Chapter 174

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for obtaining 【Skill: Denial of Nothingness】!"

Extra Feng Xi opened the Golden Treasure Chest, and a beam of white light entered his mind directly.

It was actually another skill; this was the second skill he had opened.

But what kind of ability was Denial of Nothingness?

After reading it carefully, Extra Feng Xi was stunned.

Denial of Nothingness, also known as the First Magic.

Good heavens, he had actually obtained the First Magic!

In this world, there is an essential difference between magecraft and magic.

Magecraft refers to the scope that modern humans can achieve through science and wisdom, while magic refers to the scope that magecraft and science cannot achieve, which is 'mystery'.

In the past, when human civilization was still in its infancy, magic was a very common ability.

One could even say that magecraft back then was magic.

But as human civilization developed, the things that could be done relying on technology increased, the nature of mystery continued to decline, and magic became increasingly rare.

To this day, only five magics remain in the world.

Regarding these five magics, a nursery rhyme has been circulating in the world.

The initial First changed everything.

The subsequent Second acknowledged more.

The succeeding Third displayed the future.

The maintaining Fourth hid itself.

The ending Fifth lost its meaning.

It serves as a vague summary of the abilities of these five magics.

As for these five magics, only three have confirmed real effects.

The Second Magic is the Magic of Space, which holds the ability to observe the development of other parallel worlds and freely traverse between them at will.

The wielder is Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, also known as the famous Wizard Marshal.

The Third Magic is the Magic of the Soul, also known as Heaven's Feel.

The ability of this magic is Materialization of the Soul, meaning to break free from the body and let the soul become a physical entity, thereby achieving immortality.

A person can be roughly divided into three parts: matter (the body), soul, and spirit.

The human body will gradually corrode with the passage of time, thereby affecting one's own soul and spirit.

This refers to how, after people grow old, the thinking of most people becomes increasingly chaotic.

Later, some researchers discovered that the soul itself does not decay; it is entirely influenced by the body.

Thus, the Third Magic was born.

Materialization of the Soul utilizes the characteristic that the soul does not naturally decay, transforming the soul into a body to replace the material body that constantly ages, so that the soul will not deteriorate and die due to the limitations of the body.

In this way, true immortality can be achieved.

And because Magic Circuits are part of the soul, once this magic succeeds, it is equivalent to the entire person becoming an individual composed of Magic Circuits, turning the body into a perpetual motion machine of magical energy.

Inexhaustible and endless, infinitely approaching infinity.

This magic has been passed down through generations of the Einzbern family, but it has never been realized.

The Holy Grail War they are currently conducting was constructed specifically to realize the Third Magic.

The Fifth Magic, named 'Blue', is the Magic of Time, which can cause time to regress, or even allow the user to perform time travel.

This magic is passed down through generations of the Aozaki family, and the current user is Aoko Aozaki.

Except for these three that have been confirmed, the effects of the remaining two magics are unknown to anyone.

The First Magic, which is the one Extra Feng Xi obtained now, is known as one of the most ancient magics.

Although no user has appeared in the entire Type-Moon series, it is rumored that its direct descendants are still barely surviving, and there are some clues to investigate regarding its abilities.

Alice Kuonji, a friend of Aoko Aozaki, possesses a fragment of the First Magic.

Alice Kuonji is Aoko Aozaki's roommate and partner, as well as her teacher in magecraft.

The two are both enemies and friends, sometimes cooperating and sometimes killing each other, but Aoko Aozaki is one of the few friends Alice Kuonji has.

Alice Kuonji and Touko Aozaki are also old acquaintances, having known each other for over ten years.

To Alice Kuonji, Touko Aozaki is the only person who can understand her.

However, when faced with conflicts of interest, the two will still engage in life-or-death battles without mercy.

Alice Kuonji's abilities are all inherited from her mother, a unique magecraft system.

This system is a fragment of the First Magic, bound to Alice Kuonji's family.

Only the pure-blooded witch lineage of her family can use this system.

And the ability of this system is to create something from nothing.

Alice Kuonji's mother used this ability to create familiars known as "PLOY (Fairy Tale Monsters)" and left them to Alice Kuonji.

PLOYs are creatures manifested from Western fairy tales.

Such as "The Adventure of the Robin", "Night's Feast", "The Troublesome Twins", and so on.

After these PLOYs were born, they carried rules called 'Inherited Defense', making it difficult for modern technology and magecraft to interfere with them; one must utilize the weaknesses of these creatures as they appear in the original fairy tales.

In this regard, the ability of the First Magic becomes self-evident: it is the Magic of Creation.

Creating something from nothing, creating 'existence' from 'nothingness', also known as - Denial of Nothingness.