Type-Moon: Shinji Matou Also Wants to Be the Protagonist

Faced with Gilgamesh's locked attack, Iskandar laughed twice, drew his short sword from his waist, and lightning flashed on his Kamui Wheel as he said:

"That won't do. My conquest is not over yet, and I don't intend to end it like this."

Just as the two were on the verge of exchanging barbs, the roar of a car engine approached from afar outside the dock.

The sirens of police cars and fire trucks echoed through the night sky.

The explosion at the dock was so loud that police, firefighters, and some bolder reporters were already on their way.

"Oh no, no, the crowd has been drawn here. How about we fight another time?"

Iskandar was the first to sheathe his short sword and speak.

At the same time, Tokiomi Tohsaka's advice was also conveyed to Gilgamesh through the Servant's contract.

"Your Majesty, your subject humbly begs you to calm your anger for the time being. The commotion at the dock has caused too much disturbance and alarmed too many people. Please understand your subject's predicament and withdraw temporarily."

Gilgamesh snorted coldly, sheathed the weapon he had been poised to strike, and sneered in an unfriendly tone:

"Hmph, you've escaped with your life again, you bastard."

Chapter 19: The Three-Based Magic Furnace

In Fuyuki City, the citizens were going through a peaceful and ordinary day.

But a deafening roar shattered the city's tranquility.

A huge mushroom cloud suddenly rose at the city's dock.

The explosion produced an exceptionally bright light, illuminating half the sky, resembling a burning sea of ​​fire.

Police and firefighters hurriedly returned to their posts and quickly assembled at the pier.

The doctors at the hospital also had to be on high alert, preparing to receive any potential injured people.

Of course, amidst this chaos, the Church of the Holy See and the Tohsaka family, who were the managers of the local spiritual veins, were the most distressed.

Because of Caster's reckless behavior, the existence of magicians has become possible in the public eye.

They had to be mobilized urgently, expending enormous human and material resources to deal with the subsequent thorny issues.

The key issue is that they have no choice but to step in, because if they don't handle it properly, the Holy Church headquarters and the Magic Association will send people to investigate.

If this investigation uncovers the collusion between Kotomine Risei and Tohsaka Tokiomi, they'll both be in deep trouble.

But their suffering is far from over.

Not long after the pier blasting incident, the Hyatt Hotel in Xindu suddenly caught fire.

Fortunately, the hotel reacted quickly, and all guests were evacuated in time.

They thought the matter was over, but then a huge explosion occurred.

The entire hotel building collapsed amidst roars and flames, turning into ruins.

After the successful evacuation, they learned from Saber that Lancer had led Kenneth to a hasty retreat.

Kiritsugu Emiya immediately set off with Maiya Hisau, determined to take advantage of his illness and kill him.

Kenneth's headquarters are located within the Hyatt Hotel.

He booked an entire floor and then spent considerable resources to magically transform the entire building.

Make it as solid as a rock.

Even if Servants break in, Kenneth is confident of a resounding victory.

Unfortunately, the person who wanted to kill him was a magician assassin who would stop at nothing to achieve his goal.

Kiritsugu Emiya never intended to engage in any magical battle with Kenneth; instead, he chose to simply blow up the entire building.

The blame lies with Kenneth for being too arrogant; he even insisted on booking high-floor rooms in hotels.

If he had built the magic workshop on the ground floor, or even on a floor closer to the ground floor.

Even Kiritsugu Emiya's plan to blow up the building wouldn't be this effective.

The subsequent explosions enraged the police, who immediately linked the pier explosions to the hotel.

They quickly classified it as a terrorist attack and then handed it over to the national security department.

The Holy Church and the Tohsaka family had no choice but to continue following up.

In short, because of Shinji and Kiritsugu Emiya's actions, the entire Fuyuki region was thrown into chaos.

Walking down the street, Shinji even saw many Fuyuki City residents moving their families away temporarily.

However, this is a good thing.

Several of the participants in this Holy Grail War were fanatics who didn't care about the consequences when they actually started fighting.

The problem with the Holy Grail is particularly serious.

Now that the Holy Grail War has begun, the appearance of the Holy Grail is only a matter of time.

Ultimately, there are only two possible outcomes: the immediate birth of evil or the destruction of the Holy Grail.

Regardless of which one it is, the casualties will be significant; now, every person who survives is a blessing.

Shaking his head, Shinji stopped thinking about the future and arrived near the ruins of the bombed Hyatt Hotel.

The hotel ruins have been cordoned off by police and firefighters.

However, because a large fire is still burning at the dock, there is a shortage of firefighters.

Fortunately, after checking the hotel manager's registration form, there were no casualties at the hotel.

So after settling the hotel's guests, the police left only personnel to maintain order.

As for financial losses, it's not too late to deal with them after the fire at the dock is extinguished.

This made things easier for someone like Shinji with ulterior motives.

Concealing their presence, they stealthily crept into the ruins, searching for Kenneth's destroyed magic workshop.

That's right, Shinji came here to collect trash.

Kenneth's magic workshop was located on a high floor of the hotel, and its remains were not buried deep after the hotel collapsed.

Moreover, since it was a structure that had been reinforced by magic, the damage was much less than that of other floors.

So finding a target is actually quite easy.

Kenneth has invested heavily in his magic workshop.

The barrier alone has 24 layers, countless traps, dozens of evil spirits lying in ambush, and even part of the space has been transformed into another world. To achieve these effects, precious materials are necessary.

The materials and magical costumes that made up the magic workshop were mostly destroyed in the explosion.

But what's left is enough to make an ordinary magician rich overnight.

This is the wealth represented by the esteemed monarch El-Melloi.

After setting up a soundproof barrier, Shinji began summoning the sea monster's tentacles to search for the creature.

The first thing Shinji found were the dozens of evil spirits that Kenneth had placed in the workshop.

Because they were spirits, the physical damage caused by the explosion and the subsequent building collapse did not significantly harm them.

The barrier shattered, killing more than a dozen of them in the process. The remaining ones were all broken and their souls had dissipated because they had lost their magical support. But Shinji didn't mind and picked them up one by one, putting them into the lantern.

These are all top-quality soul materials. With the Soul Refining Technique, you can easily refine a few fierce souls by kneading them.

The sea monster's tentacles roamed through the ruins, and the remaining traps were triggered from time to time, crushing the tentacles into a pulp, only to be crushed by even more tentacles.

Fortunately, the sea monster's tentacles decompose into magic quickly after death; otherwise, who knows what kind of commotion would have ensued if the people cleaning up the ruins had seen this bloody scene.

The tentacles would occasionally unfurl metal, gemstones, or animal and plant parts, and Shinji would follow behind with a beaming smile, dragging a suitcase.

After picking up this wave of trash, Shinji felt like his first Imperial Arm was already beckoning to him.

"Boom!"

As a panel of wall was lifted by a sea monster's tentacles, a large, dim, and broken magic circle appeared before Shinji.

Three pyramidal metal structures are located in the center of three magic circles.

An open suitcase was half-buried in the ruins at the corner of the wall.

This is Shinji's main purpose in coming here: the El-Melloi family's supreme Mystic Code—the Tri-Fold Magic Furnace.

When this thing is separated, the three square pyramidal structures are three magic furnaces.

When the three are combined to form a cube, it is essentially equivalent to a small Holy Grail.

It can provide almost unlimited magic power, and even has the function of a wish-granting machine.

The only minor side effect of combining the three is that it amplifies the desires of those around you.

Just like the One Ring, the more you use it, the faster you die. Even Kenneth used it in separate parts.

If the previous materials were like scavenging, this thing is like inheriting a fortune.

The others in the Plaza de la Mansor should consume their own heritage, and they should also consume El-Melloi's heritage; only then can the whole be considered complete.

Chapter 20: The Sea Demon Core

Having obtained the goods, Shinji immediately made his escape.

Although there should still be a lot of usable materials under the ruins that have not yet been dug out, he could not take too much with him.

And that was all thanks to the power of the Blue King, which indirectly granted him his innate physical body.

Half a year of growth has given Shinji the strength of an ordinary seventeen-year-old at the age of seven.

Otherwise, he probably wouldn't even be able to take all of this with him now.

Moreover, this is not a real garbage dump, so he cannot dig recklessly here.

On his return journey, Shinji discovered a fresh corpse halfway there.

Judging from the traces at the scene, the deceased died from the tentacles of the sea monster that he had previously ambushed, and his identity was a magician.

The most famous magician families in Fuyuki City are the Tohsaka and Matou families.

But this does not mean that Fuyuki only has these two magicians.

After all, Fuyuki is a fine spiritual land, attracting many ordinary magicians to settle here over the centuries—as long as they obey the management of the Tohsaka family, the local ley line managers.

These people also served as the source of manpower for the Tohsaka family in handling matters related to the Fuyuki mystic side.

Otherwise, the Tohsaka family can't possibly bear all the mystical events in such a large place as Fuyuki, can they?

In that case, even if we gave them the Noble Phantasm [Delusion Illusion] of Hundred-Faced Hassan, they probably wouldn't be able to handle it all.

However, given the vast difference in skill levels among magicians, this is not an issue.

Therefore, in the "story" that Shinji knew, these ordinary magicians didn't even have a chance to appear.

But now that he is in the real world, the existence of these people has become a factor that he cannot ignore.

Such a major event as the Holy Grail War could not be kept from them, and they might even be the ones who carried out the "cleanup" work after the Servants' battles.

After Kenneth's magic workshop was blown up, quite a few daring magicians came to try their luck there.

And as time goes on, there will only be more and more people like this.

Shinji carefully erased all traces of his activities; he didn't want to reveal his identity.

As the El-Melloi family's supreme Mystic Code, the disappearance of the Three-Core Magic Furnace will surely attract investigation.

The presence of these ordinary magicians can conveniently obscure the direction of the investigation.

He sped away from the hotel ruins, taking every possible shortcut, and even manipulated his familiar to block the surveillance cameras—he was very grateful that the country's surveillance coverage was extremely low.

the other side.

"Ugh~"

Webber Velvet, curled up in bed, was retching painfully, but he couldn't vomit anything anymore.

"Dad, Mom, have you come to pick me up?"

While sneezing and spitting out tears due to physiological nausea, he uttered faint murmurs, as if he were about to ascend to heaven.

"Hey kid, cheer up! It's just motion sickness, right?"

Iskandar, the conqueror who was taking care of him, handed him a tissue and a cup of hot water, saying with a helpless expression.