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3. Magic Circuits and Magecrafts.

│3rd Person POV │

Once Dumbledore’s Template assimilation was completed, Lucas discovered a few interesting facts that made him decide to finish assimilating the remaining three templates.

Firstly, the two [Genius Intellect] Traits from Senku and Dumbledore worked in a manner that was independent of one another. Both of these Traits integrated in a way that their effect only worked on what he originally had. In simple analogy, if his base intelligence score was 10, and the [Genius Intellect] Trait from Senku and Dumbledore increased that score by x and y times respectively, then his total intelligence score would be 10x+10y without any negative effect on him.

Lucas thought if two mental traits worked in an independent manner, then it was highly likely that the various physiological traits would also work in a similar way. They would take effect on his original base physique, and then the result would get added together in a harmonious way.

Second, the way [Wizard Physiology] affected his physique was that it massively increased his reaction time and granted him a pool of magical energy. The magical energy pool also grew as time passed, though the growth was greater if he repeatedly drained it and let it recover through rest.

This further pushed Lucas to form the belief that it was more beneficial for him to quickly finish assimilating the other templates as soon as possible.

Lucas also wanted the traits, skills, abilities, and items from the remaining three templates as soon as possible. Because once assimilated, the physiological traits would grow passively even without him doing any specific training. Similarly, the skills and abilities also unlocked more knowledge and grew more powerful at a decent rate passively.

So, in the days after Dumbledore’s Template assimilation was completed, Lucas quickly finished assimilating Chinjao, Shirou, and Leonardo’s Templates in that order.

During this time, Lucas put most of his focus on training with Dumbledore’s skills and abilities. He didn’t rush to properly examine the changes brought by the last three templates. He didn’t even try to summon the Sacred Gear he got from Leonardo.

However, he did note down the changes that were too obvious to ignore, like his appetite increasing massively after assimilating Chinjao’s template, him getting better at doing various chores around the house and his cooking because of Shirou’s skills, and another pool of energy suddenly appearing within his body after assimilating Leonardo’s template, which was distinct from the magical energy he got from [Wizard Physiology].

Everything else was the things that were too subtle to notice without really looking for them, like Haki, Magic Circuits, etc.

Fortunately, among the few spells that Lucas decided to train from the start was a spell that allowed one to duplicate food. This took care of the increased appetite problem without causing an issue.

Otherwise, the increase in food expenditure would be just the least important issue. It was more likely that some government secret intelligence agency would catch wind of him buying enough food to feed more than twenty people in a week, even though he lived alone, and then decide that something fishy was going on with him.

After awakening his memories, Lucas had adopted the philosophy of Alastor Moody as much as possible. After all, only the cautious and paranoid live long enough to regret being cautious and paranoid. Or whatever that saying was.

Anyway, now that he was done assimilating the templates, Lucas was ready for the next step.

In the last few days, Lucas had cleared the basement of all sorts of miscellaneous things by moving them to an unused room on the ground floor through the use of the Levitation Charm.

Sitting in the middle of the basement floor on a yoga mat, Lucas was meditating. He was going to “open” the Magic Circuits he got from Shirou’s Template.

The amount of knowledge contained in Shirou’s [Novice Magecraft] skill was very small, and Lucas was able to digest and understand all of it after meditating for about an hour thanks to his improved intellect and Occlumency training. With that knowledge, it was easy for Lucas to “open” his Magic Circuits for the first time.

Lucas hissed in pain as he felt the Magic Circuits activating. They were mostly clustered along the nerves of his head, neck, spine, and hands.

Once the pain passed, Lucas couldn’t help but grin at the sensation brought by the Magic Circuits. Before moving on to conduct a proper test, Lucas first decided on setting a trigger to switch his Magic Circuits on and off at will without having to jumpstart them every time he wanted to use them as Shirou did in the beginning.

Lucas had already decided what his trigger would be. To imagine an aura of absolute power exploding from his body while his hair turned yellow and his eyes turned teal. Yes, Lucas’ trigger was him going Super Saiyan. He absolutely loved that and didn’t feel the least bit ashamed about it.

Next, Lucas focused on getting a proper feel of his Magic Circuits.

“This feeling is completely different from the two different types of energies I got from [Wizard Physiology] and [DxD Human Physiology],” Lucas muttered while sensing the feeling of the Magic Circuits converting his life force into a type of magical energy and then storing it within the circuits.

Even though Lucas referred to the different types of magical energies generated by [Wizard Physiology] and [DxD Human Physiology] as pools of energy in his mind, they were not really pooled together in a specific part of his body. They existed everywhere inside his body, and they also didn't affect each other in any way.

On the other hand, the magical energy converted by the 27 Magic Circuits was stored within them.

“Hmm… I should designate different names for the different magical energies so as not to confuse them with each other.” Lucas thought for a few moments but couldn't think of a good idea. He decided to name them casually, “Why waste brainpower on inconsequential things? I will just call magical energy from [27 Magic Circuits], [Wizard Physiology], and [DxD Human Physiology] as Mana, Mana (W), and Magicules, respectively. No need to overcomplicate things.”

Moving on, Lucas took the pencil and hammer he had prepared beforehand in his hands. Focusing for a moment, he tried to use [Reinforcement] on the pencil.

Suddenly, green colored electrical circuits looking like energy stripes appeared on his hand and extended to the pencil. As Mana flowed into the pencil, Lucas felt the existence of the pencil getting enhanced. At the same time, he also felt his Magic Circuits heating up very slightly.

“So quickly?” Lucas muttered in surprise. Although the heating effect was very low, just a few degrees, and he wasn't the least bit affected by it because of having three different physiological traits boosting his physique, he didn't expect his Magic Circuits to heat up after using just a single Magecraft spell with very low power.

“I hope it's just because this is the first time I am activating my Magic Circuits.”

From Shirou's knowledge, Lucas knew that when Shirou learned the normal way of activating them, his Magic Circuits didn't start to heat up so soon.

“However, I can't rely on Shirou's knowledge in this regard. That dumbass didn't do things the normal way. He didn't have the leisure to notice things like heating issues while being forced to endure pain of nerves on fire during his starting days.” 

With a shake of his head, Lucas focused on the test.

He placed the pencil on the ground while still holding it to continue to reinforce it and raised the hammer in his left hand before swinging it with force.

Thwack—!

Even with the powerful impact force, the pencil remained in one piece.

“It worked!” Lucas exclaimed softly, a wide smile appearing on his face. “Now, time for the next test.” 

Then, he let go of the pencil and immediately felt its existence getting back to a normal level. When he hammered the pencil again, it easily broke apart, indicating that the [Reinforcement] only worked until he was supplying Mana.

It was weird to be able to sense the existence level of anything, though Lucas considered it fortunate that he could feel the existence level of anything only when he was about to use Magecraft spells.

Satisfied with his first attempt at using the [Reinforcement] magecraft spell, Lucas moved on to try out the other two abilities he got from Shirou.

He tried to use [Structural Grasp] to understand the structure and design of the hammer in his left hand. Once again, he succeeded on the first try, as accompanied by another light show because of his Magic Circuits lighting, Lucas suddenly gained knowledge about the various dimensions of the hammer, the material compositions, density, etc. 

With his enhanced intellect and Occlumency, Lucas was able to easily sort through the knowledge, and relying on that knowledge, he tried to use [Projection] to create an identical hammer in his right hand. 

A grid-like outline of the hammer appeared in his hand. As he poured more Mana into the spell, the grid-like outline flared with brilliance as it drank the expanded mana.

The empty frame began to solidify as Lucas was able to see the ghostly silhouette of the handle and metal head become less transparent within a few moments.

With a final, resonant thrum that vibrated through the floorboards, the grid lines collapsed into a brilliant flash of light and the excess mana dispersed in a gentle ripple of air. Held in his right hand was a flawless, exact copy of the hammer in his left hand, with the same weight and structure. The whole process took a few seconds to finish from start to end. 

“Another success.” With a satisfied grin on his face, Lucas looked at the projected hammer and waited. 

From what he remembered, the projected objects would get erased within a few moments. He wanted to find out how long the projected item stayed.

However, Lucas waited and waited, but the projection didn't get erased. Lucas was quite confused, to say the least. 

“What's happening? Did I do something wrong? Even if the projected hammer is an exact copy of the original, it should have disappeared by now because I didn't replicate the history of the object. It shouldn't be able to last this long.” Lucas spoke softly as he tried to figure out what caused the anomaly.

According to Shirou's knowledge, projected objects were considered to be phantasms, a second version of something that already existed in reality, and the world rejected them, causing the projected objects to be erased from existence after a short period.

The main reason Shirou's projection stayed longer in the world was that his Reality Marble had the function of helping Shirou understand and replicate the history of objects he wanted to project.

A Reality Marble was a Magecraft that involved the materialization and projection of one's Inner World onto reality. A person's Inner World is a compilation of a person's experiences and emotions, usually confined within their Inner Self. As Lucas didn't get any of Shirou's experiences or emotions, only knowledge related to skills, abilities, and traits, he also didn't get Shirou's Inner World or Reality Marble.

Lucas didn't have the ability to replicate the history of the object, so he thought his projection would get erased within a few seconds at worst or a minute at best. He quickly went through the knowledge he got from Shirou's skill again to figure out what was going on.

Soon, it clicked in his mind that he was not in the Nasuverse. The laws of his current world were most definitely different from the Nasuverse.

“So, is this a permanent projection?” Lucas muttered while examining the duplicate hammer before shaking his head. “No, that shouldn’t be the case. I think the most likely case is that the projection will exist as long as I continue to supply it with Mana.”

With that thought in his mind, Lucas stopped pouring more Mana into the projected hammer, and the next second, the hammer started to slowly fade away.

“As expected.” Lucas nodded.

Having tested out the only three magecraft spells that Shirou ever learned in Fate/Stay Night- Fate Route until the end of the 14-day-long Fifth Holy Grail War, Lucas pondered what to do next.

“I can’t test the other things from Shirou’s Template right now, like his Origin, Elemental Affinity, Swordsmanship skill, and Archery skills. After all, I don’t have a sword or a bow and arrows or even a suitable place to test those now. I guess I am going to have to move on to testing some things from Chinjao’s and Leonardo’s template.” Saying so, Lucas went to the other side of the basement.

He flicked his right hand in a special manner, causing the Elder Wand to be shot out of the wand holster strapped to his wrist.

Although Lucas mainly trained a few spells that he deemed more important after assimilating Dumbledore’s Template, he also tried to cast any other spells he found interesting at least a few times.

Among them, there was a spell that caught his attention, a mix of transfiguration and charm spell that allowed you to transform any cloth material into leather and then shape it into a desired piece of clothing. This was the spell Lucas used to create his wand holster.

He also had the idea of enchanting it in the future to make it invisible and unbreakable. However, Lucas hadn’t delved into enchanting just yet, so it was just an idea at the moment. For now, Lucas was relying on wearing wide and full-sleeved jackets on top of his usual clothing whenever he had to go out to hide the wand holster from view. Anyway, it was a much better option to keep the Elder Wand in a proper holster than in a pocket, where any accident could damage it.

Right now, he was going to use a few transfiguration and charm spells to create some weights. He was going to start testing the effects of [One Piece Physiology] on his physique by seeing how much weight he could lift now.

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A/N: Here's the third chapter. To be honest, I don't have in-depth lore knowledge of the Nasuverse, so I tried wiki diving and asking my Discord friends to figure out how things work for the most part. So, if you catch some details that don't match, feel free to point them out.

I hope you all like this chapter, and please share your thoughts about how you feel about the fic.

Good day, and see you all later.