Chapter 236: Is it still possible to pick up a wife for free these days?

United Kingdom, the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey.

A beautiful white girl approached this place; she was a white female approximately twelve or thirteen years of age.

Golden curly hair, a proper and beautiful face.

She looked just like an exquisite doll created by a peerless dollmaker who had staked their entire career on it.

She wore a black dress that looked like mourning attire; despite the clothing being inconvenient for movement, she had arrived at the outskirts with a very rapid pace.

Then, she stopped her steps on a patch of grass that had clearly been trampled.

Behind the young girl, a cloaked, illusory figure emerged.

"Stop here, Guinevere, this is the place."

"Very well, Uncle."

Guinevere stopped her steps and looked around with some curiosity.

"Uncle, I wonder if this place can serve as the location to summon the King."

The figure whom Guinevere called Uncle was, however, a female.

She wore a cloak that obscured her form, and honey-colored hair could be faintly seen at the edge of the cloak.

From her attire, one could vaguely tell she was a woman with a well-proportioned figure.

She was a God of War from ancient times, the prototype for Lancelot in epic legends, and a rare Steel Goddess.

Yet, as she was now, she was merely a shadow remaining in the world, guarding Guinevere.

Although she could exert power for a short time, she was ultimately not the original body, nor was she a Heretic Divine Spirit.

At this moment, the divine shadow of Lancelot wandered around for a while, and finally returned to the lawn in front of Guinevere.

"Guinevere, I can feel that the essence of the earth here is very abundant, and as the tomb of King Arthur and Guinevere that you built, it should be able to summon the King."

Hearing this, a joyful expression appeared on Guinevere's face.

"Can I finally summon the King whom I serve?"

Guinevere is a God Ancestor who serves the Last King.

Sharing the same name as Guinevere, she herself is the wife of that King Arthur from the myths and legends.

Yet, the real her is one of the ancient Earth Mothers, the White Goddess who did not even leave her name behind.

She serves the Last King, vowing to follow that Savior who annihilates the Demon King with her eternal lifespan.

However, hundreds of years ago, during the Last King's previous cleansing of the earth, she suffered heavy damage, which led to Guinevere having to embark on a long journey to pursue the Last King.

And the "Arthurian Legend" in this world was created by this very Guinevere, solely to awaken the Last King.

To summon that Last King through the method of Divinity attachment.

As everyone knows, in this world, it is very normal for Divine Spirits to have aliases in other mythologies; the origin of every Divine Spirit can be traced back to different mythologies.

For example, the famous victorious God of War, the Persian Verethragna, is also Bahram and Indra in Indian Mythology.

He fused the elements of many gods, such as the ancient Armenian War God Vram, the Buddhist guardian deity Wshn, the Kushan Orlagno, and the Parthian Wryhrm, etc. At the same time, the heroic deeds of hero gods like the Hindu Vishnu, the Manichaean Adamas, the Babylonian god Nergal, the ancient Egyptian Horus, and the Greek Heracles were also fused in.

That is to say, as long as one summons through the above identities, there is a certain probability of summoning a Verethragna with different Divinity.

Guinevere planned exactly this: by writing the myth of "Arthurian Legend," she would summon that Savior who holds the Savior Divine Blade and clears the many Demon Kings from the earth.

King Arthur is the alias Guinevere fabricated for the Last King by spreading the myth.

Although summoning the other party as King Arthur would suppress a portion of their authority, the power of the King Arthur alias is also definitely not weak.

Coupled with the fact that the Last King's power itself relies on the blessing of the Gods Covenant, it does not have much to do with the strength of the Heretic Divine Spirit's original body.

No matter how one looks at it, Guinevere's plan could be called perfect.

However, Lancelot always had an ominous premonition, and she spoke up to warn her.

"Guinevere, I don't know why, but I have a feeling that our plan will not go so smoothly."

This feeling did not come from the Black Prince, who had ruined their plans many times and even destroyed most of the Holy Grail more than ten years ago.

Rather, it came from another kind of ominous premonition.

"I feel that by summoning King Arthur to possess my Lord, it seems it will not succeed."

Even as an illusory shadow, her intuition as a Steel Goddess was not something an ordinary person could compare to.

The King whom Guinevere pursues is not so easily summoned.

Moreover, the Arthurian Legend has gone through a thousand years of singing and telling; it can no longer be called the myth that Guinevere originally created.

After poets continuously created new variations for the Arthurian Legend, although they successfully made this myth a household name.

It is hard to say that its commonalities with the Last King have not been distorted; the two identities may not necessarily be completely interchangeable.

Guinevere sighed and looked at Lancelot with a final glimmer of hope.

"But I have been planning this project for over a thousand years; I must at least try."

Guinevere said this through gritted teeth.

"If it weren't for that Godslayer..."

As early as the twelfth century, Guinevere had once summoned King Arthur; at that time, the Arthurian Legend still had her guidance and constraints, and there was a great probability of being able to summon the Last King.

But she was casually cut down by a passing Godslayer, and only now had she succeeded in reincarnating.

Having missed the best timing for the summoning, she was simply unwilling to accept it now and wanted to try one more time.

Even if the success rate was low, what if it succeeded?

She was not reconciled to having a thousand years of effort go up in smoke.

This is the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, and also the tomb of Arthur and Guinevere that she built in the twelfth century.

It was the location she originally planned for summoning King Arthur.

After a thousand years of baptism, the earth's essence here has become abundant again, and the faith has also gradually become rich.

The possibility of summoning King Arthur will only be higher.

"My King, I look forward to your arrival; I have already prepared the best supplies for you."

It was the Magic Holy Grail, born from everything she had been in her past as an Earth Mother Goddess, pouring all the sanctity, immortality, and wisdom of an Earth Mother Goddess into it.

"It is only a pity that this Holy Grail has already been ruined by some fool, and most of the Earth Essence I collected was also snatched away by that fool, leaving only these to serve as your sustenance."

"My King, please forgive my impoliteness."

Saying this, Guinevere stood up from where she was and took out a cup cast from gold.

This was the so-called Holy Grail.

Holding the Holy Grail in her hands, Guinevere gently poured the liquid inside onto the ground; she also knew that the one she summoned might not necessarily be the King she followed.

Therefore, she poured it very carefully; the Earth Essence she had worked so hard to collect could not be wasted.

If she truly summoned the Last King, then it would not be too late for her to apologize then.

【We pray for the rebirth of the sword, to cut through the darkness of the end times and kill all Godslayer Demon Kings.】

【Most noble sword of swords, blade of blades.】

【You are the blade that annihilates Demon Kings, you are the pure white light of salvation, born to kill all the Rakshasas of the world.】

Accompanied by the Word of Power, the pure white light became increasingly dazzling.

With the consumption of the Earth Essence, Guinevere felt that the Earth Essence she had just poured out was not enough.

She became increasingly joyful and excited, as this meant she was finally able to summon the true master she followed.

After that, she was no longer cautious, but instead poured the Earth Essence inside the Holy Grail—which was equivalent to the total Spell Power of ten Godslayers—directly onto the ground.

It was used to nourish the "Last King" who had just awakened.

A phantom image appeared abruptly in the center of the ruins.

It was a handsome man with golden hair and refined features; he wore magnificent pale silver armor, held a magnificent Holy Sword, and appeared here with a hint of surprise hooked at the corners of his mouth.

"My Lord, I have finally found you."

Just as Su Nian had not yet reacted, a petite figure rushed into his arms.

Su Nian lowered his head, looking at the scene where he had appeared, and fell into deep thought.

The King Arthur persona that the Halloween Queen gave him definitely had some issues.

Why was it that every time he used this persona, he always had to be summoned in order to descend into another world?

He just didn't know if it was the Halloween Queen's bad taste or some other reason.

However, Su Nian guessed that it was highly likely the Halloween Queen's bad taste; after all, the truth she governed was 【Summoning】.

Whether it existed in the past, the future, or even within the illusory, she could summon it all.

The Halloween Queen's most proficient combat style was to summon those incomplete Spirit Statuses to fight in groups, with a crowd of Two-digit spirit bodies ganging up on one.

Naturally, setting up some kind of reverse summoning was not difficult for her.

However, looking at the petite figure in his arms, the corners of Su Nian's mouth could not help but twitch.

His Spirit Status told him that the female in his arms was his wife, his wife on the level of his Spirit Status.

An existence whose Spirit Status was intertwined with his own.

"So, these days... is it possible to just pick up a wife for free?"

"If it is the King, it is not impossible."

Guinevere revealed a joyful yet slightly shy expression, as if she were very excited to be called a wife by Su Nian.

After all, when she was creating the Arthurian Legend, she had set her own identity as Guinevere precisely because she had such thoughts.

However, Lancelot on the side revealed a vigilant expression; in her view.

The King Arthur summoned by Guinevere did not seem to be the Last King, but his power far exceeded that of an ordinary Heretic.

Even the Holy Sword at his waist was filled with a divinity similar to the Savior Divine Blade.

Powerful, holding the Holy Sword of salvation—from every point of view, he perfectly matched the description of the Last King.

But Lancelot's intuition told her that this King Arthur was definitely not the Last King.

(End of chapter)