Tohsaka Rin came to terms with reality and seriously considered how to fight.
After experiencing the three punches of the King of Beating, she acknowledged Harry's power as a Heroic Spirit.
Though he was very young and had no fame, the one she had mistakenly summoned was a genuine Heroic Spirit————
Well, not really; Harry was just a counterfeit wearing the shell of a Heroic Spirit.
He couldn't even spiritualize, because if that outer shell became unstable and revealed the foreign wizard soul true body contained within the Spirit Origin... Harry knew he might be directly squeezed out by this tightly controlled world.
If Harry resisted and couldn't be squeezed out, the Counter Force might even dispatch some powerful figure like the "Seven Grand Servants at the Pinnacle" to attempt to subjugate him.
He wasn't sure what level of strength those Seven Grand Servants possessed; the residual information indicated that these seven Crown Servants were much stronger than ordinary Servants, perhaps not below Voldemort?
...Voldemort: Me fighting Crowns?...
If even the Seven Grand Servants couldn't do anything to Harry, the Counter Force might simply abandon this world, cut it off, and hand it over to the otherworlder as a concession for a few years.
After all, there were countless parallel worlds on Earth, like the sands of the Ganges—losing one wouldn't hurt.
However, a world detached from human reason and cut off would quickly weaken and perish.
Unless Harry activated certain mystical treasures marked in the system, including special system buildings, to support the world through the great crisis of detachment from human reason.
For example, the ultimate Holy Grail Plus containing the blood of the Holy Son, which could redeem all sins; the true Philosopher's Stone that could open the Gate of Truth and reach the Root; the super arks that sheltered varying numbers of people, the world-saving treasure rafts...
Or something more suitable as a symbol of the world, like world trees:
Including the Nordic Tree of Wisdom, the South American Mayan Tree of Origin Time, the Eastern Jianmu, the Western Bodhi Tree of Reincarnation...
These treasure trees in their prime could support an entire grand universe and prevent collapse.
Similar ones included the Kabbalah Tree of Life, the Eden Forbidden Fruit Tree, the Greek Golden Apple Tree, the King of Light's Spark Tree, the Death God's Eternal Calamity Extreme Ice Tree, the Celtic Tree of Heaven and Earth Life, the Elden Soul Golden Tree, the Lababa Sunshine Rainbow Little White Tree, the Lababa Darkness Abyss Great Ancient Tree...
The system version's [Legion Special Artificial Fantasy Tree (Mass-Produced Type)] was the easiest to obtain and grew the fastest, classified under system buildings.
Its blueprint had been directly unlocked when Harry first arrived in this world; he could see it by opening the building sub-interface under the Legion panel.
(I've decided to include an attribute panel at the end of each volume from now on, to avoid padding the main text with word count.)
Just like how A Song of Ice and Fire unlocked medieval soldier buildings, the Chinese-style parent unlocked some tech buildings, the Harry Potter world unlocked many magic building blueprints, and at the end of first year he even obtained the Philosopher's Stone derivative crafting—after coming to this world, the system had automatically unlocked many building blueprints.
Most buildings could be constructed using the power of the king as long as there were strong Legion subordinates; hand-crafting a Fantasy Tree was like wizards brewing potions. If these buildings weren't built by Harry's forces, even if others made identical things, they couldn't achieve that effect.
Fantasy Trees seemed to be a specialty of this world?
Anyway, tree-shaped treasures still felt most suitable for supporting a world.
Rin, of course, had no idea that what she had summoned was a noble visitor from another world, an unspeakable Celestial Dragon beneath the skin of an ordinary Heroic Spirit, and still treated him as a lowly ordinary Caster.
As a Heroic Spirit, he was stronger than her as a magus.
But that was useless; other Heroic Spirits were definitely stronger than a mere Caster.
Rin glanced at Harry's clothing, trying to discern his era of life————Harry had traversed while in Uncle Vernon's car; after leaving Hogwarts, Harry had already changed into casual clothes.
"Um... Dudley King, may I ask from which era in Britain you are a Heroic Spirit?"
"Era? That word... I've been to many places; in Britain, I was active in the 20th century?"
Harry figured he hadn't misunderstood.
Rin didn't pry further; it made sense. Just looking at his clothes should have made it clear—though the style was a bit outdated, it was obviously modern clothing.
It was only just entering the new century, so even by the highest estimate, Harry was a Heroic Spirit from within the last hundred years. If lower, he could very well be a post-80s like her.
She really shouldn't have had any illusions.
In Rin's traditional view, aside from class, Heroic Spirits were naturally better the older they were—ideally the most ancient ones.
Modern Heroic Spirits were generally weaker than ancient ones; after all, mystery grew stronger with rarity, and old things represented a kind of rarity. If something was old enough to be from a lost era, it became a product of high mystery from the Age of Gods.
Modern things, unless they were symbolic first-of-their-kind innovations, were just mass-produced items and absolutely couldn't compare to those prototypes.
Even strong modern Heroic Spirits should be famous existences.
Like modern greats from various countries, founding leaders, or big inventors like Tesla or Edison.
Rin felt that since she hadn't even heard of this modern guy, he was ninety-nine percent the bottom-tier Heroic Spirit, who had lucked out by ascending to the Throne of Heroes and polluting the card pool.
Only the worst magi would end up with such a Heroic Spirit...
No wonder everyone prepared holy relics to strengthen bonds with certain famous Heroic Spirits—it was to prevent summoning trash like this.
Rin regretted it; even if she sold her last ancestral property, she should have bought a holy relic.
Even without the memory loss from the mistaken summoning, this Dudley King probably couldn't wield a Noble Phantasm.
It was all her fault for forgetting the time; one slip-up had led to such severe consequences!
With this trash Heroic Spirit, how could she fight the Holy Grail War properly?
She could only try to survive until the last few, then see if there was a chance for other Servants to mutually destroy each other, eliminate the threats, and successfully pull off a steal... How could such a good thing possibly happen!
Besides, this style of fighting wasn't what Rin liked. As one of the Three Families, someone would definitely notice the situation here and absolutely wouldn't let her win easily... At least the other two families would notice.
The girl felt a headache coming on. Before the summoning, her battle plans had all been based on summoning the strongest Saber.
Even if not Saber, as long as it wasn't Caster or Assassin, it would have been acceptable...
But she was so unlucky as to get the class she least wanted.
This had to be blamed on that unreliable priest, who over the past ten years had dragged the Tohsaka family from being Fuyuki's ultimate mega-rich landowners—practically Fuyuki's overlords, minor daimyo, capitalists, local underworld controllers, and authentic small-city Brahmins—down to the brink of bankruptcy.
To the point where Rin couldn't even find an ancient holy relic.
You know, back in the day, her dad had spent a fortune using the shed skin of the most ancient snake to summon the most ancient King of Heroes, becoming a vassal to such an existence.
But when it came to her, she could only summon the modern Dudley King as a companion—and even as a vassal. An epic-level great regression—unacceptable!
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