Chapter Ninety-Five: Artoria
"Takagi, are we going to bet on Yanagi-kun?" In the president's office of the Morimori Foundation Headquarters, Yoshimi Taiyuan sat in the position of secretary, and asked without raising her head while processing the documents.
"Not this time, Liu Shengjun has been targeted from above, the biggest dealer of the martial soul is the royal family, we must not be noticed by the royal family at this time. β
"It's a pity, if we bet directly on Yanagi Shengjun from the first round of the Martial Soul Duel, and when he wins the Martial Soul Cup, our income can reach hundreds of billions of yen!"
"Hmph, don't just look at the money, if we make this money, we will have a hard time in the future, our foundation is not on the nothingness of gambling. β
"Okay, okay, I know, do what you say, master! Then, there are some players who are more competitive this time, and it is said that a legendary figure has also come to participate in the martial soul duel. β
"Who is it?" asked Takagiqiang, this kind of intelligence work has always been the responsibility of Taiyuan Jiamei.
"Artoria VI!"
"Is that the legendary royal family hidden behind the British Elizabeth royal family?" This kind of news is really unknown to most people, but although Japan, which is quite concerned by the Western world, especially the Morimori Foundation, which also has a lot of business in Europe, this kind of rumor is not specially collected, but it is still known.
The British royal family is one of the most legendary in the world.
In terms of the long history of the royal family, the British royal family is certainly not as good as the Japanese royal family's thousand-year-old history.
However, when it comes to legend, the British royal family has to overpower the Japanese royal family, and it should be said that when it comes to legendary, the British royal family has overwhelmed all the royal families in the world since ancient times.
Legend has it that during the Middle Ages, England was seen as a remote and wild place in Europe due to the Channel.
In Europe at that time, the British Isles was synonymous with barren land, and only pirates, criminals, and fugitives would go to that hellish place, not even exiled sinners.
In medieval Europe, the religious center of gravity was in Italy, while the political center of gravity was in France, Germany was not yet unified, luxurious villas were never even built, and princes and nobles often urinated in the fireplace. Paris, the largest and most prosperous city in Europe, claimed to be the largest toilet in the world at that time.
In order to get rid of the smell, the French first invented perfume, so the origin of the perfume is actually not very glorious, and it is completely the product of the French who are driven crazy by the smell.
At that time, the crowning of the kings of the royal families had to be given by the pope himself, and the clerical power had greatly overwhelmed the royal power, and for a time, the entire European religious form was very good.
However, in this great form, there is also a discordant countercurrent. You must know that the so-called miracles of religion are mostly pretending to be gods and ghosts, and occasionally some real things are just the result of some natural phenomena that fools and fools did not understand at that time, and were exaggerated and misreported.
At that time, religion had a monopoly on the right to dress as gods and demons.
However, there is another group of people in Europe who are very good at pretending to be ghosts, and that is witches! For some reason, among the white race, the proportion of female supernatural people has always far exceeded that of men, while the status of women has always been low, and these women who find themselves with miraculous abilities often use their supernatural abilities to deceive the people around them, so as to improve their lives and achieve higher social status.
However, this kind of behavior is tantamount to moving the cheese of religion, and the right to bluff fools and fools is a religious monopoly, but competitors have appeared under the nose, is it tolerable or unbearable?
Thus, the long witch hunt lasted for two centuries, and finally the witches were exterminated on the European continent!
A well-known theologian of the time explained how to identify a witch in this way: "Tie a woman hand or foot, tie it with a rope, and throw her into a pond or river." If you float on the water, you are undoubtedly a witch, because witches are known to be lightweight.
If a woman sinks into the water, she is not guilty. But if a woman sinks into the water and does not drown, she cannot be acquitted, because the devil has given her the ability to breathe underwater. β
There are many other ways to identify such strange things, but they usually end with the death of the person. Two centuries of madness brought the Inquisition to notoriety, the reputation of the Holy See was greatly damaged, and royal power began to rise.
However, the witches did not go extinct, and a large number of witches gathered in the British Isles to escape the disaster, and after learning the hard way, the witches felt that the reason why they were hunted and had no power to fight back was because they did not have a unified organization, and they did not have their own armed forces and political forces.
The first witches who fled to the British Isles to survive gathered around an unnamed lake and helped each other survive to form the Lake of Tranquility, a witch organization. It was later known as the shrine of the British royal family.
In order to defend themselves against the Papal See's pursuers, the witches hope to cultivate their own armed forces based on their combined knowledge. The original organization of women warriors in the Amazon was formed.
But there is a threshold in the middle that cannot be crossed!
The traditional knightly path refers to the nobles who have honed their martial arts to perfection and have an unwavering will, through specific religious ceremonies, through the bishop's preaching, to feel the greatness of the Holy Lord, if they feel the will of the Holy Lord (hypnotized by religious rituals, moved, similar to awakening the martial spirit), awaken the holy power, they will be awarded a knight's battle flag, so the traditional European knightly power is called the Holy Battle Flag.
Of course, if you fail to perceive and can't wake up, you should obediently go and be a knight squire!
In the era of cold weapons, a knight at the level of a sword hero, if he is well armed, it is not difficult to be a hundred, and by controlling the beliefs of the knights, the majesty of the Holy See is unshakable!
Once a knight reneges on his faith, his will will will be shaken, the Holy Banner will be broken, his strength will be greatly reduced, and at worst, he will become a disability or die on the spot.
In the era of cold weapons, the Holy See, which controls the high-end armed forces, seems so invincible that neither witches nor European royal families have any idea of overthrowing the Holy See.
And the Amazon female warriors, no matter how they exercise, can never produce knight-level masters in batches and regularly.
Until a witch who fled to the Lake of Tranquility with her daughter died tragically in front of her own daughter.
Witnessing her mother's death, the girl erupted with an astonishing wave of energy, causing a stir among all the witches gathered in the Lake of Tranquility at that time, when the witches lived in fear, fearing the arrival of their pursuers, and discovered that the girl's potential was amazing, and almost all witches taught her as much as they could, and gave her all the help they could.
Twelve years later, Artoria is out of the Lake of Tranquility!
In three years, Artoria was invincible with her sword, and she was like a leisurely stroll on her own, and soon gathered a ragtag army of pirates, bandits, liars, and outcasts, well, if the rabble could be called an army.
At that time, the British Isles were originally a gathering place of scum, and what good people can you count on?
Originally, according to this situation, Artoria would be the strongest bandit leader in the British Isles at best, but a man whose origin is a mystery changed all that.
In history, this man did not leave his name, and everyone could only call him a sage.
He reorganized his army, established order, and established a kingdom on the British Isles for the first time, and the king was Artoria, known as Artoria I, popularly known as King Arthur.
The history of that year has been extinguished in the wind, however, the only thing that can be assured is that it was during this period, without the help of the Ecclesiastical Rites, that Artoria stepped into the Sanctuary, because it was not in the Holy Bishopric Church that she stepped into this realm, therefore, Artoria is not called the Sanctuary, but - legendary!
This is the first legend in the history of Europe!
Artoria's twelve disciples, known as the Knights of the Round Table - this round table invented by the sage is a sacred relic of the British royal family, and is currently preserved in the National Museum of the United Kingdom*** for posterity to visit.
It is a large round table, and on top of it, there is a huge disc that can be rotated. It's like a round table with a smaller round table on top of it.
This double-decker round table, which is very familiar to Orientals, especially the Celestial Empire, has led to the fact that many Celestial Empire people who have visited the British National Museum, especially Cantonese people, think that the mysterious sage probably, maybe, may be the Celestial Empire.
So a Cantonese historian published a very disrespectful essay on the Knights of the Round Table or the Knights of the Table? Why are there only twelve Knights of the Round Table? Is it because the Round Table can only accommodate fourteen people for dinner?
At that time this argument was widely circulated as a joke until it reached Europe.
This is tantamount to pointing at other people's noses and scolding other people's ancestors, and ordinary people can't bear it, not to mention that Britain is a major European power, and the British royal family is still there! So the charges of disrespecting the history and culture of other countries, spreading rumors and making trouble, and so on, flew all over the sky and rushed to this Guangdong scholar.
Some people say why the state does not come forward to protect this scholar, but this obviously hurts the feelings of the British people, and it is inconvenient for the state to come forward to protect this kind of thing.
The unfortunate paper almost caused a diplomatic war, culminating in a formal public apology from the historian and his transfer from his position as a university teacher.
Anyway, about this table, there have been countless war of words among archaeologists and historians, but it has fed a lot of people, and there are several historical authorities in this regard.
Well, in addition, the main industry of the British royal family is a variety of royal brand supplies, among them, royal furniture is a big brand, until now, in European meetings, all the conference tables used in group meetings are basically the appearance of this round table, at most the size and decoration are different.
One of the most widely accepted explanations is the document pool theory, which is proposed by the British professor Thomas Avery, which holds that the upper rotating round table is a tool used to place and pass documents, and is a tool for the knights of the round table to assist the teacher Artoria in processing documents and governing the country together.
After the unification of the British Isles, with the assistance of the sages, Artoria made great efforts to encourage maritime trade, piracy and plunder, population fertility, and the construction of a relatively perfect social system and law, and Britain entered a stage of rapid development.
Ten years later, the powerful Britain, led by King Arthur Artoria, crossed the Channel and made an expedition to the Holy See!
Artoria held high the banner of 'God loves the world' and accused the Holy See of blocking the channel for the gods to love people, not only is it not a representative of the gods, but a sinner who blinds the gods!
The attitude of the royal family is ambiguous, but under the call of the Holy See, knights from all over Europe flocked to the court, and the masters gathered, and for a time, in France, all kinds of battle flags were held high (every official knight had a battle flag awarded by the Holy See), of course, there were some honorary knights, and the battle flags of these people were not so authentic.
In France, the British and Holy See armies fought together, with the knights taking the lead.
In the knightly battle, the Knights of the Twelve Round Table showed great might, won consecutive battles, killed and defeated more than 100 knights from various countries, and finally led to the Holy Knights of the Holy See, with San Antonio as the leader of the Holy Knights, a total of 47 knights, which was the strongest fighting group in Europe at that time (knight squires are not counted), known as the invincible strong team of 'not asking how many enemies there are, only asking where they are!'.
In front of the two armies, countless warriors watched in full view, the Knights of the Round Table faced the Holy Knights head-on, Artoria took the lead, and personally beheaded 31 official knights, including the head of St. Antonio, who had already stepped into the Sanctuary. In this battle, the Holy Knights were completely annihilated, and it was called the day when the battle flag was broken.
After this battle, Artoria was called the Knight King!
On the way to Italy, Artoria unveiled another knightly path that no longer depended on the Holy Seeβthe Path of Virtue.
The path of knighthood in the Holy See is not for everyone, and many knight candidates who are stagnant at the top of the knightly squire realm are often unable to ask the Holy See to help them hold ceremonies because they have no power, power, or money, and Artoria's path of virtue is extremely attractive to these people.
As long as the knight candidate is a strong man who wholeheartedly agrees with any path, whether it is guardianship or sacrifice or honor, as long as he thinks that this virtue is worth adhering to beyond life and death, he will have the opportunity to burst out the power of his heart, this power, in order to distinguish the battle flag of the traditional knight, is called fighting spirit!
After a few successful examples, the whole of Europe became a sensation, and even the royal families began to reverse course and support Artoria's expedition, after all, knights who were absolutely loyal to the Holy See and knights who did not care so much about the Holy See, of course, only the latter were the knights needed by the royal families.
In the years that followed, Artoria gained the hearts of the Knights of the Round Table, swept across the continent, breached the headquarters of the Holy See, and when Artoria beheaded the Pope, who was over eighty years old, declared him a blasphemous (during the reign of the Pope, Artoria's mother and young Artoria fled to the British Isles) and seized the artifact, the Crown of Thorns, and seized the artifact, the crown of thorns, all of Europe bowed down before her.
From then on, the successor pope no longer had the power to abolish the royal family. And more as a spiritual leader, the Holy See no longer has absolute authority, God is no longer the exclusive domain of the Holy See, Artoria declares - God in the heart of each of us, listen to the voice from the heart, is to listen to the voice of God.
At the same time, some religious figures fled to the East before the fall of the Holy See. These members of the Holy See established another Holy See in Constantinople in the East, with the head called the Patriarch, the bishop called the Patriarch, and the general priest called the priest.
The schismal Curia was a joy to the royal families, and both papacies survived with the deliberate or unintentional support of the countries of the East (the East of Europe, not Asia) and the obstruction of the religious wars of the West for unity.
Until now, the two Holy Sees have become modern mascots, and in this case, the two Holy Sees can only fight a war of words every year, and the religious wars can never be fought.
After the complete defeat of the Holy See, Artoria did not claim the throne in Europe, but retreated to the British Isles, concentrating on the management of the British Isles with the help of the sages. This behavior made her widely praised, and her prestige was unparalleled for a while, and she was called 'the knight under the gods', which means that the knight king Artoria lived under the gods and above the people, and since then, Artoria has a unique name - God! Even the new pope had to pinch his nose and admit it.
In the following two decades, Britain went from a barren land in the eyes of Europeans, full of swindlers, criminals and gangsters, to a civilized, rich and advanced country in the eyes of Europeans.
At one point, Artoria and her youngest daughter, Elizabeth, were removed from the limelight, and according to the British royal family, Artoria and the Sage disappeared after leaving a note.
The note read, "The world is so big, let's go and see, don't read it." β
Because of this note, legends of the knight king appeared all over the world, and none of them have real evidence anyway, and the legend of the knight king is flying all over the world, even in Japan, or how to say that the British royal family is the most legendary royal family in the world? These rumors and legends around the world also account for at least half of the credit.
Since then, the British throne has been passed down between the blood of Artoria and the Sage, most of the time the throne is Elizabeth and occasionally Artoria, and the difference is that Elizabeth is the queen who normally inherits the throne, and Artoria is the heir who came out of the royal sanctuary, the lake of tranquility.
The wonderful thing is that the British royal family, in the direct blood of Artoria, has never been born a boy, so the United Kingdom has always been the queen's reign, which is unique in human history.