The Undying Death Knight failed to achieve the ending of the Heroic Spirit

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So the next morning, Menechel was called before King Gwyn, and in front of him was a priest in a white sleeved robe.

Menashel, who was unfamiliar with the place, had to turn for help to Chamo, the only person he was familiar with.

Chamo, who was standing in front of the left side of the throne, just lowered his head and said nothing. He ignored Menechel's gaze. He did not dare to overstep the line in front of the Almighty God.

Seeing this, Menechel had no choice but to look away. He lowered his head silently, emptied his mind, and let the priest chatter on and on.

Menechel had a disdainful attitude towards this kind of ceremony. If Chamo had not discussed it with him in advance, this was a convenient ceremony that could transform one from a civilian to a knight in one fell swoop. He would have realized that one cannot become a knight just by putting on knight armor, but one needs to go through a complicated ceremony to become a knight.

If not for this, Menachel would have lost his patience long ago.

Finally, when the priest uttered the word "above", Menechel raised his head quickly, and his eyes regained some light - until he saw the priest signaling King Gwyn, who had been standing at the front, to come forward and speak.

"In obedience to the Lord's will, I, King Gwyn, knight the nobleman Saltisi Menethil."

Although he wondered when he became a noble, Menechel still knelt on one knee as he had been instructed beforehand, without saying a word.

At this moment, King Gwyn reached out his hand and helped Menechel up.

At this point the ceremony was officially over.

When Menechel looked up, he saw that the serious expression on the priest's face immediately disappeared, and Chamo also looked relieved.

It was obvious that he was the only real participant just now.

"Lord Menechel, the rest of my life and honor are in your care." King Gwyn patted Menechel's shoulder pads and handed him a knight's rapier.

Originally he should have handed Menechel his sword, but after being persuaded by Chamour, King Gwyn gave up the idea.

Menechel took the rapier hesitantly, and the moment he held it, he felt a strong sense of discomfort.

Too light, and too brittle.

He did not notice when King Gwyn left, just as he did not notice when the Chamour arrived.

"Sir Menechel, now I can finally call you Knight Sartesiu." Chamo smiled and patted Menechel on the shoulder, but this time he did not talk much.

This was totally out of character for Chamo.

So that afternoon, less than two hours after the initiation ceremony was completed, Menechel received the call-up order from King Gwyn.

Menechel stared at the two swords in a daze.

So the question is, should he take the knight sword given by King Gwyn?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 17: King Arthur's Shame

2023-07-29

The mission is understood to be a simple escort mission.

King Gwyn wanted to send an envoy to the neighboring country Camelot to attend King Arthur's coronation ceremony, but he was afraid that the new king of Camelot, King Arthur, would covet King Gwyn's kingdom, so he resorted to this bad idea.

But almost all the knights in the country were sent out as guards. If King Gwyn and Menechel had their minds working normally, then the two parties who were greedy for the country might have turned against each other!

Especially after King Gwyn met with the kings of the other seven kingdoms, Menechel became more and more certain of his guess.

But what does that have to do with Menechel? He now has to live in someone else's home temporarily in order to find Artoria and Merlin who have been missing for a long time. Since King Gwyn now wants to destroy Camelot, Menechel, who loves what he does, will of course do his best to make this happen.

Although he had some doubts about the strength of the 500 knights who were carrying out the "protection" mission with him. Some of them, such as Chamo, were obviously mediocre, but they became knights with horses just by virtue of their qualifications, while truly capable knights like Menechel could only walk.

It's not that I envy riding a horse or anything, I just want to criticize this wrong system.

But in any case, a total of 4,200 knights were deployed by Camelot outside the city of Carrion.

Fortunately, King Arthur was not naive enough to let these thousands of knights into the city directly, otherwise the new king of Camelot would have become the king who destroyed Camelot in a day.

The coronation ceremony was held as scheduled, and several kings who came from afar finally got the right to enter, but the mighty army of knights behind them obviously could not enter together. In order to save the face of the kings, King Arthur specially granted permission for the kings to enter with several attendants.

To Menechel's surprise, King Gwyn actually chose him as his guard, while the Knight Chamer, who was his number one younger brother, did not go with him.

"Sir Menechel, my life is in your hands."

Although there were three people accompanying him, King Gwyn only spoke to Menechel. After speaking, King Gwyn glanced at the rapier on Menechel's waist and smiled widely - that was the sword he gave to Menechel.

Several Camelot knights escorted this huge "congratulatory group" into the venue. At this time, a king with a fair face came over and took the initiative to talk to King Gwyn: "King Gwyn, if you bring all the capable men in, the knights outside will probably lack restraint."

He was implicitly reminding King Gwyn to leave the leader of the Knights Templar outside the city to await his fate.

After all, Menechel, dressed in red and white heavy armor, stood out among the knights in uniform blue-gray uniforms, just like a captain should look. Even Chamo, who was wearing silver-white armor, would be considered his deputy.

King Gwyn obviously understood what the other party meant, but he laughed and waved his hands: "It's okay, it's okay, King of the Hundred Knights, there will be people to restrain the knights outside."

As they were chatting and laughing, the scenery in front of them suddenly became clear. Standing in front of them was a huge rock with an obvious sword mark on the top. The chilling aura emanating from it showed its unusualness.

In front of this huge rock is a temporary hall. The hall is empty but there are no seats. There is only a blue battle flag every few meters. The simple yellow lines on the flag form the figure of a roaring lion.

Standing in the center of the platform is a pale blue girl who is slightly short but has a regal demeanor, and a magician dressed in white who looks more like a priest than a priest?

The moment he saw the two people, Menechel's expression hidden under his armor froze, and his body was so stiff that he could hardly move.

It was at this time that the white magician Merlin quietly turned away his solemn gaze, and when he saw Menechel in heavy red armor, he curled his lips at him.

"Teacher Merlin, what's wrong?"

Merlin's little movements were clearly seen by Altria beside him.

"Nothing, you'll know soon." Merlin used magic to convey a message to Artoria. He knew that the girl attached great importance to the coronation ceremony, so he rarely showed the demeanor of a teacher and a minister entrusted with the care of the young lady.

When the last wave of "attack teams" entered the scene, the girl ordered her messenger knights to block the city gates.

Only then did Menechel come back to his senses from the eye contact with Merlin, and he noticed that there was a small pure gold crown on Artoria's golden hair.

This means that, in a physical sense, [King Arthur's coronation ceremony] has been completed, and this grand ceremony is merely King Arthur's announcement or settlement to other kings.

Let these kingdoms that originally belonged to Camelot be brought back under its control.

But it was too hasty.

Menechel ignored Altria's bland remarks. He glanced at the Knights of Discipline who were responsible for maintaining order at the scene. Although they were better than the Knights of the Eight Kings, they were still considered "weak".

The only person who might be threatening at the scene is...

Menechel's eyes quickly swept over Artoria and the several knights around her, and finally fell on Merlin.

Perhaps Teacher Merlin can be crossed out. This habitual slacker will probably only take action to help Altria escape.

As expected, when Artoria said, "I hope that all the kings will work together to build a beautiful Britain," a sneer suddenly came.

The sound was not loud, but it was not deliberately lowered either. However, it sounded particularly harsh at this moment.

The one who spoke was the fair-skinned man called the King of the Hundred Riders by King Gwyn. At this moment, he had his arms crossed over his chest, looking unruly.

"I feel upset when I think that the mountains and rivers of Britain will be occupied by a brat like you."

As soon as the Hundred Knights King opened his mouth, he attracted the attention of the whole audience. He shook off the knights who were guarding him and took a few steps forward, almost approaching the front of the hall. He spoke word by word, "So it would be better for you, little brat, to be more sensible."

Altria still had a cold face, but the air pressure around her had obviously dropped a lot, and Menechel's gaze towards the "King of Hundred Riders" also became gloomy, and his right hand slowly reached for the sword at his waist.

But someone was quicker than him. The Knight of Justice who was closer to the King of Hundred Riders immediately raised his axe and spear and stabbed at the King of Hundred Riders.

But the Hundred Knights King was prepared. He leaped, drew his sword in mid-air, and cut off the head of the upright knight.

The silver armor was easily pierced by the sword and had no effect.

The Hundred Knights King sneered, shook off the blood on his sword, and looked at King Arthur on the platform provocatively again.

"No rudeness!"

At this time, the knights around King Arthur could not help themselves and were about to take action when suddenly it became noisy outside the city gate.

"It turns out that it was prepared in advance."

Altria's tone was low, but based on Menechel's understanding of Altria, he knew that the girl was so angry that she wanted to pin someone to the ground and beat him up.

"Get them!"

The thousands of knights outside could not be defeated with Altria's current military strength, so all she could do was take hostages.

I agree with those who say this operation is stupid. I really haven't changed this plot at all. The operation in King Arthur's legend is even stupider than this. King Arthur put thousands of knights into the city at the same time.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 18 Listen to my explanation

2023-07-29

Immediately, several of the knights guarding King Arthur sent out to rush towards the eight kings, but this undoubtedly weakened the guards around Altria.

Menechel calmly adjusted his position and stood in front of the Hundred Knight King to prevent the shameless old man from launching a sneak attack and directly taking down Altria, but Menechel was surprised to find that the Hundred Knight King was quite martial and stood there to accept the challenge.

Not only the King of the Hundred Knights, but the other six kings except King Gwyn also drew their swords and wrestled with the knights who rushed forward. The guards brought by these kings were merely cannon fodder to resist the Knights of Justice.

On the other hand, King Gwyn hid under the protection of Menethil and two other knights.

Menechel gave King Gwyn a look of contempt. Look at him, then look at him, and finally I understand why you are the weakest king.

But King Gwyn obviously could not read such complex information from Menechel's simple look. He stared closely at Menechel and could not help but warned him, "Sir Menechel, the enemy is coming."

Menechel's hand, which was about to draw his sword, froze. He subconsciously glanced at Artoria on the podium. Fortunately, because the scene was too noisy, the girl did not hear King Gwyn's call.

And it was during this moment of hesitation that a knight in bright silver had approached him. It was impossible for him to draw out the dragon sword to block it, so Menechel had to draw the rapier from his waist to block the gun.

The overly light feel of the weapon gave Menicher the illusion that he was unarmed. The inconvenience of using the weapon prevented him from counterattacking immediately. He only had a slight advantage by relying on his own strength.

Being selected as King Arthur's personal knight, the Knight in Silver Armor was certainly no mediocre person. Just as Menechel was about to press down the spear bit by bit, the opponent suddenly let go, and Menechel lost his balance and fell forward in panic.

Seizing this moment of opportunity, the silver-armored knight grabbed the spear again, and the spear flashed with a cold light and pointed directly at Menechel's visor.

Menechel stopped falling instantly, and holding the rapier in his hand backwards, he thrust it like a dagger straight at the face of the silver-armored knight.

The move of exchanging injuries for injuries forced the Silver-Armored Knight to give up his current attack. The opponent jumped to distance himself. Only then did Menechel notice that the weapon the opponent was holding was actually a lance.

The spear shaft, which is much longer than that of a lance, gives this weapon excellent horse-riding combat capabilities, but the opponent just now fought him to a draw with only a lance without riding a horse.

For a moment, Menechel felt his body gradually getting hot, and a circle of faint red light was burning around his armor.

With the help of the dragon's magic power, Menechel crushed the rapier in his hand with force. He threw his hand away, and the sword fragments shot towards the knight in front of him like arrows.

While the opponent was using his gun to clear the flying sword fragments, Menechel drew out the greatsword behind him. At the same time, he exerted force with his feet, and the explosive force pushed Menechel straight towards the Silver-Armored Knight. He swung the sword and slightly adjusted the direction of the sword to hit the Silver-Armored Knight with the back of the sword. The sword move changed from chopping to slapping. Although it was not fatal, with Menechel's current strength, if he hit the opponent, he would definitely lose his combat ability.

Several high-speed arrows caused a slight error in Menechel's sure-hit attack, and it was these errors that gave the Silver-Armored Knight another chance to counterattack.

Seeing the lance pointed at his chest, a hint of annoyance flashed in Menechel's eyes. He continued to swing the sword in his hand but cleverly changed his target, cutting the lance in half with just one blow.

Menechel landed on the ground with both feet. He seemed to ignore the recoil caused by swinging the greatsword and swung out the second sword.

The silver-armored knight only had time to block with the shaft of his spear, but such fragile weapon was useless under Menechel's full-strength blow, and he couldn't even block it for a moment. He could only watch as the blade of the greatsword approached little by little.

When the cold light flashed again, the sword edge had become a broad sword back. Before he could react, the big sword that was like the hand of death had been blocked by a golden knight's sword.

"Stand down, Lord Lanmarok."

The one who blocked Menechel's attack was naturally King Arthur Altria. At this moment, the girl's emerald eyes were full of resentment, and she seemed to be angry about the ridicule of the Hundred Knights King.

Menechel also understood this very well. After all, he knew very well how much Altria had paid for the throne she had today. It was not like what the Hundred Knights said, "She got the throne by luck."

"I'm sorry, King."

The silver-armored knight whom Altria called Lanmarok made a neutral voice. Seeing that the annoying knight was unwilling to retreat, Menechel was just about to put away his sword and say hello to the old friend he hadn't seen for a long time, when he saw that the other party had already attacked him without any hesitation, with no sign of holding back in every move.

Menechel immediately realized that it was the "credit" of his armor. He wanted to reach out and pull off the head armor, but was stunned by Altria's intensive and fierce attack.

Not only that, Menechel's fighting mode of only defending and not attacking obviously angered Artoria. The proud girl not only did not stop attacking, but each blow became more ferocious than the last.

Just as Menechel was thinking about whether to end the battle with one blow, he saw Altria's face change in front of him.

With a roar, it indicated that the city gate had been breached. Altria glanced at the guards knights fighting with the kings. Although they had a slight advantage, it was still too early to turn it into a victory.

Between fighting in the streets to defend the city and abandoning the city and retreating, Artoria gritted her teeth and chose the latter.

The girl "forced back" Menechel with a sword, and before leaving, she took a deep look at the red knight beside her.

"I'll come back to you."

After leaving this sentence, Artoria did not stay for long and led the crowd to attack the back door that was still under control.

Menechel moved his numb arms and secretly marveled at Artoria's growing strength in recent years. Perhaps if he had not appeared suddenly, Artoria might have been able to capture the kings before the rebels attacked the city.

As soon as King Arthur left, the city of Carrion, which had few guards, was easily conquered. The main hall, which was originally the core of the city, was left with only the Sword Stone. This stone, which was used to decorate the facade, was now being manipulated by the Hundred Knights like a joke.