Put simply,
Magecraft could only produce things that seemed miraculous to ordinary people.
Magic, on the other hand, could produce things that seemed miraculous even to magi.
Every type of Magic covered a wide range of fields.
The six Great Magics currently in existence were:
The First Magic was unknown. Its user was dead, for unknown reasons.
The Second Magic involved parallel worlds, broadly encompassing space, time, and causality...
The Third Magic, Soul Materialization, mainly involved souls and reality...
The Fourth Magic was uncertain.
The Fifth Magic was the one researched by the Aozaki Family. It mainly involved causality, time, order, and chaos...
The Sixth Magic—? Unknown.
But one thing was certain: Magic was of no benefit to the world. Every one of them achieved its miracle by draining the life of the universe.
Let me emphasize this again!
More Magic Circuits were not necessarily better! Princess only had one, yet it connected directly to the Root. She could probably pin Gilgamesh down and beat him! (A little secret: Aika was the best!)
Also,
Those who knew Magic were Magicians.
Those who knew magecraft were magi.
Whether in the Age of Gods or the modern age, anyone who did not know Magic was a magus.
L-let me emphasize this again!
Magicians played with miracles. In other words, they might not necessarily be strong fighters, but they were definitely stronger than magecraft.
For example?
A Magician might not beat Gilgamesh in a direct duel, but if it was not a direct duel, they could toy Gilgamesh to death—even if Gilgamesh had Clairvoyance. (His Clairvoyance could see through the future.)
Here was some somewhat useful information. (Has anyone not watched Fate?)
Kiritsugu Emiya:
Magecraft affinity: Earth, Fire.
Magecraft system: Thrust of Time. (Though he only had twenty percent of a Magic Crest.) It could temporarily accelerate time by one to three times.
Severance and Recombination: His own Origin, representing cutting and rejoining. Its concrete manifestation was the Origin Bullet! The kind that could injure Heroic Spirits. Its drawback was that it required his own bones to make.
Nothing else about him was particularly famous.
Irisviel:
Magecraft affinity: She seemingly possessed all basic affinities.
Magecraft system: Alchemy Magic. (There was not much to say about it. Compared to Kiritsugu's two, it was pretty lousy.)
Touko Aozaki:
Magecraft affinity: Wind.
Magecraft system: Modern Rune. (It was pretty lousy compared to Rune of the Gods, but it was amazing by modern standards.)
Grand Puppeteer. (She could freely abandon her original body. The strongest puppeteer of the modern era, she probably attained it between the ages of eighteen and twenty.)
Noble Color: Noble Color. Projection type. Its ability was to charm and bind targets within her field of vision, sealing their movements. (The most useless Mystic Eyes. Though that was a joke, without Touko's own modifications, they really were pretty useless.)
Tokiomi Tohsaka:
Magecraft affinity: Fire.
Magecraft system: Jewel Magic. Just as the name implied, it burned money, but he was rich—at least for now.
Kaineth:
Magecraft affinity: Wind, Water.
Magecraft system: Spirit Evocation, Summoning, Alchemy Magic, and Water Manipulation. He knew plenty of other things too.
Nothing particularly awesome, so no explanation.
As for everyone else, well, there was nothing much to say. They were all pretty lousy.
Sakura Matou
Magecraft affinity: Originally Imaginary Numbers, later altered into Water by Old Worm.
After being treated, she now possessed both affinities.
Magecraft system: None.
Guilt Cliff
"Goodbye, Sister Touko!" Having changed back, Fu Yuan happily waved farewell at Touko as she left. Really, really happily.
When he saw Touko stumble suddenly in the distance, Fu Yuan became even happier.
Then, he silently added something new to the Noble Phantasm Fu Yuan's Diary.
The strange habit of saving Touko Aozaki(?)
"Tap tap, tap tap, tap tap tap...!" Fu Yuan skipped along in front. Having returned to his normal form, he was clearly in a good mood. The frustration of the past few days had finally all been vented in one go.
Irisviel watched A Yuan carry around his former body while hopping about everywhere. She opened her mouth, but hesitated to speak.
Fu Yuan, whose Emotion Perception had returned, turned around in confusion and looked curiously at Irisviel. If it was because of the body, he felt that should not be the case!
"Is something wrong, Irisviel?"
Irisviel opened her mouth, but eventually asked worriedly, "A Yuan, have you changed back now?"
Fu Yuan looked somewhat confused upon hearing that. He felt the difference between his two forms was rather obvious, so why would Irisviel ask that?
"I changed back. What is it, Irisviel?"
Upon hearing that, Irisviel seemed to relax somewhat. Then she thought over A Yuan's current behavior. It did seem like he had changed back.
Then she looked at the Chain behind him, which still had not disappeared, swaying back and forth and drawing quite a bit of attention, utterly puzzled.
"Then what is that behind you?"
"Behind me?" Fu Yuan swiftly turned around upon hearing that, warily staring behind himself.
"? There's nothing there, Irisviel!" Fu Yuan turned back around and looked at Irisviel in confusion.
"...Turn your head and look." Irisviel's expression was quite amusing. This whole sequence had left her utterly dumbfounded. After calming herself down, she pointed at the Chain still swaying behind him.
Fu Yuan turned his head in confusion, only to see the glittering golden Chain behind him. When it noticed him looking over, the Chain obediently greeted him.
Then it brought over a bottle of iced cola.
"?" Fu Yuan sensed it with his heart and discovered that it was indeed his. It even seemed to be the one that had stolen cola before.
"Has my Spirit Core completely broken down?" Fu Yuan felt out the abilities he could currently use, and his entire being fell into utter confusion.
This Spirit Core was truly useless!
"Um, A Yuan, are you alright?" Irisviel grew worried as she watched Fu Yuan's expression shift through a complicated range of emotions.
"Mm, probably... alright?" Fu Yuan raised his head at those words and answered uncertainly. Maybe he could not blame the Spirit Core for being useless! After all, this Spirit Core had borne pain no one its age should have had to bear.
After thinking it over, he simply waved his hand and retracted the Chain. Letting it sway around outside was rather strange.
"Then shall we go home now?" Irisviel's tone was uncertain. Everything that had happened today was, well, quite stimulating.
It had completely bewildered Irisviel.
"Yeah... Oh, right, Irisviel, where did you park the car?" Fu Yuan nodded obediently, then seemed to think of something and asked with some concern.
"The car, the car! My car!" Irisviel repeated herself several times, then ran into the distance with a horrified expression.
"Mm~ It probably wasn't caught up in it, right?" Fu Yuan said uncertainly. If the car was damaged, he might have to carry Irisviel and run all the way home.
What a hassle!
That Mercedes-Benz 300SL sped down a highway that had not been affected. The woman in the driver's seat wore the expression of someone who had narrowly escaped death.
Fu Yuan sat in the passenger seat, drowsy. He covered his mouth with one hand as he yawned, then spoke to Irisviel in a tired voice.
"Irisviel, I'm going to sleep for a while. Wake me when we get there."
"Okay." Irisviel agreed immediately. Then she saw Fu Yuan already asleep beside her, and her gaze softened.
A Yuan might be unreliable a lot of the time, but he had truly done their family an enormous favor.
Taixu Mountain's rear peak, Guilt Cliff.
Fu Yuan had only intended to take a short nap, but the moment he closed his eyes, he arrived here.
Feeling that familiar aura, he grew somewhat wistful, then skillfully sat down in the open space before Guilt Cliff.
He simply sat there cross-legged in silence, eyes closed, as though he were asleep.
Soon, a second person appeared within Guilt Cliff. She wore a sharp and practical outfit, carried the Twin Swords of Yin-Yang, Unparalleled, on her back, and possessed crimson hair, jade-like features, and breathtaking beauty.
Mm, Fu Yuan's Noble Phantasm was here too, so this Spirit Core really was useless!
Fu Yuan opened his eyes the instant Su Mei appeared. He looked at his Senior Sister without speaking, simply watching her.
Unlike him, Senior Sister had been unable to attain immortality while alive.
Yet time seemed to have frozen in Senior Sister's world. Her crimson hair gleamed brilliantly, her lovely face was smooth as congealed cream and seemed delicate enough to break at a breath, her eyes were large and alluring, and her lips were vividly red.
Time had not taken even the slightest bit from Senior Sister's appearance. She remained at her most beautiful age.
"Why is Junior Disciple Brother unhappy? Shouldn't you be delighted to see Senior Sister?" Su Mei paid no attention to his gaze. Her figure flashed, and she appeared before Fu Yuan, teasing him.
"Senior Sister, I still can't control this right now." Fu Yuan steadied his mind and spoke helplessly.
Here, there could be no secrets between them.
"Is it really impossible? Or do you merely subconsciously believe it is?" Su Mei ignored his words and directly pressed herself against him, cupping Fu Yuan's little face and leaning in.
Soft, tender red lips grew larger and larger in Fu Yuan's vision, but in the end, they did not touch him.
Fu Yuan swallowed, his small Adam's apple bobbing visibly as his breathing grew heavier.
He gave a bitter laugh.
Just as Senior Sister had said, they had originally been one person. What willingness or unwillingness could there be? He had merely subconsciously believed it was impossible.
"Senior Sister~" Fu Yuan, having completely changed forms, was now visibly a little taller than Su Mei. His golden pupils were clearly unfocused, and his expression was somewhat crazed and obsessive.
Without any prelude, he wrapped one arm around Senior Sister's waist, pressed his other hand against the back of her head, and directly kissed those alluring red lips.
Her cool tongue slipped into his mouth, greedily seizing the breath that belonged to her as it forcefully explored every corner.
Glistening tears rolled in his eyes. Then large, round, sparkling teardrops rolled down his cheeks and fell onto Su Mei's face.
Su Mei did not panic at all. She responded naturally, until a cool sensation reached her face.
Feeling the tearstains on her face, Su Mei suddenly felt pained, but she had no way to defend herself. She could only gently stroke Fu Yuan's head and back.
Taixu Mountain's Guilt Cliff had another resounding name in the Honkai World.
The birthplace of the First Honkai, and also the birthplace of the Herrscher of Binding.
Likewise, it was the only Honkai in all of humanity's history of fighting the Honkai that had not involved ordinary people.
After a long while, their lips parted. Su Mei looked at Fu Yuan, whose face was already covered in tears. The words she had prepared stopped in her mouth, and she could only helplessly repeat over and over again,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
"It's alright... I forgave Senior Sister for this long ago." Fu Yuan, on the contrary, did not seem to feel much. Seeing his helpless Senior Sister in his arms, he comforted her.
Su Mei said nothing more. She merely nestled against Fu Yuan's chest and continued sobbing.
She had indeed been the one at fault, but only in this matter. She had never regretted killing their master.
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