At the center of the Seventh School District stood a building with no windows. More precisely, it had no entrances at all—it was completely sealed. Its official name was the Headquarters Building of the Governing Board.
The foundation of this windowless building reached fifteen meters underground. The ground beneath an area extending roughly three kilometers around it was part of its foundation. Along with several massive pillars buried deep underground, this made it impossible for the building to collapse or tilt.
The entire building was covered in armor plating made of "computational impact-dispersing composite material." Ordinary missiles could not even scratch its protective layer, and even if a nuclear bomb landed on it, it still would not be able to destroy it.
This completely sealed building, sturdy enough to astound anyone, was the lair of the scientific side's leader, Aleister Crowley. He would not leave this place—or, more precisely, he did not want to. The consequences of leaving were rather serious.
When Su Xiao saw how sturdy the building was, his first thought was, Just how afraid of death is Aleister Crowley? Could it be that "dying once" had made him fear death?
That was right. Aleister Crowley had "died" once, nearly killed by people from the magic side.
Some said that Aleister Crowley was the greatest magician of the twentieth century. Others called him a third-rate magician.
As far as Su Xiao knew, few people had killed their wives to attain enlightenment. Aleister had gone even further: he had sacrificed his own wife to summon a guardian angel, Aiwass. Later, even when his daughter died, Aleister showed no reaction. He had even used children around his daughter's age as test subjects.
In the end, Aleister had reached the pinnacle of magic. Yet for some unknown reason, he suddenly abandoned