Chapter 107: Deep Sea Wandering

The members of ASA are still unaware of the work attitude of the gatekeepers and the group at the academy—at least, the ASA members except for Sherlock Holmes are unaware. They are still on the street in front of the decoy building, making final preparations.

Fabre was placing the various insect boxes in front of him one by one, making sure he could get the box he wanted as soon as possible; Lewis was calibrating his pocket watch to ensure there was no error even a second later.

Balzac stood in the middle of the street, staring blankly at the air in front of him.

After calibrating the time one last time to make sure there were no problems, Lewis looked up at Balzac, who was on guard, and couldn't help but whisper to Fabre.

"Honestly, I... I always felt that there was no need for the two of us to come here."

Having finished tidying up the ecosphere and finding himself with some free time, Fabre looked up and asked, "Why?"

"Because Balzac was very strong, and in the UN, only Mary Shelley and Cervantes could go head-to-head with Balzac."

The stronger Balzac's "Human Comedy" became, the greater the changes to his body. Now, Balzac's entire body is covered in black, skeletal structures. He possesses remarkably good resistance to both poisonous gas and high temperatures.

In other words, Stevens and Romain Rolland's main fighting styles would be significantly less effective against Balzac.

On the other hand, the strongest physical attackers in the UN should be Cervantes, Mary Shelley, and others. Cervantes becomes mentally unstable when using his powers, so his combat effectiveness is questionable. Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is terrifying at its maximum output, but it needs to be constantly increased by Shelley's own anger, making it equally unstable.

Balzac alone, while not necessarily able to defeat the entire UN, could certainly hold them off.

"Then you could use 'Dream Walk' on each of them and arrest everyone directly, wouldn't that be great?"

Lewis: If there were such a good thing, how could I refuse?

The problem is that Lewis had never even dreamed of such a good thing!

After his rebuke, Fabre offered Lewis a few words of comfort: "Alright, what you can think of, Holmes can't think of? Just listen to Holmes's plan, anyway, with your intelligence, you definitely can't come up with anything better."

Lewis: But, are you sure you're trying to comfort me?

At that moment, Holmes' voice suddenly rang out.

"Hey, Lewis Fabre, can you two hear me?"

Fabre and Lewis immediately snapped to attention and hurriedly grabbed the walkie-talkies clipped to their chests.

"I can hear you, what's the matter?"

"Yes, next time you're being lazy and chatting, remember to turn off the recording. We heard everything you just said."

The two of them suddenly felt a little awkward: "Sorry..."

"By the way, I bet Balzac heard all of your two companies' public channels just now."

Lewis & Fabre: ...

This isn't just embarrassing, this is mortifying.

What's it like to have your boss listen in on your slacking off the whole time?

Fabre was alright, since he was a temporary employee and Balzac was only his temporary superior. But Lewis, a long-time ASA employee, immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

In any case, according to his prediction, he would conservatively have his salary deducted this month, and his year-end bonus might also be lost...

Lewis was grieving over his lost wages and year-end bonus, but Holmes had no such worries and continued to talk to Fabre.

"From your conversation just now, didn't either of you notice that there's a very strong combat ability user in the UN?"

Fabre was puzzled: "Combat ability users in the UN? Those are the same few..."

Mary Shelley, Cervantes, Romain Rolland, Stevenson, Christie, plus one whose name is unknown (Dante), aren't these the only people with direct combat ability?

"Are there other superpowered individuals who can be classified as combat-type?"

Holmes' tone was light, perhaps even a little cheerful: "You really didn't expect this? The superhuman with the strongest physical attack ability in the UN?"

"If it wasn't Mary Shelley, then who could it be?"

In the entire UN, the person with the best physical combat ability is probably either Cervantes or Mary Shelley.

Moreover, considering the comparison of their past records, Mary Shelley should be the strongest.

"Hey, think about it carefully, isn't the answer obvious?"

Fabre was speechless: "I'm sorry, I really didn't expect that."

“It’s obviously obvious.” Holmes clicked his tongue. “Never mind, just look at it.”

"ah?"

Just as Fabre was about to ask further questions, he caught a glimpse of Balzac, who had been standing guard in the middle of the street, suddenly jumping up.

Before Fabre could react, a blast of sound waves crashed into him, catching him off guard and causing him to stumble and nearly fall to the ground.

Lewis was, after all, a rigorously trained ASA employee. Moreover, he was a formidable figure who had made a name for himself in the European supernatural world. His usual goofy demeanor did not mean that his title of "Mad Knight" was undeserved. Apart from his hat nearly flying off, nothing happened to him. Instead, he immediately went into alert mode.

Lewis acted decisively, adopting a defensive stance in front of Fabre, and then looked in the direction from which the collision had occurred.

The first thing he saw was Balzac, whose clothes were completely torn and whose arms were obviously deformed, the street was in a mess in an instant, and two somewhat disheveled figures floating in mid-air.

That's Jules Verne, and also Pu Songling.

Verne frowned at this moment: "Mach-level dynamic vision and reflexes, this kind of monstrous combat power... is it really impossible to break through directly from the front?"

Pu Songling was unsteady on his feet and looked dizzy as if he had been shaken violently, so he spoke somewhat recklessly: "What right do you have to call him a monster when you drive at several Mach with your bare body?"

It's clear that Pu Songling was standing right next to Jules Verne and was directly affected by the impact of this collision.

Jules Verne glanced at Pu Songling but said nothing.

Above Verne's head, a spherical mechanical device with a radius of about 1.5 meters was quietly suspended. ASA, who had just reviewed the joint research institute's data not long ago, recognized the device at a glance.

That is the ability amplification device researched and manufactured by Jules Verne, the "Resonance Chamber".

Fabre finally came to his senses, looking at Verne floating in mid-air and the mechanical device floating above his head, somewhat incredulously: "Verne? I thought his special ability was only mobility..."

“That’s a misunderstanding.” Holmes’ voice carried a hint of amusement over the communicator. “Verne’s ability, ‘Deep Sea Wandering,’ isn’t specifically about enhancing mobility; it’s simply the effect of manipulating fluids combined with his submarine, which allows for that terrifying maneuverability.”

Here, we first need to perform a simple calculation.

Data collected from the joint research institute clearly shows information about the Nautilus, a submarine with supernatural abilities.

The Nautilus was shaped like a cigar with a ram, with a length of exactly seventy meters and a width of eight meters at its widest point. Most of the Nautilus's structure was made of horseshoes and solid steel welded together, which made the Nautilus look more like a huge solid steel block.

The Nautilus's steel structure, along with its internal stern engines, control equipment, auxiliary equipment, and various furniture in the living quarters, weighed a total of 1,492.13 tons.

Because Verne's ability "Deep Sea Wandering" can create a frictionless environment in the fluid around the ship, the Nautilus's thrust is zero when it moves forward.

Simply put, when the Nautilus moves through the air, it's equivalent to Jules Verne using his supernatural abilities to continuously and steadily support a giant object with a volume of 1,502 cubic meters and a weight of 1,492.13 tons.

Although the resonance chamber had a stable power supply and some auxiliary equipment, and Verne himself had to be fully focused to achieve a stable output, it was enough to demonstrate the terrifying output capability of Verne's "Deep Sea Wandering".

That is absolutely enough to be called the UN's strongest physical attack power.