Rin smiled with satisfaction and swung her right arm.
Perfect. In that case, Projection Magic should also be fine.
As for why Rin is so obsessed with Projection Magic, besides understanding its potential, it also contains a personal sentiment. For any Type-Moon fan who loves Fate, there's no one who wouldn't be deeply impressed by this cheat skill of the original story protagonist. Its overpowered level is comparable to the Shadow Clone Jutsu in Naruto! Once Unlimited Blade Works is activated, everyone kneels, even the King of Heroes, Gilgamesh, who is hailed as the strongest Heroic Spirit and capable of ending the Holy Grail War overnight, knelt!
Although in fanfiction about Fate online in her previous life, few people mastered this technique, Rin didn't want to miss out.
After adjusting and imbuing the magic power with the Reinforcement characteristic, Rin began a new attempt: "Fantasy creation concept, basic skeleton conception, formulaic material composition, hypothetical production technique, historical reliance on experience... Projection start!"
Emerald Magic Circuits spread with converging electric sparks! Reinforced magic power rapidly gathered in Rin's hand. What was fed back into Rin's consciousness was a pair of black and white swords, which are the husband-and-wife swords often used by Red A in the original story: Kanshou and Bakuya. And these two swords had only one reinforceable point in Rin's mental structure diagram, and the information this reinforceable point fed back to Rin was: Reality!
That's right, this was the reason why Rin had failed before. No matter how miraculous Projection Magic is, it is still fundamentally a construct of inner fantasy. To truly materialize it, what was lacking was "Reality"!
The hollow of "Reality" swallowed the Finale Magic Power with the Reinforcement characteristic like a bottomless black hole. In just an instant, it consumed seven-tenths of Rin's magic power. The hollow was filled with magic power and transformed into a point of light.
With the clang of a drawn sword, a pair of black and white blades, two feet long, emerged from the void into Rin's hands. White on the left, black on the right, with Taijitu patterns etched on their tsuba, their blades emitted a chilling, captivating gleam under the light of the jewels.
As Rin tightly gripped the sword hilts, an indescribable sense of familiarity flowed from her hands to her heart. They felt completely natural in her grasp, as if she had already fought with them a thousand times.
Immediately after, Rin's consciousness was drawn into a mental space. What met her eyes was a blank expanse, with only a silhouette in the center, whose details were obscured, ceaselessly wielding two dual blades.
The dual blades moved with extreme speed, their black and white glints merging into a single blur. The swordplay was fluid and natural, yet interdependent, like a pair of divine eagles soaring and striking the endless firmament!
Each swing of the twin blades directly imprinted itself on Rin's heart, leaving a deep mark. Rin suddenly understood: this was the highest application of Projection Magic, projecting the 'skill' of the target.
By relying on Projection, the past experiences and techniques of the target's user were projected along with the target itself. In the original story, Emiya Shirou only reached this level in the Heaven's Feel route after obtaining the Heroic Spirit's arm, directly projecting Heracles's Nine Lives. And Nine Lives, as a noble phantasm, is not a physical weapon, but a martial arts style like Swallow Return, projecting Heracles's axe-sword to attack nine times instantly, slaying the B-rank servant enhanced by the Black Holy Grail in one blow. Absolutely a well-deserved, overpowered cheat!
This accompanying experience was actually more valuable than the projected weapon itself!
The reception of skill experience was complete. It seemed to take a long time to absorb the thousands of usage experiences of Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, yet in reality, only three seconds had passed since Rin began projecting.
Rin raised Mo Xie in her right hand to observe it repeatedly, and soon discovered a very serious problem! Before she could even think, she suddenly felt a drain in her body, stumbled, and the twin blades shattered into Magic Power fragments, dissipating into the air. Her Magic Power was exhausted.
Rin leaned on a chair and slowly sat down on the plush carpet, sighing with a hint of disappointment as she murmured, "It's no good, still no good. As expected, the protagonist is incomparable."
Immediately after the disappearance of Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, she felt a blankness appear in her mind. Rin knew that was the experience she had just received. Because the experience of Gan Jiang and Mo Xie was projected, this part of the experience would also disappear when the Projection ended.
But this was not the problem Rin had found. The problem Rin just spoke of was that the Projection Magic she performed relying on Finale Magic Power was just Projection Magic!
Though it's a mouthful to say, Rin also discovered the limitations of Finale Magic Power. Finale Magic Power can instantly complete any spell to its limit, but it cannot bring about change. Finale Magic Power can make a spell achieve its best possible outcome, but it cannot break through the spell's inherent limits!
Just like the Gan Jiang and Mo Xie projected by Rin's Projection Magic now, although they reached the highest standard, projecting the target's history and techniques, the two projected swords themselves only possessed four layers of the original item's effect! Because this is the limit of Projection Magic; as Projection Magic, this is already the end.
It was then that Rin truly remembered that Emiya Shirou's Projection Magic was not true Projection at all, but a degraded version of his Inherent Reality, Unlimited Blade Works. Although the two have many similarities, they are conceptually different from the generally known Projection Magic.
Emiya Shirou's Projection also has serious flaws, in that he cannot use transformation magic that is inconsistent with the concept of Unlimited Blade Works, nor can he use the ability to "strengthen existing items through Projection" found in orthodox Projection Magic. Additionally, because they inherently possess the attribute of "sword," it makes it very easy for them to project items with the "sword" attribute, and the accuracy is significantly greater than that of ordinary Projection Magic creations.
The Inherent Reality "Unlimited Blade Works" contains the elements that form all swords in this world. This Inherent Reality can replicate weapons seen once and store them within the Inherent Reality. This Inherent Reality can replicate weapons seen once and store them within the Inherent Reality. Therefore, Emiya Shirou's Projection is not Projection; he is merely taking weapons out of the Inherent Reality.
Weapons within Unlimited Blade Works are imitations created within the Inherent Reality with physical objects as references. The precision of the imitation completely depends on the operator. The original story says that projected weapons drop one rank, but if one concentrates all their effort into crafting, who's to say a fake can't beat the genuine article?
Therefore, Emiya Shirou's Projection, which isn't truly Projection, can be infinitely improved to approach or even surpass the genuine article, but for regular Projection Magic, four layers of the original quality is the limit.
And the projected item itself cannot be further strengthened with enhancement properties, because essentially it is just a Projection and does not possess qualities like "sharpness" or "hardness."
"It seems I still have to rely on myself in the end, but I won't give up. If Emiya Shirou can have Unlimited Blade Works, I don't believe I can't develop a deeper application of Projection."
On the surface, being able to project four layers of a noble phantasm's power seems quite good, but the effort and reward are not proportional. Under the impetus of Finale Magic Power, any magic is displayed in its final state. Extreme Projection Magic completed the Projection the instant the concept was finalized, projecting Gan Jiang and Mo Xie with four-tenths of the original's power, but it also instantly consumed seven-tenths of Rin's Magic Power reserves. And because it was a materialized Projection, it also required Magic Power to maintain, and the remaining three-tenths of Magic Power were consumed within the next five seconds.
High completion also means high consumption. Current Projection Magic is basically completely impractical.
"Sigh... keep working hard." She said, then picked up a grimoire on Healing Magic and began to read it.