Several months after the events in the Artic Incident, thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II is now stuck at a boarding school, but that still doesn't stop him from carrying out his dirty plans, and after this, he's going straight. Artemis has built a futuristic device, the C Cube, from stolen fairy technology, which makes all other human technology obsolete. Though the technology he harnessed is outdated below ground, the cube he creates is still better than any human supercomputer by about five decades.