The next morning, Shirou set off for Magic University.
Before leaving, the adventurers from [Counter Arrow] all said goodbye to him.
But Sara didn't show up.
Shirou understood Sara's feelings and didn't dwell on it too much. He just asked Suzanne to convey his apologies and then headed towards the Ranoa Kingdom.
The town the caravan arrived at was still some distance from the Ranoa Kingdom.
Because of his experience with Sara, Shirou started to worry that contact with others would cause the same tragedy to repeat.
So he stopped choosing to team up with other adventurers and began acting alone.
During this time, Shirou continued to refrain from using Sword God Style swordsmanship, instead fighting mostly with North God Style, Water God Style, or other techniques.
To further train himself, Shirou basically only took on difficult adventurer requests.
Although the adventurers' guild was worried about him taking on requests alone, Shirou consistently achieved good results. Gradually, the adventurers' guild in the Northern Lands began to trust him and was willing to assign him A-rank or higher requests on his own.
Shirou even once took on an S-rank request by himself, hunting the Millennial Magic Tree in the forest, a terrible monster that occupied the entire forest.
Shirou couldn't even scratch the Magic Tree with his swords, and in the end had to draw the Galatine he carried, destroying it with a single strike.
It was this exaggerated achievement that gradually made Shirou famous throughout the Northern Lands.
His adventurer rank was once again raised to S-rank.
This brought not only benefits, but also a lot of trouble to Shirou.
For example, many powerful adventurer teams were very unhappy with him for taking on high-level requests, believing that he was stealing their work. Some adventurers even put a bounty on Shirou's head, wanting to get rid of him completely.
Since his rank was S again, he couldn't accept regular adventurer requests. Even if he had to ignore the dissatisfaction of other adventurers, he still had to focus on high-level requests.
As a result, Shirou really was attacked by an adventurer team.
Shirou had no interest in killing ordinary people, so he used Avalon and the Evil Dragon Blood Armor to block all the damage. After subduing his attackers, he left directly.
Later, in order to prevent similar things from happening again, Shirou had to hide his real identity and accepted adventurer requests anonymously.
This prevented him from getting into various troubles.
As a condition for hiding his identity, Shirou no longer revealed his real name and instead called himself Emiya.
Although this name had been used by his Servant form, the current Shirou had grown much taller than he was as a teenager. Even compared to Servant Emiya, his height wasn't too different, so even if he was pretending, no one would probably suspect him of being Emiya.
In short, the S-rank adventurer Shirou disappeared from people's sight without anyone noticing.
Replaced by the ordinary adventurer Emiya.
He made a living by accepting low-level adventurer requests, traveling all the way from the Northern Lands to the Ranoa Kingdom, and finally arrived at his destination: Ranoa Magic Academy.
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On the night of his arrival in the Ranoa Kingdom, Shirou returned in his dream to the white space and met the being who called himself Hitogami.
Because the other party appeared at long intervals, Shirou sometimes almost forgot about this annoying guy.
But now he had appeared again.
"Oh, long time no see."
Hitogami spoke enthusiastically as soon as they met.
Because of the Dragon God incident, Shirou was no longer as repulsed by Hitogami as before, and said with only slight disgust, "Did you come to me for something?"
"Can't I just chat with you?"
"If you're so bored, just send me back."
Shirou had no interest in talking nonsense with this pixelated figure, and showed an annoyed expression.
"Okay, okay, I just wanted to commend you for your efforts to defeat the Dragon God."
Hitogami said with a face full of approval, "Although the distance between you and the Dragon God is like the ocean and a grain of sand, as long as you keep working hard, you might be able to evolve into a pebble."
"I know the difference between myself and the Dragon God, but it still hurts to hear you say it so directly."
Shirou showed a complicated expression.
He knew how huge the gap between himself and the Dragon God Orsted was. Even if all three of his fighting styles reached the Saint rank, compared to Orsted, who was at the God rank in three styles and also possessed many unrevealed abilities, Shirou was as fragile as an insect.
Even if he tried his best to become stronger throughout his life, he might not be able to touch the edge of the Dragon God.
But now that he had made up his mind, he would never give up halfway.
"Hehe, your will is really moving."
Hitogami said with a smile, "To thank you for your efforts to defeat the evil Dragon God, how about I tell you some good news for free?"
"Free things are often the most expensive."
Shirou didn't want to hear any news from Hitogami and resisted him as before.
"You're still as stubborn as before."
Hitogami seemed used to Shirou's reaction. He didn't continue and instead said, "Let's get back to the topic of defeating the Dragon God. Just learning swordsmanship from Sword God and North God is not enough to surpass Orsted."
"I know."
"So I think it's the right decision for you to go to Magic University. If you can learn some forbidden-level magic there, it might give you a bit of a chance."
"I hope I can learn it."
Shirou wasn't confident about learning magic.
Because he didn't show any talent for magic as a child. Most importantly, he had Rudeus, a magical genius of a younger brother, as a comparison, which always made him unenthusiastic about learning magic.
However, Hitogami didn't seem to think so. He said very seriously, "I have a lot of confidence in you. As long as you go to Magic University, you will definitely be able to master abilities that are extremely valuable to you. Ah, this sentence doesn't count as advice, it's just my personal feeling..."
"I know what you mean."
Shirou said silently. He and Hitogami had now reached a strange understanding.
Hitogami didn't give Shirou any advice, but on the matter of fighting the Dragon God Orsted, the two were temporarily on the same front, so they could communicate to some extent.
Moreover, it was up to Shirou himself whether or not to listen to Hitogami's words.
He would think for himself and then come to an answer.
So, Shirou had a rare normal conversation exchange with Hitogami. The two talked a lot about the Dragon God and becoming stronger. Finally, until Shirou's consciousness in the dream was about to wake up, Hitogami still looked reluctant to part, as if he didn't want to say goodbye to Shirou.
Due to being too sugary, Shirou even got goosebumps.
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The Ranoa Kingdom is the largest country in the northern part of the Central Continent.
The country's national power is only equal to the Shirone Kingdom, but because the Ranoa Kingdom has allied with the Basherant Duchy and the Neris Duchy, and also has close ties with the Magic Guild, if the combined strength of the three countries is considered, even if it is located in the barren north, this alliance is still regarded as holding the fourth strongest power in the world.
Because they started with magic, the three countries are very interested in developing magic. They invest a lot of manpower and resources and recruit outstanding talents from all over the world, providing generous funding to promote magic research.
This ultimately created the great city of magic, Sharia, located in a corner of the Ranoa Kingdom, very close to the border.
Not only the Magic Guild, a world-class magic tool workshop, but also Ranoa Magic Academy is located in the center of the magic city Sharia.
This can be said to be the center of the three magic nations and the most prosperous and bustling city.
If you look down on the magic city Sharia from the air, you can see the Magic Guild built with the latest anti-magic bricks in the center of the town, the student area centered on the Magic University in the east, the workshop area centered on the magic tool workshop in the west, the commercial area centered on the commercial guild in the north, and the hotel area for welcoming foreign travelers and adventurers in the south.
After arriving in Sharia, Shirou went straight to Ranoa Magic Academy without any hesitation.
But because his identity as an adventurer was too famous, and he was afraid of disturbing others, Shirou had to abandon his real name and choose to contact the university using the identity of Emiya.
Since Ranoa Magic Academy is very open and often recruits ordinary people from outside, it naturally does not ignore the adventurer groups where the largest number of civilian powerhouses gather.
As long as you report your identity as an adventurer, you can participate in the university's entrance exam.
By passing the entrance exam, you can officially enter the Magic University.
Of course, participation in the entrance exam requires payment, and the price is not reasonable, it can be said to be quite expensive.
This is to prevent ordinary people without talent from casually applying for admission and wasting the school's resources.
But this is not a problem for Shirou. During this time, he earned a very rich fortune through his adventurer career, enough for ordinary people to live on for a lifetime.
As long as he doesn't forge weapons, these money should never be completely spent, right?
In short, Shirou successfully applied for the entrance exam of Ranoa Magic Academy and received a clear time, and will participate in the entrance exam on the morning of the next day.
Although he was very curious about what the entrance exam would entail, Shirou couldn't possibly cheat, so he could only wait until the next day at the exam hall to find out.
So he immediately returned to the rented inn and, like reviewing, went over all the magic knowledge Roxy had taught him before.
But unfortunately, since too much time had passed, most of the knowledge had slipped from his mind.
Shirou couldn't help but wonder if he would be unable to pass the exam, and for the first time in a long time he recalled the pain he had experienced when he was at school in his previous life…
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