Chapter 37: The King's Feast (3)

Artoria stood up and looked around with a frown. The rider next to him, as usual, drank the wine from the Hero King, which originated from the mythological wine that only gods deserve. And the golden king on the other side is still the same disdainful and self-respecting look, and he is not disturbed by his affairs at all.

"Sit down, King Arthur! Tonight is the banquet of the Three Kings, and we will not allow any clown peeping in the dark to disturb you. ”

Rider beckoned Artoria to sit down with a nonchalant expression.

"The Holy Grail was supposed to be my possession. All the treasures in the world originated from my collection, but because it was a long time later, it was lost from my treasury, but its owner is still me. ”

Artoria's words were interrupted by Archer's arrogant words. But neither Artoria nor Rider questioned the words of the Golden King. The two who already knew his real name knew that he was indeed qualified to say so.

The oldest king of the world, Gilgamesh, who possesses the prototype of all the treasures in the world, deserves the reputation of the strongest heroic spirit. Although she naturally disliked Gilgamesh's unruly stance, Artoria had to admit that she was not completely sure that she would be able to defeat the other party.

This is a very difficult thing, you must know that Artoria has never been defeated in her life. The King of All Battles, the most perfect king in the hearts of all the soldiers of Holy Britain, she is the embodiment of all virtues, the reality of ideals. Even Alexander the Great, the conquering king of history, was an adversary in Artoria's eyes. This is where Gilgamesh's strength can be seen.

"In this case, it doesn't really matter to you whether you have a Holy Grail or not, and you don't want to compete for the Holy Grail to fulfill any wishes, right?"

"Of course!"

Archer faintly affirmed Rider's question.

"But since the Holy Grail is the property of the King, all mongrels who seek to covet the King's treasures are unforgivable!"

"Is that why you deigned to come into this world, Archer?"

With a slight smile, Artoria said sarcastically.

"It's just one of them. Gilgamesh didn't care about Artoria's tone this time, but said to himself:

"Isn't it too boring to just sit alone on the throne of the Valhalla, where can there be more glitz and glitz than this world? People always have desires, and no matter who they have. Whether it's power, wealth, lust, or prestige. These essential desires that human beings possess are also the most delicious things. And as the only king in the world, the pleasure that this king pursues can only be obtained from here. Isn't the meaning of the existence of the people to give the king more pleasure!"

A faint frown, Gilgamesh's remarks were contrary to Artoria's beliefs. However, she did not open her mouth to deny anything, since the name of Archer's king has been recognized by history, then it is not her own refutation that can be denied.

"Is this your way of kingship? Gilgamesh?" asked the King of Conquest, who was sitting quietly beside him, solemnly.

"Yes, the royal road of this king is endless desire, which is stronger than ordinary people's desires!"

Smiling contemptuously, Gilgamesh's blood-red eyes shone with desire. This is a king who doesn't know how to hide his thoughts, because he doesn't have to hide anything. Heaven and earth first opened, and when human beings were ignorant, there were few scheming words. Therefore, the king born in the primeval world does have rare sincerity, even if this sincerity seems a little deviant.

"King, do whatever you want. This is the truth since the primeval flood!"

The cuneiform script inscribed the Enuamelish on clay tablets, and the creation myth has since been buried deep in the plains of Mesopotamia

Unearthed and discovered dozens of centuries later

The handwriting on the clay tablets is still legible

The sky is high, and it is not famous.

The thick land is not named.

There is a void in the beginning, and it is out of it.

The mother of the desert is full of ink, and they are all born from breeding.

The great immersion is one, mixed and the same.

There is no weft to settle down, and there is no swamp to see.

At that time, the gods were invisible.

The myth of Sumer unfolds, but it is not the legend of the gods that is fascinating. A heroic epic that tells the immortal legend of Babylon. That's the oldest myth, that's the greatest king, that's..."Gilgamesh."

Uruk City ushered in its first king

He had two-thirds of the Godhead and one-third of the personality

Evil, tyrannical and non-poisonous

He relied on his power to rob men and women, and forced the inhabitants of the city to build walls and build a universe, causing the people to suffer unbearably.

People in suffering pray to the heavenly gods to save them

The gods told Aruru to create a half-human, half-beast warrior Enkidu to fight Gilgamesh.

The two used all their skills, but they still admired each other's bravery, so they became friends, went together to benefit the people, and became heroes loved by everyone.

Uruk prospered unprecedentedly, and the King of Heroes took advantage of all the treasures on the land

However, the beautiful scenery of the good day could not be kept

Gilgamesh angered the gods by recklessly rejecting the marriage proposal of the goddess Ishta

The revenge of Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven indirectly took Enkidu's life

The glorious hero king of the past is gradually lost in the desire for enjoyment and the fear of life and death.

For eternal youth

Exhausted all his strength to find the elixir of immortality, but was devoured by a snake

The great king finally could not escape the shackles of life and death, and ended his legendary life in the dialogue between the passage of life and death and Enqidu.

"This king is the only king in the world, the apex of all in the world, and I am the heroic king Gilgamesh!"

"What a great king!"

After listening to Gilgamesh's legendary life, Rider sincerely admired. This hero, born in the age of the gods, is worthy of the title of the first king in the world, and his unafraid actions in the face of the wrath of the Sumerian gods are truly moving.

"Hmm... It's a very good life. ”

Although there are differences in beliefs, this does not prevent Artoria from identifying with Gilgamesh. Each king has his own royal way, and they may be very similar to each other, they may be quite different, and there may be an insurmountable gap. But the holy king or the tyrant is just the evaluation of the world, and the macro evaluation of the public cannot measure the moral right and wrong that the king insists on. People who stand at the top can probably only be recognized and evaluated by the same people who are at the peak.

"Hmph, the morality of this king... I don't need you to talk about it. ”

For the recognition of the two, Gilgamesh showed disdain. But the smile on the corner of his mouth still betrayed his mood at the moment, although the king had to be arrogant, but to be appreciated by the two equally famous kings, even Gilgamesh couldn't help but show joy.

No matter how usual the run is, it is the same at the moment.

"And what is the royal way you hold onto, Iskander?"

The Feast of the Three Kings was in some ways more than the Battle of the Holy Grail itself, so Artoria called him by his real name as a sign of respect for the King of Conqueration.

"My king's way..."

Rider drained the glass of wine, then stood up and opened his hands as if he wanted to embrace heaven and earth. The rugged king let out a heroic laugh, ignoring Webb's struggling expression.

"I think you should be the best person in this life to understand my royal ways, King Arthur!"

With a confident smile, Rider said as he looked at Artoria.

"The vast land, the various countries, the different customs and cultures. This seemingly boundless world has never been unified since mythology, not even by the gods who opened the world. Isn't such a great cause what my generation has pursued all my life, to open up territory, to conquer any land that can stand on our feet, to do what the gods cannot do, to let the name of the king float in any corner of the world, so that the sun will never set above the empire, such a life is worthy of walking in the world!

My quest is to reach the endless sea, my morality... It's conquest!"

Yes, this is an ambitious emperor and an unusually charismatic one.

He studied under Aristotle, and since he was a child, he has a great talent for leading soldiers to fight, which can be described as both civil and military. Since childhood, he has loved Homer's epic poem "The Iliad", and has been greatly influenced by Hercules and Achilles. Together with the foundation laid by his father Philip II, Iskandar ascended to the throne of Macedonia at the age of 20, and the conquering king began his magnificent life.

Legend has it that he was the son of Zeus, the god of thunder, and perhaps blessed by God for this, Iskandar's life was full of victories and never tasted defeat. He defeated Thrace and Thebes and completely subjugated all of Greece. Then the war spread to West Asia and North Africa, and with less than 50,000 troops and the sharpness of the Macedonian phalanx, the million-strong army of Persia was reduced to ashes.

Previously, in order to resist Persia's naval superiority, he challenged Persia's naval supremacy. He decided to take a stupid approach - to capture all the ports and bases in the Eastern Mediterranean from land. From present-day Turkey, Alexander marched south to Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.

After defeating the Persian Emperor Darius's personal army on the way, he continued south to conquer the ports of the Mediterranean coast, and after a grueling seven-month siege, conquered the Phoenician island city of Tyre. After conquering Tyre, Alexander continued his southward advance. After two months of siege, Egypt surrendered automatically, without firing a single shot. Alexander then stayed in Egypt for a while to give his army a little respite and founded Alexandria, the famous port city of Egypt today. There, at the age of 24, Alexander was hailed as the pharaoh and called him the son of the sun god Amun.

However, Iskandar's desire for conquest was not satisfied, and the goal of the conquering king was to see all the lands as far as his eyes could see. Even in the unknown places on the other side of the ocean, he has plans to set foot in them. So he continued to march into Afghanistan, and from Afghanistan through the Hindu Kush into India. Marched to the Hydapace River east of India, confronted the Indian king Bolasjia River, and fought the last battle of his 4 major battles: the Battle of Hydapace, completely defeating Bolas's army. Admiring Bolas's bravery and winning the support of the locals, Iskandar freed the captured Bolas after the war and still made him king of India. Despite the death of two of Bolas' sons and one grandson on the battlefield, Bolas himself remained loyal to Iskandar ever since.

Although he was deeply loved by his soldiers, the army under Iskandar was tired of fighting after a long period of fighting. It was inevitable, even after a decade-long campaign in which Artoria had been. However, at this time, the conquering king was only thirty years old, and out of the idea of a long future, he began to return to the west.

However, only two years after returning to Persia, Iskandar completely ended his dream of reaching the Endless Sea, and the pace of conquest stopped forever.

"A life of conquest..."