Magic is a phenomenon that transcends common sense.
To make something that can be done under common sense happen in another uncommon way. A general term for man-made miracles and the act of reproducing miracles. The mystery here refers to phenomena that violate common sense, which can be reproduced with modern technology if time and money are not limited.
Therefore, magic does not include "things that humans cannot achieve", and the ability to do such things is called "magic".
In the infancy of human civilization, all magic was magic. However, with the advancement of science and technology, the "things that can be done" by human hands have increased, and the magic has decreased accordingly. The number of "magic" that remains in modern times is very small, and has become only five. There are two known and named magic, namely the second magic "Parallel World Interference" and the third magic "Heaven's Cup", which is essentially "soul materialization".
To use magic, you need magic circuits, which are organs that transform life force into magic power. It's like internal organs or nerves, and without them you can't use magic.
People who possess magic circuits and can perform magic are called magicians. Ordinary people also have magic circuits and can learn magic, but usually the number of circuits is scarce, so it is quite difficult.
Magicians generally pass down their magic and research from one son to another. Such families are called "magician families".
The inheritance of a magician's family is not simply limited to blood, but a deeper level of "magic imprint".
Magic Seals are the secrets that a magician has spent his entire life cultivating and fixing, and they are engraved into something. They can also be said to be the magical heritage that makes a magician family a magician family. Even if the biological bloodline is severed, as long as the Magic Seal is inherited by another person's body, the magician family line will be considered to have continued. Even if the descendants who possess the Magic Circuit continue to exist, if the Magic Seal is lost, the family line will be equivalent to being cut off in terms of magic.
Having said that, usually a magician will choose an heir with excellent qualifications from among his own bloodline to continuously inherit the Magic Mark. Only when they encounter the situation of no descendants or the descendants are not enough to accumulate Magic Marks will they choose another Mark, that is, a family heir, in other ways.
The Matou family, to which Matou Zouken and Matou Shinji belong, is such a family of magicians.
The Matou family was originally a European family of magicians. Their old surname was Zorgon. They moved to Fuyuki City, Japan 200 years ago and changed their surname to Matou, which is a homophonic name in Japanese. Since Zouken's generation, Zorgon's descendants have gradually lost their magic circuits, and by Matou Shinji's generation, they were in a state of complete decline. In order to allow the Matou family to continue as a family of magicians, Zouken Matou chose to adopt Sakura Tousaka, the second daughter of the Tousaka family, who was also a magician, into the Matou family and changed her name to Sakura Matou.
However, Sakura's attribute - what kind of magic a magician is more compatible with, the element of the magician himself - is the imaginary element "hollow", which is not compatible with the "water" attribute of the Matou family. Therefore, from the first day Sakura was adopted by the Matou family at the age of five, Matou Zouken forcibly transformed Sakura's body. The method of transformation was to implant a large number of engraved insects in Sakura's body. These were the countless insects mentioned in the previous chapter. They were servants created and used by Zouken with magic - familiars.
It was hellish pain, far beyond what a five-year-old girl could endure.
What's even more terrifying is that the so-called inheritance of the seal is just a cover. Yan Zang added more things that should be humanely destroyed for his own ambitions. Once the transformation begins, Sakura's life, which has not yet begun, will be overshadowed and she will become a puppet of Zang Yan. By then, she will indeed have the qualifications to inherit the magic seal, but she will lose the most basic dignity of a human being.
In order to avoid such a thing from happening, Shinji Matou interrupted Zouken's ceremony and declared his death to Zouken.
The body was cut in half by the sickle, and the smelly and slightly rotten blood splattered everywhere, but there was no trace of pain on Zang Yan's face.
"What a beautiful shot, Shinji—let's call you that for now. At least this body's name is Shinji, and you must have used some method to control his body."
"Is that true? As a great magician, you can't be unable to tell whether I'm being manipulated or not. Grandpa who turned into a bug, I'll call him Bug-san for short."
Shinji said as he used his sickle to cut Zouken's body apart, and used his Mystic Eye of Petrification to petrify and shatter the pieces, leaving only his head.
Zou Yan looked at Shinji carefully and found that there was indeed no trace of magic on his body: "It's not manipulation, is it possible... someone directly took over your body? No, it's impossible. If that's the case, how can you still look like Shinji? Have you found a way to break the memory limit?"
The information of the body can be false, but the soul cannot. Otherwise, Zang Yan would not have maintained the image of a dry old man for so many years. This is all due to the limitation of memory. Now that someone has broken this limitation, it is no wonder that Zang Yan is so excited.
"Who knows?" Shinji shrugged and swung his sickle down. "I slept for a while and woke up like this."
There was no falsehood in what Shinji said.
As Zouken said, the soul in his body is indeed not the original Matou Shinji. The original Matou Shinji is an ordinary boy without the qualifications of a magician. His mind is no different from that of an ordinary six-year-old child. He has no ability and would not have the idea of killing Zhufu. The one who has the ability to plan and kill Matou Zouken and put it into practice is the soul of an adult who occupies Shinji's body.
As for how to occupy Shinji's body, what happened to his original soul, the new "Shinji" didn't know. His original body was not Japanese, nor European, not even from this world. When he woke up, he found that he had changed his body, changed his identity, and even the world had become different.
By analyzing the remaining memories in his brain, he quickly determined the situation - although it was hard to believe, and although he suspected several times that he was dreaming, he had indeed come to a familiar world, in the legendary way of "possessing another's body".
A fantasy world once thought to be virtual, created by Type-Moon and led by a certain fungus.
A brilliant world with all kinds of wonderful things, countless branches and world lines.
There may be the Fate series, Tsuki-hime, Magus Night, and The World of Sora: A Kyoukai no Kyoukai. This is a world that countless fans of the second dimension yearn for.
Now, he is here, starting his own story as Shinji Matou.
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