"Your instincts were correct. This Sphinx had indeed been enhanced by my magecraft."
Upon hearing Medea's words, Saber, who was desperately holding back the Sphinx's claws with her sword, wore an utterly incredulous expression.
"Impossible. With the abilities of modern magi, it is simply impossible to enhance a Phantasmal Beast of this level. Even with enhancement magecraft, the effects on a creature at the level of a Phantasmal Beast would be extremely limited."
It was not that Saber looked down on Medea. Phantasmal Beasts stood on a level far above humans, and modern magi were practically ants before the Phantasmal Beasts of myth.
Had anyone ever seen ants enhance a dragon? Their very levels of existence were incomparable. Unless she was Caster...
Seeing the look on Saber's face as though she had realized something, her expression turning extraordinarily shocked, Medea slowly removed her hood before her, revealing a bewitchingly beautiful face and pointed ears like an elf's.
A smile that was seventy percent smug, twenty percent arrogant, and ten percent teasing appeared on Medea's face as she slowly spoke a reality Saber found utterly unacceptable.
"Ordinary magi naturally cannot enhance a Phantasmal Beast of this level, but my Innate Skill can."
'Circe's Teachings,' Rank A.
Princess Medea had studied magecraft in the temple of the moon goddess Hecate. At the time, her senior disciple had been the Witch Circe.
Circe had been a born Witch and a true genius of magecraft. When Medea used this Innate Skill, she could enhance targets possessing magical energy.
During the Fifth Holy Grail War, her original Master, Souichirou Kuzuki, had gained the ability to fight Heroic Spirits only through the enhancement of this Innate Skill.
The sheer power of Medea's Innate Skill was obvious if it could let a third-rate magus skilled in martial