Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

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"We are exchanging the territory of the Magic Association in central, northern and eastern Europe for our own, and we are also encroaching on the westward side. Later, we will also hand over the territory in the south and most of the surrounding areas to the Magic Association."

"The reason for this is that Altruic's base is located in the western and southern coastal areas. So, by deliberately giving up this part of the territory, we create the illusion for the Mage's Association that we are avoiding a direct confrontation with Altruic."

"And they've already sided with Eltruch, so they're constantly escalating their bets in this exchange."

At this point, Roland gave Medea a reminder.

"Of course, since Arcueid only operates in coastal areas, as long as we send Arcueid to inland areas, we will have control of this exchange."

"Doing this is tantamount to sinking the Magic Association's capital."

Hearing Roland say that, Medea wasn't stupid, so she finally understood.

"Is it because after Altruchi gathered a lot of Dead Apostles, she's going to start dealing with the issues between Dead Apostles and humans in her own territory?"

Roland nodded.

“Yes, after all, Altrudge returned under the title of the King of the Dead Apostles, so it would be too embarrassing for her not to have even a single Dead Apostle unit under her command. Moreover, although she is still relying on the Mage Association's extermination forces to fight, she also knows that even without our involvement, the Dead Apostles are her own people, while the Mage Association is an outsider.”

"It's only natural that she would value the Dead Apostles more, which is why we're helping her pressure the Mage's Association to sink more capital in Altrud's territory."

"In that case, since our Far East Magic Association's territory will be mostly inland, while the Magic Association's territory will generally be near the sea, as long as Altruic doesn't go too far, the Magic Association, whose territory is mostly within Altruic's territory, will not sever its connection with Altruic even if it suffers injustice."

"Then they'll be forced to become sacrifices for Altruistic's bribery of the Dead Apostles, clash with the White Wing Duke's elite Dead Apostle army, and deal with us all at the same time. Besieged on three sides, even the long-established Mage's Association is doomed."

In Europe today, it's called the Dead Apostles War.

But in reality, the war between Altrud and White Wing is just a facade; there is also a war between the Mage's Association and the Far East Mage's Association behind the scenes.

Then the Far East Magic Association and Altruchi are in cahoots.

And now the Magic Association is going to be the first to be eliminated.

That is indeed a great advantage.

Medea felt she had figured it out, while Roland stood up and stretched.

The game of chess was almost over. He slept with Medea last night, and after waking up this morning, he set up a chessboard here and sorted out the situation. Now that he had sorted it out, he should go and see the world.

After all, besides what he and Medea said, Roland actually had another question he didn't mention.

That is, he didn't know Bai Yigong's trump card.

Roland looked down on the Whitewing Duke, the guy who was in charge of reviving the Dark Six Kingdoms and who didn't even dare to sit on the throne in his own home.

But when it comes to a real fight, Roland will not underestimate anyone tactically.

So since there are still doubts about this part, he will also investigate it a bit.

Roland greeted Medea, told her to rest well, and even had the maid prepare breakfast for her before leaving.

After Roland left, Medea listened to his analysis of the situation and suddenly realized that the previously chaotic chessboard Roland had set up had become clear.

The chess pieces above represent the various forces in Europe today.

Once she understood this, she understood the game of chess.

but

Medea looked at the white king piece that Roland had finally placed on the chessboard, and she became puzzled.

The only move she doesn't understand in this game right now is this one.

According to the conversion, the white king piece represents the White Winged King, while the white Go pieces surrounding the white king piece represent the Far East Magic Association.

She was puzzled as to why Roland would define Eltruchi, one of their own, as a black chess piece, and she couldn't understand even more why a piece representing the White Wing Duke would appear on their side.

In the end, Medea only felt that it was probably because the White-Winged Prince was associated with the color white, so she chose white; Eltrauge was the Black Princess, so she chose black; and the final move was Roland's random decision as he tried to explain it to himself...

but......

Is it really?

"The situation looks bad now."

Anhans looked at Bai Yigong and sneered.

When Eltrauge made her declaration, the White Wing Duke ordered his army to prepare, and he thought that war was finally about to break out—but he did not expect that after maintaining the situation, the White Wing Duke would delay the decisive battle.

This leaves him stuck here, mocking Bai Yigong.

But Bai Yigong didn't care at all about Anhans's mockery. He simply swirled the red wine in his glass and spoke up.

"Something's not good? What's wrong with it?"

He said that first, and then, seeing the surprised look on Anhans's face, he smiled and continued speaking.

“Anhans, I’ve told you before that you can’t just look at the surface of a problem—for example, what do you think the impact of Altrucchi joining forces with the Magic Association will be in Europe today?”

Upon hearing Bai Yigong's question, Anhans paused for a moment, then frowned, but still gave an answer.

"Impact? We've been suppressed?"

Seeing that this was the only answer Anhans received, Duke Baiyi shook his head slightly and looked at Anhans with pity.

“Anhans, I truly pity your brain—compared to your backbone, your brain is ridiculously bad. I'm afraid even a brain-eating zombie would shake its head at your head and turn away.”

Upon hearing this, Anhans was about to get angry, but before he could, the White Winged Duke changed the subject.

"But it is precisely because of this about you that I believe you are capable of accomplishing nothing great, even if you have ill intentions."

Bai Yigong had selected Anhans once before, and this time he selected him again.

Even if Anhans wasn't the sharpest of them all, he knew that Lord Whitewing probably already knew about his plan to use the Dead Apostle War to hunt more Dead Ancestors.

However, he wasn't afraid of this; he simply shrugged and said nothing, which was considered an admission of consent.

Seeing him like this, Bai Yigong laughed even more happily, and then brought the topic back to the original question.

"The result of Altruistic joining forces with the Mage's Association is that Altruistic has gained more territory and more support from the Dead Apostles. At the same time... she has also pushed the Far East Mage's Association, which controls the White Princess, to our side."

"If we compare Europe today to a game of Go, then at the moment when Eltruch and the Mage's Association chose to place the black piece, the Far East Mage's Association, which is constantly fighting with the Mage's Association, was inherently defined as the white piece, just like us."

"However, we don't have an alliance, so in a way, we might be the white chess piece, and the Far East Magic Association might be the white Go piece."

"But that's about it."

"So if Altrud can unite with the Magic Association, we can naturally unite with the Far East Magic Association as well."

After saying this, Bai Yigong shrugged.

"Of course, we can also take this opportunity to unite with Hakuhime and her faction~"

"So, a disadvantage? What disadvantage? We have an advantage right now, a huge advantage!"

....

67. Look at the problem from outside the chessboard.

December has arrived, winter is here, and the presence of wind and snow is becoming increasingly pronounced around Einzbernburg.

The White Wing Duke visited Eindzbernburg on the fifth day of December and sat down in front of Roland.

“The enemy of my enemy can become my friend, don’t you think, Mr. Roland?”

Baiyi Gong actually looked down on humans.

Regardless of whether his attitude was a deliberate gesture to win over other Dead Apostles or if that was his true intention, he rarely showed such a peaceful, even friendly, attitude towards a human.

But he has shown a different side now.

However, Roland could see that White Wing Lord Tevanm was not showing this side of himself because the current situation required him to win over the Far East Magic Association as an ally, but because Arcueid now completely listened to him, which was why he respected him.

Furthermore, his respect did not resemble the cowardice of someone who fears power; rather, it was more like the kind of respect that a long-time employee of the system would deliberately show when facing their superior.

Heh, what an interesting fellow.

"In a way, you could say that—so if you have something to say, feel free to speak your mind."

Seeing that Roland didn't seem to have any intention of beating around the bush, Bai Yigong shook his head slightly.

What he really wanted to say was that although such conversations might seem useless, they are actually part of social etiquette. People who don't know how to respect etiquette are like barbarians who have come from a shallow civilization with no historical foundation and have no manners at all.

Being impatient is not a good habit.

But in that instant when he met Roland's gaze, he understood that Roland was not ignorant of etiquette, but that he was doing so on purpose.

He was using this to subtly indicate that he didn't want to talk to him for long.

"If you think this is better."

Having discovered this, Bai Yigong followed Roland's lead.

“Mr. Roland, the Black Princess faction represented by Altrudge has now joined forces with the Mage's Association. We are fighting against both of them at the same time, which is very stressful. But your Far East Mage's Association is also under pressure because of Altrudge at her peak in the friction with the Mage's Association.”

"Why don't you try to imagine a world without Altruchi?"

"Such a huge conflict will not erupt among the Dead Apostles. It will remain the same as before. Under your management, the Mage's Association, which has lost the support of Altrud, fears her power and cannot resist the ambitions of your Far East Mage's Association."

“You replace the Mage's Association, I eliminate a hidden danger, and then we can continue to live together peacefully and stably, just like the magicians and Dead Apostles of the past.”

"Isn't that the kind of world we all want?"

Roland smiled when he heard what Bai Yigong said.

"To be honest, Lord Whitewing, or as you call me, Mr. Tevanm... I actually hate you, or rather, I hate your kind of race that is defined as the Dead Apostles."