Huff … Huff … "
Amidst the sound of flapping wings, a dragon flew toward a corner of the desert under the sun without the cover of the sandstorm. Its speed was not fast, but it was definitely not slow either.
Around the dragon's body, swallow whips gathered from all directions, as if they were leading the way for the dragon as they flew forward.
Rozen and Matthew half-knelt on the dragon's back, looking ahead at the desert.
At a certain moment, Matthew suddenly saw something and hurriedly called out.
"Senior! There's a Sphinx group ahead! "
Matthew shouted.
In fact, Rozen saw it too.
Just in front of the desert, around a hill, Sphinxes were slowly walking back and forth as if they were taking a stroll in their own backyard.
They looked like they were guarding something.
"We're here." Rozen said with certainty, "Behind the sand dunes behind the Sphinxes, there's a ruin, and all the mountain people are there."
That was what Rozen saw through his shikigami.
Just as Rozen said, the Sphinxes were unwilling to approach that place, but they lingered around it as if they couldn't enter it, yet they didn't want others to enter it.
Therefore, when the dragon flew over from afar and arrived in front of the hill, the Sphinxes' eyes flickered, and they all turned their heads to look at it with an aggressive glint in their eyes.
However, in the next second, these ferocious gazes disappeared abruptly. The Sphinxes seemed to have ignored the wyrms, and continued to walk on their own.
Not only did Rozen see this scene, but so did Matthew.
"Sure enough, the Sphinxes won't attack us again."
Matthew said.
Along the way, Rozen and the others encountered the Sphinxes more than once.
They were divine beasts that stood at the pinnacle of Fantasy Breeds, and each of them was enough to drive modern magicians crazy. Such divine beasts were as common as wild beasts in the forest, and they could be seen from time to time.
It was as if they were guarding the desert, patrolling every corner of the desert.
Anyone who entered the desert was basically discovered by them and killed mercilessly.
When Rozen and Matthew entered the desert, they were also mercilessly attacked by the Sphinx. But later, the Sphinx stopped attacking them.
This was undoubtedly an order from the person controlling the Sphinx.
It was the same now. The Sphinxes turned a blind eye to the arrival of Rozen and the others. They let the dragon fly through the air and arrived in front of the ruins.
The giant dragon descended from the sky and landed in front of the entrance of the ruins, causing a gust of sand and dust to rise.
Rozen and Matthew got down from the dragon's back and looked at the ruins in front of them.
The ruins were not shabby, but they were quite old, giving off a feeling that they had a long history.
However, on this relic, there were traces of being burned and calcined by flames everywhere, as if it was not a cultural relic that had been annihilated in history, but an ancient building built in modern times that was destroyed in a disaster.
When they took a closer look, there was a stone tablet next to the entrance of the ruins.
On the stone tablet, there was such a line of words.
Atlas House.
"What …!?"
Seeing that name, Matthew couldn't help but be surprised.
"It's actually Atlas House …!?"
Even Rozen's eyes widened in shock.
That was because there was no magician who didn't know this name.
If Chaldea's communication was still working, and Roman and others could also see the scene here, they would be surprised, right?
The so-called Atlas House referred to one of the departments of the Magic Association.
The Magician's Association was a self-defense group formed by people who studied magic, regardless of nationality or school. They regarded management, concealment, and development as their mission. They had to protect themselves from threats (the church, the strange existence that punished those who violated the taboo). They also had a research institute for the further development of magic. They also enacted laws to suppress magic crimes.
The Magic Association was composed of three major departments.
The first department was the Clock Tower.
It was regarded as the headquarters of the modern Magic Association, located in the British Museum in London, England. It had a history of about 2000 years. It was founded in the first year of the Western calendar, around the second century AD. As the latest research institution among the three major departments, it had fully grown and developed, and Western Europe was its sphere of influence. Ninety percent of Western European magicians would choose to join the Clock Tower because it was full of new theories.
The association that the people of Chaldea always mentioned was actually the Clock Tower of Time. When he was in London, the fourth Singularity, Rozen also entered the destroyed Clock Tower of Time, from which he obtained the knowledge of the book collection that the Clock Tower spent two thousand years to collect.
The second department was the Phantom Sea.
It was a huge mountain range wandering in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was also known as the Moving Sarcophagus. There was no general hierarchy within the organization. Unlike the clock tower, the organization was regarded as the prototype of the Magic Association, which focused on the research of human body transformation and God's Generation magic. Now, it was basically out of touch with modern society.
The third department was Atlas House.
It was a department that existed in the Atlas Mountains in Egypt, also known as the Giant's Cellar.
The apprentices there were all people who were not good at magic. It was a research organization for alchemists who specialized in the development of alchemy. Compared with the other two departments, it was a complete secretive organization. There was no communication with the outside world. It was said that it was a living hell where even the light couldn't slip out.
In other words, among the three major departments of the Magic Association, except for the Clock Tower, the other two departments basically had no contact with the outside world.
The overall size of the three major departments was similar, but they didn't have much contact with each other.
The Phantom Sea believed that the magic of Kanzaki was supreme, and the magic after the Western calendar was equivalent to a play, so it was in a state of cold war with the Clock Tower.
Atlas House focused on the development of alchemy, focusing on the transformation of things. At the same time, the modern alchemy of the Clock Tower was different, and there was a lack of mutual understanding.
On the other hand, the Fang Rui Sea and the Atlas Academy each had their own research topics.
Therefore, although the three major departments were not hostile, there was a considerable gap between them because of their different ideals.
Now, Rozen and Matthew saw Atlas House.
Rozen and Matthew suddenly looked at each other.
When they thought about it carefully, it didn't seem strange that Atlas House appeared here.
After all, Atlas Hall was located in the Atlas Mountains of Egypt.
It happened to be the territory of the Pharaoh of Egypt.
In that case, could it be said that the appearance of the Atlas Courtyard was not a coincidence?
Rozen and Matthew suddenly fell silent.
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