Rin tossed the culture bottle in her hand, showing Jeanne what was inside. After seeing the appearance of the object in the bottle, although Jeanne didn't understand doll technology, she knew that an infant definitely didn't look like that; at the very least, it should have facial features.
"This is an artificial life form synthesized with artificial magical materials through Alchemy. How about it? There's nothing more offensive to God's authority than this, right?"
Indeed, in the Christian Bible, the Lord created all living beings, and this was the Lord's greatest achievement and ability. Only the Lord could create life, and this was the principle and belief that the Church consistently upheld.
"Hmph hmph hmph... Ah ha ha ha!... Divine power in human hands! Master! You are the most excellent blasphemer! For me, there is nothing more joyful than seeing God denied!"
Watching the perfect doll, which was already an artificial life form, in Rin's hand, Jeanne laughed wildly with excitement. For a witch born for revenge, denying the existence and meaning of God was undoubtedly her greatest goal and ideal.
Seeing the greatest irony to God displayed right before her, Jeanne excitedly unfurled her spiritual armor. The black, sexy metallic battle suit instantly enveloped her petite girlish body. Jeanne, with lightning speed, snatched the culture bottle from Rin's hand.
"I'll take this to the Vatican, throw it in the Pope's face, and let them see that God is no longer needed! The so-called God has no value to humanity!"
With that, she turned to run out. Jeanne had snatched the item so quickly that Rin hadn't reacted, but this time Rin did. She rushed forward and hugged Jeanne's slender waist. Knowing that her A++ strength meant she probably couldn't hold her back, Rin quickly lifted her. With Jeanne in mid-air and nowhere to gain leverage, Rin finally stopped her from going to the Vatican.
Seriously, there's no cure for advanced chuunibyou!
"Master, let go of me! Shouldn't such a masterpiece be known to all humanity?"
"Stop it, Jeanne! This will really get us burned to death! Whether it's you, me, or Touko, we'll all be burned until there's nothing left!..."
Rin, after much persuasion, finally managed to calm down the agitated Jeanne.
"Sigh, it's such a pity that such good evidence can't be brought out," Jeanne sighed, feeling very dejected after realizing she couldn't use it to retaliate against God.
Rin secretly wiped away a cold sweat. After all, if news of this almost perfect immortality, this miraculous magical technology, were to spread, it would likely be a catastrophe for the entire mystery world. And given Rin's current strength, standing at the forefront of such a storm would undoubtedly lead to her being crushed into dust by the flood of catastrophe.
As the saying goes, 'an innocent man is guilty for possessing a treasure,' and that's exactly what this was.
"Hey, hey, Jeanne, even though this can't be used to mock God and his followers, you can use this greatest defiance against God to resurrect in the form of life. How about it, interested?" Rin asked Jeanne with a smile.
Facing Jeanne's puzzled gaze, Rin pulled out a pair of rimless glasses from somewhere, put them on her ears, and pushed the frame up. She said, "As you can see, this artificial synthetic doll, which looks somewhat like a human infant, is a true life. But essentially, it is just a life; it has no soul attached, no personality extended, and not even the most basic biological instincts."
"Because of its birth, two absolutely opposite positive and negative substances, when reaching absolute equality in relative equivalence, formed a miniature chaotic gestation at their intersecting point! Therefore, this is actually a pure life form that possesses no specific characteristics but can carry any external soul. Left alone, it will always remain this way, but any complete soul can enter it to achieve perfect resurrection."
Jeanne, feeling dizzy from Rin's lengthy explanation, instinctively felt a headache. After all, you can't expect a poor student to seriously understand academic knowledge, but at least Jeanne understood one thing.
"So, you mean I can enter this in my current state to resurrect?"
Rin nodded with delight, "Exactly. Although Jeanne, you are currently materialized by the Third Magic's soul substance and manifested as a physical entity in the present world, even without time and spatial constraints, you are still essentially a spiritual body, not a true life. But only by entering this, you can truly possess a body and exist as a complete life. Moreover, your strength will be perfectly preserved, because the buyer is the root. The only thing you would lose should be the ability to spiritualize, as a true body cannot arbitrarily transform between real and ethereal."
The act of a soul materializing and entering a doll for resurrection has actual precedents in the original work/canon. At the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War's Heaven's Feel route, Emiya Shirou, whose body had collapsed, was saved by Illya using the Heavenly Garment to activate soul materialization. Afterwards, Sakura sold all of the Matou Family's grimoires to purchase an ancient magic doll into which Emiya Shirou's soul was placed, thus completing his rebirth.
Of course, this scene became impossible the moment Rin arrived in this world... But having a verifiable example is always reassuring, after all, this is her exclusive Heroic Spirit who will accompany her through difficulties in the future. If something went wrong, it would be a huge problem.
But since there was a successful case, there was no reason for her to fail. Both the soul materialization of the Third Magic and the doll serving as a body for a soul undoubtedly surpassed what was in the original work/canon.
Moreover, from Jeanne naming herself, Rin could see that she truly wanted to be an independent self, neither the inverse of someone nor born from someone's wish, hoping to become an absolutely independent existence. Therefore, as someone born from non-existence, she must wish to truly live once.
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