Rin reached out and covered the surface of the crystal, closing her eyes and concentrating on circulating the magic within her Magic Circuits... When the magic flowed to her hand covering the crystal, the crystal emitted a faint glow. Rin felt a space that could accommodate the continued flow of magic.
"Do you feel it, Rin? This is the characteristic of our Tohsaka Family's magic, conversion. Try to transfer your magic into that space you feel." Tokiomi was also very satisfied with Rin's comprehension ability.
She continued to push the flow of magic into the crystal. After about a tenth of the magic in her body was inputted, the space within the crystal was filled, and no more could be input.
At this moment, the crystal glowed brightly in the dim stone chamber, and Rin's tender, pretty face was reflected in its clear light.
Tokiomi smiled with satisfaction: "Well done, Rin. Now this crystal holds your magic. Once you learn the operational incantations for magic, you can activate it instantly with this, and you won't need to use your own magic."
Rin had already known this in her previous life. Didn't the original story (yuanzhu) anime show Rin never chanting or performing various magical procedures when releasing magic? She just scattered a handful of jewels, and a sky full of Jewel Magecraft exploded.
It must be said that, apart from the irreparable drawback of being too expensive, the Tohsaka Family's Jewel Magecraft is truly very convenient to use. When dueling other Magicians, if you prepare ten or twenty jewels beforehand and scatter them, you can directly overwhelm them without discussion.
Go to the battlefield with the resolve of bankruptcy, and embrace victory, Master!
In Rin's mind, a line spoken by the Empress Semiramis to her Master, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, while building the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" in a Fate side story, surfaced. Damn, that makes so much sense... "The maximum magic capacity of a crystal like this is generally enough to cast a two-section magic formula. The maximum capacity of a jewel depends on its quality. The longer it's buried in the Earth's crust, the closer it is to the Age of Gods, the higher its storage limit." Tokiomi explained as he helped Rin to her feet.
Tch, isn't he just trying to say that the more valuable and expensive it is, the better it works? No wonder Rin in the original story (yuanzhu), despite preparing for the Holy Grail War for ten years, only prepared a few jewels. It wasn't that Rin was unwilling to buy them; it was genuinely because she had no money!
Throwing jewels worth millions of dollars like bombs, goodness gracious, for the Tohsaka Family to have continued for over a thousand years like this, it can only be said that the Tohsaka Family before the Fourth Holy Grail War was not just ordinarily wealthy.
After Rin got up, Tokiomi led her to a bookshelf, pulled out a book from the outermost shelf, and handed it to Rin. Rin took it and looked at the cover; she didn't recognize a single word. It wasn't Japanese, nor English, and certainly not Chinese. By the way, Rin was only two years old at this time. Although she had inherited the original body's language abilities through transmigration, she hadn't started learning to read yet, so even if it were Japanese, she wouldn't understand it.
Rin looked up at Tokiomi in confusion. Was he planning to teach his two-year-old daughter a foreign language?
Tokiomi smiled and picked up the crystal Rin had just focused her magic on. The palm-sized crystal was pressed against Rin's forehead, and a miniature magic formula appeared on the crystal.
A small section of the language that connects all things.
The crystal instantly shattered into dust, transforming into invisible magic that merged into Rin's body. Rin felt as if something had been added to her brain. She looked down at the book's cover again: "Basic Theories of Magic."
Huh? She could understand it!
"Words, languages, patterns—these things that appear on the surface and are conveyed to people through the five senses are nothing more than information. And what kind of words or what kind of language inherently holds little meaning. This magic, the Language that Connects All Things, allows the caster to directly receive the information conveyed by the medium, bypassing the barrier of text and language." Tokiomi explained confidently, looking at Rin's curious expression.
After listening to Tokiomi's explanation, Rin immediately looked up at Tokiomi with a shocked expression, shouting in her heart: "Damn, what a divine skill! With this skill, all English Level 1, 2, 3 exams are rubbish! German, French, English, Japanese—all meaningless! This one skill smashes the rice bowls of all translators and foreign language academies! If I had this skill in my previous life, I wouldn't have degraded myself into a third-rate university graduate and a shut-in otaku."
She recalled how many times in her previous life she had suffered from agonizing headaches, rolled on the floor, and banged her head against the ground over English textbooks. How many times she had wanted to jump off a building with an English textbook but failed. Now, in one second, the English that was once unattainable in her previous life had bowed before her! Rin couldn't help but burst into tears, overwhelmed with emotion.
"Huh? Rin, why are you crying? Is it still hurting?"
"No, I'm just too excited. It's truly wonderful to become the successor to the Tohsaka Family's magic!"
From now on, if she went out and couldn't find a job, she could do translation and at least make a living, not fearing starvation! If Tokiomi knew this unfilial daughter's thoughts at this moment, he would surely slap Rin onto the wall, the kind where she couldn't even be scraped off, just to prevent her from embarrassing him later.
"Hmm, Rin, I'm relieved that you have such an understanding as your father. You have now officially activated your Magic Circuits and possess a certain degree of magical resistance. Reading this book is no longer a problem. You are already familiar with the procedure for entering this room. For this period, you will come here by yourself to read this book, but you must remember that nothing here can be taken out of this door, do you understand?"
"Yes, I remember."
"Even the content of the book, the words, you must neither tell anyone nor copy them anywhere."
"Yes, Father."