Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

Operation begins!

The evil of this world and Angolan Mainyu are not the same thing.

Before being corrupted by Angra Mainyu, the Greater Grail contained only pure magical energy. However, after Angra Mainyu corrupted the Greater Grail, this magical energy became tainted and transformed into the evil of this world.

So if you destroy the Greater Grail, then the evil of this world will disappear from this position after one round of eruption.

But Angolan Manuel will not.

Even without the Greater Grail, as long as he carries a portion of the evil of this world with him, he can still roam freely.

So the setup we need to do this time is actually very simple.

Medea and Aozaki Touko together unleashed a large-scale magic spell. Relying on the fact that Ryudouji Temple was an extremely excellent spiritual site, Medea had transformed the surrounding area into a temple and used almost all of the temple's magic power in this spell.

This technique is specifically designed to target the evils of this world.

This is also what Medea and Aozaki Touko are going to do.

That is to use this technique to temporarily suppress the evil of this world.

As for Angolan Mainyu—that's the enemy Roland had to deal with.

Are you really going to go by yourself?

Bai Mao watched Roland walk towards the Greater Grail, and slowly spoke from within the shadows.

"Of course, after all, this was already decided, wasn't it?"

Roland walked up to the Greater Grail, then turned around and smiled at Bai Mao.

"Don't worry, I never do things I'm not sure I can do."

As Roland said this, he reached out his hand to the Greater Grail.

When his hand touched the Greater Grail, he disappeared in the light emanating from it.

When Roland regained his vision, he found himself in a very special space.

The surroundings seemed to be pitch black, with a dark reddish chaos constantly flowing around it. Roland's location was surrounded by this chaos, a vast, empty, desolate space with almost nothing in it.

And here, Roland also saw Angolan Mainyu.

"You actually found your way here..."

When Angolan saw Roland arrive, he slowly stood up from the ground.

He wore a red cloak over his lower body and a headband of the same color on his head. His exposed muscles were covered with strange, dense patterns. He stared at Roland with his golden eyes, and although he was smiling, he exuded an extremely obvious malice.

"Although I am the weakest Servant I have ever seen, it was a mistake for you, a magician, to come to me in person."

"Ah, no, it's that this is actually the only way you can deal with me."

"After all, this space is located inside the Greater Grail, and it is a ritual site specifically used to sacrifice Servants in this ritual called the Holy Grail War. So you are afraid that I will control the Holy Grail's abilities, so you directly send away the Servants who come here?"

"If that's the case, then you've truly been driven into a corner."

As he said this, Angra Mainyu spread his arms, and a dark, shadow-like malice instantly covered his entire body. Then he transformed into a dark orc that resembled a werewolf, but whose features and ears looked even more cunning and repulsive.

Furthermore, his originally cheerful voice, after transforming into this form, became a special tone that was hard to describe as either hoarse or deep, but sounded as if multiple people's voices had been forcibly synthesized together.

"—Even if I'm weak, I'm still a Servant!"

With one foot on the ground, Angolan Mainyu charged directly towards Roland's location.

Although Angra Mainyu always claims to be the weakest Servant, he actually has an A rating in speed, which is about the same as Hundred Faces before he splits into multiple forms.

This speed would be practically a death sentence for a normal human being.

but...

His opponent is Roland!

His movements were easily detected by Roland's six eyes.

Then the pitch-black shadow crawled onto Roland's body, putting Roland into a semi-fused state of shadow fusion.

At this moment, his attributes were comparable to those of Artoria.

Facing the charging Angolan Manuel, Roland took the initiative to meet him, found a good position to attack, and then slapped his right hand directly at Angolan Manuel's head.

Most people probably don't know much about Angolan Manuel.

But Roland knew that this guy's Noble Phantasm, Omnipotent Copy, had a counter-damage effect.

As long as he doesn't die and activates his Noble Phantasm, his injuries will be reflected back to his opponent.

This thing attacks by using curses.

It was not a purely physical attack.

So if he actually succeeds in launching it, it will still be a bit troublesome.

This led Roland to choose the simplest and purest method: a one-hit kill.

As he slapped his hand toward Angolan Mainyu’s head, a passage through the imaginary space opened directly in his palm.

After Roland's hand reached Angra Mainyu's head, the channel of the imaginary space directly put Angra Mainyu's head into it. Before he could even pull his head out, Roland directly closed the channel of the imaginary space, thus severing his head on the spot by the spatial rift!

It was like this after just one glance.

But Roland did not stop being on guard, even after the headless corpse had fallen to the ground.

And in fact, Roland was indeed right.

The headless black orc's corpse lay motionless on the ground. After a while, realizing that Roland still wouldn't take the bait, it had no choice but to get up. Then, the blackness slowly faded, revealing Angra Mainyu's appearance once again.

He scratched his head and continued to face Roland with that malicious smile.

"You really aren't easily fooled."

"And just now I clearly used the portion of this world's evil that originally existed within me as a construct, specifically to expose you to it, but judging from your state, this world's evil doesn't seem to be as useful to you as I imagined..."

Hearing him say that, Roland still had the same expression, still looking at him indifferently.

“Use the evil of this world to fight your enemies—that’s the first thing I could think of in my plan against you.”

"Use some kind of disguise to cover up your injuries, then lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. Once I enter the range of your Noble Phantasm, you will activate your Noble Phantasm to reflect your injuries back at me—this is the combat method I recorded in the third version of the plan against you."

Upon hearing Roland's words, Angolan Manuel's smile froze slightly.

"I didn't expect you to know about my Noble Phantasm... But what are you talking about? I'm not injured at all."

Hearing his words, Roland shook his head slightly.

"The limitation of your Noble Phantasm in reflecting injuries is that if you die before you can activate it, then it's as if it's useless. Also, after reflecting the injuries, your own injuries will not heal. So you need someone to fight alongside you and then finish off the enemy when both you and the enemy are seriously injured."

"However, you have the help of the evils of this world. Even if most of the evils of this world are suppressed, they still remain within you."

"Let me correct what you said earlier. The reason I didn't send Servants to deal with you is not because this is some kind of ritual site, but because of the evil of this world that still exists within you."

"Now let's get back to the topic we were discussing. Now that you have a way to help you fight the enemy when you are seriously injured, the only limitation of your Noble Phantasm is the degree of injury."

"But if it's an enemy, they can't be trusted no matter what—so since your Noble Phantasm only reflects damage, attacking yourself to control the extent of your injury is probably the best way to use it."

When Angolan heard Roland break down his information bit by bit and explain it in detail, even he couldn't quite maintain his smile.

Because everything Roland said was true!

As arguably the weakest Servant, he only had a few moves, and now Roland had seen through them all!

This made his expression even more unpleasant.

But his expression didn't elicit a smug look from Roland; instead, he received Roland's still calm voice.

"Stop acting. As the vessel to bear the evil of this world, if you can't even withstand this little bit of malice, then you're still Angolan Manuel—you should still have some trump cards up your sleeve, so use them now, or else let's end this."

Upon hearing Roland's words, Angolan Manuel's expression instantly returned to its original state, and he even smiled more happily than before.

"I never thought there would be anyone in this world who could understand me. If I could, I really wouldn't want to kill you. I really want to assimilate you into our group... But unfortunately, that might not be possible with you."

"Since that's the case, then I'm sorry—you'll die here!"

As Angolan Manuel spoke, two dark humanoid figures appeared beside him.

One was wielding two guns, and the other was in full armor and holding a sword.

From this point on, all of Angolan Manuel's actions were within Roland's calculations.

And Roland finally saw the goal he had come here for.

In other words, shadow followers.

....

50. Shadow Dragon

Roland came to Angola Mainyu with multiple purposes, and purifying the Holy Grail was just the most basic one.

One reason is to guard against the evils of this world that he may possess.

And that's another reason for coming to find the Shadow Followers.

Roland had a general idea that Angra Mainyu would use Shadow Servants, but when Medea was gathering information, she also discovered that besides the evil of this world and Angra Mainyu that Roland had mentioned, there was something else in the Greater Grail—something like fragments of Heroic Spirits.

Roland thought about this for a long time and finally decided that it might be a Shadow Servant.