Magician in Type-Moon

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"Did you forget everything that Orange and I taught you?"

Matou Ike sighed and, amidst Medea's giggles, followed Ryougi Shiki's footsteps inside.

......

Ryougi Shiki was like an assassin in some medieval assassin organization at this moment.

It was clearly a stealth mission, but she chose to go into "Musou mode".

With the enhancement magic provided by Orange, her path to becoming invincible was incredibly smooth.

Whether it's a guardian like a tree spirit or vines, a trap, or a barrier, as long as you can see the line of death, immediately flash over and take it down with one strike.

This tunnel, which runs down from the clock tower, was clearly only recently excavated.

Ryougi Shiki easily identified some characteristics belonging to the modern magician system, such as the magic circuits fixed inside the mountain wall, and those mysterious but no longer functional giant ritual objects.

This means that this is the magic workshop created by Araya Sōren.

This also made Ryougi Shiki realize that she had found the right place.

However, the deeper one goes, the more intense the impact of the city's filthy records becomes.

The workshop's owner was trying to hinder Ryougi Shiki's progress in this way, but these things that Ryougi Shiki could observe were completely unable to cause any ripples in her consciousness.

Because being able to see means being able to kill.

However, the quantity was too much, which made Ryougi Shiki feel somewhat irritated.

They cleaved open another alien monster that combined the characteristics of tree spirits, flesh and blood, sea demons, and other creatures.

She quickly reached the bottom of the tunnel.

The architectural style here is completely indistinguishable from that of the real world, and even features such as elevators.

The completely mismatched style actually made the atmosphere here feel eerie.

Before Ryougi Shiki were two elevator doors that seemed to divide the tunnel in two.

This suddenly gave her decision-making difficulties.

Ryougi Shiki was already slightly regretting not waiting for Matou Pond.

But this thought only lasted a moment before it was quickly banished from my mind.

"A choice between two options?"

She gently bit her finger, as if in thought, or perhaps relying on intuition, and chose the elevator entrance on the left.

Upon reaching the door, I pressed the button to call the elevator.

Kata, kata, kata, kata.

The sound of the elevator was somewhat unpleasant.

The elevator arrived shortly afterward.

Ryougi Shiki entered it.

With a familiar mechanical sound, the elevator ascended upwards.

......

Following in Ryougi Shiki's footsteps, Matouchi soon arrived at the place where she had to choose between two options.

However, he did not rush in, but instead lingered there for a while.

He was contemplating whether or not to take the opposite path from Ryougi Shiki.

The answer given by the future vision was ultimately found by Ryougi Shiki, who located Misaya Kimura.

Furthermore, when he filled the fragment "actively seeking out" into his left eye as a numerical value, the resulting field of vision was completely black.

In other words, he will encounter unexpected events here.

After thinking for a while, Matouike decided to follow Ryougi Shiki's choice.

Walk towards the elevator entrance on the left.

Upon reaching the door, I pressed the button to call the elevator.

Clang, clang, clang, clang.

The sound of the elevator was somewhat comforting.

The elevator arrived shortly afterward.

Enter Matou Pond.

With a familiar mechanical sound, the elevator descended.

Chapter 337 The Garden of Sinners (18)

“Looks like we’ve been tricked. The thinking of modern magicians is really interesting,” Medea suddenly said.

Matou Ike simply nodded and didn't say anything more.

He noticed it the moment he entered the elevator—

He must have taken a completely different path from Ryougi Shiki.

Although it is a path that follows in the footsteps of Ryougi Shiki.

However, their positions have been distorted.

It seems that the elevator underwent a spiral-like transformation after Ryougi Shiki stepped into it.

No, perhaps the entire magic workshop rotates around the elevator as its axis.

After all, the road leading down from the clock tower entrance has a spiral-like structure that can be easily noticed with a little attention.

Overall, it's just a simple visual difference, a device that's like a child's game, yet it achieves a mysterious effect like a maze.

No wonder Medea found the ideas of modern magicians interesting.

However, Matouike did not choose to turn back, but instead continued along the construction path of this magic workshop.

......

The girl lying in the hospital bed woke up the moment she fell.

That was an astonishing shock.

Not a single bit is wasted; it is naturally transmitted into the gaps between bones and the narrow crevices between flesh and blood.

It was a terrifying sense of oneness, the real feeling of death licking my entire body.

You can even hear the sound of a heart being smashed into pieces.

This wasn't the first time Huang Lu Meisha had woken up from such a nightmare.

But the events in the nightmare were, for her, real events that had actually happened.

The chill that swept down her spine was so intense that it almost drove Misaya Huanglu crazy, causing her to tremble uncontrollably.

This tremor contained an unease and loneliness strong enough to make one weep uncontrollably, as well as a tenacity for life, but one couldn't even utter a sound, only keep crying.

The door clicked open.

......

"What a grand scheme! To place a Reality Barrier within a Semi-Otherworld, and then place another world within a Reality Barrier—is this kind of nested doll-like arrangement really something a modern magician could pull off?"

Looking at the view after the elevator doors opened, Medea couldn't help but exclaim in admiration once again.

Everything I saw when I stepped out of the elevator was both new and familiar.

This is an alternate world city completely rebuilt in imitation of Guanbuzi City.

But it's all just an empty shell.

Because there is no sign of any living creature in this city, not even mayflies.

All that remained was a corpse, smashed to pieces on the ground, lying there all alone.

Matouchi stopped in her tracks, not daring to approach the corpse rashly, but instead used a far-seeing spell to observe it.

The tattered clothing on the corpse was clearly the uniform of Reiwon Girls' Academy.

But the color had been stained with a muddy, blood-red hue, making it appear old and dilapidated, as if it had been turned upside down from a grave.

Beneath the corpse, on the ground stained black with blood, a thin magical line connects to the ground, gradually extending to the center of the empty city, like some kind of hub of this hollow city.

"She wouldn't be the person you're looking for, would she?" Medea frowned slightly as she looked at the corpse, whose face was no longer recognizable.

Matou Ike shook his head, then said calmly:

"No, it shouldn't be. The time for the ritual to begin hasn't arrived yet. Araya Sōren wouldn't let that person die like this."

"But everything here matches your guess, doesn't it? The reason you're looking for that girl named Misaya Huang Lu is because she's the main person responsible for this ritual, isn't it?"

Matouchi understood the meaning behind Medea's words.

Araya Sōren's ceremony has two parts: pulling the future into the past and bringing the past into the future.

The point where the three coincide on the timeline is "now".

The part based on the future is carried by those eight who are currently high in the sky and have fallen. It's only a matter of time before they can be fully realized, and there may only be one left.

Based on the past, by combining all the information at Matou Pond, the answer is—

Yellow Road Meisha Night.

Although the ritual structure arranged here already indicates—

The body here is the bearer of the "past".

This leads back to a dead end.

Matouike nodded and thought for a while before slowly uttering a few words.

"The one who died here should be Wuzhao Kirie, who has been missing for several months..."

......

"Excuse me, you must be Misaya Kiroro?"