Fenric von Leiqritus

The year is 1927.

Yes, that's right, I was dropped into the world of Nasuverse long before the canon events of Mahoutsukai no Yoru, Fate/Zero, Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime, or Fate/stay night.

I was born in the 13th of May, 1919, half a year after the First World War.

I have to say, the experience of going through childbirth while conscious was not... pleasant, so I'll leave that part out.

My name is Fenric. Fenric von Leiqritus. A healthy male child born into the Leiqritus family. I was lucky. I'll repeat that. I was really, really lucky.

The Leiqritus is a family of Magi. They aren't famous like the Barthomelois, the El-Mellois, or the Einzberns, but they were at least an average noble family of the Mage's Association.

The keyword here is 'were'. You see, their Magic Circuits have started deteriorating in the 1850s. So they decided to withdraw from the public after they discovered the deterioration and have been holed up in Germany since then.

Despite being a declining Magi family, it's still a family with a lineage of about 250 years. Not to mention that they have been improving their Circuit Quality and Quantity for the two-third of a century, and recently rejoined the Association as an active member.

I am truly lucky.

[Name: Fenric von Leiqritus, (No Title)

Level: 2

EXP: 53/400

Strength: 0.7

Endurance: 0.8

Agility: 1.1

Od: 194/194 (330)

Circuit Quality: B (1.5)

Circuit Quantity: C (22)

Circuit Composition: Dynamic

Origin: Limitlessness

Elemental Affinity: Fire, Earth, Water

Sorcery Trait: Divine Chant

Innate Talent: [Infinite Potential], [Absolute Composure]

Status Points: 20]

This is the stats of an eight-year-old child that has been trying his best to train himself.

Unlike the normal stats you'd find on the Gamer's System, the one here is calculated by an adult male's constitution.

What does that mean? It means that at eight years old, I have 1.1 times the speed of an average adult male. I am below in my Strength and Endurance aspect, but that is quite obvious. It's very impressive considering that I have the body of a child.

My Circuit Quality and Quantity are the definition of barely above average. 22 Magic Circuits and they are capable of producing up to 15 units of magical energy per Circuit. Their maximum capacity is 330 units of magical energy.

It really hurt the first time I activated them. But I didn't even groan. I gritted my teeth and smiled. Because it was my first step to immortality. My Circuits' Mental Trigger is a form of irony in itself as my hand reaches out for a warm light that fades away the instant I come into contact with it.

I am far from monsters like Tohsaka Rin or Luviagelita Edelfelt, who can reach the four digits in units of magical energy. Yes, they do have Magic Crests, but their in born Magic Circuits are still double or triple or even quadruple of mine.

Unfortunately, I am not the heir to my family. I have no access to the Magic Crest, because I was the third baby to be pumped out of my mother's vagina.

It's fine. I am not complaining much.

I was born into a wealthy family of supernatural users. I am not inheriting the Magic Crest, but I am being taught Magecraft at the very least. The lessons helped to broadened my knowledge on the world of Type-Moon massively.

The reason my Circuit Composition is classified as Dynamic is because of my Origin, Limitlessness.

Yes, that's right. Unlike all the other Mages out there in the world... I have a chance to improve my Magic Circuits. Why do I know that? It's because I have simply thought about it and received an answer from the System.

It's the Status Points.

Strength, Endurance, Agility increase by 0.1 per point, meaning that I have can receive 1.7 times the strength of an adult male if I were to invest 10 points into my Strength right now.

For every 100 points, I can raise my Circuit ratings by 1 rank.

If I were to spend 100 points right now, I will have total of 32 Magic Circuits or I will be able to produce 1.75 units of Od per Circuit.

To be frank, even if it's not worth it, it's still a blessing in disguise. Just by the fact that I can increase the Quality and Quantity of my Magic Circuits meant that not just my physical body, but my soul could be improved constantly.

I receive 5 Status Points per level up, so when I am level 20, I can be 10 times stronger than an average adult if I were to invest it all in one single stat.

I do gain stats when I exercise, but I am only improving slowly. Just by seeing For running a long distance you have gained +0.1 Agility once a year would make me a very happy child.

Yes, the reality is harsh. The System I have isn't as much of a cheat like the others. There isn't even as much options as I have believed it to be. Unlike the other RPG systems, there are only three choices here:

[Inventory]

[Status Screen]

[Skills]

Only three, but they are all incredibly helpful.

I also discovered that, as disappointing as it is, Skills are not flexible like the System from the Gamer.

I can't just do an action repeatedly to gain a Skill. The skills here seemed more like Feats from Dungeons & Dragons rather than something you can easily learn. Yes, like a Servant's Passive and Active Skills, I have to achieve something in order to gain it.

Well, what do I expect. My System is technically dead. It only left me the gaming interface and a few pieces of advices. Nothing more, nothing less.

Though... the last present it gave me was nice.

[Analyze]

Rank: -

The skill to learn about an object or person by observing them.

It's the only Skill I have, and most likely the most useful one ever.

It is actually similar to the spell Structural Grasp seeing that it doesn't show me my target's level and history. I also realized that no one other than me has a level. But at the very least, I can still see their physical stats.

This is my eldest brother's status:

Name: Karl von Leiqritus, the Leiqritus heir

Strength: 0.9

Endurance: 0.7

Agility: 0.7

I can't see his total Od output, but I know that it's somewhere around 500-600. He has A-Rank Circuit Quality and B-Rank Circuit Quantity after all.

He's a total waste. He's twenty years old, and his health should have all been above 1.0 considering that he's a Mage. We're not crazy bodybuilders, but he should at least be around 1.0-1.5 since our physical body does matter in some spells or rituals, say, Reinforcement.

Enough talk about him.

On the topic of Elemental Affinity. It seemed that mine worked differently from the normal Magi because of my Origin... or it might also be because of the System's assistance.

I was born with three elements. Incredibly lucky, though not as crazy as those Average Ones. But here's the thing. I can manipulate Fire, Earth, and Water twice as better than the average Magus, and I have affinity with every single other Elements as well.

It's quite simple if I were to put it this way: I start with 100% Affinity with every single Element in existence, but the ones I am born with are at 200%. It's insane, isn't it?

I have also found out that I could add a new Element to my Elemental Affinity if I were to spend 50 points for it. I won't do that for now, since I have my hands full with my Magus training.

Now onto the Sorcery Trait. I am lucky. Hey, did I say that before? Then let me repeat it again. I am lucky.

Not all Mages are born with a Sorcery Trait, and some are just nameless ones since they aren't even that powerful. Nevertheless, seeing that the Leiqritus are a family of noble Magi with 250 years of lineage, they should at least have one, right?

And they do!

Divine Chant, a fancy name. I'd prefer to call it Silent Casting. It's a simple yet extremely useful Trait that can be called borderline cheating.

It makes me able to cast spells silently and without leaking Prana. What does that mean? It means that I won't be able to be detected by other Mages through magical senses. It's the perfect trait to have if I want to stay in the background. Who would suspect 'Harmless Random Mage A', right?

And lastly... Innate Talents.

The perks I have chosen seemed to be classified as talents. I have ended up picking [Absolute Composure] and [Infinite Potential] because they are the ones that will benefit me the most in long-term.

I don't need power with zero growth, I don't need limited miracles, I don't need the prodigious talent when I can surpass them one day, I don't need Mystic Eyes when I can try to create an artificial one in the future, and I can create an alien world-type Bounded Field to replace a Reality Marble when I need to.

Yes, many of them are way superior than what I can do with Magecraft alone, but there are too many gambles with the choices.

Trying to be cool or badass will just get me killed. I will simply stay in the shadows and watch the heroes do their job while reaping the benefits. And to do that, I need to be able to have rational thoughts all the time.

The most important thing I find in Infinite Potential is the unstoppable growth. There won't be any bottleneck. You must understand how amazing it is when a human body can house the strength, speed, and endurance of a god without breaking apart.

"The highest class of Mystery cannot be defeated without another higher class of Mystery." This logic of the Nasuverse is very troublesome. Lugh Beowulf from Mahoutsukai no Yoru is an example. He has been alive for three thousand years and with that, he is a three thousand year class Mystery. That 'thing' is pretty much immune to Magecraft.

I won't be able to accumulate enough Mystery even if I try my hardest because I don't know the way to increase my own Mystery in the first place. I will use physical prowess against the monster with high Mystery. I don't believe that the Phantasmal Beast won't die after getting smacked by tens of times the strength of an average man.

My Status Points will be reserved for my Strength, Endurance, and Agility. Of course, I won't use them now. I can still try and find ways to improve my physical strength through the average magical means.

Though I must say, getting experience points has been quite hard, and the only way I know is through slaughtering. I found that out the first time I practiced my Magecraft on a rat when I received a small amount of EXP after its head blew off.

It was so wonderful that I did not care about the flesh or blood that covered my face. I only cared that I found a way to become stronger. I smiled that day. A genuine smile, I'd say.

There are quite a lot of people in my family, or should I call it a clan? Ignoring all the uncles, aunts, and cousins who live in the same castle I am in, my family is consisted of my father, Reinhard, my eldest brother and the heir to the Leiqritus clan, Karl, my little sister, Charlotte, and me, Fenric.

I was surprised when I found out that their names sound quite normal compared to the other canon Magi I knew of. Barthomeloi Lorelei, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, May Riddell Archelot, Bram Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, none of them sound normal, do they?

Oh, did I mention that my mother is dead? Yes, she's dead. Irina von Leiqritus died after giving birth to little Charlotte. I am not sad, and I will never grieve her dead. I do not know her, and I do not care. Though I am thankful that she gave birth to me seeing that I've gained Magic Circuits from that.

I do sound really insane for being so careless about my mother's death- Ah, I'm talking to myself again. I really need to fix this bad habit... Oh well.

As I mentioned earlier, I live in a castle. No, it should be called a fortress. It's a medieval structure located in god knows where that was built hundreds of years ago. All I know is that we are in Germany, and all that surrounded us are the wildlands.

It's literally a land of frost and snow.

My living conditions is quite similar to the Einzberns, and the clan members are all archetypal Mages who don't use modern technology. They do not find convenience in using modern technology, believing that the comparable magical tools they have possessed since long before the technology was invented will never be inferior.

Well, it is the 1920s, so the situation is still better than what will happen decades later.

I have been focusing on refining my Magic Circuits to their highest peak for the past few years. My objective is to achieve its best before the year 1930... That's close to the year which the Third Holy Grail War starts.

I only know that it took place in the 1930s, held on the eve of World War II. And for my dream, I need to win the tournament of death and make a wish to the Cup of Heaven.

Yes, I know that the Holy Grail isn't omnipotent.

It is literally a mix of the Third Magic and the Einzbern's Sorcery Trait, Wishcraft. It can grant many unique wishes, including the resurrection of the death, but it can't... say, make me more powerful than an Ultimate One. I do not know the scope of the wishes, but there is one simple thing it has. The wish and yearning of all Einzberns, the Third Magic-

Heaven's Feel.

With this Sorcery, I will be able to stop the dispersion of my soul when I die. I will transcend to a higher form of existence and age will not affect me ever again. However, that is not the true immortality I desire. I want invulnerability, and eternal life.

Even if my soul does not need an anchor to the world, I will still die if I were to get hit by a Conceptual Weapon that targets the soul. Even if the Third Magic can empower my soul to a certain degree and I survive attacks on the conceptual level, I will still be destroyed after getting hit several times.

It is still a limited form of immortality, nevertheless, it's a start. In addition, The practitioner of Heaven's Feel will acquire an unlimited source of magical energy due to the soul becoming analogous to a perpetual motion machine. This will help immensely in my future endeavors and I cannot allow it to slip away from my hand.

So for now, in order to accomplish all that, little Fenric will have to focus on his studies and please his clan members. And in a few years time, join the Clock Tower and befriend other Magi... Though I do believe that the Third Holy Grail War will start before I can join the Mage's Association.