Magician in Type-Moon

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Although he was somewhat surprised by what Aozaki Touko said, he still did not stop what he was doing.

--puff.

There was a heavy voice—Aozaki Touko thought, as if it were someone else's problem.

Blood flowed from his mouth, expelled from his internal organs, and with nowhere else to go, the blood couldn't help but vomit from his body.

She lowered her blurry vision slightly and saw a hand.

"How heartless."

"You once said that killing should be a one-hit kill."

A heavy voice, a mixture of melancholy, sighs, and hatred, came from the man's mouth.

"Araya... I'd like to say a few words at the end."

"I'm listening. Hurry, you only have a few seconds left."

Orange retorted, "You're the one who did it, yet you say that."

But now, just as he said, her body is so weak that she can no longer even move her lips properly.

"Araya, you've probably heard that there are two types of restraint."

"so what?"

Araya frowned when he heard Orange say something he knew all too well.

"In other words, treating the planet as a whole as a restraining force of the Gaia theory of life is different from the restraining forces we humans possess. And you seem to have only confirmed the problem of Alaya. Will you win?"

"It will win."

Araya Sōren answered immediately, without hesitation or exaggeration.

How arrogant! He's truly trained himself to the limit, like steel.

With a very realistic assumption in mind, even knowing how difficult it would be, Araya still asserted that he would win.

"Matou, make your move!"

As Orange pondered, she shouted with all her might toward the sky beyond the fourth-level void.

"what?"

Although Araya Souren asked a question, she had already ceased all life activities; Aozaki Touko's body had lost its function as a human being.

All that's left is the brain matter and a bloodless brain, but it won't be long before it's destroyed.

Aozaki Touko had only two eyes left, staring intently at the man named Araya Sōren.

There was no hatred, only pity.

Aozaki Touko's remaining magical abilities, through the countless mirrors already constructed within her eyes, projected the binding force onto the last figure her gaze lingered on.

She had pinpointed the only remaining loophole in Araya Sōren's magical mystery—its scope.

Although she couldn't detect it, Orange was certain that it was like a barrier, a special otherworld that unfolded from Araya Sōren as its origin.

Within the confines of this other world, Araya Sōren can perform miracles akin to magic.

But once he exceeds that limit, his magical skill level is no different from Aruba's.

It's even worse.

Orange has done all she can; now it's time to hand over the battlefield to Matouchi, who is flying high in the distant sky.

Chapter 252 Realistic Barrier

Araya Sōren's body was firmly imprisoned by the power of the projection-type Mystic Eye, and he could not move at all.

The gaze of the Demon Eye was like an invisible shackle, binding him tightly.

To escape from the projection-type magic eye, one must consume all their magic power.

At the same time, Aozaki Touko knew that her consciousness was gradually fading and her physical strength was slowly disappearing.

However, as Orange approached death, her thoughts drifted far away, and she suddenly thought of Matou Pond.

"Will that guy go berserk in anger when he finds out I'm dead?" Orange thought about this possibility with a hint of teasing and self-deprecation.

She thought of a common trope in comics—an important comrade sacrifices himself before her eyes, leaving the survivors with a final chance to hold off a powerful enemy and use their last bit of strength to create a moment for a counterattack.

Heroes always emerge victorious in the end, and this kind of setting always stirs people's hearts and even moves them to tears.

"But I'm not the kind of character who makes people cry," Orange chuckled inwardly, a hint of disdain in her eyes.

She knew she wasn't the kind of protagonist who would leave behind a moving or heroic scene; death was just an ordinary thing to her.

Although her consciousness was fading, her mind remained incredibly calm.

She is Aozaki Touko, and even on the verge of death, she will not allow herself to lose her composure in the slightest.

"Are we starting all over again? How many times has this happened?"

......

"Seriously, another mess."

Matou Ike sighed softly, his tone carrying a hint of helplessness and his usual nonchalance.

He sat high on the rooftop of the Hall of Sangharama, surrounded by countless black flying insects that silently guarded his figure like a thin blanket, occasionally fluttering their wings and creating a slight breeze.

The night air was cool, the stars twinkled, the moonlight was soft, and the sky was deep and clear.

The weather tonight is quite nice, with a gentle breeze carrying a slight chill. Looking at the city lights around her, Matouchi's mood isn't too bad.

"The weather is so nice, it's really inappropriate."

He didn't feel grief upon witnessing Orange's death, knowing anyway that the guy could come back to life.

Although Orange had prepared everything.

However, deep down, Matou Ike felt a vague unease.

He always felt that something was being overlooked, as if some kind of crisis he hadn't noticed was slowly approaching.

That feeling lingered, like a shadow about to fall.

"It's such an annoying feeling."

But Orange's projection magic wouldn't last long after her death, so even if there was some unease, it had to be ignored for the time being.

In any case, the worst-case scenario is that Araya Souren successfully takes away Minato Keita's head.

However, he had already seized the portion of the Blood Ring containing the principle within Shirai Junri's body.

If things really come to this, the situation for both sides can only be described as even.

Our side may even have a slight advantage.

In Aozaki Touko and Matou Ike's strategic plan, they were not afraid of Araya Sōren launching such a strong offensive.

On the contrary, they feared that Araya Sōren was hiding in the shadows and completely ignoring Matou Ike and Ryougi Shiki's actions, without making any reaction.

To reiterate, a magician's battle is a battle of concepts.

Nothing in this world is invincible.

Even for monsters that possess the ability of immortality, there are ways to forcibly impose the concept of death upon them.

The Holy Grail War, which took less than half a year to complete, is a good example.

Wasn't Tiamat, the dragon mother summoned by Medea, also something nearly invincible?

However, the situation after the "concept of dragons" has been stripped away is something that can be destroyed.

In short, we need to deal with magicians.

Intelligence gathering is of paramount importance.

As Araya Sōren made his move, his information was continuously leaked out.

Orange couldn't figure out what the so-called "spatial transfer" relied on, but Matou Ike's ability to deconstruct the Mystic Eyes was so overpowered that she had completely figured it out.

—Inherent Boundary.

The inherent boundary is a magic trick that manifests one's own mental landscape.

Once activated, this thing will transform the surrounding space into a completely different landscape, a subspecies of fantasy materialization, a magic extremely close to magic.

Unlike processing something that already exists, a bounded field is an encroachment on the real world by the practitioner's mental world.

The manifestation of mental landscapes can be explained using the magic theory of the "world egg".

In other words, a unique barrier replaces oneself and the world without changing the realm.

At this point, the size of oneself and the size of the world will be swapped, and the world will be completely confined to a small container.

This tiny world is called the World Egg, which also became the name of the theory.

But Araya Sōren's Reality Barrier is simply an anomaly among anomalies.

Because he had absolutely no expectations in his heart.

Perhaps he has long forgotten his own expectations.

They lived like zombies.

Logically speaking, such a person would never be able to learn this "ultimate secret of magic".

It's like an ability bestowed by the gods.

But the emptiness in his heart, combined with this ability, transformed into a universe of "nothingness".

The concept of "nothingness" is used to erode the real world.

The answer we get will naturally remain unchanged.

However, the "Realistic Marble" was indeed successfully activated.

The information observed from the Deconstruction Eye indicates a world eroded by the mental image of "nothingness".

It can be said that within that specific scope, that part of the world has become a part of Araya Sōren.

In that world, he could manipulate space at will.