Naoki's research on summoning magic actually had several ideas.
The summoning magic created by Aleister was not actually a complete magic system, it still had many shortcomings—at least he himself thought so. In the past few decades, Aleister had been continuously working to improve one of the shortcomings of summoning magic.
That was [The inability of summoned creatures to exist permanently].
Due to the world's correction and the damage to the magic medium, the existence of summoned creatures in this world had a time limit. How to make summoned creatures exist permanently in this world was Aleister's research direction, and the conclusion he had reached in the past few decades was [Storing summoned creatures].
Simply put, Pokémon.
By using a sufficiently powerful magic catalyst and self-developed storage Magecraft, summoned creatures were stored within the magic catalyst. As for the magic catalyst for storage, the best were various high-quality gems.
Even so, storage was not entirely perfect. After storing one summoned creature, the gem could no longer store another creature, and if the already stored summoned creature was released again, the gem would instantly shatter, like a disposable item.
Although Aleister was a Dead Apostle, his wealth was not abundant, so after trying once or twice, he no longer conducted similar experiments. Such expensive usage was truly beyond his means.
And besides the problem of the inability to exist permanently, summoning magic also had other shortcomings such as [having to use a magic circle], [uncontrollable summoned creatures], [uncertainty of the summoned object], and many other things that needed improvement.
Naoki's research ideas were different from Aleister's.
Aleister treated summoned creatures as external materials, his usage methods tended towards summoning and controlling, purely the thinking of a summoner.
While Naoki's view was—
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"I've returned them all."
Behind Naoki, holding a cigarette and leaning against a tree, Touko looked at him, "So, what else do you want to do? The demonstration of summoning magic, I've already seen it."
"Just wanted Master to see another way to use summoning magic that I researched myself. Since this is the first time I'm using it, I hope someone can supervise from the side. If it's Master, you should be able to handle any possible emergency situation."
While speaking, he walked to the center of the magic circle, Naoki took a deep breath, and once again recited the incantation.
"O ye fairies dwelling in another world, in the name of Natsukawa Naoki, here I extend my invitation to you, sincerely inviting you to come to the outer side of the stars—incarnate upon the vessel of my body."
'The content is different from before?'
Touko couldn't help but frown.
'The content of the incantation isn't right, and... not using a magic catalyst? Wait, could it be he's planning—'
"The first element, the body. The second element, the shell. The third element, fantasy."
"Come from another world, incarnate within my body in the form of a shell—"
"Wait a minute, Naoki!"
Seeing the increasingly dazzling rainbow light trying to envelop Naoki's entire body, Touko immediately wanted to stop him.
However, it was too late.
"Fairy Summoning."
The summoning was complete.
Countless translucent rainbow light arms extended from the gate of the fairy world, like a cocoon, instantly wrapping around Naoki's entire body!
The next moment—
*BANG!*
Like shattered colored glass, the cocoon-like shroud of light suddenly shattered from within! And in Touko's shocked eyes, a figure emitting a mysterious light, like a newborn baby, slowly stretched its limbs within the light.
[Magic Beast]
This was the first thing that came to Touko's mind after clearly seeing the figure in front of her.
Its entire body was bare except for a piece of animal hide and tattered pants, although it couldn't be called completely naked, it was close. Its gray hair was disheveled behind its back, two skulls of unknown creatures hung from both shoulders, and its arms were also tattooed with mysterious patterns, it was unclear which race's hieroglyphs they were.
And besides that, the thing that made people feel the strangest was the cloth covering its eyes, which was full of many runes.
Looking at this man surrounded by a wild aura in front of her, Touko was momentarily frozen in place.
"This... Naoki?"
"Um."
A voice reminiscent of a forty-year-old adult man came from the man's mouth.
Turning to face Touko, moving his arms and legs, the man—Naoki—seemed to be confirming something, and let out a sigh of relief, "Looks like the summoning was successful."
"You... summoned a summoned creature into your own body?" Touko slightly understood the scene before her, "You made yourself the magic catalyst?"
"Um. After all, the human body is a very good magical material, the continuously prohibited human experiments also prove this point. As long as I make myself the catalyst, the summoned creature will descend into my body, appearing in the form of a vessel."
The possibility of merging summoned creatures and Magus—this was Naoki's research idea on summoning magic.
From the results, it seemed the effect was quite good.
Walking around Naoki several times, then reaching out to touch his body, Touko asked, "Does any part of your body feel uncomfortable?"
"Nothing, if I have to say something, maybe in the mental aspect, because it's mixed with fairy elements, so my brain is a bit buzzing."
"It will affect the mental state... anything else?"
"Hmm... the way I perceive things is also different from usual. Now I don't recognize the outside world through sight, but through thermal imaging. Besides that, my hearing and smell have also improved greatly, for example, I can now smell the aroma of rice from the city center."
'Directly changed the way of perception?'
Touko immediately felt very interested, "Interesting, this shouldn't be the result of summoning magic, but the characteristics of the fairy that possessed you. The fairy you summoned this time should be a beast-type fairy, like a werewolf, a dog demon, and the like, so it made you so wild—can it be cancelled?"
"It shouldn't be a problem. I can feel Mana continuously flowing out, it should be the consumption as damage. As long as I actively cut off the Mana, the possession can be cancelled."
"Then try to cancel it now."
"Okay."
Stopping the Mana that was continuously flowing out, Naoki suddenly felt an unfulfilled emotion in his mind, then like taking off clothes, his whole body suddenly felt lighter.
"Alright, like this—"
A slight chill coming from below his crotch made Naoki stunned.
Like taking off clothes?
Correction, actually the words [like] and [his] should be removed.
He was now completely stark naked!
"Hoo hoo~ good assets, boy."
Like a perverted uncle, Touko chuckled while stroking her chin, "But this also reminds me of one thing, using summoning magic on oneself and after it's cancelled, the clothes will disappear, this is an important point, must be noted."
"Before noting it, Master, give me some clothes first!"
"Ah? Don't be shy, people who work as puppet makers must often deal with this kind of thing, just relax."
"Master!"