"It's probably some kind of emergency escape system." Looking up at the golden portal, Arthur calmly analyzed: "When the dragon golem is damaged beyond repair, or is trapped in a place that cannot be escaped for some reason.
In this situation, the pilot of the golem can use this emergency portal to escape to a safe place."
"Is it like the emergency escape system of the cavalry?" Bedivere hummed, and the scene of an escape chair with a parachute ejected from the cavalry that was about to crash came to mind. In fact, many knights relied on this to save themselves.
lives, the crash rate of iron cavalry in mounted battles is higher than imagined.
But using the portal to escape is really a luxury. The technology of the ancient gods and humans is really high-end.
"Let's go take a look." Arthur said, crawling towards the opened portal without thinking too much.
"Wait a minute, what if there is danger on the other side of the door!" The big white wolf hurriedly followed.
However, since it was an "escape exit", there should be a safe place on the other side of the door. When Bediwell jumped out of the portal and looked at the surrounding environment with full vigilance, he discovered that the place they were in was actually
It is a peaceful and beautiful island.
And this scenery seems familiar. This island looks like ------
------The Pure Land of Avalon?
The apple trees planted around the island are the best evidence. These apple trees are not ordinary apple trees. They have golden leaves and bear golden apples. Under the night, the golden apples and leaves glow.
The faint golden light shrouded the entire Apple Tree Island in a hazy light, making the island that originally lacked lighting and should be very dark at night actually have a brightness like dusk.
"Avalon..." Arthur also made a similar judgment, but after he saw the coastline on the edge of the island, he immediately rejected his idea: "No. Avalon should be in the sky."
Flying, it is not connected to the sea."
"Then what is this place? Is it just a special island full of apple trees from the Pure Land of Avalon?" Bedivere asked: "Where exactly have we been teleported to? Damn it---
---What should I do on the return trip??"
There's no need for Bedivere to worry about this. The portal they just used has been open so far, with no tendency to shrink or disappear. And it seems that it plans to remain open--at least for a long time.
within a period of time.
Since this place is connected to the portal opened by the Dragon Golem, it must be a safe place for the driver of the Dragon Golem to escape and take refuge. In other words, this island should at least not be dangerous.
.Perhaps this is really a small-scale "Pure Land of Avalon", an isolated place, a place where pilots fleeing the battlefield can heal and take refuge.
Now that we have come to a place like this, let’s search this small island which is not that big.
Arthur looked around and could easily estimate the size of the island from its coastline. Moreover, there was an endless ocean outside the island, and it was estimated that it was very far away from the mainland and even the island of Great Britain.
On the other side less than thirty yards from the coastline, which is the center of the island, is a small hill with a moderate altitude. There seems to be something there.
Is there anyone there?
...No. How is that possible?
Although through the faint golden light of the apple tree in the night, it seems that you can really see the shadow of a person under the tree from a distance, but the shadow does not move at all. It is probably not a real person at all, but some kind of statue. But that
It was definitely a landmark worth exploring, and there was no reason for Arthur to leave it alone. Therefore, he remained vigilant and walked toward the hill step by step.
The closer you get to the hills, the sparser the vegetation there. Although it is not a bare area near the hills, the sparse plants there give you a good view on the top of the hills. The only vegetation, a huge apple tree,
It stands like a stone monument in the center of the island. Its leaves and fruits are shimmering, but the brightness is several times that of other apple trees on the island.
There was indeed a figure under the apple tree, and just as Arthur had guessed, it did not move and was probably just a statue. At that time, Arthur and the others were still approaching from behind the statue, so it was not clear what the front of the statue was.
What. But when King Arthur walked up to the statue and looked at the statue that seemed to be sitting leaning against a tree, he was stunned.
"This is...me?"
Yes, the face of that gray-white stone statue looks exactly like King Arthur nine hundred years ago. Although the entire stone statue is lifeless gray-white, it looks so lifelike, just like the real King Arthur sleeping under the tree.
It seems to be burning.
And it stands to reason that people build stone statues as commemorations for kings. Shouldn’t the stone statues generally be placed in places like squares where many people can see them? What is the commemorative significance of placing the stone statues on this isolated and uninhabited Apple Island?
?
The strangest thing is the shape of this stone statue of King Arthur. If people really build stone statues as a memorial to the king, then they usually do it when the king dies. The stone statues built are either mature, dignified and majestic.
, or it is the heroic and majestic appearance of the king in his middle age.
But the stone statue of King Arthur that appeared in front of Arthur and the others was completely different. The stone statue looked like a young man. There was no so-called maturity or so-called heroic appearance. He looked like he had experienced life and death.
I was quite tired after the battle, so I sat against a tree and fell asleep forever.
The appearance of that young man was almost the same as that of King Arthur before Arthur and the others traveled to another world, that is, nine hundred years ago.
It seems that King Arthur does not have middle age and old age at all, he will just spend this period of youth...
------Died.
It was really unlucky. Bedivere had a big drop of sweat on his forehead. He tried his best not to let King Arthur next to him notice.
"Arthur," the big white wolf behind the King of Knights asked angrily, "I remember Merlin said that the legend of King Arthur has not been handed down in this world. This different world nine hundred years later does not know the character of King Arthur at all. Is that right?"
Bar?"
"Yeah." The blond boy grunted as a reply.
"Then what happened to the sword of kings that was pulled out of the warriors' graves in this other world?" Bedivere looked at the stone statue of King Arthur in front of him and asked, "And there is also a stone statue of you, Arthur, standing here."
"I don't know." Arthur hummed, seeming to be trying his best to analyze all this, "But since it is a different world, the flow of history may not be the same as our original world. Maybe this world also had one nine hundred years ago.
There was another King Arthur who did similar things to what I did before. But nothing he did had a great impact on history. He was not a king or a hero praised by everyone. His
The legend has not withstood the test of time for nine hundred years, and has been forgotten by people during this period."
"Your conjecture is not unreasonable..." Bedivere agreed, although his intuition told him that everything did not seem to be that simple.
"Bedivere, this is not our world, this is another world, and it is nine hundred years apart from our world. There is no need to pay too much attention to the distorted history in this other world." Arthur said,
"Just do our part."
"That's right." The big white wolf looked around: "By the way... the King's Scabbard is not nearby, and there seems to be no trace of the Holy King's Sword?"
"I noticed it too." Arthur hummed. There was no Holy Sword placed next to the stone statue of King Arthur. If King Arthur died somewhere nine hundred years ago, the Holy Sword should be Arthur's burial object. But here too
It doesn't seem to be King Arthur's tomb, this is just a stone statue. It's natural that the funerary objects are not here.
"It's a pity. If I can find my Holy King's Sword, my combat effectiveness will be greatly improved." Arthur then said: "But this is a different world. It's hard to say whether the Holy King's Sword has been forged. Maybe in the different world [
I] have never broken the King's Sword at all, the King's Sword is still there."
The Sword of the Holy King was actually broken during the duel between Arthur and his half-brother Gunther. From that day on, King Arthur lost the Sword of the King forever. Although the Sword of the Holy King was similar in ability to the Sword of the King, it was actually the sword of Merlin and Wei.
A replica created by Wei An together. The broken King's Sword was made into the scabbard of the Holy King's Sword by Merlin, which later became the King's Scabbard.
In the different world they are in now, nine hundred years later, these things may not necessarily happen. Therefore, the possibility that the King's Sword has not been broken is very high.
"Perhaps we can ask Merlin after we go back and ask him to find out the whereabouts of the King's Sword." Arthur raised his head and glanced at the sky and the huge apple tree: "There is nothing left here worth investigating.
.let's go."
"Yeah." The big white wolf nodded and was about to follow Arthur back. But when he thought that they had to follow the portal back to the bottom of the Warriors Tomb, and then return to Penzance Port from the underground labyrinth of the Warriors Tomb full of traps.
, he felt a headache.
At the same time, a golden light appeared behind them.
"What?" Bedivere exclaimed, jumping back warily and keeping a distance from the golden light.
It's not a golden light, to be precise, it should be countless golden lights. It was originally just a raindrop-like light falling from the golden apple tree, but as time went by, it began to turn into lines one after another, golden lines.
Countless lines of golden light extend from the trees to the ground. The golden light gradually becomes thicker and brighter, and finally turns into "slits" one after another. On both sides of the slit are borders composed of golden light, but within the borders are
There are countless scenes, scenes from all over the world, both cities and villages, and even mountains and rivers are reflected in them.
"What is this?" Arthur couldn't help but groan.
From the scenery reflected by countless slits of light, he discovered a rare and familiar scenery - the coastline of Penzance Harbor. (To be continued)