Under the twilight sky, Souya's pale figure stood silently on the battlefield.
At his feet, a mountain of corpses from countless Celtic soldiers had piled up into a sea of blood. So many people had been killed that even the earth had been stained scarlet.
"Mon... monster!!!"
Seeing such a hellish scene, the remaining few thousand soldiers were finally so shocked and terrified that they forcefully broke free from the control of the illusion.
And so, in unison, they chose to obey the fear deep in their hearts, throwing down their weapons one by one and running into the distance, crying for their parents.
Having witnessed such a scene, they would never pick up a weapon again in their lives.
Souya just watched their backs gradually disappear into the distance, with no intention of hunting them down. He was not a bloodthirsty person. If he could, he wouldn't have touched a single person in this army of ten thousand Celts. After all, these were the foundation of the Age of Gods, Morgana's future subjects.
But by the same token, he was not one to swallow his anger when someone provoked him. Every single corpse on the ground had struck Souya with a weapon.
Regardless of whether they were bewitched by an illusion, as long as they showed killing intent, what awaited them was the dark gleam of the Inverted Sword of the Rising Sun.
As for the Knights of the Round Table.
Souya looked down and around him. Around him were several broken swords and weapons.
Galatine: The Reborn Sword of Victory, Arondight: The Unfading Light of the Lake, Failnaught: The Inescapable Divine Bow...
As the opposite of the divine armament Excalibur, the Sword of Promised Victory, Excalibur Morgan, besides its dark attribute that was the opposite of light, its greatest characteristic was being Anti-Artifact.
In other words, it had a special attack against holy swords and divine artifacts.
And it was with this characteristic that Souya had destroyed the weapons of the entire Round Table, including the planet-class holy sword Galatine.
This was undoubtedly a feat worthy of being recorded in history, but by the same token, he had paid a price for it.
Crack.
With a crisp sound, the black holy sword finally couldn't hold on any longer and shattered, eventually turning into dust and flowing from Souya's hand.
And along with it, the characteristics of the White Dragon on Souya's body also faded.
When this gift from the Tyrant King completely dissipated, Souya finally returned to the clear, water-like knight he once was.
But, something was still fading away.
He silently looked up behind him. In Souya's eyes, the tower that had been constantly shaking from breaking through the earth's crust had now stabilized.
An hour ago, the goddess consciousness residing in the Holy Lance, Rhongomyniad, had told him through their connection that the Holy Lance had been successfully anchored. This nail, originally intended to fix the surface of the world, had now, under various influences, become a rivet that rebelled against the rules of the world and brought protection to Britain.
Calming his mind now, standing on this land, Souya could clearly feel something different gradually emerging from the depths of the earth, slowly filling every bit of soil and air.
"So that's how it is... It seems I underestimated the speed of the Age of Gods' feedback..."
Souya's eyes shone. With his fairy eyes, he could clearly see countless milky-white True Aether spreading out from the body of Rhongomyniad's tower. Before long, with Londinium as the center, the whole of Britain would be blessed with this miracle that defied the times.
Undoubtedly, he had won this war between the old and new eras.
From now on, the environment of Britain would slowly return to its state before the end of the Age of Gods. There would be golden wheat in the fields, plump fish in the rivers, mothers with newborn children would no longer have to worry about not having milk, and people living in all parts of Britain would no longer have to worry about mysterious plagues sweeping through them.
Although this was only temporary happiness, as long as the island of Britain was not separated from this world, then in the future, the tide of the world would come again.
But that was not something Souya had to worry about, because he was about to die.
Slowly retracting his gaze from Rhongomyniad, Souya this time did not look at anything, but focused his gaze on himself.
Under the fairy's pupils, he could see his body gradually becoming illusory. Although from the degree of it, there was still some time before he completely disappeared, this was enough to explain something.
Souya, or rather, the last glimmer of the Age of Gods, the glorious knight Lancelot, now that the Age of Gods was about to be continued, he also had to return this glory to this era.
From now on, his flesh and blood would become the nourishment that fertilized the land and produced grain, his blood would become the streams that flowed everywhere and brought life here, his breath would become the wind, his tears would become the rain, and all the blessings he had received would be returned to this land that belonged to his beloved in the form of repayment.
The warrior who was born in response to the expectations of the Age of Gods naturally had to return everything to this era in the end.
This was the resolve that Vortigern had spoken of to Souya at that time.
That old man who bore all the sins and evils was never worried that the two of them would fail, because they had nothing to lose, so they were not afraid of failure.
What he was worried about was that he felt that such an ending was too unfair for a young man with love in his heart.
That young man had friends, dreams, and a lover, and at the same time, he should have the right to live.
So he asked him if he had the resolve to give everything.
The young knight answered yes. He wanted to lay a solid foundation for his king, his love, for her ideal.
So he became the Tyrant King's ally, the traitor of the Round Table, the second White Dragon of Britain, and drove away the biggest obstacle, Merlin, and destroyed the weapons of the Knights of the Round Table.
Thus, except for the girl who made him feel guilty and unable to let go, Souya had done everything he could for Morgana before he died.
The price for all this was just the life of a bastard knight.
Waving his hand to summon the blue-black Queen's Fortress to cover his somewhat transparent body, Souya didn't bother with etiquette, casually piling the unconscious Kay and Gawain together, and then leaning against them.
Suddenly, a mechanical electronic sound that he hadn't heard for a long time sounded in his ear.
[Host, was everything you did worth it?]
Hearing this long-lost system sound, Souya was stunned for a moment. He didn't know when he had stopped hearing the trash system talking in his head, and at that time, he seemed to be too busy with many things to pay attention to it.
And so, unknowingly, it was time for everything to end.
Thinking of this, Souya subconsciously asked the system.
"Trash system? Where have you been these days, why haven't you been talking?"
Hearing this, the system was silent for a moment, then slowly said.
[Because, Ciweimao was in a great silence again recently, and everyone couldn't comment or talk.]
Souya: ?
After a long time, a big question mark appeared above Souya's small head.
You just admitted it, you just admitted you're Ciweimao's system!
You bastard, you insisted you weren't from Ciweimao before, saying you ran away from some other place. But in the end, it was either a pathetic Baidu that only opened after 20 years, or you came in and were timid and useless, and would go offline for more than half a year at a time.
This level of uselessness is top-tier even on Ciweimao.
"You should just go die, you useless thing."
In an instant, Souya's mood to chat with the system instantly faded.
After all, there was really nothing to say between a human and this kind of creature, especially this kind of bottom-of-the-barrel one.
Hmm, speaking of which, it seems I still have one deduction chance that I haven't used, right?
Souya thought about it carefully, but still felt that since things had already developed to this point, it didn't matter whether he used the deduction or not.
After all, the essence of deduction was to deduce based on Souya's choices. The premise of all this was that he could survive to make choices. If he was about to die, then even if he deduced, what he would see would just be when he would completely disappear.
That would be too boring.
Instead of spending the little energy he had left to see such meaningless things, why not take advantage of the fact that he hadn't completely returned to the earth yet and do something he wanted to do.
For example, returning to that white Camelot, which the queen had promised would never fall, and secretly see his beloved one last time.
Or, waiting for the return of that girl, and bringing his and her story to a perfect end.
[...Actually host, you don't have to be like this at all.]
As if sensing what Souya was thinking, the system rarely got sick and spoke after a moment of silence.
[You seem, hmm, too invested?]
[Shouldn't this experience you're going through now, the life of this knight named Lancelot, be more like a game to you?]
[Since the purpose of this game is to simulate and then acquire the power of a Heroic Spirit, you don't need to invest so much emotion, ah. As an invincible player, you just need to find the strongest and most suitable fork in the road through deduction, why bother investing too much emotion?]
[You know what, host, from a bystander's perspective, I find that you don't seem like yourself anymore.]
[It's less like you're Yanfeng Souya now, and more like Lancelot.]
[Wouldn't that be too tiring, host?]
Rarely, the trash system said so much at once.
Although it was still the same mechanical electronic sound with no emotion, Souya could hear the other party's concern for him.
After all, it wasn't just it, even Souya felt a little tired.
But that was all.
"You know what, system, I've never felt that what I'm going through is just a game, a simulation."
As if remembering something, a smile inexplicably appeared on the corner of Souya's mouth.
He thought of Morgana when he first met her. That cold and powerful princess would actually show the appearance of a little girl who lacked love because of her father's刁难 and disapproval.
He also thought of Artoria. The little girl, because of his words, no longer chose to follow the trajectory of fate and become the lonely king who didn't understand the human heart, but chose to become a person first before doing other things.
And, Kay, Gawain, even Merlin.
These emotionally rich, either likable or disgusting living people, how could they be treated as an ordinary game.
"So system, you're right. I'm indeed not like Yanfeng Souya now, but more like Lancelot."
"But that doesn't mean anything. Lancelot is me, and Yanfeng Souya is also me. They can be two different people, or they can be one person."
"Lancelot can be the medieval Yanfeng Souya, and Yanfeng Souya can also be the future Lancelot of the Holy Church."
"All of this is interchangeable, because, they are all, 'me'."
I am me, I am not me.
The first step on the path to sainthood is to recognize oneself.
"So don't worry, system. I won't be like other protagonists who get lost in the simulation and can't figure out who they really are."
As if sensing something, Souya stood up and looked in a certain direction.
There, it was originally covered by a magical barrier, but at this time, that barrier was trembling.
"I may have been confused in the past, but now my steps will not be limited by confusion."
"Simulation or fate, I just need to do what I should do."
Seeing the girl in the king's armor, holding the star-forged holy sword, walk out of the broken barrier, a smile appeared on the corner of Souya's mouth.
"Now, I'm going to have a final conversation with my girl, a knight-to-knight conversation."
"Come, Lancelot, let's have a knightly duel."
Her gaze swept over the mountain of corpses and sea of blood around her. The girl did not show any surprise or any other emotion. She just immediately focused her attention on Souya, who had returned to his human form, and said so.
Her tone was still as calm and determined as when the girl had challenged the knight to a duel back then.
But through those emerald eyes like a lake, Souya could feel the fierce emotions hidden under the girl's calmness.
"If that's the case, then come, Lily."
Souya also responded with the same gentle smile as before.
"So this time, do you still want me to see your growth? Lily."
"No, Lancelot. This time I'm not doing it for you to see anything."
"That way I would always only be in your eyes and not in your heart. So now, I'm going to defeat you, conquer you, and then steal you away forever."
Because I love you.
The girl said so, and in her hand, the star-forged holy sword bloomed with the light of faith.
Hearing the girl's words, a smile appeared on the corner of Souya's mouth.
Hooray, the one who returned is not King Arthur Artoria, but the girl Artoria.
Thinking this, Souya gently extended his hand.
In the distance, a white light flashed on the tower that reached the sky, and a stream of white-gold light flew over, landing in Souya's hand and turning into a brilliant long spear.
The goddess Rhongomyniad had been watching Souya all along, so the Holy Lance Rhongomyniad would always respond to his summons.
Without the slightest hesitation or preparation, the girl and the boy took a step at the same time.
The next moment, the light of the holy sword and the holy lance shone at the same time.
"Holy sword, release!"
"Holy lance, weigh anchor!"
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