"Mad Enhancement is a state-based magecraft. It can indeed be dispelled by my Noble Phantasm, Rule Breaker, but... wasn't this spell activated by you?"
"It was, but I was deceived."
Medea looked Su Ning up and down, then... nodded.
There was nothing strange about an elementary school student being deceived.
Su Ning's face darkened. She really wanted to jump up and punch Medea, but for the sake of removing Heracles's Mad Enhancement, she endured it.
"Fine! Make Berserker stop! I can use my Noble Phantasm to help you dispel his Mad Enhancement!" After thinking for a moment, a sly glint flashed through Medea's purple eyes beneath her hood as she spoke indifferently.
"Then thank you~"
With a thought from Su Ning, Heracles, who had held the upper hand, immediately retreated to her side, moving out of Tsubame Gaeshi's attack range as well.
Although Sasaki Kojiro's Tsubame Gaeshi was terrifyingly powerful and capable of ignoring space-time, 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 can join forces. With three Heroic Spirits working together, even the strongest class, Saber, would be no match for us. Then we can deal with the other Servants and Masters one by one before having a fair duel to decide the victor..."
Medea spoke as she walked.
But a teasing smile appeared on Su Ning's little face.
"A fair duel? You mean waiting until you refine living people into magical energy and finish building your magecraft workshop before fighting?"
Medea halted. Her hood lifted slightly, and surprise once again appeared in her eyes as she looked at Su Ning. She had never expected Su Ning to know her battle plan so clearly.
Could it be Future Sight? Medea could not help but speculate.
"Don't forget, I'm a Caster. Of course I need to absorb magical energy and build a magecraft workshop. You can't expect me to fight the other classes head-on, can you? ...Fine, let's put the alliance aside for now. I'll first help your Berserker dispel his Mad Enhancement—"
Medea continued walking toward Su Ning as she spoke, but Su Ning retreated with Berserker.
"Hehe, do you really take me for an elementary school student?"
Su Ning sneered. With Insight Magic Eye combined with Projection Magic, she had completed her analysis of Rule Breaker in less than two seconds. In other words, Medea was no longer of any use to her.
But she was a good girl, so naturally, she would not burn the bridge after crossing it.
"A friendly reminder: there's a loophole in the summoning spell."
"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 through the fake Assassin. You understand the consequences without me saying them."
"Consider that my repayment to you~"
With that, Su Ning jumped onto Heracles's shoulder and swiftly vanished into the darkness.
Medea remained where she was, her brows tightly furrowed. A moment later, she suddenly drew in a sharp breath.
As a student of the goddess of magecraft and a powerful magus from the Age of Gods, she had merely failed to notice it before. Now that Su Ning had pointed it out, she immediately found the flaw in the summoning and broke out in a cold sweat.
If someone truly used that hidden authority to summon the real Assassin through Sasaki Kojiro, then with Assassin's Presence Concealment and assassination abilities, at such close range, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Thinking of this, Medea looked in the direction Su Ning had left, feeling both grateful and puzzled.
"Why did she warn me? She's from the Einzbern family. She should be able to use that authority too..."