Bedwell, a valiant knight with a quick mind, was stunned at the moment and didn't know what to do.

As long as the holy sword is returned to the fairy of the lake, the king will no longer be a king, and without the protection of the holy sword, the seriously injured king may die like a normal person...... He wavered and was unwilling to accept the order.

Subconsciously, he looked at the silent magician on the side with a helpless pleading gaze.

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

So, say something, admonish, organize......

Please, don't let this terrible thing happen.

The magician, who seemed to have read Bedwell's gaze, finally spoke, staring earnestly into the knight's eyes, and said in a gentle and flat tone:

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

“……”

“……”

Bedwell finally understood, and fell silent.

yes, it should be over.

After all, King Arthur is not a king recognized by all people, but a false king who is only recognized during the smooth reign of the world. As long as she can move with the function of a king, she can ignore the slight "sense of incongruity".

Even if anyone were aware of the king's true identity, they would keep their mouths shut while the king was still good. While praising the ideal king, when he found that the ideal could not save thousands of people, he put all the blame on her.

- And that's how it turned out.

It's all over.

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

But that is no longer the responsibility of the king, such as the fake replacement of the king who only exists to protect the country, only for that reason to hide his true face for ten years, draw his sword to become someone else, kill his past, just to protect the people to this day.

To live for the people, to live with the people, to leave the future for the people, that is the thing that is entrusted to the state, and this thing that is shown as the proof of the king.

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

This responsibility should end when the ideal and correct king is betrayed and hated by all, and it is precisely because Bedwell is one of the few knights of the Round Table, who is truly concerned about the king's own well-being, that he understands this deeply.

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

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

"How many times do you think he'll come back?"

Xia Ran blinked and asked with a smile.

“…… Three times. ”

Artoria replied in a low voice, it was not that she had not learned about the epic legends about herself, and of course she knew that Bedwell would disobey her orders and not actually throw her sword into the lake until the third time.

She was touched that at the end of her life, there was such a loyal knight who followed her, knowing that it was a great sin for him to disobey the king's orders, but he still fought for his life for the second time.

It was only because he felt that he would die if he lost the protection of the holy sword, and because he was afraid that something like this would happen, he could not put the sword into it, and could only lie in lame words that the sword was accidentally lost and discarded by him on the way......

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

"What?"

Artoria was slightly stunned, and subconsciously raised her head.

"The possibility that arises from a particular IF under the influence of a particular point." Xia Ran blinked, but that was where they could make a fuss, and it was also the most suitable point of divergence.

"That is to say......"

The Knight King obviously couldn't react, she was in a daze now, and she didn't even have a bright brain.

"It's just to remind you first, so that you can be mentally prepared, 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 his head, and did not directly explain the meaning: "In short, let's maintain the orthodox history first, and complete this "amendment", as for the derived branches, that is a matter later." ”

"Hmm."

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

"It's a long story, but I have a rough idea, and I just need to refine the detailed plan. So there will be no problem, no one will be able to stop me, and I will definitely achieve the miracle I promised. ”

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

"All you have to do is hold on to this miracle, and this is the Holy Grail I have given you......"

Grail...... The girl bit her lower lip slightly, knowing what the other party was talking about.

It was the ninth and penultimate year of her reign on the throne of Camelot. Distressed, she learns from Merlin that the main reason for the murderous year is not that the land is deserted and uncultivated due to foreign invasions, but that the land itself is changing.

Even though Cameloway is alive, Britain itself is in decline.

The court magician said to the king that the mystery that remained in the land was but a dregs.

This island is a foreign land far from the mainland, so on this planet that has mysteriously disappeared since the beginning of the Western calendar, there is still a strong air of mythological eras, but the residual breath is still disappearing.

She confesses the island's secrets to a trusted secretary and tries to solve the problem. The secretary told her that if the island gradually lost its mystery, then it should be possible to achieve a miracle that could match it.

Artoria accepted the proposal.

———And this is what will leave an anecdote for later generations, the Knights of the Round Table's quest for the Holy Grail.

Countless knights have embarked on a quest in search of what the king calls the Holy Grail, but they have all returned halfway.

Percival, who admired King Arthur more than anyone else, died, and Galahad, the perfect knight and known as the bearer of the next-generation round table, received the Holy Grail, but he also died because he had no desire to return the Holy Grail to heaven.

Camelot was eventually overshadowed by grief, and was not able to get the true miracle that would continue to sustain after the end of the Divine Era.

"Lengo Miniad ......"

Looking at the spiritual suit in her hand, the girl knew that this holy spear seemed to be the real miracle that she was going to use to replace the Holy Grail and support Britain in the same way that she had planned to find the Holy Grail in the first place.

"Yes, Merlin should have told you when he handed it over to you, the anchor fixed to this planet, the tower that ties the skin of the world, and the pillar that guards the primate is the essence of this holy spear Rengominiad."

Xia Ran nodded and said seriously.

"Planets change the laws of physics according to the life that moves on the surface, so whether it is the previous era or the next era, whether it is the fairy country or the human world, it is just a layer of skin, just a piece of textile, and it is just a filter layer attached to the surface of the planet......"

"Because it's just a thin layer of skin that peels off with a single lift, these things can be easily terminated, and they can be held together in some way...... For example, if there is a piece of cloth that will be blown away by the wind, just nail it with a nail and fix it. ”

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 accurately embodied this tower, pierced the holy spear Lengominiad into the heart of the planet, and became the fulcrum of subverting the world......"

The magician recounted the plans he had come up with in a hurry in this short time, and told them all about them.

"In this way, the cloth that was supposed to be blown away by the wind will be pinned, and the planet will be filled with aether again, and the air and mystery of the gods will continue, and the gods will not end......"

"This kind of thing...... Can it really be done? ”

The girl was a little stunned, the scale of the magician's words was too large.

"It's not a big problem, but although it's not as big as Renli's spending, it's not too far behind, so you need to be prepared......" Xia Ran was not modest this time, and didn't say anything about this is something that anyone can do.

“……”

“……”

Artoria didn't speak, she probably couldn't make up her mind yet.

"Let's decide as soon as possible, the point of collapse in Gaitia will soon be relegated to history, and that is an opportunity that we can take advantage of, and it is better to take advantage of it than to prepare for at least a few hundred years on our own."

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

He knew why the girl hadn't been able to make up her mind yet.

But what if you don't, you can either take that peculiarity and put it under your control, or let it be extinguished by the flames that have been burned by people.

Even if human reason is repaired, it will not mean that all the damage will be wiped out, and the dead life will not come back, it is impossible to treat it as if it did not happen, but it will become logical.

If it goes according to his plan, who is the more perfect solution, how can the Chaldean group compare with him? That group of people just didn't have a choice, they just used what they wanted.

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

Artoria seemed to have finally made a decision, but she still asked with some trepidation, "There won't be a problem, right?" ”

"Of course not, you can rest assured that I will do something......" Xia Ran blinked, clenched his fists vigorously and shook them in the air, "Maybe there will definitely be a brave man who will appear in the future and want to correct us, but that is the problem after that......"

"As for ...... now"

"Even Merlin has been locked up, and 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 of the wilderness, heavy rocks rise from the ground as if to surround them.

There is no ceiling, and the vertical walls extend infinitely, locking in the visiting men, as if it were a tower without a roof. The door that I had just entered was gone, and there were only stone walls that stretched infinitely into the sky.

It was a five-square-meter cage divided into paradise cages.

This is Paradise, and its name is Avalon, and the Sea of Stars is another name for the place where the souls of the planet called Earth are placed in the ———.

The man left behind the island of the fifth century, a people on the verge of extinction, and moved to this paradise alone. Although he was a magician who served the king, he was an unhuman who fled to Paradise before the king's last battle with a very personal female problem.

"Really, it's put on the table, but it's also something that can't be helped, although the eyes are better, but it's far worse than the others......"

Merlin sat down on the only protruding rock in the cell, a chair that was a little stiffer but just the right height.

He sat on the rock and looked upwards, where there was the only small window in the wall. The sky he saw through the window was not realistic, but as long as he was in the same era, he could see the whole world no matter where he was.

- Clairvoyance.

Even here, you can see distant eyes, and since ancient times, prayer teachers who have been entrusted with the land from the gods have had to protect the lives of human beings.

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

Merlin's clairvoyance is "the eye that sees through the world".

He was born with the ability to see through everything even if he wasn't going anywhere in the same era. Among the magicians who are older than Merlin, there are also those who can see the past and foresee the future, and they are also at the top.

If "recognition" is the basis and culmination of magic, then these magicians have already reached the truth from birth. It can be said that they are heretics who were born as human beings, but they cannot acquire human values.

Merlin didn't care about being locked up, he looked out the window not for anything else, but for another thing, and he had to see the final responsibility.

About this age, about the end of a certain people, about the end of a king he served.

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

What the girl was praying for, she knew if she didn't reason. One day, she will definitely hope to start over on the chosen day.

That is to deny one's own existence.

But to Merlin's surprise, the girl herself let go of the holy sword, she did not hand over her self after death, nor did she belittle her life, although she didn't know what happened, but she finally did not go to the end of becoming a slave of restraining after death.

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

Merlin didn't know the magician, he had never seen or heard of it, and he had thought that he was the only magician of his time.

What was his friendship with King Arthur?

How did they meet without even knowing it?

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

All of this left Merlin stunned and curious.

It's just—

The magician had first glanced here, toward the end of the world, and then covered the conversation that had taken place 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 against the rock, lazily relieved, and smiled.

"I guess there was a ridiculous encounter, but after all, all I can see is now...... Let's talk about the rest later! ”

No matter how bad it is, anyway.

It wouldn't be worse than the ending he had expected at first.