Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

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At this point, Sieg opened his eyes again and met Roland's gaze with extremely sharp eyes.

"...This plan has undoubtedly failed for you personally, because, barring any unforeseen circumstances, your life is over!"

Zieg spoke with great force, but Roland, upon hearing this, simply smiled and shook his head. His smile was so obvious that it brightened the otherwise serious atmosphere around them.

"Say what you will, I have no intention of arguing with you. After all, I know almost everything about you. My initial plan was just to use you to learn more about the guy behind you, but now I have 680 answers to that question."

"So dealing with you becomes a side effect, just like now, while I'm dealing with Jack's problem, I've also brought you here."

As he spoke, Roland spread his hands and shook his head at Sieg.

"It's that simple... so stop talking and get started."

Seeing Roland like this, Sieg frowned and then issued a cold command.

"Do it!"

As he spoke, he heard a commotion behind him—the sound of heroic spirits taking action, though it sounded like only one heroic spirit was making a move.

Sieg was somewhat dissatisfied with this, but he didn't show it, because it didn't matter. These Heroic Spirits all had their own pride, and now there was only one enemy, at least on the surface, just a magician. One Heroic Spirit was enough to take action.

As Zieg pondered this, a voice approached him.

puff--

The sharp blade pierced his chest, causing blood to spurt out!

Sieg turned his head in disbelief and saw Semiramis giving him a slight smile after betraying him.

Behind Semiramis, the other Heroic Spirits, though some of them didn't look too happy, didn't stop her at all!

At that moment, Sieg understood the source of Roland's confidence as bait.

He also understood what the other party's trap was made of.

Roland was indeed bait, but not a sacrificial pawn.

It was the cheese that was hung in a safe place to lure the mouse into a trap!

And I... am that mouse that has taken the bait!

....

191. Roland: You made the wrong move from the very beginning.

boom!

With Semiramis's backstab, Sieg fell to the ground. Semiramis then drew her sword and walked towards Roland's location, while the other Heroic Spirits from both sides moved towards Roland from the left and right.

Sieg lay prostrate in the pool of blood, slowly raising his hand toward Semiramis's retreating figure.

"...Why?"

Zig is a parallel world convergent. He has been brutally converged to an extremely obsessive degree, so he will not give up or find peace just because he is about to die.

He is currently using Honkai energy to heal his core, while also assessing the distance between himself and the Heroic Spirits. At the same time, he plans to use this dialogue to disrupt their judgment, making them believe that they are really about to die and are no longer a threat.

Upon hearing his voice, Roland gave him a rather amused look but said nothing. Semiramis, however, stopped and turned back to explain to him.

"why?"

She looked down at Zig lying on the ground with indifference.

"From the moment you treated us like fools, or from the moment you treated us like disposable tools, there's really no reason why."

"Perhaps someone like Siegfried wouldn't betray you willingly, but it seems like someone like me made the decision the moment I understood everything."

"If you have someone to blame, it's only because you brought it on yourself."

Semiramis left those words and continued walking toward Roland, while Sieg calculated the distance between himself and Semiramis, who was now closest to him.

When Semiramis reached Roland's side, Sieg's seemingly weak hand, which he had extended earlier, instantly clenched.

"burst!"

He adjusted the blast radius, minimizing it so that it wouldn't completely ignore him, but he wouldn't die from the explosion. His core problem could also be slowly repaired, while these guys in front of him would all die in that instant!

As Sieg made this move, all the Heroic Spirits present could feel an incredibly violent power expanding within their bodies!

At that moment, they all understood what was going on.

Before they could say anything, Roland raised his hand, and the Honkai energy that was expanding within them all quieted down, turning into streams of light that emerged from their bodies and converged towards Roland's raised hand.

The violent Honkai energy coalesced into a small sphere of light in Roland's hand.

In his hands, they are as obedient and gentle as cats.

Seeing this, the heroic spirits on both sides of the red and black sides were somewhat surprised, but the most surprised was obviously Sieg.

"Why!?"

This time, it wasn't Zieg's clever trick anymore.

Rather, he genuinely didn't understand what was happening before him.

Roland laughed when he heard his roar.

"In the end, the fact that you chose to use Honkai energy against me is foolish enough... After all, Honkai energy was originally brought back by me, and then in a deal with Gaia and Alaya, I asked them to help me spread the energy throughout human history as a condition."

"If I had to describe it in a way that you could easily understand, then just think of me as the Honkai God."

"You'll lose here."

Following Roland's words, the Honkai energy that was repairing Sieg's core instantly stopped its repair function.

Without this energy to repair the core, Sieg's life truly began to slip away.

Looking at Zieg like this, Roland spoke up.

He was explaining to Sieg, and also to the heroic spirits who came to his side.

“I was the first to take action, taking the Greater Grail from the Yggdrasil, and then I shot down the Hanging Gardens... You should have noticed the combat capabilities I displayed at that time.”

"So you should have noticed at that time that we have the ability to directly eliminate all Heroic Spirits."

"Although I deliberately chose Karna when attacking the Hanging Gardens, and I didn't let Artoria go all out when attacking the Yggdrasil when Achilles and the others weren't around, and I also stole the Greater Grail—but these parts are, after all, a kind of disguise. Disguise has flaws, and this flaw is where you should have placed your piece. It's just a pity that you didn't notice it."

"Then, when I attacked the Hanging Gardens, I also took action against the imprisoned Masters, taking all of their Command Seals and starting to supply them with magic."

"This part was bait I laid out, but if things went according to my plan, even if I used a Command Spell to make Semiramis reveal that the offering came from the Greater Grail, it wouldn't fool a clever person—so I prepared a lot of evidence for this, and this bait was originally intended to lure you into a complete confrontation by making sure you noticed the flaw in the first phase..."

"But unfortunately, you were too eager for quick success, so you didn't place your pieces in the right positions. You don't know that the Honkai energy comes from me, so it's not your problem to use Honkai energy. But it's not right that you have such blind faith in Honkai energy, an energy you don't understand at all, and you don't have the slightest doubt about it."

"You left Honkai energy in the bodies of these Heroic Spirits, so much so that I no longer need Command Seals to communicate with them. I can just use the Honkai energy in their bodies to communicate with them. So from that moment on, the chance of turning the tide is very, very small."

"The reason I gave you the opportunity to go on an expedition is mainly because it takes time for me to convince these heroic spirits."

"Once I've completely convinced them, then you'll be of no use anymore."

At this point, Roland shrugged.

“I didn’t even intend to go looking for you on purpose. Instead, I used the excuse of dealing with Jack to lure you and my men here… Alright, I’ve explained everything I needed to. Goodbye, Zieg.”

After Roland finished speaking, he turned around, and at that moment, Sieg collapsed to the ground, dead.

At this moment, Roland turned his attention to the heroic spirits of the red and black sides. It seemed that Siegfried, Karna and the like did not react much, and Semiramis was similar.

However, it seems that people like Astolfo and Frankenstein subconsciously straightened their backs when Roland looked over, adopting the posture of a leader reviewing troops.

Seeing them like this, Roland smiled.

"Don't be too nervous. The reason I approached you is to get you to join my side. I'm not exactly a good person when dealing with enemies, but I'm not so serious when dealing with my own people. Just relax."

"So, I've explained everything that needed to be explained. My invitation was already sent out when I was trying to persuade you. Now, can you give me an answer?"

"Want to join?"

Roland had already given them a general overview of the matter concerning the gods and given them ample time to consider whether to join. So now that Roland had formally extended the invitation, these heroic spirits had all made their decisions.

Semiramis was the first to agree.

She didn't care about immortality or becoming stronger, nor did she care about other worlds. She just wanted to see what kind of person Roland, whose gaze had never lingered on her, really was. That was all.

Siegfried didn't have many ideas to begin with, so he nodded in agreement when Roland said so.

Karna breathed a sigh of relief and agreed.

He was still unsure what kind of place Roland meant by the "gods' group," so he decided to see it for himself.

Astolfo and Frankenstein both agreed immediately.

Especially Astolfo.

Because he had originally planned that if the Holy Grail War ended and he was still able to stay, he would choose to stay and continue his adventures in the modern world.

Chiron had met Hercules before, and after learning that Hercules had also joined, he was a little worried about Hercules in that state, so he agreed to join as well.

Achilles, seeing that Chiron had agreed, also agreed, and Atalanta nodded in agreement as well.

But Avisbro and Vlad III were different.

They thought about it for a moment, but ultimately refused.

Eight joined, two refused.

(Qian Hao Zhao) At that moment, eight enhancement points appeared on Roland's page, the number of members reached 51, the center bonus also reached Lv10, and this time it showed (MAX) no longer had a display of how many members to reach to upgrade, indicating that this part has reached the maximum level.