"Why were there so many Monsters?" After Hermes shut down due to the electricity issue, and the group had finished investigating everything they needed to investigate, they prepared to leave the Atlas Institute. What shocked them was that the Monsters they encountered on the way back were even stronger than the ones they had faced on the way in. There were even several Guardians among them.
"That is because the Atlas Institute forbids people from leaving." Sherlock Holmes immediately explained that the Atlas Institute was a place that was easy to enter but difficult to leave. Its defenses were therefore primarily directed inward, not outward.
The three major organizations of the Mages Association each had their own specialties. The Atlas Institute mainly focused on Alchemy, so most of its members were Magicians with little magical talent or insufficient Magic Circuits. Their philosophy was that since they could not become the strongest themselves, they only needed to create the strongest alchemical items. The seven great taboos of the magical world spoken of in later legends referred to the Atlas Institute's seven weapons.
It was precisely because of this that, among the three major organizations of the Mages Association, the Clock Tower and the Atlas Institute looked down on each other. After all, the Clock Tower primarily recruited geniuses with exceptional magical talent.
The reason the Atlas Institute had passages that were difficult to leave through but easy to enter was actually to prevent the alchemical items inside from leaking out. Aside from the seven great taboos, there were countless other dangerous items within. They might not have been as dangerous as the seven great taboos, but if they leaked out, they would absolutely bring catastrophic disasters upon humanity. After all, the alchemists inside researched everything.
Strictly speaking, compared to their colleagues