Seeing Artoria successfully pull out the sword in the stone, Merlin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the wrinkles on his face that were originally crowded together seemed to have unfolded a lot at this time.

In fact, according to Merlin's prediction, Artoria should have come up to draw her sword as early as the sun set, and it should not have been dressed as a woman. Although I don't know what caused the development of events to be a little beyond his expectations, but in general, the dust has settled, and as for the rest, it is all side matter, and with his ability, it is enough to settle it.

"According to the previous agreement, young lady, it was you who pulled out the sword in the stone, and from now on, you will be the new king of Great Britain."

Merlin took the initiative to salute Artoria and use his prestige to elevate Artoria. After all, Artoria was just a little-known person before this, and she was still a woman, and in the eyes of most people, she was not qualified to succeed the king at all, even if she had the prophecy of the sword in the stone, it was impossible to gag everyone's mouth.

Therefore, Merlin can only take the lead in expressing his submission to Artoria, so that if the others want to embarrass Artoria, they will have to weigh themselves compared to him, the great magician.

Compared with those who are still in shock, shame, jealousy, resentment and other emotions, Zhou Xiaoning can be said to be a complete bystander, so what he sees is naturally different from them.

Just now, when Artoria drew her sword, Zhou Xiaoning suddenly felt a subtle magic force sweeping over her.

At first, Zhou Xiaoning thought that someone didn't want Artoria to be the queen, so he was using some disgraceful means to harm her. Although with Artoria's strength at this time, it is impossible to be injured by this level of magic, but Zhou Xiaoning still opened the dragon pupil for the first time, and traced back to the past with that trace of magic, she wanted to see who was so blind-eyed that he dared to plot against Artoria in front of him!

However, what surprised Zhou Xiaoning was that the trace of magic power was actually emitted by the stone under the sword in the stone. Moreover, judging from the breath, it is the same as the magic in Merlin's body.

Suddenly, Zhou Xiaoning thought of something, and looked at the stone that was not good-looking.

"Sure enough, how can such an important matter as choosing a king be decided by just drawing a sword, isn't that too child's play."

Zhou Xiaoning touched his chin, revealing an expression of "there is only one truth".

What a sword to choose a king, to put it bluntly, is a show, with all of Great Britain as a foil, so as to highlight Artoria and make everyone think that she is the chosen king, so as to gain great prestige on the throne, so as to help her consolidate the royal power faster.

It is true that the sword in the stone is indeed a king's sword, and it will choose the person who has the appearance of a king as its master. But Great Britain says it's not big, it's not small, and the population is one or two million, so is it true that there is no second person who has the appearance of a king besides Artoria? Not necessarily.

Therefore, for the sake of insurance, before King Yuser died, he communicated with Merlin, hoping that Merlin could help Artoria ascend to the throne, and Merlin agreed.

In fact, what Merlin has to do is not complicated, he only needs to set a small spell on the stone with the sword in the stone, to ensure that except for those who have the blood of the Pendragon clan, no one can resonate with the sword in the stone, so that even if someone with the posture of a king comes up to draw the sword, it will be a failure because he can't wake up the sword in the stone, and the so-called black box operation is nothing more than that.

It's just that Zhou Xiaoning is on Artoria's side, so naturally he won't dismantle her platform, so he will keep this secret secret, and I'm afraid there will be no third person in this world besides him and Merlin.

"Arthur, it's really you, why are you ......"

The young man who had a good relationship with Artoria before finally recognized her after carefully identifying her, although he couldn't believe it, but the fact was in front of him, the brother who grew up with him turned out to be a sister, and he hadn't noticed it for so many years!

"I'm sorry Kai, I didn't mean to lie to you."

Artoria looked at the young man apologetically, in the previous years, she had stayed in this young man's home, and had received a lot of favors from their family, and she and the young man were also friends from childhood to adulthood, if it weren't for the unavoidable hardship, she really didn't want to favor them for so long.

"Okay, I don't care what your reason is, I just want to be quiet now!"

The young man waved his hand, he didn't know what kind of mentality to use to face Artoria, congratulations on her upcoming succession to the king? Or resent her for deceiving herself? He felt that his mind was in turmoil, and he was afraid that he would not dare to meet with Artoria until he had thought it through.

Looking at the young man's departing back, Artoria opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say a word of relief. It's not that Artoria doesn't want to save this friendship, it's just that what she will face next is too difficult and too dangerous, and even she doesn't dare to say that she has the bottom of her heart, so it's better not to implicate him.

The young man's departure was like an introduction, and everyone who had not dared to speak because of Merlin's presence also whispered at this time, and did not leave Artoria, obviously they were all dissatisfied with Artoria's succession to the king.

Merlin knew that he had to step up at this time.

"Here, I have one more thing to announce. The one next to me is actually King Uther's foster daughter, Artoria Pendragon, she has pure royal blood, plus she pulled out the sword in the stone, it can be said that it is destiny, do you have any objections? ”

Merlin used a bit of magic to make his voice clear to everyone's ears, and it was mixed with spells similar to bewilderment to make his words sound more convincing.

"This old guy is also hard enough to make Leah the queen."

Zhou Xiaoning had a faint smile on his face, he naturally heard Merlin's words, and with his resistance, even if Merlin used his bewilderment technique with all his might, it would not affect him at all.

However, for the sake of helping Artoria, Zhou Xiaoning didn't care about Merlin's sin of vainly trying to influence him with magic. Not only that, Zhou Xiaoning also secretly added a little material, and used illusion to slightly affect the vision of everyone present, making Artoria look more majestic and sacred, inviolable.

Under the effect of such two phases, Zhou Xiaoning can't believe that he can't even deal with these ordinary people!