Chapter Twenty-Three: The Holy Grail

Wei Shiwen didn't like to drink coffee and tea, so he ignored the black tea brought by Alice Phil, but took out a bottle of carbonated drink from his carry-on space and "knocked it out" and drank half of it, and after taking a long breath, he introduced himself: "Emiya Kiritsugu, you have made two mistakes, first, I have no connection with the servant of the magician rank; Second, I'm not also the so-called master, because I'm not from this world, and I don't use the innate magic circuit, so I don't know anything about magic in this world. As for the magic fluctuations you feel, it's because I was injured while cooking, and the guy who works in my shop knows a little magic, and then made this bandage for me......"

Weigong Kiritsugu, who was sitting opposite Wei Shiwen, had a cold face and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it straight to the point!" Single-handedly breaking into the castles full of magical enchantments at night, if it's just nonsense, then there's no need! ”

Wei Shiwen glanced at Alice Phil, who was sitting next to Kiritsugu Emiya, and Artoria, who was standing behind them with a sword, and said, "Okay! As I said before, I'm here to negotiate a deal, I'll talk about my chips first, you listen to it, you think it's appropriate, let's continue to talk - before that, I want to ask, do you know the immortals in the legends of the East? ”

The magic of the Moon World is based on Western culture, so Huaxia Qi cultivation is weak, its reputation is not obvious, and there are few people who know all kinds of legends, and Emiya Kiritsugu used to hunt magicians as his profession, and he knew very little about this kind of thing that had nothing to do with him, so he asked Xu Xingchuan, who had a mysterious origin, for help, and said: "The so-called immortals, how much do you know?" ”

Xu Xingchuan entered the spirit state at this time and stood at a high place, one after another sword qi was arranged around him, always on guard, although he didn't fully believe Wei Shiwen's words, but he felt that at least seventy or eighty percent of the words were true, plus the carry-on space or storage ring This thing is the standard configuration of the single infinite flow protagonist of the past generations - since this guy has no possibility of becoming a master, the goal is not the Holy Grail that can fulfill his wish but is dispensable, then it has nothing to do with himself.

Emiya Kiritsugu asked himself a question through the servant and the master, Xu Xingchuan thought for a while and replied: "In Chinese culture, there are many interpretations of immortals, (in fantasy novels) strong enough to pick the stars and take the moon, change the sky and change the time, and even open up the universe; The weak can live forever and live with the heavens, and I don't know which one he is referring to. ”

Wei Shiwen continued: "The so-called immortals, eating and drinking, and immortality—what many people want in their lives is nothing more than that. ”

Emiya Kiritsugu frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

Seeing that Emiya Kiritsugu was behaving like this, Wei Shiwen thought about it carefully, and found that he threw this chip too early, and it couldn't reflect its due value at all, so he had to forcibly change the topic and said, "Since you are here to participate in the Holy Grail War, as a member of the Imperial Three Family, how much do you know about the nature of the Holy Grail War?" Or to put it another way, what is the principle of the universal wishing machine Holy Grail to fulfill wishes, do you understand? ”

According to Emiya Kiritsugu's character, he uses magic as a tool, and he doesn't spend a lot of energy and time studying magic like other magicians, so he can't start with Wei Shiwen's problem, Artoria is here to fight, not to mention Xu Xingchuan, who has only watched anime but has not studied further, so Emiya Kiritsugu shook his head and said, "I don't know!" ”

"If you don't know, I won't be able to fool you, let me think about what kind of language is better." Wei Shiwen thought about it, and then said: "It's okay if you don't understand, then I'll explain the principle in an analogical way - the inherent enchantment that is listed as a forbidden spell by the Magic Association, I think you've all heard of it!" ”

Alice Fell and Emiya Kiritsugu nodded together, (Xu Xingchuan smiled and said, "The king's army is still an infinite sword system?") ”)

"It's good to know." Wei Shiwen said: "The inherent enchantment is to put it bluntly, it is to shape the mental image world of the spellcaster, and erode the real world in this way, and temporarily modify the world into the mind image landscape of the magician, as long as it is accumulated over many years, it can use the great magic to create a personal mental image world." And because it erodes the real world, Gaia, the restraining force responsible for protecting the earth from destruction, will be activated, and the space will be manipulated to compress and consume the inherent barrier, so in addition to consuming a lot of mana, the time for the inherent barrier to appear is basically very short.

Fantasy embodiment, a higher level of the inherent enchantment, or the inherent enchantment is deduced from the illusion of the manifestation, and you can figure out the relationship without me saying more. Similar to but different from the inherent enchantment, utopian embodiment is to connect one's own will with the world, so that the world can change according to one's imagination, or the things and events depicted in one's mind are created from the impossible—but to put it bluntly, it is only according to Schrödinger's cat principle, which manifests one of the many possibilities by interfering with the possibilities. ”

Artoria said, "What do you have to do with the Holy Grail that grants any wish?" ”

Emiya Kiritsugu looked Wei Shiwen in the eye and said, "Saber, he has made it very clear - whether it is an inherent enchantment or a fantasy manifestation, it is to map the inner world of the caster to the real world. In the same way, to be able to fulfill any wish of the wisher and change a wish into reality, the principle of the Holy Grail should be this - to modify the world. ”

"Bingo, congratulations on getting it right, but unfortunately I'm not a happy dictionary here, and there is no prize for answering the question correctly." Wei Shiwen didn't care whether a few people understood it or not, he played a stalk directly, and then got serious and said: "The Holy Grail that fulfills any wish is actually just a king-sized modifier that modifies the real world according to the wishes made by the wisher, but compared to the 'Inherent Enchantment' and 'Fantasy Manifestation' Holy Grail, it is more secure, and it is directly modified from the 'root'. ”

Wei Shiwen drank the remaining half bottle of carbonated drink into his stomach and said, "The three conditions necessary for the Holy Grail War are, first, the 'Great Grail' magic array buried in the underground of Dongmu City draws a sufficient amount of magic power from the leylines, because the magic power required is too strong, and it must take time to move forward slowly, so it will take sixty years to accumulate the magic power needed for a Holy Grail War. ”

"Second, select seven magicians who can become masters, and let them summon seven suitable servants through the summoning ceremony. In doing so, the Grand Chalice is connected to the "Seat of the Immortal" located outside the timeline, and selects the Heroic Spirits that are related to the sacred relics that serve as the medium of the ritual, pulls them into the real world with their respective Masters as anchors, and divides them into seven ranks according to the characteristics of the Heroic Spirits as archetypes. ”

"Thirdly, it's the Little Holy Grail. After the Servant is defeated or the Servant is fixed in the real world, the souls of the Immortals who are unable to establish themselves in the real world will not return to the Throne of the Immortal Soul outside the world for the first time, but will be held by the Little Grail. After only the last group of Servants and Masters remains, the souls of the six Servants will be released by the Little Grail, using the power of their simultaneous return to the "Throne of Valhalla" located on the outer side of the world, breaking through the real world and the roots, and fixing the passage with the vast amount of magic accumulated in the Great Grail.

The true face of the Holy Grail War is nothing more than the realization of the ultimate knowledge of the magicians of the Gosanka, the beginning of various phenomena, and the 'causes' of everything, and the vortex of the root at the very top, and the magicians who are attracted by the "Holy Grail can fulfill any wish" are nothing more than sacrifices. ”

After talking for a long time, Wei Shiwen was a little thirsty again, took out a bottle of herbal tea from his carry-on space and drank two sips, and then said: "Here, I would like to introduce the so-called Imperial Three Families, one of them, the Einzberen family that you represent, although the talent in using magic to fight is very poor, but it has single-handedly created the Great Holy Grail system and the Little Holy Grail, and even shaped the Little Holy Grail into the form of an artificial human - I'm right! Mrs. Alice Fair? ”

"I don't understand what you're talking about?" Alice Phil turned her head to look at Wei Shiwen and whispered, but everyone present could tell that she was lying.

Wei Shiwen was noncommittal, chuckled and said: "It's okay if you don't admit it, as the Holy Grail War progresses, the more servants are defeated, the heavier the burden you will bear as a little Holy Grail." In order to protect the souls of the Heroes, the life force in your body will be frantically converted into magic, and your body will become weaker and weaker, not to mention that you don't even have the strength to open the door, and you can't even hold the utensils, and it is estimated that your life will end with the Holy Grail War. ”

Alice Phil smiled bitterly, and when Emiya Kiritsugu saw his wife's expression, he knew that what Wei Shiwen said was true, and asked, "Your Excellency knows so well about the Holy Grail War, what do you want from us?" A spell to qualify for the Holy Grail War? Or Saber's ownership? ”

“Master!” Although she knew that Emiya Kiritsugu would do whatever it takes, Artoria didn't expect Emiya Kiritsugu's bottom line to be so low.

Unlike the upright Artoria, Xu Xingchuan admires Emiya Kiritsugu's determination - he prefers characters like Red A and Emiya Kiritsugu to the "righteous partner" of Emiya Shirou ("Fate"), who is desperate to achieve his goal while cherishing everyone around him.

Wei Shiwen said: "Hey! Before I threw my chips, you spread your hole cards yourself, and even if you play a game, no one will play like this! Shouldn't one move be set at a time, and the enemy will be crippled before finally amplifying in a wave? You're too direct, so I was caught off guard, I didn't say a lot of good words, even if I wrote a novel, I had to have enough water. ”