Stray Chapter 11: The beginning of the project

Bedwell, the quick-thinking heroic knight, is at a loss as to what to do at this moment.

As long as the holy sword is returned to the fairy in the lake, the king is no longer a king, and without the protection of the holy sword, the severely injured king may die like an ordinary person... He was shaken and unwilling to accept this order.

Subconsciously, he looked at the silent magician beside him with helpless pleading eyes.

Although I don't know who the other party is, although I don't know how the other party and the king know each other, and although I don't know what the relationship between the other party and the king is... But he must be a trustworthy person, because he is the one who the king is also relying on at this moment.

So, say something, exhort, organize...

Please don't let this horrible thing happen.

It seemed that he understood Bedwell's gaze, and the magician who had been quiet all along finally spoke up. He stared into the knight's eyes earnestly, and said in a calm and flat tone:

"This is the end of a long and heavy responsibility."

“…”

“…”

Bedwell finally understood and fell silent.

Yeah, it should be over.

In the end, King Arthur was not a king recognized by everyone, but a false king who was recognized only during the smooth reign of the world. As long as she can move with the function of a king, she can ignore the slight "dissonance".

Even if someone discovers the true identity of the king, they will keep their mouths shut while the king is still good. While praising the ideal king, when he realizes that the ideal cannot save all people, he puts all the responsibility on her.

—That's what it turned out to be.

It's all over.

The country and this land will continue to be in turmoil after that, and soon the day of destruction will come.

But that is no longer the responsibility of the king. If you pretend to replace the king who exists only to protect the country, only for that reason to hide his true face for ten years, pull out his sword to become someone else, and kill his own past. To protect the people till now.

To live for people, to live with people, to leave a future for people, that is the matter of being entrusted to the state, the matter of being the king's proof.

——It is also a matter of living in the responsibility of the king.

When the ideal and correct king is betrayed by everyone and hated by everyone, this responsibility should come to an end, precisely because Bedwell is one of the only knights of the round table who truly cares about the king's own happiness. The knight, he understood this profoundly.

Bite his lip hard, the one-armed knight accepted the king's choice.

"Master Magician, please take good care of the king, I will be back soon..." Leaving such a sentence, Bedwell rode on a white horse and left.

"How many times do you think he will come back?"

Xia Ran blinked and asked with a smile.

"...Three times."

Artoria replied in a low voice, she did not know about her own epic legends and the like, of course she knew that Bedwell would disobey her orders, and it was not until the third time that she really threw her sword into the lake middle.

She was very moved that when she was at the end of her life, there was such a loyal knight following her. She knew that violating the king's orders was a big crime for the knight, but he still risked his life twice.

Just because he felt that once he lost the protection of the holy sword, he would die. Because he was afraid of such a thing, he couldn't put the sword into it. He could only lie about the sword he accidentally lost on the way with lame words. Discarded...

"What if he still didn't return the holy sword for the third time?" the magician pointedly said.

"What?"

Altoria was stunned for a moment, then raised her head subconsciously.

"It appears under the influence of singularity, it may come from a certain IF." Xia Ran blinked, but that's where they can make a fuss, and it's the most suitable place to cut in. point of divergence.

"That means..."

The king of knights is obviously not able to react. She is in a daze now, and even her brain is not very bright.

"It's just to remind you first, so that you have a mental preparation, but the possibility of parallel existence is not something you can control, nor is it your responsibility, so don't worry too much. "

Xia Ran shook her head, not directly explaining her meaning: "In short, let's maintain the orthodox history and complete this "correction". As for the derived branches and branches, that will be a problem later. "

"Hmm."

Arturia nodded slightly, hesitated, and then asked, "What should I do?"

"This is a long story, but I have a general idea, and then I just need to perfect the detailed plan. So there will be no problem, and no one will be able to stop me, I will definitely fulfill my promise It's been a miracle."

The magician stretched out his hand and took the spear spirit outfit next to him, stuffed it into her hand solemnly, and said in a joking tone—

"All you have to do is maintain this miracle, this is the "Holy Grail" I gave you..."

The Holy Grail... The girl bit her lower lip lightly, knowing what the other party said.

That was her ninth year on the Camelot Throne, the penultimate year. Anxious, she learned from Merlin that the main reason for the year of evil was not that the land was deserted and uncultivated because of the alien invasion, but that the land itself was changing.

Even though Camelot is still alive and well, Britain itself is in constant decline.

The palace magician said to the king that the mystery left on the land was nothing but dregs.

This island is a foreign land far away from the mainland, so on this planet that has been mysteriously disappearing since the Western Calendar, there is still a strong air of mythology era, but the residual breath is still fading away. .

She confesses the island's secrets to a trusted secretary, trying to solve the problem. The secretary spoke to her, saying that if the island gradually lost its mystery, then a miracle that could rival it should be achieved.

Artoria accepts the proposal.

---And this is what left an anecdote in later generations, the Knights of the Round Table exploring the Holy Grail.

Countless knights embarked on a journey of discovery in pursuit of what the king called the Holy Grail, but they all returned halfway.

Percival, who admired King Arthur more than anyone else, died. Galahad, the perfect knight who was hailed as the bearer of the next round table, although he received the Holy Grail, he also returned the Holy Grail to heaven because he had no desire or desire. I also passed away.

Camelo was eventually overwhelmed by grief and failed to achieve the true miracle of surviving after the end of the Age of Gods.

"Is Lungominiad..."

Looking at the spiritual outfit in her hand, the girl knew that this holy spear seemed to be the real miracle that she would use instead of the Holy Grail to support Britain, just like her original plan to find the Holy Grail.

"Yes, when Merlin gave it to you, he should have told you that the anchor fixed on this planet, the tower that ties the world's skin, the pillar that guards the primate, is this holy spear. The essence of Lungominiad."

Xia Ran nodded and said seriously.

"The planet will change the laws of physics according to the life on the surface, so whether it is the previous era or the next era, whether it is the fairy town or the human world, it is only a skin, but a Textiles are just a filter layer attached to the surface of the planet..."

"Because it's just a thin layer of skin, it will peel off when you lift it lightly, so these things can be easily terminated, and they can always be maintained in some way... For example, a horse will be blown away by the wind the cloth, as long as it is nailed with nails, can't it be fixed?"

Artoria nodded: "So the holy spear is this nail..."

"That's right, it was originally a tower that tied the skin of the world. As long as I manifest this tower exactly, pierce the holy spear Lungominiad into the heart of the planet and become a fulcrum for subverting the world... …”

The magician talked about the plan he had thought about in a short period of time, and explained it.

"In this way, the cloth that would have been blown away by the wind will be pinned, the planet will be filled with ether again, the air and mystery of the Age of Gods will continue, and the Age of Gods will not end..."

"Can this kind of thing... really be done?"

The girl was a little stunned. The scale of what the magician said was too huge.

"It's not a big problem, but although it's not as generous as Ren Liyue's, it's not too far behind, so you need to prepare enough..." Xia Ran was not modest this time, and didn't say anything. Anything that anyone can do.

“…”

“…”

Artoria did not speak, she should not be able to make up her mind.

"Let's decide as soon as possible, the collapse point of Getia will soon enter the history, that is an opportunity that we can take advantage of, and it is better to take advantage of it than to prepare ourselves for at least a few hundred years. time is much better."

Xia Ran sighed, "And even if you finally give up and do nothing, the singularity I observed will still appear, history will still be distorted, records will still be burned, all the possibilities there Sex burns out..."

He knew why the girl still couldn't make up her mind.

But what if you don't do this, you can either take that singularity and put it under your control, or let it be directly destroyed by the flames of human beings.

Even if the human principle is repaired, it will not be said that all the damage will be wiped out, and the dead will not come back.

If we proceed step by step according to his plan, who is the more perfect solution? It's hard to say. How can the Chaldeans compare to him? Those people just don't have a choice, they just use what they have.

Their solution to human nature is not the optimal solution, but their only solution.

Artoria seems to have finally made a decision, but she still asks a little uneasy: "Will there be no problem?"

"Of course not, don't worry about my work..." Xia Ran blinked, clenching her fists and shaking it in the air, "Perhaps there will be brave heroes who will appear in the future to correct us, but That's for later..."

"As for now..."

"Even Merlin has been locked up, no one knows what we're going to do!"

With that, the magician glanced in the direction of the end of the world.

……

……

In the middle of the hills in the wilderness, as if to surround the visiting object, heavy rocks stand out of the ground.

Without a ceiling, the vertical walls extend indefinitely, trapping the visiting men like a tower without a roof. The door that I entered just now has disappeared, and there are only stone walls that extend infinitely to the sky.

It was about five square meters in size and was divided into Paradise Cages.

This is Paradise, its name is Avalon, the Inner Sea of ​​the Stars—another name for the place where the planet called Earth places the soul.

The man moved to this paradise alone, leaving behind the fifth century island of a nation that was about to perish. Although he is a magician who serves the king, he is an inhuman who escaped to Paradise with a very personal female issue before the king's final battle.

"Really, I was put together, but this is something I can't do. Although my eyes are better, they are far worse than others..."

Merlin sat down on the only rock protruding from the cell, as if the chair was a bit stiff but the height was just right.

He sits on the rock and looks up, where the only small window is on the wall. The sky seen through the window is not reality, but as long as it is the same era, no matter where he is, he can see the whole world.

——Clairvoyance.

Even here, you can see eyes from afar. Since ancient times, it has been entrusted by the gods to the land, and it is a power that must be possessed by a prayer teacher who protects the lives of human beings.

No matter how thick the magic circuit is, or how powerful the magic formula can be manipulated, or how profound the mysterious knowledge and attainments, if there is no such "eye", then the magician will not be called the highest rank .

The clairvoyant Merlin holds is "the eye that sees through the world".

He was born with the ability to see through everything, even if he didn't go anywhere. There are magicians older than Merlin who can see the past and foresee the future, and they are also at the top.

If "knowledge" is the foundation and culmination of magic, these magicians have already reached the truth from birth. Although they were born as human beings, they were heretics who were unable to acquire human values.

Merlin didn't care about the fact that he was locked up. He looked at the outside world through the window, and it was not for anything else, but there was one more thing, and he had to see the final responsibility.

About this era, the end of a nation, the end of a king whom he served.

In paradise at the end of the world, gaze upon the blood-stained hills.

What the girl prayed for, even if she didn't reason. One day, she will definitely want to start over on the chosen day.

That denies its own existence.

But to Merlin's surprise, the girl let go of the holy sword herself. She didn't hand over her after death, and she didn't depreciate her life. Although she didn't know what happened, she didn't go to death. In the end, they will all become slaves to restraint.

And all this seems to be a miracle brought about by the strange magician who suddenly appeared on the battlefield...

Merlin doesn't know this magician either. He has never seen or heard of it. He once thought that the highest-ranking magician in this era was only himself.

What happened to his friendship with King Arthur?

How did they meet without knowing it?

How did he persuade the stubborn girl, and what kind of vision did he use to make her let go of her obsession?

All this left Merlin stunned and curious.

Just—

The magician went here from the beginning, glanced at the end of the world, and then covered the conversation on the hill with his sleeve, so Merlin had no way of knowing what they were talking about. .

"Really, but that's fine..."

After stretching, the man leaned directly on the rock, let out a sigh of relief, and smiled.

"It must have been an absurd encounter, but after all, all I can see is what's going to happen now...after, let's talk about it later!"

How bad is it anyway.

It couldn't have been any worse than the one he had anticipated at first.