Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

After all, he had seen the city where Iskandar died in the Second Chronicles—it was poor, backward, chaotic, and plagued by disease and death... If Iskandar could change the fate of the people living there, that would be good.

In addition, Roland understood Iskandar; he wanted conquest, not slaughter, otherwise he wouldn't have become a hero.

Ancient rules dictated the use of force, so he did. While Roland considered the decision's rightness or wrong debatable, Iskandar was by no means a fool.

Sending troops to conquer is no longer a viable strategy in modern times.

Therefore, Iskandar, who was pursuing conquest, would naturally adapt to and learn modern rules before beginning his conquest.

But how far can he go?

Roland could only say that he would wait and see.

The core reason for pushing him to the northwest is that the Clock Tower, the main area of ​​activity of the Magicians' Association, and even the main area of ​​activity of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostles are all in this region.

If Iskandar could establish a foothold in this region, it would make things much easier.

If he fails to do it, that's fine.

It was just a casual move.

After making arrangements for Iskandar, Roland's gaze finally fell on Rin Tohsaka.

“Rin, your Tohsaka family is the land administrator of Fuyuki City. By using this place as my base, I am basically occupying your family's spiritual vein. So if you have any plans that require support, just say so, and I will support you.”

Hearing Roland say that, Rin Tohsaka shook her head slightly.

"If you want to use the spiritual veins of Fuyuki City, then go ahead. I'm a member of the God Group anyway."

"Besides, I was planning to leave Fuyuki City for a while anyway. I want to go to Northern Europe first. My sister was adopted by a distant relative, and I want to see if she's doing well. After that, I might go to the Clock Tower to study and also visit the founder. So I don't have much to worry about here. After all, if all else fails, there's always Ishtar, right?"

Roland nodded when Rin Tohsaka said that.

"Alright, go ahead if you want to."

"So let's leave it at that for everyone's schedule during this phase. This phase is indeed relatively quiet, but it's also a time for everyone to improve themselves. I hope that when I see you next time, as soon as there's an update, I can see that you've maxed out the Ascension Ladder. As for Divinity, I also look forward to seeing that you can successfully condense it during this period."

"After all, if nothing unexpected happens, the next time I see you all, it means we're about to make a big move."

Hearing Roland say this, and recalling Roland's arrangements over the country that day, Aozaki Touko looked over.

"A big move... You call that a big move? Are you planning to conquer the world?"

Aozaki Touko's question clearly excited Iskandar and Cú Chulainn.

But Roland shook his head.

Before Iskandar and Cú Chulainn could even begin to feel disappointed, Roland glanced at the newly enabled feature and spoke again.

"Conquering the world? Such a plan is both troublesome and unprofitable. It's just a game that monarchs like, and probably ancient monarchs at that. Modern monarchs probably wouldn't have similar plans. We are a group of gods, so it's not wrong for us to have similar ideas to ancient monarchs, but our vision cannot be so shallow."

"If we're going to play, let's play big... How about using all the heavens and worlds as a foundation to carve our names and flags into the ocean of the multiverse?"

....

2. Build an organization specifically for creating Lostbelts.

The new ability that the [Gods System] has unlocked is called the Void Realm.

The descriptions of this ability are incredibly complex. Even Roland only managed to define it after reading them once when Artoria was in her divine form, and then repeatedly reading them three or five times during the recent conversation.

"The Lostbelts—it would be complicated to describe exactly what they are, but to put it simply, if there is a correct answer to human history, then the Lostbelts are the result of human history not reaching the correct answer, but instead going astray and developing to a certain extent, entering a state of false prosperity."

"For example, if the Age of Gods continued, Gilgamesh became immortal, and Britain overcame its inevitable demise... such a world would become a Lostbelt."

Roland first gave a brief explanation of the concept of Lostbelts, without mentioning anything about filtering or the Imaginary Tree, because those were unnecessary in his explanation of the Void Realm.

Therefore, it was enough for him to give everyone present a general understanding of the concept of Lostbelts.

"However, some of you were involved, so you should be aware that in history, in the past, there have been some regrettable things. You may not regret them, or you may want to change them—but in any case, it's too cruel to simply dismiss them as a mistake in human history, isn't it?"

The others didn't say anything about it, but Artoria nodded.

"Indeed... if crossing a fate that inevitably leads to death is a mistake, that's too cruel."

She first lamented this, and the others, who were more or less aware of the problems Britain was facing, remained silent.

Then Artoria looked at Roland.

"Roland, if the world becomes a Lostbelt, what will happen next? Will the future simply be different?"

"No, the world will lose its future."

Roland shook his head.

"When a development path becomes a Lostbelt, it's as if that possibility has been defined as unnecessary by the world and thus interrupted. Lostbelts are nothing but remnants of history, branches that have been pruned from the development path by the world. Therefore, a world that becomes a Lostbelt has lost its future, and will cease to exist when it is pruned, and then dissipate."

Upon hearing Roland's words, Artoria thought of what she had seen in the Holy Grail Space: Morgan's vision of turning all the people of Britain into fairies, and fell silent.

Thinking about it this way, it seems the Holy Grail told her the answer from the very beginning.

Even in that future, even with justice as the price, Britain still couldn't break free from its inevitable fate, because after things went too far in that world, the world would be sealed, and not only Britain, but the entire world would perish.

Britain upgraded at all costs, but its inevitable demise also upgraded along with it.

Thinking of this, Artoria's eyes dimmed.

However, Roland's next words caught her attention.

"If we only talk about Lostbelts, then it is indeed a rather somber topic. But what I'm going to say next is—since Lostbelts are unwanted possibilities that the world has severed, then it's okay for us to pick up these remnants, right?"

Roland's words stunned everyone else, but he continued speaking with a smile.

"This is another function of the gods, called the Void Realm."

"Explaining the specific principles would be too complicated. You just need to know that the Void Realm can connect Lostbelts that have no future to itself, allowing the possibility of Lostbelts to continue. That's about it. This is the core of the Void Realm's function."

"this...!"

Artoria's eyes widened, while Roland laughed.

"Yes, just like you thought. As long as we find a way to go back to the British era, and then directly make Britain prosperous, thus overcoming its inevitable fate of destruction and turning Britain into a Lostbelt, then we can directly connect the British Lostbelt to the Hollow World, thereby allowing it to overcome its inevitable fate of destruction."

"However, after connecting to the virtual world, because the virtual world does not have the concept of parallel universes, Britain that was originally in normal human history, or Britain in other possible scenarios, will all be swallowed up by the virtual world, causing the history of Britain to disappear from the world completely."

"But if we don't take Heroic Spirits into account, it will only affect the degree of historical rewriting in the modern world, and won't really affect the current world order or relationships."

Hearing Roland say that, Artoria nodded.

Aozaki Touko, on the other hand, frowned slightly.

"Even so, if we allow the Void Realm to absorb too much history, won't there still be problems in the end?"

"If we had always lived in the modern world instead of the virtual world, then that would indeed be the case."

Roland's answer made Rin Tohsaka scratch her head.

"So, we're going to have to move a lot of houses later?"

"Do not."

Roland's expression remained unchanged, and now he revealed the second function of the Void Realm.

"As I said before, it's not about conquering the history of one world, but about conquering all the heavens and myriad worlds—this is also the second function of the virtual world, which is to allow us to travel to other worlds."

Other worlds!?

Roland's introduction of the concept of other worlds truly astounded everyone, but unlike before, this time not a single question was asked; everyone was waiting for Roland's explanation.

"Although it is random and can only connect to one other world at a time, and can only connect to the next one randomly after completely abandoning the connection to the current other world, we have rewritten the normal development of the other world and made it enter a false prosperity. The virtual world can also connect to such other worlds in the form of Lostbelts and consume this part of history."

"Of course, what I mean by Lostbelts and Error Prosperity are concepts from our world. The description of the function of the Void Realm is not like that. It's just that it would be too complicated to explain without this explanation. So just understand the function and don't apply it too much to the phenomena of our world. Otherwise, you will easily suffer under the worldview of other worlds."

Hearing Roland say this, Illya and Rin Tohsaka were only slightly surprised, while Touko Aozaki and Bazett immediately thought of things like resources and worldviews.

Medea and Baimao were merely surprised by this, and did not interfere with Roland's decision.

Artoria blinked and said nothing—for her, as long as Britain found hope, her life from then on would be that of a knight of Roland, a blade of Roland.

So she didn't have any other thoughts about it.

Beo, like Hercules in his berserk state, didn't react much to the topic itself.

Cú Chulainn's ideas were similar to Iskandar's.

"Other worlds... Hehehe, doesn't that mean there are more targets to conquer now!"

This is Iskandar's voice.

"In other worlds, there must be many powerful beings that are completely unknown!"

That's Cú Chulainn's voice.

They must both have other ideas about the existence of other worlds, but what they say is their biggest thought.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Roland cleared his throat and, after drawing everyone's attention, spoke up.

"Regarding Britain, Artoria, if you can accept Britain disappearing from history, then leave the matter of how 323 returns to Britain to me. I plan to invest in a technology called Spirit Transfer once I have accumulated enough wealth. I will establish an organization called Chaldea, which will be specifically responsible for creating Lostbelts."

"Of course, our main focus should still be on other worlds. After all, it's easier to accept a world lacking a tragic history than to erase its history from the page."

"So next, everyone should follow my previous arrangements and improve yourselves as much as possible during the preparation process. It's impossible for everyone to go to the other world at once because I have to activate the teleportation function of the virtual world. Also, besides me, we can only bring two people to each world, and they must be the same two people. We can only change people after we change worlds, so don't worry."

"Once the Lostbelts and Hueco Mundo are connected, you will be able to go to the Lostbelts that Hueco Mundo is connected to and experience other worlds. Everyone will have the opportunity to explore other worlds, so don't worry."

"In the next phase, our main focus will be on this, so let's work together to make our name and banner resound throughout the multiverse!"