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It is sufficient as an emergency measure against attacks, but it is completely unacceptable to use it to explore methods of forced replication.

The question is, what should we do now?

Looking at the vast array of 130,000 magic books that the Supreme God had collected from the world of magic over the past year, Lin Yi suddenly felt like giving up.

The negative emotions that occupied my mind were quickly abandoned in less than two seconds. The exploration of the magical realm must continue, otherwise facing the fragment of the main god behind Laplace would definitely be a huge problem. Imagine if someone could render all your methods ineffective with a single spell, and you had no idea how to counter it. How could you possibly fight like that?

However, while exploration is one thing, continuing to inefficiently flip through and interpret these magic books is impossible. If there were common patterns, it would be easier to decipher something after reading hundreds or even thousands of books. But since they are completely independent systems as they are now, deciphering more books would be meaningless.

"We should try a different approach..."

There's no need to think about it for too long, since this method was initially listed as the last option, but now it's become the only option.

"God, avoid the second area (Intelligent Machines: World of N, Machine World, Intelligent World), and search for worlds that meet the conditions within the range that can be captured."

[Command confirmed, search criteria being checked...]

On the retina, a vast, pitch-black star map began to radiate translucent ripples outwards from a barely visible bright area at its center. When these ripples touched the outer membranes of those worlds of varying shapes, they reflected a variety of magnificent colors. Silently watching the Supreme God's steadily declining reserve energy, finally, when the total had dropped from 64% to 48%, feedback arrived—

[A world that meets the criteria has been captured.]

[Activity intensity detection in progress... Intensity confirmed, this world is a medium-activity world. Lock it now?]

"Medium activity..."

Subconsciously, he looked at the other side of the star map, at the star map belonging to the world of AI No. 9. Although he had already come into contact with a world of medium activity once, that world had been destroyed by another fragment of the main god before Lin Yi entered. Not only had the world's will disappeared without a trace, but the native life on that planet had also been almost wiped out. It could be said that it was completely unsuitable as an example.

“Locked in, even if we don’t make contact now, we will at some point in the future. And as you said before… as the beginning of magical contact, the higher the conceptual understanding of the starting point, the better.”

[The judgment is correct.]

"……let's start."

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Name: Torbas

No.: 151251

Power: 47

Constitution: 55

Agility: 56

Spirit: 108

Skill: Automated Puppet Control (LV5)

Automaton Creation (LV3)

Automatic Doll Repair (LV1)

Equipment: Automaton - Wasp

Automaton - Kingfisher

Automaton - Guardian

As one of the fastest-rising stars since the birth of mechanical magic a little over a year ago, Thorbas, the puppeteer of the British Empire known as the "King of the Sky," is actually far less glamorous than he appears. On the contrary, at least for a puppeteer forced to constantly carry out life-or-death missions, he would rather give up all the glory he has gained and become an ordinary person than live such a seemingly glamorous life. But he cannot, unless he wants to die.

It's unclear when it started, but within this mysterious and powerful "God's Space," the reincarnators have begun to form certain unspoken rules. For example, the God doesn't forbid fighting between reincarnators, but there are no rewards for doing so except in special circumstances; the God prohibits all forms of information exchange outside of missions, and even the slightest violation will result in forcible elimination, while it ignores everything a reincarnator does in any world; and the God never reclaims any enhanced abilities or items from a reincarnator unless they are already dead…

Having learned of this information, Thorbas wisely abandoned the idea of ​​"giving up his abilities and becoming an ordinary person." He didn't want to die, so he had no choice but to live. However, living was just as difficult for someone who had become a reincarnator. At least for Thorbas's current situation, this task was no easier than storming into the palace and killing the king under the protection of the royal guards.

“***＃＃！＃￥%￥*＆”

The God Watch on Thorbas's wrist lost its function after he accepted the main quest of "exploring another world" and successfully transferred there. Never before had Thorbas so desperately hoped that this "language conversion" ability, which he had previously considered to have no significance, could be restored, because it might represent his last hope for survival—after the means of force had failed, the only thing he could rely on was language.

Unfortunately, his words were not understood by the indifferent people opposite him, just as Thorbas could not understand what they were saying. However, the fact that the two sides started fighting the moment they made contact was undeniable. Thus, at the cost of damaging two of his proud automatons, Thorbas successfully inflicted more than ten times the damage he had suffered on these alien life forms. But all of this could not change the fact that he had failed.

With only one last automaton left for defense, and more than twenty enemies on the other side, Thorbas couldn't find any way to win, no matter how hard he thought about it. So he pinned his hopes on the last sliver of possibility—

"The God Watch isn't responding. The God can't see me anymore, so he can't hear what I'm saying... Yes, that must be it..."

He kept convincing himself that the enemies wielding strange weapons ahead had already defeated the last guardian doll, and even though they had suffered five times the casualties, they hadn't shown the slightest sign of retreat or hesitation. It was this scene that completely overwhelmed Thorbas's last shred of hesitation—

"I—come from the Supreme God—"

[Violation of the second rule of the Main God Space: Order to be terminated]

"——!!!"

The Mysteries of Magic: Chapter 157 - The Active Magic World (Part 2)

A flawless world.

The perspective shifted from the erased reincarnator back to Lin Yi, who seemed lost in thought as he recalled the scene he had just captured.

It's no wonder that the medium-activity world is superior to the low-activity world. Under the same conditions, not only does it require more than three times the reserve energy for reincarnators to invade it, but the survival rate after a successful invasion is also reduced by more than three times...

The only saving grace is that, compared to the previous invasions into low- to medium-activity worlds, this invasion of this world has improved in some aspects. Otherwise, with Lin Yi and the main god's current capabilities, they might not have been able to do anything to this medium-activity magical world.

Thanks to the main god's various methods of strengthening the overall level of reincarnators over the past year, even when reincarnators in the main god's space enter unfamiliar worlds, they are not as easily targeted and eliminated by the world's will as they were when they first explored the ghoul world. Although the three batches of reincarnators released earlier still ended in total annihilation, the shortest duration was "death" in the third hour after the release. The longest duration was that of the puppeteer who was killed for trying to leak the main god's information - about a week.

"...Speaking of which, I actually noticed something unusual about the God's Watch."

Recalling the situation faced by the third batch of reincarnators after invading this magical world, including the puppeteer from earlier, Lin Yi was still surprised, even though he was somewhat prepared for the extent to which the world consciousness of the active world interfered with reality.

Perhaps having noticed something amiss during the previous two batches of reincarnators' trial deployments, when Lin Yi deployed the third batch of reincarnators to this magical world, he suddenly discovered that a portion of the functions originating from the God's Watch on them had been "isolated" by the world's consciousness—similar to being outside a service area. This is why the third batch of reincarnators could not communicate with the native life forms to obtain the information Lin Yi needed.

Moreover, with the completion of the third batch of reincarnators, the world's will seemed to have lost patience. Instead of searching one by one and creating various "accidents" to eliminate these invading "harmful cells," it directly adopted a more efficient and direct approach—

"A formalized organizational exclusion pattern... and it is directly interfered with and controlled by the world consciousness. Even if it has not reached the point of absolute control, it is at least at the level of being able to transmit instructions. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the third batch of reincarnators were attacked at the same time."

To be precise, this is not the first time Lin Yi has encountered the world consciousness using "control" of intelligent beings to directly and violently eliminate "harmful cells" from intruders. This situation occurred once before when he first tried to invade the ghoul world. However, the target of the world consciousness's interference that time was parasitic beasts, while this time it has become another group organization that far surpasses him in both scale and strength.

Based on the intelligence Lin Yi has gathered so far, this organization has tentacles spread throughout every region of this magical world. This has led to the situation where hundreds of reincarnators, who were supposed to be deployed separately to different locations, were attacked almost simultaneously, resulting in numerous casualties and ultimately total annihilation.

"Clearly, there's no point in continuing to send in reincarnators like this."

As he pondered how to proceed with the subsequent invasion plan, Lin Yi frowned at the information about this magical world that had been barely gathered after the sacrifice of hundreds of elite reincarnators.

If it were a low-activity or medium-low-activity world, the only way to deal with the interference of the world's will would be to continuously inject new reincarnators. After all, their interference with reality is limited, and once they are depleted to a certain extent, they will naturally be unable to continue targeting newly entering reincarnators. As long as Lin Yi personally enters at that time and makes certain changes to the world itself through either inducement or violence, he will naturally be able to achieve the goal of invading that world.

However, this method is clearly not applicable to the current magical world. The most obvious point is that low-activity worlds and medium-low-activity worlds eliminate intruders by directly consuming the power of the world's will itself, but this medium-activity magical world achieves this goal by interfering with the behavior of an already existing organization.

If the first approach was like inflicting 800 damage on yourself and 1000 on the enemy, then the second approach is more like inflicting 80 damage on yourself and 1000 on the enemy. At this rate, Lin Yi estimated that even if he threw in all the reincarnators from the entire God Space, he might not be able to successfully invade. After all, they were fighting on foreign soil, and they didn't even know the strength or trump cards of the enemy...

Thinking of this, Lin Yi subconsciously shifted his attention to the intelligence he had gathered.

Lin Yi, who had already reviewed the intelligence, also noticed an anomaly: the widespread popularity of the concept of magic around the world. On the one hand, it was due to the global reach of the organization that clearly possessed the means of using energy called "magic"—otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how the reincarnators they deployed were found and killed so quickly. On the other hand, it was due to the complete unfamiliarity of the general public with "magic."

At first, Lin Yi thought it was due to class differences such as bloodline education, until a certain reincarnator accidentally came into contact with a magic organization called "Clock Tower" and noticed the difference.

The performance of "magic" in this world requires the existence of something called a "magic circuit." Only a few people are born with this special organ-like thing called a "magic circuit." However, this does not mean that most people without a magic circuit cannot understand magic or access it—just as people who do not know how computers work can still use them. However, the "magic" in this world is different. It is neither related to bloodline nor education. It has simply been fundamentally removed from the perception of the "majority." The vast majority of ordinary people in this world believe that "magic" is just a fictional existence, and only a very small number of people master and wield its power... This is where the problem arises.

"The old-style magic in World Seven... the world of mechanics, although its learning methods are mastered by the noble class, does not resist making commoners aware of the existence of magic. Rather, that is the right choice."

Only after witnessing the horror of a nuclear explosion will humanity realize the preciousness of peace.

For the same reason, whether for deterrence or development, making more people aware of the existence of magic is far better than having it known only to a select few. So why did the world ultimately choose this path? Or perhaps...

"It's not that it's unwilling, but rather that there's some reason... preventing it from spreading magic?"

Magical Mysteries: Chapter 158 Loophole

If Lin Yi had obtained this information earlier, he might have chosen to have the invading reincarnators spread a lot of information about magic concepts and information in the ordinary world. Even if it failed, it would be worthwhile to try to find out a part of the truth of this world. However, with the "language conversion" function of the God Watch being isolated by the world's will, the biggest premise of this approach was naturally lost - how could you expect two people who can't even communicate verbally to discuss mysterious magic?

Sending some reincarnators who have mastered the old magic of the mechanical world to this world to throw a few fireballs at them for some excitement is certainly an option, but for some reason, Lin Yi has a feeling that this is destined to fail. Furthermore, Lin Yi cannot be sure what kind of situation would be faced if he continued to send reincarnators into this active world where the existence of the main god has already been sensed. The worst-case scenario would be that they would be surrounded and wiped out by the natives guarding the side as soon as they were sent out. If that really happened, it would probably only make the situation worse. Therefore, Lin Yi must change the current method of invasion.

"Since external coercive measures cannot break through, let's focus on some internal loopholes."

With this in mind, Lin Yi found what he needed while reviewing the intelligence gathered by the reincarnators for the third time—

"Holy Grail War."

In this vague record collected by a certain reincarnator, the so-called "Holy Grail War" is a war that takes place in a city called Fuyuki City with the goal of seizing an item called the "Holy Grail". Putting aside the large amount of content used to describe the "Holy Grail" as having the power to grant any wish, what really made Lin Yi choose it as the medium of invasion was the mechanism of summoning heroic spirits.

To be more precise, it refers to the "fictional heroic spirit" concept in the context of summoning heroic spirits.

Normally, the beings called Heroic Spirits summoned in the Holy Grail War are individuals who have left a deep enough mark on that world. However, in addition to the heroes and gods who are celebrated, there is another kind of being that can be summoned but does not exist in reality. These are the individuals known as "fictional Heroic Spirits".

"...God, what are the chances that this 'fictional heroic spirit' mechanism can deceive the world's will and lock it down?"

[79.4%]

He frowned, about to give up on this option, when a calm whisper suddenly came from behind him: "Father, may I participate?"

“…Eve?”

Turning to meet those amber eyes, Lin Yi, despite the usual calm expression, couldn't sense a suppressed yet urgent emotion within them: "You want to participate?"

"Yes, Father."

His brow furrowed even deeper: "What's the reason?"

"For my father's wish."

"..."

Admittedly, this was an impeccable reason, so much so that Lin Yi, who had originally intended to refuse, could no longer find a reason to do so.

Why refuse?

The purpose of creating Eve was to accelerate his progress in the construction of the main god. Now that there is a situation where she can play a role—a 20% failure rate is completely unacceptable to him, but it is within the acceptable range for an individual who is just a "creation". Not to mention that this is not his opinion, but her initiative. Therefore, Lin Yi has even less reason to refuse her.

but……

"I cannot guarantee your safety in this world. It is too unfamiliar to both me and you. It is not impossible that you would be captured and eliminated by the will of the world the moment you step into it. Even so, are you still determined to go?"

"Yes, Father."

Facing that unwavering gaze, Lin Yi relaxed his furrowed brows.

"be prepared."

Logically speaking, there's actually no need to refuse...

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After deciding to involve Eve directly in the Holy Grail War, Lin Yi shifted his research focus to this war, which was said to offer access to the most fundamental abilities of this active magical world.

Through repeated searches of a large amount of intelligence, Lin Yi gradually discovered that this so-called Holy Grail War was not as bad as he had imagined—it was like a dozen primitive barbarians fighting around a broken cup, with the winner taking the cup and the others turning to ashes.

The Holy Grail is a miraculous relic originating from the legends of Christ. Within the Christian world, numerous tales circulate of travelers searching for the Holy Grail, and when a found Grail is deemed "genuine" by the Church, a battle for it naturally erupts. This struggle for the Holy Grail, as a sacred relic, is known as the Holy Grail War.

—This part of the record, as a parallel world, is similar to what Lin Yi knows, but the difference is the part of the record that follows.

In this world where unscientific magic exists, the Holy Grail is not merely passed down as a relic or legend, but has become a definite, supposedly omnipotent machine capable of granting any wish of its user.

"absurd."

A simple and direct judgment.

Regardless of the inherent paradox in the claim that it "can fulfill any wish," the very limitations of the world make it impossible for such a wish to be fulfilled—at least for Lin Yi, whose horizons have long since expanded to encompass the entire star map.

Even with the most beautiful imagination, if the Holy Grail could truly grant any wish, it would only be limited to the scope of that world. If one were to make a wish about another world to the Holy Grail, which was catalyzed and born from a part of that world, in what form would it be fulfilled?

At the very least, it's impossible to forcibly break down the enormous barriers of time and space between the two worlds; the best you can do is help someone in one world fulfill the wishes of the other.

Based on this understanding, Lin Yi actually ranked the acquisition of the Holy Grail lower in his priorities, with Eve having a more important task—

"Search for all information about magic and sorcery in Fuyuki City. Because of the limitations of the Holy Grail War mechanism, you may not be able to leave the city, but there should be enough information about magic in that city. If possible, prioritize finding the magic records of the 'Starting Three Families'. In addition, look for information about the 'magic' of those Servants... Although there is no possibility of learning it, it is still possible to understand its manifestations."

Looking at the girl who nodded slightly, Lin Yi paused slightly: "...Just do your best. If you can't get it, then preserving yourself should be your top priority."

Magical Mysteries: Chapter 159 Caster

The Holy Grail War is a chaotic battle in which seven mages each summon seven Heroic Spirits—usually of fixed classes: Saber, Archer, Rider, Lancer, Berserker, Assassin, and Caster—for a total of fourteen individuals. Ultimately, only two victors can exist: the Heroic Spirit who seizes the Holy Grail and the mage who summoned him.

"In this respect, it is somewhat similar to the Alice game."

One is a seven-out-of-one elimination game, and the other is still a one-in-seven elimination game even though the number of players has doubled. Moreover, most of the eliminated characters "exit" the game – to put it bluntly, they die.

It was precisely because of this situation that Lin Yi did not choose to personally participate in this Holy Grail War. This was not only because he might be discovered and targeted by the world's consciousness, but also because of the rules and restrictions of this Holy Grail War. The magicians who summoned the Servants were naturally elite magicians, except for occasional exceptions. However, the Servants who were summoned, the Heroic Spirits, had to be subject to the restrictions of these magicians.

The most direct manifestation of this is the existence of "Command Seals." These are automatically generated when a magician summons a Heroic Spirit. They grant the magician three opportunities to force the Heroic Spirit to carry out a command in a way that would otherwise be impossible, regardless of the Heroic Spirit's will. On the bright side, these Command Seals can greatly enhance the Heroic Spirit's combat power, like forcing someone who cannot run 100 meters in one second to run at that speed. However, on the dark side, the existence of these Command Seals can become the biggest obstacle to limiting the Heroic Spirit.

Putting everything else aside, what if the magician summoned at a crucial moment gave a "stop" order?

It's not impossible that they might even give you a "suicide" order when you're about to achieve final victory. After all, it's the Holy Grail, which is said to be able to grant any wish. Even if its authenticity is yet to be confirmed, it's always better if as few people come into contact with it as possible... Considering the possibility of this worst-case scenario, Lin Yi decisively gave up his plan to personally participate in this Holy Grail War.