Alchemy Principles of Type-Moon World

"Guardian of the Suppressing Force," Karna said, holding Okita Alter firmly behind him. "This is not the place for you."

"Huh?" Okita Alter was slightly startled. The scene before her made her a little confused for a moment, "But the Holy Grail..."

However, before she could finish her words, a deafening roar suddenly erupted from afar, and the ground began to shake violently. Then, a fierce barrage of artillery fire came from all directions like a torrential rainstorm, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and gun smoke.

「Class switch: Rider → Archer」

Noble Phantasm Release: "Mikawa National Collapse, Blood and Smoke Cover the Country: A"

The surrounding scene changed instantly. The entire battlefield was enveloped in a thick bloody mist and thick smoke. Sparks rained down like stars, and dust obscured the sky. Ōtomo Sorin's Noble Phantasm was now fully revealed. Amidst the chaos, the Kokubō Cannons, hidden beneath the rubble and unfired until then, finally bared their ferocious fangs.

Accompanied by thunderous roars, artillery fire blasted and explosions exploded around Okita Alter. The blazing flames engulfed her figure like a raging tide, and the huge shock wave swept up the rubble around her, and gravel fell like raindrops.

Smoke and dust filled the air, flames twisted and swirled in the air, and the battlefield was shrouded in a thick, bloody mist, making it almost impossible to see the scene clearly. The place where Okita Alter had stood was now reduced to ruins, the bombardment of artillery had shattered the ground and scattered rubble. The temperature around them suddenly rose, and the air was filled with the stench of burning.

"Boundless: A"

If you can't hit it, it's actually useless!

When the smoke cleared, the place that should have been destroyed by the artillery fire was now empty.

Amidst the roar of artillery fire, Karna's footsteps remained unwavering, his lance swinging like a blazing wind blade, forcing Tokugawa Ieyasu to retreat. However, as time passed, each of Karna's attacks gradually lost its former effectiveness.

"Divinity: A"

The cuckoo will eventually sing. When Tokugawa Ieyasu's durability attribute is raised to EX, it symbolizes that after a long period of patience and waiting, the Tokugawa shogunate has finally become powerful, ending the Warring States period and ushering in the peaceful Edo period.

After this condition is met, "If the cuckoo doesn't sing, wait for it to sing: EX" is upgraded to "Tosho Daigongen: EX". When Yakushi Ruriko Tathagata appears as the god of Japan, the divinity of Tosho-jin, who illuminates Edo, will appear in Tokugawa Ieyasu.

However, since he is only a shadow warrior, he only has the divine aptitude at most and cannot truly bring down Tosho Daigongen.

This divine aptitude would provide a powerful defensive advantage against any deity associated with war. Karna's spearpoint stabbed Tokugawa Ieyasu's chest again, but only left a scratch on his breastplate.

"It's getting more and more difficult..." Karna felt the fullness of his magic power. Since his master hadn't given any signal yet, it meant that his magic power was still more than enough, but the situation was getting worse the longer he delayed. Tokugawa Ieyasu was now able to barely withstand Karna's additional magic attacks while chasing Okita Alter.

"Should I release my Noble Phantasm?" Karna thought rapidly while adjusting his breathing. "My magic power is still sufficient, enough to support the release of my final Noble Phantasm..."

At this moment, Okita Alter's voice came from the side, "That spearman!" She struggled to fend off the Great Tengu Masayasu in Tokugawa Ieyasu's hands, while shouting loudly, "Help me hold him back!"

Karna immediately understood her intention. Without hesitation, the magic power in Karna's body erupted like a volcano, his speed and strength suddenly increased, and the spear blade struck Tokugawa Ieyasu directly. However, as this wave of fierce attack unfolded, he soon noticed something unusual -

—Okita Alter's words just now clearly revealed her intention to unleash a Noble Phantasm or some other deadly move. Normally, Tokugawa Ieyasu would have immediately become alert and evaded or defended. However, at this moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu showed no sign of retreat.

Instead, he looked away from Okita Alter and focused all his attention on Karna.

“Wait a minute…” Karna sensed something strange and was about to open his mouth to warn, but his voice was not fully heard.

"Anyway—it's this powerful-looking black beam cannon!!"

At that moment, Okita Alter had already thrown everything into disregard, tightly gripping the large sword with both hands. The blade was wrapped in magical power as hot as fire, and its color was so deep red that it was almost black.

A black beam of light filled with destructive aura suddenly shot out from her large sword, tearing the surrounding environment into pieces, and bursting towards Tokugawa Ieyasu at an unstoppable speed.

Wherever the black beam passed, the ground cracked, stirring up ashes and rubble, as if to completely obliterate everything in sight. The boundless black beam engulfed Tokugawa Ieyasu, and with a low, muffled thud, the beam struck him fiercely.

Absolute Sword: Infinite Sky Three Stages: A

Immeasurable, unobstructed, and boundless, the three lights converge to form the infinite sky.

Unleashing the fatal magic sword of the demon god Okita Souji, which shines with black light.

It can even "forcibly exclude" things that should not exist or cannot exist from this world and destroy them.

『God of Iga Crossing: EX』

After the Honnoji Incident, a fierce struggle ensued among the daimyo for power. At the time of the Honnoji Incident, Tokugawa Ieyasu was in Sakai City, and the main roads to the Tokugawa clan's territory had been blocked by Akechi Mitsuhide. If he could not return to the Tokugawa clan's territory immediately, he would be killed by Akechi Mitsuhide.

After a series of nearly impossible adventures, Tokugawa Ieyasu miraculously took a small path through the enemy's territory, returned to the Tokugawa family, and pacified the internal affairs before confronting Akechi Mitsuhide. This event was later known as the Kami-kun Iga Crossing.

This skill, upgraded from this deed, could allow Tokugawa Ieyasu to turn a desperate situation into a path of survival and completely repair his spiritual foundation if this skill succeeded when he realized that his death was imminent.

——The kunai was once again in Tokugawa Ieyasu’s hand. The one swallowed by Okita Alter’s Noble Phantasm was just a substitute.

"I remember now, Yagyu-kun died at your hands, right?" Tokugawa Ieyasu's Noble Phantasm had already been switched to Daitengu Masakae's. "Then, if I want to deal with you, I should definitely use this Noble Phantasm."

Noble Phantasm Release: "Unrivaled Swordsmanship: Sword and Zen as One"

Before he could finish his words, Tokugawa Ieyasu unsheathed the Daitengu Masakae sword, flashing like lightning as it slashed towards Okita Alter. She barely reacted, feeling only a sharp pain in her chest. The blade slashed diagonally from her left shoulder to her right waist, leaving a horrifying bloody mark. Blood gushed out instantly, staining her haori red. Her spirit core shattered, and a heavy sense of weakness washed over her consciousness like a flood.

One more blow and it would be over. Tokugawa Ieyasu raised the blade high in his hand again, ready for the final blow.

—A spear of annihilation, composed of lightning, flew from Karna's hand straight towards Tokugawa Ieyasu. The golden lightning ripped through the air, carrying a terrifying power that could destroy all divine beings, instantly engulfing Tokugawa Ieyasu's figure.

"O Sun, Submit to Death: EX"

A spear of light that is enough to bring down the gods with just one strike.

A spear of annihilation composed of lightning. When Indra took away the golden armor, he gave it to Karna because of his noble attitude and felt that he had to repay him.

Manifested in exchange for golden armor, this weapon possesses immense defensive power, resulting in a powerful anti-god weapon. Its power is sufficient to completely destroy any single entity in the world—living, non-living, and even any object, including magical beasts, mythical beasts, mythical beasts, humans, shields, armies, cities, barriers, and even gods. Nothing can withstand it.

Having just gained divine power with high defensive aptitude through his skills, Tokugawa Ieyasu was immediately confronted by a Noble Phantasm capable of special attacks against gods. Golden lightning engulfed Ieyasu, leaving behind no last words or haiku.

However, even without divinity, it didn't matter. Only the "world" could resist Karna's Noble Phantasm. Without the protection of the concept of "world", Tokugawa Ieyasu would be unable to block this attack no matter what.

However, the price he paid was to permanently lose the golden armor, which could only be used once, and even his magic power was running low, which was why Karna did not release the treasure immediately.

Karna slowly walked over to Okita Alter and helped her up. A broken spirit core could faintly be seen pulsing in the deep wound on her chest that was visible to the bone.

But the strange thing is that even though the spirit core has been shattered, Okita Alter still did not dissipate immediately.

"Can you still stand up?"

"It's okay..." Okita Alter supported himself with his large sword, "Let's go retrieve the Holy Grail first."

Karna put Okita Alter's arm on his shoulder, supported half of her body, and took Okita Alter to the shadow of the Holy Grail floating in the air not far away.

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Volume 46: The Quiet Kyoto Holy Grail War: . The Paradoxical Holy Grail and the Third Law

"Xing, wait a minute!"

Sharma's voice suddenly echoed through the empty night, a hint of panic and urgency piercing the lingering silence. Xing Qingqiu paused, his black windbreaker fluttering in the breeze, the hem swaying gently in the chill of the night. He slowly turned his head, his gaze darting in the direction of the voice, only to see Sharma stumbling towards him.

"Wait... wait a minute... don't go over there yet..." Sharma shouted breathlessly, his voice intermittent due to his rapid breathing, and the sweat on his face gleamed in the moonlight. His pace became faster and faster, and he almost stumbled towards Xing Qingjiu, barely reaching out his hand to stop him.

"What happened?" Xing Qingyu did not seem too anxious, but remained calm.

"Karna... has lost contact," Sharma said breathlessly. "There is no contact at all. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be... dead."

"Take your time," Xing Qingqi said in a steady voice. He patted Sharma's back gently and helped him sit down on the ground. The ground was covered with a few dead branches and moist soil, and the air was filled with the unique dampness of the night. "Is there something wrong over there?"

Sharma took a deep breath, trying to calm his disordered breathing.

"Right... Reimu... Karna was fighting a Servant named Tokugawa Ieyasu. Things were going well at first. But then, mid-battle, someone suddenly appeared, claiming to be the Guardian of the Suppressing Force." Sharma looked up at Xing Qingjiu. "She said she wanted to recover the Holy Grail and correct the anomaly of the era."

"After dealing with Tokugawa Ieyasu, Karna went to the vicinity of the Holy Grail with the guardian. However, the moment they approached the Holy Grail, I completely lost contact with him."

"Hmm...wait a minute." Xing Qingqiu was silent for a moment, his eyes slightly lowered. "What does 'Guardian of Inhibition' mean? Did she mention anything else?"

"I'm not sure. That's what she claims to be. All I know is that she's a Japanese woman wielding a sword. She calls herself the Demon God Okita Souji, and she looks a lot like the Saber I met during this Holy Grail War." Sharma shook his head, supporting himself with his hands. After a moment of thought, he added, "Karna possesses a Noble Phantasm that can tell if someone is lying. Since he hasn't refuted it, I believe he's credible."

"Secondly, what is that Holy Grail?" Xing Qingqiu pressed. "The information we submitted to the Clock Tower should have clearly stated that this 'Holy Grail War' is merely a continuation of the rituals of the previous four generations of magic and does not actually include the Holy Grail itself."

"How did the Holy Grail suddenly appear?"

"I'm not sure, but the guardian of the restraining force calls it the Holy Grail." Sharma shook his head. "That's all I know."

"Hmm... If both pieces of information are true, and based on this inference..." Xing Qingfeng pondered for a moment, "then it means... first, the Holy Grail is the source of all these anomalies, and if it is not recovered, there is a high probability that new anomalies will occur."

"Second, the Holy Grail or the surrounding area is extremely dangerous." He turned to look at Sharma. "Any additional information?"

Sharma was silent for a moment, then shook his head. "No more. I think it's best not to approach the Holy Grail without first understanding its dangers."

"Really? Did you call for help?"

"The support from the Clock Tower may not arrive until dawn." Sharma replied helplessly.

"Then, who else can handle this matter now?" Xing Qingfeng asked, "Do you want me to just leave it alone? But I'm the supervisor of the Holy Grail War. If I don't, who will?"

"But..." Sharma wanted to say something.

"Alright, no need to say more," Xing Qingfeng turned around and walked towards the ruins of Nijo Castle. "Thank you for coming all the way here to tell me this. If you don't have any other information, I'll leave first."

Sharma gritted his teeth, struggled to his feet, and stumbled after Xing Qingjiu. "If you insist on going, I'll go with you. At least... there'll be a..."

Before he finished speaking, Xing Qingqiu's hand suddenly shot out like lightning, resting precisely on Sharma's neck, a faint magical power flowing through his fingertips. With a light press, Sharma's eyes rolled back and he collapsed helplessly.

"Sorry, I don't have time to talk to you." Xing Qingqiu gently laid Sharma on the ground, made sure his breathing was steady, and quickly stood up. "But if even I can't handle it, what can you, an ordinary magician short of mana, do?"

After saying this, Xing Qingfu continued to observe the surrounding situation while hurriedly rushing to the ruins of Nijo Castle.

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Xing Qingfeng frowned, his gaze gravely fixed on the area where Nijo Castle should have stood. But now, the walls and buildings that had stood for so long were gone, leaving only ruins. Nijo Castle, once a symbol of Kyoto's power, was now a desolate scene of desolation. Stone walls had collapsed, and rubble shattered by artillery fire piled among the shattered walls. A few charred wooden beams lay alone, leaning against the ground like broken bones.

The air was filled with a damp, decaying smell. A gentle breeze blew by, stirring up a cloud of dust and bringing with it a faint whiff of gunpowder smoke. Xing Qingfeng stood amidst the ruins, his black windbreaker rustling in the breeze. He glanced at the scene before him, his brow furrowed.

"...Why does it look familiar?" Xing Qing looked up at the glowing shadow of the Holy Grail. "Have I seen it somewhere before?"

After carefully exploring the surrounding ruins, he confirmed that he had found no other valuable clues. Once he was certain everything was safe, he refocused his attention on the shadowy figure. He raised his foot, steadily but cautiously approaching the Holy Grail of Paradox. His footsteps scraped against the rubble and dirt, making a slight, grating sound that was particularly harsh in the silent night. Just as Xing Qingjiu was within a certain distance of the Holy Grail of Paradox, he suddenly felt as if something had swept over him.

——The next moment, Xing Qingfu’s body was suddenly destroyed.

Without warning, Xing Qingfeng's entire body structure was destroyed, his body shattering in an instant. He could clearly feel every cell and every bone being completely destroyed. Flesh and bone didn't flow or collapse as they would in previous injuries. Instead, they shattered instantly like glass, shattering into pieces. All tissue evenly transformed into emerald green crystals, like drifting snowflakes, silently scattered through the air on the breeze.

The self relies on memory to maintain its unity. Unlike other people, Xing Qingjiu's records do not exist in the Star Realm, but are rooted in his own inherent barrier.

Even though its attack had already involved the reading of information from the Star Realm and even touched the threshold of the Third Law, it actually had little effect on Xing Qingfeng, who was also a product of the Third Law.

Even if the structure of his body and soul is completely destroyed, he can still be revived by reading the inherent barrier.

"What's going on... resonance?" A green crystal in the air suddenly began to change. It expanded and multiplied, like a cluster of glittering crystals growing from the ruins. These crystals expanded rapidly like wildly growing plants, occupying a large area. Then, their growth suddenly stopped, and they began to shrink inward and merge. In the center of the crystal cluster, Xing Qingfu's body gradually took shape. The emerald green crystals fell off piece by piece, turning into dust and dissipating in the air. Finally, Xing Qingfu's form reappeared, standing before the Holy Grail of Paradox.

—The only problem was that he was naked.

"Something's wrong. How could simple resonance possibly take out Sharma's Lancer?" Xing Qingfeng only understood the surface of the attack, not its underlying connection to the Third Law. He paused, tapping his forehead with his fingers, trying to gather his thoughts. "Amorphous structures should be far more resistant to resonance than ordinary crystals... Wait a minute?"

The rag traced an arc through the air, ultimately impacting the Holy Grail's protective mechanism. Just as Xing Qingjiu had anticipated, the Holy Grail's safety mechanism was triggered, and the energy fluctuations in the void instantly shattered the rag. However, compared to the moment when he had been shattered into crystal fragments, the intensity of the damage was significantly less.

"Sure enough..." Xing Qingyu stared at the fragment of rag still floating in the air and muttered softly, "The senses after the soul and matter are integrated seem to have led to wrong judgments... Is that right?"

He pondered for a moment, then once again plunged his consciousness into the imaginary space, his fingers rapidly searching for the items within. Following the slight tremor of the spatial fluctuations, Xing Qingfeng this time snatched a bloody piece of raw beef from the warehouse. Clearly, this piece of meat was something he had bought long ago but had forgotten to eat.

He weighed the piece of meat gently, then threw it towards the Holy Grail of Paradox like a stone.

"Its lethality to simple substances isn't that high..." Xing Qingfeng stared at the piece of meat on the ground thoughtfully, his brows slightly relaxed, and he tapped his chin lightly with his fingers. "It seems that the shock to the soul led me to misjudge."

Xing Qingjiu casually constructed a spirit field, and then used the debris from the ruins of Nijo Castle as a medium to perform a spirit summoning ceremony. After summoning an unlucky spirit, he grabbed it and smashed it towards the Holy Grail of Paradox.

"Hmm... yes, it's a direct attack on the soul structure," Xing Qingyu nodded. "Directly attacking the structure... The method and idea are quite similar to mine, quite interesting."

Xing Qingfu kept repeating the process of summoning the spirit and throwing it, trying to get its reaction as much as possible from different angles.

"I roughly understand." Xing Qingwu nodded, and finally stopped looking for the unlucky spirit to explore the way and see its reaction, but tried to reach out and move forward.

"Sure enough... your way of judging is quite rigid," Xing Qingyu nodded, then walked straight towards the shadow of the Holy Grail.

The closer he got to the Holy Grail, the more familiar it seemed to Xing Qingjiu—

It was exactly like the Uruk Cup he had obtained from that glittering golden creature five years ago. Though the Paradox Holy Grail before him was a shadow, its shape, texture, and flowing magical energy were all highly similar to the Uruk Cup.

Xing Qingjiu didn't rush into the Holy Grail's shadowy form, instead maintaining a safe distance. He narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully examining the strange object before him. The patterns on its surface were exquisite and complex, as if countless tiny magical circuits were interwoven, yet they bore no resemblance to any known religious or mystical symbols.

This doesn't seem like the work of a magician. Magicians usually use a mystical perspective when creating ceremonial costumes, constructing rituals with signs and symbols.

Simply using magic structure to achieve the result was like the work of an alchemist. And he always felt that the pattern on it was quite familiar.

——If making formal attire is compared to solving a math problem, different authors can achieve the same result through their own methods, but no matter how complicated the process is, the details will always reveal personal style and traces.

As for the thing in front of Xing Qingyu, he almost suspected that it was something he had made subconsciously while sleepwalking one day.

Although Xing Qingxu himself is currently unable to integrate so many functions to create such a mature work, both the techniques and the subconscious processing of details are highly similar to Xing Qingxu himself.

"I feel like I've been plagiarized academically... No, that's not right," Xing Qingqiu muttered to himself. "This method is much more sophisticated than mine. Did I sleepwalk and plagiarize some big shot's house?"

Xing Qingyu subconsciously dug out Jill from the storage… Xing Qingyu's own Uruk Cup. Ever since he punched the hole in the world and stabilized it within his inherent barrier, Xing Qingyu, now possessing a sufficient source of magical power, hadn't used it again. He had left it in the storage, gathering dust, and gradually forgotten about it. If it weren't for the striking resemblance to the shadow before him, Xing Qingyu wouldn't have remembered he even had it.

After taking out the Uruk cup, Xing Qing began to compare some of the details on it.