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The Eye of Root (First Law: Root)
Rarity: Unknown
ability:
1. What you see is what you know: Possesses the ability to analyze all magic observed through the "Eye of Root".
2. What you know is what you see: Possesses the power to completely recreate all the magic successfully analyzed by the "Eye of the Root".
Magical Mysteries: Chapter 202 The Clock Tower
A self-defense group formed by people who study magic, regardless of nationality or school of thought.
The organization whose function is to manage and conceal the existence of magic from ordinary people, and whose mission is to develop it, is the "Magic Association".
The clock tower is considered the headquarters of this magic association.
There may be some differences in different "parallel worlds", but in this parallel world that has been abandoned by the restraining force, the specific location of the clock tower is quite interesting.
Instead of choosing a secluded place as their meeting place, the magicians, who were forced to conceal their existence and magic, chose London, a world-renowned city, as their association's headquarters.
More specifically, it is located in the basement of the London Museum.
Since its founding in the 12th century, the Clock Tower has nurtured countless talents in the magic world, and the network of relationships formed by it is equally intricate. It can be said that anyone in this world who is associated with "magic" is inevitably connected with the Clock Tower. Therefore, when the "Fate/stay night" incident broke out and they suddenly found themselves transformed from long-time hidden manipulators into genuine "victims," the first person magicians thought of to seek help was the Clock Tower.
After the initial chaos, the magicians, having found their way, began to communicate in large numbers and converge towards the Clock Tower, relying on their respective means of communication. The reincarnators were naturally invincible in dealing with the scattered magicians—relying on the magic information provided by the main god before the mission, they knew quite well how to deal with a magician in a simple and efficient way. However, the magicians knew nothing about the "demon" from another world.
With the intelligence on each other completely unequal, the Reincarnators had an overwhelming advantage in a few battles, which led to the deaths of more than half of the magicians recorded in the Clock Tower in just over a year since the "Fate/stay night" incident.
However, as the magicians gradually grew accustomed to the Reincarnators' bizarre fighting style and abilities, and thus set aside their past grievances and united, the situation once again reached a stalemate. Among them, the large number of powerful magicians who gathered at the Clock Tower were regarded as rising stars by the local magician community. Inspired by their resistance, even some magicians who had previously given up began to show signs of resurgence.
It was under these circumstances that Lin Yi stood before London, a city far removed from Fuyuki.
That's about it.
He muttered to himself, scanning the three-dimensional map on his retina filled with densely packed red dots.
The Clock Tower was first discovered half a year ago. A large number of magicians, who were being hunted by the Reincarnators, gathered at the same location and resisted the corruption from the God of the Main God in a "united" manner, which was completely different from their previous individual actions. It was hard to ignore such a landmark location. However, at that time, Lin Yi did not take advantage of the fact that the magicians inside the Clock Tower were not yet "powerful" to deal with it. Instead, he had the God of the Main God disband the Reincarnators who originally planned to attack the Clock Tower and instead attack the magician gathering points around the Clock Tower, which indirectly provided the Clock Tower with more sources of combat power.
Under this deliberate "cultivation", the existence of the clock tower quickly became the hope of all magicians. While other magicians' gathering places were either burned down or killed, only it still stood.
There are even rumors that the magician inside the Clock Tower has completed a powerful spell that, along with the blood-red cube that has been hanging in the sky for over a year, can banish all the "demons" from this world.
It was on the fourth day after this rumor began that Lin Yi appeared here—as an unremarkable member among the more than three thousand reincarnators who had accepted the "main quest".
Main Quest: Destroy the Clock Tower
[Success Reward: Determined based on individual contribution]
[Failure penalty: obliteration]
[Note: This is a joint mission. Any Reincarnator who attacks our side will be eliminated without exception.]
[Note that a total of 3184 people are participating in this strategic mission cycle. Players with more than 50% survivors will receive additional reward points.]
The cold, mechanical "voice" echoed in the minds of every reincarnator. After such a long time together, even the most sensitive person would not feel any surprise at this "voice." Even the few reincarnators who participated in the invasion mission of another world for the first time gradually became numb after more than a year. After receiving the reminder from the "voice" in their minds, they transformed into hundreds of "teams" of varying sizes and infiltrated the deserted city.
Having seized control of this world, Lin Yi naturally regarded everything in this world as his possession, including ordinary people, who were also a kind of "resource." How could he allow them to remain in such a dangerous area before launching a large-scale "cleanup"? Only after the "British Prime Minister," who had been replaced by the Blacklight Virus infected, forcibly ordered the evacuation of all civilians did Lin Yi allow the Main God to begin the reincarnations' actions.
Of course, such a move was destined to be noticed by the magicians, but even if it couldn't escape, so what? Could it be that it could blend in with those ordinary people and leave together?
Regardless of whether they could abandon the Clock Tower, which had now become a symbolic landmark, the more than three thousand Reincarnators guarding the outside, each with their own "magic scan," would not allow them to leave the city. Rather than running out alone to their deaths at this time, it would be more satisfying to stay inside the Clock Tower and fight to the death.
In just three days, the entire city of London was evacuated. Those who refused to leave were forcibly evicted, and a few magicians who took a chance were executed on the spot as “criminals”. It must be said that this was very effective, at least it made those reporters who wanted to make a big news story behave much better.
Now that London has been cleared out, it is about to witness the most "magnificent" war in its history. For magicians, this will be a war that will determine the fate of magicians all over the world. For reincarnators, this will be a war that will determine their own lives. But for the God Space and Lin Yi, this is just a matter of getting rid of the last few rats in the house and taking back some of the things they stole.
The Mysteries of Magic: Chapter 203 The Eye of Origin (Part 1)
For a long time, because he had been fighting on the "front line of invasion", Lin Yi had almost completely entrusted the management of the reincarnators to the main god, except for the initial screening and task selection. Due to the limitations of his own energy, he could not pay much attention to the situation of these people who were neither lucky nor unlucky. Only by sneaking in as an "ordinary reincarnator" this time could he notice some abnormalities.
"...Although it's quite good compared to the magicians of this world, the focus is still somewhat off."
Lin Yi frowned slightly as he witnessed a giant bloodline-enhanced reincarnator being beaten to death by a hypnotic magic trap, yet still unable to wake up.
The power of the virus-based enhancement is undeniable; Lin Yi himself is the most direct example. After his basic attributes were enhanced to a certain extent by the virus, he was even able to ignore most of the attacks from those heroic spirits and achieve an all-round crushing effect. However, that was only based on "a certain extent".
At least for most reincarnators at this stage, they cannot meet this "certain degree". So they are fine when facing enemies who know nothing about the virus, but they will be targeted in various ways when facing magicians who are used to dealing with them.
From this perspective, the 'Reincarnator Team' does indeed have its necessity.
Unlike the reincarnator who was killed without ever being fully conscious from beginning to end, the small team of three reincarnators, who were also targeted by the magician, had many more options for dealing with the situation, even though they were also targeted by the magician.
Almost at the same time that the giant-enhanced reincarnator, who was serving as a "meat shield," lost his fighting ability due to the hypnotic magic, the ghoul-enhanced reincarnator, who had been hiding in the shadows, found the magician's whereabouts. In close combat, the fate of the magician, who was just an ordinary person, against the ghoul was self-evident.
After the first magician failed, the second and third magicians who were lying in ambush nearby had no choice but to abandon their original plan and directly expose their presence to suppress the two reincarnators with area-of-effect magic. The sluggish giant reincarnator had no choice but to endure the frontal attacks from the magicians in order to protect the defenseless ghoul reincarnator. Just as the situation was gradually turning against them, the third reincarnator controlled two automatons to fall from the sky and detonate them in front of the two magicians' horrified eyes.
Watching the small team continue their journey after a short rest, Lin Yi remained silent for a moment: "...Perhaps I have too high expectations of them."
As the true controller behind the main god, Lin Yi was destined from the start to have no "teammates" in the same situation who could fight together for common interests and goals. Therefore, he could only continuously strengthen himself in the direction of "all-rounder". But the reincarnators are different.
The number of reward points required for a single reincarnator to strengthen all aspects is almost astronomical, and this is especially true as the main god discovers more and more strengthening systems. However, strengthening only one system will undoubtedly lead to great success.
Lin Yi was no stranger to the concept of division of labor and cooperation. In fact, a similar concept existed in any world that introduced an industrial system. So, when the main god continuously screened and cultivated the reincarnators as "industrial products," should he also adapt to the unfamiliarity of this "division of labor and cooperation" and coordinate the allocation?
There are advantages to doing this, at least it avoids the situation where a reincarnator, cultivated with a lot of resources, is "consumed" without ever being used up, as we just saw. However, it also has its indelible drawbacks. Reincarnators are created to survive and complete tasks in various situations. If there is a team involved, wouldn't that indirectly reduce the greatest value of the reincarnator?
After much deliberation, Lin Yi still couldn't reach a conclusion, and in the end, he had no choice but to ask the main god to establish a new observation mechanism.
"Set up an option in the Main God Space to create a team of reincarnators, but the requirements must be high enough—able to eliminate more than 98% of the individuals. Let time prove whether the team of reincarnators is necessary."
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E. Warren D. Brunwald is a member of the renowned Brunwald family within the Clock Tower. However, unlike his talented younger brother, E. Warren's magical talent is far from "excellent," which is a source of great distress for a magician born into a family of magicians.
Both were studying in the Clock Tower, but while his genius brother could master magic in a day, it took him a week. Moreover, this gap not only did not improve with A. Warren's efforts, but it continued to widen. Just when A. Warren was about to despair and give up everything because of this innate talent, "Night of Fate" arrived.
For other magicians, "Fate Night" is more terrifying than anything else except the loss of the mystery of magic, as evidenced by the fact that more than half of the magicians were killed in just over a year.
But for E. Warren D. Brunwald, the arrival of "Fate Night" was like heavenly music.
The decreasing number of magicians has inadvertently increased the mystery surrounding magic. Each surviving magician has gained power that was previously unimaginable. Relying on this power, A.W. D. Brunwald seems to see hope in defeating his "genius brother".
But that wasn't enough. To prove that he was indeed qualified to inherit the Brunwald family, Ewald needed more opportunities and achievements. So when the "demons" launched a massive invasion, he didn't stay inside the clock tower like other members of magic families, but instead went to the front line to fight the "demons".
It must be said that the magician's gains were quite substantial. Relying on the magic passed down from the Brunwald family, Ewaren, who occupied the high ground, easily killed multiple "demons," while those "demons" could not even get close to him due to the distance. Faced with this situation, his thoughts began to change.
"So this is all the existence the patriarch considers a nightmare. It seems he's getting old too."
The seventeenth magic arrow successfully took the life of the seventeenth "demon." With a confident smile on his face, Awaren decided to pause to recover his magic power and return to the Clock Tower to tell his family that the so-called "demon" was completely fictitious—they were just as easy to kill as ordinary people who were like magic-powered pigs.
Just then, Edward's magically enhanced eyes noticed a figure in the distance.
"...Unfortunate little fellow, I'll finish you off with you."
The Mysteries of Magic: Chapter 204 The Eye of Origin (Part 2)
In fact, Lin Yi had noticed the magician in the distance when he fired the first arrow at the first Kabane bloodline enhanced reincarnator, but he didn't intend to pay any attention to him.
Compared to crushing an insignificant ant, taking this opportunity to "observe" more magic is the real priority. Otherwise, if all the magicians here are wiped out, who knows how long it will take to see new magic appear? Besides, the Kabane's weakness has never been its head...
Lin Yi didn't intend to pay attention to the self-satisfied magician in the distance, but the magician clearly didn't intend to let him go. So, after "observing" another magic trick with his left eye, Lin Yi noticed the hostile gaze aimed at him from afar.
"...Perhaps I should admire your courage."
Silently, he opened his left eye, which he had just closed, again.
As the jet-black pupils contracted slightly, two layers of red and green light surrounded countless runes that could not be seen with the naked eye, and the "world" reflected in this eye was distorted and tilted, half to the left and half to the right.
When he discovered through visual enhancement magic that the "demon" in the distance was looking in his direction, a sense of foreboding arose in Evans' heart. However, his previous "successes" made him choose not to interrupt the attack and continue.
It was this choice that allowed him to "luckily" see what kind of eye had taken his life.
The intersection of red and green is the "axis," its own heart—it is also the starting and ending point of the "twist." Outside the axis, the flesh and bones above twist to the right, and below squeeze to the left.
This "distortion" completely disregards the will of the distorted being, ignoring the instinctive resistance of this fragile body. Perhaps if we broaden our perspective to the tower he stands on, we can understand it...
With a piercing, distorting sound, London's most iconic tower tilted and squeezed towards its "axis"—
"Bang!"
distance.
He gently closed his left eye, which was flashing with an eerie red and green light. When he opened it again, it had returned to its original pitch black. Witnessing the distorted and unrecognizable iron tower, Lin Yi raised an eyebrow: "Not bad."
Spiral Magic Eye: The left eye rotates to the left, and the right eye rotates to the right, capable of distorting the object being observed. If both rotating axes are activated simultaneously on an object, the object can be twisted and severed at the point of intersection.
After obtaining the "Eye of Roots" by summoning the Holy Grail and making a wish, Lin Yi immediately began to observe and analyze "magic"—to be precise, he used this eye to see those "magic tricks".
Among the many magic tricks that Lin Yi "saw" during this period was an eye named "Spiral Demon Eye" that he "observed" on a descendant of a so-called demon-slaying family in Japan.
Just as the name suggests, the power of this magical eye is distortion, forcibly twisting objects it sees with an invisible and forceful force. Of course, it doesn't mean that it can distort anything it can see; otherwise, if you looked up at the starry sky, wouldn't that cause a "Big Bang"?
Just like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception obtained from Ryougi Shiki, the Spiral Mystic Eyes also have their limitations.
First, this eye can only destroy matter and not conceptual things, so if you want to distort rules or time, you can forget about it.
Secondly, this eye cannot distort what it believes is absolutely undistortable. Obviously, even if Lin Yi were insane, he couldn't possibly destroy this endless starry universe with his own power. Even looking up at the sky wouldn't necessarily lead to anything. However, his feet... if he were currently at a certain height and used this "Spiral Demon Eye" to look down at London, Lin Yi figured there was still a chance he could distort it into a "mess."
The third limitation is quite fatal. Like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, the Spiral Mystic Eyes are subject to rules. In the world where the Mystic Eyes exist, they can be used unconditionally. However, if you want to exert the same power in another world, you have to spend time analyzing the rules of that world. Otherwise, the power will be severely limited—or it is even possible that it will be completely ineffective.
Well, after spending so much time and effort, all he got was an ability applicable to World Number Ten. It's impossible to say he had no thoughts about it. But at least, even if he lost all his other abilities and enhancements, just this left eye, which recorded all the magic he had observed, was enough to make Lin Yi truly "invincible" in this world.
The subsequent development of the battle in London was predictable. As the Reincarnators advanced step by step, the space for magicians to operate was greatly compressed. When Lin Yi confirmed that he had finished analyzing all the recorded magic, he directly let Eve join the battle as a "veteran Reincarnator". With the full energy supply of the main god, a "Spiritual Heart Cannon" swept across the center of London. The magicians who were still barely holding on finally collapsed. Except for a few who successfully escaped into the clock tower, most of them were slaughtered by the Reincarnators who rushed up.
Instead, the magician's power has grown ever stronger.
"A fairly clear plan."
Looking down at the clock tower, whose location had been exposed, Lin Yi was not surprised at all that the magicians from the magic families inside would make this choice. Rather, it would be strange that they hadn't even started to address the "internal problems" yet.
Just think about it and you'll understand. Even Lin Yi, who is new to the area, knows that the power of magic mastered by magicians will increase as the total number of magicians decreases. So how could these magicians who have lived for who knows how long not know this?
The reason they hadn't done this before was entirely due to the internal conflicts of interest within the magicians' families. No one was willing to sacrifice their own interests to make others stronger, and the majority of ordinary magicians from non-magical families couldn't simply let the magic families slaughter them without resistance. Only when one side suffered a severe blow—similar to now, when they were hunted down and slaughtered by the Reincarnators until few remained—would the magicians possibly put this idea into action.
—Kill all non-family magicians, and bring all the power of magic under the control of the family, thereby defeating the "demon" and banishing the "Cube".
"The ideal is very lofty."
The left eye gently closed and opened again, and reflected in the azure pupil were scattered and tangled "lines": "Reality is harsh."
The magicians hiding inside the clock tower had never imagined such a situation: the clock tower's final defensive barrier, built by a vanished mage and theoretically designed to last at least three days, collapsed so easily under a single, chaotic barrage of magic attacks. Caught off guard, the magicians expected a life-or-death final battle, but they never imagined their last "enemy" would not be invaders from another world, but rather a thoroughly "native species."
"As the final reaper of the magic era, what could be more fitting than this?"
In central London, the rising mushroom cloud symbolizes the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one...
Reversal of Spiritual Energy: Chapter 205 Qionghua
As one of the eight sects of Kunlun, Qionghua is located halfway up the Kunlun Mountains. It's not that the founders of Qionghua were unwilling to establish the sect in a higher part of the Kunlun Mountains. After all, everyone knows that the closer one is to the "light of heaven," the more spiritual energy one can absorb. The reason they didn't do so was entirely due to the constraints imposed by the other seven sects of Kunlun.
Just as magicians in the magical world would not sacrifice themselves to give other magicians a stronger "mystique" boost in order to drive away invaders, the group known as cultivators in this world are also quite wary of their own kind. This can be seen from the relationship between the eight sects on the small Kunlun Mountain. However, these things were too far away for Lin Yi in the past: back then, he even had to go through a lot of trouble to join the Qionghua Mountain sect. How could he have the opportunity to worry about things that only the leaders of sects need to worry about?
However, circumstances change with time, and for Lin Yi, who has stepped into this world again, there is no need to consider these things anymore.
Compared to the hidden secrets that may exist in the entire "World One", Kunlun is nothing to them.
That being said, before deciding on his next move, Lin Yi still needed to return to his "sect." Firstly, he needed to understand the current state of this fantasy world, and secondly, he needed to confirm whether any of his records from Qionghua remained...
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Of the ten worlds that the Main God has controlled so far, the most bizarre one is undoubtedly the Xianxia world that Lin Yi entered immediately after obtaining the title of "Main God," and which was thus named Number One.
At that time, Lin Yi had not yet learned anything about "world activity" from the main god. He naturally assumed that each world passively waited for "intruders" to enter and then did nothing. So, after rashly entering this world of immortals and heroes, he did not try to hide his tracks. Instead, he simply pretended to be a mortal and went to Kunlun to "seek immortal destiny".
Looking back now, I realize that I was practically courting death. Regardless of whether finding a celestial connection is really that easy, even if I did, who could guarantee that the "celestial being" wouldn't just kill me on a whim if they were unhappy with me?
It was only because it wasn't targeted by the world's will at that time, coupled with the real buff of "unwavering desire for immortality," that the creation of the Main God Space would have been aborted at the very first step.
But it was this situation that caught Lin Yi's attention.
Generally speaking, the existence of a world's activity is mostly associated with the concept of that world's 'unreal' nature. Just like the parasites in the Parasite World, the old-fashioned magic in the Machine World, and the magic in the Magic World, they all possess activity because of the existence of things 'outside the scope of common sense'. Moreover, the intensity of activity will be classified differently according to the quantity and quality. For example, if there are only a few thousand parasites in Parasite World that can be easily wiped out with ordinary firearms, the parasitic range cannot be expanded further. Therefore, at most, it is a low-activity world, no more.
World Ten, on the other hand, contains the concepts of magic and sorcery. Even with the active division, this small part can support the entire parallel space system. According to the calculations of the main god, if the active elements inside all possible parallel spaces in World Ten are superimposed, it may not be as simple as just a "medium active world".
Following the same principle, why is this world of immortals and heroes classified as "inactive" when it clearly has "cultivators" or even "immortals" who can change the local landscape with a wave of their hand?
Previously, Lin Yi had various reasons to temporarily ignore the anomalies of World One, but now that the urgent problems in other worlds had been largely resolved and he was about to face a "fragment of the main god" that had come from afar, he could no longer allow such an unstable unknown factor to exist in his "territory".
Currently, there are ten... or rather nine and a half worlds truly controlled and dominated by the Main God Space. The magic world of number ten has only seized one parallel space. Due to the existence of the suppressive force, Lin Yi dares not easily launch a second invasion of the other parallel spaces. Of course, it also dares not act rashly. As long as the "magical nuclear bomb" that has been analyzed and enhanced by the magic rules and mystery of the whole world remains for one more day, it will not risk the destruction of multiple parallel spaces to easily start a war. This is why Lin Yi dares to withdraw from world number ten at this time.
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