Chapter 1: The Secret of the Weak
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Dessert.
The incomparably sweet taste is popular among young people regardless of gender: girls like to eat it, and boys like to buy it for girls.
Because it is inexplicably rumored to be the death day of Valentine, Valentine's Day, the inexplicable chocolate is regarded as a symbol of couples expressing their hearts to each other.
The intention of boarding on it is: the future of two people can be sweet.
Of course, the chocolate that Carl gave to Tsukahara has nothing to do with what was said above.
Strictly speaking, it's a dress, or rather, the crystallization of magic.
Similar to the Tosaka family's gem magic, which transfers magic power to gems to store magic power for use, Carl's chocolate is another form of magic transfer.
Although it is much less efficient than the magic of the Tosaka family, as a seventh-generation magician, Karl's hard work is still worth relying on.
Tsukahara Mingshi randomly selected a piece from it and stuffed it into his mouth, and under the slippery taste, the heavy sweetness spread. However, this sweetness, after only half a second, all turned into a burning heat that was difficult to swallow.
It was like swallowing red-hot iron juice.
The throat is burning. The burning pain vividly stirred at his nerves, and the rushing magic was like an all-pervasive gas, filling Tsukahara Mingshi's stomach and penetrating every pore through complex blood vessels.
It was the pain of being burned with flames everywhere in the body, and it was like the pain of being cut open by a red-hot iron knife. If you have to simulate it, boil a pot of boiling oil, and then drink it all when it's hot, and you can probably experience the feelings of Tsukahara Mingshi.
And the convergence point of these pains is the back of Tsukahara Mingshi - the magic circuit, the magician's proof.
Why do magicians value lineage and lineage?
This is because the magician's [Mark] can be inherited.
The highest embodiment of the Demon Dao is the inheritance of this heirloom-like seal.
In Tsukahara Mingshi's understanding, it is like drawing a manga, one person draws it for 80 years, and then hands it over to the next person to draw, and the more the number of this inheritance, the more pages of the manga will naturally be.
And this [magic circuit] that can be passed down is the [magic mark], although it sounds very similar, but in the world of magicians these are two very different concepts. For example, Carl and EBNER, as the head of a family, hold the [Magic Mark] inherited from this family. And what Tsukahara Mingshi has can only be called [Magic Circuit]. This distinction is similar to the difference between the [Chair] and the [Dragon Chair].
Therefore, there is no way for a magician like Tsukahara Mingshi, who has only accumulated two generations, to be despised by a group of rich people with illustrious family backgrounds for I don't know how many generations.
What's more, in Tsukahara Mingshi's family, only Tsukahara Mingshi really studied the way of demons, and after his grandmother fell in love with a magician, he left behind a posthumous child without knowing his true identity...... Although the blood of the demon path flows in the Tsukahara family, no one really understands what magic is and what magic is.
In this sense, Tsukahara Mingshi is just a first-generation magician, and if it sounds good, it sounds like the first generation of the Tsukahara family, and if it sounds bad, it is a hillbilly who has just entered the field of magic.
And now, what Carl is doing is tantamount to forcibly stuffing the original comic manuscripts he has worked so hard to accumulate into Tsukahara Mingshi's comic book, forcibly pretending to be a comic book master to deceive the Holy Grail.
Although the intense mana consumption will keep Carl in a state of mana starvation for the next six hours, the Holy Grail will not deprive him of his master's power because of this physical insecurity.
That's a little loophole. It's not deadly, and there's nothing particularly worth exploiting, however, for Carl, even the slightest chance of winning won't give up.
Tsukahara Mingshi gritted his teeth and endured this painful process, and at the same time, he repeatedly swore silently in his heart: I must help Carl revive the Winster family!
A strong thirst for the Holy Grail, a great skill in magic, and a battlefield that is fast approaching the Holy Grail War, three points come together......
On the back of Tsukahara Mingshi's hand, three crimson spells finally surfaced.
Karl breathed a sigh of relief, and that was enough.
How much use Tsukahara will be able to use, he doesn't count on it. A layman is a layman, and it is impossible to consider it as a calculation of combat effectiveness. His greatest significance is to make Carl have one less enemy before the war. Moreover, if it is used properly, directly use the Heroic Spirit's Noble Phantasm to solve the other masters.
Looking at the spell on the back of his hand, Karl finally showed a satisfied smile: "Looks like we've succeeded." Let's check out the flow of the battle. ”
The other two things in Carl's arms have quite a long history. However, due to time constraints, when Carl got them, he didn't have time to explain to Tsukahara Mingshi and took him on the plane.
"Uh-huh, let's talk about it. ”
Tsukahara was looking forward to it, and his dark eyes shone with a sparkling look -- isn't this the scene in the comics? He is about to set foot in a foreign land and use the magic path to fight! This is a tried and tested routine in shonen manga!
This made this hot-blooded magician who reads comics in the clock tower extremely excited.
But because of the boiling torture just now, the black-haired boy is a little weak, and she can't be blamed for it, no matter who drowns after drowning, he won't be too energetic, especially if he is drowning in a boiling pool......
Moreover, the moment he became the master, the basic information about the Holy Grail War also poured into his mind, and the exhaustion of his body combined with the exhaustion of his brain to gain a lot of knowledge in an instant almost made him faint!
However, after barely holding on, his brain quickly returned to clarity, and he was clearly told that the holy relic was the [relic] related to the heroic spirit's life, and it must be a very interesting story.
For example, in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Sir Kenneth, who was eager to win, summoned Lacner, who was eager to deliver the Holy Grail to the Lord, and Ryunosuke, who was also obsessed with killing, summoned Caster, who also had a killing obsession. Secondly, it will give priority to summoning Heroic Spirits related to the war location. However, there are two ways to change the possibility of the Holy Grail War summoning Heroic Spirits. ”
Like the lecturer of the clock tower, Karl raised the golden ring in his hand and slowly continued to explain in a calm and wise voice.
"The first is to apply the Berserker spell, as long as a special two-bar chant is added to the prayer when summoning the Heroic Spirit, it will add the [Madness] attribute to the summoned Heroic Spirit, that is, it is destined to summon the servant of the Berserker position. ”
The berserker belonged to a very special Heroic Rank in the Holy Grail War. No matter what kind of Heroic Spirit it is, it can appear as a berserker, as long as you add a special madness command to the summoning spell. No matter who it is, there is the possibility of going berserk. As such, any Heroic Spirit could be a Berserker.
It is worth mentioning that, because of the existence of this method, it is theoretically possible that there may be plural berserkers in the Holy Grail Wars.
"Uh-huh. ”
Tsukahara Mingshi looked like a good student, poked his arm in his leg, and listened attentively.
"The second is to prepare the holy relics. The closer the connection with the Heroic Spirit that you intend to summon, the more you will be able to ignore the nature of the Lord and forcibly summon the Heroic Spirit that is closely connected to the Holy Relic. This point, for example, during the Fourth Holy Grail War, Emiya Kiritsugu, as an assassin, was able to summon the Saber Knight King, which shows the power of the holy relic. For this purpose, we have prepared the hole card - the Nibelungen's ring. ”
"Oh oh oh!"
Tsukahara applauded very well.
The name is so famous that even Tsukahara Mingshi, who doesn't understand foreign mythology, has heard of it.
This is a mythological treasure quite famous.
In the story of the great hero Siegfried, the absolute protagonist. (Also translated as Siegfried, here is the name that everyone is more affectionate and I write relatively short)
If it is used as a holy relic, it must be the heroic spirit associated with the work of Song of the Nibelungen. Siegfried, or Fafna the Dragon. Either way, they're all very good occult heroes.
The power of the Immortal depends on three aspects.
First, there is the power of the Heroic Spirits themselves, which is not much to say. The stronger the person, the stronger?
The second is the legendary ability that is widely known. Many Heroic Spirits, though not great figures in their lifetimes, possess some kind of power because they are widely misunderstood.
The third is visibility. This is also very understandable, otherwise, it would be nice to make up an invincible god of destruction that only you know and summon it as a servant!
The more well-documented the Heroic Spirit, the clearer its abilities will be, and the more [famous] the Heroic Spirit, the more powerful the ability will be after being summoned.
If it is a "Heroic Spirit that only knows by itself", as in the example just above, then in the occult realm, it does not even qualify as a Heroic Spirit, let alone summon it.
Of course, the best option is Siegfried. A legendary swordsman bathed in dragon blood.
Legend has it that he has a strong body that is invulnerable, and when necessary, he can become the shield of the master, and he has an absolute advantage in combat power when he wields the Balmonk dragon slaying sword.
If it was the dragon Favorna, who had a fierce reputation as a dragon, I am afraid that he would appear as a berserker...... Originally, the magic dragon's excellent ability will be corrected by the Berserker rank, although it is difficult to control, but once used properly, it will become an excellent instant bomb.
In comparison, the two who are at a disadvantage are a little better than the uncontrollable berserkers, or the rational Siegfried.
"This ring! Is that story true? I thought it was just an opera!"
Tsukahara Mingshi was stunned, because while Carl was explaining, he deliberately went to the wikipedia and searched for the Nibelungen Ring, but it only said that it was an opera, and then excerpted something or something. Because this wiki is written in English, the Japanese man who watched it looked sad.
"No, it's just opera and legend, and this ring is an imitation, which I myself have condensed with gold and magic. ”
Karl corrected his statement with a calm face.
“…… Isn't that useless!"
The companion's overly calm rebuttal made Tsukahara Mingshi look helpless: What, what are you saying!
"No, Tsukahara. In the Holy Grail War, the connection is more important than the authenticity of the relics. The occult itself has quite a few conjectures and assumptions. What's more, Siegfried's story is an opera, adding the romantic feelings of the playwright, and there is no "authentic" statement. The focus is on the imitation of the Nibelungen ring made of gold, and the connection with Siegfried that we are going to summon. If you can really summon a dragon slayer warrior, you will probably have a dragon blood body, which can greatly make up for the numerical disadvantage caused by the lack of magic power. Your survival rate will also increase. ”
"Wait?"
Karl's words were very good in the front, but in the back, Tsukahara suddenly sensed that something was wrong: "I? am I going to summon Siegfried?!"
"Of course. Your power as a master is too weak, so you must summon Saber, a rank known for its strong frontal combat. The Saber class must have riding skills, which can also be used on modern vehicles, such as motorcycles. In this way, your safety and our mobility are guaranteed. And I'm calling Robin Hood. The legendary Rogue of Legend. If my guess is correct, he should be summoned from the branches of the oldest oak tree in the Sherwood Forest. Known for his archery, he will definitely appear on the Archer level. Legend has it that as a hero who resists tyranny, he has excellent combat support abilities, hides in the forest, specializes in stealth and arrows, and is the best helper for us to hunt down the enemy's master. ”
Saying this, Carl took a breath, his expression rarely wavering. His lake-like eyes were tumbling, and he bit his lip rarely, and the Caucasian complexion's already fair complexion was tinged with a sickly pale.
"As a master, you and I are both weak. It's not just magic, it's also [backup]. Demonic masters, such as Tosaka and Einzbelen, all have large families, and they are free to collect the holy relics they need, and search for related items to help them in battle. And we don't have the time, energy, money, and connections, so in terms of the quality of the Heroic Spirit, we are weaker than the enemy, as magicians, I can only say that it is average, and your words can only be said to be influential, and naturally we lose again. Therefore, we have to use the advantages and fight the disadvantages. ”
"Oh oh! I see! An archer with plenty of magic power is a scout! After detecting the enemy's master, will my saber solve it? I see! Even if it is summoned by a third-rate magician like me, the heroic spirit is a heroic spirit after all, and it must be stronger than the magician! Attack the enemy master with saber, force the enemy servant into the dogfight, and then take the opportunity to snipe the master? What a strategy! It is worthy of Carl!"
Tsukahara immediately understood what his friend meant, and although his narrative was reversed, it was basically in line with Carl's idea.
"But, Tsukahara, I have to ask you one more time. If you are afraid for your life, it is still too late to give up the power of the master now. This is not child's play. It's really going to die. ”
In the face of his companion's calm and pessimistic words, Tsukahara Mingshi pretended not to hear, and excitedly hugged his friend's shoulder, he frowned unhappily: "Don't be like this, it's weird and uncomfortable." ”
"So, our goal is to snipe master? No wonder you want to use archer! Oops! You said you didn't want me to help, but you still counted me in it!!"
"Don't mess with my hair. ”
"Just get it!
"The flight is about to reach the destination, Beijing, China, and the outside temperature is ......"
Just right, a synthetic voice prompt came from inside the cabin, and Tsukahara Mingshi also knew that he couldn't make any more trouble, so he quickly put away his uneaten chocolate, and repeatedly confirmed the spell on the back of his hand.
"Holy Grail War...... I didn't expect that I would be able to participate in such a powerful magician......'s event!
His dark eyes were fixed on Carl's thin white trench coat.
If it really is such a dangerous magician [war], how can I let my savior, my dear friend, go alone to challenge!