The magecraft reriqument: blood fort andromeda uses 140 kilograms of mercury as a carrier, utilizing the physical properties of mercury combined with the Magus's own expertise in fluid manipulation to create it. The magecraft reriqument: blood fort andromeda is operated through the Magus's own Magic Crest and is Kenneth El-Melloi Archisorte's most favored Mystic Code among his many collections. It can automatically attack, automatically seek enemies, and automatically defend. It can change its shape at will according to the holder's control, transforming into any imaginable form. As long as the holder's ability is sufficient, there is almost nothing it cannot accomplish.
Rin was very fond of this almost omnipotent Magic Crest when she read the original work/canon. Furthermore, Rin knew that this Magic Crest possessed a certain level of intelligence. After the Fourth Holy Grail War, under the modifications of El-Melloi II, it could even transform into a humanoid maid to do housework, and could even understand movies and communicate with people, often claiming to be a killer weapon from the future. Perhaps it watched too many movies with harmful moral education.
Looking at the round, one-meter-diameter mercury dumpling in front of her, bouncing around like a puppy, she suddenly felt it was so cute~
After the extermination of Kenneth El-Melloi Archisorte was completed, Rin began to modify this interesting and practical Magic Crest.
"Jalter, you should go deal with that now, shouldn't you?"
Rin cast her gaze towards the Weiyuan River, where a huge black shadow, clearly visible even from here, waved its tentacles, presenting a doomsday-like scene.
Jalter silently nodded, flipping her battle flag twice before holding it reversed behind her back.
"Then you go. I won't go with you. It's not yet time to reveal all my trump cards."
"Understood, I will deal with Gil's side quickly."
Having said that, Jalter rushed towards the Weiyuan River like a black arrow released from a bowstring, leaving only Rin and the newly acquired magecraft reriqument: blood fort andromeda amidst the ruins.
Rin scanned the surroundings; fortunately, the 'idle people dispersal barrier' was still active, forcefully rendering the earth-shattering changes here invisible, preventing them from attracting public attention.
"I need to act quickly. It's hard to find so many souls lingering in the world again, and the 'idle people dispersal barrier' won't last much longer. I must deal with this before it can no longer be hidden."
Rin spread her hands, palms facing upwards and raised high. Countless magic power spirit particle threads, ten times thinner than hair, shot out from Rin's hands into the air, capturing the lingering souls of those who died in this battle.
Capturing souls is not a profound technique; it's a basic subject that Maguss are familiar with, even Waver knows it. Souls are the fundamental raw material for creating familiars.
Therefore, every Magus is a demon who toys with souls and should be tied to a stake and burned!
"My fighting style has been established as close-quarters combat combined with rapid, explosive magical attacks. If I were to operate the magecraft reriqument: blood fort andromeda at the same time, it would undoubtedly be asking for trouble. Since this magical implement itself possesses some intelligence, I might as well convert it into a self-fighting familiar."
A Magus's familiar generally falls into two categories: one, like Touko's Golden Wolf, is a natural supernatural creature. Once captured, all that's needed is to complete the soul imprint for the familiar connection. They can even be self-sufficient in magic power, making them simple and convenient. However, among the Maguss Rin knows in the world, it seems only Touko possesses such a familiar. The other type is created using artificial techniques, which is how most familiars come into existence. Basically, every Magus creates various familiars for different purposes.
Rin's magical knowledge originated from the Tohsaka Family's magical library. Later, during Mahoutsukai no Yoru, she perused the libraries of the Aozaki Family and the fairy tale witch. She also studied Northern European Rune magic and puppetry with Aozaki Touko. Besides all this, she also studied the Matou Family's familiar magic!
That's right, when she annihilated the Matou Family, Rin did not burn the Matou Family's grimoires but collected them. No matter how much Rin hated the Matou Family, she wasn't foolish enough to extend that hatred to their magical knowledge.
The Matou Family, from its predecessor, the Makiri family, has been a renowned magical family in the supernatural world, known for creating familiars. Don't assume the Matou Family only had various insect magic; remember, the Matou Family even created command spells that could bind Heroic Spirits!
The Makiri family specialized in creating familiars, and naturally had a very profound study of souls. Under the inheritance of several generations before Zelretch (Makiri), they had accumulated over a thousand years of research. Having obtained this knowledge, Rin naturally became a grandmaster in familiar creation.
Only by going further can one truly understand the power of End Magic. Every branch of magical knowledge Rin now commands would require other Maguss a lifetime to practice, research, and comprehend. Reading ten lines at a glance and memorizing everything instantly is not difficult for any Magus; remembering knowledge and skills is easy. But how far is the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application? How great is the distance to applying it to its utmost? It could be years, decades, or even a lifetime.
And Rin could directly ignore this distance, standing at the culmination of its application the moment she understood it! Unreasonably shortening what others needed a lifetime for into an instant.
Capture complete, a total of 7524 souls.
In the vision of spiritual sight, a palm-sized, constantly churning cloud of gray smoke was in Rin's hand. If one could observe it closely with extraordinary vision, the upper half of each churning wisp of smoke would be in the shape of a human torso.
"Those ignorant of the supernatural, unaware of the principles of the soul, will turn into thoroughly bewildered gray souls after death, wandering the human world until they dissipate. Their soul power returns to the counter force, and finally, new souls and lives are born from the Root. This is reincarnation…"
Rin looked at the swirling mass of souls bound in her hand, sighed silently, and then quickly left the disaster scene.
The deceased souls had only completely lost their self, but their memories and personalities from life were still preserved, making the souls a murky gray. If one didn't want to create an uncontrollable, chaotic familiar, these impurities had to be purified.
Rin hurried back to the Twin Mansion, and only when she returned to her 927 workbench in her room did she take out the soul material prepared for creating a familiar. Following the Matou Family's soul processing magic techniques, she continuously refined the soul mass in her hand until it completely transformed into a stable, pure white cloud.
Next was the condensation of the soul.
The existence of a familiar is undoubtedly a supernatural one. The supernatural has weight, and this weight is borne by the soul. An ordinary person's soul cannot carry too profound a supernatural essence, so one shouldn't expect a familiar created from it to have powerful abilities or intelligence.
To create a powerful familiar, one must either directly use the soul of a high-level supernatural being or condense a large number of low-supernatural souls into one. The nearly eight thousand souls in Rin's hand can only be described as insane; if the Church knew, they would undoubtedly dispatch the Burial Agency to rid the world of such a menace.
Tempering, dissolving, mixing, condensing, compressing, and finally shaping... When the last step was completed, Rin was left with only a pure white spirit, half a palm in size, shining like a gem under the light.
Rin cupped this pure spirit in her right hand, then looked at the magecraft reriqument: blood fort andromeda waiting quietly at her feet like a puppy, and murmured curiously, full of anticipation:
"What kind of familiar will it become?"
Then she reached out and inserted this processed soul, along with her right hand, into the liquid magecraft reriqument: blood fort andromeda...
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