Chapter 13 Development
The sun rises above the horizon and rises as usual, seemingly never changing.
It is true that it will not change, after all, it has been stable and has been operating for billions of years, and it will probably continue to exist in this state for hundreds of millions of years.
Compared to this great celestial body that does not seem to change in any way, human beings who are dying like earthly grasshoppers are probably the least qualified to say anything "unchanging".
There has not been much time since the Battle of Camran, or even half a month has passed, but during this time, the land of Britain has been turbulent......
After all, this is originally an island, and it is not too large, and in this era, which can be said to be the last Romance era of this planet, the island is still mysterious, and magic and goblins, and the holy area are still left in the twilight period.
Magic is not completely hidden, as in later generations, as is evident from Merlin's reputation.
Just as most of the legends of the Knights of the Round Table came from this period, at this time, the use of certain mysteries may have been more advanced than later technology, so the relevant information quickly spread throughout the British Isles and surrounding countries.
King Arthur had died in battle, and Bedwell witnessed the king's dying side as the last knight.
Lancelot received a letter from Gawain asking for help before he died, and came with his army to support the Knight King in quelling the rebellion, but it was too late, and when he arrived in Kamran, only the withered and bloody battlefield remained.
The legend of King Arthur has come to an end, and the kingdom has fallen apart. The knight left Britain in despair and spent the rest of his life in remorse.
Like these news, they have been circulated one by one.
So in just an instant, despair, sorrow, and fear have permeated every inch of the kingdom, and blood and fire have begun to spread everywhere, and wolf smoke has spread everywhere.
Under the reign of King Arthur, the country that could only wait for its demise was given a moment of peace.
And now, the peace maintained by the absolute hero, the absolute king, has been torn apart, and the war that ended has been set off again. This time, however, there will be no more kings who will suppress the troubled times to protect them.
But isn't that a matter of course?
Because they resented the king who was too right, and felt that the never-ending wars, the barren land, and the years of murder were all caused by the never-ending desires of the ruthless king, they could not bear it anymore.
Therefore, even the princes, clans, and low-level people's soldiers who were in their own interests agreed with Mordred's plan of rebellion when King Arthur went to Rome not long ago, and they were integrated.
Prepare to destroy the exhausted king when he returns.
King Arthur's final battle, the twilight battlefield of the withering knighthood.
The tombstones of countless corpses cut off by the fire of life, the Battle of Kamran, happened less than half a month ago.
So...... It's all over.
The kingdom collapsed, the order was completely lost, the turmoil called for war and the enemy, the Saxons, who had been beaten, defeated, swept away, and swore never to set foot on British soil again.
But immediately after King Arthur's death, they tore up the treaty and oath they had made not long ago, and once again launched a brazen invasion.
The ferocity and unstoppable momentum of the Saxons made the people of Britain feel frightened, stunned and at a loss, and they suddenly returned to the time when they were forced to live by this group of bandits of foreign nationalities more than ten years ago, and there was almost no place to stand.
After King Arthur ascended the throne, he constantly attacked the Saxons, won successive battles, and finally drove out this group of robbers. But no one knows how long it took her and how much effort she put in to achieve such an achievement, to quell the unrest from the Saxons.
But the people of Britain felt that it was the king's fault, because the king had waged war after war...... The year of murder will continue, and too many people have been sacrificed, and what is the purpose of expelling the aliens with the determination to die?
When someone has selfishness, criticism also appears, and the king is only given unrighteousness and incomprehension. Although the more criticism there is, the more stable the people's lives will be, but in turn, the more stable the people's lives, the more they will criticize.
After all, it's easy to understand, if it's when everyone is desperate to survive when they are in danger, how can they think so much? It is only after gradually settling down that all kinds of yin and yang strange qi will appear, restore the countercurrent, and feel that nothing is right.
The people of Britain felt that they had simply become impatient enough to join the rebels and start a rebellion in order to eradicate King Arthur and overthrow her ruthless rule.
They are convinced that this is the right choice!
But why, why is this happening? It is clear that the king is no longer there, and it is clear that they have personally overthrown the king's rule, and it is clear that they have paid a huge price for it...... This is the end of the war!
Shouldn't the next step be a peaceful recuperation? Why did the Saxons immediately come again? Why did they start the war on their own initiative?
But before their brains could figure out what was going on, the butcher's knives of the mad robbers had already slashed into the necks of the Britons.
Even resistance is almost impossible
Because whether it was a king who once possessed a holy sword, or a heroic knight who surpassed humans, or even a well-trained grassroots soldier, they were all exhausted in the civil war waged by the British people who abandoned their martial arts in order to truly embrace peace.
They can only watch as the robbers raise their butcher knives, kill and loot, burn the villages and towns where they live, and if they are lucky, they may become slaves, survive and eat a bite to eat......
Countless people wept and wept, desperately hoping that at this time, there would be an upright knight and an ideal king to come out to help the generals of Great Xia and save their fate.
It's like the worst joke of all.
But in this case, there will always be an honest and fair knight who will come forward, although in fact, Artoria can't stand it, but this time, she no longer hides her gender, but as a female knight, she is on this stage with dignity.
That's fine, as long as it doesn't appear as the former "King Arthur", there will be no problems.
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In a village of blood and fire, the corpses fell to the ground, both villagers and robbers.
Many of the houses had collapsed, and the flames were blazing, and the surviving villagers gathered together, letting out low cries and whimpering, and some rushed up uncontrollably, lashing out at the robber corpses on the ground.
Or try their best to move the corpse of their loved one to the side, kneel beside him in a mad frenzy, and beg the corpse to respond incoherently, intellectually unable to accept the departure of a loved one.
The atmosphere was quite heavy.
Her hair shimmered like gold in the sun, and the knight girl in civilian clothes also had an angry expression, and even the arm holding the sword was trembling slightly.
After all, she is no longer a king, she no longer needs to suppress her emotions, and her joy and anger are invisible.
She couldn't save everyone, she always knew it all along, but even so, every time she saw such a scene, seeing a village burned, seeing innocent people being wantonly killed, she still felt unacceptable.
Especially this group of murderers who burned, killed and looted, and even more were not bandits of foreign nations at all, but the Britons themselves in their own country, which made her even more angry. Why is there such dregs at any given time?
Of course, she also has no mercy when sanctioned, no matter how this group of robbers wails and begs for mercy, they will be killed with one sword, and there is no intention of torture and killing, but there will definitely be no soft-heartedness.
"The village has burned down, where are you going next?"
Trying to calm her emotions, she looked at a villager not far away, the other party was the oldest among the people present, and he must have been able to speak and make a decision.
Artoria had done the burning of villages, but that was a tactic that had to be chosen during war, and it was not uncommon in the history of warfare, after all, if they didn't, they would only leave a breakthrough for the barbarians, and a place to burn and loot, vent their revenge, or squeeze supplies and food.
But it was precisely because of this experience that the girl realized that these people must be properly accommodated, otherwise they would not survive. Suddenly faced with such a catastrophe, they had no spare energy to rebuild the village and reclaim the land.
It's too late, it's impossible to replant food this year, and they're all starving.
"Where to ......"
The villager repeated this sentence blankly, subconsciously looking at the female knight in front of him, but his eyes were empty and blank, and he did not really answer this question.
Or maybe he doesn't know the answer, the whole island is already in this kind of collapsed and chaotic pattern, where else can there escape? I thought that if I overthrew the king, I would be able to get real peace, but I didn't expect that complete destruction would come.
Britain has no future left.
"If you don't have a place to go, you can follow me, and I can provide you with a land where you can live in peace......" Artoria sighed and said seriously, but her tone was inexplicably weak.
She really couldn't do such a thing
It's obviously not the destruction she promoted, but when she sees this chaos and strife, she always feels that it's her own fault; Even though he was now giving these people a new way out, he always felt as if he had destroyed the village and tricked them into going somewhere else.
Even the magician couldn't look at it, and said it the other day:
"If you can't change your mentality, and always think that you have unlimited responsibilities and obligations to them, sooner or later you will be betrayed by them again."
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On the empty plain from before.
The rudiments of a town are almost being built, and the magician is very fast and efficient, and with the help of his magic and summons, everything is getting back on track as fast as possible.
Artoria travels abroad, eradicating the robbers and murderers she encounters, and saving people from villages and towns that have been destroyed in blood and fire, maybe only a dozen people this time, and a hundred or dozens of people the next.
These people were all arranged to move here, and then they were immediately assigned to the corresponding jobs.
Able-bodied men were required to do manual work such as clearing the land, or cutting down and transporting trees, or building houses, digging drainage ditches, and so on; The women were arranged to cook and mend clothes, feed livestock, and so on.
Even the children are given to do what they can, and in the next generation, they will probably be attacked madly by human rights organizations.
But in this era of turmoil, collapse and chaos, there is nothing more reassuring than this.
Artoria originally wanted to convince people with virtue and reason, and wanted to have a good speech with these people, and make golden words, to ensure what kind of life she would bring them and what kind of order she would rebuild.
But was stopped by Xia Ran, and the magician asked her not to do this kind of thing at all, as long as she directly set the rules and make good work arrangements, as long as she could let them see hope, it would be more convincing than all false and empty speeches.
As it turned out, the people who came here quickly accepted the new environment and began to respect the rules, order, and authority of the whole island.
After all, compared to the terrible situation of bandits and blood outside, this newly built town is like an isolated paradise.
The rules of all aspects show that the ruler of this place, no matter who he is, is determined to put order in order that belongs to him, and that no one else will be allowed to break it, which is enough to be reassuring, and what could be more reassuring in troubled times?
And everyone's targeted work has also greatly calmed the emotions of the people, making them feel that they are all valuable and will not be easily abandoned, coupled with the busy work not only enriches the body and mind, but also makes them have no time to think nonsense.
In this way, some accidents are eliminated to the greatest extent, and when they get used to it, they will be completely integrated into it.
There is also a magical magic trick and sufficient supply of materials, which made them feel fully secured, and naturally quickly recognized the order of this place, and also put Xia Ran's arrangement on the right track.
With the spontaneous enthusiasm of the people who were determined to rebuild their own homes, the rudiments of the town were quickly built, and buildings rose from the ground, and the wide paved roads were like the ditches on the side of the road, and every day the distance was increasing more than yesterday.
High guard towers have been erected on all sides of the plain, and militia patrols and monitors them every day......
Although it was still very simple, it took less than ten days to achieve such a result, which was already frighteningly fast in the fifth century AD, and gave hope to all.
Especially when they built the prototype of the town brick by brick, they felt that there was a heavy sense of heaviness in it.
This is their new home, no matter what, many of them have secretly made up their minds that if any more robbers attack, he will go out and fight the bastards!
It's also a process of belonging.
And on the top of the mountain peaks adjacent to the plains, a magnificent tower is also rising, "growing" every day at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye.
This made the people feel more secure while awe, and there was nothing better than a powerful magician living right next to the town......