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"Yes!" Both, woman and girl, affirmed. The older of two then continued.
"Those are just natural but new ones can also be created. Like a human that can have implants of external circuits to improve their magic capabilities the world also gains circuits when events happen or important constructions are made by anyone if those buildings or places have meaning and a strong influence."
"Forgive my rudeness Irisviel-sama," Sella intrudes in the lesson, "the important thing is that once we get your forge ready we need to place it in a good position for the ley line.
Fuyuki has the second biggest one in Japan and if you want success in your experiments you need them to happen in the best place to be."
'That is it!' Shirou figured out the trick. The guy was using his position to absorb the mana of the ley line, even if it wasn't the main vein it was still enough to empower him. He was acting like a living workshop.
But that shouldn't be possible… except that he is using his own energy to absorb the land's…
"You are a plague!" Shirou declared. "You are infecting the ley line with your own power to devour it! You are the reason why Homurahara has been struggling more than it should."
The bolts of bad luck, the broken structure, it was all symptomatic. The ley line did more than just circulate mana for those who could use it, it brought good fortune, helped in prosperity and even wards off bad omens. Maybe the school would still be in decline but not on the level that it was now.
"Oh~ You figured it out!" The stray tried to clap his hands but he couldn't. "You are right!
I AM USING MY OWN ENERGY TO EASY THE PROCESS! THE EXCESS OF MANA MAY HAVE CHANGED MY FORM! BUT IT MADE ME INVENCIBLE!"
The barrier got stronger and more visible as more mana was used.
"NO ONE CAN TOUCH ME NOW! AND EVEN IF THEY DO I CAN REGENERATE THANKS TO THE MANA THAT I ALREADY ACCUMULATED!
I REACH THE POWER OF THAT PHENEX BASTARDS! NO ONE CAN COMPETE WITH THE POWER OF A WHOLE CITY WORTHY OF MANA!"
He was right but that didn't mean that Shirou wasn't going to try. This being is a poison infecting the city for who knows how long and the redhead was going to put a stop to it.
"Calm down! You are in a hurry but don't just rush." Shirou told himself after hitting the sides of his face with his palms. "Do what you always did. Pick apart a problem and find a way to win."
That is how he goes to make his swords, to fight on kendo and now that he is going to bet everything on a life or death brawl, Shirou needs to remain calm.
"TRACE ON!" He could feel the mana passing by his circuits. It was starting to get hot and now it was going to get even hotter. "I WON'T LET YOU RUIN MY HOME!"
"COME MAGUS!" The devil roared in challenge, his barrier growing stronger. Shirou manifested two of his swords and ran to attack. "Heh, he never learns."
The confidence of the devil was not undeserved, his wall managed to contest and win against the mighty Power of Destruction from the Bael and even if his opponent passed there was no way a human magus would have enough firepower to kill him before he regenerated.
A pity for him that he wasn't the target. Two swords showed up in Shirou's hands and once he got close to the barrier he made a turn and started to race around circling his opponent while pumping the swords with more and more mana.
The two swords touched the ground and the result shocked the stray. "WHAT IS GOING ON?" He could complain but not react.
To keep absorbing the ley lines the stray couldn't just move and his body ended transforming, adapting to his nutrition and the fact that mana accelerated any mutations. Truly this form was more efficient to survive such a lifestyle.
But the weakness is the same as any magus workshop, from the most studious magus to the most powerful spellcasters if something happens that they can't use the ley line properly everything gets one hundred times harde.
Shirou couldn't move the monster but he could break the place where he was standing, the rocks breaking apart with the floor getting more and more uneven.
"STOOOOOOOP IIIIIIIT!" The stray demands and tries to unleash his power once again but the ground is already too unstable and he ends up moving, just a few centimeters, enough that his barrier breaks. "NONONONONONONONO!"
The ground gives in and both combatants start to fall to a deeper level. Shirou undoes one of his swords to fish something from his pocket. A piece of paper with the Gremory symbol on it. "RIAS GREMORY! I HAVE A WISH!"
Deep in the sewer, still fighting a horde of rats Rias feels a pull, the familiar connection between her and one of her pamphlets. She is exhausted, bleeding and charging the last of her power on a grand attack of desperation but the pull came just before she did.
There was no hesitation, this was her salvation. There wasn't ill intent and there was a wish to be done, with that her instincts took over and she let herself be summoned right above the massive stray.
Then the wish came. "UNLEASH ALL YOUR POWER! DESTROY THE STRAY!"
Shirou was just a bit above her but he was mostly safe if one doesn't count the fall to a lower level of the sewers, it was still better than the stray's position, below a very pissed off woman with a mass of destruction on her hands.
"DISAPPEAR!" Rias Gremory lets out the strongest blast of the day while using the rest of her strength to grab Shirou.
The once called 'Hamelin Flutist' could only scream and despair, destruction itself had come and it started to wipe out his body from existence completely. He tried to stop it, to make a barrier but there was no contest this time.
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