Crossover Anime: I, Shirou Kotomine, King of Uruk

Chapter 221 Difficulties, Injuries, and Returns

Chapter 222 The Dilemma: Injury and Return

To cross over, to arrive.

In the blink of an eye, Shirou Kotomine returned to the world of Fairy Tail once again.

His figure appeared in a forest.

He stood there in silence for a long time before slowly opening his eyes and letting out a deep breath.

"Having learned more about time, my insights from traveling through the world again are now even more profound."

During his time travel, Shirou Kotomine not only activated the "Great Magic Time Wind-up" that he and Merlin had designed together, but he also deeply felt the power of time.

After all, the success rate of this experiment is very low.

Shirou Kotomine estimates that multiple experiments will be needed.

Therefore, by continuously absorbing the power of time during the experiment to enhance their knowledge of time, Shirou Kotomine and Merlin's grand magic tricks will become more and more perfect.

Just like right now.

Awakening from his reverie, Shirou Kotomine couldn't help but look around.

This is a vast forest.

This is also the place where Shirou Kotomine left before.

This place is not far from the city where the Fairy Tail guild is located; it's only a ten-minute walk for Shirou Kotomine.

"Several months have passed, and I, Shirou Kotomine, am back."

Looking at this familiar place, Shirou Kotomine couldn't help but feel a little excited.

After all, this is the first other world that Shirou Kotomine has arrived in.

He also has many familiar friends here.

Natsu, Lucy, Mirajane, Erza, Gray, and others.

And of course, there's Chairman Makarov.

Although Shirou Kotomine did not stay here for very long, he received a great deal of care.

Shirou Kotomine also considers these companions as family.

"It's been a long time. I'll go back and say hello when I have time."

Kotomine Shirou thought to himself.

Since Shirou Kotomine will frequently use the Fairy Tail world as experimental subjects to perfect the "Time Winding" ritual magic.

Shirou Kotomine will definitely be coming here often from now on.

Wouldn't it be extremely impolite not to say hello?

But those are things that happened later.

At this moment, the most important thing for Shirou Kotomine is still the ongoing experiment.

After taking out the prop made by Merlin, Shirou Kotomine immediately looked at the pocket watch that displayed the current world time.

The pocket watch clearly displays a ratio of 1.001:1.

"It's a success!"

Looking at the time displayed on the pocket watch, Shirou Kotomine immediately jumped up excitedly.

He cheered excitedly in mid-air.

The timeline has indeed shifted.

The two different worlds are no longer in sync.

The world is passing by one-thousandth faster than it does now.

Although this increase in scale is not very large, or rather, very small.

But the most important thing in anything is taking that first step.

The timeline has now been disrupted.

This means that Shirou Kotomine and Merlin are on the right track.

Next, they only need to continuously adjust the internal parts of the Great Magic to continuously increase this number until they achieve the speed that Kotomine Shirou wants.

"No, I need to go back and report to Merlin right away."

Thinking of this, Shirou Kotomine could no longer hold back.

He was eager to share his achievements with others.

So, less than a few minutes after returning to this world, Shirou Kotomine disappeared from it once again.

"Merlin, we did it!"

Upon returning, Shirou Kotomine didn't even have time to process his reflections on time before rushing to tell Merlin the good news.

"real!"

Upon hearing Shirou Kotomine's response, Merlin excitedly shouted as well.

Although Merlin rarely showed such extreme emotions, he was unusually excited about this matter.

Thanks to his status and abilities, there are few things in this world that can trouble Merlin.

Especially in magic.

And the more this happened, the calmer Merlin's emotions became.

This is the mindset of an immortal species.

With their long lifespans, they have seen and experienced everything.

Gradually, very few things could stir their emotions again.

But Shirou Kotomine is different; both "time travel" and "time magic" are areas that Merlin had never explored before.

That's how he was able to rediscover that excited feeling.

"And what was the result? What was the result?"

With the mindset of an immortal being, Merlin quickly calmed himself down and then asked further questions.

"Time has sped up by one-thousandth, which is a small amount, but I think it's a great improvement."

Kotomine Shirou immediately said.

"That's right!"

Merlin agrees with Shirou Kotomine's statement.

No matter what it is, the hardest part is often when you go from zero to one.

Although time was accelerated by only one-thousandth, it is still that one.

"Alright, since our approach is correct, let's continue refining this technique and complete the grand magic trick of 'Time Winding' as soon as possible."

"Okay, let's finish it in one go!"

After exchanging a glance, Shirou Kotomine and Merlin quickly returned to their research.

Their first task was to turn their ideas into reality, which was the most difficult step.

And now their dream has come true.

What they need to do next is to continuously improve and adjust the existing framework so that it can interfere with the timeline more efficiently.

And the difficulty is no less than before.

After all, Merlin was the main designer of this plan. He couldn't personally experience the specific feeling when the magic was activated, and could only make continuous adjustments based on the feelings expressed by Shirou Kotomine.

This can easily lead to errors.

In such a situation, even the slightest error can have a significant impact.

Therefore, this process was not smooth, but rather very bumpy.

But thanks to their joint efforts, the research continues to progress.

"No!"

"This can't go on any longer!"

After traveling through time once again, Merlin listened earnestly to Shirou Kotomine's report and spoke.

"At this rate, it will be difficult for us to push the timeline ratio above 100 before the final battle."

Merlin frowned as he looked at the 1.1:1 scale before him.

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After several days of effort, Merlin and Shirou Kotomine have increased the percentage of time they can extract from one-thousandth to one-tenth.

This is a hundredfold improvement.

But this is clearly not enough.

Based on the current situation, Merlin felt that the timeline ratio should be improved to at least 100:1.

After all, it would take Shirou Kotomine several years to fully develop and blossom the power seed within him.

At this point, Chaldea's remaining time was dwindling.

When the final apocalypse arrives, there will be no need for Tiamat to come to this era; it will be burned to the ground by Goetia.

Although Merlin and Shirou Kotomine achieved a 100-fold improvement in just a few days, they no longer have several dozen days to perfect the remaining 1,000-fold improvement.

Moreover, it is clear that such a progress curve is unsustainable.

The reason for rapid progress in the past was that the foundation was weak; with a little improvement, progress would be rapid.

But once you've reached a certain level, it becomes very difficult to make further progress.

"Actually, I have the same thought."

"I can't help it," said Shirou Kotomine helplessly.

To be honest, Shirou Kotomine and Merlin have been progressing very quickly.

But time waits for no one.

Goetia wouldn't wait for them.

But this rate of progress has already reached their limit.

The only way to make faster progress is to change the approach, but designing a new approach also takes time and may not be as fast as it is now.

After all, other solutions don't have the Time Eye of Shirou Kotomine as a foundation, unlike this one.

That requires starting over.

"Changing the plan is definitely not an option; we can only work on the current plan!"

As if seeing through Shirou Kotomine's thoughts, Merlin spoke earnestly.

"So what should we do?"

Kotomine Shirou had no clue about this matter either.

Merlin, however, was different.

"Ultimately, the reason your progress is so slow" is because your overall strength is insufficient, and your time-related abilities are all rather mysterious.

While spatial abilities are rare, there are still quite a few of them.

But the time and ability involved are truly rare!

Even in the Type-Moon universe, only magicians can manipulate the power of time to a certain extent.

As for time acceleration and deceleration?

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to time-based abilities.

"Yes! After all, that's the power of time!"

"I can't help but sigh," said Shirou Kotomine.

In any world, the ability to manipulate time is one of the rarest things.

"However, the space-based abilities that are on par with it are quite extensive in a certain sense."

"So, Merlin, what's your plan?"

Kotomine Shirou looked at Merlin expectantly.

"Use external aids!" Merlin said earnestly, "It's difficult for us to achieve our goal in a limited time relying solely on your own abilities, but it's possible with the help of external aids."

"I remember you took two divine weapons from King Gilgamesh's treasury, didn't you?"

"If we could temporarily bless you with the divine laws contained within the artifact, and then use that to manipulate the power of the timeline, could we then manipulate even more power?"

Hearing Merlin's explanation and line of reasoning, Shirou Kotomine's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"I think that's possible!"

Kotomine Shirou immediately said.

"However, we cannot fully unleash the power of these two divine artifacts, so even if we could leverage more power, it probably wouldn't be very precise."

"At times like this, it all comes down to luck; we have to try and find that opportunity by making more trips through time."

Merlin offered a solution without hesitation.

"Then there's no problem."

"Shall we get started?"

"Let's get started!"

After reaching a consensus, Merlin and Shirou Kotomine resumed their research.

They began modifying the contents of the "Time Clockwork" and devised rituals that would allow them to briefly borrow the power of the artifacts.

These two tasks posed no difficulty whatsoever for the two of them.

They quickly completed the corresponding modifications and designs.

This time, instead of conducting the experiment at Kotomine Shirou's house, they went to the outskirts of Uruk.

The reason is that those two divine weapons are simply too big.

Outside Uruk, after taking a divine artifact from his own alternate dimension and planting it in the ground, Merlin quickly completed all the necessary arrangements for the ritual.

The ceremony then commenced.

The laws of divinity descended upon Shirou Kotomine.

This was an improvement made by Merlin and Shirou Kotomine based on the rituals performed by priestesses and shrine maidens of the present era to borrow the power of the gods.

However, the witches and priests borrowed the power of the gods.

In contrast, Shirou Mine borrowed the power of the divine artifact.

However, divine artifacts are mindless, and their power is more solid, so Shirou Kotomine can only borrow a small amount of power for a short time.

But that's enough.

The moment the power flowed into Kotomine Shirou's body, he activated the power of time travel.

Then, the timeline is manipulated by "winding up the time".

In the blink of an eye, Shirou Kotomine returned to the world of Fairy Tail.

"We're back!"

Feeling the divine power within him dissipate, Shirou Kotomine immediately took out the item and looked at it.

The next moment, Kotomine Shirou jumped up excitedly.

"Yes, we did it!"

Kotomine Shirou jumped up excitedly again.

The pocket watch displayed the ratio 20:1.

This is two hundred times faster than the last time.

This plunged Shirou Kotomine into a state of extreme excitement.

At this moment, Shirou Kotomine only wanted to return to Uruk immediately and tell Merlin about his joy.

However, Shirou Kotomine's idea did not last long.

The sudden pain in his brain was unbearable, and Kotomine Shirou collapsed to the ground instantly.

All sorts of knowledge filled his brain completely.

What follows is a loss of consciousness.

Kotomine Shirou quickly lost consciousness.

"Ouch, that hurts!"

"What's wrong with me? Who am I? Where am I?"

After lying on the ground for more than ten minutes, Shirou Kotomine slowly woke up.

His mind went blank, followed by chaos.

After resting for another ten minutes or so, Kotomine Shirou gradually regained his senses and realized what had happened to him.

It turns out that while Shirou Kotomine was using divine power to manipulate the timeline, he also gained a vast amount of time and space knowledge far exceeding his usual level through this power.

There is simply too much knowledge to cover.

If Kotomine Shirou were truly a god, this knowledge would have no effect on him whatsoever.

But he was still human at that moment.

The overwhelming amount of information rushed into his brain and knocked Shirou Kotomine unconscious.

The human brain is extremely sophisticated, and such intense information directly caused physical damage to Shirou Kotomine's brain.

And so, the events that Kotomine Shirou had experienced before occurred.

"This is truly a happy problem!"

After figuring out the whole story, Shirou Kotomine couldn't help but smile wryly.

Gaining more knowledge is naturally a good thing for Shirou Kotomine.

But that's too much.

As a result, Shirou Kotomine, who was the vessel for this, could no longer bear it.

After a thorough examination, Shirou Kotomine concluded that he would probably have to stay in this world for two or three days.

He needs to wait until his brain has fully recovered before he can go back.

After all, Shirou Kotomine will also gain knowledge when he returns.

Although it may not come as often as it used to, it could still be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Therefore, Shirou Kotomine plans to return after his brain has fully recovered.

However, because his brain is too sophisticated, even with the Reversal Technique, Shirou Kotomine dared not act recklessly.

He can only recover little by little.

"Then wait two or three days!"

"In this time ratio, two or three days is just a few hours in Uruk, and I still have that time."

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Slowly standing up, and feeling better, Kotomine Shirou decided not to linger there any longer.

He wasn't prepared to stay in the forest for two or three days.

"Let's go back to Fairy Tail!"

"It just so happens that I missed everyone."

Holding his head but with a smile on his face, Shirou Kotomine slowly walked towards the Fairy Tail guild.