Headmaster Jinas gave Shirou advice. To create more powerful magic, you need to first decide what type of magic you want to create, and then study and explore that magic.
These words made Shirou suddenly understand.
He truly was the headmaster of a magic university, Roxy's teacher. With just one sentence, he made Shirou realize his lack of understanding on the theoretical side of magic.
In the past, his study of magic only followed his instincts, without any specific planning. Because of this, his sword magic barely improved after it was created.
The root of everything was that Shirou himself didn't have a further vision for sword magic in his mind. He didn't understand what it would look like if that magic were to become even better.
Also, magic and swordsmanship are different.
Swordsmanship values basics, emphasizing repeated practice. Through countless identical sword swings, a swordsman becomes stronger.
But magic emphasizes imagination, not basics.
As long as your imagination is rich enough, even things that are impossible can be made real with the power of magic.
Because of this, magic values talent even more. The difference between a talented magician and one without talent is like heaven and earth.
This is why most countries now value swordsmanship more and ignore magic.
Even though anyone can see the potential of magic, considering the cost of training a magician and the randomness of creating a powerful magician, most countries still prefer swordsmanship. With swordsmanship, they can immediately get strong warriors as long as they spend the money.
Of course, there are also countries and organizations in this world that value magic more.
The magic three kingdoms are an example of this.
In short, after getting the explanation from Headmaster Jinas, Shirou realized that if he wanted to improve his magic, he first had to figure out what kind of magic he wanted to create.
The first thing Shirou thought of was, without a doubt, combat.
The magic he wanted was something that could give him great power and improve his fighting ability.
To this day, the two battles that left the strongest impressions on Shirou were the battle with Angelica, who used the Gilgamesh cards, and the battle with Dragon God Orsted.
In both of those battles, he was completely defeated, unable to win even after trying everything.
Never mind which of those two opponents was actually stronger.
For Shirou, what he had to do was address the failures of those two battles, fix his weaknesses, and make sure he wouldn't face the same failures again.
Shirou had been thinking about this for who knows how many times.
He had realized a long time ago that he lacked powerful, game-changing attacks.
Whether it was Angelica or Orsted, when that pure power became strong enough, so exaggerated that it couldn't be overturned by just quantity, Shirou had no power to resist.
The power of Unlimited Blade Works is certainly strong, but it still lacks a way to defeat an enemy with one blow.
The reason for this is that Unlimited Blade Works is a copycat technique.
It can only borrow the attack methods of others, imitating powerful outward moves. But what is imitated is definitely weakened, and its power can't compare to the original.
So, when facing the strongest power at the individual level, like the Ea sword and Orsted's dragon clan secret techniques, Shirou had no way to deal with them at all.
Shirou then wanted to create a magic, a magic that wasn't like Unlimited Blade Works, relying on numbers to gain an advantage. At the same time, it definitely wouldn't be a technique copied from others. Instead, it would be something created by Shirou himself, something that could rival the Ea sword, something that could directly defeat Orsted.
Although it sounds impossible to do, as Headmaster Jinas said, the creation of magic starts with imagination.
As long as you believe your imagination can become reality, and then take things one step at a time, creating everything in your imagination in the real world, you might be able to create new magic.
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Shirou had an idea on how to improve his sword magic, but an idea alone isn't enough to turn it into reality.
He told Headmaster Jinas about his problem. The headmaster patiently answered many of his questions about magic, and finally suggested to Shirou that the best way to create magic is to understand the principles of magic. This is a common idea that many magicians use.
For example, when a saint-level magician wants to create magic to change the weather, they will actively study weather phenomena, figure out the many reasons for weather changes, and understand the changes between element attributes.
When you master the basics of how things work, magic can then be created.
After thinking about the headmaster's idea for a moment, Shirou understood that he wanted him to study forging techniques further.
If that was the case, he might have to become active again as a blacksmith, like he did during the Boreas family days.
But since his identity as Muramasa is too famous, it would easily cause problems if no one helped him with this.
Shirou finally had to tell Headmaster Jinas that he was actually the blacksmith Muramasa, and hoped that he could help him make a forging workshop at the academy.
"Blacksmith Muramasa? I think I've heard of him… So that was you, Shirou?"
Headmaster Jinas was quite surprised, but not shocked.
Because blacksmiths and magicians usually don't have any connection.
Blacksmiths usually forge swords and armor, which are used by swordsmen warriors, and are rarely recommended to magicians. So Jinas, an old magician, knows very little about Muramasa.
Jinas only knew about him because Dragon King Perugius had bought a weapon forged by Muramasa, which caused a sensation in the magic world.
After all, Dragon King Perugius is the only god-level magician in the world today. As one of the three heroes who defeated the demon god, he has a very high reputation among humans.
Magicians didn't expect the great Dragon King to buy a short sword forged by a human blacksmith, thinking that the short sword was a powerful magic item. But later they confirmed that Muramasa himself was a blacksmith, not a magic item maker, so it was later not discussed as much.
Now that Jinas knows that Shirou is Muramasa, he is a little suspicious, but after Shirou showed him the badge given to him by the Pope of the Millis Holy Kingdom, those suspicions immediately disappeared.
Jinas was very impressed by Shirou's identity and allowed Shirou to set up a forging workshop at the magic university.
But Headmaster Jinas also had a condition, which was that he hoped that the weapons forged by Shirou in the future under the name of Muramasa could be sold under the name of the magic university.
Shirou understood Headmaster Jinas's idea. He undoubtedly hoped to use Muramasa's reputation to further expand the magic university's popularity.
And this was naturally a good thing for Shirou.
Muramasa's identity has too much influence. If he can have a powerful organization like the magic university support him, he doesn't have to worry about some strong people targeting him.
Shirou then quickly reached a deal with Headmaster Jinas.
Headmaster Jinas will build a forging workshop for Shirou, and the specific design and construction of the entire workshop will be designed by Shirou himself, with the cost being paid by the magic university.
Shirou was undoubtedly very grateful for the headmaster's kindness.
He decided to forge a suitable weapon and give it to Ranoa Magic Academy to repay them.
As for the choice of weapon, he also had an idea.
He wanted to forge the weapon used by Caster Medea in the Holy Grail War experienced by Servant Emiya - the Rule Breaker of All Spells.
As the treasure of the Age of Gods Caster Medea, that weapon has a very special effect, and it is sure to attract the attention of the magic university.
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Soon, in a corner that no one noticed, a forging workshop was being built from the ground up, little by little.
Although Shirou participated in the design of the forging workshop, he undoubtedly couldn't help with the specific workshop construction.
Taking advantage of the free time, Shirou often went to the magic university's library to increase his understanding of magic through the rich collection of books in the library.
Yes, since Shirou was personally accepted as a disciple by Headmaster Jinas, he didn't need to attend classes like ordinary students, and could freely arrange his magic learning.
This was undoubtedly a very good thing for Shirou.
He hadn't been a student for many years.
To this day, he simply couldn't imagine himself sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture.
Besides studying magic, there was one other thing that Shirou had finally put on the agenda.
That was to find Rudeus.
Although he hadn't heard much about him since coming to the academy, and even Headmaster Jinas was unfamiliar with the name, Shirou always felt that Rudeus should be at this magic university.
The scene seen by Clairvoyance back then also confirmed this.
So, Shirou asked Headmaster Jinas for the admission lists of the magic university over the years. Since human memory is unreliable, we can look for clues in the records.
Unsurprisingly, he soon saw the name Rudeus Greyrat in the file from four years ago.
According to the description in the file, he was a special student from the Asura Kingdom who showed no-chanting magic as soon as he entered the school and was very talented.
The magic university was very concerned about such a person, so they directly recruited him into a special class.
The so-called special student refers to a class with special regulations due to a special status or special talent.
Even among the special students, Rudeus was a person who received special attention.
But such a person, after four years of enrollment, has now become completely unheard of, and even completely ignored.
Shirou was undoubtedly very puzzled by this and realized that going to the special student class might get him information about Rudeus.
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