Preparing To Move Out
Ren observed Emiya's work from a distance, there is no questioning the redhead's drive for work.
The kid was a machine. But, that was not good enough for Ren, for the simple reason that no amount of work with give the boy more Magic Circuits.
As the Sorcerer continue to observe the teen he kept using his Clairvoyance going through multiple futures.
In the end, Ren only saw the same ending, and that the redhead would die in glorious battle.
Not an ending the True magic-user would want for his student…
'In the end, his Magic circuits can't support his true power.' Ren hummed to himself, in that case, they will have to increase the amount of circuits he has.
A very painful process, for regular people that is…
Once break time came Ren approached Emiya.
"Not bad, if someone is to look at your craftsmanship they would think that you have decades under your belt as a blacksmith," Ren said to the redhead as he inspected the freshly crafted sword.
It looked very much usable, and Emiya only worked for a couple of hours…
"You think so? I know it has some faults…" The redhead teen said with a frown as he inspected the sword himself, the fault just pop up for him!
"And that already means that you know what are you doing." The Sorcerer said with a grin which made the redhead's eyes slightly widened, what the older man said is the truth! It's like Emiya knows instinctively what to do! How to make the sword best as possible!
"Still, there is something which I want to offer to you…"
And so, Ren offered the redhead to have… more magic circuits…
~~~~~~Couple Hours Later~~~~~~
"Is he going to be okay?" Rin asked Ren as they observed sleeping Emiya.
The Sorcerer just added few more magic circuits to the redhead and upgraded already existing ones.
The only reason the teen is sleeping now is to get over the shock his body experienced from the upgrade, a natural response.
"His body just experienced a shock and now he is just resting." The black-haired Sorcerer shrugged at her casually.
"I see, I thought anything to do with magic circuits is borderline impossible or very painful." The Tohsaka heiress said with no small amount of awe, she just saw Ren upgrading Emiya's circuits to God knows what kind of level!
With nothing more than a touch.
"Oh, it's not easy as you may think, I used all three of my True Magic for this one." The Sorcerer said while shaking his head.
"I quite literally went to past with Magic Blue, then used Denial of Nothingness, and Heaven's Feel to replicate and upgrade his already existing circuits."
Her eyes bulged out hearing all that.
"Single True Magic can't do what I just did."
"H-How many Circuits he has now?" The twin-tailed girl asked with a gulp.
She is anticipating some seriously crazy number!
"Enough to fight properly with his Reality Marble." He smiled mysteriously at her, this earned a huff from her as she returned to looking at sleeping Emiya.
Now the girl does wonder how much better the fake janitor of her school going to be at his already insane projection magic.
While she is getting left behind in all of this! Now she understands why Ren focused on Emiya, the redhead progress towards his specialised magecraft is utterly insane, the teen could produce God Slaying weapons in just a few hours of practice from nothing!
Compared to her progress in storing elemental magic in her gems is abysmal at best!
"While Emiya is resting let's go over your progress," Ren words snapped out her from her thoughts.
"Alright, not that I progressed far in my magecraft compared to what Emiya did." She said that in a self-mocking tone.
"I will be the one who decides that Rin."
The black-haired girl stiffed hearing that, she quickly nodded.
"O-Of course sensei!" The girl said with a shaky voice.
Ren nodded and inspected the gems, he can feel the residue of the element but it has left the gem and only the original prana was left.
"Hmm, the problem with your magecraft is that you do not fully convert the energy into an elemental one, by the time you store it in your gem it returns to neutral regular prana."
"To solve this issue you need to master element…" He explained to her before having a thoughtful look.
"For this, you will need help from someone who is Master of this element."
Before Rin can say anything she felt like she was yanked out from the workshop, before she realised what is going on, she saw her surroundings change rapidly!
'W-What is going on!?' She quickly looked around and saw buildings in which looked like Ancient Greece! She was standing in the middle which looks like a city square with people dressed in togas, and from the looks of it, it was early morning.
Whenever she looked the buildings were built from white marble!
She then quickly inspected herself and saw that she is translucent, like a ghost!
'I have sent you to past, go and find the Magus who is famous for his Lightning in this town, once you observe his work, I will pull you back.'
Once she heard his explanation she gulped down nerviously and started to look for this Magus, this was the only way for her to return home!
This was a great opportunity and same time very unexpected.
Nonetheless, this fits with the eccentric behaviour of a Magician…
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Once evening came it was time for Ren to advance in Holy Grail War, the only ones who are left to oppose him is Lancer, Berserker and Archer.
The Blue Saber already discussed with Archer that they will fight once only when they are the only ones remaining in this war.
Not that Archer will win, for the simple fact that Saber's Master will not allow the Counter Guardian to win anyway. Still, he wants to leave this place at least having a good fight.
"We will go on offence and attack Einzbern castle." Ren showed the castle on the map.
"Hmm, this brings back memories," Morgan said as she looked at the map.
This was the place where she has put her past behind her, this castle has a special place in her heart.
While Saber Alter shivered for a second, the castle reminded her how catastrophically she lost against her half-sister.
"This means we will fight Berserker, how does his Noble Phantasm based on Labours even work?" The King of Knights asked, more specifically asked her Master who knows things directly from the Throne of Heroes.
"He has twelve lives, which regenerates one every day. So, this means he should have 3 to 4 lives maybe even more."
The blonde knight slowly nodded, now that she has his full support it should not be too difficult for her to fight at peak capacity.
Nonetheless, Artoria remembered that her inverted form started the fight with Berserker.
So, the King of Knights looked at the paler counterpart of hers.
"You can have this fight, other me." The Tyrant of Knights said with a bored voice.
"...why are you giving me this chance? It's your fight to finish!" The King of Knights said with a slighly frustrated and confused look, she doesn't like charity like that!
"After yesterday you need this fight. So, I am giving it to you." The fallen knight said with a nonchalant shrug.
Artoria's eyebrow twitched when she heard that, that's one stain that will be hard to clean off…
Still, it is somewhat understandable, her opponent was someone whose expertise lies in miracles, no amount of training will help her there.
"Very well, I won't going to forget this favour."
Saber Alter only shrugged hearing that, the inverted Artoria will have her time to beat up some guys, she just needs to ask her Master to summon some Servants from the throne to beat up.
"What about the Einzbern? She is the lesser grail." Rin chipped in from the side, now that Ren is part of the war, they have much more leeway in this and can discuss different things.
Ren looked at his wife, who just shrugged at him, they had a conversation with their gazes and body language.
It was a pretty basic one at that, he asked her if he should reveal the truth about the grail.
His wife response was that she didn't cared, since Artoria was already past the point of caring about the wish…
They can reveal the truth…
"Well, there is a problem with the Grail itself." Ren started talking about the ritual, to make it even more interesting he used his True Magics and sucked everyone into the time stream to show what Einzberns have 'cooked up'...
He showed everything, how the grail got created, Tohsaka even saw her ancestor, the very same one which was a student under Zelretch.
Same with Matou and Einzbern founders…
Then he showed the Second War, and of course the fateful Third War where Avenger was summoned.
"This is the Avenger, the avatar of Angra Mainyu, the cause of the corruption of the Greater Grail. The reason why it was corrupted is because the material the Greater Grail was build contains cursed Silver," Ren explained to everyone.
The Servant looked quite… pathetic, with some crazy tattoos all over its body and a headband around his forehead. The guy even had some similarities in looks with Shirou which everyone noticed.
Well, Morgan already knows about the ritual in more detail since they did some research on its creation of their spare time out of boredom.
"So, when he died, and he died very early, since his parameters are just barely above regular human, his essence did not leave Greater Grail when the ritual has failed, instead his essence took the system over and corrupted the grail." The Sorcerer explained as everyone saw right in front of their eyes how the Greater Grail slowly started to emit a malicious aura.
After explaining this first ones to react were Emiya and Artoria.
"T-This explains why Kiritsugu wanted me to destroy the grail."
The King of Knights finally understood her previous Master's unreasonable behaviour at the end of the previous war.
"We must destroy this thing Sensei, who knows what such thing will do if we allow it to continue existing!" The redhead Hero wannabe said seriously.
"And we will, only the matter is how we going to do it? As it is right now the Lesser Grail is barely connected to the Greater Grail.
But, that connection grows as the war progresses."
"That's good then! We can save Illya! Right?" Emiya wants to save whatever connection he has with his family.
"Yes, that should be no problem." Ren shrugged at him, he already turned a homunculus into a human before, this should not be a problem.
"What about the Greater Grail? Is it possible to cleanse it?" Rin asked seriously, normally she would just offer to destroy it, but with Sensei and Morgan, it should not be impossible.
"I did cleanse it in my timeline, the Greater Grail is under your father's management."
The Sorcerer explained to the twin-tailed girl, whose eyes slightly widened hearing that. So, her family over there runs the whole thing?
"W-Would you able to do it here as well?" Rin hopefully asked him, the Grail is her family dream since 19 century she can't simply abandon it without at least trying to save it.
"Hmm, I suppose we can try, I don't see reason why not to." He casually shrugged at her.
The more magic there is in the world the better.
"Are you sure it's wise? The Grail Wars did more damage than anything else." The redhead teen said from the side.
"Think like this, if we are to disassemble it, the Einzbern could quite simply try to recreate the ritual in future which could cause even bigger problems than it is right now."
"But if we are to cleanse it and leave it under Rin here it could end up working and another True Magic-user could be born." Ren reasoned, and Emiya just sighed hearing that.
There is no use arguing with a Magician who only cares about magic and its continued existence
"Whatever you say Sensei there is no reason for me to argue with you." The teen said with a resigned voice.
"Glad you understand Emiya, now let's move out, there is a fighting to be done," Ren said with a grin, it was as if he is the one who will do the fighting…
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