In Artoria's memory, Ector was indeed not a very talkative person.
He hates all goblins and everyone in the goblin country. He doesn't interact with anyone. He just stays in this corner of the world and his own forge, and rarely sets foot here.
Tintagel is the village closest to here, but few goblins are willing to get close to it. The rumors Arturia heard about Ector when she was in the village were basically bad, because this forging
The master has a very bad attitude towards any goblin, and no one will like him.
In addition, Eckert also has a hard-of-hearing problem, which makes it difficult to hear others speak. He feels very arrogant and often ignores others.
Such a man, now he not only intends to give one of his greatest masterpieces to others, but also doesn't even listen to it?
Is this differential treatment?
Could it be that Ector, who hates fairies, actually likes humans quite a bit?
On the contrary, judging from Eckert's "voice", he doesn't seem to hate humans, but he doesn't seem to like them either.
What the hell is going on?
Artoria was confused again.
Not to mention Artoria, even Li Ge was surprised.
"Really give it to me?" Li Ge held up the small black knife in his hand and said, "This thing is obviously worth a lot of money, right? I thought that even if you were willing to give it to me, you would also put forward some conditions."
"...It's useless to stay with me anyway. You can take it away if you want." Eckert was silent for a while, and then said very unhappy: "Okay, tell me quickly, who is the knife you are wearing?"
Who hit him?"
"This question is really difficult to answer." Seeing that Eckert didn't seem to be joking, Li Ge immediately shrugged and said: "Originally, this knife was not what it is now, but because I integrated some into it,
It's a strange thing, and it turned into what it is now, so if you ask me who made this knife, I think the answer to the question will be very subtle."
The forger at the beginning of The Fool is undoubtedly Orario's strongest forger, the leader of the Hephaestus Familia known as the "One-Eyed Master"—Chun Cobrand.
But the Fool born at that time was just an ordinary indestructible weapon. Although it belonged to the category of second-level special weapons, its power was slightly inferior to the second-level weapons because of its indestructible properties.
of.
In terms of quality and value alone, the indestructible daggers at that time might not even be as good as the little black knife that Rige was holding in his hand at this moment. It was not a magical weapon worthy of Eckert's attention.
.
It wasn't until in the Demon Slayer World that Li Ge used magic to purify a large amount of Orangutan Crimson Iron and Orangutan Crimson Ore, and integrated the essence of Orangutan Crimson Iron and Orangutan Crimson Ore into The Fool, and then rebuilt it.
It has become what it is now.
Under such circumstances, it is really difficult to answer the question of who created the Fool.
"I can only say that this is a collaborative effort between me and another highly skilled blacksmith."
Rige said this, which made Ector frown.
After a while, Eckert seemed to have lost interest and stopped going too far.
"Since it is a knife made by two people working together, and there is an element of accident in it, then I am not interested."
With that said, Eckert seemed ready to return to the iron furnace and continue to forge.
"Wait a minute! Eckert!"
Arturia finally couldn't bear it anymore and screamed loudly.
"I'm here too! I'm here too! Can you pay attention to me...!?"
Hearing this, Eckert picked his ears.
"I can hear you, there's no need to shout so loudly." Ector cast a look of disgust at Artoria and said, "Why are you here?"
"I..." Artoria's aura suddenly weakened at a speed visible to the naked eye. She lowered her head and said timidly: "I just came to see if you were okay..."
"Am I okay?" Eckert snorted heavily and said, "I'm very okay, at least I wasn't killed by you the night before yesterday."
Artoria suddenly became silent.
Seeing Artoria's appearance, Ector became even more angry.
"Since you have escaped from the dungeon, why are you coming back?" Eckert said with a bad look: "You finally escaped, and if you don't hurry up and escape, you still have the leisure to hang out in a place like this. Are you?
Don’t you think you died quickly enough?”
"Of course not!" Artoria retorted, "I just came to take a look. I will leave after taking a look so that I won't waste too much time!"
"In this case, why don't you leave quickly?" Eckert said extremely impatiently: "Although my place is remote, it is not very far from the village. Those fools will find me soon. If you don't leave,
, I’m afraid I will be torn into pieces by those idiots.”
"...I know." Artoria said dullly, "I will leave when I get the Rod of Choice back."
After hearing Artoria's words, Ector just silently walked into the back room of the workshop and brought something out.
It was a staff that was slightly taller than Artoria herself.
The staff seems to be made of some kind of mysterious tree root. The surface has a plant-like texture, and tree root-like branches extend from the top. The front ends of the branches are inlaid with crystals that are not known to be crystals or gems. The whole
The atmosphere presented is quite natural and integrated, making this staff look like it is not artificially made at all, but as if it was born from nature.
"Take, your rod of choice."
Ector threw the staff in his hand to Artoria.
"You, how come you have this?" Arturia hurriedly took it, her eyes widened in surprise, and she said in astonishment: "Didn't the Staff of Choice be confiscated by everyone in Tintagel?"
"Who do you think I am?" Eckert said disdainfully: "It's just a weapon. I can smell where it is from a distance. It's easy to take it out of the village."
Arturia would not be able to understand the meaning behind these words.
"...Did you help me steal the Staff of Choice from the village?"
Arturia held the staff she called the Staff of Choice and spoke in a low voice.
"It's just something that happened by chance. I didn't do it just for you."
Eckert said this with a raised eyebrow.
pity……
"You're lying." Artoria said very firmly: "You obviously stole the Rod of Choice just for me."
Arturia's "eyes" will not miss this.
"Tsk..." Eckert seemed to have thought of something, smacked his lips, and said in disgust: "The so-called paradise goblins are really troublesome, and they actually still retain this kind of vision that has long since disappeared."
Ector, who was so bored, did not deny the matter anymore, but looked directly at Artoria.
"Now, the Rod of Choice has returned to you, and you have been freed from the village."
"Next, it's time for you to embark on your own journey."
"Let's go on a tour, Artoria Castor."
Ector's words made Artoria's hand holding the Staff of Choice tighten slightly.
"Go." Eckert said, "This is your mission and your destiny. You can't escape it."
As soon as these words came out of Eckert's mouth, Li Ge, who had been playing with the little black knife at the side, suddenly spoke up.
"I don't agree with what you said." Li Ge suddenly spoke without any reason, saying like this: "No one has to shoulder a mission that cannot be resisted, and no one's fate is to be defeated from the beginning.
Set it down."
"Can't escape?"
"This is really a joke. If you really don't want to do it, why can't you escape?"
Rige's sudden speech not only stunned Artoria, but even Ector cast a sharp look at him.
"...Do you know what happened to this girl?"
Eckert asked expressionlessly.
"So you know." Li Ge looked uninterested and said with a lack of interest: "She is the rumored child of the prophecy in the Fairy Kingdom, right?"
——"The Son of Prophecy".
This is an existence that is well known to everyone in the Fairy Kingdom.
About sixteen years ago, the head of a goblin clan left such a prophecy.
""The mysterious island has turned into a fairy country, and I will tell you its ending."
""Welcome back to the innocent."
""This is the city of the deep and bottomless queen."
""Heaps up like rain, piles up like dust, melts like snowflakes, fades away like lies."
""Our hopes were put on the shelf, and now we are still in the hands of the Queen."
""However, it only takes a moment of patience, and after two thousand years, the Son of Redemption will appear."
""Let fairies and humans join hands together, and the Son of Savior save the world."
""Even if the first light shines, no one notices or recognizes it, it still flies away like a moth."
""Town of Iron, Sea of Coal"."
""When we fight off disaster, we should be welcomed when we visit."
""The rod of choice guides him, the strangers watch over him, the son of redemption reaches the throne of the throne."
""The one who sits on the jade throne is the true king, please wear a blood-stained crown."
""Ringing like thunder (anger), ringing like fire (lament), the six bells teach people to know, and the path of the true king begins from now on."
""The red disaster chased me forward, and the black disaster bit me forward."
""It doesn't matter if you slack off in your work, we are the descendants of the free fairies."
""Hope is never enough, I sincerely look forward to a bright tomorrow."
The general meaning of this prophecy is that sixteen years later, the savior of this country will appear, and he will be crowned as the true king under the guidance of the Chosen Rod to save the world.
This savior needs to embark on a pilgrimage journey and ring the six pilgrim bells that exist in the fairy kingdom. When all six bells ring, the hypocritical queen who leads the country will be overthrown and crowned as the true king.
The savior will also lead fairies and humans to end the hypocritical history.
This prophecy is now widely rumored in the Fairy Kingdom, and almost no one knows about it.
The savior mentioned in the prophecy was called the Son of Prophecy by everyone.
According to legend, the children of prophecy do not belong to any of the six clans, but are fairies from "Paradise".
Legend has it that when the child of prophecy comes to this world, there will be a staff of choice beside him to accompany him as he grows.
Artoria is the child of the prophecy.
She drifted here from the sea on a small boat sixteen years ago. The villagers of Tintagel discovered her and the Staff of Choice beside her, so they thought she was the rumor.
The child of prophecy in the world and raised him to adulthood.
However……
"I'm already considered a fake now..."
Artoria laughed masochistically.
In fact, the reason is very simple, it is because Artoria's growth is not optimistic.
Fairies are born with their own mysteries, and their power is generally far greater than that of humans. However, Artoria has been weak since she was a child. Her physical ability is not outstanding, and her magic power is not strong. Until she is 16 years old this year, she still has not shown any outstanding abilities.
As a result, the villagers of Tintagel gradually doubted his authenticity as the son of the prophecy.
Just a few days ago, in order to test whether Arturia was the true child of the prophecy, the goblins in the village asked her to come here and kill Ector.
They naively believed that as long as Artoria could kill Ector, the blacksmith that many fairies feared, she would most likely be the child of the prophecy.
Artoria came, but she didn't attack Ector and ran away.
As a result, the goblins of Tintagel became angry, thinking that there was no way Artoria could defeat the queen because she couldn't even defeat a blacksmith, so she must be a fake.
In this way, Arturia was imprisoned in the dungeon by the villagers and prepared to hand her over to the execution team that would come to the village tomorrow.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Execution Team is the executioner under the Queen, and they are always looking for the Child of Prophecy. If Arturia is handed over to the Execution Team, it does not matter whether she is the real child of the Prophecy or a false prophecy.
She will be executed for all her sons.
Artoria naturally doesn't want to die.
Therefore, she planned to find a chance to escape from the dungeon.
After Ector learned the news, he first helped Artoria steal the Staff of Choice, and then prepared to rescue Artoria from the dungeon before the execution team arrived tomorrow and let her
Leave the village and embark on a pilgrimage.
Unexpectedly, at this juncture, Li Ge suddenly appeared out of thin air, and Wushang rescued Artoria from the dungeon.
Ector didn't know the specific process, but seeing that Rieger appeared here together with Artoria, who was supposed to be imprisoned in the dungeon, he could probably guess what happened.
only……
"I wasn't going to ask you why you rescued this girl from the dungeon." Ector stared at Li Ge and said: "Now it seems that you rescued her not to let the son of prophecy
It’s like embarking on a pilgrimage journey.”
This is an obvious thing.
"Why should I save her just to let her go on a tour?" Li Ge said with a half-smile: "To save the Fairy Country? Or to defeat the Queen?"
"...Ignoring the former, isn't the latter your goal?" Eckert said with a frown: "The queen's tyranny has caused dissatisfaction among many fairies. It is also the queen who issued the order to strictly control the number of humans. Regardless of
Whether they are fairies or humans, there are people who want to overthrow the queen's rule and liberate this country."
"You, aren't you?"
Eckert's question only received an indifferent answer from Li Ge.
"Let me tell you the truth." Li Ge said calmly and indifferently: "This country is not worth saving."
As soon as these words came out, Artoria and Ector both changed their expressions.
"Li Ge?"
Artoria looked at Li Ge in surprise.
"you……!"
Eckert's brows furrowed even more deeply. Hostility first appeared in his eyes when he looked at Li Ge, and then the hostility disappeared again. He didn't know what he thought of, but turned into a thick complex.
Li Ge ignored these reactions and just said something to Eckert.
"Let's not talk about this for now. Wouldn't it be better for you to consider your current situation?" Li Ge said indifferently: "Now, Artoria has escaped from the dungeon, no matter where she goes next
, if you continue to stay here, you will definitely be angered by those stupid goblins."
"Qian, Qian anger?"
Artoria's attention was successfully diverted.
"...Indeed." Eckert regained his composure and said in a deep voice: "Those fools know very well that I have contact with this little girl. If they still can't find her, they will definitely doubt whether I saved her.
Did you hide her?"
"Then you come with us!" Artoria said quickly: "Don't stay here any longer, otherwise the goblins in the village will definitely not let you go!"
"I have to leave." Eckert nodded, then shook his head and said, "But I won't leave with you."
Before Artoria could ask anxiously why, Ector said straightforwardly.
"I don't want to accompany you on any kind of pilgrimage. You can only walk this journey by yourself."
One sentence made Artoria shut up instantly.
Li Ge was not polite.
"You don't want to leave yourself, but you let others go. What's the point of talking about mission and destiny? It seems you are worse than I thought, old man."
Eckert did not refute Rieger's words at all.
"I'm tired of it, but this girl still has to go on a trip. Otherwise, she may never know the history of the Fairy Country and the truth about the Fairy Country."
Eckert sighed and said this as if he was sick.
"As a fairy in paradise, at least she needs to know what she is doing before she can decide whether to do it or not."
After leaving such words, Eckert seemed to want to stop talking nonsense and began to chase people away.
"Okay, what needs to be said has been said, and what needs to be met has been met. You young people can think about what to do next."
"Don't worry about me, old man. At least, I can't die yet."
"Go away, do what you should do, go where you should go."