Steel Fist Unmatched Strike, divine spear Li Shuwen!
This was the first Eight Extremes Fist master of the Republic of China era, who dominated for 40 years without a single defeat. His strikes determined life and death. He spent his entire life practicing, delving into, and being obsessed with martial arts. He once said: "To exchange martial arts with someone, one must die." His life was open and honest, without regrets. Perhaps his greatest regret was not dying in a martial arts competition, but rather dying peacefully of old age, without illness.
Unmatched Strike is the martial arts realm that Li Shuwen achieved by practicing martial arts his entire life, elevating Eight Extremes Fist to its peak. After Li Shuwen's death, when he was elevated to a Heroic Spirit, it evolved into his noble phantasm.
Although Tohsaka Rin had been diligently practicing Mana Burst for three years, she never gave up on the concept of Projection Magic. This was her yearning for this world.
Even the ultimate Projection Magic can only project about four layers of the original's effectiveness, but the techniques that come with the projection are not discounted. So, if that's the case, why not directly project a noble phantasm that has been elevated by technique?
Of course, it's possible! The "Nine Lives" that Emiya Shirou projected, mentioned many times before, is itself purely a technique. The axe-sword that appeared with it has no relation to "Nine Lives"; it's not Heracles's noble phantasm at all.
Tohsaka Rin once tried to use magic to solidify and create a great tachi to project Sasaki Kojiro's "Swallow Return". The result was a success, but what was projected was merely the Swallow Return. The projected Swallow Return was indeed three slashes delivered at extremely high speed, almost simultaneously, which could indeed cut down a swallow in the sky.
However, it could not achieve Sasaki Kojiro's level of "three swords existing in the same space at the same time."
This is the difference in realm. Projection Magic can project the target's technique, but it cannot project the realm. "Swallow Return" itself is a technique; it cannot be further deepened to the extent of projecting Sasaki Kojiro's sword art realm.
Projection Magic projects things that one has seen. The Moon World is a parallel world extended from a fantasy world based on Tohsaka Rin's previous life. If it was seen in a previous life, it counts as seen in this life.
But while Sasaki Kojiro's Swallow Return was seen, realm is absolutely intangible. It permeates every action of the person who possesses it and cannot be projected, so the projection remains incomplete.
However, can realm truly not be projected? No, there is one exception! Unmatched Strike! The only noble phantasm in the entire Fate series that was elevated from a realm!
This was originally the intangible realm of fist permeating every move and style of Li Shuwen's Eight Extremes Fist, but under the interference and elevation of the counter force, it formed a noble phantasm. Since it is a noble phantasm, it exists, and since it exists, it can be projected!
Projecting Unmatched Strike is equivalent to projecting Li Shuwen's lifelong martial arts comprehension, the ultimate Eight Extremes Fist moves, techniques, actions, insights, and fist intent instantly filling Tohsaka Rin's mind. It was almost impossible to consciously think about her movements. She instinctively aimed at the Matou Family's barrier gate, following the plan she had envisioned before projecting. Using the realm of Unmatched Strike, she unleashed another noble phantasm of Li Shuwen, formed from a technique.
Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain!
At this point, it must be said that the noble phantasm classifications in the Moon World are quite precise. Anti-Unit, Anti-Army, Anti-Fortress are easy to understand, simply differences in area of effect. Anti-World is also easy to understand, being a noble phantasm targeting the world. Anti-Divine is clearly specifically for gods. But then there's Anti-Purge noble phantasms, which are hard to grasp, and finally, the almost curse-like "Anti-Master Class noble phantasm"!
And the classification of Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain as a noble phantasm is also quite peculiar: Anti-Gate Class noble phantasm!
Tohsaka Rin, having projected Unmatched Strike, could be seen as Li Shuwen reborn! With Li Shuwen's realm power, combined with ultimate Mana Burst and Reinforcement Magic, the "Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain" truly displayed the special attack effect against "gates and walls" that was never shown in the original story!
Two punches and an elbow, delivered simultaneously, directly slammed into the Matou Family's two-hundred-year-old family defensive barrier!
"Boom!"
The ground within a hundred meters trembled incessantly from this single strike. The entire Matou Family mansion shook as if in an earthquake, appearing precarious and on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
With the powerful strike of her fist and elbow, comparable to a Heroic Spirit's noble phantasm, the barrier runes operating on the gate, walls, and inside the building flashed with chaotic electrical sparks, finally emitting a burnt black smoke and extinguishing. The defensive barrier, meticulously arranged and perfected by Matou Zouken himself, which had operated and protected the Matou Family for over two hundred years, was breached!
The dilapidated iron gate of the courtyard was severely deformed, flung away with great force, directly smashing through a wall and into the villa's main hall.
Meanwhile, Tohsaka Rin half-knelt on the lawn in the courtyard, leaning on the grass, unable to stand up for a long time.
Heroic Spirits are Heroic Spirits precisely because they transcend the human realm. For a human body to forcibly use a Heroic Spirit's technique comes with an inevitable price.
Unmatched Strike was the culmination of Li Shuwen's martial arts from childhood to old age, his entire life, to put it bluntly. It should have been unique to him alone, an unreplicable singular item, but through various coincidences, Tohsaka Rin forcibly projected it completely using Projection Magic driven by Finale Magic Power!
Unmatched Strike was Li Shuwen's martial way, but not Tohsaka Rin's martial way. Even if it was projected, it remained the same; it was not hers. Forcibly activating a noble phantasm with another's realm was an unprecedented burden for Tohsaka Rin.
After delivering that strike of the ultimate martial arts realm, Tohsaka Rin felt an unprecedented fatigue, not physical, nor a depletion of magic power. At this moment, her magic power consumption was not great; it was her spirit that was exhausted.
When Tohsaka Rin unleashed that Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain strike, in her spiritual world, she felt as if she had transformed into Li Shuwen, fighting through all of Li Shuwen's martial arts duels, big and small, from his youth until his death in old age, as if she had fought thousands of life-or-death battles in a single second with Kazuto!
Even though she immediately dispelled the projection after breaking down the gate and the memories disappeared, Tohsaka Rin still felt as if she had fought with Kazuto for seven days and seven nights without sleep, and she might fall asleep even if she blinked.
Fortunately, Tohsaka Rin had experience drifting in the Root, a feeling she still remembered vividly, and she still recalled the technique for forcing herself to stay awake.
Forcing herself to stand up, Tohsaka Rin breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the Matou Family estate she had entered. It was good that she managed to break in.
Do not underestimate a Magician's Magic Workshop. Few Magicians can directly contend with a Heroic Spirit, but many Magicians can resist a Heroic Spirit by relying on their Magic Workshop. A Magic Workshop can be said to be the culmination of a Magician's efforts.
If it weren't for Unmatched Strike, I really wouldn't have thought of attacking the Matou Family, after all, I couldn't even open the gate. The Matou Family's defensive barrier, even if Saber wanted to break in, she couldn't blast it open without an Excalibur. However, if Diarmuid came, it would be easy and pleasant. Under the Red Rose of Protection-Breaking, a single poke would break it, no stronger than a film. Caster would be similar, after all, her runes can break all spells... Thinking of this, Tohsaka Rin suddenly wanted to slap herself twice... I'm such an idiot! I could have just projected the Red Rose of Protection-Breaking! Even if it only had four layers of effect, at most I'd just have to stab it a couple more times! Time-limited noble phantasms can still be effective!
Therefore, at critical moments, Young Miss Rin's charming point is her tendency to mess up, and this will never change, no matter which timeline in the multiverse.
Now that she's already entered, it's impossible to call the old bug Zouken back, ask him to fix the barrier, and then have Rin dismantle it again.
Accident, accident, just an accident! The most important thing now is to quickly get the item and then leave!
Just then, a middle-aged man with blue seaweed-like hair, wearing pajamas, ran into the villa's main hall in a panic...