Early in the morning, just as I was about to head to Chaldea, I was stopped—not by one person, but by a whole crowd.
Everyone had heard that the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City had finally produced a winner.
A magus's lifelong wish was to reach the Root, and since the person before them had likely seen it, they wanted answers.
The Root, also known as the Swirl of the Root.
It was the source of magecraft and the ultimate goal pursued by all magi.
The Swirl of the Root was like a book as old as the universe, recording the beginning, cause, process, and end of all things.
Like the Akashic Records, it recorded the beginning, process, and end of every life.
Thus, those who reached the Swirl of the Root and glimpsed the causal relationships of all things could know all things.
In other words, the Swirl of the Root was ultimate knowledge, though even that ultimate was finite.
Everything had limits. Without the concept of finiteness, the concept of infinity would cease to exist.
For infinity to exist, the boundary of finiteness had to be defined.
Shiki Ryougi was someone connected to the Root, known as the Principle of the Universe. In every sense, she was both omniscient and ignorant.
Her Origin was also " "—nothingness. It represented all of this, which was why she had been connected to the Root from birth.
Perhaps it was like the yin-yang symbol: contradictions gave rise to contradictions, yet could also transform into one another.
Those connected to the Swirl of the Root could glimpse every cause and effect.
Using the Swirl of the Root to alter the world's order meant creating a New World and destroying the old one.
Yet almost no human who reached the Swirl of