Type-Moon, Sakura Matou Rewrites Destiny

Every gust of wind carried the explosive force of a heavy grenade.

If Sakura kept fighting this way, Lorelei might really just bulldoze her to death.

Sakura shared Lorelei's goal of showing off her strength through this duel.

Naturally, she still had plenty left in reserve.

She glanced at the crowd around them, who had been forced to retreat and put distance between themselves because Lorelei's magecraft had escalated, lest they get caught in the crossfire.

With a flip of her palm, Sakura spat a tiny flame from her mouth.

The little flame swelled in the wind, rapidly expanding...

In the blink of an eye, the matchstick-sized spark became a massive fire serpent nearly ten meters long and two or three meters thick.

And that was not all. Trying to block Lorelei's endless barrage of wind spheres with ordinary Fiendfyre alone would have been nothing more than a fool's dream.

After casting ordinary Fiendfyre, Sakura waved her Magic Wand once more and unleashed a higher-grade blue Fiendfyre spell.

The blue Fiendfyre was responsible for defense, while the red Fiendfyre handled offense.

Once the offensive and defensive magecraft had been set up.

The pressure suddenly shifted to Lorelei's side.

Whether wind blades or wind spheres.

Those two seemingly powerful spells were, in essence, merely modified variants of ordinary Magic Bullets that Lorelei had created to conserve magical energy.

Faced with the sudden surge in pressure, Lorelei, already showing signs of madness, could no longer be bothered to strengthen her spells bit by bit. She simply flung out a magecraft approaching the level of Great Magecraft.

The entire sky darkened at once, and the high-ranking Magi among the spectators hurried to the front of the crowd, casting one defensive spell after another.

"Haha, looks like that little girl from the Matou Family is in trouble..."

Clearly, everyone could sense that Lorelei's spell contained something extraordinary. Besides, apart from the few who had supported Sakura from the start, no one believed she could defeat Lorelei.

"Son of Hleng, raise the waves of the earth!"

A tornado several meters wide suddenly formed beneath the gloomy sky. Like a sword tearing open the earth, it instantly connected heaven and land.

Then, just as Lorelei's chant had declared, the black tornado linked sky and earth. Under its churning force, a third of the dueling ground rolled like ocean waves beneath the raging winds.

As she watched the tornado draw closer, even though the blue Fiendfyre was burning away the magical energy contained within it with all its might, it still had no effect. It could not slow the tornado's advance in the slightest.

When the flying rubble whipped up by the tornado scraped Sakura's cheek, Kurumi, who had been watching from the side with a tense expression, unconsciously grabbed Luo Hao's hand.

Luo Hao looked baffled, then gave her a deeply disdainful stare.

"What are you doing?"

"Ah..."

"Don't tell me you're worried Sakura will be brought down by trash like this? Hmph... Sakura never should have kept worthless riffraff like you around."

"Y-You're no better. Just now, the flower on your head closed because you were nervous too."

Having lived together for so long, Kurumi knew that the flower Luo Hao wore as an ornament changed with her mood—closing, budding, blooming, and so on.

"You..."

Luo Hao raised a hand and pointed at Kurumi. She would never admit it aloud, but she truly had been nervous.

Luo Hao, who had personally trained Sakura, naturally knew what she was capable of. But ability was one thing; how much of her strength Sakura, who lacked combat experience in Luo Hao's eyes, could actually bring out was something only Sakura herself knew.

In short, before Kurumi started making a fuss, Luo Hao had indeed been worried. She had even resolved to rush in and save Sakura the moment she was in danger.

Just as the pair of "sworn enemies" began trading barbs again.

Sakura, having completed her preparations and gathered her magical energy... counterattacked.

"Divine Fire Opening Path!"

With a bang, the shoddy Magic Wand Sakura had made from her own hair exploded.

But she had successfully cast the spell.

The blue Fiendfyre and red Fiendfyre roared the instant the magecraft was unleashed.

Then, a flaming tornado no smaller than the black one, gleaming with blue and red firelight, crashed into the black tornado with a thunderous boom amid violent tremors.

Sakura's True Power, Cheater VS the Pinnacle of Modern Magecraft (End)

Her slender fingers replaced the shattered Magic Wand.

Though that made the spell far more difficult to control, Divine Fire Opening Path still smashed through the black tornado under the command of Sakura's constantly moving fingers, then surged toward Lorelei like a true fire god.

Disbelief.

If Sakura's earlier performance had already seemed genius-level to the Magi watching the duel.

Then now... as she fully unleashed this "magecraft," which fused Grindelwald's Fiendfyre with Dumbledore's Divine Fire Opening Path—two forms of Harry Potter magic.

This little girl, who ordinarily could walk through the Clock Tower without even drawing a second glance from these Magi, was immediately classified as a monster.

"This is a battle between monsters..."

A certain Lord let out that sigh. As for the other monster in his words.

After Sakura's Divine Fire Opening Path destroyed her magecraft, Lorelei, radiating an aura of madness, did not concede.

Instead, she charged into the incoming flames and began chanting loudly once again, using an ancient technique passed down within the Bartholomello family for a thousand years.

It was as though hundreds or thousands of people were speaking at once. After a chant that sounded utterly bizarre to every listener.

Lorelei, who had compressed dozens of segmented spells into a single passage, let a trace of blood spill from the corner of her mouth.

Yet at the same time, dozens of black tornadoes, each even larger than the previous one, descended from the sky and landed around her.

She licked her mouth with slight discomfort, her oral cavity covered in torn wounds from using the spell-compression technique.

Smelling the rusty scent of blood filling her mouth, the madness in Lorelei's eyes intensified.

Dozens of tornadoes churned the winds and clouds. Even the sky above them was affected, and in a season that should have had no gales, violent winds began to howl.

This power, capable of altering the heavens themselves, was why Lorelei was regarded as the pinnacle of modern Magi!

The dozens of black tornadoes mercilessly crushed the flames Sakura had unleashed with all her strength.

They tore apart the entire dueling ground.

Just as both Luo Hao and Kurumi could no longer hold themselves back and were about to move in to rescue Sakura.

Suddenly... relief appeared on both their faces... and they smiled.

Concern had clouded their judgment. True, Divine Fire Opening Path had already been the strongest magecraft Sakura could currently use, and the fact that she had successfully cast it had involved an element of luck.

But... Sakura had never been a magus from beginning to end.

Nor was magecraft the path she intended to walk.

Although Sakura had previously treated the Eastern system she was meant to cultivate as a mere support because she did not know the proper method, ever since awakening, she had diligently trained this power as the foundation of her eternity without relaxing for even a moment. She had long laid down a solid foundation.

As long as she obtained the method, Sakura could reveal the true power she had painstakingly cultivated since her awakening.

And... Luo Hao had already taught Sakura every method she needed during this time.

"I have recited the Yellow Court a thousand times... today, Divine Feet and the Flying Phoenix emerge!"

Shukuchi-ho: Divine Feet, Twelve Divine Phoenix Palms.

These two techniques represented the pinnacle of Luo Hao's centuries of study in Lightness Skill and martial arts. In a sense, they were the peak of Chinese martial arts in an entire world.

Due to the limited time she had spent training, Sakura had only barely learned the two techniques and could barely use them.

But even using them barely was enough to handle the situation before her.

Each step carried her several meters, as if she were constantly teleporting.

With Shukuchi-ho: Divine Feet beneath her feet, Sakura swayed with every step and passed directly through the wall-like ranks of tornadoes amid the spectators' renewed looks of astonishment.

Then, like a fledgling phoenix spreading its wings for the first time.

Using Phoenix Facing the Sun from the Twelve Divine Phoenix Palms, Sakura appeared beside Lorelei with a unique Eastern grace, like a phoenix playing around the Morning Sun, and swung her small hand—a hand that seemed to carry no destructive power whatsoever—toward her.

Others could not see it, but that did not mean Lorelei could not.

In Lorelei's eyes, a phoenix condensed from Qi circled around Sakura's outstretched palm.

Though Lorelei did not know what would happen if that phoenix hit her, she absolutely did not want to find out.

"Don't even think about it~!"

Enduring the intense pain in her mouth, Lorelei's face twisting slightly from agony, she widened her eyes filled with madness and pushed the Noble Mage Circuits unique to her body to their limit.

A strange Mystic Code, seemingly metallic yet possessing the texture of cloth, instantly wrapped around Lorelei's hand.

Like a boxer putting on gloves, Lorelei met Sakura's incoming Divine Phoenix Palm. Pouring all the magical energy in her body into the strange Mystic Code, she threw her fist later but struck first.

The air exploded, and space began to warp between that palm and fist...

On one side was the Qi a cheater had condensed over several years using a top-tier Qi Cultivation Method. On the other was the magical energy released by the powerful Noble Mage Circuits, which had appeared during the Clock Tower's founding days and been perfected by the Bartholomello family ever since.

When those two forces met, it was like needle against wheat awn, sparks crashing into the earth.

Though the limbs of these two "young girls" had yet to touch and remained nearly half a meter apart, the collision of those two forces alone caused the various defenses deployed by the spectators to burst apart one after another.

They did not know what the outcome of this clash would be.

But they knew very well that if this continued, before Sakura and Lorelei could decide a victor, half the spectators would likely be dead.

"Lord Marisbury, please stop them at once!"

Marisbury turned to glance at Roman beside him, who was cloaked in a black robe. He had been about to summon Artoria to interrupt the clash, but when he saw Roman shake his head slightly, he forcibly stopped himself from calling Artoria.

One unlucky magus was swept into the aftermath of Sakura and Lorelei's colliding powers and instantly vomited a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organs.

Then came a second, then a third...

The Magi on the outskirts of the crowd saw this and began retreating.

But the Magi trapped inside by layer after layer of people could only watch helplessly as the power spreading from the collision slowly crushed toward them...

Despair...

At last, just as a renowned magus from Northern Europe prepared to make a desperate stand and slaughter his way through the chaotic crowd blocking his escape.

A suddenly appearing grimoire and a crystal-clear dagger appeared before Lorelei and Sakura respectively.

Then, a burst of magical energy powerful enough to instantly pulverize an ordinary-ranked magus erupted precisely near the openings exposed by Lorelei and Sakura...

Sakura and Lorelei, who could no longer stop themselves, were instantly sent flying by the book and dagger.

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Zelretch's Interference, Luo Hao Makes Her Move

Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, known in the Magecraft world as Zelretch.

He was one of the legendary five Magi in the world, the Marshal of Sorcery of the Clock Tower, and one of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors.

And he was the one who had just released the book and dagger, separating and sending Sakura and Lorelei flying.

"Hohoho... This old man has only just returned, and you're already making such a commotion. Little Lorelei, little Tohsaka Sakura... are you trying to destroy the Clock Tower?"

Before the man arrived, his voice came first.

After those words, carrying more or less a hint of affection, entered the ears of everyone present.

A rift opened between Sakura and Lorelei. Then, an aged pair of hands extended from it, took the floating book and dagger, and only then did the tall, stern-faced old man—Zelretch—step into the dueling ground.

However... the instant Zelretch entered the dueling ground.

A beautiful woman in palace attire suddenly appeared before him as if teleporting and launched an attack directly at the true pinnacle of Magi.

Rifts appeared one after another before the Twelve Divine Phoenix Palms Luo Hao struck out with, exiling the attack—which, taken as a whole, could pulverize an entire mountain range—into other worlds.

Everyone present was dumbfounded by Luo Hao's sudden outburst.