When the Sand Sculpture Trial Comes to Yokohama

"I'm sorry... you can tell me anything else you need, and I'll help you as much as possible." Matou Kariya suddenly felt guilty.He realizes that he has become dependent on the servants he summons, but fails to pay attention to the needs of the servants.

Although Matou Zouken has always instilled in him the saying that "a follower is a tool to win victory", but he feels that Minan Rinka is too ineffective.

It seems that in the future he will have to ask his followers what they need, so as not to be choked by her words.

Minan Rinhua nodded, turned around and sat down on the chair beside her.

"What are you reading?" Her gaze swept across the book held in Matou Kariya's hands, a little curious.

The cover of this book is made of leather, and the paper inside the pages is slightly yellowed due to the passage of time, and the corners of the pages are curled up, obviously it has been flipped through many times.Seeing Minan Rinka's question, Matou Kariya turned the cover of the book in front of Minan Rinka.

There are a few handwritten words on the cover: "Introduction to the Magic Array".

"This is an introductory book about drawing magic circles and learning various spells." Matou Kariya said, "After deciding to become a magician who can participate in the Holy Grail War, I used the engraving worms of Matou's family to build a magician in my body. Magic circuit, while learning the basics."

"Can you show me?" The magic power used by the magician in Fuyuki City is a new ability that is different from the various powers that Minan Rinka has seen in the past.In order to complete the S-rank mission, she felt that she had to understand this power.

"Yes." Kariya Matou pushed the book in front of Rinka Minan unexpectedly, "But you servants rely on the master's magic power to act. Due to the characteristics of heroic spirits, servants do not need to implant You don’t need to draw a magic circle to use your magic power. Ordinary moves are far stronger than magicians can only use magic circles. It’s the first time I’ve seen you who are interested in magic circles like you. "

"There are many more that you haven't seen..." Minan Rinka blocked Matou Kariya's mouth with one sentence, "You never thought about what would happen if a follower who can cast spells without loops and a strengthened magic circle superimposed Does it work?"

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +999]

At that moment, Jiantong Yanye was stunned.

Servants rely on the master's magic power to act, and they can cast a big move thousands of times stronger than ordinary magicians without a magic circuit.Therefore, as long as the magic power is enough, the followers can make moves at will, and the concept of magicians relying on magic circuits and magic circles to fight is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

No one has ever thought of letting followers learn magic circles and spells that can strengthen and even guide the operation of magic power more precisely.The only Heroic Spirit who can use magic circles and spells is Caster, but Caster is a crispy skin without spells.

What would happen if a follower with a thick bloodskin also learned magic circles and spells?

Thinking of this, Matou Kariya's heart beat rapidly.But soon, his originally hot chest cooled down again because of a thought.

So what if Berserker is interested in magic circles and spells?The Holy Grail War lasted less than a month, and it took him more than half a month to proficiently make the simplest destruction magic circle.

Learning magic is not easy, learning from scratch is even more difficult.

Minan Rinhua has turned over several pages at this moment, holding the parchment and quill on his desk in his hand, ready to practice drawing the first magic circle.Kariya Matou knew that saying this would dampen her enthusiasm for learning, but she couldn't help reminding: "Learning these things is not an easy task. Maybe you haven't learned anything at all before the end of the Holy Grail War."

Taking a look at the magic circle that Minan Rinka was drawing on the parchment, Matou Kariya immediately recognized that it was the most basic explosion magic circle.He spoke again: "Explosion magic circle, this is also the first magic circle I learned. Back then, it took me [-] days to find the golden ratio of magic circle, spells, input magic power, and speed. Successfully launched this explosive magic circle..."

Before Matou Kariya finished speaking, Minan Rinka had already written the last stroke on the parchment.I saw her covering the magic circle with her right hand, and chanting the matching mantra in a low voice: "Use the circle as the foundation, use my magic power as the flint..."

In the blink of an eye by Matou Kariya, a dazzling light shone from the depths of his heart.There was only a loud explosion, and the parchment with the magic circle on it exploded in an instant.

Ashes with sparks fell in all directions, and gray smoke covered the entire table.After the smoke cleared, Matou Kariya suddenly found that half of the desk made of solid wood had been blown apart.

Minan Rinka was still holding the "Encyclopedia of Magic Array" in her hand, and she was sitting on the other side of the collapsed table, watching him quietly.

"Excuse me, you won't ask me to pay, will you?" She asked calmly.

After realizing what happened, Matou Kariya's face turned black.

As soon as he finished talking about how difficult it was to learn the explosive magic array and how long he had been learning it, Minan Rinka blew up his desk with the same array... Is there anyone who slaps his face so quickly! ?

And this is the most basic magic circle!When he successfully activated the explosive magic circle for the first time, he just blackened the color of the book a little bit, but when it was Minan Rinka's turn, his desk completely exploded! ?

Not like this!

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +999]

"No compensation, no compensation!" Jian Tong Yanye waved his hands with a dark face, "I'm too happy, how could I make you pay..."

He should have been happy.

I thought I would summon a Berserker, but I didn't expect this Berserker to be smart at all;

Originally, I was worried that Berserker would not be crazy enough, but I didn't expect that Berserker could not only use teleportation magic, but also didn't need to extract magic power from his body;

Originally thought that he had obtained a Berserker with rationality and strength, but this Berserker is also a genius who learns magic, and can be a Caster...

This wave is obviously bloody, but why can't Matou Kariya not be happy!

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +999]

Minan Rinhua said again: "Your magic book is pretty good, this one is pretty good, I think that one seems to be pretty good too..."

Matou Kariya immediately understood Minan Rinka's meaning, and said with gritted teeth, "I'll give you whichever copy you want..."

"Great! Have fun! Good!" Minan Rinhua cheered up.She stood up, and directly put Matou Kariya's shelf of books into her arms...

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +999]

Minan Rinka brought a large stack of books, and she was not vague, leaning on the half-blown desk and started reading.

Minan Rinka was also surprised that she was able to succeed in practicing the explosion circle for the first time just now.

Minan Rinka is not a servant summoned by Matou Kariya, so she does not have any magic power in her body, nor can she use Matou Kariya's magic power through the connection between the servant and the master.So when launching the magic circle, she made a bold attempt—that is, to input the spiritual power in her body into the magic circle instead of magic power.

Unexpectedly, after the input of pure spiritual power, the magic circle also started to operate, and the power produced was even several times greater than that of ordinary magicians when they injected magic power.

At that moment, Minan Rinka realized one thing - the sixth-level physique of the spiritual talent redeemed by the system is more powerful than the magic circuit of the magician.

And the magic power control requirement when starting the magic circle is naturally not a problem for her - Minan Rinka has long been familiar with the use of spiritual power.If the magic power control accuracy required by the magic circle is equivalent to carving flowers with radishes, then Minan Rinka usually does the work of separating tissues under the microscope.

That being the case, what is she waiting for?I must take this opportunity to learn the magic circle.

Minan Rinka was flipping through the book, thinking about her bright future.

When encountering the time-traveling army, she would draw an inconspicuous magic circle on the ground, and then inject spiritual power. With a "boom", the retrograde army that stepped into the magic circle was blown up.Didn't expect that?

When meeting a magician, she also draws a magic circle and injects spiritual power.The magician thought quite beautifully, thinking that she was already out of the range of the magic circle, but she didn't know that the range of her magic circle was several times that of others. With a "boom", the magician was blown up.Didn't expect that?

When meeting the rat of the dead house...

Minan Rinka was having fun while thinking about it, and Matou Kariya, who was watching from the side, felt palpitations again.

This Berserker laughed so happily, could it be that he was laughing at him...

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +300]

Matou Kariya felt that this was not good, could he still have some prestige in front of his followers?So he gritted his teeth and picked up the book to read.

Both of them read books next to half of the desk like elementary school students, is this okay?

But soon, Matou Kariya realized that he was thinking too naively.After reading the book for a while, he found that Minan Linhua could turn seven or eight pages in the time he turned a page.

When he turned seven or eight pages, Minan Rinka had already gone to get the next book...

Otherwise, how can you say that sitting next to a bully is annoying.

When I was in class, I was still staring at the blackboard in a daze, and the bully next door raised his hands wildly, like a real Hermione: "Teacher, I know the answer!", "Teacher, I can do this question!" , "Teacher, you wrote the wrong sign on the blackboard!"

After class, I was still praying for less homework today so I could go home and play games, but Xueba said: "Teacher, there are too few homework assigned today, I have already finished it!" The teacher looked at it: "Come on, let's One more test paper!" Tonight's game time will be cold.

During the exam, I was still writing multiple-choice questions on the first page, and there was a "crash" sound of the test paper turning the page next to me, and the top student next door had already reached the third page...

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +555]

……

The room was very quiet, save for the soft sound of pages turning over.

After Matou Kariya calmed down, he finally concentrated and read the magic book for more than half an hour.But because of his frail body, it was difficult for him to concentrate for a long time.

After rubbing his sore temples, Matou Kariya cast his eyes on Minan Rinka.

The girl was still sitting quietly by the window, flipping through the slightly old book in her hand page by page.Her complexion was much paler than the yellowed paper.When she pressed her fingertips on the pages of the book, her fingers were rubbed with slender shadows by the morning sun.

When he was quiet, he didn't look like a berserker at all.

Matou Kariya was staring at Minan Rinka in a daze, only to see Minan Rinka open the last page and close the book in an instant.

Without warning, she raised her eyes and looked at Matou Kariya, her blue eyes flickered.

"What are you looking at?" Minan Rinhua asked immediately.

Jiantong Kariya's accent was distorted for a moment: "What are you doing?"

Minan Linhua paused for a moment: "Have you memorized those few pages of incantations you just learned, and you're just deserting?"

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +135]

It is true that Matou Kariya did not recite it thoroughly, but he said bravely, "I have recited it."

"Have you recited it? That's a good thing." Minan Lin took a smile, "Come on, let me recite it for you..."

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +250]

"Farewell." Kariya Matou felt that since Berserker came, he didn't even dare to take a deep breath.

Minan Rinhua guessed that he didn't memorize it thoroughly, and didn't intend to really recite him, but picked up the next book.And Jiantong Yanye stared at her thoughtfully for a few seconds, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Berserker, what would you do if you got the Holy Grail?" He sat by the window, slid his fingers restlessly on the spine of the book on the table for a moment, and suddenly asked.

Minan Rinhua was taken aback.She didn't think about it carefully.After all, it has only been one night since I learned about the Holy Grail War.

It is said that the Holy Grail is an omnipotent wishing machine that can fulfill wishes that human beings cannot.In that case, if you can get the Holy Grail, then it seems good to make the wish of "making all the time revisionists and the time retrograde army disappear"?

But this wish cannot be said in front of Matou Kariya. Firstly, the god judges have signed confidentiality contracts, and they must not disclose anything related to the government of the time and the historical revisionists; secondly, Minan Rinka knows that Matou Kariya's servant is actually gone now, but he doesn't know it yet...

In addition, when practicing the simple magic in the book just now, Minan Rinka had a guess.

The moment the explosion magic was activated, she felt that the magic circle drawn on the paper guided the spiritual power she input to some extent.Under the guidance of Lingli, the air was strongly compressed, and then the compressed air was released instantly.The moment the compressed air was released, the resulting energy caused the desk to explode.

If her feeling is correct, then the effect of the magic circle is not to create new substances out of nothing, but to use some means to use the original substances to produce reactions and achieve certain effects.

Magic may be miraculous, but matter is conserved—this law will not change, no matter how amazing magic is.Thinking about it in this way, the magic power of the Holy Grail can only make it use the existing material to operate, and the effect it can achieve is also limited.

Magicians stubbornly believe that the Holy Grail can make any miracle imaginable happen.But no one can prove that to be true.

As an outsider, Minan Rinka was not bound by this inherent concept, but felt something was wrong.

But it was useless for her to think about the Holy Grail.After all, the only people who can make a wish on the Holy Grail are the participants of the Holy Grail War, and she is not a participant at all.

The desire to make the time revisionists and the time retrograde army disappear, as expected, I still have to work hard to realize it on my own!

Minan Rinka thought that the transmission channel she opened made the real Berserker disappear.If Matou Kariya's wish is not difficult, she can help realize it.So she cleared her throat and put on a very sincere expression: "Master, your wish is my wish. Tell me, what do you want to do after you get the Holy Grail?"

Kariya Matou was a little surprised.Heroic spirits who can sign a contract with the Holy Grail and become servants often have their own wishes that they want to realize, and Minan Rinka's words, "Your wish is my wish" or something, sound too commercialized... …

Are all the current followers like this?It feels very routine and insincere!

But Kariya Matou didn't intend to hide the reason why he wanted to take the Holy Grail.The silver-haired man sitting by the window in the morning light sighed, and said in a low voice, "The reason why I did this was to save a girl."

"The cause of the matter starts with a woman. That is a woman I have always loved." Matou Yanye sighed, "She is my childhood sweetheart, and I have had a crush on her since I was a child."

"Oh." Minan Rinka nodded, indicating that she was listening.

"However, another man appeared. That man was different from me. He was more humorous and stronger than me. Besides, he was the head of a pure magician family—of course, in pursuit of her At that time, that man was not the head of the family, but he was also the leading young man in a pure-blooded family."

"Hmm..." Minan Rinka inexplicably heard a sense of déjà vu from Matou Kariya's words...

"At the time, me and that man were chasing my childhood sweetheart. But in the end I failed. After all, I haven't been a popular and gregarious person since middle school."

When Matou Kariya talked about the events of that year, there was still bitterness in his heart that would not fade at all. It was all his fault that he was too high in adolescence, and when he was at the age when he knew how to pursue girls, he missed too much time. Can't compare to that Tohsaka Tokiomi: "She is still married to that man, and I live alone. After so many years, I still can't let her go, and even miss her child..."

Minan Rinka tentatively said, "Oh, Lily's green eyes...?"

Matou Kariya's thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and the whole person seemed a little confused: "What are you talking about? What Lily?"

Minan Rinka was silent for a moment: "It's nothing..." It's not the right time to play Harry Potter.

"I didn't want to be a magician, so I left Matou's house. After that, I only dared to learn about her life in secret. As long as I knew that she was still smiling happily, I was satisfied. I always thought that man would be more than I could make her happier, but I was wrong."

Kariya Matou recalled his reason for participating in the Holy Grail War.He clenched his fist, the veins on the back of his hand bulging.Minan Rinka saw something crawling through his veins quickly.

"A year ago, I learned that the man sent their daughter to Matou's house to be an adopted daughter in this damned place. Sakura—their daughter is called Sakura, a girl who is as weak and beautiful as cherry blossoms, but in Matou's dirty Yan's subordinates have been tortured."

"Sakura has a high talent for magic, but her original magic attribute is an imaginary number, so she cannot inherit the magic of the Matou family. Matou Zouken never pampered children. He put Sakura in the insect warehouse day and night , let his disgusting bugs modify her body and magic circuits, so that she can be used as a tool to win the Holy Grail War!"

Speaking of this, Kariya Matou fell into a rage.He slammed his fist on the table.

"I can't defeat Matou Zouken, and I can't rescue Sakura." Matou Kariya's voice suddenly softened, because his too weak body became angry, and his gray and emaciated cheeks flushed inappropriately at this moment , "But I learned a piece of news, that is, as long as the Matou family wins this time in the Holy Grail War, Sakura doesn't need to continue to suffer as a secret weapon; at the same time, that man also participated in this Holy Grail War. "

"That man—" He gritted his teeth and said, "Tokiomi Tohsaka—I won't let him go—"

Minan Rinka let out a soft breath.

"I see." She stood up, "Where is Sakura?"

Matou Kariya was suddenly pulled away from his fantasy by Minan Rinka's words.He raised his head in a daze: "Where is Sakura?"

Minan Rinka was a little surprised: "Didn't you participate in the Holy Grail War to save her? Then let's go and save her, let's go?"

Jiantong Kariya was taken aback: "Is he walking now?"

Minan Rinka: "Otherwise?"

[System prompt: Kariya Matou's heartbeat value +999]

"You..." Jiantong Yanye murmured, "You really deserve to be a berserker... are you so crazy..."

Minan Rinka interrupted him expressionlessly: "Is it crazy to save an innocent little girl? Then I think the bottom line of your magician circle is very low..."

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +999]