Can Arknights dream about the Knights of the Round Table?

As Mr. Wen Yiduo said, "Justice cannot be killed because truth always exists" is correct, but only if you let people see justice and hear the voice of truth.

For the northern guerrillas who are trying their best just to survive, it is simply impossible and there are no relevant personnel to do this work.

Even the Red Dragon is a little powerless now.

Hunting demons in exchange for supplies, reforging the damaged equipment of the shield guards, teaching children, organizing hot springs to relax the tense spirits of the guerrillas...Oswald, who wears many hats, is no less relaxed than the patriot who is the leader. Even more tiring.

"It's not possible to lead the team like this, really; why don't you just come with me; go to the south, or even leave Ursus. It just so happens that I have a knighthood in Casimir, and there is an infected knight registered under it who also opened Pure Infection Even if you don’t have fine clothes and fine food, you will be able to support hundreds of mouths, so it will not be a problem for you to have enough to eat."

"...But this would inevitably mean giving up on those who have not yet been rescued in the mine."

After quietly listening to Ozwald's analysis of the northern guerrillas and his plan to take them to Casimir to make a living, the Patriot slowly spoke, and after repeated consideration, he still refused.

Perhaps if you go to the south and join his Knights of Casimir as Ozwald said, you will be able to have a larger and more organized organization to rescue more infected people; but just like Ozwald Just as De did not give up on the "few" elderly people on the ice field a few months ago, he could not give up on the suffering infected people on the snow field.

This is not a matter of right or wrong.

Moreover, the ancient Wendigo also has words he wants to tell the red dragon.

"...Now you are considering it based on your identity as [King]? Drake's Ozwald."

"What if I say, [Yes]?"

"Then, put away this thought as soon as possible, child. If you want to be the king, you need more power."

Perhaps in the past, Bozokasti did not care whether the king of a country was strong or not; just as everyone knew that the best way to cause chaos in a hostile country was to kill their emperor - but this well-known How can a weakness be called a weakness?

If you want to kill the monarch of the empire, you need to break through the legions on the battlefield, the city walls of the capital; the army in the palace, the imperial army serving the emperor...etc., it is almost as difficult as climbing to the sky; if you have this ability, it is better to directly fight in the front On the battlefield, it is easy and fast to kill the opponent one by one and move the city one by one.

Therefore, as long as the emperor has enough vision, knowledge, and the stability of the empire, he can have a little strength so as not to die of illness.

This is what the patriot thought a hundred years ago. With his heavily armored Wendigo army and the assistance of the Ursus War Warlock, he stepped on Ursus's iron hooves to all countries and conquered cities and territories.

But since [that incident] happened, Bozhuo Kasti no longer has such naive thoughts.

——As Vladimir Ivanovich’s favorite general and vanguard, he knew exactly what happened to the late emperor of Ursus.He even speculated about the cause of His Majesty's death with many colleagues, including Herage.

Bodrokas had been upset about this for a long time.

Before the arrival of Ozwald, who could be regarded as his new hope, he had imagined in the dark and lightless snowy night what would happen if the late emperor was still there.

In the end I could only sigh with regret.

With three hundred evil thoughts, even Wuhuang is at a loss: 42 Father and Child

Therefore, if Ozwald really wanted to be king, the moment he sat on the throne and put on the crown, there would be countless assassins from all sides.Even if the patriots increase their vigilance by [-]% to protect Ursus because of the late Emperor Ursus's time, it will not help - after all, even the sharp blades created by the Emperor such as the Internal Guard and the Imperial Forbidden Army may kill the Emperor. Who can guarantee absolute safety?

Now, Ozwald's combat power is at best equal to that of two experienced internal guards. It is true that he is enough to reach the upper reaches of the arena of various countries, but if he wants to participate in the continent's hegemony as a monarch, he is still far away. not enough.

Because compared with the benefits that killing the emperor of a country can bring, multiplying it by 10 and then doubling the death of the imperial army is absolutely worth it!

"If that's the reason, it doesn't work. You know, Bodrokasti, I'm definitely going to get stronger."

"I don't deny that; Ozwald."

The ancient Wendigo nodded slightly.

As for Drake, the red dragon in front of him has accomplished great achievements far beyond his knowledge. Not only has it reached the theoretical limit that is impossible to reach at this age, but it has also reached a level that even Bozocasti cannot understand. With the methods he knew, he completed the breakthrough... and started growing rapidly again.

Every day, every time he fights with him, Wendigo can feel the progress of the red dragon, and he is convinced that this young man with the blood of Drak and the magic of the Witch King will eventually grow into a man who can even defeat gods. A rare monster.

But that will take some time after all.

"Besides, most importantly, you're not ready yet. Ozwald;

You are not yet ready to take on the responsibility and become a true emperor. "

Of course, Bozhuo Kasti knew why Red Dragon was thinking about the future of the northern guerrillas with him today, and he also understood that it was because of the words "Your Majesty" from the little infected person a few days ago, and it made him think in his heart. A certain melancholy sense of responsibility.

Under this subtle emotion, Red Dragon, who never concealed his lack of interest in becoming king, was almost coerced into making a choice.

Patriots felt displeasure, even anxiety, and fear about this.

He thought of his deceased son, Growazel;

Because of his stubborn ideas as a father, no matter how much persuasion and efforts he made, there was no result. Full of disappointment and sadness, he forced him to even kill his worthless son with his own hands.

When the tired-looking Red Dragon came up to him with a full face of sorrow, and painstakingly told him about the hopeless future of the northern guerrillas, Bozokasti seemed to see the two figures overlapping here. .

"Listen to me, old man, let me ask you to stop being stubborn, okay? It's really not possible. You can't succeed on this path now."

[Father, I beg you!No, no more siding with the empire! ]

"Preparation? Preparation is something that can never be perfect. It's stupid. Waiting in ignorance will also lose the opportunity that could have been seized. Or when Ivanovich, whom you once loyal to, gives you the order to attack Casimir? , are you going to answer him with lack of preparation?"

[Order?The Empire's orders are a joke! ]

"I don't mean to argue with you. If I offend you, I will apologize and watch my words. But I still hope you can seriously consider my suggestion."

[No, I'm sorry, father...I'm not mocking you.No.I won't. ]

"Now, the big guys can barely fill their stomachs, but what will happen when one day as the number of people expands, we can no longer find food? Will we choose to go to the south at that time? No, it will be too late, there will be Many people starve to death! I don’t believe you have never been hungry and don’t understand one of the most primitive pains in life, bodrokkasti; forget it, that’s right, you are a wendigo after all, nibbling Corpses may not be an unacceptable thing for you. It is natural for the survival of the strong to be based on the death of the weak. Maybe it will only happen when the northern guerrillas you have worked so hard to pull up are starved to death. , you will know the stupidity of my mother-in-law today."

[Then, when one of us is infected with ore disease, you will know how ridiculous this crime is! Maybe then, you can leave the bloody road you are walking on now and walk on the broad and compassionate road! Father... ..That’s it, that’s all! You are a Bozokast! Ore sickness will not bother a strong soldier like you, so you can only let it crawl onto my body! It will laugh at you while it is entrenched on my body. Only then will you realize your mistake!]

"You will regret not listening to me today, Bodrokasi."

[Don’t let yourself regret it, Father!]

"...Perhaps, that is an acceptable result."

Looking at Drake in front of him, Bodrokas' eyes became softer and softer, and he spoke in a rare soft voice.

In the more than 200 years of existence to this day.I have always fought for my tribe, for my subordinates, for the late emperor, for the infected... I have never fought without any selfish desires and have been dedicated to this day.It is precisely because of this that he is alone and has no friends.

Maybe I should have accumulated enough. I should have accumulated enough to be allowed at least once...not for the so-called righteousness or justice, but from the perspective of a father, to confront those who chose the path of disgust. , the child whom he recognized said rejection.Let him not die in vain again because he is an old man who has eyes but is blind, who failed to take the right path, and who is not worthy of being a father.

At this moment, Bodrokasti decided to make an exception and choose a "selfishness" that he had never had before, in order to let the child he had no face and qualifications to call live.

If it can be like this, it will be regarded as the only success worthy of feeling relieved after closing your eyes in this life of complete failure and accomplishing nothing.

"My regrets don't matter, what matters is you, Ozwald; I hope that the path you choose to take is a careful decision made after careful consideration, rather than being coerced by temporary emotions. Pain forward.

This is the path I am taking. You don’t need to waste too much time and energy on this, as it will not be beneficial to your future.

...Or if you insist on this, there is a simpler way; from the perspective of a martial arts practitioner——

Defeat me. "

"Show the steely will and tenacity of a warrior, with the determination to kill, and use your force, Drac, to make me kneel down and worship you."

In this way, even if you are not ready to become a true king, you can at least have the power to protect yourself in the inevitable failure.

That was enough for him.

ps: Well, that’s about it, the old father who wants to make up for the death of his own son from Ozwald.

With three hundred evil hearts, even Wuhuang is at a loss: 43 Another drake

On the rock that was re-formed after melting and cooling, Ozwald was performing post-war maintenance on his weapons.

Although he, the leader of the [Round Table], is not strictly a real Casimir Knight, there is no need to consider the performance of the equipment required for the Special Tournament; as a weapon that is indispensable for battle, maintaining it has as long a life as possible. Better protecting one's own life is something that everyone in Terra needs to master. It takes priority much higher than how to talk to others. It is almost as basic as "breathing" and "eating".

After all, here on Terra, the vast majority of lives spend much more time fighting in the cracks of survival pressure than in the relatively peaceful and peaceful parts of the city.

"Hu...porphyrin..."

In the black blizzard falling from the sky, the unique wheezing sound of the breathing mask sounded from behind the red dragon, followed by the sound of objects being thrown through the air.

But Ozwald did not panic, he just used his long tail to wrap up the object that was thrown towards him, and then brought the wet object that was still dripping with viscous body fluids to his open mouth, and then He tore it open and bit it down without any hesitation, chewing hard, making a vague "squeaking" sound.

As it has done in the past few months, the red dragon is ingesting the flesh and blood filled with demonic power from the enemies of civilization.

Today, after reaching a cooperation agreement with the Emperor's Blades and obtaining the information about the enemies of civilization that Ursus possesses, Ozwald has roughly figured out why he wants to carry out the war in the eyes of normal people. Like a madman, he behaves strangely as he eats evil spirits.

Perhaps it was originally out of revenge against those bunny people, but after eating a few times, his instinct after tasting the "sweetness" forced him to continue such seemingly crazy behavior.

Just like the free-range chickens in ancient and modern times will swallow small stones to help grind them to supplement their jokes, or the three thieves in Black Cat Sheriff that I watched as children eat red soil to supplement some missing elements... they can't get it. The replenished body needs such external [nutrients].

After all, evil spirits are anti-world existences, and the power they possess is a surreal thing that would never appear in the material world and destroy the rules. It is precisely because of this that they are faced with the constraints of the growth process that cannot be changed as material creatures. The body of the red dragon was left far behind in the expansion of power. Because this ability to distort reality penetrated and integrated into the flesh and blood of the red dragon through eating, the body that was dragged down by reality completed its task. The breaking of rules and the [unreasonable] rise caught up with the somewhat out-of-touch power.

But how exactly the fusion is achieved... There is no way to verify it with the knowledge that Ozwald has now. At least the information provided by Ursus cannot touch this almost essential secret;

Then perhaps, it will take some individuals with higher status, knowledge, and richer vision that transcend the boundaries of mortals to give the answer.

"But then again, why can't I fight like you?"

Using his actual third 'hand', he continued to stuff the demon's remains into his mouth and gnaw on them. Ozwald looked behind him at the inner guard team that had formed a group with him to hunt the demon. One asked.

Logically speaking, his behavior of integrating the demonic power into his body by repeatedly ingesting the flesh and blood of demons is essentially no different from the sharp blades of Emperor Ursus; but the red dragon can barely complete the [Kingdom] , it is impossible to expand further, let alone detonate deadly thorns in the target's body.

Ozwald feels that there is too much difference in performance between the two sides...or is it actually a problem that he doesn't know how to drive?But this is impossible...

"From the perspective of the completion of [Emperor's Blade], your body is too stable. The more the power of the devil is nearly perfectly integrated with your body, the less able you will be to fight us like this."

As an old inner guard with decades of combat experience and responsible for guarding the border to prevent evil spirits, Red Dragon gave an explanation.

The creation of the Emperor's Blade is not so much about fusing human and evil fragments as it is about forcibly implanting them into the body, and then using external forces such as restraints and rituals to reduce the damage to itself and maintain the activity of the fragments.

Therefore, no matter where the inner guards go, as long as they appear, small effects such as black snow will spread, and as the [Kingdom] unfolds, it will have some irreversible malignant effects on the land under their feet, until as time passes , the world and the world annihilate each other after reacting, leaving a hole like a monster gnawing.

As for the most common and deadly killing move of the inner guards mentioned by Red Dragon, [Spine] is also the result of using the conflicting characteristics of the power of evil and the dimension of reality to cause the target's human body to twist and destroy on its own - even when their inner guards' After the restraints of combat uniforms and masks were damaged, exposing the restrained demons inside, the resulting dimensionality collapse reaction eventually triggered annihilation enough to level a manor with a radius of five or six kilometers.

Because it is unstable, it is more destructive.

For a red dragon as an internal guard, no matter how much evil power he absorbs, it will be difficult for him to fight... This difference is due to the original intention of his body after it was first 'implanted' with evil power. Different, but an [evolutionary] choice made by the physical instinct to survive and break through limitations.

Perhaps such a stable and controllable body is closer to success in terms of "transformation"; but after losing the terrifying power it possessed in an unstable state, it was unable to satisfy the desire of the late Emperor Ursus. The [Emperor's Blade] is the target that brings ultimate fear to enemies and traitors.

"That is to say, although I am successful in terms of results, I am an ultimate failure in terms of the reasons for the establishment of the plan. Is this what you mean? Brother Darth Vader."

"Names have no meaning to us who have become inhuman things, let alone these joking names. No matter how you try to bring us closer, it is of no use;

We will stand side by side with you, talk and answer questions; but as long as your Majesty gives a secret order, you are destined to be the target that our sharp swords must annihilate. "

Smiling unsmilingly, he answered the red dragon's questions in a matter-of-fact manner.

But when Ozwald shrugged and was about to leave after the hunting was over, the inner guard stopped him again.

"We have a message for you, on a subject that interests you greatly, Ozwald.

A female Drak appeared in the territory of Ursus and came nearby with the snowfield as its target; in terms of distance, you can complete the round trip in one day. "

"..."

Red Dragon narrowed his eyes, a little confused by this sudden news.

What the hell, after doing this for a long time, do you still have any members of the same race?Damn it, it’s a pity that I’ve been calling myself an iron-blooded orphan all this time...and she’s a female dragon.

Don't tell me that the clever and scheming grandfather below heard the original complaint, and the power came from some horned Gada's freezer, right?Ozwald couldn't help but cursed.

But after the initial shock, Ozwald quickly regained his composure; after all, this was about Draco's race, and he was the current patriarch.

What's more, the inner guard would never inform him of this news just with good intentions——

"So, what do I need to pay?"

"...No need for anything."

"Don't want anything, which means you want everything...you want me to owe you a favor."

The red dragon's brows became more and more furrowed, and his expression became unhappy.

"Favor debts are the most expensive, Mr. Internal Guard."

He said every word.

"Yes. Therefore, you owe His Majesty a huge favor; Ozwald Artolis."

"..."

Oh, I have already started to name names...that means that everything that can be done by one person cannot satisfy your appetite, but you must use the identity of the Red Dragon Grand Duke or even the King of Victoria to do something What?

"Tsk!"

"It's so annoying... So are you, the emperor of Ursus, and so are those snow monsters from the northern guerrillas... You Terrans, don't always take your expectations of me for granted, what the hell..."

"You have no right to say no, Draco."

Seeing the red dragon whose expression kept changing in gloom but was reluctant to give a reply, Naiwei's breathing, which was very similar to that of a certain black warrior, became heavy.Five people from a team were also in one place, surrounding the former in the center.

If the king of Drac cannot be a helper in favor of Ursus, then the emperor's sharp blade will not allow the future king of Victoria to become the enemy of Ursus due to today's coercion.

This is why they only told this message that had been relayed by the emperor after they hunted the evil spirits with the red dragon.