What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

Although he has lamented countless times since leaving the caravan that he was on a pirate ship, that night, Grove still had to follow Dongmi and Diarmuid, and the three climbed over the wall and entered the Fifth Research Institute.

"It feels like the guard posts here are denser than the central army station..." Grove sighed softly, dodging the Nth patrolling guard with live ammunition.

In fact, the frequency is about the same, but compared with the lazy guards in the legion station, the guards here are much more dedicated.

"Hey, this is the proof that 'there is indeed a secret' here?" Fuyumi said with a smile.

Grove pouted and didn't answer, just said: "Then how do we get in?"

Compared with the patrolling guards, the real trouble is the two guards standing at the entrance of the institute, one on the left and one on the right. They also tried to find passages such as ventilation ducts, but unfortunately the three big men were not of the same size. The kind you can squeeze in through the ventilation ducts.

In other words, if you want to go in, you must alert the two guards.

"I have no choice but to use the old method."

Grove was just about to ask what the old method was, but Toyomi had already thrown a small stone picked up from his feet, which attracted one of the guards to come over to investigate. Of course, this unlucky soldier was knocked unconscious by Toyomi soon , who was stripped naked.

After a while, the sentry in military uniform walked towards the gate of the institute again.

"What are you doing, why are you so slow?" asked the remaining soldiers.

"I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry to urinate, so I went to put some water on the side." The soldier with his head down answered vaguely as he approached.

Although he felt that something was wrong, the remaining soldiers continued to stick to their posts in doubt. It wasn't until the other party approached that he realized what was the problem—this person's voice was wrong!

"You..." Before he could untie his gun from behind and point it at the approaching soldier, the other party threw him down with a hungry tiger, pressing his fingers tightly on the vertebral artery in his neck. It didn't take long for him to lose consciousness.

"O~K~ I'm sorry, you can sleep with your companions for a while~"

While taking off his military uniform, Toya waved Grove and Diarmuid to come out, "Come on, Grove, let's go in."

Grove said hastily: "There is no one at the gate like this, won't you find out soon when the sentry comes back?"

"That's right." Dongmi plucked for a while from the shaded grass where they squatted just now, picked up a few wooden sticks, made a simple support frame, fixed it at the door, and put the two stripped military uniforms and rifles on it. On the shelf, from a distance, there are still two "people" in military uniforms and guns on their backs.

After finishing all this, he also looked at his work and nodded with satisfaction.

The three of them re-entered the gate of the research institute, probably because there were already many guards outside, but there were no soldiers inside—not to mention soldiers, it should be said that there were not even a single researcher inside.

"What's going on, are you all going home from get off work?" Dongmi said a cold joke. In this kind of military research institute, researchers are basically controlled. How could they be allowed to go home casually?

However, after searching the upper and lower floors, it looked like a brightly lit research institute, but there was no one in it.

In the end, the three of them returned to the stairs on the first floor. To be precise, it was the small door behind the stairs. After opening the door, there was indeed a downward staircase behind the door.

Without further words, the three of them walked down the stairs leading to the basement together.

……

"Hey, number 48!"

"What's the matter, Number 66?"

"It seems that two mice came in," said the voice known as No. 66. "Two rough-skinned and thick-skinned men, there is no pleasure in chopping."

"Then you stay here, I'll go."

"No, I don't want it. The people here can't chop one or the other. Finally, two people who can chop come over... Hehehe, one for each of us, isn't that fair?"

"No objection, if I don't move, I will get rusty."

……

The speed of the three of Dongya going down the stairs was much slower than before. The main reason was that unlike the brightly lit upper floor, the part of the underground starting from the stairs was all dark and blind, only the emergency lights near the ground. guide them forward.

Finally, the stairs stopped going down, and after the three of them passed through a corridor, a light finally appeared in front of them.

"Huh—this is?"

In order to prevent his eyes from being blind when suddenly encountering light in the dark, Toiya specially closed his eyes before opening them, but in fact this was completely unnecessary.

After coming out of the corridor, they arrived at an underground hall. There were a few dim lights in the middle of the supporting stone pillars in the hall, which were only enough to illuminate the center of the enclosed hall, and even the edges were pitch black.

What made Fuyuya suspicious was that on the ground in the middle of the hall, a circle inside a pentagon inside a circle and then a pentagon inside was drawn to form an array.

"This pattern... seems to have been seen somewhere?" Fuyumi asked uncertainly.

"Master Toya, it's the mural in that ruin." Diarmuid reminded.

"By the way, it's the mural pattern Ed and Al's dad looked at!"

Fuyuya immediately remembered that this alchemy formation was much simpler than the murals in the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Keseluxes, at least there were no unclear words and many paintings representing alchemy symbols on it, but this kind of circle The pattern of nesting with pentagons is very similar to the layout of that mural.

"Where have you seen this formation? This is the formation of the Philosopher's Stone!" A strange voice came from the darkness.

"Really, when it comes to alchemy, you really can't forget to mention the Philosopher's Stone." Fuyumi sighed, although he knew about alchemy nine out of ten—none, but there were many works in his previous world. As well as this subject matter, the Philosopher's Stone has also gained fame as a fabled alchemical item.

"That's right, the material for refining the Philosopher's Stone is living human beings, to be precise, the souls of living people, hehehe... Does it sound scary?" The voice continued.

"Is that so... I'm not afraid, because I have encountered similar things before." After thinking about it seriously, Toyomi replied.

This kind of thing can be said to be the holy grail in alchemy, and it is considered to be a panacea that can turn stones into gold, immortality and other functions.

In a sense, the Holy Grail system in Fuyuki City, or should be said to be the family magic of the Einzbern family - the third method [The Cup of Heaven], and the Philosopher's Stone can be said to be a different world version. The so-called materialization of the soul is the refining of the soul into matter, specifically the magic of the Philosopher's Stone or the Holy Grail.

It’s just that refining the Philosopher’s Stone in this world is obviously much simpler and easier than applying the Holy Grail system in the FATE world to compete for the Holy Grail. If you know the existence of this place, maybe magicians who pursue the ultimate in the FATE world will swarm into this world ?

Fuyuya, who was amused by his own imagination, couldn't help laughing.

"Stupid Toya! Don't you realize you're talking to someone else?" Grove couldn't help but yelled, trembling with the murderous intent scattered around the hall, and terrified.

Why did that voice reveal so many secrets to them?Because the dead don't tell secrets.

——That's right, even before this voice man appeared, he already had the intention to kill them.

"Hey hey..." Finally, the owner of the voice came out from the darkness. It was a short, chunky figure in armor, holding a thick-backed bone-chopping knife in one hand and a large bone-chopping knife in the other. A thin boning knife.

But the moment he came out, he seemed to suddenly see something surprising: "Wait, wait! Why are there three people!? Isn't there only two? Which one are you???"

Diarmuid, who was pointed at with a knife, remained motionless, but was a little surprised in his heart. This was the first opponent who discovered that he was not human.

"Idiot, you feel wrong, right? So how do you divide it now?"

Another person who had been silent before also came out, also wearing armor, holding a sword that was a Western-style sword in terms of the hilt, but the blade was undoubtedly a Japanese sword.

The armored man with the bone-chopping knife wandered between Diarmuid and Grove for a moment, and finally slashed directly at him.

"Then it's still worth points!? Just chop it all up!"

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The magic in the FATE-type moon world is different from magic. As long as it can be done with human power, no matter how much time, energy and financial resources it takes, it is in the category of "magic". What cannot be done with human power is "magic".

If a phenomenon can be realized by spending time and money, no matter how difficult it is, it will not be regarded as magic.

With the advancement of science and technology, the "things that can be done" by human hands have increased, and magic has decreased relatively.The number of "magic" left in modern times is very small, and there are only 5 of them.

The third magic is the materialization of the soul, in other words, the magic of realizing complete immortality.On the day of completion, an endless source of magic power will be obtained due to the perpetual motion of the soul.This magic is inherited from Einzbern's family, and a system called the Holy Grail War was built to complete it.

And in steel refining, isn't the material that makes the Philosopher's Stone the soul of a living person_(:зゝ∠)_

It can be said that in the world of steel smelting, the act of refining the Philosopher's Stone itself is the specific application of the "materialization of the soul" of the third Fatian Cup in the Xingyue World.

I don’t know if it’s just right, but the Philosopher’s Stone has many aliases, such as the Philosopher’s Stone, the Stone of the Sky, Red Liquid, the Fifth Element, etc., among which there is also the saying of the Holy Grail in alchemy~