Chapter 242

【Until the sun set for the third time.】

【"Arthur!"】

【"I curse you!"】

【"I curse your descendants to perish in the ninth millennium."】

【"I curse you to find rebirth in death, to watch your kingdom crumble in betrayal, and your people die in suffering."】

【You will try to save, try to redeem, time and time again, only to despair in futility and cycle eternally in numbness.】

【Arthur!!!!"】

【Severing the head of the god who shrieked the curse, completing a great feat worthy of praise for ten thousand years.】

【Arthur clutched his severed arm, looking toward the east with a pale face: "My King, you shall surely return cloaked in the radiance of victory over the gods."】

(Arthur, meaning "brave" and "noble," the giant's spear.)

【When the sun set for the seventh time.】

【The knights of the past, now kings, gathered beneath the Celtic Tree of Life, Serga.】

【"How wretched you look, Arthur."】

【The one-eyed Yemen mocked, dropping a head.】

【The armor was long since shattered, and even the magic sword Tyrfing, which could tear through everything, had dimmed.】

【The pure white knight shook his head and smiled: "It is good that you are unharmed, Yemen."】

【"Hahaha, Yemen, my dear friend, what happened? Did Morrigan peck out your eye?"】

【Because his face was too handsome, even being entangled by the Goddess of Beauty and Love, Muertea, and fathering a son, Anchises always liked to refer to himself as 'this lord' to emphasize his gender.】

【He carried only an inconspicuous ram's horn.】

【But it belonged to the chief god of Carthage, the Sky God Baal Hammon (Punic: b? 1? mn).】

【Yemen glanced at the blood-soaked Anchises and sat down on the grass.】

【The three waited for a long time.】

【When the Goddess of Night's skirt veiled the sun for the third time, the three silent men looked at the stars in the sky and performed an ancient Celtic rite.】

【"Let's go."】

【"Our dear friend has turned into the stars of the night; we shall take their place to welcome back our King, cloaked in glory and radiance!"】

…….

"Is this the truth about Saber?"

People were terrified and shocked.

A curse from a chief god?

In fact, after the death of the God-King Nuada, Taranis was more qualified than the Sun God Lugh to become the new God-King of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

The associative ability of modern people is no joke; they understood instantly, immediately linking it to the reason Saber participated in the Fifth Holy Grail War.

A tragic wish to redeem Britain and its people.

"A cycle of causality."

Someone sighed.

"The Age of Gods was buried, but because the Age of Gods faded, the extinction of the ancient Celts, as the Silver Folk, became a certainty."

A high floor of a skyscraper.

"I'm saying, how is it that after this Arthur Pendragon grew up, he looks exactly like the Pure White King of the initial world?"

Kogoro Mouri, who had become a decent man after being invited to the banquet, muttered.

"But how did this first King Arthur become the later Saber?"

Conan frowned.

Could it be that Saber was not born naturally?

……

【The sacred mountain Olympus, which once connected gods and men, had snapped.】

【The wreckage smashed through the crust to form a sea of lava, and the corpse of the giant god Atlas, like a Sky-Veil Behemoth, leaned against the sacred mountain, its exposed internal organs floating in the lava.】

【Arthur and the other two climbed the sacred mountain all the way up.】

【On the earth, the once-divine fertile soil was everywhere filled with broken walls and ruins, as if gnawed by giant beasts; the fragrance and songs praising the gods that once lingered forever had also disappeared.】

【The wind blew, dead silent,】

【Under a twilight, it was as if the earth were cursed.】

【"Blasphemers!!!"】

【A roar like thunder echoed through the sacred mountain.】

【Arthur looked over in shock.】

【"Svetovid?"】

【It was a strong and mighty god,】

【He had four heads, rode a pure white heavenly horse, held a sword and spear, and let out a thunderous roar, as if ready to attack at any moment.】

【This was the supreme god of the Baltic coast, the God of Gods of the Slavic pantheon, Svetovid.】

【Even an ordinary God-King could not reach him, but at this moment...】

【"He is dead!"】

【Sensing the annihilation of the God-King's immortality.】

【Arthur closed his eyes.】

【He felt a tragic battlefield, that resolute figure fighting among the gods, and that fist that kept striking out.】

【Even the God-King Svetovid could not resist.】

【Killed in an instant.】

【Leaving only an undying roar, echoing through this sacred mountain for a thousand, ten thousand years.】

【Arthur opened his eyes.】

【"It was killed by my King."】

【The others smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.】

【Heading all the way toward the sacred mountain, one fallen god after another appeared before them.】

【The head of the Etruscan Storm God Tinia fell by the roadside, his face filled with fear.】

【The great Slavic god Perun held his divine artifact, but his head was pierced by a long sword before he could unleash his desperate final strike.】

【The ancient Finnish god Ukko... was turned into dust by a light cannon that annihilated everything.】

【A corpse every ten steps!】

【One former ruler after another was either killed, died of exhaustion, or even destroyed themselves in fear.】

【But after crossing the broken sacred mountain, everyone looked at a newly formed ocean with disbelief.】

【That was a footprint!】

【A giant foot had crushed the earth, causing groundwater of unknown depth to surge out and form a sea.】

【Arthur remembered the words of the Thunder God Taranis.】

【Even with mental preparation, he trembled at it.】

【"White Giant!"】

【Anchises blurted out.】

【"You've heard of it too?"】

【"Yes, the Sky God Baal Hammon said before he died that it was an outer god traveling between the stars, a harvester grazing on planets.】

【It is the irresistible natural enemy of gods and civilization."】

【"Except for this White Giant, the Greek pantheon, apart from the Titan Atlas, was not seen."】

【"On the remains of these gods, besides the traces of my King and the White Giant, there is a third person, but only a third person."】

【"It is rumored that the Greek pantheon are visitors from beyond the sky, whose true forms are steel lifeforms wandering among the stars."】

(Type-Moon worldview: the Greek gods are an interstellar fleet, Zeus is an annihilation-type mobile fortress for interstellar combat, the flagship of the twelve machine gods.

After descending, they birthed divinity and divine cores, becoming gods.)

【The few looked at each other, all somewhat solemn.】

【Soon.】

【As they followed the battlefield toward the east, passing the remains of one former civilization after another.】