"My Martial Soul isn't a Command Spell?!"
Lin Xi repeated the words reflexively, then denied it.
"How is that possible? When I awakened my Martial Soul, the Command Spells appeared right on my hand."
Morgan gave a cold snort and asked in return,
"Does that mean your Martial Soul is a Command Spell? Did you decide that yourself, or did some higher will tell you?"
"..."
Lin Xi was instantly at a loss for words.
It was true. There had been no one else around him back then, so he could only guess for himself.
When he saw the Command Spells appear as his Martial Soul awakened, he assumed without a second thought that they were his Martial Soul.
Looking back, he had indeed jumped to conclusions.
Seeing him fall silent, Morgan continued.
"Those so-called Command Spells were, at most, a backdoor left by the Makiri Family using the Heroic Spirit Summoning System within the Holy Grail. In essence, they're just large lumps of magical power. They can serve as a power source, but there's no way they could possess the ability to summon Heroic Spirits."
"Therefore..."
Her eyes darkened.
"Your Martial Soul should be your Master Qualification. In a sense, it's yourself."
"I see..." Understanding dawned on Lin Xi.
Morgan's words reminded him that in 2.7, even after Ritsuka Fujimaru recovered all his Command Spells from the bat god, he still hadn't regained his Master Qualification. That was because, strictly speaking, Master Qualification and Command Spells were entirely different things.
Like Daybit in the story, he had instinctively assumed that having Command Spells meant having Master Qualification. But a moment's thought made it clear: if Command Spells were the same as Master Qualification, Mapo would never have needed to ambush Sister Bazett to steal Cú Chulainn.
That priest who