Magician in Type-Moon

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Makiri rolled her eyes at Ryougi Shiki and retorted:

“Magicians aren’t omnipotent. This barrier was clearly set up by Araya Sōren. That guy is a master of barrier magic and has lived for who knows how many years.”

"To put it bluntly, it's just your incompetence."

Ryougi Shiki glared at Matou Ike.

"You're really annoying. This kind of barrier doesn't have any fancy techniques or functions. It's just a simple way to isolate the outside world. Even if Orange came, she would have to resort to violence to deal with it."

Matou Ike shook his head; he had just finished observing the state of the entire barrier.

It's very similar to the protective barrier Medea set up inside Ryudou-ji Temple, but there are differences:

Ryudo-ji Temple's protective barrier has an entrance or exit point, which is the main gate of the approach path. This is the weakest point in the barrier.

This was specifically designed based on the original structure of Ryudoji Temple. This not only made the defenses more robust except for the weak points, but also allowed for the determination of the enemy's attack direction, thus enabling the setting of traps.

Aside from encountering the unreasonable Lancer on the first day, he chose to launch a direct attack based on his strength, breaking through the barrier protection of Ryudouji Temple.

Medea even complained to Matou Ike about this incident, saying things like, "How can there be such a brainless guy?"

He chose a rather extreme method for the barrier set up by Araya Sōren.

Leaving no weaknesses is like creating a cage without doors, leaving the imprisoned creature with no chance of escaping on its own.

While this barrier has no weaknesses in terms of protection, it is significantly weaker than the barrier set up by Medea.

However, Matou Ike and the others are not currently releasing Lancer-level magic power, so it's unclear how long it will take to break through this place using only brute force.

After a moment of silence, Ryougi Shiki asked, "Then what should we do?"

“You will be the one to destroy this barrier,” Matou Ike said nonchalantly, as if he had complete confidence in Ryougi Shiki.

Ryougi Shiki was taken aback and said:

"How can you kill this thing?"

"Didn't you kill space before?" Matou Ike said with a slight smile.

"That time it was just instinct; my body naturally swung the knife and slashed."

"But doesn't this prove you can do it? Besides, there's that sword that can cleave through barriers."

After being reminded by Matouchi, Ryougi Shiki remembered what was inside the heavy bag she was carrying on her back.

Opening the bamboo knife bag reveals an ancient knife with its handle already attached.

A white kimono, and a leather jacket that doesn't match at all.

Her black hair was as vibrant as if it were wet, which contrasted beautifully with her pure black blue eyes.

The girl was holding a knife.

In the darkness of the night, the sword was drawn from its sheath with a "whoosh," and she held it with an unpretentious air, like a warrior standing on a battlefield.

He brandished the knife with one hand for a moment.

Ryougi Shiki activated her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception with great intensity, wanting to glimpse the source of death within this barrier.

But the barrier before them was like a wall of another world, its thick protection as heavy as the crystal wall between the world and nothingness.

How can I kill it?

If you can't understand the death of things in front of you, you won't see the line of death at all.

This inanimate thing can only be imagined by Ryougi Shiki's brain as that kind of thing.

Ryougi Shiki is not a magician; all she can do now is imagine how to kill the world.

Does the universe experience entropy increase or decrease?

The singularity explosion? No, this seems to be the birth of the world.

Black hole collapse?

How the world came to its end is something that even the world's top physicists cannot understand.

It's really too much to ask a high school girl who skips class to figure this out.

They were helpless; even with powerful weapons specifically designed to counter barriers, they were powerless.

"Damn Matouike," Ryougi Shiki muttered to herself, and Orihime agreed.

Seeing Ryougi Shiki racking her brains for a solution, Matou Ike found it somewhat amusing and decided to stop teasing her, so she spoke up.

"The two peaks of barriers, whether it is otherworldly transformation or inherent barriers, although they have both reached the point of being able to erode reality, are ultimately a kind of artificial magic trick."

"In other words, maintaining their existence requires a constant supply of magic power. When the supply of magic power is lost, that is when they collapse and die."

Matou Ike paused, tilted his head, looked at Ryougi Shiki, and continued:

"There are definitely no magicians supplying magic to this barrier, after all, it's just a cage."

"This means that there are only two ways to supply it with magic power. One is that there is a magic core in it that can buy oranges right now. The other is that this barrier is connected to the ley lines of Guanbuzi City and draws magic power from the ley lines."

"However, I think it's too extravagant to use such an expensive magic core to maintain a cage, and it's like putting the key into the cage."

"Which one do you think it is, Ryougi Shiki?"

Chapter 231 A Born Actor

"No Road Race!"

Ryougi Shiki holds the Nine-Character Mantra with her eyes turned upwards in a stance that is most commonly used in many sword styles and is the most basic and strongest fighting stance.

Ryougi Shiki stood facing the barrier, then closed her eyes, which felt heavy with sleep.

Ryougi Shiki's eyes snapped open.

The hands holding the knife were raised, the speed so fast it was like a flash of light, and the knife, held high, was swung down even faster than before.

Although she showed impatience with what Matou Ike said, she still listened attentively to the end.

The future of the barrier, which would end due to a lack of magical energy, has been brought to the present by Ryougi Shiki.

The transfer of magic flow.

It was severed by the blade's light.

The spatial distortion barrier that should have been locked away was completely destroyed before her eyes.

Ryougi Shiki, literally, bounced out.

She maintained the posture of slicing through the spiral with one stroke, swinging the knife horizontally.

The barrier simply vanished.

As Ryougi Shiki's sword flashed, the barrier shattered instantly, like a piece of torn cloth, accompanied by an inaudible shriek that spread from the inside out.

The invisible barrier, whose magical lines were originally tightly interwoven, began to crumble, as if it had been cut and broken by an invisible force.

They twisted and struggled in the air, as if unwilling to return to their original state.

But all of this was mercilessly ended by Ryougi Shiki's slash.

The surface of the barrier began to crack rapidly, with countless tiny cracks appearing. These cracks spread quickly, forming a pattern like a spider web.

Each magical thread emitted a faint glow as it collapsed, as if in its final struggle, but its fate was already sealed.

As the cracks widened to their limit, the barrier finally collapsed completely in an instant. Countless fragments scattered like glass, but instead of falling to the ground, they turned into tiny specks of light in the air and then vanished without a trace.

In the instant the world returned to calm, the building that had appeared out of nowhere seemed like an alien object that did not belong to this space.

The building exudes an eerie sense of opposition, unable to coexist harmoniously with its surroundings, as if it did not belong here, but was forcibly moved from another space.

The building is enormous, like a school gymnasium, occupying a considerable space; it's more like a factory than a warehouse.

It is about eight meters high and surprisingly has windows that cover an entire wall. Although the windows are seven meters high and you can't see inside, the warehouse must be very bright during the day.

If I had to describe it in one sentence, it would be like a greenhouse surrounded by iron walls.

The warehouse entrance, with its rusty iron gate slightly ajar, seemed to be waiting for someone to enter.

As far as traps are concerned, they are quite ordinary.

But when the building suddenly appeared, both Matouike and Ryougi Shiki felt something strange.

This was the hunger that had been mentioned before we arrived.

This feeling doesn't come from a physical need, but rather from a kind of thirst that's been injected into the body.

It was as if a strong desire was surging within them.

However, this feeling actually confirmed for Ryougi Shiki and Matou Ike that they had come to the right place.

The two exchanged a glance.

I entered the warehouse through the crack in the door.

--then.

Unlike the unsightly harbor outside, the inside presents a very peculiar scene, forming a striking contrast.

Moonlight streamed in through the window, which resembled a skylight.

The moonlight poured down like water, bathing everything inside and casting a cool, silvery glow over the entire space.

However, the beautiful moonlight illuminated an extremely eerie scene.

...This place is practically no different from a mass grave.

The warehouse was filled with piles of bones, about five meters high, which were piled up like small mountains everywhere.

The skeletons were piled up haphazardly, densely packed, almost filling the entire warehouse floor.

The air was thick with the smell of decay and countless skeletons.

Scattered on the ground were some half-rotten corpses, parts of which had been torn and gnawed by an unknown force.

Bloodstains were everywhere, and severed limbs were scattered all over the place. Every step could lead to stepping on a loose bone or rotting internal organs.

"Well, that's really surprising. I didn't expect it to be the two of you who came to liberate me."

Suddenly...

These words came from deep within the warehouse.