I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

At three o'clock in the middle of the night, the underground workshop of the Matou family.

After completing the task of cleaning the underground sewers, Shenji went back to his room, took a shower and changed his clothes. He sat in front of the experimental table and carefully studied the silver liquid in the test tube.

The liquid with a faint glow has a very high consistency and will not produce clearly visible ripples like most solutions when shaken slightly.

As Shenji swayed, strands of dark red spots rose to the surface from the bottom of the opaque liquid, adding a hint of disharmony to the originally simple liquid.

Shenji picked up a piece of gauze with two runes painted on it from the experimental table and put it over the mouth of the test tube, then tilted the entire test tube 180 degrees. The silver liquid in the test tube flows straight down, easily passing through the gauze and flowing into the flask below. The dark red spots remained on the gauze, and were gathered into blocks by the activated runes.

What seemed to be a collection of spots as thick as a hair in the test tube turned into a mass larger than the palm of my hand on the gauze.

"Master, what is this?" Shen Er put down the gauze and raised his head to ask Scathach, who was watching on the other side of the operating table.

"This is a high-level compression magic in fluid manipulation. It uses pressure to reduce the volume of fluids. This magic is mostly used in the production of special last-month magic gifts and the preservation of precious materials." Scathach said and pointed to the corner of the workshop. bookshelf, "Your Matou family also has similar magic. If you are interested, you can try to learn it in five to seven years."

"Forget it, I'd better master all the runes first." Shen Er tugged at the corners of his lips, no longer thinking about things he was not qualified to touch, "By the way, Master, I want to hear your thoughts on 'Yue Ling' marrow fluid' view."

The silver liquid that Shinji filtered was naturally the "Moon Spirit Essence Liquid", the magic gift that Kenneth was proud of. Scathach spent tens of seconds to collect it from the ground after Emiya Kiritsugu left and brought it back. Although fluid compression is an advanced magic, for a magician of Scathach's level, it is just a piece of cake.

"'Moon Spirit Essence Liquid' is a good name."

Scathach stretched out his left hand and flicked it slightly. The liquid in the flask seemed to be signed by some invisible force, pulling out a bright silver thread and surrounding Shenji into a silver ring.

"The liquid is based on special mercury with a high affinity for magic, and has been refined through at least three major magic levels. It contains more than ten types of high-level magic, more than thirty types of intermediate and low-level magic, and spells. The structure is efficient and reasonable. The only shortcoming is that the magician has insufficient combat experience, and the self-discipline program constructed is too simple and easy to be cracked. Overall, it is a very excellent magic gift, even in the Age of Gods. A rare treasure.”

Scathach's evaluation far exceeded Shenji's expectations: "Is this an exaggeration? The magicians of the Gods were much more powerful than modern magicians. Is this thing so powerful?"

"No exaggeration at all."

As Scathach spoke, she tapped her curved fingers rhythmically on the experimental table. The mercury ring surrounding Shenji continued to change its shape as she tapped.

"The reason why magicians in the Age of Gods are powerful is because the 'Big Source', the origin of magic, is a hundred times a thousand times more active than in modern times. Magicians in the Age of Gods do not need to be connected through 'Little Sources' like modern magicians. The Great Source', but directly activates magic from the 'Great Source', and the effect of magic is naturally much higher than in modern times."

Modern magic is divided into two types, magic based on the power of "big source" and magic based on the power of "small source".

The big source is the vitality that fills the outside world, which also manifests as the vitality of the planet, the vitality of the atmosphere, etc. The small source is the vitality held by the magician himself. Although the properties of the two are the same, there is a decisive difference in quantity.

The amount of small source is very limited, but because it exists in the body, it is convenient to use and easy to manipulate. Many magicians use small sources to generate magic power, which is the conversion of life force into magic power through magic circuits. Since it comes at the expense of vitality, it is conceivable that excessive use will have adverse effects on the body. Therefore, a magician usually generates magic power little by little and accumulates it in his body. This accumulation amount varies from person to person, and the better the magician, the more.

In contrast, the amount of large sources is almost infinite, but the difficulty of absorbing and utilizing it is much higher than that of small sources. Furthermore, the amount of large sources of magic power that a magician can convert into at one time is limited by the magic circuit, so no matter how many are around, they cannot be used infinitely. In addition, there is a limit to the amount of magic power that can be retained, so it is not possible to turn the source into magic power in advance and then save it in large amounts.

The magic of the Gods does not have such restrictions. They do not need to be limited by magic circuits and their own vitality. They can directly use spells, gestures, runes and other methods to directly convert the great source into magic and use it to construct magic.

If the big source is compared to a reservoir, the small source is likened to your own water tank, and the magic circuit is likened to a water pipe. Magicians in the Age of Gods did not need water tanks and water pipes. They drew water directly from the reservoir and could use it as they wanted without limit. Modern magicians have to first store water in their own water tanks through water pipes, and then they can use it only when the corresponding amount is accumulated.

therefore--

"The foundation of magic in the Age of Gods is different from that of modern times, and the standards are also different. I value its structure and design ideas more than the effect of magic rituals. I am sure that Lancer's master can become an excellent magician in the Age of Gods as well. , the 'Moon Spirit Essence Liquid' made with the magic of the Age of Gods is at least comparable to a C-level Noble Phantasm."

"I see--"

Shinji nodded thoughtfully. It is not advisable to ignore the value of technology itself because of the expressive power of technology carriers. Just because "zirconia" is used in ceramic kitchen knives, you can't ignore this material. In fact, this material can also be used to make ultrasonic water wave detectors.

"——It seems that I made the right move."

What chess?

Of course it's not about collecting "Moon Spirit Essence Liquid", that's just taking advantage of others.

Shinji's real purpose is Kenneth, or the resources and knowledge he possesses.

For a long time, Shinji's understanding of magic mostly came from the books collected by Scathach, Justisa, and Matou family, as well as knowledge from past lives. However, these approaches have low reference value.

Scathach is a god-slayer active in the Age of Gods and living outside the world. Her level is too high.

Justeza is an artificial being of the Einzbern family. She stayed in the castle for the first half of her life and was sealed in the Holy Grail for the second half of her life. She only interacted with Magiri Zolgen and Tohsaka Nagato when they built the Great Holy Grail. There was brief contact with the outside world. Her knowledge of magic is limited to Einzbern and the part of the Matou and Tohsaka families' system used to construct the Holy Grail, which is still an old version from 200 years ago.

The Matou family's collection of books was not handed down from the ancestors of the Zolgen family. In addition to water-based magic that has not been developed for hundreds of years, it is the disgusting variant of water-based magic, insect magic, that Zouken developed himself. There are also some other collections of books, but they are all fragmentary and unsystematic - on the premise of maintaining mystery, it is far more difficult to obtain the secret techniques passed down by other families than to exterminate them.

As for the knowledge Shinji gained from the setting collection and Xingue's works, those are common sense things and may not be completely correct.

In other words, Shinji and even the entire Matou family lack sufficient understanding of the modern magic world.