Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

It's not impossible to persuade them to carry out the raid plan... but these heroes who will leave their mark on history still have many of their own ideas.

You can't just treat them like dogs.

If you don't even respect others, why would you expect them to respect you?

Therefore, although Roland had some ideas about the sneak attack plan, he kept delaying, suppressing, and filling in the gaps.

The purpose was to buy time for himself and the other Servants to get to know each other, so that after they understood him, they would at least help him carry out the plan, if not agree with it.

However, Roland shelved this ambush plan when he drew the Shadow Fusion skill.

After all, Roland wasn't the kind of person who was inflexible or ignorant of human nature.

The initial idea for the sneak attack was that it was necessary, but after drawing the Shadow Fusion, Roland felt that his side's direct combat capabilities had also expanded to a certain extent, so the sneak attack could be used as a backup plan.

Since these Servants want to fight head-on, then let them fight head-on!

Therefore, Roland subsequently developed a targeted plan for direct combat.

And it just so happens that she gets to know Gilgamesh through Artoria.

Gilgamesh defeated Iskandar while standing still in the same spot during the Fourth War, barely moving at all.

In addition, his near-killing of Hercules and Ishtar during this Holy Grail War allowed other Servants to assess the opponent's strength, thus preventing them from denying the decision to attack together.

After all, if we're talking about sneak attacks, aside from characters like Bai Mao and Medea, most people probably wouldn't think that's something a hero should do.

But if you're talking about everyone joining forces when facing a powerful enemy—even knights and warriors like Artoria and Cú Chulainn wouldn't be so naive as to deny that.

All we need is direct combat!

Therefore, the venue that Roland had arranged in advance for Medea and Aozaki Touko was a pure temple. Apart from the necessary environmental modifications and cognitive interference barriers, all the remaining magic power was used to provide magic for these heroic spirits.

After all, although Roland was not lacking in magic, it was far less comfortable to supply magic to him than to supply it in this way.

And

He wasn't going to just stand by and watch!

Roar--!

As Gilgamesh blocked Ishtar's attack, before he could even retaliate, a roar rang out.

Gilgamesh's attention shifted to that direction, and the other Servants were also watching.

Then Roland expanded directly from his original shadow form, and as his wings spread, he transformed into a giant shadow dragon!

At this moment, he was positioned behind Gilgamesh.

The reason Artoria was allowed to launch a frontal attack with the Holy Sword was because the Holy Sword was very powerful, while Gilgamesh's Ea required warm-up—that is, the blade needed to rotate.

Therefore, if Artoria has enough initiative, Gilgamesh will inevitably have to use his defensive Noble Phantasm to defend against her.

Hercules and Ishtar's subsequent attacks were both to suppress him and to trick him into revealing more of his defensive Noble Phantasms.

After all, whether it was the Holy Sword or the attacks from Maana the Sky Boat, even though Gilgamesh seemed to defend against them with ease, they were not things that were so easy to block.

So now Roland has started to take action.

He bent down, opened his mouth, and took a deep breath!

Then he drew the golden flames into his mouth and spat them out!

As he spewed flames, crimson lightning also began to emanate from his body, directly blocking the other part of the Chains of Heaven that Gilgamesh intended to entangle him with.

After all, even if Roland unleashed his divinity, it would be heterogeneous divinity, and the Chains of Heaven could not target him.

Without divine blessing, the Chains of Heaven in Gilgamesh's hands are nothing more than a relatively sturdy lock, especially since the Chains of Heaven also have to deal with the demon-dispelling lightning on Roland's body!

So, under these circumstances, Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes in the face of the golden flames.

The number of Noble Phantasms in his Gate of Babylon is countless, so the defensive Noble Phantasm he has taken out now is only a part of all his defensive Noble Phantasms.

This part was enough for him to block the Holy Sword plus the normal attacks from Tianzhou Ma'ana.

So if he wanted to block the dragon flames behind him, he just needed to bring out more defensive Noble Phantasms—just like his defense against frontal attacks. As long as he had enough defensive Noble Phantasms, he could deal with any problem by releasing one of those Noble Phantasms at any time.

Unless he is suppressed by Tiamat's absolute power, Gilgamesh will never be completely without a means to deal with any situation.

However, there is a problem here.

That is, defensive Noble Phantasms and offensive Noble Phantasms are different.

When Gilgamesh normally uses his offensive Noble Phantasms, he only needs to expend a little magic power to take the item out and then push it out; that's enough.

However, using defensive Noble Phantasms is different. He needs to take the item out and maintain it in a fixed position, and may even need to deactivate some of its effects...

This method requires far more mana than using offensive Noble Phantasms.

If it is Gilgamesh's true form, like the wise king Gilgamesh in FGO Chapter 7, his magical power is terrifyingly vast.

One person can maintain the normal activities of several heroic spirits while also being able to fight, deploy, and perform high-intensity work.

All you get from doing this is a little more tired and exhausted, and then being ambushed by Ellie.

In addition, Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon contains items for supplying magic, so the mere consumption of magic power is not a problem even if there is some.

But now he's a Servant...

Moreover, Kirei Kotomine is dead.

Angolan's Mainyu was also just eliminated by Roland.

The evil of this world within the Greater Grail is being purified, and it seems that it's about time.

Under these circumstances, Gilgamesh had to consider the issue of magic power.

After all, being a Servant consumes a lot of mana, and as a Servant, he can't use mana-supplying items at will... This body is far too fragile compared to his original body!

He has verified this several times over the past decade.

It's difficult enough to replenish magic power normally, let alone now!

So Gilgamesh determined the nature of the flames.

He saw a curse in the flames... Although he didn't know what the effect of the cursed flames was, apart from the curse, the temperature of the flames themselves was alright, but it was nothing special to him.

The solution is then quite simple.

Gilgamesh transferred a small portion of his Noble Phantasms to his back, unfurled the Noble Phantasms that could grant immunity to most curses, and transformed them into a golden energy shield. He then used four shields to assist in protecting against fire and other attacks.

Finally, Gilgamesh decided to launch an attack!

However... because he lost the initiative, and Gilgamesh was distracted by Artoria, Hercules, and Ishtar, he didn't launch an attack immediately, and now it's too late.

Because as soon as he opened his defenses, the golden flames were indeed blocked.

But even as the flames were blocked, the Shadow Dragon, its entire body enveloped in crimson lightning, had already charged forward through the flames!

The Shadow Dragon's massive size, combined with the demon-slaying lightning, shattered Gilgamesh's defenses on his back in a single collision. The Shadow Dragon, lying on the ground, instantly extended its claws and swept them directly towards Gilgamesh!

His physical abilities, three times that of Artoria, were unleashed to their fullest extent at this moment.

Gilgamesh, as a Servant, had no chance to even react to such a surprise attack.

By the time he noticed, Shadow Dragon's claws were already about to strike him!

Artoria, observing the situation, was only slightly surprised that Roland had transformed into the Shadow Dragon, but for some reason, the Shadow Dragon's silhouette seemed vaguely familiar...

But before she could think too much about it, Iskandar's chariot arrived beside her.

"Don't just stand there, King of Knights—the first phase of the operation went exactly as Roland predicted. Now it's time to begin the second phase."

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54. Thousand-mile Eyes

Roland was not skilled in martial arts.

So he was originally thinking that since he had the ability to transform into a dragon, he should learn some knowledge about Shadow Dragon combat.

But after he actually used Shadow Dragon form, Roland discovered that he was not as he had imagined in this state. Fighting against smaller creatures was like a human swatting a mosquito—extremely clumsy.

On the contrary, after his speed increased, Roland played with exceptional agility.

His attack methods hardly needed any learning; he seemed to have a fighting instinct ingrained in his bones, making him naturally adept at fighting with the body of a dragon.

This instinct was even more natural for him than fighting in his human form.

It made him wonder if Vortigern's Dragon Shadow contained knowledge of combat.

However, it wasn't until he fought like this several times that he was able to figure out the origin of this instinct based on the moves he subconsciously used while in Shadow Dragon form.

That was not a gift from the Dragon's Shadow.

Instead, it is a violent system that all humans possess, that can be learned without any instruction, and that no one is unable to learn—the most primitive and naive system of violence!

It's the way you vented your anger when you were a baby.

If you only think about a dragon attacking an enemy, many people would probably be full of questions when they think about this issue. They would think that a dragon with such a huge size would be extremely clumsy in battle.

But if you think about how babies smash toys...

hiss--

That's exactly the set of rules!