Rubbish protagonist, I can do it too!

"This is the lowest level of Atlas Academy... The defense should not be too tight. Even so, the first level is an alien world. We still cannot underestimate this group of alchemists who have mastered the truth of the world."

Hall adjusted the magic power in his body, applied strengthening magic and defensive barrier to his body, and then stepped inside the white light.

The field of vision suddenly became wider, and after getting used to it, Hall found himself standing on the boundless sea.

There is no wind, no waves, a picturesque still world, and the ripples that Hall stepped on the sea surface spread far and far.

The world is divided into two halves, one half is the clear blue sky, and the other half is the mirror-like sea.

The characteristic is static.

The feeling of stepping on calm water is no different from that of stepping on hard concrete.

The magic eye has insight into the reality of this world.

"Based on the concept base of Dirac's Sea to simulate the alien world, the illusion corresponding to reality, which alchemist can create such a space."

Hall was amazed.

This space is in the gap between reality and illusion, which can be called reality or illusion.

"The original intention of creating this alien world should not be used as a labyrinth in the Atlas Academy. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is to shoot mosquitoes with anti-aircraft guns."

"There is no exit in this world. Even if you head in one direction, no matter how long or how long it takes, you will never see the end."

"However, should it be said that it was the kindness of the creator of this alien world? He gave such an obvious hint."

There is no sun in this space, everything is still, and nothing exists.

Hall is the only moving existence in this space, but Hall is not connected with this world, and there is no commonality.

"The answer to the riddle."

Hall squatted down, smiled and stretched out his right hand to touch the reflection of the water under his feet.

Hall does not belong to this world, but Hall's arrival brings the only "movement" to this world, which is the reflection on the water surface.

Close your eyes and use the substitution method in the magic.

There are many so-called replacement methods. For example, the real name of Ishtar's Noble Phantasm of Liberation, and the concept of controlling Venus use the far and near replacement method as a wedge.

What Hall is using now is the light and shadow replacement method, which is considered a relatively rare magic.

At the moment when the light and shadow replacement magic was performed, Hall felt his body lighten, as if he had sunk into a cold lake. When he opened his eyes, he saw his "self" on the other side of the mirror slowly falling into the sky.

"Successful." Hall chuckled confidently.

Behind him was the deeper part of the water, dark and empty.

It continued to fall, and when the field of vision was completely covered by darkness, the deeper and farther away lit up the light.

Getting closer and closer until the entire field of vision was submerged, Hall felt as if he had broken through a layer of enchantment, and his body suddenly fell out.

wow~ wow~

Half of Hall's body emerged from the water, shook his head, and looked around suspiciously.

In a simple space, there is only one platform extending in front of you. A crystal with a radius of several meters floats on the platform. It should be as stable as matter without fluctuations.

Half of Hall's body is still inside the still water polo.

Hall adjusted his posture, broke free bit by bit, and let out a long breath after landing on the platform.

The water polo with a radius of several meters returned to calm.

"I should have been trapped inside this water polo just now."

Hall sat on the ground and observed the water polo with his magic eyes for a while before getting up and leaving.

The entrance of the platform carrying the water polo is another space filled with white light, and the inner space cannot be seen.

"From the perspective of the depth of the alien world, it can be regarded as breaking away from the bottom layer."

Hall made preparations before stepping into the light gate.

There are two doors, one blue and one red, and nothing else of value or note.

"What do you mean? Could it be that entering the red door can leave the virtual space?"

Hall frowned and thought about the meanings of the two colors, but there was too much verifiable information to be of any reference value.

In the end, Hall chose to push open the blue door.

It's a messy space, like a scholar's study room, with a lot of books on both sides, a table in the middle, and all kinds of weird mechanical devices on it, it's better to say the surroundings of the house It's all similar stuff.

A typical alchemy workshop.

The hardcover books on the bookshelf had no names and no covers. Hall took one of the books and flipped through them, and saw lines of handwritten characters.

"On the Basic Action Logic Design of Golems"

"Logic and Structure"

""Order""

""Golem Core""

Most of them are alchemy books related to puppets. The owner of this alchemy workshop should be an alchemist who mainly studies puppets.

Hall's magic eyes looked around the room, keenly observing the lack of this alchemy studio. It is not complete here, some mechanical structures are missing parts, some complex alchemy equipment is faulty, and some traces are deliberately hidden.

Clues filled the room, like a complex jigsaw puzzle.

"interesting."

There was a smile on the corner of Hall's mouth, and he understood the thoughts of the owner of the alchemy workshop.

This is an alchemy work that has been completed long ago. The owner who created this work messed up all the clues and left research materials as a reference.

The only way to get out of this room is probably to complete this scrambled puzzle.

What is tested here is the alchemist's thinking ability.

Thought cutting is the basic ability of the alchemists in the Atlas Institute, the more advanced the alchemist can cut the thinking and do multiple thinking.

In other words, only alchemists who have reached a certain level can leave here.

In Hall's eyes, it was obviously not a problem. Not to mention the thinking ability needed by an alchemist, the alchemy knowledge Hall himself inherited from Hohenheim was enough to become a puppet master.

"The Magic Eye has observed a total of 1537 clues, with 157864 combinations, of which 143507 are traps. Even a top-notch alchemist will need at least a week to repeatedly verify if he wants to leave this room."

Hall picked up the parts on the table, and went to another machine to assemble it and repair the fault.

Behind him, more parts were manipulated by invisible forces, and each began to assemble and return to its original appearance.

After more than half an hour passed, all the structures in the room were reassembled by Hall.

"It feels like playing a puzzle game." Hall made the last part in his hand like the inside of a mechanical table, talking to himself.

click ~ click ~

The huge table in the center of the room made the sound of mechanical operation, and the structure retreated layer by layer, revealing a small platform inside. A dodecahedron was placed on the platform, and each side was depicted with densely packed complex patterns.

Hall picked up the dodecahedron and observed it carefully. The magic power penetrated into it and found a very complicated composite structure, whose purpose is unknown.

click ~

The platform automatically retracted to the floor, and the bookcases where the books were placed opened towards the inside, revealing a stone passage with a wooden door at the deepest part of the passage.

"I don't know what it is used for for the time being, that is to say, as a clue or a prop to continue to decrypt the game."

Hall didn't hesitate, and pushed open the wooden door after entering the passage.

Ok?

With a flash in front of my eyes, I stepped into another world.

The world of puppets.

In a mechanical city, most of the buildings are made of metal, and a large number of gear structures are exposed, and they are still running continuously, making a slight clicking sound.

The pedestrians on the road are basically golems with a mechanical structure, imitating the human mechanical body, wearing a metal mask on the head as the face of the golem, moving naturally and mechanically walking on the street.

It's cold and weird, a dead city without temperature, and the moving puppets can't bring life to the city.

Hall walked out of the alley, looked around the mechanical city, and released the wind elemental spirit to look down on the city from the sky.

The magic eye shares vision with the wind elementals.

"This is!"

Surprised, Hall picked up the dodecahedron and found one side for comparison.

"The street structure of the city is exactly the same as the complex pattern on this side, which means this thing is a map? There are twelve completely different puppet cities?"

"The owner of this city has a lot of brains."

Hall admired it from the bottom of his heart. It is hard to imagine how big a project this is. I am afraid that the alchemist who created this puppet city devoted his entire life here.

jiji~

The mechanical bird landed on Hall's shoulder, and the wit fluttered its wings. The body is a mechanical structure, but it completely replicates the jumping and agility of a bird.

The magic eye stared at the mechanical bird, gaining insight into its internal structure. From the exquisiteness of the structure, one can see the technical level of the magic puppet that created it.

It has almost reached the level of the Einzbern artificial man.

but···

"I can play around once or twice. I don't have so much time to spend here now." Hall shook his head regretfully, and no longer planned to follow the script designed by the owner of the city.

Snapped!

Hall clapped his hands, activating the magic circuit in his body, the magic power was condensed in his hands, he squatted down and patted the ground, and a huge blue formation suddenly unfolded.

The Eye began to calculate the entire structure of the city, finding a way to destroy the core of the mechanical city and leave this otherworld.

Suddenly, Hall was stunned, with a complicated expression and retracted his hands.

"That's it...so that's how it is."

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The heavy bell rang, and all the moving puppets stopped for a moment, and returned to the place where they should go back according to the already set action logic.

Boom~!

There was a muffled sound underground, and the ground of the city trembled slightly. It could be seen that those mechanical buildings with ingenious structures were either rising, falling, or changing.

After everything quieted down, the city had changed its appearance, corresponding to the other side of the dodecahedron.

Hall moved forward on the unfamiliar street, and there were no moving puppets on the street. He came all the way to the end of the street, where the tallest building in the mechanical city stood, a clock tower, and the hands were completely still at twelve o'clock.

Push the door and go in, the inside is quite simple, there is only a spiral staircase that extends infinitely to the top floor.

Chapter 335 The World of Puppets

In the world of puppet, everything is quiet, as if time has been stopped.

Hall went straight up the spiral staircase and saw the internal structure of the clock tower. The integrated machinery stopped working, and tens of thousands of gears were connected, presenting an unparalleled structural beauty and a bit of steampunk flavor.

The top floor of the clock tower is an empty room with a big clock in the middle and a round glass window on the inner side, through which you can see the still hour hand behind.

A figure sits in front of the glass window, staring at the city outside the glass window.

The atmosphere was eerie and solemn.

Hall walked over and saw that the figure was also a golem. The magic eyes could find the essence of this golem was different from other golems. In its body, one could feel the vitality of living beings, and one could see the magician's unique magic circuit.

The body shape resembles a modern plastic mannequin, sitting quietly in a chair, and the face wears a metal mask with a sad expression.

The incineration of human law has long killed all human beings except Chaldea, and even the alchemist who transformed his body into something inhuman could not escape.

"No, it should be the creator of this world. It turned its own body into a puppet, and its consciousness was wiped out by time before the human reason was burned. It has been sitting here watching its [work] .”

"Is this the tragedy of the Atlas Academy?"

Hall saw a platform in front of the puppet, and the sunken marks on it corresponded to the dodecahedron in Hall's hand.

Putting the dodecahedron in, Hall heard the sound of mechanical operation.

Hall's eyelids twitched, and saw the puppet in front of him move its fingers a few times. It turned its head, and stared at Hall with empty eyes under the sad mask, neither sad nor happy.

Hall raised his vigilance, and didn't feel any intelligence or threat from the puppet, and its actions should have been set from the beginning.

The puppet stood up slowly from the chair, walked over Hall to the giant clock, pulled the metal striker and slammed into the giant clock heavily.