Time always passes quickly without noticing.
Shirou has been at Boreas's house for a whole year, and his age in this world has reached thirteen. Eris is almost ten years old.
In such a long time, Shirou naturally couldn't have done nothing.
First, he further improved his swordsmanship.
Ever since he showed Ghislaine what real swordsmanship was, Ghislaine officially started teaching him how to use the Longsword of Light.
As mentioned before, the so-called Longsword of Light is essentially a swordsmanship that approaches the limit.
By fixing the shape of the sword to a specific angle developed by the original Sword God, later people have finally approached the swordsmanship used by the original Sword God after countless imitations and practices.
This swordsmanship is the Longsword of Light.
Yes, for the original Sword God, the Longsword of Light was not even a special technique. He was simply swinging his sword by instinct, swinging his sword by instinct.
But with just instinct and intuition, the original Sword God's sword had already touched the peak that ordinary people could not reach in their entire lives.
The Longsword of Light is the ultimate in pure swordsmanship.
However, all of this is limited to the form of swordsmanship. In terms of existing forms, the Longsword of Light is the peak. But if you want to complete a breakthrough and go further, you must abandon the inherent form and reach a more metaphysical and abstract realm to be able to improve further in swordsmanship.
Of course, that's something that should be considered after breaking through Sword King. For Shirou, who has not yet broken through Sword Saint, all he needs to do is master the form of the Longsword of Light, nothing more.
And mastering the form of the Longsword of Light is not a simple matter.
The first requirement is a sword of no mind.
Truly having no distracting thoughts, turning consciousness into a transcendent state, requires being calm and without any jumping thoughts at the moment of swinging the sword.
To achieve this, Shirou must swing his sword wholeheartedly and attentively in a space where he is alone, without anyone else.
Swinging the sword with distracting thoughts will make the action meaningless.
A sword swung only to imitate the form also has no meaning.
Only a sword of no mind that casts aside all distracting thoughts can make one's own feelings more sensitive with each swing.
However, how much improvement does one swing bring?
It's like adding a thin skin through which you can clearly see from the other side to a huge brick. It's only that kind of level.
It only makes you stronger to the extent of a thin skin.
How much more do you need to keep building up?
How long do you have to keep building up to reach a true Longsword of Light?
Even the people of the Sword God Style themselves don't know.
Because to this day, besides the current Sword God, no one in the Sword God Style dares to say that they can swing a real Longsword of Light.
Even though they are both Longsword of Light techniques, the difference between swordsmanship can be even greater than the difference between a mountain and a hill.
Every Swordsman of the Sword God Style is like climbing a mountain with no visible peak. No matter how hard they try, as they reach a higher peak, an invisible barrier will still appear in front of them.
That is the technique of the original Sword God.
No one has been able to surpass it to this day.
The difference is no longer a difference between people. Even if you remove your unnecessary parts, it is still difficult to reach the true summit.
However, this kind of thinking is the source of distracting thoughts.
The strong obsession, the desire to become stronger, all of this is the biggest obstacle preventing Shirou from learning the Longsword of Light.
When swinging the sword, you cannot have any thoughts. You can only concentrate completely on the movement of the sword itself.
This is undoubtedly a very difficult thing for Shirou.
Because he is a person who tends to think a lot. Or rather, Servant Emiya's fighting style itself is to find a means of victory through thinking.
However, the Sword God Style and the Longsword of Light are like going in the opposite direction, making him walk on a path that he cannot understand at all, and it is difficult to think out an answer.
This is undoubtedly a huge test for Shirou.
Besides training in the Longsword of Light himself, Shirou also needs to teach Eris swordsmanship.
Unlike Shirou, Eris is simply a natural genius of the Sword God Style. Her thoughts are never very complicated. In battle, her only obsession is to approach everything and defeat the opponent.
It is because of this pure belief that Eris smoothly broke through the intermediate Sword God Style.
The so-called intermediate level is the level of strength that can compete with a knight of average skill.
According to Ghislaine, Eris should be able to advance to the upper level in a few years.
Although this speed is not as fast as Shirou's back then, it can also be said to be an extremely genius speed.
The most important thing is that Eris used to neglect sword practice due to her bad personality. Now, as soon as she recovers, she immediately shows unparalleled talent.
Shirou couldn't help but sigh that the difference between genius and ordinary people is always elusive.
God is always quite unfair when it comes to talent.
Of course, although Shirou himself is not a true genius, he is also considered a hard-working genius. If his talent cannot compare to a true talent, he will put in more sweat to break through his limits.
So, while teaching Eris, he also spent more time on his own training. He used his time almost to the point of squeezing it, wishing he could use every minute and every second in key areas.
After all, Shirou has never thought of himself as a genius. His evaluation of himself has always been that he needs to put in many times the effort to have the hope of reaching the limit.
In short, Shirou can be said to have made extreme progress in swordsmanship.
But besides swordsmanship, Shirou didn't do nothing else.
For him, besides swordsmanship, there is another important thing right now, and that is forging weapons, showing himself as a blacksmith.
Although for him, forging weapons is as simple as eating and drinking.
According to the old blacksmith, he has a talent in forging that is close to the current Sword God's in swordsmanship.
But Shirou still habitually acted as a hard worker.
For him, when doing something, if he doesn't put in enough sweat and great effort, it doesn't count as having done that thing.
However, his talent in forging sometimes makes even him marvel.
He seems to have been born to forge weapons. He can gain ten points for one point of effort. The weapons he casually forges with a peaceful mind are enough to shock the world.
And if he does his best and bets on his belief to forge, he might even be able to forge top-level divine weapons that ordinary people cannot imagine.
In short, Shirou realized his talent in forging, but in order to further improve his sword magic and replace Servant Emiya's projection magic that could erode him at any time, he still had to go further in forging.
In the past half year, he has created new works almost every once in a while.
He hammered out the Noble Phantasms in his memory in the form of forging, turned them into concrete weapons through tempering, and gave them to the old blacksmith to sell as the blacksmith Muramasa.
The reason for selling is that the money needed for forging is still too much.
Ordinary blacksmiths often rely on a large power to maintain their daily expenses and balance with the help of the large power's supply.
Shirou forges weapons as an individual. Even with the old blacksmith helping him, the wealth required is still a considerable number.
If Shirou doesn't sell the weapons he has forged, it's easy for the cash flow to break, and he can't make new weapons.
This is very similar to some game companies in modern society.
Because the production cost is too high, and each new work is more detailed and elaborate than the old ones, each time they make a game, they need to fill the hole with the cost of the new game. They rely on constantly making games to supply the new games to complete a virtuous cycle.
Although Shirou's forging cost is not as high as modern game production, it is also an unimaginable cost. The cost of forging materials, the use of workshops, various procedural costs, and because he wants to improve his skills, he often actively exceeds the limit to forge weapons that may be scrapped.
Under this mandatory approach, Shirou's forging cost can be said to be shockingly high. Each time he forges a weapon, he needs a lot of money to fill it, which leads him to have to forge and sell the weapons at a high price to maintain the expenses of forging.
In this state, the name of the blacksmith Muramasa became more and more inflated. Not only the Asura Kingdom, but even the Dragon King Kingdom, the Milis Holy Kingdom, and the magical countries in the north began to spread the name of Muramasa, and even touted Muramasa's weapons as magical.
But in fact, the weapons forged by Shirou are indeed very special.
In the past half year, he has focused on forging three weapons: Servant Nero's Noble Phantasm Primordial Fire, Servant Gawain's Galatine, and Servant Siegfried's Noble Phantasm Fantasy Greatsword Balmung.
Each weapon he forged was extremely amazing, and the effects were also the best of the best.
The Primordial Fire goes without saying. The sword is permanently entangled with flames, and the fierce vortex emitted after injecting magic power can devour everything around it.
The Galatine is even known as the Little Sun. Although its power is not as good as the Sword of Promised Victory and Excalibur, its attack that sweeps out like sunlight after injecting magic power far exceeds the Sword in the Stone and the Sword of the Lake.
The last Fantasy Greatsword Balmung caused a sensation throughout the world as soon as it appeared.
A twilight sword that combines both Holy Sword and magic sword attributes.
The moment they saw this sword, the whole world was boiling, and even made many people think of the strongest weapon in legends - the King Dragon Sword!
Weapons produced by Muramasa have reached such a height!
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