all of them were like paint and mud stains splashed with water, forming a solute that gradually faded and sank, and then the black background kept expanding in front of his eyes, approaching his feet from an unknown distance, occupying his entire field of vision.

No... No, what's sinking is not the "paint" on the snow, but them?

By the time the old patriarch Ahad realized that the phase in which they were located had shifted, the surroundings had turned into a scene of a black night sky, except that there were no stars in the distant sky. Instead, there was a rushing stream of white light flowing past them from time to time, rustling. The Einzbern family seemed to hear the majestic sound of the river flowing, but it seemed to be just an illusion.

What they were standing on was not the void, but a broad floating board that was also glowing white. There were also faint invisible transparent partitions around it. This tool that carried them was like an underground boat traveling between huge energy flows.

"Sera, what are these?" Illya whispered to Sera beside her. She felt the familiarity of these "flows", which was similar to what she felt in the castle basement.

"These... should be the source of mana. As for this, could it be..." Sera had never seen a similar scene before. She just had a vague guess...

Ahad had a clearer understanding, "Miss Huaye, the surrounding scene here, is it the earth vein?" He thought, he should have thought of it earlier, the Qin family is particularly proficient in earth vein techniques, it makes sense to use it as a medium to create this kind of tool.

"As expected of Master Ahad, he was able to make the correct judgment so quickly," Kanono Hishiri positioned their target direction as the outskirts of Fuyuki City, and then said, "In fact, this type of tool is only used in large quantities in the area where the association's headquarters is located. People in other branches around the world are probably quite unfamiliar with this kind of 'ground vein boat' operation method. Although they themselves are also doing work related to ground veins (void system operation)."

"'Earth Vein Boat'? It's an appropriate name indeed," Ahad correctly guessed the basic form and continued to speculate on its general principle. "There is also an earth vein train called 'Magic Eye Collection Train' operating in the European continent. However, that should be a tool that 'travels on the top of the earth vein and uses the earth vein as a track', while your boat is a tool that dives deep into the earth vein. In principle, it is more like the 'Karleon Observatory' deep underground in the clock tower. The observatory is an observation device deep underground, looking into the distance and projecting its observational gaze to various places on the surface of the earth vein. By analogy, the 'Earth Vein Boat' replaces 'observation behavior' with 'navigation'. Is there anything I missed?"

"Haha, what you said is quite fresh," Hanano Hishiri did not reveal anything, she just remained noncommittal.

Bazette on the side glanced at this seemingly old-fashioned old man.

Strictly speaking, there was nothing wrong with Ahad's description, but it was at most a description of the 'mass production type', which was the principle of the earth vein boat they were riding on.

At the association's headquarters, a new advanced project is being promoted, which involves creating a "certain strategic vehicle". It has already been developed, but some of its functions are still being perfected. It is called the "Earth Vein Submarine".

Strictly speaking, the so-called deep earth veins of Ahad are still just the surface of the planet. For the world itself, it is not a change in depth. The real earth vein diving is to continuously jump the spatial phase and dive into the "neural network" of the planet through the earth veins to realize the real navigation inside the planet. The so-called Gaia is the soul of celestial operation, and Elquit is equivalent to the unfinished brain body, which is the container for Gaia's consciousness to float up. The earth vein network is the "nerve" that maintains the operation of the celestial body and extends from the "brain" to the "body". If you sail in the real deep earth veins, you can even jump to various dimensions of the planet at will and reach any position on the surface or inside.

The same principle applies to the results obtained by the old director next door from experiments in the celestial body room, which is to control the earth by controlling the earth veins.

In the following time, everyone in the earth vein boat did not communicate with each other. Except for Illya who was quietly watching the earth vein flow outside, thinking about whether she might never have to go to class again, the others did not show anything on the outside.

"Everyone, we're here," after an unknown amount of time, perhaps just a short while, Kanono Hishiri notified everyone.

At the same time, the surroundings of the boat began to change in the same way as when they came in. The phase of the surrounding environment began to change, and the mana flow that could clearly feel the amazing energy and was active underground gradually faded away and disappeared in the senses of several people. When everyone regained their normal vision, they saw the forest in the suburbs, which was full of emerald green trees.

"I'll go to the designated location to decorate their 'home'." After arriving, Bazette left the team directly and went ahead.

时间为差不多一个星期，从9月29号0点计算到10月6日中午12点整结束。

Specific requirements are as follows:

5000. cat coins, words plus