Seeing the Atlas Academy here was something Luo Zhen had never expected.
As one of the three major departments of the Mage's Association, the Atlas Academy was known as the academy of accumulation and measurement. It was the birthplace of magecraft—a group of alchemists who analyzed the principles of the world. Although it kept its distance from humanity and was estranged from the Clock Tower, the heart of the Mage's Association, it was an organization that had existed since before the Common Era. Like the Wandering Sea, it was known as one of the prototypes of the Mage's Association.
Speaking of which, Chaldea's establishment was also related to the existence of the Atlas Academy.
After all, Chaldea was an organization created by integrating magecraft and science, so its ideology differed greatly from that of the Association, which revered mystery alone. Its principles were instead much closer to those of the Atlas Academy.
Since poor Magic Circuits were a common trait among the alchemists of the Atlas Academy, they did not rely on magical energy while learning magecraft. Instead, they relied on a vast number of tools. They even regarded "souls," pseudo-Spiritrons, as observable forms of energy, and created life-forms possessing Magic Circuits to serve them.
"There's no need for us to become the strongest. We only need to create the strongest."
That was the creed of the Atlas Academy's alchemists.
Thus, they had not only created all kinds of homunculi, but also numerous Magecraft Dresses. The Atlas Academy was known as an unparalleled treasury of Magecraft Dresses, and it had even produced some terrifying weapons—weapons terrifying enough to destroy the world.
Chaldea's founding principles had borrowed heavily from the Atlas Academy's model. Quite a few of its technologies had even been successfully developed only with the Atlas Academy's support.
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