Zongman: Picked up Medea at the beginning

She is such an unexpectedly enthusiastic person.

But after Bazette turned her head, she heard Aozaki Touko say these words with an extremely gentle smile.

"Beo is gone, you can be my familiar. Don't worry, I will work hard to make money to support you."

Um! ?

Bazette was visibly stunned for a moment, then she subconsciously distanced herself from Aozaki Touko, and stared at her with an expression as if she was checking her intention.

Seeing her like this, Aozaki Touko couldn't help but laughed out loud. After hearing her laughter, Bazette realized that he was fooled by her again and walked up to Aozaki Touko angrily.

"Sure enough, you were lying when you said you had a split personality! Look, your personality is pretty bad when you wear glasses!"

"Hehe... Who knows~"

"You guy...!"

Seeing that Bazette was really getting angry, Aozaki Touko quickly apologized and said a few nice words. After Bazette calmed down, she stopped joking with her and instead analyzed the situation seriously for her.

"Let's put your own thoughts aside. Although I have only known Roland for a short time, I know that he is not a conceited person..."

Having said that, Aozaki Touko also looked at Medea and Roland who were not far away.

"...So if he really said that, it means that he might really need to find Altria to test some techniques."

"That's it."

While Aozaki Touko was analyzing carefully, a strange voice suddenly sounded beside her.

The voice startled Aozaki Touko, and Bazette's gaze pierced directly over.

The two of them were a little wary, but Roland, who also looked over, recognized them at a glance.

"Bai Mao, it seems that you have really changed."

Roland spoke directly, which surprised Aozaki Touko and Bazette.

After all, the changes in appearance are quite big.

Previously, Baimao was always dressed in black, and looked like a shadow man, but now she has long purple hair and a pair of big purple eyes that are a little dull, but also very beautiful. Her skin is slightly brown, and she looks great with the black robe and the good figure that is faintly visible under the robe...

This girl looks like a beautiful girl no matter how you look at her. Who can recognize that she is Hassan the Hundred Faces?

This couldn't be blamed on Orange and Bazette. In fact, if one only looked with their eyes, even Roland, the only time traveler who was not Hassan the Hundred Faces dressed in black whom they had seen in the records in their previous life, wouldn't have been recognized by sight.

Instead, the Command Seal of Bai Mao was on Roland. Roland knew that she was Bai Mao through the contract, and then he vaguely discovered that the appearance of this Bai Mao was the mature version of the little Hassan in the information.

Baimao also knew that his Command Seal was on Roland, so it was impossible for Roland not to recognize him.

But Baimao pretended nothing had happened. When she saw that Roland was the only one who recognized her, she gave him a smile that seemed to have been honed through thousands of trials and tribulations and was extremely perfectly proportioned.

"Yeah, after all, you've helped me so much. If I were still immersed in the past, wouldn't that be a waste of your help? But since you said that to me before, I'm going to rely on you from now on~"

Hearing her say this, Roland smiled and said nothing. Instead, he turned his head and continued to look at Medea.

As expected, when he turned around, he saw Medea looking at him. However, as soon as their eyes met, Medea turned away immediately like a startled rabbit, trying to pretend that she had done nothing just now - but Roland, who had six eyes, still discovered at the first time that she had even drawn the barrier spell crookedly.

Baimao saw this scene and shook her head slightly. Then she continued with what Aozaki Touko had just said.

"Roland will not do something completely meaningless. Although you all don't think highly of Roland, Altria will not release her treasures during the competition. She will not even use the holy sword, but only the wooden sword. So I think that even if Altria can win this game, it will not be an easy win."

"Oh?"

After knowing that the beautiful purple-haired girl next to him was Baimao, Bazette's sharp gaze was filled with a hint of apology, but Aozaki Touko started talking to her very naturally.

"Although I agree with you on Roland's evaluation, but Baimao... modern magicians are not as good at fighting as you think, especially in frontal combat."

"I don't deny that Roland is a very powerful magician. When I fought him before, I couldn't see through his magic at all. His group of gods far exceeded my imagination."

"But when he competed with Artoria... I think it was because Artoria's resistance to magic was very strong, and her attributes were very high, that Roland asked Artoria to test some spells, just like I would occasionally ask Beo to test spells."

"It's just a magic test. If you give him too high an evaluation, it will make him feel too stressed."

"The reason why miracles are called miracles is because they are rare. You are all expecting too much."

Hearing what Aozaki Touko said, Baimao did not respond to her directly, but asked a question.

"So how long did it take you to reach your current level?"

Baimao's question made Aozaki Touko a little dazed.

how long?

She has been demanding herself to be a "future magician" since she was young, and has been working hard to get in touch with these things since then. Even though she was abandoned later, she has never given up magic until now.

"... several decades."

After a moment of trance, Aozaki Touko gave the answer.

Bai Mao laughed when he heard her say that.

She knew about Roland's experience, and Roland had no intention of hiding it. He had mentioned the reason why he participated in the Holy Grail War during the previous Holy Grail Q&A session. It was just that it seemed that Aozaki Touko's attention was attracted by the group of gods at that time - so Baimao now said something that Aozaki Touko had not noticed before.

"What if I told you that Roland didn't even have his magic circuits activated before he participated in the Holy Grail War, and he knew nothing about magic, let alone magic seals - and it only took him a few days to reach his current level of magic, would you still think that we overestimated him?"

Aozaki Touko had always been very calm before.

Whether he was joking with Bazett or discussing the competition.

Because just like she said, she knows magicians too well, especially modern magicians, so she thinks other people are expecting too much.

But if what Bai Mao said is true...

When she thought of this possibility, Aozaki Touko straightened up with a solemn expression, like a believer waiting for the prayer to begin.

She began to take the upcoming competition seriously.

By now, Medea's arrangements had been completed. Artoria and Beo also walked out of the mansion, and Roland walked directly into the venue.

Aozaki Touko watched both parties enter, and when Medea dragged Beo to the side, she spoke and gave her answer.

"Not high... Even though my life has been tied to magic since birth, I can tell you this - not only is it not high, but your evaluation is even a little low."

"If what you said is true, then Roland doesn't need to do anything to prove himself. We just sit here and watch him, which is equivalent to looking directly at a miracle."

"If I had known this earlier, I would have said directly that Roland might win - after all, he is a miracle himself, so why don't we believe that he can create some more miracles?"

......

30. Shenwei

The judgment given by Aozaki Touko is particularly pertinent.

Because there is actually a similar example in the original development - that is Shirou Emiya.

It only took him a few days to go from not being able to use magic circuits and having only a mediocre knowledge of magic to being able to fight Gilgamesh head-on.

He was able to use the inherent barrier from a novice in just a few days... This was even more surprising than the 27 magic circuits of the first generation magician.

Although there are many factors that contribute to his ability to do this, generally speaking, people who can do this have their own opportunities and advantages.

So after Aozaki Touko learned that Roland had reached his current level after only a few days of learning magic, her evaluation of Roland immediately rose to this level - and she, who had no chance of reading the original work and had no idea about the future of Shirou Emiya, who was still a half-baked person, made an extremely accurate prediction.

Roland himself also felt that after having the Shadow Wolf and the Shadow Puppet, he should be able to fight against the Servants by using his shadow manipulation skills combined with the Six Eyes and imaginary magic, so he challenged Altria to a competition.

After all, this is related to whether his subsequent plans should be more radical or conservative.

If he already has a certain level of self-protection ability, and can handle Altria with ease, and some tests of his skills have all given positive feedback - then he feels that he can take the risk and steal Gilgamesh now.

He never doubted whether Gilgamesh could join the group of gods, because he must be qualified.

But he also had no doubt about whether Gilgamesh would join his group of gods, because he would definitely not join.

Therefore, Gilgamesh is an object that cannot be won over, and he will be sent away sooner or later, so if there is a chance, Roland will take action against him.

Relying on the fact that Gilgamesh would not take it seriously, he teamed up Iskandar and Bazett and activated the inherent barrier.

It is very likely that Gilgamesh will use EA when facing the King's Army, and then let Bazette use the Sword of Backlight.

After that, he asked Iskandar to open the inherent barrier and pull his shadow wolf in at the same time. If he took advantage of the point where the shadow wolf had no magic fluctuations to lurk, then when Gilgamesh was dealing with the backlight sword, he would take the opportunity to use shadow movement to bring Cu Chulainn into the inherent barrier, and then let Cu Chulainn shoot Gilgamesh at close range!

Even if Gilgamesh could react, I could use Shadow Binding to restrain him if I were there.

In that case, just one moment is enough.

Even if Gilgamesh could break free in an instant, facing the Sword of Backlight and Cu Chulainn's magic spear at the same time, he would most likely be eliminated.

After all, he won't be serious, so the success rate of using this method to make him leave is very high.

But there are risks as well.

I need a certain level of self-protection ability, and if I want to complete this plan, I need to find a strong enough target to test the effects of many of my skills.

If it works, then this plan can be put on the agenda.

If not

Then we can only play more conservatively.

Roland invited Altria with this idea in mind.

At this moment, Altria was standing opposite him, holding a wooden sword with a serious look on her face.

"Although it's a competition, I won't hold back."

Maybe it was because of Altria's intuition that she vaguely realized that Roland wanted to verify whether she was qualified to take the risk, or maybe it was because Altria's strong desire to win in similar matters came up, but in any case, she was very serious.

Roland nodded to her.

Then the competition began.

boom!

At the beginning, accompanied by a loud bang, Altria appeared in front of Roland.

Even though Roland was very careful about this, he was still shocked when he actually encountered it.

At this moment, Roland actually experienced the speed that broke the speed of sound as recorded in the copywriting of Altria.

Fortunately, he was prepared.

So the moment Altria came in front of him, Roland disappeared from the spot.

Ok?

Artoria was a little puzzled when her sword missed, but soon, a dozen shadows wandered in the venue, and the moment they got close to Artoria, they jumped out - they were black wolves, attacking Artoria from all directions!

Seeing this scene, Altria swung the sword in her hand.

Every blow of her sword could accurately hit the most vulnerable part of a shadow wolf. Even the two shadow wolves that Roland had secretly hidden before, intending to take advantage of the shadow wolves' lack of magic fluctuations to launch a sneak attack and send out to bite Altria's legs, were discovered by her intuition and then hit twice.

But purely physical attacks are useless against these shadow wolves.

Even if these shadow wolves were hit, they would not retreat, but would bite directly.

Although Altria had not expected this, she still made amends as quickly as possible. She simply turned the sword horizontally and used the terrifying force to create wind pressure, blowing away several shadow wolves.

However, the two at the bottom were closest to her and still bit her legs.

It was at this moment that Altria found herself unable to move.

Then in a moment, all the other shadow wolves bit her.

Shadow Binding was activated.

However, Artoria immediately started releasing her magic power. The terrifying magic power burned on her body. Layer upon layer of air waves were like the raging waves of the earth, spreading out towards the surroundings with her as the core.

All the shadow wolves that bit her were blown away, and at this moment Roland finally found the condition to break free from the shadow bondage.

If Shadow Wolf is used to trigger Shadow Binding, then simply blowing Shadow Wolf away is a solution - but Altria actually broke free from Shadow Binding before that.

She broke free from the shadow bondage by relying on her own physical strength and magic.

Not just one, but both.

It is because of this that Kotomine Kirei, who does not have outstanding magic power, is completely unable to break free, and Aozaki Touko, whose physical fitness is not as good as Roland who has received the blessing of the gods, is unable to break free.

But Altria is different.

Even if Roland received the blessing of the Lv2 gods, his physical attributes were still far inferior to those of Altria who had activated her magic power.

In terms of magic power, his magic power is even a little more than that of Altria's monstrous magic power, but facing Altria's magic power that can even allow her to activate the holy sword and use high-level magic, the magic power he releases is not that much, so he is dragged down by his physical attributes, allowing the shadow binding to be directly broken free.

But because Roland had a lot of magic power, even if he bound Altria, it would take her a moment to break free, otherwise she would not have been bitten by so many shadow wolves.

But even so, there are no visible injuries on Altria's body now.