Chapter 821 The reason for King Arthur’s deification, Bedivere’s sin (2 updates, 4k4)
In the light curtain image, Lucius's narrative is presented in a rapid form, which is also a brief summary of the situation.
Then, people learned what the story of King Arthur that belonged to the first timeline was about.
In the story of Lucius, an eyewitness, the story of King Arthur is what people in the real world know, that is, the story of the later timeline. Although there are slight differences, the general situation is the same.
There is not a single battle left that should be fought, all the Knights of the Round Table that should be in place, and many of the characters that should be played.
Similarly, the split of the Knights of the Round Table was the same, and the same thing happened when Lancelot ran away with Queen Guinevere.
Mordred also came as promised with the rebellion of the old nobles who had objections.
However, historical divergence points emerged.
King Arthur did not receive reinforcements in the Battle of the Sword Parade because Kay did not choose to believe the traitor when faced with the returning Lancelot.
The two sides engaged in a long confrontation. When Kai realized that something was wrong and hurriedly rushed to rescue King Arthur, all he got was the result of the sword fence battle in which both sides suffered losses.
The seriously injured King Arthur spent the last moments of his life accompanied by Bedivere, the only knight of the Round Table who remained by his side.
Before his death, King Arthur asked Bedivere to return the Holy Sword and return the Sword of Victory to the Fairy of the Lake.
Bedivere was full of reluctance and returned the holy sword three times in total, because he knew that his beloved king relied on the power of the holy sword to survive. If he returned the holy sword, King Arthur would definitely die.
Therefore, Bedivere did not have the heart to return the holy sword the first two times. It was not until the third time that he finally completed the return. King Arthur also breathed his last breath while being seriously injured and ended his own life.
"This is the history I know and the history I have experienced."
Lucius slowly finished telling the story that belonged to King Arthur, his voice was low and full of heaviness.
After listening to this story, Mashu and Fujimaru Tachibana looked at each other with subtle expressions.
Da Vinci, who had almost repaired the car, raised his chin with his right hand and fell into deep thought.
After a while, he said: "So, after the death of King Arthur, the already unstable Kingdom of Camelot fell into civil strife, right?"
"In the absence of a legitimate heir, those nobles, big and small, who were subdued by King Arthur's force, will inevitably choose to start a fight for the kingship of Camelot."
"However, Britain at that time not only had internal worries, but also faced huge external threats - the barbarians from Europe had been peering at the land ruled by the Celts."
"So, the final result is that the weak and turbulent ancient Britain was destroyed by internal and external troubles, right?"
Hearing this, Lucius nodded and accepted the matter calmly, as if he had already looked away.
Then, Lucius said: "So, the history you know is not like this, right?"
Da Vinci nodded: "Yes, in the history we know, King Arthur did not die, but survived after the Battle of the Sword Fence. Although he was seriously injured and could no longer go to the battlefield, he remained stable.
Camelot."
"It wasn't until eight years later that the Knight King passed the throne to her descendant, the Red Dragon King Artolis. Although Britain's kingdom had some changes, in the end the Pendragon family, dominated by the blood of King Arthur, was always Britain's
The royal family has allowed Britain to continue into the 21st century!”
Hearing this, Lucius' expression trembled. Although he had been prepared for it, such historical changes still made him uneasy: "Is this... such... history?"
"The gap...is so big..."
I couldn't believe it, I was excited, and I felt lost.
At this moment, Lucius's emotions were extremely complex and difficult to calm down.
In fact, people in the real world are also restless at this time, especially the people of the Holy British Empire, who have become collectively restless.
That 'what if' actually happened.
There really is a world line in which King Arthur dies, Camelot is finished, and Pendragon's bloodline is severed.
Isn’t it said that King Arthur is the destined holy king, and his bloodline is blessed by God and is destined to continue forever?
Why did neither King Arthur nor Camelot end well in the first timeline? In fact, the blood and race of ancient Britain were collectively finished - after all, according to Leonardo da Vinci, under the development of such a timeline, ancient Britain
There is no easy end for the Britons, and it is very likely that they will end up in a mass extinction just like the ancient Romans.
This is very scary, and it is a powerful blow to the theory of destiny and blood that has been passed down since ancient times.
There is no doubt that the royal family of the Holy British Empire is in an extremely bad mood right now, and many families that have been with the Pendragon family for a long time are disgusted by this.
After all, this is the greatest ridicule of those old Western aristocratic bloodlines.
Of course, it's just a matter of shaking the bloodline. In fact, if you really want to shake something, it's definitely not that easy. At most, it will only cause some trouble.
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Tianwang International High School, Su Yun’s personal activity room.
Kurumi Tokisaki: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...did you never expect that the ending of King Arthur in the first timeline would be so bad?"
Erquette frowned: "Although I don't quite understand what I heard, it seems to be saying that ancient Britain is completely finished, right? Is it so miserable?"
Su Yun: "The ancient nations were exterminated, and then the original barbarians developed into a civilized race. This is the tradition of old Europe. Just look at the development of the European continent."
"The ethnic groups such as the Germans and Saxons that now rule Europe were all called barbarians in the past. They were barbarians in the eyes of ancient European countries."
Artoria: "..."
He pursed his lips, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.
For her as the reincarnation of King Arthur, this cruel truth was the most shocking. It made her feel mixed and she didn't know what to say.
She even thought of the Fourth Holy Grail War, and how King Arthur's reason for participating in the Holy Grail War in the first place was actually to use the power of the Holy Grail to change history and save Britain.
That King Arthur was actually just after the Battle of the Sword Parade, and when he suffered a fatal blow, the mysterious Archbishop of Destiny came and concluded a contract with King Arthur, giving King Arthur the opportunity to participate in the Holy Grail War as a Servant while he was still alive.
However, the situation at the time seemed to have been deceived, because after participating in the Holy Grail War, King Arthur, who had read history, realized that she did not need to participate in the Holy Grail War at all, and Britain did not need to be saved, because Knight Kay and Lancelot's
Reinforcements arrived in time and saved her, as well as Britain.
The situation at that time indeed seemed to be in vain.
However, combined with the current scene, Artoria thought of another possibility.
Will the world line at the beginning develop as Lucius said?
It was precisely because King Arthur concluded a contract with Archbishop Destiny and traveled through time and space to participate in the Holy Grail War that he finally changed the history of other timelines?
At this thought, Artoria suddenly realized that perhaps the contract between her and Destiny was not as simple as it seemed.
Then, just when he was thinking like this, Arquette suddenly thought of another thing and suddenly said: "Wait a minute, that's not right! Since King Arthur died after the Battle of the Sword Fence, then she
How did you become a god? Can you still become a god after you die?"
This is a soul question, and it is also a question that many people think about.
Similarly, in the light screen image, Leonardo da Vinci also raised a question at this time: "There is a difference between what we know and what you know, Mr. Lucius. Is this the difference caused by the singularity?"
"In other words, does this singularity begin from the time of King Arthur?"
"But that's not quite right. If King Arthur really died, how did she become a god? Although King Arthur is very powerful, she will only become a heroic spirit after death, but there is no way to become a god!"
After listening to Da Vinci's analysis and questions, Mashu and Fujimaru Tachibana were also thinking and did not express their opinions, while Lucius remained silent, with a look of pain in his eyes.
After a long while, he slowly said: "It is indeed as you said, Ms. Leonardo da Vinci, King Arthur has not actually passed away, because the knight responsible for returning the holy sword, Bedivere, committed a serious crime..."
Along with these words, the ethereal BGM "Grief" played, and a memory scene appeared.
When the camera switched, it was a forest glowing with white light.
Then, a girl who is very familiar to people in the real world appears.
Artoria!
No, that's King Arthur!
After the Battle of the Sword Parade, King Arthur was seriously injured. The armor on his abdomen was penetrated by a wound, and scarlet blood stained his clothes.
She was very weak, very weak, and it could be seen that the injury that could not be healed caused her great pain.
In front of the weak King Arthur stood a handsome knight.
That's Lucius.
No, to be precise, it should be Bedivere, the Bedivere of the Knights of the Round Table, the Bedivere whose right arm did not become the Silver Arm.
This loyal knight looked at King Arthur with sad and painful eyes, his heart was extremely heavy, and he was sad that he could not help the king.
Then, Lucius's voice sounded.
"King Arthur asked Bedivere to return the Holy Sword. According to historical records, Bedivere went there three times in total. He couldn't bear the king leaving. He couldn't bear to return the Holy Sword the first two times. It wasn't until the third time that he went to return the Holy Sword.
The sword is returned."
In the picture, the weak King Arthur handed over his golden holy sword, the Sword of Victory, to Bedivere.
Although Bedivere was in pain and uncomfortable, he still took the holy sword and went to the fairy lake where the Lake Fairy was.
However, he did not return it the first two times, but went back and forth to the lake three times.
On the third time, Bedivere, who was supposed to return the holy sword, still did not return it.
Then, Lucius's voice sounded again: "However, this is a lie, because Bedivere did not return the holy sword. He went there three times but failed to return it three times."
"Finally, for the third time, Bedivere, the knight of the Round Table, wanted to deceive the king with lies and wanted to go back and tell the king that he had returned the holy sword."
"However, he also made an unforgivable mistake."
In the picture, Bedivere returned to the place where King Arthur was. However, there was only a pool of blood left there, and King Arthur was nowhere to be found.
Lucius: "He doesn't understand what returning the Holy Sword means to the king. King Arthur is enduring endless pain. Because the Holy Sword has not been returned, he is always entangled with the power of the Holy Sword and can only live in endless pain."
"In the end, when the sinner Bedivere returned to King Arthur for the third time, the king had been driven by instinct to pull out the holy spear Lungominiad, and then, like a ghost, he wandered unconsciously on the earth.
His whereabouts are unknown, and he will suffer the pain that cannot be healed forever."
Bedivere in the picture shows a look full of despair, pain and guilt.
The memory scene also ended with such a desperate expression.
By the time the camera turns back, it has returned to the 'present moment'.
Lucius: "In the end, King Arthur, who was in a state of immortality, over time, his body and even his soul were eroded by the power of the Holy Spear, and his identity as a human being was also lost in the process."
"Yes, King Arthur died, in an extremely painful and desperate way, and disappeared under the unforgivable sin committed by the sinner Bedivere."
"What is left is the goddess named Lungominiad who was corroded by the power of the Holy Spear."
"This is the truth of history."
Heavy topics, heavy words, and finally came to a heavy end.
When they finished speaking, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others were silent, and people in the real world were also silent.
I thought that the destruction of King Arthur's country in the first timeline was tragic enough, but the result was even worse than imagined. He was directly tricked by the most loyal knight Bedivere. He could neither die nor live. In a state of neither life nor death, he was like a ghost.
Wandering around the earth unconsciously, she was eventually corroded by the Holy Spear and transformed into the goddess Lungominiad.
this……
There is no more miserable word to describe it.
People can't help but think of the King Arthur known to the main world.
Although according to the playback of the light screen image, the King Arthur was also affected by the erosion of the Holy Spear and was undergoing a transformation into a deity, the King Arthur was cured and did not become a ghost-like existence.
After spending the last eight years as a king and a human being, he finally left the world of his own will and went to an ideal land far away from the world.
It can be said that they are all transformations into gods, and King Arthur in the current timeline is much better.
Likewise, many people seem to understand why Lucius no longer uses his real name.
Because in the first timeline, 'Bedivere' was a sinner, a huge sinner who caused the loyal King Arthur to suffer incomparable pain and die an uneasy death.
In the name of loyalty, he did the most wrong thing. Even if his original intention was good and he was reluctant to leave the king, it was an irreversible sin.
No wonder at the beginning of this singularity, when Merlin was talking to Lucius who had returned to normal from the stone statue state, he called him a sinner.
This sin is truly unforgivable.
Likewise, it makes people feel extremely complicated.
At this moment, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others saw that Lucius was actually Bedivere. When those stories were told, Lucius's identity was already clear.
However, it was precisely because of the clarity that we could hear the endless regret and pain in Lucius's words.
There is no doubt that Lucius's guilt towards King Arthur has overflowed, and he is also filled with the desire to atone for his sins.
Just like what was said when talking to Merlin when he first appeared, this journey is the last chance and the final journey of redemption.
I just don’t know how Lucius wants to atone for his sins. Is he going to kneel down in front of the current Lion King Lungominiad to apologize and let the Lion King execute him personally?
Everyone didn't know, because Lucius didn't want to talk any more. When everyone saw Lucius's refusal, they didn't ask further questions.
However, I have been emotionally affected by the image, and my heart is filled with sadness and depression.
Especially Ma Xiu, who was pregnant with the Galahad Spirit Chi, clearly felt that the Spirit Chi in her body was full of sadness and anger.
Sad about King Arthur and Bedivere, and angry because of Bedivere's stupid behavior.
There is no doubt that Bedivere, King Arthur's most loyal knight, in the first timeline, is in a sense a more sinful sinner than Mordred.