Chapter 185: The Dream (Finale)
"Kill the devil!"
"My Lord is supreme! Kill the devil! ”
"We've all been lied to! Avenge His Majesty the King! ”
Byrne stood in front of the door of the palace, looking at the thousands of people walking in front of him, listening to their cries, and his brain ached.
He was a guard who had been transferred from the old royal palace of Carmellot City to the new royal palace of Morgan City two months ago.
"Stay vigilant! Don't let them break into the palace! This is an order from Queen Morgan! ”
The captain of the guards commanded loudly in a rough voice.
Byrne shouted "yes", then laid the tip of his spear flat and aimed it at the marching crowd.
Although he didn't really want to do anything to the populace, as a knight guarding the royal family, he had no other choice.
"Damn...... It's all a mess. ”
Byrne sighed, remembering two months ago.
At that time, he was still an ordinary guard in the city of Camelot, and the country was still in a very peaceful state, although not long ago, the country suffered a large-scale invasion by the Roman Empire, and there was a rebellion in the country, but with the efforts of the king's army led by King Arthur and the Chosen One, Britain not only defeated the foreign invaders, but also successfully suppressed the rebellion of the country, and finally completed the unification.
In this situation where internal and external troubles have been solved one after another, everyone has a beautiful vision for the future.
However, after King Arthur declared the end of the war and introduced a national policy of recuperation, the situation suddenly changed.
Excluding the western part occupied by the King's army, the Chosen One was divided into three factions at that time.
The 1st Theater of Operations in the North, the 2nd Theater in the South, and the 3rd Theater in the East.
The Chosen One of the First War Zone can be said to be the greatest heroes in this internal and external operation, because they have the most attacks, the strongest strength, and the greatest combat exploits. It stands to reason that they will be rewarded with King Arthur's supreme reward, and the one with the highest merit will not only be awarded a knighthood and become a lord, but will also be rewarded with a unique artifact from King Arthur, the Sword of the Chosen One, the sister sword of the Steel Sword.
However, for some reason, a week before the start of the reward ceremony, the news that the second war zone was dissatisfied with the result and planned to launch a rebellion suddenly began to circulate in the country, and then the representative of the first war zone announced that King Arthur had ordered them to go to crusade against the thieves, so he led the Chosen One in the same district to attack the Chosen One in the second war zone.
Although the Second War Zone denied this at the beginning, not long after being attacked by the First War Zone, it also united with the Chosen One of the Third War Zone to fight with the First War Zone on the grounds that King Arthur had been reduced to a puppet and the First War Zone was in defiance of the Yang and Yin.
The flames are raging, and the war between the three forces is about to break out.
The war lasted for a month, and the ceremony had to be canceled.
Around the royal capital, the Chosen ones fought day and night.
Due to the innate immortality of the Chosen One, even if they are killed, they can be resurrected in a short period of time. Therefore, after the war began, King Arthur ordered the king's army not to interfere in any way, and that a type of magic array of unknown use in various cities across the country must be dismantled.
Soon, the war came to an end.
The King's Army finally had to intervene in the struggle.
The reason for this was that the Chosen One of the Second War Zone broke through the city gates and engaged in a fierce battle with the Chosen One of the First War Zone in the inner city.
The citizens took refuge in their homes, and even the royal palace was inevitably affected, and that day was the day of the catastrophe.
Byrne still remembers vividly that on that day, he was transferred to the main hall of the palace and served as King Arthur's personal bodyguard.
He watched the violent magic fluctuations in the distance, and sighed that it was incredible that the country could tolerate the existence of the Chosen One...... Suddenly, a dark shadow fell from the sky and knocked him to the ground, and he didn't remember what happened next.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a gravel floor.
He looked around in confusion and was immediately stunned.
There are potholes on the ground, the wind blows the sand, and the surrounding nearly 10,000 square meters seem to be an uncultivated wasteland.
The palace he had been stationed in for ten years, the majestic and solid city of Camelot, had disappeared.
How is this possible?
He thought he was dreaming, but after he and his companions met up and confirmed each other, he realized that what he was seeing was undoubtedly reality.
Immediately afterwards, one bad news after another came to everyone's ears.
The body of Merlin, the archmage of the court, was found in a pile of rubble.
and the King of Britain, whose whereabouts are unknown.
The remnants of the palace mage surveyed the ruins of the palace and concluded that the palace did not disappear due to external destruction, and that no magic could cause this phenomenon.
This brought the situation to an impasse.
This...... What should I do?
Byrne was stunned, and he, like most soldiers, was at a loss for what to do in the face of such a complicated situation.
After all, the kings are gone, and the country ...... What do I do next?
Fortunately, the important military ministers of the palace inexplicably survived this war, and they reacted in time, ordering the knights of the king's army to close the ruins of the old city, and at the same time, released the news that the palace had been destroyed by forbidden spell-level magic in the internal fighting of the chosen one, and that King Arthur was injured and needed to recuperate.
Of course, this incident aroused the suspicion of many people, and some even suspected that King Arthur had actually died.
However, this is only speculation, so although it is said that there is a certain amount of chaos in China, it does not let the situation completely get out of control.
In order to reassure the people as soon as possible, it is also to prevent the chaos in the royal capital from being detected by foreign forces.
The ministers ordered the most famous craftsmen in the country, as well as the master builders, to build a new palace from scratch in its original location.
The construction period took only one month.
Although it can be said that it is shoddy compared to the original, the new palace is only one-fifth the size of Camelot City, and the luxury is not at all comparable to the original, it is not so much like a royal palace as a local lord's house.
However, something is better than nothing.
The palace was built, and then it was time to think about the new leadership of the country.
The only blood relative of the former king Yusher was his son Arthur, and Arthur was missing, so who should inherit this country?
I thought of the rebellion that the country had started not so long ago.
The aristocrats were deeply wary of each other, fearing that the country would be divided again.
At this time, a person stood up, she used to be a minister under King Arthur, you think Lukan, she recommended a person that no one thought of.
That person is King Arthur's half-sister, the third princess who was once named a witch and was imprisoned in the royal convent - Morgan.
Although she is not related to the former king Yusher, nominally speaking, she is indeed a member of the royal family.
Byrne didn't know the man, and he hadn't even heard much of the name, but many ministers supported the new queen as if they were enchanted.
So, on the day of the completion of the new palace, the court announced that King Arthur was critically ill and temporarily handed over the throne to his sister Morgan, so that Princess Morgan became the queen.
This aroused certain opposition from the lower strata of the country, including the unwitting small and medium-sized nobles in various places, but the attitude of the upper strata was too tough, and they could only obey orders temporarily.
But......
"Why is this happening......" Byrne sighed.
In the two months following King Arthur's death, there were still uncontrollable changes in the country. That was the sudden frenzy of expulsion of the Chosen One.
The reason is not only that the Chosen One destroyed the court, resulting in King Arthur's injury, but also a more important point.
It was through this incident that the people realized how abnormal the Chosen One was.
They have immortal powers, all of them have unique skills, and there are many of them, which are different from any foreign peoples in Britain, and most importantly, their three views are very different from those of the aborigines, and they can even be said to be distorted to the point of incredible.
not afraid of kingship, not believing in Christ, bold and reckless.
Under such circumstances, the friction between the Chosen and the Aborigines increased, eventually leading to a complete break between the two.
The march in front of us is the best proof of this.
Of course, this is just Byrne's own opinion, and there may be other alternative factors, but for a guard, he can only guess so much.
"Down with the devil!"
"Kill the Chosen! Long live Queen Morgan! ”
Seeing the shouting crowd approaching the new palace, Byrne licked his dry lips and took a deep breath: "Stand down!" Stand down! You pariahs! ”
……
Listening to the noisy slogans outside the restaurant, the girls sitting in the tavern had complicated expressions.
The blonde girl with two ponytails sighed and said to herself, "The situation in China has been getting worse and worse recently, I really don't know...... What would he think if he knew about it? ”
"It doesn't matter what he thinks, it's not all our responsibility anyway." The female warrior with silver eyes snorted coldly, and then she seemed to remember something, and added: "The guy of the Northern United Defense Line, you should be scared to death now, Arthur dismantled all the resurrection magic arrays in Britain before, it was still a little useful." ”
The Northern Coalition Defense, an improvised group of players who resisted the Indigenous people in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Due to the loss of respawn points and the inability to leave the game, most players chose to join the group.
Despite this, they managed to gain a foothold in northern Wales and were now on high tension with the King's Army.
"Yes, yes, I'm afraid there are no players in England right now." The dancer hugged her shoulders and said, "But this is also their own doing, thinking that they can't die, so they do nonsense...... Now it is also a matter of course. ”
"Retribution...... Galahad stared at the wine glass on the table, his expression a little gloomy.
"Anyway, for the sake of the master's safety, let's find him as soon as possible." Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming more and more depressing, the dancer quickly stood up and tried to boost morale.
"The question is, where exactly do we go to find it?" The silver-haired girl in the leotard pointed out the problem with a blank face.
"Uh, that's ......" The dancer was speechless.
“…… Copy. ”
"Huh?"
At the beginning of entering the hotel, the red-haired beauty, who had not spoken, raised the wine glass on the table, took a sip, and said in an uncertain tone: "We have always been on the premise that that person was blown away from us on the day of the Great Catastrophe, or there was something that had to be solved alone, so we were not contacted." I think we might be fundamentally wrong about that. ”
"What do you mean?" Galahad asked.
"I don't think that person is in this world...... Uh, I'm certainly not saying he's dead. I just think...... Could he have been transported to a different plane from this world, in the words of the Chosen One, in another instance? ”