Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

Artoria was puzzled, but Roland, who had been hiding, laughed after receiving the result.

He knew that the upgraded version of the Imaginary Number Magic: Limitless Technique, which was only fully perfected today, was finally complete!

Roland also renamed the spell.

Its current name is—Shenwei!

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31. Victory and the Next Goal

"What kind of technique is this?"

Aozaki Touko, watching from the sidelines, had already furrowed her brow.

Unlike Roland's sudden disappearance from the scene before, and the Shadow Wolf, Shadow Puppet and the like—Aozaki Touko couldn't understand a single one of these spells, as if they weren't magic at all.

In short, it was far beyond her comprehension.

After all, a magic trick that doesn't have any magical fluctuations before being imbued with magic power... that's really quite strange.

But this one is clearly not that kind.

At least Aozaki Touko could tell that this was definitely magic!

And it seems to be a kind of barrier... but as for what exactly it is, Aozaki Touko doesn't have six eyes, so naturally she couldn't possibly figure out the specific spell at a glance.

In any case, Aozaki Touko was certain that she had never seen this technique before.

It's highly likely that it's Roland's own technique.

Meanwhile, Medea, who was standing next to her, was also seeing the Kamui technique for the first time. However, unlike Aozaki Touko, Roland's actual magic was not obtained from Medea, but rather copied from her using the Six-Eyed Technique. Therefore, Medea was generally aware of what kind of magic Roland possessed.

Having established a range, and knowing that Roland's attribute was imaginary, she could still discern something from it.

Roland didn't bring it up, and she wouldn't bring it up either.

However, the principle behind this divine power technique is actually not complicated.

The concept is plagiarized from Araya Sōren.

That's the Six Paths Realm of Araya Sōren.

However, Roland had Medea help him study a special type of moving barrier, and it wasn't six barriers, but a full ten—ten barriers were enough to cover Roland's entire body in a complex and intricate way.

Then Roland imbued these barriers with imaginary magic, thus giving them all the characteristics of an imaginary space entrance—they all became imaginary barriers.

Generally speaking, imaginary space can only be filled in, not filled out.

The only way to escape from the imaginary space is to find a wedge in the real world within the imaginary space, and then use that wedge to prove the existence of the real world within the imaginary space, thereby pulling oneself out.

This technique of using imaginary stealth sounds complicated, but in reality, for that particular moment, part of the sword in Artoria's hand entered the imaginary space, but the other part didn't. That other part was the wedge located in the real world, which is why Artoria was able to pull the sword out.

Given this principle, it means that the imaginary space entrance on Roland's body can also become an exit under certain circumstances.

The effect of the ten complex barriers that covered Roland's entire body was exactly this.

The sword that Artoria strikes on the left will exit from the right.

The same is true in other places.

This creates an effect similar to her sword piercing through her body.

As for her feeling that the sword had lost a lot of magic power in the process of piercing her, that was only natural.

After all, the seemingly simple effect was actually the result of a part of Artoria's sword traveling back and forth through imaginary space.

As for the magic on the sword... all I can say is that if Roland were willing to expend magic to expel the magic from another barrier the instant it entered, it could—but why would Roland do something so laborious and thankless?

The same applies to ranged attacks.

If Roland wanted, ranged attacks could also penetrate when facing Kamui.

However, there's no need to go through all that trouble with ranged attacks. Just let them sink directly into the imaginary space. Most ranged attacks are simply not worth queuing up.

The main reason Roland designed the Divine Might was that, although nothing in the imaginary space is impervious to sinking, the entrance to the imaginary space is not indestructible.

There are still many things in this world that, once you've blocked the entrance to the imaginary space you've opened, you can't cut them off even if you close the entrance.

This means that the blocked entrance cannot be closed until the object is pulled out.

Then the entrance that can't be closed will keep draining your magic power.

Kamui, on the other hand, can expel things directly, so it won't have this flaw.

Of course, for an ordinary imaginary number magician, it would be a weakness if Roland directly created ten moving imaginary number barriers on his body!

After all, the magic power consumed by ten imaginary number barriers is something that ordinary magicians simply cannot afford to do.

If they were only covering themselves, then carrying a magic furnace would be about right—but the magic furnace wouldn't be covered, so the magic furnace becomes a weakness.

Roland himself has a lot of magic power, and he hasn't even reached his peak yet. In addition, the blessing of the gods also increases his magic power, and he can also level up.

Most importantly, he also has the heart of the Red Dragon.

His magic can be restored through breathing, and the speed of restoration is beyond the imagination of ordinary magicians.

The most terrifying thing is that although the parts on the Phantom Puppet cannot be removed, it has everything Roland has.

And because the Phantom Puppet is a skill, not magic.

Therefore, Roland does not need magic to manipulate the Shadow Puppet. When the Shadow Puppet uses spells, its magic is produced by its own magic circuits and the heart of the red dragon—that is to say, the puppet's magic is independent.

Because he can enjoy the additional boost from the advancement ladder, his magic power is even greater than Roland's own!

This is very scary.

Roland was still experimenting with Kamui on the Shadow Puppet, while Artoria was trying to damage the Shadow Puppet in various ways.

However, since she couldn't unleash her Noble Phantasm, all her attempts failed.

After that, Roland manipulated the Shadow Puppet, using Shadow Movement to appear and disappear unpredictably on the field.

If Artoria doesn't use magic to enhance her weapon, then her attacks are ineffective against the Shadow Wolf.

Artoria used magic to unleash enhanced weapons. Every time she attacked the Shadow Wolf, the Shadow Puppet would use Shadow Movement to follow up. As long as the Shadow Puppet was hit, Artoria would lose magic power.

With this tactic combined with Roland's six eyes, once Artoria adapted to her speed, it became very difficult for her attacks to kill Shadow Wolf.

But if she doesn't attack the Shadow Wolf, the Shadow Wolf will attack her.

Although the Shadow Wolf's attack power is weak, Artoria's defense relies on magic release, and maintaining magic release also consumes magic power.

Even if she doesn't release her magic, the Shadow Wolf's attack power, though weak, can still hurt her.

So now everything requires magic.

Her magic isn't limitless!

Whether it's maintaining the release of magic or the magic loss caused by each attack on the Shadow Puppet, the amount of magic consumed is quite large.

Moreover, her intuition was telling her that the shadow puppet posed a threat—meaning that this shadow puppet, which she couldn't attack and which appeared and disappeared unpredictably, must have the ability to harm her.

It's just that Roland probably didn't use it because he was afraid it would actually hurt him.

That's why this attrition tactic was chosen.

But Artoria's serious nature made her insist on finishing the game.

She didn't stop until she felt she was starting to use Roland's magic to replenish her own.

After all, although she has a contract with Roland, it is reasonable for a Servant to replenish magic power from their Master—but this is a competition after all, and she would not accept it if she won in this way.

This made Artoria put down her sword.

"I lost."

Artoria is actually very competitive, but she will also admit her defeats.

After she conceded defeat, Roland used Shadow Movement to return to the arena and then released the Shadow Wolf and the Shadow Puppet.

"Hmm... Thank you for your help. I've tried almost everything that needed to be tried in this competition, so I have a plan for the next step."

Roland didn't stand on ceremony with Artoria because he knew that it would be impolite to be polite to her after winning.

The onlookers were also quite moved.

Iskandar and Cú Chulainn never imagined that Roland would win in the end, even though it was just a competition.

Furthermore, considering Roland's use of the Shadow Puppet and Shadow Wolf in this competition, the two of them, putting themselves in his shoes, realized that if Artoria were replaced by them, dealing with her would actually be quite troublesome...

That's how they were, and Aozaki Touko and Bazett were even more amazed.

Although their opinions had changed somewhat because of Hyakko, they still didn't know what to say when Roland actually won—especially since Aozaki Touko now knew that Roland had only been learning magic for a few days.

miracle!

This was Aozaki Touko's evaluation of Roland before the competition began, but it still applies now, since Aozaki Touko doesn't know how else to evaluate Roland.

Cú Chulainn, Iskandar, Aozaki Touko, and Bazett were all absent for their own reasons, but Medea and Hyakko immediately gathered around Roland to congratulate him on his victory.

Beo joined them, and she's been acting more and more like a husky lately. She came over and made a ruckus for a bit, which brightened up the atmosphere considerably.

However, Roland was not actually that proud of himself for defeating Artoria once.

He didn't say it out loud as a sign of respect for Artoria, but he couldn't be completely oblivious to the fact that his method of winning was actually somewhat opportunistic.