Alchemy Principles of Type-Moon World

"I'm too lazy to guess." Kenneth snorted coldly, crossing his arms across his chest, "This kind of thing is meaningless to me."

"Ah, Lord is just different." Xing Qingyu shook his head, too lazy to make any more jokes, and flipped the diary in his hand even faster.

The pages rustled, and the air seemed to be filled with the dust of the passing years. Everyone began to smile uncontrollably as they looked at the dates in the diary. Finally, after turning nearly a hundred pages—

"—Miss Cinderella finally contacted me! An unknown letter was sent to my part-time job. As soon as I saw the signature on the envelope, I immediately asked the manager for leave. When I returned to my dorm, my hands were shaking with excitement. I hesitated for a long time before opening it."

"She said this letter is her glass slipper. If I can find her through the clues in the letter, then I will be her prince."

"I see. Is this a proposal?! That's great, that's great!"

"Puchi..." A burst of laughter rang out almost at the same time.

"I don't quite understand how this envelope turned out to be the crystal slipper..." Okita Souji laughed so hard that his shoulders shook, tears even flowing from the corners of his eyes, "but it's clear that he ran away!"

"Cinderella," Kenneth calmly replied, explaining to Okita, "is the story of Cinderella. She left the glass slipper behind and ran away, leaving the prince to find her."

"I think this old man's experience in his youth could be called a new version of Cinderella." Xing Qingfeng laughed, "It's so humorous."

"I told my other friends about this, but instead of blessing us, they all laughed at me and called me a fool! I wanted to get angry, but I owed it to them to have enough food to eat for the past six months."

"When I find Miss Cinderella and marry her, they will be shocked!"

"I'm tired of seeing this." Guanyue Ringo rested her arms on the back of her chair and swung her feet lazily. A piece of notebook paper on the table floated down with her movement. She glanced at the diary in Xing Qingqi's hand and said helplessly, "When will he finally realize it?"

"Well, that will take another half a year." Xing Qingfu responded with a smile and quickly flipped through the diary. With the friction of the pages, time seemed to slip away page by page.

"I guess I was deceived, right?"

"Half a year has passed, and there's still no news of Miss Cinderella. She vanished from the Clock Tower, as if she had evaporated from the face of the earth."

"A friend told me the story of Cinderella, and I finally understood the meaning of 'Cinderella'."

"A magic that disappears after midnight—how fitting! Should I be angry? But I can't. Miss Cinderella, it seems I still love you..."

Xing Qingqiu flipped through the diary, looking up and scanning the crowd with a mischievous smile, as if anticipating their reactions. At this moment, he suddenly stopped, his fingertips pressing against the page, his voice rising slightly: "Oh, here it comes!"

"Fuck you bitch, my magic costume is gone!!!! My graduation project was also taken away, how the hell am I supposed to graduate!?!"

"I spent the whole night calculating what I'd lost. I've lost all my fucking money and I have to go to work tomorrow! Fuck those European magicians, they're all a bunch of liars and shit! Why the fuck am I writing this shit in my diary? The more I read, the more I feel like a fucking idiot!"

"Hahahaha!" Okita Souji held his stomach, laughing so hard he could barely breathe. "This guy finally got it, but it's a shame it's half a year too late!"

"The investigation records at the time show that he did graduate two years later than normal," Kenneth said calmly, a hint of mockery etched in his tone. "It seems that's the problem."

"That's pretty much all he recorded during his time in the Clock Tower." Xing Qingqiu flipped through the last few pages of his diary, his tone brisk. "Well, this old man was a foolish, rich kid when he was young. He's a combination of your youth and Weber's youth."

"When I was young, in my twenties, I made two supreme ceremonial garments." Kayneth raised his chin, his tone full of disdain, "Who the hell is he? How dare he be compared with me?"

"But you were also bewitched by Sora when you were young." Xing Qing sneered. "The way you kept harping on Sora before you got married was exactly like this old man."

“…” Kenneth opened his mouth but fell silent, obviously unwilling to continue this topic.

"Aside from being a bit of fun, it really doesn't do anything else," Guanyue Ringo commented. "But at least we can confirm that this old man's mental state was relatively normal when he was young."

"Don't be too optimistic." Xing Qingqi spread his hands, a playful smile curling his lips. "It's not uncommon for magicians to appear normal on the surface but actually be psychopaths. I think this old man's lonely childhood may have planted the seeds of his psychopathology, and after being deceived repeatedly, it has fully sprouted."

"Aren't all of you here magicians?" Guanyue Ringo shrugged. "That sounds scary."

"That's a lie," Xing Qingqi retorted. "I'm an alchemist."

"And then there's this." Xing Qingqiu picked up a fresh stack of manuscript paper from the side. "It came from the Clock Tower. It's his graduation thesis. The title is: 'The Symbiotic Relationship between Magic and the Ecological Environment from the Perspective of Gnosticism and Greek Culture.'"

"That sounds intimidating." Patricia frowned slightly. "But how is Gnosticism related to the ecological environment? I remember Gnosticism focusing more on the relationship between humans and knowledge?"

"It's just an undergraduate thesis." Xing Qingqi curled his lips indifferently. "And it was rushed. But the core content is actually quite good, with some substance. It studies how magic regulates the energy flow of ecosystems through chanting and ritual."

"A technique for currying favor with the Clock Tower lecturer," Kenneth commented coldly. "Using some metaphysical vocabulary to fool third-rate lecturers, those third-rate lecturers will just let you go as soon as they see it. Many people can do this."

"Anyway, the fun's over." Xing Qingqiu closed the diary, casually placed it on the table, and clapped his hands. "From the current timeline, this old man was a socially withdrawn, foolish idiot who got scammed out of his pants during his college years."

"No different from an ordinary magician." Kenneth commented lightly.

"Yeah." Xing Qingyu nodded, but a disturbing smile appeared on his lips. He turned and picked up another diary from the side, gently flipping to the first page. "Then, this ordinary idiot went home a few years later—"

"—He killed his entire clan. I thought he had a brother named Sasuke."

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Volume 44: Symbiotic Relationships: . Blood Exchange

Xing Qingqiu flipped the second diary in his hand to the first page, casually tapped the cover, and slowly placed it in the center of the table. He raised his hand and lightly tapped the diary cover with his fingertips. A faint light shone from between his fingers, quickly flowing along the lines of the cover. The next moment, a pale blue light curtain unfolded on the opposite wall, and the words slowly appeared like ink smudges, clearly projecting the text from the diary.

The diary's contents were written in elegant handwriting, the characters evoking an ancient, restrained elegance, as if one could still smell the aged scent of paper and ink. Xing Qingqi nodded in satisfaction, stepped back, leaned against the table, and surveyed the group seated around him.

"Protecting alien creatures in the Amazon rainforest."

"This seems to be our clan's mission... No, it's more like a corresponding obligation for us, who enjoy the right to swallow up the entire South American sacred land. I heard that families before the Common Era would engrave a similar obligation in their bloodlines, known as the Crown Designation."

"Well, let me put it this way. While our family can be considered to have a long history, it's still far from the level of those noble lords who trace their lineage back to the Age of Gods before Christ. So, there's no such thing as a designated crown in our family."

"That's easy to say." Patricia folded her arms, leaning against the wall with a sneer of disdain on her face. "Enjoying the protection of the entire South American spiritual land, yet still pretending to be humble, how ironic."

Xing Qingwu smiled but didn't respond. With a few taps of his fingers, the text on the projection slid down a line and continued to appear.

"I'll be taking over as clan leader tomorrow. I think that's why I've started writing in my diary again after a long time."

"How should I put it? I grew up here... but after leaving the Clock Tower and returning home, I suddenly feel a little bit out of place."

"After I take over as clan leader tomorrow, the clan's library will be completely open to me. I'll be able to learn many secrets, including the information about the strange object I most want to know. I hope it will be enough to allow me to live a peaceful life."

"I heard that after I succeed the clan leader, in order to keep my bloodline pure, I will carefully select a woman from Spain to be my spouse."

"For a lazy person like me, this is indeed the most convenient option."

"He obviously didn't live a 'peaceful life'." Guanyue Ringo said in a flat tone, his eyes always fixed on the line about "foreign objects".

"Yeah." Xing Qing nodded, pulling over a nearby chair and sitting down. "This 'Anqiu (Nine Years) Five>sPanbaqiyisan' was probably the starting point of his later mental breakdown."

"..."

"Why can't I forget that woman named Cinderella?"

"This guy has been deceived so badly, why is he still obsessed with it?" Okita Souji couldn't help but complain, "He deserved to be deceived."

Xing Qingqi chuckled, "This diary records the days when he succeeded to the position of clan leader shortly after returning home. It also mentions a lot of information about the clan's activities outside the Amazon 'alien'."

"Is the only thing we can do now to start with the diary?" Kenneth asked.

"That's what it looks like at the moment." Xing Qingyu stood up, sorting through the documents on the table. He glanced at the words on the wall, his tone slightly helpless, "I'll try to find the documents mentioned in the diary—"

"—but in the end I didn't find any left. They were either hidden or destroyed."

"What's your judgment?" Kenneth asked.

"I lean more towards the latter." Xing Qingyu raised an eyebrow. The text on the projection slowly faded with his movements, eventually disappearing completely. His expression grew more serious, and his tone became more thoughtful. "Given his later mental state, this seems quite logical."

Xing Qingqiu flipped through his diary, adjusting the projection to the next page. Lines of flowing handwriting quickly appeared on the wall. The air was filled with the faint smell of pages turning, and the wind outside the window gently brushed against the window lattice, making a low humming sound.

"I took over as the clan leader today. There wasn't any special ceremony or anything. Dad just threw a pendant at me and announced that I was the next clan leader."

"I don't have any objections. It's just what I want. I find it boring to be stuck in the clan, but if I have to interact with other people, I'll just give up."

"Tsk," Xing Qingfeng said with a hint of ridicule in his tone, "This old man had no sense of ritual when he was young, but now that he's old, he starts offering sacrifices to the statue day and night."

"But I did look up some information in the library tonight. It turns out that the so-called alien object is called Type: Oort. It is said that it was named by the dean himself."

"It seems the contract we signed with the Magic Association back then was also at the behest of that Top. While it's not quite the same as true nobility, it's not bad to have reached this point. Signing a contract to protect humanity from awakening threats for generations, I'm a bit proud of it."

"Based solely on what I've seen so far, I'll be honest," Guanyue Ringo said in a relaxed tone, but with a hint of seriousness. "This guy's moral standards are among the best among the magicians I've met. At least, I think he's better than me."

"Ah?" Xing Qingwu paused and glanced at her sideways. "So you're not as good as him?"

"I'm a thief who specializes in poaching from other magicians' spiritual sites," Guanyue Ringo said frankly, even with a hint of smugness on his face. "Do you want to question the morality of a poacher?"

Xing Qingyu raised his eyebrows, his tone becoming more meaningful. "So, your men have committed quite a few crimes. How many people have they killed?"

"Why would I kill someone?" Guanyue Ringo was stunned for a moment, then revealed an incredible expression, "Not to mention that there is no research direction for me in humans, even if there is-"

She raised her chin slightly and said as a matter of course, "If I spend a little money, won't there be plenty of people coming to me for research?"

"Tsk." Xing Qingwu tutted in disdain and slapped his forehead, "You're also a bastard."

The lab was silent for a second, and then Okita Souji, standing nearby, raised his hand and pointed at a word on the wall, breaking the brief silence. "But who is that Top referring to?"

"I think it's Bricisan, the dean of the Clock Tower," Kenneth explained. "He's the dean who has remained unchanged since the establishment of the Clock Tower."

Xing Qingqiu's fingers gently slid across the edge of the diary. He casually turned to the next page, speaking slowly and unhurriedly, "But Type: Oort... Oort Nebula? That name is quite interesting."

Neat handwriting appeared on the projection wall again, accompanied by the slight sound of pages turning, and the content became clearer.

"The ecological phenomena surrounding ORT are unique. The concentration of magical energy in the environment alone is far higher than in normal environments, and the many lives that thrive there possess unique properties. The family's mission is to continue the practice of controlling spiritual lands, hoping to achieve spiritual sublimation through the externalization of magical energy, thereby establishing a connection with the land and the planets, and thereby reaching the source."

"Therefore, the family has also conducted a lot of research on the environment outside ORT, but it focuses more on the nature of the land rather than the ecological environment."

“But, how should I put it… I really can’t tell anyone about this, but it’s really frustrating to keep it inside—”

"—I'm actually not that interested in the origins. Well, I'm just like the most rebellious magus in the family. The new clan leader isn't interested in the family's projects. Oh, it would be a real problem if my family found out."

The projected halo reflected on the laboratory glassware, casting faint pinpricks of light. Xing Qingqi crossed his arms, his expression slightly frowning. "Spiritual land and roots... typical magician thinking. They'd love to have 'Private Property' written on every piece of land."

"But to be honest," Kenneth crossed his arms and leaned against the high chair in the laboratory, "this guy isn't that obsessed with the origin. He's really rare."

"Is it rare?" Xing Qingqiu casually closed the notebook in his hand and tapped the table next to the projector. "I think you're just limiting the definition of a magician to those who study the mysteries. If anyone who can perform magic is considered a magician, then there will be many magicians who don't care about the root cause."

"That's called a magician," Kenneth corrected, his tone calm and firm.

"Okay, okay," Xing Qingqi smiled, his tone mixed with a bit of nonchalant perfunctory, "So are you still pursuing that root?"

"Why pursue that? It's boring." Kenneth shook his head slightly, his tone as natural as if he was discussing the weather.

“Huh?!” Kanzuki Ringo couldn’t help but exclaim, “One of the twelve Lords of the Clock Tower… has no interest in the Root?!”

"Of course I'm interested," Kenneth replied, "but I have more interesting and practical goals right now, that's all."

As Xing Qingyu opened the diary again, the projection on the wall changed and a new paragraph slowly appeared.

"But I'm very interested in the ecological environment outside of ORT. This is my research topic. The symbiotic relationship between magic and the ecological environment is very clearly demonstrated outside of ORT. If the ether were not still ordinary ether, I would even think that it was a relic of the Age of Gods."

"However, after reorganizing the information a little bit, I found that something seemed to be wrong."

"The earliest record dates back to the 16th century, apparently from the magicians at the Clock Tower. At the time, they limited the scope of ORT to the core area of the Amazon rainforest, which covered over 300,000 square kilometers."

"The subsequent records were lost for approximately fifty years. I compared events during this period, and it was roughly around the time when the family began colonizing South America. After officially taking over the spiritual lands of South America from the natives, the records returned to normal. The first recorded area also covered over 300,000 square kilometers."

"Honestly," Xing Qingfeng curled his lips in disdain, "this tone stinks of colonialism."

"At least he didn't say anything about rewarding the locals with a whole turkey," Kenneth said with a smile. "This holiday for American rednecks really suits their sense of humor."

"In the early 17th century, the ORT's area remained unchanged. However, by the 18th century, contemporary record-keepers estimated its area to have expanded by at least 30,000 square kilometers."

"It was also from this period that the extent of ORT's influence was redefined with each record, and it consistently expanded. I compared the rate of expansion, and it was accelerating. By the time of the record twenty years ago, its range had already expanded to nearly 600,000 square kilometers."

"In just over two hundred years, the ORT's area has doubled. The entire Amazon rainforest is only about five million square kilometers, and according to my estimates..."

"If this accelerated expansion continues, ORT will devour the entire Amazon rainforest in just two hundred years."

"This is very unusual. I asked the former clan leader, my father. He told me that he had also wondered about this issue, but after investigating it for most of his life, he had no results and had to give up."

"According to records, the ORT's scope expanded after the 17th century. Perhaps I should focus on investigating this aspect."

"Do you remember the conflict we discussed when we got here?" Xing Qingqi turned to Patricia. "The ORT range defined by the Clock Tower based on the data provided in the 16th century indicates that we are at least 500 kilometers away from the outer edge of the ORT—"

"--But I remember that if we walked another hundred kilometers, we would reach the outskirts of ORT..." Patricia, reminded by Xing Qingyu, also remembered what happened at that time and took the opportunity to take over the conversation. "You mean, these two things are not contradictory?"

"Well, it seems the ORT's scope has indeed expanded," Xing Qingqi said. "The information on the Clock Tower is a bit outdated."

"However, the expansion of its scope could also be due to a misinterpretation of the ORT's boundaries. Perhaps areas that were not originally defined as ORT were subsequently incorporated into the ORT's scope. Considering that the family's magic and research are often closely tied to spiritual lands, I think this possibility is very high..."

"Of course, I think the truth is something much simpler. I reviewed the contract the family signed with the Magic Association, and the clauses mentioned above gave the family full management rights over the spiritual lands surrounding ORT. However, the quality of the land in the Amazon rainforest is extremely high—"

"—If we continue to expand ORT's territory, won't we be able to legitimately occupy more territory? However, we have to wait until we conduct a field investigation to confirm this. Since it's time for a blood transfusion for the tribe soon, we can confirm it then."

　"Blood transfusion?" Kenneth caught the key words in the diary. "What does blood transfusion mean?"

"Basically, it's a form of plundering of the indigenous people of this land," Xing Qingfeng said. "We'll talk about that later."

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These chapters not only explain the general development of the ORT environment, but also answer the questions about the changes in the South American magic world and humanities that were raised earlier. Although most of the questions have been answered with speculation, I think they should eventually be systematically sorted out according to time.

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Volume 45: Endosymbiosis: . Bone Marrow Transplantation