Chapter 9: King Arthur's ominous premonition

"King Arthur has arrived!"

At this time, as the voice of the palace attendant sounded, the entire round table instantly fell silent, and everyone looked respectfully at the blonde girl in silver armor who walked into the round table hall.

Undoubtedly, this is their invincible God of War and goddess-like beauty and dazzling King Arthur - Artoria Pendragon.

"See my king!" The Knights of the Round Table stood up in unison and saluted Artoria, and although King Arthur was a woman, everyone usually assumed that he was a man, and the propaganda to the people was also a man.

"Sit down, everybody." Artoria nodded lightly and motioned for the knights to sit down.

"What about the rebellion in the Southeast? Have you found the mastermind? ”

As soon as Artoria sat down, she immediately asked seriously, and it was obvious that it was a mistake of her as a king that there would be a rebellion of such a scale under her rule.

"Returning to my king, the rebel army in the southeast has moved closer to the direction of the royal capital, and at the same time, the rebellion seems to have a tendency to develop to the north, but so far the mastermind has not been found." King Arthur's most loyal Knight of the Round Table, Bedwell, immediately reported that in general, it was him who followed King Arthur to report on the situation of the battle.

"With such a huge rebellion, why was there no rumor at all before? What are the scouts doing? What are the agents doing? Artoria's brow furrowed slightly, obviously quite dissatisfied.

"Honorable King, this rebellion may have been caused by Dagonit." At this moment, the Knight of the Round Table, Aguiwen, stood up and spoke.

"Dagonit?" Artoria was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "I know this person best, although it is not very satisfactory at times, but when it comes to chivalry and loyalty, he is definitely not inferior to anyone present. ”

"However, according to one of the scouts who survived, Dagonit was once seen in front of Galahadqing's castle, and besides, the place where the rebellion broke out in the first place was Dagonit's territory, and even if he was not the mastermind, he could not escape it." Aguiwen immediately explained.

Listening to the description of the Aguiwen, Artoria couldn't help frowning, it was obvious that this matter was indeed inseparable from Dagonit, and it was not the time for her to defend Dagonit.

"In addition, according to the reports of the scouts, there are rumors among the fleeing civilians that these rebels are not people, but messengers from hell." Bedwell continued.

"Messenger of Hell? Why? Artoria frowned.

"According to the reports of the surviving soldiers, this time the rebels will eat humans, and they will look like dead corpses, even if they are disemboweled, they can still advance." Bedwell replied, though judging by his uncertain tone, seemed to be equally skeptical about the credibility of the information.

"This ...... How can it be? ”

The giant round table exploded in an instant, obviously the news they had received before did not have this article, if the enemy was not human, but from hell, then this time it was not just a rebellion!

"Calm down, everyone!" Artoria let out a loud shout, which made some of the rioting Knights of the Round Table instantly fall silent.

"Don't worry too much, this is probably just a trick by the dark wizards." Artoria calmly analyzed, "This rebellion is so rapid and so large, there must be something strange, so I think we should send an elite army to contact it first!" Let's find out! ”

"Dear King! I'm willing to share your worries! ”

At this moment, Mordred, who was usually silent, suddenly got up and said loudly, and the voice was unusually low after passing through the large exaggerated helmet.

"Mordred, would you like to go to the front?" Artoria gave a surprised look, in fact, because Mordred had been recommended by her most disgusted sister, Morgan Le Fay, and she hadn't paid much attention to him.

"Yes, honorable king!" Mordred nodded vigorously.

"I'd like to go with you, too." At this time, Yaguiwen, who had a good relationship with Mordred, also said at the same time.

"Since you are so brave, then I will entrust you with the task of vanguard, but all the soldiers under your command are combined, I am afraid that it is not safe to face the rebels with dark wizards, so let's mobilize a thousand elite cavalry from my royal division to you." Artoria pondered for a moment and then said, "In the meantime, the other Knights of the Round Table return to their territory to protect their people from being seduced by the Dark Wizard and joining the rebels. ”

"We must live up to our mission!"

The Knights of the Round Table replied in unison.

"Everyone remembers, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, and this rebellion must not be underestimated!" Artoria said with a serious face.

Soon, after receiving King Arthur's orders, many of the Knights of the Round Table rose and left the hall, leaving only Bedwell alone at Altoria's side.

Artoria waved his hand, signaling everyone in the hall to evacuate, and then said to Bedwell beside him with a sad face: "Bedwell, what do you think of this rebellion?" ”

"Wang, I'm not sure, but I have a premonition that it's not good." Bedwell said respectfully, but when it was only the two of them, Bedwell spoke a little casually.

"That's right, I also have a sense of foreboding, as if the purpose of this rebellion is exactly mine." Artoria frowned and said, as a king and a woman, her sixth sense is usually very accurate.

"I don't think the king needs to worry too much, now under your leadership, our troops are strong, and this rebellion will definitely be put down peacefully." Bedwell said immediately, but he didn't understand what King Arthur meant by this, after all, every rebellion is not against King Arthur, who else can it be targeted?

"Forget it, I don't think you understand what I mean, you lead a cavalry team, blend in with Mordred's team, and if something goes wrong, rush back to report to me immediately." Artoria sighed softly and said.

"I will not fail in my mission." Bedwell immediately said respectfully.

Artoria nodded with satisfaction, then stood up, and walked back to the round table hall with a heavy heart, her own study, even if there was no rebellion, as a king, there were too many things to deal with if she wanted to make the people live a good life, so she needed to work harder.

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Time passed quickly, and Mordred and Aguiwen, who had received the order to conquest, led an army of nearly 10,000 people to the front line of the confrontation with the rebels, and among these 10,000 people, in addition to most of the soldiers in the two territories and the cavalry directly under King Arthur, there were also a large number of volunteers recruited along the way.

Today, however, they face an enemy far outnumbered them, at least three times as many as they were.

"The Knights of the Round Table on this expedition is Mordred, my master." At this time, seeing the exaggerated mask of the knight in the front, Dagonit immediately recognized his identity, and at this time, he was mixed with Rocky in the middle of the zombie herd.

"Mordred? Seems to be a very powerful knight, huh? ”

Rocky was a little surprised, and always felt that this name was very familiar, but Rocky, who had not paid attention to the FATE series for a long time, would not be able to think of this person's allusions for a while.

"Yes, Mordred's strength is very good, and he can be ranked in the top five among the Knights of the Round Table, but there is still a big gap compared to the top Lancelot, Gao Wenqing and Galahadqing, but his lack of combat experience is a point that you can take advantage of." Dagonit said immediately, beginning to reveal the essence of his old fox.

In fact, in addition to being timid and lazy, Dagonit was also quite a brainy man, very good at arguing between knights and King Arthur, and it can be said that he was able to become a knight of the round table without using force, and he must have excelled in other aspects.

"Really? Then turn him into your companion first! Rocky had a confident smile on his face, and it was clear that he already had a plan in mind to deal with Mordred.

"Mordred, look at the momentum of this rebel army, do we need to take the lead in the first place?"

At this time, on the opposite side of Rocky, looking at the black pressure on a large crowd, Yaguiwen frowned, although their side was stronger, but in the case of not knowing whether the enemy still had reinforcements, he did not dare not act rashly.

Thinking of this, Yaguiwen couldn't help frowning, none of the dozens of scouts he sent a few hours ago came back, you must know that this is his carefully trained elite scout force, and it will not even be able to deal with this group of rabble who don't have weapons, it seems that he needs to rectify the scout force after he goes back.

"It's fine." Mordred nodded, and let out a dull voice, "They are keeping a distance from us now, and they don't know what they want to do, so I'll lead a team of people to explore the truth!" ”

"Mordred, you're really a leader! I'll go with you! Aguiwen showed an approving look, among the Knights of the Round Table, he was most optimistic about the young Mordred, although he was young and strong, although he was not favored now, but he had considerable potential, as long as he followed him closely, Aguiwen felt that his status in the Knights of the Round Table would rise in the future.

"No, there needs to be someone here to preside." Mordred immediately shook her head, "When the time comes, you can come and pick me up!" ”

However, before Mordred could gather all the men, the giant zombie group on Rocky's side appeared, and one after another simple catapults made a "crunch" sound and were sent to the front of the zombie group.

"What is this?!" Mordred made a puzzled voice, in this era, although there were siege weapons such as catapults, there were no ancient Chinese catapults, so Rocky made a catapult based on the famous ancient Chinese thunderbolt, they did not know it at all.

"Mordred, what's going on?" Yaguiwen also showed a puzzled expression.

"Look at this structure is very similar to a catapult, could it be a siege weapon?" Mordred guessed, but while lamenting that the catapult could still be made like this, Mordred also wondered what the role of the catapult was on the plain, in the time of King Arthur, the catapult was only driven by craftsmen during the siege of the city, and was used to smash through the heavy stone walls of the castle, but on the plain, the catapult was not very useful, not to mention, now the distance between the two armies is very far, I am afraid that such a small catapult can't hit them at all, right?

"Reload!"

At this time, as the catapults all entered the position that Rocky had calculated before Rocky, Rocky in the zombie group made a deep voice and issued instructions to the secondary zombies who controlled the catapults, although the lower-level zombies had no wisdom at all, but the second-level zombies were still very useful, and a total of twenty catapults here were all made with the assistance of these beautiful zombies who were personally infected by him.

At Rocky's command, huge balls of human flesh were loaded into the net pockets of the catapult.

"Oh no, these catapults are loading!"

Seeing this scene, Mordred secretly screamed, although he was not sure that the rebel attack would be effective, but seeing that the ammunition that was loaded seemed to be made of corpses, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.