Crossover: Creating Delta of Fate from the Start, Group Chat Friends Go Wild

Inspiration kept pouring in.

And the inspiration boost provided by the Person of All Trades seemed to extend beyond magecraft alone.

"Let’s see what this item is first."

"OK."

Kazuma Satou displayed the item panel. A blood-red gemstone pendant hung in the center.

Item: "Gem Magecraft"

Type: Craft Essence

Rarity: Purple

Description: Magecraft passed down through generations of the Tohsaka Family, involving the magical modification and use of mysterious minerals buried deep within the earth.

Note: This Magic Formal Wear is best used together with the "Rin’s Magecraft Traits" or "Conversion Magecraft" Craft Essence.

Note: This Magic Formal Wear is a required prerequisite for using the "Jeweled Sword Zelretch" item.

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Rin Tohsaka looked at the ruby on the Magic Formal Wear, then at her own.

It really was her Gem Magecraft.

How… had this been done?

Rin Tohsaka: "Isn’t this my magecraft? How exactly did they do it?"

Medea: "It can even extract the concept of magecraft? Wouldn’t that mean it could extract life and death, even everything… But that’s impossible."

Mery: "I have never seen an existence like this…"

"What a terrifying power."

Leinys’s eyes were full of shock.

One could infer the whole from a single detail.

The deeper one’s understanding of magecraft and the world, the more one could appreciate the sheer power of this ability.

Lin Zhen closed his eyes. He was refining the details of "Virtual Fuyuki City."

It was called false, but it could also become real.

As long as its influence was great enough,

Lin Zhen would not need to act himself. This virtual world could give birth to "reality" on its own.

When falsehoods automatically gave rise to reality,

it meant Lin Zhen’s Grand Dao had advanced another step.

What Medea said could, in a sense, be considered correct.

He truly could negate any concept.

But the hardest part of negating a concept was

ensuring that, after it was negated, the world would not undergo a chain reaction and collapse.

In other words,

before Lin Zhen negated a concept, he first had to negate "all possible chain reactions that might occur after this concept was negated," ensuring he did not destroy the world himself.

But if he used this "Delta of Fate" game to turn illusion into reality,

then the false things he created could replace real things, becoming no different from them.

At that point, he would effectively become truly omniscient and omnipotent.

Lin Zhen looked down upon the small world, sensing the gathering power of sentient beings’ wishes.

His Dao Fruit had grown considerably.

After this livestream ended,

once he introduced a world version update, it should be able to accommodate two teams at once.

—

"Gem Magecraft… What an extravagant form of magecraft."

Hachiman Hikigaya blinked. Even though it was just a game, he could not help complaining.

As a Japanese high school student whose allowance did not exceed ten thousand yen, seeing magecraft that required hundreds of thousands of yen for a single use… was still rather shocking.

Kurisu Makise said,

"Looks like it won’t be useful anytime soon."

Kazuma Satou rubbed his chin.

"Hey, what if we rob a jewelry store? It’s only a game, anyway."

"?"

Hachiman Hikigaya twirled a strand of hair as he looked at him. "Do you think you’re playing GTA?"

Kurisu Makise struck a thoughtful pose. She was actually considering the feasibility of Kazuma Satou’s proposal.

"Rob a jewelry store? With our current abilities, we should be able to make a… zero-cost purchase, but we have to consider one thing."

"What?" x2

Kazuma Satou and Hachiman Hikigaya asked.

Kurisu Makise shook her wide sleeves.

"Since this game is so realistic, if we do bad things, will there be corresponding NPCs who come uphold justice and punish us?"

"Oh?"

"Oh?"

Hachiman Hikigaya and Kazuma Satou exchanged glances. As gaming nerds,

they instantly realized that was possible.

It might even be more than merely possible.

Think about when they had first arrived.

Because they had acted strangely, they had been chased by NPCs from the Police Agency.

If they used magecraft to commit crimes,

would righteous magecraft users come punish them?

"Then forget it…"

Kazuma Satou’s teeth hurt.

"But does that mean we have to… work part-time jobs in a game?"

At the mention of part-time work, Hachiman Hikigaya looked like he was about to die, his dead-fish eyes staring blankly ahead.

"I don’t want to work part-time. I never want to work part-time for the rest of my life. I just want to be a househusband."

He was beyond saving.

Kurisu Makise was certain that these two jokers were, to some extent, useless in society.

She looked helpless. It was not that the two boys were especially bad; they were simply rather bizarre.

"In that case… should we retreat?"

After thinking for a while, Kazuma Satou suddenly recalled Kirei Kotomine’s words.

"You can retreat now. I have a feeling Fuyuki City will be dangerous at night."

Hachiman Hikigaya realized it too and agreed with the decision to retreat.

"Didn’t Senior Brother Su Ling emphasize it? Engage, search, retreat… Retreat being listed last doesn’t mean it isn’t important. It means a safe retreat is the prerequisite for everything."

Kurisu Makise: "Then let’s go."

Elwin: "What a decisive retreat."

Kilchak: "Their supplies are insufficient and they have no staying power. On their first map exploration, retreating now is exactly what a mature commander should do."

Reinhardt: "The most correct judgment at the moment. Not bad strategic talent."

The three left the school. To avoid causing a commotion, Kurisu Makise could only dismiss the Dragon Tooth Soldiers she had summoned.

After discussing it for a while, they decided to take the train.

The ticket seller NPC said with a smile,

"It’s two thousand yen each, so six thousand yen for the three of you."

Kazuma Satou’s body stiffened. He slowly turned around and spoke with immense embarrassment.

"Do any of you have money on you?"

"Uh." "Let’s check?"

They emptied every pocket on their bodies.

Hachiman Hikigaya stared with dead-fish eyes.

"After all these years of being a law-abiding citizen, am I going to fare-dodge today?"

Kurisu Makise held her forehead.

"I…"

She did not want what remained of her dignity to shatter into pieces.

Fare-dodging before a livestream broadcast across countless worlds—and if she was unlucky enough to get caught and thrown into a station—her life would be over.

Kazuma Satou thought for a moment, then suddenly approached the ticket booth again. He took a box of "Mapo Tofu" from his backpack and handed it to the young ticket seller.

"Beautiful miss, can this cover the fare?"

The NPC ticket seller gave him a sweet smile.

"It’s worth 4,500—no, it’s worth 6,000 yen, little brother."

"Thank you, pretty big sister."

Kazuma Satou put on an innocent act and flashed a smile as pure as a country boy’s.

Hachiman Hikigaya and Kurisu Makise were both dumbfounded.

Kazuma Satou turned around.

"Got the tickets…"

"Thanks…" x2

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I didn’t expect you to be a social-type… nerd."

"I don’t know if that was a compliment, but whatever. Get on, get on!"

After riding the train for a while, they arrived at their stop.

They walked for a bit longer before reaching Fuyuki Bridge.

It was nearly dusk by then.

Kazuma Satou surveyed the area around the bridge, preparing to block the bridge the next time they entered the game.

He looked up toward Shinto in the distance. On the roof of a high-rise building, a starlike "white light" flickered.

The sky was not even dark yet. Where had a star come from?

Or was it some high-powered light?

Something was wrong…

Kazuma Satou suddenly began trembling all over. Thinking of a possibility, he shouted: