The sky at sunset is blood-colored.

The ground in front of me was also blood-colored.

The corpses that fell to the ground were those who had believed in a young girl and embraced her as king, and together they had offered him a triumphant song.

They were divided into two factions because of the traitors, killing each other as enemies, and then falling together on the battlefield. King Arthur's final place, at the foot of Camran Hill.

Aking from a dream on the other side of time and space, and kneeling on the blood-stained hill again in despair, Artoria stared blankly at the desolate scene.

Everything seemed like a lifetime away, like a long dream, until now, "reality" finally woke her up all at once.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... People like me, people like me......"

She looked around slowly, with tears on her face, and her hand armor was also soaked with the blood of the enemy, blood and tears slid along her smooth face, and the girlish king let out a low cry of sorrow.

I thought I wouldn't see this again, but what I didn't expect was that I would eventually return here.

Despite knowing that no matter how many times it was, she still couldn't resist the urge to apologize. Although she knew that her apology could not be conveyed to anyone, the girl still repeated her confession.

Towards the ideals that could not be completed, towards the people who could not be saved, towards everything that had disappeared because of her being the king, she couldn't help but whimper.

"Is this the moment you made the contract? That is, the node where your time stops, so this time from here? ”

The voice of inquiry sounded at the foot of the mountain, accompanied by the evening breeze with a strong smell of blood, which made the grieving knight girl slightly stunned.

She subconsciously turned her head and found that the familiar figure was reaching out and rubbing her eyes, walking up the hill of death, and he walked to her side with the corners of his mouth twitching while carefully avoiding the corpses, pools of blood, stumps and broken arms along the road.

“Ma…… Master……”

After being stunned for a long time, Artoria reacted and shouted inexplicably.

probably returned to this historical node unexpectedly, and the impact on her was too huge and too amazing, making it difficult for the girl to tear and repent by herself, and she was tormented, and she was completely overwhelmed by the sudden negative emotions almost all of a sudden.

It wasn't until now that she saw Xia Ran's appearance that she finally remembered why she returned to this scene again.

"Can you stand up?"

Xia Ran stretched out his palm and said to the girl who was kneeling weakly on the bloodstained hill.

"Hmmm......"

Artoria replied dumbfounded, then her eyes widened, and she stretched out a blood-soaked red hand, held the master's palm tightly, and stood up from the ground with the help of his strength.

The appearance of the other party made her empty heart suddenly inject a trace of vitality......

At least it's not just that I'm abandoned in this time, at least I'm not alone, at least I still have someone I can rely on.

"It's really tragic enough ......"

Xia Ran looked around, and then looked at the corpse of the girl who fell not far in front of her, her face was seven or eight points similar to Artoria, and the corners of her eyes couldn't help twitching again several times.

This is Mordred's body.

The rebel's body was impaled through Artoria's holy spear, burning through the lungs, slipping off the spear, and dying......

But before that, her magic sword shattered the king's helmet and sliced through the skull, taking one eye and the rest of his life...... It's just that Artoria makes a pact with Restraining at the end, and the status update of the Heroic Spirit overrides her status.

——It really vividly depicts the touching scene of the father's love and filial piety.

Xia Ran couldn't help but look at the blonde girl who was leaning beside her weakly, the whole person was stunned, and her eyes were also dull and godless.

This moment was the moment when she made a pact with Alayya, because she was not the kind of regular Heroic Spirit who eventually sublimated into a legend of merit after a real death in reality before she was summoned as a Servant.

Instead, at the last moment before dying, she exchanged contracts with the restraining force and turned her soul into a guardian after death, so Artoria's time was frozen before she died, and it was the cage that bound her forever when she lost time.

She won't go to Valhalla, she's not on the seat in the first place, she'll just look at the battlefield in the sunset in a time that has lost its meaning, in an instant that is equivalent to eternity, waiting for the call again and again.

It stands to reason that although the contract has been transferred now, when she returns to the world of Fate, she will indeed return to this point in time - because her fate is not over, and she must make a decision in this place.

The only difference is that the time of this land, and her own time, does not stand still forever, but resettles into the normal flow of time, and begins to flow and change, from the known past to the unknown future.

This is a normal "correction" from the world, because history has diverged here-

From Artoria's point of view, her fate was not really over at all, her time was frozen, the period of history she was in was frozen in the moment before she died, and she did not experience what happened after the Battle of the Sword Fence again......

Because her time stopped, she didn't even really usher in death, and naturally she didn't create any more history, she was just imprisoned by the contract of restraining on the battlefield, and went to the battlefield on the other side of time and space over and over again in an eternal moment.

But from the perspective of the macro history of mankind, history has always been moving forward, and there are even records that the last knight took King Arthur out of the blood-stained battlefield and into the forest. For he believed that when he reached a quiet place, the king's injuries would be healed, or that he could only believe that.

But when the seriously wounded king woke up, he asked him to take the holy sword away, through the forest, over the blood-stained hills, until there was a deep lake on the other side, and threw the holy sword into it, and returned it to the fairy of the lake.

Without the protection of the Holy Sword, the immortal king will die. The knight refused the king's death, and twice lied that he had returned the sword, but the king saw through it.

On the third occasion, the knight finally accepted the king's choice and threw his sword into the lake. A white wrist appeared on the surface of the water to take the sword, and after three spins in mid-air, the holy sword disappeared from the world.

- King Arthur finally ushered in the eternal sleep of death.

This is the point that needs to be "fixed", if Artoria's time has been stopped on that battlefield and has not flowed normally, then how did Bedwell take her off the battlefield and return the Holy Sword three times?

Who was the person who played that role of her?

After understanding this, Xia Ran was completely relieved, no wonder he and the others were not summoned by the Fifth Holy Grail War in Dongmu City this time as originally expected, but appeared in this time period.

Obviously, this step is more important in the spontaneous "correction" of the world.

"Now that the time of this history has begun to flow normally, it will continue to develop......" After sorting out his thoughts, Xia Ran said softly, "Your last knight, Bedwell is coming." ”

“…… Is it? Artoria smiled reluctantly, "Master, did you see him?" ”

“…… See. ”

Xia Ran tugged at the corners of his mouth, he looked in a certain direction, and the figure that was desperately galloping in the distance was indeed reflected in the depths of his pupils, and the knight was breathing quickly holding the reins, desperately hanging on the white horse.

It's a very mysterious state, as long as he wants to, as long as he concentrates, he can see any corner of the world.

But it's not the art of seeing and hearing in the past, because it's no longer necessary, but the excellent EX clairvoyance, which can see through the past and the terrifying degree of the future...... Solomon returned the Almighty Ring and lost everything, including, of course, the eyes that gazed into the world.

So I actually "lent" these eyes to him? And now "back" it to me? ”

Xia Ran stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, still feeling a mess in his mind, if it weren't for these eyes, if it weren't for the huge amount of information that suddenly appeared in the palace of knowledge, he still wondered if he was having a bizarre dream just now.

“Master…… What did you say? ”

Artoria's voice, still tinged with a pitiful sense of vulnerability, sounded as if the girl was struggling to support her body on a hospital bed.

"It's nothing, it's just that my previous judgment was correct, and this can indeed be seen as an opportunity...... "Xia Ran gathered his thoughts and said seriously, "But it depends on what you think." ”

"I'm ...... What do you think......"

"That's right, first of all, we must understand one thing, miracles are not without a price......" Xia Ran stared at the girl's emerald green eyes, "There is a limit to the possibility of making the impossible possible, remember this?" ”

“…… Remember, you told me, but I'm not going to give up. Artoria steadied herself and tried to gather her will, so she said.

"Don't worry, I'm not telling you to give up, but you have to understand that if you want to achieve your wish to save Britain by completely denying yourself, then this is equivalent to a miracle that is basically impossible to achieve."

Xia Ran softly soothed the girl's mental state, trying not to stimulate her.

"This requires wading into time travel that becomes a paradox, denying the past by reversing established cause and effect, but if the past is negated, how can the changes you make later exist? This is truly a realm that only God can control......"

This is the paradox of time.

Artoria wants to erase all the mistakes she has made through a miracle, she feels that she is not worthy of being a king, and if she can change the established cause and effect from the beginning, maybe her country can be saved.

But the idea is already unrealistic, if she can really change the established cause and effect that occurs in a single timeline, then she will not exist now, because the past has been changed, and she will not exist in the future.

But the question arises again, if she doesn't exist later, then who has changed the past? How can history that never existed be erased? It's the same paradox as a man who goes back in time and kills his grandfather.

Even Gaithia's plan is not to "change" the past, but to "replace" it, and it does not unrealistically deny its own presuppositions, but finds its place in the new world from the beginning, which is the possibility of realization.

Artoria wants to be more thorough, how is this possible?

"This ......"

Her expression changed several times, and finally the girl admitted it dejectedly, "Then Master, what should you do?" ”

"If you are still unwilling to give up, then it would be good to open up a new history on the basis of acknowledging history......" Xia Ran said without thinking as if he had a plan in his heart.

"Blaze ...... A new history? ”

"Yes, I ask you, why are you so obsessed with denying your own existence, thinking that Britain would be saved if you didn't exist?" Xia Ran nodded, and then asked calmly.

“……”

“……”

"Actually, I know that because the mysterious era is over, the next era and the power of your roots cannot be compatible, and as long as you are alive, Britain will have no future." Xia Ran didn't care about Artoria's silence, and directly pointed out this.

"Woo......"

The girl let out a mournful whimper, and her face turned pale again.

That's what she really thought, when she was crusading against the demon dragon Fu Tigeng, the humble king who appeared as the will of the island and the doppelganger of the island warned her before he died, and she didn't care at that time.

But it wasn't until later that I realized that the old man was telling the truth, and that as long as his own king was alive, there would be no future for the country.

Because the age of mystery is over, and the next is the age of mankind, but her very existence is the most noble fantasy -

The bloodline of the King of Britain, the ideology of the British incarnation of the Red Dragon, and the noble female lineage used to perfectly blend the two to create the mother and womb are inherently the ultimate mystical embodiment.

This is the most fatal conflict, and the following era does not have her place with Britain.

That's why she thinks of saving the whole country from the source by denying and erasing her past self.

"So we can only start from this point, in the final analysis, it's because of the fading of the gods......" Xia Ran sighed, after the Common Era, the history of mankind will expel all the mysteries. Inversely proportional to the expansion of the light of science, the darkness of mystery gradually faded.

The mysterious and magical era of the past will come to an end and gradually decline due to human civilization. Nature, which has a personality, becomes a mere natural phenomenon. The aether in the atmosphere also dissipated like a cloud.

In fact, the end of the Divine Dynasty is different in various places, in general, the mainland ended the earliest, while the peninsula, islands, etc. are late, among which the more special Britain is that the Divine Era has not ended until the fifth century AD.

But when it ends, it leads to the current tragedy, and this is the main source.

"So the solution is actually very simple, as long as from now on, let the gods continue to prosper and continue!"

The magician makes such a declaration-

"The true end of the god generation means that the mystery will disappear from the history of mankind, and the physical laws of the earth will be determined according to the human intellect...... So, let me reconstruct this order, starting with the astrology and cosmology, and bring the whole world's cognition back to the age of geocentrism! ”