After Shirou brought the mine race girl back, he had her stay in his forging workshop for the time being.
He didn't plan to make her an apprentice in the workshop.
After all, whether it was her age or her small body, she didn't seem very capable of handling the tasks of a workshop apprentice.
Moreover, Shirou also encountered a small problem, which was that as a descendant of the mine race, she didn't seem to have reached the age to have a name yet.
The mine race usually only gives children names after the age of seven.
Shirou didn't want to give her a name himself, but it wasn't easy to communicate without a name.
After thinking about it, he could only consider giving her a name, and after looking through a dictionary, he gave her the name Juliet.
Although it was just something he randomly found in the dictionary, he felt inexplicably that it sounded right when he saw it. After saying the name to the girl, she nodded in agreement, so it was decided.
Shirou became Juliet's guardian from that day forward.
Of course, he couldn't treat the girl as a slave, and planned to treat her as an independent individual.
However, Juliet seemed to have different ideas. After moving into the forging workshop, she tried hard to help with odd jobs, as if she didn't want to accept Shirou's charity.
Although her abilities were limited, she also learned to assist in the forging workshop.
At first, Shirou didn't want her to do these things, after all, Juliet's body looked very weak, not the kind that could handle heavy work, but after he forbade her from doing it, Juliet still secretly helped with odd jobs.
He finally reluctantly agreed to let her handle these tasks.
However, in order to reduce her burden, Shirou chose to have Juliet learn magic.
If she could master some useful magic, even if her body was relatively small, she could handle some heavy work.
Shirou originally wanted to teach Juliet magic himself, but soon realized that he really didn't have much talent in this area.
So he brought in Rudeus and asked him to temporarily be Juliet's magic teacher.
Because he had experience teaching Sylphy magic in Buena Village when he was a child, teaching Juliet could be said to be no problem for him.
By the way, let's talk about Shirou's own forging.
After the forging workshop officially opened, Shirou picked up the profession of a forger again, but unlike forging as he pleased in the past, now he had a clearer and more definite goal in forging, which was to further improve his forging skills and create even more powerful sword magic.
This required Shirou to forge weapons that were no longer as ordinary as before, but must pursue unusual, even weapons that surpassed common sense.
An example is the Forever Faraway Golden Sword that he forged in the Milis Church...
As Shirou's only hand-forged divine weapon, the birth of the Forever Faraway Golden Sword can be said to be a combination of accident and coincidence.
Only part of it was the result of the improvement and sublimation of Shirou's own forging skills.
What he is now pursuing is to forge weapons comparable to the Forever Faraway Golden Sword, or even surpassing that divine weapon, relying solely on his own abilities, without relying on any coincidence or external factors.
But this is undoubtedly very difficult, and anyone can understand the difficulty.
Shirou also knew that this kind of thing could not be achieved in one day, so he didn't directly force himself to forge a divine weapon, but started by honing his skills from ordinary forging, step by step to reach the goal.
The first weapon he forged was the Noble Phantasm used by Caster Medea in the Holy Grail War, Rule Breaker.
This is an extremely special weapon. Although it is not a divine weapon, its effect is quite powerful.
The effect of Rule Breaker is that it can break all the magic of the object pierced by the blade. The object that can be broken is any object made of magic power.
For example, contracts based on magic power, or life forms born using magic power... as long as they are stabbed with this weapon, they can be reset to the state before the magic power was used.
In other words, contracts based on magic power will turn into blank paper, and life forms born with magic power will be destroyed on the spot.
Even the Command Seals system and Servant summoning in the Holy Grail War can be broken with this unique Noble Phantasm, destroying the summoning contract.
Because its use is too wide, it can almost be called the ultimate anti-magic Noble Phantasm, but the effect is also limited, that is, it cannot affect Noble Phantasms of the same level, and cannot undo magic at the Noble Phantasm level.
In contrast, as long as it is not a Noble Phantasm, no matter what it is, as long as it is constructed with magic power, it can be completely destroyed.
For such a weapon, Shirou's initial idea was naturally to make it with anti-magic stone.
But the effect was not good.
Weapons made of anti-magic stone can only have an effect on magic that has not been completely constructed, like Hrunting, or suppress magic that has already been produced, but cannot pierce barriers and curses.
Shirou realized that he needed to change his thinking. He couldn't forge Rule Breaker in a simple and direct way, but had to start from a more delicate level to complete the forging.
Simply put, the forging method of Rule Breaker shouldn't be a weapon, but should be closer to a magical tool, and must start from the principle of magic itself.
But this kind of principle-level problem is undoubtedly the most difficult to solve.
To forge it, more research is needed.
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Busy with this and that, Shirou had been at Ranoa Magic Academy for several months.
He did almost the same thing every day.
After getting up in the morning, he went to Principal Jinas for various magic training.
Although progress was slow, with the principal's experienced teaching ability, his fire element magic and earth element magic reached an advanced level.
At the same time, with the improvement of basic magic power, Shirou's sword magic was also strengthened, and the speed and quality of activation were improved.
After noon, he would go to the forging workshop and, with the help of his little assistant Juliet, start forging work.
Although the difficulty of Rule Breaker was too high, he couldn't forge it, but he couldn't stop forging because of this. Instead, he spent his time further honing his forging skills.
In the evening, he would go to the library of Ranoa Magic Academy to collect various materials and knowledge books.
Relying on the rich collection of books in Ranoa Magic Academy, Shirou gained a lot of useful knowledge.
Although this is a magic university after all, there is too little information about forging, but what Shirou needs now is not pure skill-level things, but more knowledge in terms of scope and breadth.
Just like the trouble encountered in forging Rule Breaker, he must gain enough knowledge to find the corresponding forging method.
Every day repeating this kind of life is really monotonous.
But Shirou was enjoying it.
After all, this feeling of feeling that he was getting stronger little by little every day really filled him with the motivation to improve.
He therefore agreed even more with what the Second North God said back then.
The other party said that Shirou should not be limited to one skill, but should learn all the skills and arts in the world as much as possible, so that he could continue to become stronger, instead of stopping there.
Although learning magic does not help with learning swordsmanship, compared to swordsmanship, which is already difficult to improve immediately, the study of magic has indeed given him the long-lost feeling of getting stronger.
Of course, Shirou's life was not completely monotonous, and some changes would happen occasionally.
First of all, Rudeus and Juliet.
Juliet spends her days either helping out in the forging workshop or learning magic from Rudeus.
Perhaps teaching others magic reminded Rudeus of his childhood, and the pain he suffered in magic university gradually eased. He would even actively start to miss the time in Buena Village.
He even wanted to take the initiative to go with Shirou to find Zenith, and also wanted to find his childhood playmate named Sylphy.
But Shirou did not agree, because he had not yet grasped the clues to Zenith and Sylphy, and he also planned to further master the skills of sword magic at the magic university.
Next were Linia and Pursena.
After these two cat-dogs were taught a lesson by Shirou, not only did they not retaliate afterwards, but they looked like they recognized him very much.
After all, the beast race truly respects the strong. Rudeus is strong, but he is a magician after all, and he is too unconfident.
Shirou completely subdued them with both his strength and his spirit.
But they didn't follow Shirou all the time. Instead, every time they saw him on the road, they would bow their heads in salute. When they met face to face on the road, they would also give way to Shirou. Even their address became "boss."
Shirou didn't really accept it, but he couldn't change it, so he let them do it.
In addition to this, Zanoba of the special class also became very close to Shirou.
Because he had been bullied by Linia and Pursena before, although he himself was not aware of this, he was being bullied every day.
Now that Shirou had completely solved the two bullies, one cat and one dog, Zanoba's life suddenly became better, and he often came to thank Shirou for this.
The remaining one who often appeared in front of Shirou was Fitz of the student council.
Since that incident, Fitz often came to Shirou, and occasionally looked at Rudeus.
Not to mention Shirou, who was very busy to begin with, so he often didn't have time to pay attention to the other party.
Rudeus had a natural awe and fear of the student council, so his contact with Fitz was also quite stiff.
Therefore, the two sides hardly managed to have any formal conversation.
Until one day, Fitz came again, but did not show the same easygoing attitude as before, but revealed a serious attitude.
As soon as she arrived, she said to Shirou, "Well... Shirou, Ariel Sama wants to see you."
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