People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

The magician system in this world is very cruel.

To become a magician and pursue the path of magic, in addition to talent, a large amount of money and resources are needed. This undoubtedly locks the way out for grassroots magicians. Before the development of the East Union Association, their only choice was to work for various people for these resources.

Even if one is born into a relatively well-off magician family, if one intends to pursue the path of magic without being appointed as the legitimate son (the next generation head of the family), the situation will not be much better than the above one.

Based on this, Gavarosa set a policy for the family to recruit these magicians at any cost, no matter if they were losers in the original magic family competition, or those who were unable to study magic due to financial burden, or those who were driven out as heretics, or those who were taboo or wanted by the magic world... Gavarosa would entertain all of the above and sponsor their activities.

As for the results obtained by these magicians after receiving funding, Gavarosa did not care at all. As long as the magicians were unwilling, the Squartio family would probably not ask any more questions.

As a result, these magicians began to spare no effort to defend Squartio as their sponsor. Because if they lost Squartio's funding, then these magicians' future would be gone. On the contrary, the more powerful Squartio was, the more help they could get.

Although there were similar colleagues who were interested in magicians, they underestimated magic and their requirements were much more demanding than Squartio's. They were either hinted at or directly rejected.

Today, Squartio is in collusion with some government officials, and his power is enough to compete with state departments. In addition, Squartio also uses his own strength to attack the South American drug monopoly, and while providing cover for it, he has built a stable special drug channel with the help of South America.

These so-called drugs are not circulated on the market, but are processed in various special ways to become the catalysts necessary for magicians to perform magic, or the materials needed to make magic secret medicine. In addition, due to the special ecological environment of South America, some local specialty animal and plant materials that are not even found in the tombs are also in demand, so even the plant department of the clock tower has a demand for them.

In other words, Squartio had a stable channel for selling magic resources besides the Secret Corpse Dissection Bureau. Even the "City on the Hill" formed by the union of the native magic families in America had to make concessions to the demands of the Squartio family.

"--Squartio's business in South America was suppressed? So where's the intelligence?"

"It's written in the report that the enemy used an unknown magic. It looked like an evil spirit or curse, but no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't expel it..."

"There's no valuable information here. Maybe Squartio didn't give us all of it."

"It's intentional. On the surface, they are asking us, their partners, to send reinforcements. Maybe they want to take this opportunity to consume our strength."

The people in the meeting discussed nervously for a while, and then turned to the last topic:

"The losses reported by Faldius are too great. Even the exploratory operations were completely wiped out. It's really disappointing."

"I think we should raise the threat level of Academy City. Those reports mentioned an unknown number of men in steel armor, and firepower that is totally inconsistent with gun specifications. Is there really an unknown magus behind this...?"

"...No, according to the report, those devices did not react to magic, and the bullets fired did not show any magical effects."

"So - what's the harvest? Faldius claimed to have obtained the 'box' from the mercenaries of the Japanese government. Can that really advance the 'Holy Grail War' plan?"

"Prelati's statement may contain some hidden parts, but it should be roughly correct. Now that we have stolen a small Holy Grail container (artificial human), the conditions are almost met. Unfortunately, the only thing missing is the complete Holy Grail system—"

"No, everyone," the man who was sitting in the most senior seat in the middle and was suspected to be the leader denied, "Just before, I contacted the monarch of the Clock Tower, His Excellency Marisbili. After my negotiation, he was willing to provide the complete data of the Holy Grail War that he had previously asked someone to investigate. The price is to send a designated person to obtain the position of the Master."

"Oh? The one from the Astronomy Department—?"

"It turns out that he has complete information on the Holy Grail system. I don't know who completed the commission. A Master position is acceptable, but Faldius is a bit of an eyesore."

"Well, who knows what the box does? With these, we have gathered all the conditions before the Holy Grail War. If Faldius hasn't made anything out of the box before the adjustment of the ley lines in Snowfield City is completed, then we might as well rule him out in advance."

"..."

Amid a conspiracy discussion that was as noisy as that in the Clock Tower, the meeting ended and everyone dispersed, but the leading man remained here alone.

In addition, there are Wuzhiqi and Kiz who are bystanders.

The man paced in the room for two steps. On the third step, his figure suddenly changed into a tall red-haired man.

He took out a stack of information from his arms, "Ha, what's the name of the Astronomical Monarch? As for the information, I have it myself. After all, the person who accepted Marisbury's commission to investigate the Fuyuki Holy Grail War was me, Dr. Hatres."

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The screen is interrupted.

As if on purpose, Kitz canceled the magic at this moment. The scene of the cabin in the mountains and forests disappeared, and the surroundings turned back into a vast snowy field.

"How's it going? Are you interested?"

Kitz looked at Wuzhiqi with a smile.

"——Humph, what do you mean? The evil tricks of the mortal dignitaries? Or the last person? That guy's transformation technique is quite tricky. It's quite extraordinary that he can practice to this level in modern times."

"Oh, of course I'm talking about the Holy Grail, and the box - I bet this thing is the most interesting thing." Kitz seemed to have suddenly thought of something and changed his mind, "Hmm - why not let my disciple go on the long journey on my behalf when the time comes."

"In that case, I will leave."

Wuzhiqi did not give a direct response. His white body shrank in an instant and turned into an eagle. He flapped his wings lightly and soared into the high blue sky.

"Holy Grail War, maybe... I can try the hair I took from you before you escaped from the seal."

Chapter 372 This is the real (evil) god!

Yokosuka Naval Port.

Faldi and Prelati, who had seized the results from the Japanese government, were ready to return to the American mainland.

The moist sea breeze, which seemed to carry the azure blue color of the sea water, made Faldius, who was born in the interior of North America, somewhat uncomfortable.

"Hehe - I didn't expect you to hide so much from those people 'above'. It seems that they completely underestimated the danger of Academy City, didn't they?"

Prelati, who was standing next to him, spoke to him in an exaggerated tone that did not match her appearance as a young girl. She looked both crazy and tempting.

But Faldius knew very well that Prelati's charm was superficial. He had lured Gilles de Rais onto the evil path of becoming 'Bluebeard' hundreds of years ago - at that time, Prelati was still using a male body. According to the characteristics of a magician, after such a long time, this old man named 'Prelati' is estimated to have become a non-human existence.

Therefore, Faldius was unmoved by anything Prelati said. "Regarding Academy City's superpower research... we haven't obtained any substantial technical information. The 'superpower development course' seems to be a cover to deceive people. I have already looked through the materials from the Japanese government, and the progress there is even slower than a turtle... In this case, we might as well put it on hold. Now the preparations for the Holy Grail War are the most important thing. This investment is huge, and we can't let other projects take away the funds."

"Oh, then," Prelati held the box in his hand and tossed it twice. "What about this? I have roughly analyzed the properties of it. It will have a significant impact on the advancement of the Holy Grail War. But you, little brother Faldius, claimed to your superiors that 'we are still studying it, and the effect of the box is not clear yet'. This is not a simple question, it is a serious deception!"

Although she said this, Prelati's tone was not blaming at all, and could even be said to be enthusiastic. Perhaps she had no intention of reporting it at all, because she thought this development was very interesting.

"Hmph, if the 'higher-ups' knew what was in the box, I wouldn't be able to predict whether they would agree to the Holy Grail War." Faldius's face turned cold. "Didn't you analyze the nature of the box yourself? Oh, and about the land transformation, you said it could speed up the progress, right? How much do you think the box can advance the scheduled time of the Holy Grail War?"

The Snowfield City and its spiritual vein environment were specially selected by a group of American forces and have been adjusted by several generations. The goal is to make the environment of the Snowfield City closer to the earth vein environment of Fuyuki City and achieve one of the conditions for holding the Holy Grail War. As for the Greater Holy Grail system, the idea at the time was to put it aside for the time being and start construction when there is a clue -

But this is also where the drama begins.

Dr. Hatteras infiltrated the 'City on the Hill' through sophisticated transformation techniques, and brought with him 'Holy Grail system data that he claimed to have obtained through investigation', but judging from his secret disguise and infiltration, he may not necessarily provide pure original Holy Grail War data.

As for Prelati, he also had some additional ideas about the Holy Grail System because he had obtained the black box whose identity was unknown to the world.

"...Hehe, the Holy Grail War is brought forward? What you should be asking is, how long will it take for the Holy Grail War to start!" Prelati's words were very shocking to Faldius, because the estimated time for the land adjustment in Snowfield City was about ten years later, and this was based on the premise of obtaining data from the Fifth Holy Grail War. "——The answer is, three months later!"

At the docking station of the naval port, Prelati held up the box, oblivious to the people around her. Of course, with her level of illusion, she didn't need to worry about leaking secrets to others. "What do you think is inside this? It contains the real 'God'! Hehehe, from the perspective of magicians, God can be said to be a system higher than the Holy Grail!"

Faldius had listened to Prelati's analysis of the function of the box before, but he still had doubts about such a high-level being being sealed in it. "Are you sure that God will obediently serve the Holy Grail War? No, after all, how could such a being as God be placed in it? Although I heard that there are still things like divine bodies in Japan, they are only at the level of meat slices."

The official name of the divine body is the divine organ casting body. It is a fragment of God. But in the final analysis, the families that inherited the divine body in Japan only used it to perform some limited pseudo-God-era magic. If they really took it out, it would only cause severe wear and tear, thus reducing the divinity. Therefore, those inherited families also need the heirs of each generation to sign a contract and bear the cost of wear and tear.

"Oh my, this is the price you pay for your ignorance," Prelati said with a smile and contempt, "The real divine body is not a fragment or something like that. Let me tell you this, compared to the Clock Tower, the three older organizations (Atlas Academy, Wandering Sea, Mountain Court) have preserved superior divine body technology. The flesh is just the remnant of the carrier that the gods have possessed. Only the fragments of the 'spirit' can exert the true function of the gods!"

"Come on, there's more than one level of gap between us (the American Department) and the Clock Tower, not to mention those older organizations?"

In this regard, Faldius simply admitted some shortcomings. Then he asked about a point that Prelati had never mentioned, "——What do you think of the 'angel' in Academy City?"

"—"

Rarely, Prelati did not respond for a moment, as if he had considered his words for a while before he began to speak: "That... is the wrong angel, right?"

"Huh? Wait, you, a non-human thing, should be most familiar with the angels that the church believes in, right? After all, you were enemies before--"

"No, no, no, I have seen that angel from afar. Although the spell was completely destroyed later, I couldn't see it no matter how hard I looked... But I am not familiar with angels that look like that. No, it's not a problem of appearance, it's a problem of essence. The wings that are bigger than a building give me the feeling that all divinity types will be destroyed together - strange, how can there be such a thing?"

Faldius did not continue to listen to Prelati's nonsense. He walked forward and entered a military submarine. Fortunately, he did not report the part about the angel to his superiors, otherwise this thing would be a big trouble. The Clock Tower would definitely notice the "angel", and those state agencies would also notice the abnormality of Academy City's technology. Let them explore it first.

Faldius set out on his journey home, but what he didn't expect was that even though he didn't intend to take action, Academy City took action against America first.

Chapter 373 Irregular Wave Interference Field # Evil Spirit

A tropical rain forest in Central America.

Mattila, a man with purple hair and an eye patch on his left eye, is a member of the South American combat unit of the Academy City Cooperation Agency and has been lying in ambush in this humid rain forest for a whole month.

This humid and hot area obviously has too much vitality. There are especially many colorful insects and birds in various shapes. As long as you stay in this environment, the rustling sound can be said to be endless day and night. Of course, there are also many vigorous fungi.

Mattila's mind was filled with records of battles in West Asia. She was not dissatisfied with being transferred to the American rain forest, except that she had to face various reptile "surprises" that suddenly jumped in front of her from time to time.

However, apart from the psychological reaction, these are essentially irrelevant to her.

Because Mattila is wearing a device called "Biological Drive Armor".

Compared to the large-scale drive armor version used in conventional combat environments, this one is more like a light-duty drive suit. It is a set of armor that semi-fits the body curve. The armor on the whole body is composed of a sticky black paste-like substance and a rubber-like strip. It uses solution electrolyte computers and life source related technologies, and can automatically adjust its size according to the user's body and enhance the user's athletic performance.

In addition, the biological type also specializes the user's survival ability. Based on the characteristics of life essence, the armor will form a symbiotic state with the user. As long as trees, flowers, insects, animal meat, etc. are added to the armor's own essence conversion capsule, it can maintain the energy operation of the armor while also extracting a part of it to supply nutrients to the user.

In addition, if the user's body is damaged externally, such as bone and muscle injuries in the limbs, blood loss caused by damaged blood vessels, or damage to various internal organs or cessation of function, they can all be treated immediately through the supply of life essence. In other words, troops equipped with this device can almost ignore the pain and fight for a long time.

A small episode - although some researchers planned to name it "Symbiote Armor", it was rejected because the name was easily misleading.

Mattila was not aware of the twists and turns in the device development process. She was planning to pick some gray fungi as daily supplies. She was a little reluctant to accept the messy and colorful insects, although it seemed that the protein in them was six times that of cow.

"—be careful, they are coming."

The other member she was talking to was Sophia, who had green shoulder-length hair. The two of them were partners, and their mission was to deal with the drug monopolies active in South America and remove obstacles for the development of Academy City Cooperation Agency in Latin America.

As for whether this would cause a little trouble to the "back garden" run by American forces such as the City on the Hill and the Faceless Thugs, this was not within their consideration.

"Oh!" Mattila stopped immediately, and the two began to prepare for a new round of offensive.

Yes, they have launched raids many times. Their opponents, the drug trafficking gangs that are deeply rooted in the "Silver Triangle", are mainly based in Colombia and their main smuggling targets are the United States in the north. They can be said to be the largest "drug supplier" in the country, and they often have a large number of people armed with live ammunition. However, even so, they have no way to deal with the offensive of Mattila and others. No matter where they run, they will always be discovered by Mattila and others. The only way to maintain their business is to rely on the long-term "cunning rabbit three burrows".

The reason was the tiny fly that was resting in front of Sophia's eyes.

This ubiquitous fly is essentially a biological detector made of biological armor. Unlike ordinary drones, this "insect-type" aircraft is almost free from the limitations of conventional equipment - it uses pheromones for guidance, is not affected by electromagnetic signal shielding, and has an unobtrusive appearance, so it will not be targeted by enemies...

As a result, intelligence is one-way transparent - for several months in a row, Mattila and Sofia have thoroughly explored the lairs of these Colombian drug lords. They have almost destroyed all the hideouts. Now the remaining leaders are planning to gather people and start again in order to maintain their business, but this is also a futile move.

Mattila and the others finally found out that this area was the last nest.

"-Wow, let me see," Mattila's biological armor projected the fly's 'filming' image to her retina, "Wait, there seem to be a lot of old, weak and sick people in here?"

"We targeted them too harshly before, and they knew how to use hostages to threaten them," Sophia replied.

"I don't think so. These people do everything except smuggling. Human trafficking is also part of their business." Mattila had no sympathy for these scumbags. "But the leader's intelligence shows that this method is useless."

"Well, after all, they still don't know where the real means of attack come from."

Mattila took out the only device he brought with him, which was equipped with a special solution computer and external sensor functions. Its function was to use concentration changes to perform rapidly increased high-speed calculations. The principle was almost the same as the large-scale shading computer in Academy City.

It creates a temporary explosive AIM diffusion field, which interferes with the surrounding energy, forming irregular waveforms and images, similar to the Mach rings in the tail flame of a rocket engine, the bubbles attached to the propellers of a ship due to cavitation, etc., except that the AIM diffusion field is more special.

In addition, the characteristic of this irregular force field is that it can be transmitted through the sensors of signals and equipment. It is not that it cannot be done without the help of sensors, but if there is no designated output port, the explosive AIM diffusion force field will overflow around and form an indiscriminate attack. In simple terms, as long as the signal is connected, the irregular force field will penetrate everywhere and precisely interfere with the human body, just like taking a supernatural photo with a camera and then being entangled by evil spirits.

As long as humans live in a civilized society, they cannot avoid using devices with sensors, unless they want to live deep in the mountains and forests.

What Mattila and Sofia have to do next is to monitor and record the real drug gang members and the equipment information around them in this group, and remotely invade their equipment. Finally, they will activate the irregular force field generator so that the AIM diffusion force field can directly hit the target and launch a mental attack on the human brain.

It looked clean and without any blood stain, as if it had been cursed by a magician, but no one could find any trace of magic.

Chapter 374 "Too Far From Heaven, Too Close To A Certain Country"

In the rainforest, a group of drug traffickers gathered a group of people. These people were not members of the gang. In essence, they were half kidnapped and half forced by senior criminals. The means were various. In addition to direct kidnapping, some of them had family members related to these drug traffickers, some were engaged in drug cultivation themselves, or some were coaxed here and could not leave... There were all kinds of types.

That's why Mattila and Sofia need to spend several months to identify those guys who have truly surrendered to the drug traffickers and have been developed into key personnel, and then collect intelligence from each person and level to find the real leaders who are in charge.

"right here?"

"Shh, stop here for now, don't run around. If you go any further, I won't be responsible if you die."

Several people who were dressed modestly and looked no different from ordinary people were communicating with each other. Judging from their faces, they looked like mixed race of European, American and Indian. They were all drug traffickers hiding among them. Unlike the grassroots farmers who grew cocaine, these drug trafficking group leaders had complete technical personnel, drug processing plants and strong armed forces.

The Colombian government has actually been fighting drug cartels for decades, but has not been able to eliminate these guys. There are many factors, such as historical issues, huge drug profits that squeeze out other industries, Colombia's remote areas that are easy to defend and difficult to attack... and external interference.

The drug trafficker leader gave some orders to his armed subordinates, and then this group of people and the captured temporary employees were forced to produce drugs and do miscellaneous logistics in this secret base.

However, the drug traffickers avoided others and continued to move forward, which was obviously inconsistent with what they had said before - after passing through layers of rainforest that were enough to make people lost and an inland river, they came to a natural valley where there were a large number of modern buildings and facilities, and even radar signal towers.

At the same time, two unnoticed flying insects were always following them.

[That must be their source of intelligence, right? No wonder this group of people always managed to survive after so many attacks.]

While Mattila was communicating with Sofia using pheromone communication, he was also eavesdropping on the English conversation between the base guards and the drug traffickers.

【Based on other investigations, this should be the CIA's intelligence base.】

There was helplessness in Sophia's tone. No matter what, they had caught a big fish.

[As expected, their northern neighbors are indispensable in everything. They were supposed to help with drug enforcement, but this is what happened.]

Mattila, on the contrary, was very excited. As a free action force, they were ordered to fight against drug cartels with great autonomy. Even the American forces that offered assistance were within their attack range.