Stray Chapter 9: It’s not a big problem, don’t panic

The sunset sky is bloody.

The ground in front of me is also bloody.

The corpses that fell on the ground are people who once believed in a young girl and supported her as king, and shared a triumphant song for him.

They were divided into two factions because of the instigation of the traitors. They regarded each other as enemies and killed each other. Then, they fell together on this battlefield. The final place of King Arthur, at the foot of Camran Hill.

Waking up from a dream on the other side of time and space, and kneeling down on the blood-stained hill again, Arturia stared blankly at this desolate scene.

Everything seemed like a lifetime away, like a long dream, until now, "reality" finally woke her up.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry... I, someone like me..."

She looked around slowly, with tears all over her face, and her gauntlets were soaked with the blood of the enemy. The blood and tears slid across her smooth face, and the maiden-like king let out a low whimper.

I thought I would never see this scene again, but what I didn't expect was that I eventually returned here.

Although she knew it was the same no matter how many times, she couldn't resist the urge to apologize. Although she understood that her apology could not be conveyed to anyone's heart, the girl kept repeating her repentance.

Towards the unfulfilled ideals, to the people who could not be saved, to all that vanished because of her being the king, I couldn't help sobbing.

"Is this the moment you made your contract? That is, the point where your time stopped, so this time starts here?"

The voice of inquiring sounded from the foot of the mountain, accompanied by the evening wind with a strong **** smell, which made the sad knight girl slightly stunned.

She turned her head subconsciously, and found that a familiar figure was reaching out and rubbing her eyes, walking up the hill of death, while carefully avoiding the corpses, blood, stumps and broken arms along the road, etc. The corners of his mouth twitched and he walked to her side.

"Ma...Master..."

After being stunned for a long time, Arturia finally reacted and shouted inexplicably.

She probably returned to this historical node unexpectedly. The impact on her was too great and too shocking. It made it difficult for the girl to cry and repent, and she suffered a lot, almost all of a sudden. Negative emotions flooded in.

It wasn't until now that she saw Xia Ran's appearance that she finally remembered why she was in this scene again.

"Can you stand up?"

Xia Ran stretched out her palm and said to the girl who was weakly kneeling on the blood-stained hill.

"Um..."

Artoria responded dumbly, then widened her eyes, and stretched out a hand that was soaked in blood and stained red, tightly holding the palm of the Master, using his strength He vigorously stood up from the ground.

The appearance of the other party made her empty heart suddenly injected with vitality...

At least I am not the only one who was abandoned in this time, at least I am not alone, at least I have someone I can rely on.

"It's tragic enough..."

Xia Ran looked around, and then looked at the corpse of the girl who fell not far in front of her. She had a face similar to Artoria's, and the corners of her eyes twitched and provoked several times again.

This is Mordred's body.

The body of the rebel was pierced by Arturia's holy spear, burned through the heart, slipped from the spear, and died...

But before that, her magic sword also smashed the king's helmet, slashed the head cover, and took one eye and the rest of her life... It's just that Artoria concluded a contract with the restraining force at the end, and the heroic spirit-like spirit Status update overwrites her status.

——It really vividly depicts the touching scene of a father's kindness and filial piety.

Xia Ran couldn't help but look at the blond girl who was leaning weakly beside her.

This moment is the moment when she signed a contract with Alaya, because before she was summoned as a Servant, she was not the kind of official heroic spirit who finally sublimated the legend of merit and transformed into a real hero after she died in reality.

It is at the last moment before death that the contract is exchanged with the restraining force, and the soul after death becomes a guardian, so Arturia's time is frozen before death, which is forever bound and lost. Her cage of time.

She will not go to the Throne of Heroes, she will not be there at all, she will only watch the battlefield under the sunset in the time that has lost its meaning, in the moment equivalent to eternity, waiting for the summons again and again .

It stands to reason that although the contract has been transferred now, when she returns to the world of Fate, she will indeed return to this point in time-because her fate is not over yet, she must be in this place Make a break.

The only difference is that the time of this land, and her own time, will not stand still forever, but will re-enter the normal flow of time, begin to flow and change, from the known past to the unknown future .

This is a normal "correction" from the world, because history has diverged here-

From Arturia's point of view, her fate has not really come to an end at all, her time is frozen, her historical period is frozen in the moment before her death, and she has never experienced the sword bar again. After the war...

Because her time stopped, she didn't even really usher in death, and naturally she didn't create any history, she was just imprisoned by the contract of restraint on the battlefield, over and over again in an eternal moment to the battlefield on the other side of time and space.

But from a macro perspective of human history, history has always been moving forward, and there are even records that it was the last knight who took King Arthur away from the blood-stained battlefield and came to the forest. Because he believed that when he reached a quiet place, the king's wounds would be healed, or that was all he could believe.

But after the badly wounded king woke up, he asked him to take the holy sword away, walk through the forest, climb the blood-stained hills, until there was a deep lake beyond, throw the holy sword into it, and return it To the fairy of the lake.

Without the protection of the holy sword, the undead king will die. The knight refused the king's death, and twice lied that he had returned the sword, but the king saw through it.

On the third time, the knight finally accepted the king's choice and threw the sword into the lake. A white wrist appeared on the water to take the sword, and after half-idling three times, the holy sword disappeared from the world.

——King Arthur finally ushered in the long sleep of death.

This is a point that needs to be "corrected". If Arturia's time has been stopped on that battlefield and does not flow normally, then Bedwell will take her away from the battlefield and return the holy sword three times. How did it happen again?

Who played her role?

After understanding this, Xia Ran was completely relieved. No wonder he and others were not summoned by the Fifth Holy Grail War of Fuyuki City as originally expected this time, but appeared during this time period. .

Clearly, this step is more important in the spontaneous "correction" of the world.

"Now this period of history has begun to flow normally and will continue to develop..." After sorting out her thoughts, Xia Ran said softly, "Your last knight, Bedwell is coming. "

"...Really?" Artoria forced a smile, "Master, have you seen him?"

"...see."

Xia Ran twitched the corners of his mouth. He was staring in a certain direction. The depths of his pupils indeed reflected the figure that was desperately galloping from afar. The knight held the reins with rapid breathing, desperately hanging on the white horse.

This is a very mysterious state, as long as he wants to, as long as he concentrates, he can see any corner of the world.

But it's not the old art of seeing and hearing, because it's no longer necessary, but the excellent EX clairvoyant, able to see through the terrible degree of the past and the future... Solomon returned the almighty ring, lost everything, naturally Including the eyes staring at the world.

"So I actually 'lent' these eyes to him? Now "return" to me? "

Xia Ran stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, still feeling the confusion in his mind. If it weren't for these eyes, if it weren't for the huge amount of information that suddenly appeared in the Knowledge Palace, he still doubted whether he was in Had a bizarre dream.

"Master...what did you say?"

Alturia's voice still sounded with a pitiful sense of vulnerability, as if the girl was striving to support her body on the hospital bed, forcing her words.

"It's nothing, it's just that my previous judgment was correct. This can indeed be seen as an opportunity..." Xia Ran restrained her thoughts and said seriously, "But it depends on what you think."

"What do I think..."

"Yes, first of all, we must understand one thing, miracles are not without price..." Xia Ran stared at the girl's emerald green eyes, "There is a limit to turning the impossible into the possible, remember this? "

"...Remember, you told me, but I won't give up." Arturia said so with her composure and efforts to gather her will.

"Relax, I'm not asking you to give up, but you have to understand that if the wish you want to achieve is to save Britain by completely denying yourself, then this is basically impossible to achieve a miracle."

Xia Ran gently soothed the girl's mental state, trying not to stimulate her.

"This requires dabbling in time travel that becomes a paradox, denying the past by reversing established cause and effect, but if the past is denied, how can the changes you make later exist? This is true genius The realm of control..."

This is the paradox of time.

Artoria wants to erase all the mistakes she has made through miracles. She feels that she is not worthy of being a king. If she can change the established cause and effect from the beginning, perhaps her country can be saved. .

But the idea is already unrealistic. If she can really change the established cause and effect of a single timeline, then she will not exist now, because the past has been changed, and she will not exist later. will not exist anymore.

But the question arises again, if she no longer exists, then who changed the past? How can history that never existed be erased? It's the same paradox that a man goes back in time and kills his grandfather.

Even Gaetia's plan does not "change" the past, but "replace" the past. It does not unrealistically deny its own premise, but finds it in the new world from the very beginning It is only possible to realize its own existence position.

Artoria has to do it more thoroughly, how is this possible?

"This..."

The expression changed several times, but the girl finally admitted it sullenly, "Then what do you think Master should do?"

"If you are still unwilling to give up, then it's good to open up a new history on the basis of acknowledging history..." Xia Ran said without thinking, as if he had already had a case in his heart.

"Forging... a new history?"

"Yes, I ask you, why are you so obsessed with denying your own existence, thinking that if you didn't exist, Britain could be saved?" Xia Ran nodded, and then asked calmly.

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"Actually, I know that because the mysterious era is over, the next era cannot be compatible with your underlying power. As long as you are still alive, there will be no future for Britain." Xia Ran doesn't care about Arturia's silence , which points directly to the point.

"Wow..."

The girl whimpered, her face pale again.

That's exactly what she thought. When he was attacking the demon dragon Votigen, the humble king who appeared with the island's will and the island's avatar had warned her about it before he died, and she didn't care at that time. .

But it wasn't until later that I realized that what the old man said was the truth. As long as my king was still alive, the country would have no future.

Because the mysterious era is over, and the next is the human era, but her existence itself is the most noble fantasy——

The bloodline of the King of Britain, the ideology of Britain's incarnation as a red dragon, and the noble female bloodline used to perfectly fuse the two to create a mother's womb, which is originally a top-level mystery.

This is the most fatal conflict, and the next era has no place for her and Britain.

That's why she thought about saving the whole country from the source by denying and erasing her past self.

"So we can only start from this point. In the final analysis, it's because of the fading of the Age of Gods..." Xia Ran sighed. After AD, the history of mankind will drive out all the mysteries. Inversely proportional to the expansion of the light of science, the darkness of mystery gradually declined.

The era of mystery and magic in the past will come to an end due to human civilization and gradually decline. Nature with personality becomes a mere natural phenomenon. The ether in the atmosphere also dissipated like a cloud.

Actually, the end of the Age of Gods varies from place to place. Generally speaking, the mainland ended the earliest, while the peninsula and islands were later. Among them, the more special Britain, the Age of Gods did not end until the fifth century AD.

But when it ended, it led to the current tragedy, which is the main source.

"So the solution is actually very simple, as long as from now on, let the generation of gods continue to prosper and continue!"

The magician makes this declaration—

"The real end of the Age of Gods means that the mystery will disappear from human history, and the physical laws of the earth will be determined according to human intellect... So, let me rebuild this order, starting from the astrology and cosmology, and will The cognition of the whole world goes back to the era of geocentric theory!"