Half a year has passed since Shirou came to the Boreas family.
Time has moved from spring to late autumn.
In the cool, breezy weather.
Shirou's life gradually got on track.
Every morning, he would wake up quickly and patrol the Boreas castle training ground with his sword.
After working up a little sweat, he would go to the castle kitchen to help, adding one or two of his special dishes for the Boreas family.
Often, these one or two dishes would be snatched up as soon as they were placed on the table for lunch or dinner.
Even Mrs. Hilda, who looked the most quiet and elegant, wouldn't maintain her composure when faced with Shirou's cooking.
Sauros even used his unlimited power as the head of the family to force himself to be the first to eat Shirou's dishes every time, which could be said to be the ultimate in privatizing power.
After finishing breakfast together, Shirou would practice swordsmanship with Ghislaine in the morning.
Although Ghislaine didn't teach him the specific usage of the Light Blade, she would spar with him and even occasionally guide Shirou's swordsmanship, pointing out his mistakes and shortcomings.
With a Sword King like Ghislaine as his guide, Shirou's swordsmanship foundation could be said to have improved by leaps and bounds.
But the reason he could improve so quickly was that Shirou's swordsmanship foundation was too weak.
Whether it was Servant Emiya or Shirou himself, their attitude towards the sword was basically to treat it as a tool.
For them, the sword was just a tool with a special shape. As long as it could be used to defeat the opponent, it didn't matter if it wasn't a sword.
In fact, Servant Emiya's best fighting style was indeed not close combat, but to use a bow as an Archer to wear down the opponent from a distance, and then when the opponent was tired and exposed flaws, he would step forward and use swordsmanship to attack.
In short, Shirou's former swordsmanship was powerful enough, but it was completely a practical style learned from combat, lacking specific theory and systematic guidance.
Although Paul was Shirou's swordsmanship teacher and taught him many basic sword techniques, Paul's own strength was only so-so. Basically, after Shirou reached the Intermediate Rank Swordsman level, Paul's teachings were basically useless. He could only grasp the insufficient parts in actual combat through sword sparring.
But Shirou, as someone who had the Mind's Eye skill, his actual combat ability was already exceptionally strong. Even if his swordsmanship foundation was lacking, he could make up for it with his own reactions.
If shortcomings are always covered up instead of being completely corrected, a huge flaw will eventually burst out one day.
Even if Servant Emiya once wanted to change his shortcomings, he didn't have the ability, which was helpless.
Now that Shirou finally had the opportunity to receive guidance from a Sword King expert like Ghislaine, he naturally took the opportunity to completely make up for his unsolid swordsmanship foundation.
After the sparring with Ghislaine in the morning, Shirou would teach Eris swordsmanship in the afternoon.
Eris's problem could be said to be exactly the same as his. She had the instincts and intuition of a beast, but her swordsmanship foundation was as weak as a beginner's.
In the past, she had always been unwilling to calm down and learn the basics of swordsmanship, and even Ghislaine's teachings would go in one ear and out the other.
However, now that she had Shirou as a goal to chase after, she had finally started to study swordsmanship seriously. At least during Shirou's teaching, she behaved very seriously, even to the point of making Shirou feel uneasy.
After all, Shirou was very clear that the reason why Eris was so serious was because she wanted to learn stronger swordsmanship and then beat him up.
In a sense, this also made Shirou feel a sense of crisis, realizing that if he didn't work hard and Eris caught up, he might be severely humiliated by her, which led Shirou to spend more energy on swordsmanship.
The master and disciple thus developed a wonderful competitive relationship, and their swordsmanship skills were developing at a rapid pace.
After finishing teaching Eris swordsmanship in the afternoon, it was Shirou's own private time.
When he was in the Greyrat family before, he would basically use this time to study projection magic, or practice the magic that Roxy taught him.
But after coming to the Boreas family, he gained a new hobby to pass the time—forging.
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"Shirou, you're here!"
In the Boreas family's blacksmith workshop, all the blacksmiths greeted him warmly.
"I saw you and the young lady practicing swordsmanship today, it was really amazing, you were actually able to make that unruly Miss Eris so obedient!"
A young blacksmith apprentice said with a smile, "We've all given you a nickname in private, called the Beast Tamer of Boreas."
"Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death if Miss Eris hears you say that?"
Shirou responded to him in a subtle tone.
"Ah, this..."
The young blacksmith apprentice immediately closed his mouth after hearing this, too frightened to say a word.
Shirou then came to the inside of the blacksmith shop. Since the blacksmiths here had allowed Shirou to use everything in the workshop at will, he was now able to learn the knowledge of forging from the most basic level.
Selecting materials, melting furnace heating, preliminary polishing, detail engraving, quenching treatment, grinding and knocking...
Every step, every detail of the blacksmith's work, had been integrated into Shirou's body under his bit-by-bit learning.
Although the Boreas family's blacksmith shop was not the best in the royal capital, it was a relatively professional blacksmith shop, with all kinds of professional tools, rare materials, and smelting techniques.
The family's armor and swords were also famous in the Fittoa territory, often selling for twice the price of ordinary weapons and equipment on the black market.
Although Shirou was just a newcomer to the blacksmith shop, due to the great trust of the blacksmiths, he was now even allowed to participate in the official weapon making.
In fact, Shirou's performance as a newcomer was already extremely outrageous.
On the second day he came to the blacksmith shop, he assisted the blacksmith in making a fine sword engraved with magic patterns. Although it couldn't be called a magic sword, it was much better than ordinary weapons.
For this kind of magic sword, the failure rate was normally quite high.
Even if it succeeded, the quality would not reach this level.
Shirou's contribution was evident.
From that day on, Shirou received the highest treatment from the entire blacksmith workshop. He was assigned an independent forging workshop, received special guidance from the workshop owner, and was even allowed to freely use the materials in the workshop to make any weapons he wanted to make.
Of course, these materials still had to be paid for afterward. The Boreas family couldn't give the blacksmith shops below unlimited purchasing rights.
But Shirou himself had a large amount of savings from killing the Red Dragon, which was completely enough to cover the consumption even if he bought the most precious magic stones.
Moreover, Shirou's forging success rate was quite high. Even if the materials were extremely expensive, as long as the weapon forged was of a high enough level, he could earn a considerable price difference just by selling it, and could even become a top rich man just by forging weapons.
Of course, Shirou didn't have the idea of making money by forging. The biggest reason why he wanted to forge weapons was that he found that this method could replace projection and make weapon reserves for himself.
Due to the influence of Servant Emiya, Shirou generally wouldn't use projection magic at will now, as that would further lead to him being eroded by Servant Emiya.
The Sword Magic, as a lower-level magic to projection, usually creates weapons that are so fragile that they can be easily broken, because Sword Magic itself is just a crude forging.
In fact, when practicing Sword Magic, Shirou realized that Sword Magic itself was a way to temper weapons at a high speed.
The strength of the weapons it creates depended on Shirou's own tempering level, that is, his mastery of forging and smelting.
Now that Shirou truly started forging, he could even determine that Sword Magic itself was another kind of forging, and his forging proficiency would also affect the strength of the weapons created by Sword Magic.
If Shirou mastered more efficient forging techniques and higher-level weapon forging methods in the future, he might be able to rely on Sword Magic to create weapons comparable to projection!
"Trace, On."
After entering the workshop, Shirou made all the preparations and immediately began forging the weapon.
With clumsy but steady movements, he replicated the various smelting processes one by one, and finally began to knock and hammer the weapon itself.
Shirou was not a skilled blacksmith, so he showed amazing focus on the process of hammering the weapon, striving to remember every step firmly in his heart to ensure that nothing went wrong.
After several hours of hammering, which could be said to be a torment to the spirit of ordinary people, Shirou finally finished hammering the weapon, and took out the weapon that was constructed completely according to the imagination in his mind—the Sword of Promised Victory (Caliburn).
It also had another more down-to-earth name, the Sword in the Stone.
Although it was a weapon that Shirou had seen for the first time, his heart inexplicably produced a sense of familiarity when he saw the material and patterns on the sword.
He was very clear that this was the feeling from Servant Emiya, it was his lifelong unforgettable memory of that Saber girl.
Now, Shirou chose to forge this weapon for the first time because the Sword of Promised Victory itself had a simple structure, and also because Servant Emiya's memory of it was extremely deep.
As long as he evoked it through deep memories, he could create a weapon close to the original.
Shirou's forging had reached such a magical realm.
The principle might be the same as his unique projection.
Both were the existence of Unlimited Blade Works.
Because there was Unlimited Blade Works in his body, even if the weapon didn't exist in this world at all, or shouldn't exist, as long as he relied on projection or forging to shape the surface, he could create something infinitely close to the original.
The advantage of forging over projection was that the forged weapon could exist for a long time and was closer to the original than the fragile projection.
Shirou was confident that even if the real Sword of Promised Victory appeared in front of him, perhaps no one would be able to distinguish the difference between the real sword and the pirated version he forged!
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