"Don't be afraid, Little Sakura. I'm here."
Fu Yuan's gentle words reached Matou Sakura's ears, bringing a sliver of hope and warmth to her despairing heart.
That's right... she had not been abandoned by everyone. She still had this big brother by her side.
As he comforted Matou Sakura, Fu Yuan looked coldly at Matou Zouken. "Is this why you adopted Little Sakura? Not only did you fail to treat her well, you even planned to use these disgusting bugs to perform Magecraft Modification on her."
"That's right."
Matou Zouken: What Haven't I Seen?!
"That's right."
Matou Zouken admitted it without hesitation and continued, "I never had any intention of raising Little Sakura. She is merely an important tool I need."
"Because the descendants of my Matou family either have inferior Mage Circuits or are trash without Mage Circuits at all, I had no choice but to subject an outstanding outsider to Magecraft Modification and have them parasitize her body."
Matou Zouken seemed certain that Fu Yuan and Matou Sakura were already in his grasp. He answered every one of Fu Yuan's questions readily.
A typical villain destined to die from talking too much.
Matou Sakura possessed Mage Circuits exceptional to the extreme, but she was only a little girl who had never come into contact with magecraft.
Fu Yuan seemed to possess some power, but Matou Zouken did not believe he had the ability to escape his Magecraft Workshop.
A Magecraft Workshop was a magus's territory and their final fortress.
A Magecraft Workshop was a type of "domain" created by magi to refine their magecraft.
Within a Magecraft Workshop, even the most powerful magus would face severe restrictions on any magecraft or mysteries they used, so long as they were not the workshop's owner.
Meanwhile, the owner of a Magecraft Workshop could also use it to greatly enhance their own strength.
Of course, there were plenty of cases where the gap in strength was too great, and someone simply destroyed both the magus and their workshop together.
There were now tens of thousands of Magic Crest Worms within Matou Zouken's Magecraft Workshop, with even more piled up outside. He refused to believe that this mysterious young man could escape his workshop!
Dazzling lightning suddenly appeared.
The glittering lightning transformed into electric arcs that flowed across Fu Yuan's body. Even his clear black-and-white eyes shone with flickering lightning.
The electric arcs stirring Fu Yuan's tousled hair did not make Matou Sakura, whom he held in his arms, feel even the slightest sensation. The power of lightning manifested from true qi remained completely under Fu Yuan's control.
Maintaining the circulation of his true qi, Fu Yuan looked like a thunder god descended into the world. He pointed an arc-wreathed finger at Matou Zouken in the underground workshop.
"Matou Zouken, you just experienced what it feels like to be torn apart by lightning. Next, I'll let you taste what it feels like to be blasted into dust by Swift Feather lightning."
Fu Yuan's phone had already recorded everything that had just happened, including their conversation. His objective had been achieved.
Next, it was time for Fu Yuan to annihilate Matou Zouken and destroy the Matou family.
Seeing lightning coursing over Fu Yuan's body, Matou Zouken's expression changed. He could now feel a suffocating pressure coming from Fu Yuan.
The Magic Crest Worms Matou Zouken had painstakingly raised were all letting out fearful cries beneath Fu Yuan's lightning, as though the enemy before them was not a human, but violent lightning brimming with destructive power.
What an astonishing presence... Who exactly is this man? He didn't seem to use magecraft just now. Why did he suddenly unleash such unbelievable Lightning Magecraft?
Matou Zouken was shocked and unable to believe it.
First of all, when magi used magecraft, they had to perform complicated chants. Some spells also required gestures, after which they expended the magical energy within their bodies to activate the magecraft foundation and cast the relevant spell.
In other words, they could set up a corresponding magic circle and let it replace the chant and gestures.
The more powerful the magecraft, the more conditions were required to cast it, and the longer the preparation time needed... Yet the man before Matou Zouken, who looked like a thunder god descended into the world, seemed to have unleashed such astonishing magecraft in an instant.
Matou Zouken had lived for over five hundred years. What kind of scene had he not seen...
But he had truly never seen a scene like the one before him now!
What Fu Yuan had used was not magecraft at all, but true qi!
Through the true qi cultivated from Great Void Sword Qi, and with the template of Valkyrie: Vermilion Knight, Fu Yuan could freely use all of Valkyrie: Vermilion Knight's abilities.
Mastering the power of lightning and unleashing attacks as swift as thunder was precisely Valkyrie: Vermilion Knight after activating the Amplifier Core.
"Who exactly are you?!" Matou Zouken looked warily at Fu Yuan, whose entire body was wreathed in lightning.
"Me? Didn't Tohsaka Tokiomi tell you before?" Holding Matou Sakura in his arms, Fu Yuan assumed an opening stance with one hand, then slowly said, "I'm just an ordinary person."
An ordinary person?!
Would an ordinary person have lightning crackling all over his body??
Unlike Matou Zouken, Fu Yuan had no boring desire to show off his power to others, nor did he want to trade words with his enemy. Thus, he said sternly, "Matou Zouken, prepare to die. I'm coming."
"...Laughable brat!" Matou Zouken forced his wariness deep into his heart and said viciously, "This is my territory!"
"Go! All of you, kill this man for me!"
As Matou Zouken's cold command fell, the Magic Crest Worms that had feared the lightning moments ago began to stir. Having received their orders, they sprang into action.
Matou Zouken's Magecraft Workshop erupted with a dizzying cacophony. The restless, writhing Magic Crest Worms, driven by Matou Zouken, produced countless shrill and piercing insect cries.
They frantically beat their wings, scraped their sharp limbs, opened their mandibles, and lunged through the air at Fu Yuan and Matou Sakura.
The countless Magic Crest Worms formed an overwhelming swarm. Like a black tide rising from the sea, they surged toward Fu Yuan and Matou Sakura.
Fu Yuan watched the oncoming swarm of Magic Crest Worms coldly. His outstretched opening stance shifted as his palm clenched into a fist, and then Fu Yuan slammed his lightning-wreathed fist into the wall of the Magecraft Workshop behind him.
Seeing this, Matou Zouken thought Fu Yuan intended to smash through the wall and escape. But Fu Yuan had no intention of fleeing. He had yet to eliminate Matou Zouken or destroy the Matou family.
"Swift Feather Transformation: Sky-Bouncing Scales!"
With Fu Yuan's shout and punch, brilliant electric light exploded at the point where his fist met the wall. Countless dazzling Lightning Marks instantly burst across the wall.
The dense, terrifying Lightning Marks spread through the Magecraft Workshop in every direction like an electrical grid.
Every Magic Crest Worm lunging at Fu Yuan and Matou Sakura was struck by the Lightning Marks.
Amid terrifying crackling thunder, the Magic Crest Worms charging at Fu Yuan and Matou Sakura were instantly charred by the dreadful lightning, then turned into black ash.
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