Jobless Reincarnation: Emiya the Great Hero Must Show His True Skills

However, the actual scene presented clearly showed signs of interruption.

Alice couldn't help but rub her eyes, and it took her a while to realize that something incredible seemed to have happened just a moment ago.

Because in the blink of an eye, the distance between Shirou and Kyrie Irwin had been reversed, changing to two completely different directions.

"Pfft——!"

Suddenly, it was as if reality couldn't keep up with what was actually happening.

A clear sword mark, tens of meters long, appeared between the two. The powerful sword energy only began to dissipate after the swords collided.

"Cough cough..."

Shirou stood on the ground, propping himself up with his sword.

He looked at Gilead with a helpless expression and muttered, "As expected, you are still far from being as good as Gilead. You were clearly holding back just now."

In response to Shirou's reaction, Kyrie shook his head and said with an even more complicated expression, "No, I didn't hold back. I originally intended to fight you with the strength of a Sword Saint. However, during the process, because your sword energy was too strong, I almost lost control of my killing intent and unleashed the power of a Sword King. I only managed to suppress it with great difficulty in the end."

"..."

Kyrie and Shirou's words astonished everyone.

I never imagined that so much would happen in just a short time.

Kyrie Illusion then quietly said, "Congratulations, Shirou. You have mastered the true Blade of Light and are qualified to go to the Holy Land of Swords to undergo the trial of the Sword Saint."

Chapter 173 The Forging of Avalon! The Shadow of the Great Transfer!

As Kyrie Ian finished speaking, Shirou himself hadn't reacted yet, but the knights on the training ground all showed expressions of shock.

They were clearly shocked that Shirou possessed the strength of a Sword Saint. Although he had not yet gained true recognition in the Holy Land of Swords, he was essentially no different from a Sword Saint.

However, Shirow was just a fifteen-year-old boy.

A sword saint at the age of fifteen is absolutely astonishing, even in the holy land of swords.

They seemed to witness the birth of a legend.

Meanwhile, Alice wasn't surprised by Shirou's strength. After all, she was Shirou's disciple and knew his power better than anyone else.

So she simply accepted the fact that Shirou had become a sword saint with a calm attitude, and was genuinely proud of it.

After all, Shirou is both her mentor and her brother, so it's a very happy thing for Alice to receive his recognition.

While everyone else reacted in various ways, Shirou looked thoughtfully at Kyrie Il.

"Are we going to the Holy Land of Swords?"

"That's right. Anyone who has learned the Sword God Style and wants to take it a step further must go to the Holy Land of Swords to participate in the trial."

Kyrie looked at Shirou with a calm attitude and said quietly, "After all, the Sword God Style is still a faction. We must take the inheritance and development of the faction as our primary goal. Therefore, when a Sword King like me takes on disciples outside, once the disciples' strength reaches the required level, they need to go to the Holy Land of Swords to undergo a test. Only by passing the test can we continue to teach them subsequent techniques and ensure the stability of the inheritance."

"I see. In other words, if I want to become the Sword King, I need to go to the Holy Land of Swords to undergo the assessment."

"exactly."

Kyrie Irwin nodded and said reassuringly, "The test isn't difficult. At least with your current strength, Shirou, you could definitely pass it easily. However, don't be too proud or complacent. A fifteen-year-old Sword Saint is not a rare thing. There are even more extraordinary geniuses in the school than you. Not to mention, I myself have the current Sword God, who reached the Sword Saint level much faster than you."

"I know."

Shirou nodded. He knew very well that his swordsmanship talent was not outstanding. He had come this far purely because of his extraordinary efforts and training, plus the experience and intuition he gained from the Heroic Spirit Emiya.

He could not have become a sword saint at such a young age if he lacked any one of these qualities.

Now, although Shirou has become a sword saint, he is also more clearly aware of how difficult this path is.

If the path to becoming a Sword Saint is a rugged mountain road, only accessible with extreme caution and endless effort, then the road beyond the Sword Saint is an indescribable chasm, a sheer cliff and abyss that mortals can never cross in their entire lives.

Shirou is just an ordinary mortal. He knows that if he wants to become stronger, he needs to put in more effort and sweat more than before in order to possibly make further progress on this path.

Shirou then discussed with Kyrie Illusion how to go to the Sword Sanctuary to participate in the assessment.

Since Kyrie I haven't returned to the Sacred Land of Swords for a long time, she is now very interested in going there.

However, Kyrie Irwin did not set off immediately. She seemed to have some duties to fulfill with the Boreas family, and she also needed Priest Lang to learn about the Holy Land of Swords so that he could understand the situation there in advance and not be unable to adapt after arriving.

According to Kyrie I, the Holy Land of the Sword is located at the far north of the continent, in a frigid environment, covered in snow all year round, making it an extremely harsh place.

The reason why this place is considered a sacred site is because it is where the first sword god founded his school and taught his disciples swordsmanship in his later years.

That is the destination of all swordsmen, and also the place where they begin.

This is a place that any swordsman would visit.

Whether it's the Sword God School, the Water God School, or even the Northern God School, anyone confident in their swordsmanship and believing they can become a strong warrior will come to the Holy Land of Swords. It's not just for the visit; it's because it holds what all swordsmen yearn for—

That is swordsmanship.

As a sacred place, the Holy Land of Swords has countless engravings, which are the marks left by countless swordsmen in history during their training. Masters of any school of swordsmanship have their own engravings, and by observing these engravings, one can learn powerful swordsmanship from the strongmen of history.

Although the current manager of the Holy Land of Swords is the Sword God School, the current Sword God does not prevent other schools from coming to the Holy Land to observe and learn, and even welcomes other schools to come and spar.

This is why the Holy Land of Swords has become the center where the world's strongest swordsmen gather.

After listening to Kyrie Ian's story, Shirou was filled with longing for the Holy Land of Swords, realizing that it was undoubtedly a place where he could take another step forward and become stronger.

If it weren't for the great distance, he would have loved to set off for the Holy Land of Swords immediately, not only to be tested by the Sword Saint, but also to observe the swordsmanship of his predecessors and to spar with other sword masters.

Of course, Shirou also knew that one must eat one bite at a time.

Since we're destined to go to the Holy Land of Swords, there's no need to rush. Let's focus on the present first.

So, Shirou returned to his original daily routine, practicing swordsmanship and teaching Alice swordsmanship during the day, and forging weapons and studying the magic data that Loki had sent him at night.

Since Shirou has already surpassed the Sword Saint level in swordsmanship, it's impossible for him to make any further breakthroughs in the short term.

Spurred on by Shirou's breakthrough to Sword Saint, Alice also began to practice swordsmanship with double the effort, taking another step closer to becoming an advanced swordsman, and her fighting spirit became more solid than before.

However, given her age, she is still some distance away from breaking through to the advanced swordsman level and cannot achieve the exaggerated feat of breaking through to the advanced level at the age of ten, as Shirou did back then.

Therefore, what is truly worth mentioning during this period is Shirou's forging.

After receiving the materials from Loki, Shirou studied them for a long time and indeed mastered several simple defensive barrier spells.

Following the research in Loki's letter, he created a magic circle to transform the defensive barrier magic into a magic circle, and found that the effect was surprisingly good.

The only problem is that Loki's research on magic circles is relatively limited, especially on self-charging magic circles, making it difficult for her to release a magic barrier without injecting magic power.

However, since Shirou is going to create Avalon, he naturally cannot allow the requirement to inject magic power to release the defensive barrier, otherwise it would be no different from ordinary defensive barrier magic.

Shirou then realized that he would have better get to know a master of magic circles and figure out how to make a self-charging magic circle.

Of course, before that, he created a simplified version of the distant utopia (Avalon).

Avalon is naturally shaped like a scabbard, and it is a scabbard that perfectly matches the invincible golden sword, so the fit is impeccable.

In addition, the scabbard itself, forged to its limit by Shirou, possesses an incredibly exaggerated toughness, remaining intact even when facing attacks from dragons.

Naturally, since the goal is to forge Avalon, the most important aspect is undoubtedly the effect of the magical barrier.

Shirou equipped Avalon with three healing magic circles and six defensive barrier magic circles. The magic circles were interconnected, and once magic power was injected, they would immediately release a defensive magic barrier of Saint level or higher and heal the injuries of those inside the barrier.

In the absence of a self-charging magic circle, Shirou had no choice but to use magic stones as an energy source.

With Shirou's best efforts, the magic stones inside Avalon were enough to sustain the barrier for more than half an hour, but afterwards the magic stones had to be replaced to prevent the energy from running out.

Overall, Shirou was quite satisfied with the simplified version of Avalon he had forged. Only a blacksmith of his caliber could do this. Ordinary blacksmiths would expend all their strength just forging the scabbard itself, let alone inscribing a defensive barrier of Saint level or higher on the scabbard.

Even so, Shirou knew that this was just a compromise he had to make because of his limited abilities.

Once his forging skills and research on magic circles advance further in the future, he will do everything in his power to recreate an even more realistic Avalon.

At that time, Avalon will not only have defensive barriers and healing magic arrays of at least Emperor level, or even God level, but it will also have the ability to integrate into the user's body and prevent the user from suffering any fatal injuries.

Since Shirou has chosen to pursue the pinnacle of forging, he naturally must maximize the effectiveness of the weapons he forges.

In short, with Avalon, Shirou's invincible golden sword finally had a scabbard and no longer needed to be wrapped in strips of cloth all the time.

However, he usually doesn't carry this conspicuous weapon with him, but instead hides it in his bag as much as possible.

Normally, he only carries that replica magic sword, [Folding Wind], at his waist.

As time passed, the time for Shirou and Kyrielight to travel to the Sacred Land of Swords drew closer, and the two began to make preparations.

But during this time, Shirou inexplicably felt a strange palpitation, as if some kind of danger was quietly approaching, and the intense terror felt as if it were about to choke him.

Shirou was initially confused about what was happening, thinking it was all just an illusion.

But one day, when he unexpectedly saw a black dot in the distant sky that he had noticed before become much larger than he had imagined, a strong intuition within him made him feel an indescribable fear.

In that instant, when Shirou saw that black dot, he even had the image of the Greater Grail that Shirou Emiya had witnessed in Fuyuki City, or rather, the nuclear leak that the Heroic Spirit Emiya had experienced.

When danger is triggered, his ability to see into one's mind always gives him an instinctive warning.

Right now is no exception.

He realized that the increasingly large black spot was very wrong and could not be ignored.

Shirou then immediately sought out Shorus, the lord.

Although he had no suitable reason and could not possibly get the other party to take action based solely on his inner unease, he still tried to describe the strangeness of the black dot in the sky and the fact that he needed to deal with it objectively.

Soros naturally didn't take this too seriously.

The black dot has been appearing in the skies above the territory of Fetoia for several years now, and many people have become so familiar with this strange thing that they consider it commonplace.

Some extremists even regard it as a deity of some faith and have established bizarre religions.

In short, Sauros did not take a special attitude towards Shirou's words, but he did not completely ignore them either.

So, after much deliberation, Soros said he would send people to investigate the black sphere, at least to find out what it was.

Shirou was undoubtedly extremely dissatisfied with Shoros's reaction.

He had complete faith in the ability of the Heroic Spirit Emiya's Mind's Eye, knowing that when the Mind's Eye generated such alertness, it meant that things were no longer something that one person, or even a group of people, could change.

That would undoubtedly be a calamity beyond human control, an ultimate tragedy no less devastating than the eruption of the Holy Grail or a nuclear power plant leak.

Shirou had the will but not the strength, so he could only do his best to save those around him.

He first tricked Philip and his wife into leaving Bereas Castle, under the guise of team building and relaxation, and then had the two of them take the castle's servants on an outing to the capital.

Although Philip hesitated at first, Shirou only hinted that he could help Philip defeat James, and that it was all part of the plan for that matter, so Philip immediately trusted him.

Next, Shirou tried his best to persuade Sauros to take some of the citizens of Roya City away from the city to participate in the festival in other cities.

Although it lacked logical support, because Sauros was a person who enjoyed excitement, he surprisingly found it reasonable and agreed to it.

After doing all this, Shirou also wanted to go to Buena Village.

He wanted to go back and see his long-lost family, and also wanted to warn the Grerat family and, ideally, persuade them to leave the Fituia territory.

Shirou had planned everything perfectly, but to his surprise, Alice insisted on following him, saying she wanted to go to Buena Village with him.

Alice is quite stubborn and clearly cannot be easily persuaded.

Even if Shirou wanted her to stay with Philip, Hilda, and the others, he couldn't persuade her otherwise, so he had no choice but to agree and embark on the journey back to Buena Village with Alice.

It's worth mentioning that Gigliotti also accompanied the two, because she wasn't interested in picnics and preferred to meet up with her old friends Paul and Senis to catch up.

Then I'll be able to set off for the Sacred Land of Swords with Shirou.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly.

But the pointer of fate has clearly begun to turn, pointing to the beginning of the next stage.

Chapter 174 The Jewel Sword Zelrich and the [Ankylosaurus]

On this day, magicians all over the world discovered a strange phenomenon.

The color of the sky became strange.

Brown, black, purple, yellow...

Although most people don't notice anything unusual, to magicians with powerful perception, the sky is undergoing a strange change, turning into a color they wouldn't normally see.

Lokishi, located in the Kingdom of Xilong, noticed this change and inexplicably felt that these colors seemed familiar.

"What happened...?"

Loki had a strong impression of the colors, but had never seen the sky change like this before.

Everyone could see that it was not a simple natural phenomenon.

Perhaps it's a case of magic going out of control for some reason?

The scale... even from a distance, it seemed that the magic had formed a vortex.