Blasting Rod

“The Blasting...Rod!! Is that what did it!?”

“It amplifies the magic’s power to ten times what the target thinks it is. That is the surest
and simplest symbol of power that my one absolute master, Allan Bennett, specialized in.
Although to avoid jealousy from foolish Westcott or Mathers, he disguised it as a trick that
sent the target’s refined magic power out of control to knock them unconscious without
harming them.”

Kamijou did not have time to wonder if the initial attack that had hit him, Tsuchimikado,
and the others had been amplified like that.

13, 5, 32. In other words, the sword again.

He dodged based on the assumption that the length of the rapier would be ten times the
image he saw in his head, but a dark red hole was opened in his side.

“Gbh!?”

“When you assume the length will be extended ten times, the Blasting Rod uses that as
the basis for the ten times amplification. Thus, the blade is extended one hundred times.”

At that length, the blade could slice across this entire space. He could not pull it out. To
avoid being held in place by the imaginary blade skewering him, Kamijou grabbed it with
his right hand. It shattered and vanished into the ether and he regained his freedom in
exchange for losing the plug keeping the wound closed.

If Aleister had intended to eliminate all magic, he must have planned to fight the Magic
Gods on his own. Had he had any realistic chance of that without an exception like
Kamisato Kakeru’s World Rejecter? Kamijou had his doubts, but this seemed to be the
trick.

If he could not do it as a human, he would draw out the destructive power from the Magic
Gods themselves.

Drawing out the power of a god and defeating a god while remaining human was the way
a summoner thought.

Instead of becoming a god, he would control them and rule them.
Nothing could have been more arrogant, but that just showed how much hatred he had in
his heart.

However, that methodology actually showed some promise of working against full-power
Othinus. How to mentally cut down a Magic God who had absolute confidence in their
power was still a major question, but this still had far better odds than using any kind of
human power against them.

-Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 18 Chapter 4 Part 2