Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

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A mixed force comprised of the magicians of the Yggdrasil, androids, and Avisbro's puppets launched a direct charge towards the enemy, and then...

Seeing this situation, Iskandar decisively gave the order, and countless soldiers lined up neatly and set up their Orichalcum weapons!

In an instant, tens of thousands of magic bullets, like raindrops propelled by a strong wind, slammed into the mixed forces of the expeditionary army from the front, like a violent gust of wind or a scythe cutting through straw!

Faced with such an offensive, the troops simply couldn't break through!

The Orichalcos equipment, enhanced with magic, alchemy, technology, and other techniques, can destroy a golem over three meters tall with each magic bullet!

These magic bullets don't just hit one person at a time; they can hit two or even three at once!

So the mixed forces' formation was shattered in almost a single encounter.

However, among the Heroic Spirits of both the Red and Black sides, it seems that Heroic Spirits like Vlad III have all been on the battlefield and even won a lot of glory in this regard.

Although it was their first time seeing Orichalcos equipment, they reacted immediately and used communication techniques to issue orders, directly instructing their troops to change their formation and offensive strategy.

Although the mixed forces were suppressed by Orihagan's equipment, they also had one advantage.

That means being obedient!

Magicians are only a minority at Yggdrasil; the majority are androids and puppets, and these guys will never back down unless they are given a command.

So although some magicians had begun to flee, it did not have much impact on the overall offensive. Under the orders of the Heroic Spirits, the offensive quickly changed. Heroic Spirits such as Karna and Achilles also joined the offensive and rushed to the front of the group.

Iskandar, who was using spells to survey the entire battlefield, noticed this and grinned.

"Although it was a bit chaotic at the beginning, there are still quite a few formidable individuals here—hahaha, in that case, let me show you our battle formation!"

The forces of Iskandar are famous in many places.

The most famous of these is the battle formation known as the Macedonian phalanx!

If we had to say something, from a modern perspective, the Macedonian phalanx itself wasn't particularly impressive.

Because the Macedonian phalanx was used on battlefields where even the bow and arrow, the king of ancient battlefields, were unavailable, this phalanx had a huge potential for development.

The terrain was compact—so even if a single soldier was afraid, he couldn't possibly retreat.

Wide attack range – once the spear is drawn, the attack comes from almost all directions for the enemy in front of it.

This combination of characteristics, along with the elite troops and cavalry on both flanks, and the stone-throwing attacks by the slingers in Iskandar's army due to the lack of bows and arrows, resulted in a massive stone-throwing attack.

It certainly has its advantages for a frontal assault.

But Iskandar lived in the modern era and, having learned about bows and arrows, firearms, and even Honkai energy weapons, naturally rendered such a battle formation obsolete to him!

However, while the Macedonian phalanx itself was phased out, Iskandar's ideas in this regard were inherited.

First is the attack surface, then the density of the attack.

This combination of characteristics and artillery barrage—this forms Iskandar's entirely new battle formation!

So after the expeditionary force dispersed and launched their charge, they quickly suffered another setback!

Because when they rushed up, they discovered that the enemy's artillery fire was too dense!

Every point they could think of that was suitable for an assault was subjected to focused fire suppression!

The location of the heroic spirits was also affected by the dense fire coverage, which prevented them from protecting the soldiers behind them. This resulted in them being quickly separated from the main force!

Then, the powerful figures on Iskandar's side also made their move!

Iskandar was never the strongest force in the Royal Army.

Previously, the heroic spirits in the King's Army were weakened because they lacked magic power to maintain themselves. But now that there is an advancement ladder, they not only do not lack magic power, but they have even been strengthened!

Therefore, the royal banner that once gathered in Iskandar and the warriors who had such extravagant dreams directly confronted the spirits of both the red and black sides!

Once Iskandar's Heroic Spirits unleash their full power, they are by no means weak.

Heroes and knights, top-ranking armored kings, and even the founder of a future dynasty are among them!

Without the limitations of magic, and having been strengthened, heroes of Frankenstein and Astolfo's strength were the first to suffer!

Astolfo was in a slightly better position; he had a magnificent eagle that could fly through the sky, and although his situation wasn't great, at least the problem wasn't too serious. Frankenstein, on the other hand, was in a much bigger predicament.

After several warriors surrounded her, she was not only stopped, but she might have been stuck there if it weren't for Atalanta and Chiron providing flank support!

Without the Romanian boost, Vlad III could no longer directly unleash spikes from his opponent's body, and his combat power was reduced, making the fight extremely difficult for him.

Atalanta, though an excellent hunter, was limited in her abilities on such a battlefield. She was even unable to use her Noble Phantasm due to the suppression of firepower.

The fact that everyone was having a hard time fighting meant that Chiron, who was also busy assisting others, didn't get to perform particularly well.

Excluding Semiramis and Avisbro, who didn't even charge in, the three best performing Servants from both sides were Siegfried, Achilles, and Karna!

None of the three of them are ordinary heroic spirits.

It's not something that ordinary heroic spirits can handle.

However, Roland was well-prepared for this.

When Achilles was halfway through his chariot charge, he was struck by a tremendous force, which knocked him off the chariot on the spot!

When he managed to get up using his special skill, the Unfading Flower of the Warrior, which is an incredibly sturdy body, he saw a burly man who looked like an iron tower or a wild beast blocking his way.

Upon seeing this person, Chiron's pupils contracted in the distance, and Achilles quickly became serious as well.

Even though the other person looked like that, they recognized each other very quickly after communicating using a telepathic technique...

—He is Hercules, a Greek hero like Achilles and a disciple of Chiron!

Achilles was the first to be stopped, but not the only one.

What appeared before Siegfried was Mordred, whom Roland had sent after the war broke out, when the Siegfried was dancing.

The one who stopped Karna was Cú Chulainn, who was also a spearman!

To be honest, if the black Cú Chulainn's demonic spear, which could pierce through the opponent's body, was somewhat effective against Karna in his golden armor, then the demonic spear in the blue Cú Chulainn's hand was being countered by Karna's golden armor.

So Roland originally intended for Cú Chulainn to deal with Siegfried, who had a weakness in his back.

However, Cú Chulainn insisted on dealing with Karna, so Roland let him go in this harmless situation.

Then Artoria, who had come with Mordred, was already riding her white horse and charging toward the giant puppet Adam!

With Artoria's charge, the expeditionary force's offensive was completely halted, and then suppressed under the heavy firepower bombardment commanded by Iskandar!

Zieg noticed this and his expression turned grim.

Roland simply smiled at the situation and then left Einzbernburg.

Roland would never do anything meaningless.

So if he really wanted the expeditionary force to attack Einzbernburg, then he wouldn't have specifically transferred Iskandar and his men to set up defenses—transferring them here would mean that Roland never intended for Sieg and his men to break through the defenses in the first place.

Now that the first step had been achieved, Roland swaggered out from the rear of the Einzbernburg defensive line, out of the area it protected, and went to find Jack the Ripper without any attempt to hide it.

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189. Insects on a spider web

Einzbernburg served as Roland's rear base, while Romania was the rear base of the expeditionary force.

After all, although Zieglar mostly used androids and golems when he raised the expeditionary force, such a large army, even if composed of androids, still required certain logistical support. Therefore, Zieglar left the preparations made by Yggdrasil over the years in Romania as a logistical force.

These guys were the logistics troops, the regional administrators, and Zieg's informants.

Jack and her Master were in Romania, so when Roland blatantly came looking for them, their spies noticed and, after Roland easily dealt with several waves of men they sent, they passed the message to the expeditionary force.

The expeditionary force's operations have been consistently unsuccessful.

They failed to advance the battlefield at all; in fact, Roland's troops pushed them back quite a bit!

The expeditionary force originally planned to hold back and wait for the Einzbern army to expand its defensive line before concentrating its attacks on weak points. However, they did retreat, but the expanded defensive line still had no weak points. In fact, the larger battlefield allowed the Einzbern android army to take center stage!

While these android troops were facing off against the expeditionary force in Iskandar, Ilya upgraded them from the rear using the Third Law. In addition, Roland left behind various equipment to support them before leaving, and Ilya even created several pseudo-machine gods to lead the troops.

Such troops are naturally inferior to the heroic armies on Iskandar's side, but as a defender, as long as they don't just hold onto a pass very close to their home base, but instead extend their strategic depth and have a large defensive line, then they should be fine.

So after these android troops took over the defensive mission, Iskandar was completely liberated!

He was never one to enjoy defensive battles, and now that he no longer had to worry about defense, he almost immediately led his troops to chase after the expeditionary force!

Iskandar's sudden offensive turned the expeditionary force from an offensive force into one that was forced to retreat.

Zieg was very worried about this during this period.

Several times he struggled with whether to detonate a few heroic spirits in advance to kill those troublesome guys and thus gain the opportunity to win!

Just as he was about to make up his mind, Semiramis arrived at Sieg's side with information from the headquarters of the World Tree.

"The rear is saying that a strange guy went there, and judging from his route, it seems to be heading to the area where Jack was active—and I can't mistake this man, he's the guy who climbed onto my Sky Garden and shot it down."

Upon hearing the information Semiramis brought, Sieg immediately stopped worrying.

"I remember this guy too..."

As he said this, he was recalling memories fused from various fragments of parallel worlds, and then he unexpectedly discovered that he had never seen Roland before—not even a trace of him!

However, Zieg didn't seem to care much about this, since the reasons could be multifaceted.

What really caught his attention was the Command Seal on the back of the other person's hand in the picture that was sent!

"...Command Spell!"