"Mad Enhancement is a type of status magic, and it can indeed be broken by my Noble Phantasm, Rule Breaker... but wasn't this curse cast by you yourself?"
"It was indeed cast by me myself, but I was tricked by someone."
Medea looked Su Ning up and down, then... nodded.
It wasn't really surprising that an elementary school student had been tricked.
Su Ning's face darkened, and she really wanted to jump up and punch Medea, but for the sake of lifting Heracles' Mad Enhancement, she held back.
"Fine! Have Berserker stop! I can use my Noble Phantasm to help you break the Mad Enhancement state!" After thinking for a moment, a sly glint flashed through Medea's purple eyes beneath her hood as she spoke calmly.
"Then many thanks~"
With a thought from Su Ning, Heracles, who had been gaining the upper hand, immediately retreated to her side, also stepping out of Tsubame Gaeshi's attack range.
Although Sasaki Kojiro's Tsubame Gaeshi had terrifying damage and ignored space-time effects, its attack range was pitifully short—only three meters.
At the same time, Medea took out Rule Breaker and walked toward Su Ning.
"You, me, and Assassin—we can join forces entirely. With three Heroic Spirits working together, even against a top-class class like Saber, they wouldn't stand a chance. Then we can take out the other Servants and Masters one by one, and finally settle things with a fair duel..."
Medea said as she walked.
But a playful smile appeared on Su Ning's small face.
"A fair duel? You mean after you've refined living people into magical energy and built your magic workshop, then we duel?"
Medea stopped in her tracks, lifting her hood slightly, and looked at Su Ning with renewed surprise in her eyes. She hadn't expected Su Ning to know her battle plan so clearly.
"Could it be Future Sight?" Medea speculated inwardly.
"Don't forget, I'm a Caster. Of course I need to absorb magical energy and build a magic workshop. You can't expect me to fight head-on against other classes... Fine, let's set aside the alliance for now. I'll first help your Berserker lift the Mad Enhancement—"
Medea continued walking toward Su Ning as she spoke, but Su Ning retreated with Berserker.
"Heh, you really think I'm an elementary schooler?"
Su Ning sneered. With her Insight Magic Eye combined with Projection Magic, in less than two seconds, she had already completed the analysis of the Noble Phantasm Rule Breaker. In other words, Medea was useless to her now.
But she was a good kid, after all, so she wouldn't burn the bridge after crossing it.
"Friendly tip: the summoning spell has a loophole."
"You used that loophole to summon a fake Assassin, but the Three Great Families who created the Holy Grail War can use higher authority to summon a real Assassin onto the fake one. I don't need to tell you the consequences."
"Consider this my repayment to you~"
With that, Su Ning jumped onto Heracles' shoulder and quickly vanished into the darkness.
Medea stopped in place, her brows tightly furrowed. After a moment, she suddenly drew in a sharp breath.
As a student of the Goddess of Magic and a powerful mage from the Age of Gods, she simply hadn't paid attention before. Now, with Su Ning's reminder, she immediately identified the loophole in the summoning, and cold sweat broke out on her body.
If someone really used this hidden authority to summon a true Assassin onto Sasaki Kojiro, with Assassin's Presence Concealment and assassination skills at such close range, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Thinking this, Medea looked in the direction Su Ning had left, feeling both gratitude and confusion.
"Why did she warn me? She's from the Einzbern family—she should be able to use this authority too..."