The first to answer Saber was the King of Heroes. He sipped the wine in his glass and said:

"First of all, I think the concept of 'fighting for the Holy Grail' is wrong. The so-called Holy Grail should have been mine. The origins of all treasures in the world can be traced back to my treasure house."

Hearing the arrogant words of the King of Heroes, some people who knew history began to roll their eyes. The King of Conquerors even said:

"I don't understand. The Holy Grail is a product of a magic ritual created by a magician from the Far East. How could it be related to your treasure house?"

The King of Heroes did not get angry at the King of Conquerors' rebuttal, but instead explained with all his heart:

"So-called treasures belong to my treasury. This is the law I made as a king. My law has been in effect in every corner of human civilization since ancient times. As long as something born in this world is called a 'treasure', it should belong to me and be in my treasury."

Hearing the words of the King of Heroes, the King of Conquerors said with satisfaction:

"That sounds good. Compared to the boring Saber and Lancer, your way of kingship, the King of Heroes, is much more interesting. But that's why I want to conquer it, trample it, change it with violence, and plunder it with my army! If your way of kingship is to possess all the treasures in the world, then my way of kingship is to plunder all the treasures in the world! It seems that we are destined to be the best opponents in this Holy Grail War!"

“Hehe, that’s right. Compared to Saber and Lancer who deny the kingly way, I feel that you, the King of Conquerors, and I really have a lot in common! But that’s why we’re rivals. Because there can only be one king in this world, and the treasures in this world can only belong to one person. It’s either you or me, this is the path that a king should take!”

Hearing the two people talking like this, Lancer on the side said disdainfully:

"He's a robber indeed!"

Even Saber said:

"People who insist on following the way of the king despite modern civilization are definitely mentally ill."

The King of Conquerors and the King of Heroes admire each other, and Saber and Lancer also think they are close friends. And compared to the conflict between the King of Conquerors and the King of Heroes, they are more likely to cooperate. It's a pity that Lancer's Master is a jerk like Kenneth, so they are probably not destined to be together in this Holy Grail War.

Thus, a feast for the king gradually came to an end in such a clear distinction.

Just as the banquet was about to end and everyone was about to leave, Lancer suddenly said:

"etc!"

Under the gaze of everyone, Lancer looked at Waver, the Master of the King of Conquerors.

"I want to talk to you for a few words."

Iskandar wanted to speak when he heard this, but then he heard Yue Fei say:

"I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to your Master."

My Master?

Hearing Yue Fei's words, Iskandar couldn't help but turn his gaze to Weber, wondering what Yue Fei had to say to his lovely Master.

At this moment, Yue Fei, dressed in a black suit, was sitting in front of Weber. His long white face was full of solemnity, with three strands of beard hanging down on his chest. Even in the banquet, he still sat upright, and people could tell at a glance that he was a real soldier with strong self-control.

Looking at Yue Fei like this, Weber, who was just a student, felt a huge pressure like a mountain. That was not the pressure that the magic teachers of the Clock Tower could emit. This was the momentum of a famous general who had actually walked on the battlefield and witnessed mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

This kind of feeling was something that Waver had never seen or experienced in his short life.

Dignified, solid, calm, and reserved. Yue Fei, with such an imposing manner, gave Weber the feeling that he was a creature from a completely different world from himself. Weber really didn't understand why Yue Fei, who had nothing in common with him, would call him.

"Mr. Waver Velvet, right?"

"Yes, yes." Waver responded tremblingly.

"Don't be nervous. I don't want to scold you. I just want to tell you something. What I want to tell you now is not very pleasant to hear, nor is it passionate. It may even be a little disgusting, but I hope you can remember it in your heart."

Evil, disgusting?

Weber had been feeling a little nervous, and now when he heard Yue Fei say this, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He felt nervous and uneasy.

Afterwards, everyone saw Yue Fei first lower his head and sighed, and then slowly said in a calm voice:

“Mr. Waver, you and I have never met before, but my Master, Mr. Kenneth, is your teacher, and I also know your Heroic Spirit, King of Conquerors Alexander. To be honest, both your Master and your Heroic Spirit are terrible! At least in my opinion, they are not good teachers.”

As soon as Yue Fei said this, Kenneth, who was standing by, immediately became furious. But just as he was about to explode, he noticed Yue Fei's fierce eyes. It was the first time that Kenneth felt Yue Fei's majesty and anger. In front of the momentum of this famous general who had fought many battles, Kenneth was so frightened that he was temporarily stunned.

As for the King of Conquerors, he didn't care when he heard Yue Fei's evaluation of him, because he also felt that saints like Yue Fei and Saber were terrible and boring.

"What you summoned is the King of Conquest. I believe that after the teachings of this king in the past two days, you have already understood what the way of conquest is, right?"

Weber nodded upon hearing this.

"Very good. What I want to talk to you about today is the opposite of the way of conquest, the suffering of the conquered."

The opposite of the way of conquest? The suffering of the conquered?

Hearing Yue Fei's words, everyone who knew him well understood what he wanted to say. After all, the man present was none other than the general of the conquered dynasty who was opposed to the conquering king. The tragedy of his life came from the fact that his country was conquered by foreign races, and he spent his whole life fighting the conquerors and defending his homeland.

The conquered, who are opposed to the King of Conquerors, will now tell everyone present what the so-called conquest means to those who are conquered!

"Mr. Weber, you were born in the West. Perhaps you don't know who I am, so let me introduce myself. My last name is Yue Fei, and my courtesy name is Pengju. I was born in Tangyin, Xiangzhou during the Song Dynasty in China! When I was young, I learned martial arts and studied, and when I grew up, I joined the army. Since then, I have been fighting on the battlefield, and the one I am fighting with is no one else, but a conqueror like the King of Conquerors beside you!"

"In the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Jin army conquered the Liao Dynasty and turned around to attack our Song Dynasty. The Jin people had no grudges against our Song Dynasty in the past, but as conquerors, they are just like the king of conquerors beside you. They don't need any reason to beat you. If you are weak, you will be beaten! If you are rich, you will be plundered! So, the so-called conquest began!"

Just like a flash of lightning across the sky, as Yue Fei began to speak, his whole body became cold. Everyone was silent, waiting for Yue Fei to speak.

"At that time, I was serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Pingding Army, barely a junior officer. When the Jin soldiers invaded, we soldiers naturally fought to the death. However, the Song Dynasty was plagued by many problems, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the generals had no fighting power. We were no match for the conquerors. So the first battle I faced against the conquerors in my life was a great defeat!"

"After that battle, the conquerors left the Pingding Army with cheers. What was left behind? The corpses of my comrades and brothers. The battlefield ravaged by the conquerors was covered with corpses, and the stench of blood and flesh made people want to vomit. There were flies everywhere looking for food. The blood from the corpses gathered into a small stream, dyeing the small river beside it black and red."

"Mr. Waver, this is the fate of the conquered! We did nothing wrong. Simply because we are weaker than the conquerors, my comrades, my fellow soldiers, my brothers and sisters, they died! This is what is called conquest!"

At this point, Yue Fei no longer had the image of being as steady as a mountain. His eyes were wide open with anger and bloodshot, and there seemed to be crystal tears in them. It was because he once again remembered the conquest war and his brothers and comrades who died in the conquest war!

If Waver was originally influenced by the King of Conquerors and was shocked by his romantic way of conquest, but now, he is facing something even more shocking.

That thing is called human life!

Chapter 206 Positive Energy

As the King's Feast was about to end, Yue Fei sat upright and said to Weber:

"In fact, the above is nothing. After all, victory and defeat are common in war. Since we went to the battlefield, we have been prepared to die. But we never thought that the cruelty was beyond our imagination. So after the battle of Pingding Army, I relied on my skills and luckily survived, so I thought about returning to my hometown to farm."

"War is so cruel. After experiencing it for the first time, I don't want to experience it again. But what I didn't expect was that those conquerors, like the King of Conquerors, wanted to conquer everything in the world. Their greed and cruelty far exceeded people's imagination!"

Hearing this, those who had never experienced a battlefield pricked up their ears. This was because the tragic scene on the battlefield had shocked them to the depths of their souls. They would never have thought that there could be something more cruel than this in the world.

As the person involved, Waver felt an unprecedented shock at this moment. After all, he had been with the King of Conquerors for the past two days. Under his influence, he always thought that conquering the world was a very romantic world. But now, he suddenly discovered that the other side of the so-called conquest was so cruel.

"The Pingding Army was in the north of China, but my hometown, Tangyin, Xiangzhou, was in the Central Plains. The Central Plains of China at that time was one of the most prosperous areas at the time. The capital of the Song Dynasty, Dongjing Bianliang City, was located in it. When you passed by here in the past, you could see farmers busy in the fields, prostitutes singing in the wine shop, doctors chatting and laughing in the teahouse, and merchants quarreling in the shops. It was really a prosperous scene, like a splendid world!"

"But that year, after the conquerors ravaged my hometown, do you know what I saw?"

"There are no busy farmers in the fields. All their food has been robbed and they are starving to death on the ridges. The prostitutes in the taverns no longer sing. They were raped by the conquerors, their innocent bodies were robbed, and they were hanged with three-foot white silk to end their lives. The doctor in the teahouse is no longer talking and laughing. He told us in a mad way that everyone he knew was dead! As for the merchants in the shops, they had already packed up their belongings and fled. But where could they escape to? I met more than a dozen merchants who were robbed in the suburbs alone!"

"That was once a prosperous and beautiful land! The land extended from Yi and Mi in the east to Cao, Pu, Yan and Yun in the west, from Chen, Cai, Ru and Ying in the south to Heshuo in the north, covering hundreds of thousands of miles and with a population of tens of millions! After being trampled by the conquerors' iron hooves, it was all gone! Millions of people died or fled. I walked hundreds of miles from north to south, but I didn't see a single living person on the road! The surroundings were in ruins, and there were corpses everywhere! The corpses covered the entire land, and it felt like I was walking in hell on earth!"

"When night falls, the lights of thousands of houses disappear. The surroundings are so quiet that it can drive people crazy! Only the stench of corpses that stretches for hundreds of miles tells us that there were once living people on this land!"

"Killing people is like cutting hemp, and the stink can be smelled for hundreds of miles. This is how people at that time evaluated the conquerors, and this is the fate of the conquered! This is what is called conquest!"

Yue Fei was a quiet person, and he usually kept silent if he could. During the Kings' debate just now, although he was very dissatisfied with the Kings' bold words, he only said a few words to support Saber who held similar ideas to him. But he didn't expect that when the Kings' Banquet was about to end, he would stop Weber and say so much at once!

After saying this, the King of Heroes and the King of Conquerors were full of disdain, but Saber kept shaking her head. However, Emiya Kiritsugu did not show any reaction on his face. Because as a magician killer who traveled all over the world, he had not only heard of what Yue Fei just said, but also witnessed it with his own eyes!

If he hadn't seen the tragic scene of corpses piled like mountains and blood flowing like rivers, how could Emiya Kiritsugu have thought of becoming a ally of justice and saving others?

After finishing his talk on the so-called way of conquest, Yue Fei looked at the Hero King again and said silently:

"Now that we have finished talking about the way of the King of Conquerors, let's talk about the way of this Hero King. This Hero King said that all the so-called treasures belong to his treasury, and he also said that this is the law he made as a king. Regardless of whether it is in ancient times or now, everything that is a treasure belongs to him."

"I've heard this idea a lot. Isn't it the so-called 'All under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are his subjects'? All the kings and nobles basically think this way. My things are mine, and your things are also mine. Even the air you breathe, the water you drink, and even the farts you pass are mine!"

"As for the thoughts of those poor people who were forcibly deprived of their ownership and unknowingly became slaves, who cares?"

"Let's go back to my hometown," Yue Fei recalled:

"I am from Tangyin, Xiangzhou. There was once a famous official in our area, named Han Qi. People praised him as 'serving three emperors and supporting two rulers'. He was the Guo Ziyi of the Song Dynasty. He was extremely honored! In order to commend his contributions to the Zhao emperor, the Zhao family promised that Han Qi's descendants would guard Xiangzhou for generations, which was roughly equivalent to granting our area to the Han family as a fiefdom."

"And what the Han family did in Xiangzhou is just as the Hero King said. All treasures belong to me, all property belongs to my treasury, everything in Xiangzhou belongs to the Han family, the people of Xiangzhou also belong to the Han family, a Xiangzhou girl's first night must be spent at the Han family's door, and even the feces discharged by the people of Xiangzhou must first be used to irrigate the Han family's land."

"Not only that. At that time, Xiangzhou had a total registered population of more than 5 households, about 25 people. If we add the hidden households without registered household registration, the population would double. At that time, Xiangzhou had only 110 million mu of registered land. That means that the 50 people in Xiangzhou could only get two mu of land per person on average."

"Moreover, among these 110 million mu of land, a large area is owned by wealthy families. This means that many ordinary people do not even have one and a half mu of land. In order to survive, they can only rent land from wealthy families and cultivate it. On weekdays, they also have to work for the landlords, and even then, it is getting worse year by year."

"But in reality, can Xiangzhou really not support a mere 50 people? Of course it can. In fact, Xiangzhou has far more than one million acres of arable land, but these lands have nothing to do with the people, because they are all occupied by aristocratic families like the Xiangzhou Han family. It's like that hero Wang Ba wants to occupy all the treasures in the world!"

"All the nobles and powerful families want to occupy all the arable land in the world. You think they are unreasonable, but they tell you that this is the law they made! They are born to own all the land in the world, and you lowly people are only worthy of relying on their charity and renting their land to farm. Then, you work hard year after year, and you can only exchange for a little grain to keep yourself warm and full."

"This is the true face of the Hero King's way. This is the suffering endured by the people ruled by a man like the Hero King. Do you still find this kind of way and this kind of rule desirable, or even exciting?"

Yue Fei's words were calm at first, but he became more and more excited as he spoke, because he thought of the poor people who had toiled all their lives but could not have a full meal, he thought of his comrades who fought to the death on the battlefield, he also thought of the extravagance of the emperors and generals, and the Zhuojin Hall of the Han family in Xiangzhou, which was built with the blood and sweat of countless Xiangzhou people.

Ouyang Xiu's "Xiangzhou Zhuojin Hall Record" is famous throughout the ages, praising Han Qi to the sky. But who knows how many Xiangzhou people died in pain under the rich and glorious Zhuojin Hall? Xiangzhou Han Qi is a hero-king-like figure, looking like a great hero, but in fact he is just a giant borer gnawing at the people's fat and blood!

After saying all this, Yue Fei sighed deeply, and then said to Weber:

"Do you remember what I just said?"

"I remember, probably..." Waver said a few words intermittently, and then said in confusion:

"But why are you telling me this?"

"Because you are a child, a very innocent child." Yue Fei said earnestly:

"Children of your age are bound to be rebellious in their bones. If you didn't have this rebelliousness, you wouldn't have come here to participate in the Holy Grail War. But it is also because of this rebelliousness that you always subconsciously deny some traditional things."

As he spoke, Yue Fei looked at Weber's teacher Kenneth and continued:

"This kind of denial is not limited to academics. You will certainly be disdainful of many traditional concepts. For example, justice, the concept of safeguarding the interests of the majority, doing the right thing, and even becoming a slave to the right thing. You will subconsciously think that this behavior is stupid. Isn't the most important thing for a person to live out his true self?"

"I don't want to deny your idea. I just want to tell you that traditional and correct things are not as useless as you think. Just like conquering the world seems exciting, but the justice against conquest is more worthy of respect. Or the desire of the King of Heroes to possess everything can resonate with the young man, but the behavior of the saints who have no desires is equally respectable."

"You are a very talented young man. At least the Holy Grail recognizes your talent. But you are unlucky because you have met teachers like the King of Conquerors and Kayneth. They are unqualified as teachers. Because they are arrogant in their bones, they cannot see many humble but important things."

"You can't be like them. You should try to see more of this world. This world is not just about the king, and it's not just about magic. I hope you can do something beneficial to this world in the future. I don't want you, a person in modern society, to be influenced by the kingly way of the conquering king."

"If you, a modern man, choose to become a subject of the King of Conquerors, that would be the greatest sorrow in this world."

That's all.

The reason why Yue Fei said so much was actually because he was worried that the young Weber would be led astray by the King of Conquerors. Because the words of the King of Conquerors and the King of Heroes were indeed very inspiring. Perhaps middle-aged people with rich experience would be dismissive, but a middle school boy of Weber's age would inevitably be led astray by their perverse theories.

Although Yue Fei had no relationship with Weber, he could not watch Weber go astray. So he spent a lot of time and effort, using a long paragraph of his own experience as evidence, in order to completely deny the kingly way of the King of Conquerors and the King of Heroes, so as to prevent Weber from getting too excited and making a mistake that he would regret for the rest of his life.

To put it simply, it is to spread some positive energy to Weber!

Whether they were the King of Conquerors or the King of Heroes, they all listened to Yue Fei's story. But faced with this long story, they couldn't even refute it.

Because what Yue Fei said was true, and it was what really happened in history. Compared with the thin and immature words of the two kings, Yue Fei's words were soaked with the pain of history. It was the roar of the people of Dawn who transcended all kingly ways to the kings!

Then, Saber also said:

"Speaking of which, what Lancer just said reminded me of something."

"It was after a battle that I discovered something. My best friend Little John, who I grew up with, became even more tyrannical than the noble he once was after becoming a knight. Not only was he harsh and cruel to the people under his command, he even violated unmarried virgins in order to achieve immortality."

"His behavior completely angered me at the time. Even though he was my childhood friend and was loyal to me, I still killed him. When I wanted to kill him, most of the Knights of the Round Table came out to dissuade me, because they felt that what Little John did was nothing. It was just killing a few low-class people and playing with a few women."

"But I still killed him. Even though everyone tried to dissuade me, even though I was heartbroken, my Sword in the Stone was still stained with the loyal and hot blood of my best friend, and then the sword broke. Not only did the sword break, but one of the Knights of the Round Table also chose to leave. Before he left, he said to me."

"Your Majesty, you don't understand human nature."

“I asked him back about this.”

"You are a knight. In your knighthood, there are hundreds of slaves who make wine, grooms who take care of your horses, and blacksmiths who repair your armor. They all live very hard lives and may not even have enough food to eat all year round. You say that I don't understand human nature, but have you ever experienced their pain?"

"He didn't answer me, he just turned and left."

"But from his back, I knew what he meant."

"He was telling me, are those lowly untouchables still considered human beings?"

After saying this, Saber spoke as if to herself:

"In fact, the knight's character is not bad, and his treatment of others reflects good upbringing. But unfortunately, he has been educated as an aristocrat since he was a child, and he has never tried to look at things from the perspective of ordinary people. He always likes to say some passionate but condescending words, and work hard for the sake of unknown beliefs."

"I don't hate him, I just hate the guides who turned him into this. They made the knight forget humility, and they made the knight subconsciously distance himself from the common people. They always like to say some second-year words, thinking that they are high above and in control of everything, but they bewitched the knight to give up the simplest and most beautiful beliefs."

"Compared to that knight, Waver is lucky. Because at the most critical moment in his life, he met a hero who deserves the most respect!"

Chapter 207 For Civilization

At noon in the Einzbern Castle, Emiya Kiritsugu woke up from his bed and felt as if he had had a long dream.

In his dream, he went back to Britain more than a thousand years ago, where he saw how a little girl in troubled times walked on the path of King Arthur step by step.

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