They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

Leonardo da Vinci shook his head. "How could such a good thing happen? It's like humans got the inspiration for airplanes from birds. However, apart from the source of lift, the shape and dynamic model of real airplanes are very different from birds in nature..."

"Similarly, although I've confirmed the possibility of imaginary submersion from the abilities of your two maids, the difficulty lies in the fact that submersion is different from ordinary stealth. Submersion doesn't actually completely escape from real space, but rather remains at the shallow boundary. Therefore, your maid can even observe the outside world while submerged."

"And that kind of imaginary voyage, capable of spanning vast stretches of time and space, requires complete immersion within the imaginary realm. This means that external observations from the Shadow Border will be completely ineffective. Each time we advance, our direction, distance, and time will fluctuate randomly, becoming undefinable. My smaller self and I have repeatedly tested and calculated this, and it's always the same, with no pattern to be found."

"If I can't derive anything from the data, I won't be able to create the correct pointing tool. If our Shadow Border submerges, we'll probably get lost in the imaginary world!"

The atmosphere fell into silence, completely random and undefinable, indeed an unsolvable problem.

Emiya thought about it and decided that since that was the case, he could only use his limited opportunity again to ask that person for help.

"Da Vinci, are you interested in witnessing the skills of the Alchemist King of the Atlas Academy?"

----

After a while.

"Are you looking for me again? As we agreed, the branch base I helped you build inside Avalon last year already counts as one use of your power of attorney. This time, the amount I reserved for you probably won't be much left."

In the closed city "Atlas Court" under the Sahara Desert, Norton looked at the strange-looking armored vehicle Shadow Border and spoke.

"I understand that," Emiya said as he was told, handing a letter of authorization to Norton. Thus, the number of Atlas Academy's letters of authorization that were scattered around was reduced to one less.

"Tell me about this thing."

While the two were talking, Leonardo da Vinci, who was entering this so-called alchemy "holy land" for the first time, looked around at the empty cityscape with curiosity.

"Hello... My brother asked me to receive you. Where do you want to visit?" Constantine, a boy who didn't look very outgoing, stood not far away with a stiff expression, looking like he was not good at dealing with people.

"It's okay, I don't need it." Da Vinci waved her hand. Her eyes sparkled, and she looked at this place as if she had discovered a dragon's treasure trove. "I'm just taking a walk~"

After saying that, the female servant walked away on her own.

"Ah...that's not allowed!"

The boy Constantine looked panicked. Atlas Court looked easy to enter, but in fact, it was dangerous everywhere!

Especially after a group of crazy otakus were recruited by Norton a few years ago, the protection arrangements of this place have become more and more abstract!

Rumble!

As expected, Da Vinci, who was unfamiliar with the place and knew nothing about it, triggered the trap.

Constantine turned into a fast afterimage and rushed over to save the situation. A large amount of fire rain fell, mixed with lightning strikes.

Fortunately, Da Vinci was a servant and his reaction was quick. In addition, he promptly opened an invisible and colorless protective shield to isolate the flames and lightning that were raging in the entire corridor.

"...What is all this?" Da Vinci was stunned. She had just been walking, and unexpectedly, when she turned a corner and opened the door, she was greeted by a wave of extremely grand "welcome".

"According to Akadullah (former Minister of Armaments), this was a test of a multi-element chain reaction. He was attempting to recreate a flash-melt chain reaction similar to the Rhine in an external environment, but with a simplicity that required minimal preparation and could be produced in combat."

Constantine said helplessly, "For example."

As soon as he finished speaking, a strong wind appeared again between the rain of fire and the lightning. The wind compressed and rotated the two, and the transparent shield surrounding Constantine gradually approached, as if to compress the movement of the elements.

"...I mean, I want to know his...philosophy behind making these traps."

Da Vinci's face turned pale. She felt a deep malice from the "corner kill" she encountered.

"It seems... they said there must be corner kills, cesspools, long-range attacks, and corner jumps... The inspiration came from the childhood stories of a certain game producer in human society—"

"What? Who?" Da Vinci obviously didn't understand the joke of the game geek.

As they were talking, the bricks under their feet suddenly broke, the deep soil began to riot, and at the same time, a rushing stream of water gushed out, instantly turning it into a gurgling quagmire. Ignoring the protective shield, Da Vinci and Constantine gradually sank.

Oh, as expected, the cesspool is here.

Facing Da Vinci's twitching eyes, Constantine explained slowly, "That person seems to be called Miyazaki Hidetaka."

----

"What's the noise?"

Emiya poked his head out of the Shadow Border's car door and looked out at the city buildings in the distance. The interior design of the Atlas Courtyard was almost a replica of a human city, except for the lack of people and the excessive metal content. Through these buildings, he couldn't see what Leonardo had encountered over there.

"It's okay. I've asked my brother to follow me. No matter what happens, he'll be able to handle it."

Norton spoke in a relaxed tone. He was currently sitting in the cab, adjusting the equipment. He was somewhat surprised by these components with a strong sense of design, as well as their operating concepts... After using magic, humans were able to forge their own path.

"You actually attempted to advance into a realm of nothingness...imaginary numbers. How audacious! This is equivalent to blindly exploring the empty lands beyond the Nibelungen, an unfamiliar dimension of space and time. This realm's very premise is 'nothingness,' so space-time coordinates are naturally undefined. Otherwise, it would be a real dimension."

Norton quickly analyzed the essence of imaginary submarine navigation.

"Can the navigation problem during the submersible process be solved?"

"Although it's a bit difficult, I already have a feasible idea." Norton is worthy of being a master in the field of technology. Even if Leonardo da Vinci is a true genius, his talent seems too immature in front of the master.

"The method is simple. Since imaginary space cannot be defined, all we need to do is find a 'definition of eternity' to serve as a guide."

"Eternal?" Emiya frowned in confusion.

"To be precise, it means allowing the higher-dimensional realm, which is not affected by the lower-dimensional realm, to reversely guide your navigation positioning," said Norton.

"You know the 'World Tree', right? Here's the most convenient method. All you need to do is connect the Heroic Spirits on the World Tree with your spirit computer, forming a pseudo-spirit link. Copy the images from the higher-dimensional perspective, and you'll be able to guide your voyage—"

"For example, if you were to travel to the moon via submarine, high-dimensional image information, including the moon's pattern, the distance and direction between the earth and the moon, and so on, would be presented in a two-dimensional format that you could understand."

"However, the prerequisite for production is a sufficiently mature and excellent spiritual computer. Coincidentally, I have one."

"understood."

Emiya pondered for a moment. "It feels like the flat moon that children stick on tinfoil universes when they're doing crafts... So, how about calling this thing 'Imaginary Compass: Flat Moon'?"

Chapter 337: It’s useless to invite anything to your home

After finalizing the name of the device, Emiya discussed some technical details with Norton.

Upon further careful examination, it can be found that the "Imaginary Compass·Plane Moon" is essentially the same as the "Celestial Sphere Chaldeas" in function as a map.

After all, during the "Spirit Transfer" process, Chaldeas' role was to help locate the time-space coordinates of the human history map. It was like providing a location, and then allowing the Spirit Transfer to directly teleport people there.

The Imaginary Compass, Plane Moon, provides direction and the correct route for navigating the imaginary world. It's like a navigation system, allowing users to follow the route.

After the conversation, Emiya pondered the approaching time of the Human Incineration. "Will it be difficult to make? The deadline is a bit tight."

"——This isn't a big deal."

Norton pointed to the "Spiritual Calculator - Three-pointed Hermes" outside the car door. "The only time-consuming part is probably making a spiritual computer device that works with the Planar Moon. With Constantine's help, it should be done in less than three days."

"Three days? That's good."

Emiya nodded.

The little Da Vinci on the screen also looked delighted. "A problem that even the original body couldn't solve was solved so easily! Thank you, Dean of Atlas Academy!"

Norton glanced at it and wasn't surprised by this Servant-like AI. In Atlas Academy, everyone could use "split thinking" to split themselves into "alternative personalities" that were like another self.

Is this little Da Vinci AI only installed on armored vehicles as a system AI? That's a bit limited.

Just as Norton was considering whether giving this AI a body with free movement would be more conducive to the flexible operation of Shadow Border's system, suddenly, there was a noticeable vibration from the outside of the vehicle, like the muffled sound of thunder.

Rumble!

Emiya was the first to run out of Shadow Border, "What happened?"

"Is it those guys?" Norton also got out of the car. He immediately thought that maybe those bomb maniacs were testing some lethal weapons.

Not to mention, since the crazy people in the Equipment Department came to the Atlas Institute a few years ago, Norton specifically emphasized a few points at the beginning: they were not allowed to bring research results back to the ground, and they were not allowed to go out without permission except to complete the commission. However, these people received strong support from this abnormal group.

What's the deal? I'm dying of laughter. Every member of the Equipment Department is a complete nerd who only needs junk food and next-generation stupid games to survive!

Norton then emphasized that everyone doing alchemy research must come up with different solutions to the "world destruction crisis." Norton also had his own idea for the "Seven Weapons," which he needed assistants to help refine and research.

The male colleagues in the Equipment Department were immediately excited and raised their hands and feet to show their strong support!

It is well known that all members of the Equipment Department are extremely suspicious, and their imaginary enemies are various doomsday-level disasters (although most of their doomsday imaginations come from Hollywood disaster movies).

To this end, when they were at their old workplace, Kassel Academy, they had built nine different isolation layers above their workplace, Watt Ahlheim...

It includes three-meter-thick concrete walls, 50-centimeter-thick high-strength armor plates, and lead-zirconium alloy plates to mitigate nuclear attacks. The insulation layers are filled with large amounts of graphite powder, preventing even the US military's latest bunker-buster bombs from penetrating them. Solar eruptions, biological weapons, and the like are no match for Wat Aalheim.

But it is obvious that the new boss Norton's tone is much more domineering - we don't think about how to survive the doomsday disaster, we want to solve the doomsday disaster with our own hands!

As for how to solve the doomsday disaster, Norton said the solution is to create catastrophic weapons that are powerful enough to fight against the doomsday!

Team leader Akadullah said on the spot, "Wow, using doomsday weapons to solve the doomsday disaster is so cool! Wisdom teeth, you have to have wisdom teeth!"

Therefore, in the past few years, although it is difficult to say about other research projects of the Atlas Institute, it has made great breakthroughs in weaponry with massive destructive power, such as alchemical bombs, elemental weapons, high-tech mechas... Various projects have emerged in various forms.

When Norton asked where the inspiration for these projects came from, Alcadullah said, "We don't produce doomsday weapons, we are just the carriers of doomsday weapons." He then showed Norton the weapon designs from various science fiction games, movies and animations that the equipment department had been particularly keen on collecting in the past...

Even the entire underground Atlas Courtyard was filled with dangerous traps.

(Akadula said that it was just a simple trap, which could not only block the infiltrating enemies, but also make them cooperate and contribute test data. Haha, this is part of the plan!)

So when a big commotion happened, Norton immediately thought of those crazy researchers.

Norton was about to say something, but his brother Constantine's somewhat embarrassed voice suddenly rang in his mind.

"Brother, we've triggered a total of 39 traps... This situation is getting a bit big, and it seems difficult to handle."

----

The corridor of the Atlas Courtyard was in a mess.

Emiya drove the Shadow Border here, and when he jumped out of the car, he felt the astonishing concentration of elemental turbulence in front of him. Although the release area was very small, it was almost as concentrated as the Dragon King's Ultimate Word Spirit.

Not far away, there are several bronze giants leaning against the buildings. The giants are about thirty or forty meters tall. At a glance, you can tell from the sparks flashing from time to time at the broken joints that the damage is not light.

Norton stood there with a rather unhappy look on his face.

"? Are you going to build a Gundam?" Emiya asked.

Norton, who arrived first, shook his head. "That's the bronze giant Talos, made by my men using materials I provided them with, following a continuously optimized design. But that's just my name. They seem to prefer calling these things the 'Colossus' series."

"...Then the ideological tendencies of these people are a bit dangerous."

The Colossus is here, is it going to be a Earth-shattering Star or a Neutron Annihilation?

Emiya followed Norton's instructions, braving the elemental turbulence, and found Constantine and Da Vinci through the thick smoke. Constantine, his body revealing dragon-like features, handed a controller to Norton. Norton, clearly familiar with the Atlas Institute's layout, had delivered the control equipment in a timely manner, urgently shutting down these giants.

"Brother, thank you. If you come any later, I will have to transform further into a dragon and destroy these research results."

Constantine breathed a sigh of relief, and the hideous features on his body gradually faded away.

Da Vinci was also a little upset, but as a researcher, once she was out of danger, she was able to get used to her initial bad mood.

She held up her large wand, her eyes wide open, staring intently at these bronze giants, secretly wondering about the power systems and structures of these giants, and how incredible the materials used to build them were...

"Come back to your senses," Emiya waved his hand in front of her face, "don't forget why we came here in the first place."

"I know, I know~," Da Vinci blinked.

"Captain Emiya, please understand. As a researcher, I simply can't ignore the design aesthetics inherent in these gigantic structures! Yeah, while the overall look is a bit rough, as long as the redundant gun mounts and paint on the limbs are corrected..."

"Huh? Someone actually questioned our 'Super Colossus 3 No. 1'!"

Inside a nearby building, a group of strange people wearing fully enclosed protective suits suddenly emerged from the basement, as if they had been prepared for the scene of billowing smoke in front of them.

Emiya roughly guessed the identities of these people. They were obviously paying attention to the movements on the surface. They waited until the concentration of the elemental flow dropped to a certain level before scouting the scene.

"Hmph, how pathetic! These foreign alchemists simply don't understand the grand vision of the Colossus series! I can tell you, the effects they bring are enough to strengthen our resolve in the face of doomsday, prevent the destruction of the world, and usher in a new life for all things after the war. The enemy's resistance is fragile, while our iron torrent rolls forward, unstoppable!"

Abdullah in the protective suit cast an intense gaze through his protective glasses. His tone was powerful and forceful, and his intonation was as if he was reciting a speech. It sounded as if he had drunk a few bottles of liquor to give himself courage, but both Norton and Constantine knew that this was just the daily life of a lunatic.

"Just a reminder, the 'recycled metal' I provide is essential for that. Without me solving the material problem, your plan will be nothing more than a pie in the sky."

Norton said in a deep voice, "Also, your trap has affected visitors from the Atlas Institute. I will order Talos to be removed from your list of permitted trap experiments!"

"Uh——" The passionate speech was suddenly forced to end.

Abdullah was like a duck with its throat strangled. His face turned red, and he could not make a sound or think of any words to refute.

How could the dean do this? How could this be? They could have reasonably shown off their research results when outsiders arrived, but such a rare opportunity was so ruthlessly snuffed out?

Damn it, he was still fantasizing about when someone from the secret party would come to visit, like the coquettish Principal Ange and the beer-bellied Night Watchman coming together, accidentally entering the corridor and triggering the mechanism, being shocked by the sudden appearance of the bronze giant, and then he and his team would come to the rescue at the perfect time, severely expiating the school board's revenge for cutting funding back then...

Tsk, Abdullah is fantasizing again.

"They are representatives of Chaldea. They are visitors who used a letter of authorization to ask Atlas Academy to make props." Norton emphasized coldly, "In other words, you must obey the visitors' demands!"

They actually set up dozens or even hundreds of traps, and even had time to run to nearby underground facilities to observe secretly. In Norton's opinion, these people are a bit too idle, and it is necessary to give these people a severe lesson.

"See that armored vehicle? Develop a reliable reinforcement plan within three days!"

Emiya watched in amazement as Norton calmly commanded these insane researchers. If Ange had seen this, he might have exclaimed in disbelief... But he was destined to never understand how Norton's awe-inspiring alchemy had shocked the equipment department back then, dispelling their arrogance and leading to this unwavering obedience...