Chapter 308: Love and Hate
The stargazing tower of the Holy Capital, the crisp sound of weapons clashing can be heard from time to time inside the tower, and the outer walls of the tower are occasionally blasted open from the inside by some kind of force.
Both Skaha and Morgan are all-around Heroes who are proficient in both melee combat and magic.
In contrast, Skaha is more focused on the martial arts that reach the divine realm, while Morgan, the great witch of the gods, is more inclined to magic, and she uses magic to increase her physical fitness when she is in hand-to-hand combat, making up for her lack of skill and strength.
Morgan can easily condense a large number of elemental spells when he climbs in the tower, and from time to time he can use the materials he has at hand to refine some puppets to block Skaha's pursuit.
"Skaha, the queen of the Shadow Country, has long admired her name."
Morgan's figure flickered around the tower, and most of the time she was floating in mid-air, and Skaha had a hard time tracking Morgan in the stargazing tower in the center.
Morgan raised his left hand slightly, and the staircase in front of Skaha suddenly drooped downward, revealing a large blank area with the staircase behind him.
Skaha, who was galloping rapidly, did not panic, she poked the magic gun into the ground under her feet, used the magic gun as a support point like a pole vault, and threw herself to the opposite side of the broken staircase.
Before he landed, Skaha used the tip of another magic gun to write a set of primordial runes in the air.
Morgan, who was floating up, suddenly sensed that danger was approaching with his family's ancestral instincts, and set up a triple magic barrier for himself as quickly as he could.
"Click~Click~Knock~"
The first two layers of barriers were pierced by the Cone of Shadows that suddenly appeared near Morgan's body, and the strongest barrier on the third layer finally blocked Skaha's rune magic.
Morgan continued to float upwards as she tried to verbally convince Skaha to end the fight.
"Queen Skaha, I have no ill will towards you, why do you keep chasing me and attacking?"
"Heh~"
Skaha coldly hooked the corners of his mouth: "Big Witch Morgan, do you believe this sentence yourself?" If you don't have what you want from The Lion King, why should you answer her call to this special point? β
Skaha and Arthurian legends are both part of Celtic mythology, and they should technically be considered homesick, but they live in different eras.
Fellow Celts, the immortal Skaha naturally paid more attention to his native Celts than other civilizations, and the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was a topic that could not be avoided.
When summoned to the sixth anomaly as a Heroic Spirit, Inhibition gave Skaha information about the anomaly, and she knew a little bit about the Arthurian legend of Morgan.
Morgan has both the good and evil sides of the lake goblin, and is a person with a very complex personality.
She can be like a fairy to protect the people of Camelot, or she can be a vicious witch to wreak havoc on her homeland.
And these two states happen to be a true portrayal of two different stages of Morgan's life.
Kay, the Knight of the Round Table, commented on Morgan in the official Court of Avalon, saying that she used to be a good woman and didn't know when it started to be so scary.
On the eve of the war, Lu Xiao and Skaha discussed Morgan's relevant information.
Lu Xiao boldly speculated based on the information he knew that Morgan's personality changed greatly after Artoria's accession to the throne, from a pure and innocent fairy to a vicious witch, bent on seizing the throne from Artoria.
The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.
Morgan, who was summoned by the Lion King, should also be in opposition to her king as always, and will not change too much because the other party is the decisive Lion King, at most hiding his true intentions more secretly.
Rather, the Lion King would increase the likelihood of Morgan's rebellion. β
Skaha threw his magic spear at Morgan floating in the air, and the spear like a red meteor pierced Morgan's defensive barrier, but at the moment when the attack was imminent, Morgan used teleportation magic to leave the place.
No one knows the real reason for Morgan's personality change, but Lu Xiao can roughly guess that it must be related to Artoria.
There are many factors that can cause a person's personality to change drastically, and the most common ones are nothing more than great love and hate.
From the perspective of hate, Morgan is jealous that Artoria can inherit the throne even though she is a woman, which is also the most mainstream interpretation of the relationship between Morgan and Artoria.
But according to Lu Xiao's understanding of a certain fungus creature, he has always liked to make some contrasts among the characters that have been determined by history, enriching the image of the characters from both positive and negative aspects.
So, Lu Xiao tried to reverse Morgan's motives from the perspective of love, which coincided with a certain Arabian Nights that Romani had talked about before.
'Love or hate?' β
Skaha still had room to observe Morgan's demeanor during the battle.
If Morgan had acted primarily out of hatred, she would have been happy to see the Lion King's downfall.
The result of the main battlefield has little to do with her, she will applaud if the Lion King fails, and even if the Lion King defeats her, she can take the opportunity to go over and collect people's heads.
But if it's out of love......
As the Wall of Light was shattered by the Pharaoh's Noble Phantasm Radiance Conform to the Grand Temple, Morgan's originally leisurely attitude became a little more urgent, and the frequency of her attacks began to increase significantly.
Did he really guess it? β
Morgan's attitude shows that she cares about the situation of the Lion King, although she doesn't know for what purpose, but now that she has grasped the psychology of the other party, Skaha seems to be more comfortable in coping.
Morgan sped up her ascent to the stargazing tower, using alchemy to refine the tower's materials into weapons and golems to stop Skaha's progress, while using a variety of unspelled spells to attack Skaha directly.
Skaha lightly smashed all of Morgan's attacks with his twin guns, squinting his eyes at the stargazing tower where the light could faintly be seen.
'What's on the top floor of the Stargazing Tower?' Why didn't Morgan just use a teleportation spell to get back to the top of the tower? β
In two successive battles with Lu Xiao, Morgan revealed her spatial magic attainments, and it stands to reason that there is no need for her to entangle with Skaha inside the Stargazing Tower for so long.
'Could it be that Morgan's backhand on the roof of the stargazing building has something to do with space, and the close use of teleportation will affect the accuracy of the preset space spells? β
With a rough guess, Skaha also sped up the frequency of his actions.
Instead of following the stairs in the tower, she stepped directly on the walls of the building, and several back and forth attempts to get close to Morgan's floor.
Without affecting the magic core on the rooftop, Morgan had already used his best ability to stop Skaha, but the Queen of the Shadow Nation still easily caught up.
"Tsk~ is worthy of being a famous god killer, it's really not so easy to deal with."
Through the gap in the tower that had been pierced by spells, Morgan looked at the bare core area of the royal city, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes.
'The Lion King, the embodiment of the Holy Lance, I hope you can really exert your god-level combat power, at least until my spell arrangement is completed. β
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Except for Morgan and Shaka's hardcore hide-and-seek, the battles in the city have basically subsided, and Lu Xiao, Fujimaru and others have officially stepped into the throne hall that was blocked by the Wall of Light before.
A tall, handsome blonde knight stood in front of her throne, her emotionless turquoise eyes locked on the five people who entered the hall.
"Hiss~"
The powerful sense of coercion coming from The Lion King made Rika Fujimaru gasp.
He was the only ordinary person among the five people present, and in the face of the god-level Lion King, he instinctively felt a sense of fear under the powerful pressure of the other party.
However, Fujimaru Rika is after all a senior master who has gone through five peculiar points, and with the help of Da Vinci's specially customized magic dress (clothes), Fujimaru quickly readjusted his breathing and mood.
"Incomprehensible."
The Lion King stepped down the steps from the throne platform: "Magician of the Observatory, you have already understood my true purpose in the Atlas Academy, why should you resist my grant?" β
"The Magic King's human burning method has been completed, you should know very well the final outcome of this disaster, why should you stop my plan to leave the seed of hope for human civilization?"
Rika Fujimaru took a deep breath: "We are not against your idea of redeeming humanity, but against your act of choosing the object of redemption!" β
"Stupid, naΓ―ve."
The Lion King's demeanor was still indifferent: "The tower at the end can accommodate only 500 people, and it is natural to choose the most suitable 500 people, do you still have the illusion of redeeming everyone?" β
"Of course!"
Fujimaru Rika firmly clenched her fists and said: "As long as we correct the 7 peculiarities of different histories, human reason will definitely be restored, this is the common belief of all members of the Chaldeans!" β
The Lion King closed his eyes slightly, and after a moment of silence, he raised the holy spear in his hand and pointed at everyone present: "Our philosophies are very different, so there is no need to say more. β
"Guardian of human reason, since you don't agree with my philosophy, let your practical actions show your beliefs."