Matou Tsuruno never expected that his home would be gone while he was sleeping.
He is the older brother of Matou Kariya, the nominal head of the Matou family, and the eldest son. In fact, he is Matou Zangyan's puppet.
In terms of magic ability, he is worse than Matou Kariya, with only weak magic power. Although he constantly comforts himself that obeying Matou Zouken is for the continuation of the family and for owning the assets of the Matou family and a carefree life, this
The psychological pressure still made him drunk and dreamy.
Tonight Tong Yanye will become the master, and he is not even qualified to participate, so he gets drunk and when he wakes up from the water, he finds that he has been tied up with ropes and made into a rice dumpling.
Naturally, a person like him doesn't speak strictly. After a simple question, he told me everything he knew and didn't know.
At this moment, he was thrown into the corridor with his mouth gagged, trembling and worried about his fate.
As for his son, the famous Shinbei Matou Shinji, he was currently studying abroad due to the ongoing Fourth Holy Grail War, and avoided this night that would leave a shadow on him.
Ji Xing has naturally obtained the magic books and some magic resources he wanted.
After all, our ancestors were prosperous, and even if they have declined over the years, there is still something left.
Kenneth, of course, had no interest in it, and even dismissed it, regardless of Ji Xing, who was sitting there flipping through a book, holding Matou Sakura's right arm and squinting his eyes to observe.
Matou Sakura, who was sitting on the bed next to her, was like a rag doll, emotionless, with a big hat on her head that could cover half of her face, letting Kenneth do whatever he wanted.
After a while, Kenneth said: "You are not a child of the Matou family. That kind of family can no longer produce a magician of your caliber. There are 40 main circuits and 30 auxiliary circuits. They are not much worse than mine."
, even those magic families that have used the so-called eugenics method for five or six generations, most of their descendants are far behind you."
"...Yeah." Matou Sakura responded softly, then shook her head: "Grandpa Zang Yan said that I am a member of the Matou family since I came here."
Kenneth snorted and just raised his head and said his own: "Your endurance is not bad. After persisting in that disgusting worm pile for a year, your magic circuit has been broadened a lot, and your qualifications have become better.
At your level, being the maid of my Archibald family will not tarnish the family's reputation. Be grateful for my appreciation. I will personally remove the remaining bugs from your body and restore you to normal.
Some lifespan.”
Matou Sakura looked at him blankly and didn't respond.
Kenneth was a little impatient, and then Ji Xing's words came from behind him: "Then please Master Kenneth, please deworm her."
"It's just because she has good magic qualifications." Kenneth turned around and said, "What about you? Did you understand anything from reading the book? Or didn't you understand anything at all?"
"I don't know much about it," Ji Xing replied.
To save face, Kenneth 'exposed' Ji Xing with disdain: "In order to keep the secrets of magic, the magician family's collection of books will not contain the most basic knowledge, that is, 1 and 2. They will only start with 3 and 4. For
For people who have never been exposed to magic, it is like a bible or a story book.
Even if it is a family like this, I think they will abide by the rules, and 1 and 2 will only be told by the elders."
"It seems so." Ji Xing nodded.
This reaction made Kenneth a little stunned. Is the old guy so thick-skinned? Or...
"Yes, although the era you live in is at the end of the Age of Gods, it is still in the Age of Mythology after all. Magicians will always see some things that were even called magic at that time, and they will have some basics." Kenneth said.
"I am Sanren, the Penglai Gunslinger. I have been in love with guns all my life. How can I understand magic?" Ji Xing smiled and shook his head: "So 1 and 2, I still need Master Kenneth to explain to me."
Kenneth: "..."
Listen to what you said for yourself, don’t you think it’s very contradictory, Penglai Gunslinger Sanren?!
"This is your exchange for defeating Berserker. I will naturally fulfill my promise." After being choked for a few seconds, he turned back with a cold snort and said to Matou Sakura: "I will only tell you this once. As a maid, please listen carefully to me.
Stay!"
"……oh."
As a first-level lecturer at Clock Tower, which is equivalent to a university professor, and an elite with multiple world-class papers, Kenneth probably hasn’t taught 1+1 in many years, so he sorted out his thoughts.
"First of all... you need to know what magic is. The so-called magic refers to the use of non-common sense means to reproduce things that are within the reach of common sense."
He raised a finger, as if facing the students in class, and said: "For example, to burn down the house quickly, common sense requires enough fuel and fire, but magic ignores these and uses magic and chanting to achieve the same effect.
Results.”
He looked at Ji Xing: "In the era you live in, technology has not yet developed, and people's common sense is limited by their cognition. They regard many of today's magic as 'No matter how much time and energy is invested, it cannot be achieved with contemporary technology.
Realize' magic. However, with the changes of the times, there are only five major magics recognized by magicians today.
These five major magics are all related to the "root" that magicians pursue throughout their lives. As for what the root is, I will explain to you later.
Between magic and magic, there are actually some things that are beyond ordinary magic and cannot become magic. They are called "magic-level techniques". The master uses the command spell to transfer the space of the servant to his side, which is a simple example.
"
Having said this, he suddenly felt a little stuck and unconfident. As a servant like me... Ji
Use the command spell to ask me for help."
"There won't be such a time!" Kenneth paused, a little unhappy, snorted, raised his head and said: "After understanding what magic is, what you should understand is the necessary foundation for becoming a magician, and the meaning of magic.
source.
If you want to be a magician, you must have magic circuits, and the number of magic circuits is innate. It is like our organs, if they are there, they are there, and if they are not, they are not.
The quantity, quality, and sophistication of magic circuits determine the upper limit of a magician's talent. External force transplantation, expansion, and other methods are all evil. Even if they are successful for a while, they will have a great impact on the future of the magician!"
Obviously, this is where he is proud. Having more than 70 excellent magic circuits, he is certainly proud of it.
However, Ji Xing vaguely remembers that the top puppet master Aozaki Yuko only has 20 magic circuits, which means that circuits do not determine everything, but having none or very few is definitely not enough.
This is something he is more concerned about. Every restart is a fresh start. Even with the accumulation of knowledge and the blessing of the soul, he cannot become a god instantly. And the innate qualifications will still affect Ji Xing's initial accumulation to some extent.
At that time, the intruder identities given by Qixingzhu were generally neither geniuses nor fools.
Three? Five?
Oh, five items won’t work.
It is easy to think of a solution based on the quality of the circuit, but Ji Xing is not willing to lack quantity. He glanced at Matou Sakura and had some ideas in his mind.
"With magic circuits, magicians can extract magic power and use magic." Kenneth continued: "The first is the most basic, using life force to convert it into magic power, and life force is also called 'little source' by magicians.
If you extract too much magic power from small sources, you will lose a lot of lifespan. For example, Matou Kariya outside, his skin color and hair color are manifestations of excessive loss of lifespan. Even if the bugs in the body stop moving, at most there will be only
It’s half a year of life and it’s impossible to make up for it.”
Matou Sakura's lifeless eyes fluctuated slightly.
"Wherever there is a small source, there is a big source. The big source refers to the magic in all things and in the air." Kenneth said to Ji Xing: "The magician who can use the magic of the big source is completely different from the magician who can only transform the life force of the small source."
extent.
As a Servant, you are a material spirit body, and there is no magic circuit in your body. Most of your magic power is supplied by Sora, and a small amount is a kind of 'big source', provided by the Holy Grail."
So even if it's cooperation, you have to tell me who is in charge. Without Sora, you will be so weak that you will disappear in a short time!
Ji Xing understood what Kenneth was saying to him, but he just smiled. It is not difficult for him to borrow more of the magic power of the 'Great Source', but the Holy Grail has been contaminated, and Kenneth's wife's magic power is better.
, just use it first.
Not getting the reaction he wanted, Kenneth got used to it and said: "Outside the Small Source and the Great Source are the roots, the ultimate knowledge, the beginning and end of all things, connecting their own magic circuits to
The root is the goal pursued by talented magicians including me..."
"What determines a magician's talent is the more critical magic imprint passed down from generation to generation..."
Director Ken's lectures were clear and simple, with one link linking to the other. Soon, Ji Xing had a basic understanding of the Moon Shape Magic.
At 12 o'clock in the night, Kenneth's basic teaching ended. He asked Ji Xing: "How is it, Lancer, do you understand the magic?"
"Seven or eight points." Ji Xing nodded.
"Has your curiosity been satisfied?"
"Seven or eight points." Ji Xing added.
Kenneth hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Matou Sakura: "If you are curious about anything, just read the book yourself. Anyway, you don't have the opportunity or need to learn magic. It would be a waste of time to go deeper. Okay, let's continue.
I'm going to deworm the family's trainee maid."
"Thank you," Ji Xing said without turning around. He rummaged around on the desk for a while and found a book about the 'Engraving Worm'.
Bugs are disgusting, and they are so big that they can cause a lot of damage if they burrow into your body.
But what if it’s ‘imprinted fungus’?
If it took him half a year to a year to complete the initial accumulation from scratch, then with the Matou family's book collection resources and records and understanding of Kenneth's explanation, the time was shortened to about one or two months, but this is still not enough.
Restarting the invasion can only be used once. The second life will not have the self-protection ability of 'Tong Yuan' at the beginning. It would not be nice if something unexpected happens.
An hour later, Kenneth threw the sleeping Matou Sakura on the bed and came to the desk. He saw that Ji Xing was completely immersed in the magic book, even lightly sketching with his fingers.
The bright silver spear was thrown directly to the ground!
Then the corners of Kenneth's eyes started to beat wildly.
…
At the same time, Tohsaka Tokiomi's stronghold.
Kotomine Kirei, who had officially severed his master-disciple relationship with Tokiomi Tosaka, hurriedly walked into the room.
"Teacher." Kotomine Kirei greeted with an upright face: "According to Assassin's distant exploration, the genius lecturer from the Clock Tower and his followers seem to have occupied the Matou family as their base and are currently in the reading room.
The Tong family’s magic collection, and the actual head of the Matou family, Matou Zangyan, is probably in danger.”
"Matō Zōen is dead?" Tokiomi Tosaka frowned. Without that old guy, the Matō family may have completely declined. Sakura cannot afford to carry a family, and may even be killed as well. From now on, the Yusan family
Are we going to become two families?
He didn't care about his adopted daughter. He only had these thoughts in his mind, and then heard Kotomine Kirei say again: "From observation, Kenneth's servant is probably a Caster (magician), with mixed black and white hair.
A middle-aged servant about 45 years old, whose identity is currently unknown.
Because he did not know the enemy's situation, Assassin did not get close to investigate to prevent conflicts."
"Caster? The partnership between a genius magician and a heroic magician, no wonder they solved Berserker so quickly." Tokiomi Tosaka suddenly said: "It's a bit tricky."
They, who had just summoned the heroic spirits, did not expect that a battle would break out so soon. One master had even been eliminated and no monitoring was carried out. After all, the seven masters were not all present at that time!
If it weren't for Kotomine Kirei's father, Kotomine Ritsu, who was supervising this time and had certain authority, they might still be kept in the dark.
At first, he didn't pay much attention to the guy who came to 'participate in the magic exchange meeting', but at this time, Tokiomi Tosaka took a few steps solemnly.
Finally, he looked at the figure sitting at the top, wearing golden armor and shining with golden light.
"No need to worry, Kirei." He comforted Kotomine Kirei, and also told himself: "With the great King of Heroes here, no matter who Caster is, we will only win."
"Hmph." Jin Shanshan snorted, acknowledging Tokiomi Tokiomi's praise, but was not deceived by the superficial praise: "You are here late at night discussing the investigation. Are you worried that I will lose to an unknown bastard?
?”
"No." Tokiomi Tosaka bowed quickly: "It's just so that you can win more simply."
…
Emiya Kiritsugu received the news later.
"Saber hasn't arrived in Japan yet, but there are already servants who have decided the winner? She directly attacked the Matou family's mansion. What a confident move."
He looked calm and thought: "Is he a magician who defeated the berserker in a one-on-one confrontation? Sorry, the preparation for the genius lecturer in the Clock Tower seems to be slightly changed."
…
Weber Velvet was a little panicked.
He successfully became a Master and successfully summoned powerful servants using the holy relics he took from his teacher, but why are things developing now so different from what he expected?
It's obviously my turn to show off my power, win the Holy Grail War, and make all the people who look down on me in the Clock Tower admire my talents, but my servant... He looked at the big man next to him who was snoring like thunder.
In the evening, his ears were still ringing from the noise, and there was the snoring again. He couldn't sleep at all. He thought about using magic to control mice to explore the enemy's situation, and now he couldn't sleep even more.
The teacher still participated in the Holy Grail War, and...if he met in the war...
No!
Don't lose to anyone, don't lose to that guy!
He jerked his body and pushed the sleeping big man: "Wake up! Wake up quickly! King of Conquerors, something happened! Wake up!"
"Shut up... don't make trouble..."
While complaining in his sleep, Weber saw huge arms and shadows.
"Ah... let go of me... Wuwuwu... I can't breathe... Wuwu..."