Have they been hypnotized by me?

"Ha..." Echidna smiled mysteriously and stopped talking.

"The future king? Me... me?!" The girl who clearly heard the conversation between Nan Zhukong and Echidna was a little stunned at the moment, and both hands holding the holy sword were frozen in the air.

As in the preface, the girl never thought of such a development, the girl never thought that she would become a king...

6. Daily life in the new world

"That's right, Britain will respect the person who can pull out the [Sword in the Stone] as king, and you, Artoria Pendragon, you are the one who can pull out the Holy Sword, and you are the future King." Nan Zhukong looked at her seriously, pressed down the holy sword held by the girl with his hand, and said.

"Huh?" The girl seemed lost. Did she...actually become a king?

Became... king?

The girl stood there blankly.

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Artoria, who was standing opposite Nan Zhukong, was at a loss. She... was the king?

How could she be the king?Why?She is just an ordinary girl, a village girl?

Why does something like this happen...

I don't know what to do at all, I don't know at all...

King, what will happen to her if she becomes a king?

The girl is a little confused, and confusion brings about at a loss...

Overwhelmed, overwhelmed, overwhelmed.

Totally...overwhelmed.

She doesn't know, she doesn't understand, she... always feels like she can't bear this kind of responsibility.

"Artoria." Until Nan Zhukong called her name.

"Ah...yes!" Artoria agreed hurriedly.

"You pulled out the holy sword. You will become a king in the future, but that is not now..." Nan Zhukong said, and the weight of his words made the girl calm down a little.

"If you want to become a king, you need not only the Holy Sword, but also the ability and courage to be a king - Next, Echidna and I will train you together. You have to learn so that you can become a king... No , giving you the ability to choose." Nan Zhukong said seriously, facing the girl, Nan Zhukong will give her the ability to choose the future.

"Must...become a king?" The girl lowered her head slightly. She was not the kind of person who happily accepted her fate as a king. She was just a simple and kind-hearted girl from the countryside.

"Not necessarily." Nan Zhukong said without hesitation.

"Are you sure...you are really cruel...no, not necessarily?" The innocent girl will become a king in the future. Echidna seems to have seen the hardships in her journey, but the next moment, Echidna Na was very confused by Nan Zhukong's answer. Doesn't she necessarily want the girl in front of her to become the king?

So...what to do?

"But... why?" Artoria was at a loss again. Just now, she was asked to become the king, but now it has become something else.

King...isn't it important?If he is chosen by the Holy Sword, he will probably become the king, right?

After all...if he is chosen by the Holy Sword, he will become the king. Now that there is no one else chosen by the Holy Sword, he probably really wants to become the king...

The girl was not stupid. Although her reaction was a bit slow and she was stunned to the point of being stunned, she still understood the current situation clearly.

"No reason, because I will teach you next, and you will be my student next, and my students will have the opportunity to choose their own future." Nan Zhukong said, with an unsettling tone in his words. The aura of conviction, although the voice is not loud, seems to be announcing to the whole world...

"Choose your own future... Well, I understand, please give me more advice, teacher!" After hearing Nan Zhukong's final announcement, the girl bowed slightly to Nan Zhukong...

Then, the gears of fate began to turn.

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Arturia, a beautiful sight in the village, had not appeared for many days. The people in the village were very strange, but no one went to look for her.

In the middle of a plain some distance away from the village, a mage tower stands in the center.

"Teacher, what is this?" Artoria was sitting on the ground, looking at Nan Zhukong, who was also sitting on the ground and drawing something.

I saw Nan Zhukong draw four Chinese characters written in cursive on the paper talisman in his hand, which was called "The idlers retreat".

This is the magic that Nan Zhukong independently reproduced based on the magic theory of Othinus... No, this is a Western term.

In the Celestial Dynasty, this is called "Tao method" - although it is actually the same thing as "magic".

"It's magic." Because it was actually the same thing, Nan Zhukong directly called it magic.

"Where did Mr. Sage learn his magical knowledge? Only Mr. Sage himself can use it. This is so shameless..." Echidna on the side looked at Nan Zhukong's magic and was very surprised. She looked envious because she asked Nan Zhukong about magic, and Nan Zhukong told her without reservation, but she couldn't use it...

Echidna was extremely curious about the magical technique of extracting power from spirit, life, and images. She had been researching it after asking about the knowledge, but she didn't understand it until she had dark circles on her flawless cheeks. What is the magic of.

Echidna didn't think Nan Zhukong was lying. Nan Zhukong wouldn't lie. He would never lie.

He certainly wouldn't lie, because that's who he is.

Therefore, the magic knowledge is all true, but she is unable to use it because of her lack of ability.

Damn... I feel powerless.

Echidna feels very helpless now...

So she started writing her own research notes.

On the other side, after Nan Zhukong finished writing "The idlers retreat", he folded it into a paper man and stuffed it into the girl's pocket.

"Do you really want to stay in this state?" Faced with the girl's request to keep a distance from the villagers, Nan Zhukong asked.

"At least that's the case now, because I have to study with the teacher... It would be better if everyone ignores it for the time being..." the girl muttered.

The girl is still a little uncomfortable now, because the training intensity recently has been very high... Becoming a king is such a hard thing, she can feel it now...

I have to practice sword literacy every day, and learn various fighting skills, and even the majesty of the king...

Not only Teacher Nan Zhukong, but also Teacher Echidona...these two teachers are teaching her...

Although these two people feel like they are both good people, they are... a little bit harsh, no, no, no, actually... they can't be considered harsh?

These days, Nan Zhukong has been saying that girls have the right to choose to practice or not. If they want to relax, he is always welcome, because...

"It's so nonsense to make an underage girl become a king inexplicably. I actually don't agree with this choice of the Holy Sword... But if you really want to become a king, I hope you can have enough power. ——You haven't decided yet, okay? I hope that the day you can decide, you will have the strength to choose the king or other paths." Nan Zhukong said.

"Although I don't understand it very well...but I will listen to the teacher and I will work hard!" the girl said.

So, the girl began to practice swinging the sword again. She kept swinging the holy sword - according to the method taught by Nan Zhukong.

Nan Zhukong, on the other hand, was writing and drawing on the spot, continuing to study what he wanted to teach Artoria.

[You are actually able to extract martial arts from magic... By abstracting the results of magic into feasible techniques and developing techniques that can be used by people who cannot use magic, you are indeed a genius without a doubt... .]

Othinus praised him, although his tone was too arrogant to be considered a compliment.

7. Actually, there is no rush.

It has been a month since Nan Zhukong came to this world.

Today, he got up early and came to a boulder not far from the mage tower. This was the same boulder where the girl had pulled out the sword in the stone.

He sat down and looked at the distant sky, the floating clouds changing into various shapes in his eyes.

"Ah wu..." Othinus crawled out of his pocket, climbed onto his shoulder several times, sat on his shoulder, rubbed his exposed single eye, and nodded slightly. Yawned.

"..." Nan Zhukong turned his head slightly, glanced at the girl a few times, smiled and pressed down the tip of the girl's hat with his fingers, deflating the witch hat that seemed a bit too big for her.

The girl's mood was also depressed. Originally, it was quite pleasant to just wake up and experience human sleep, but to have her head touched like this was really... ruining her mood.

"Young man, you have gone too far..." Feeling that Othinus was being treated like this, the demon god seemed a little angry.

"Yeah...I know." Nan Zhukong admitted naturally that he had indeed gone a little too far, after all, it was almost crushing her small body.

So he looked at the clouds in the sky again, feeling a little melancholy, as if the clouds were curling up in the sky.

"Young man...what are you thinking about?" After a long time, Othinus was suddenly curious about what the young man in front of him was thinking.

This young man doesn't look like he wants to solve the world's problems or seek power. Although she knows that the young man is not as undisciplined as he appears, he will definitely seek power and solve the world's problems - because he won't lie. Because he has promised before.

Commitment is more important than life. She has met many people, and Nan Zhukong is such a guy.

"I'm thinking about them...I haven't seen them for more than a month, and I miss them a little bit." Nan Zhukong looked at the sky, he was slightly lost in thought.

In fact, it’s not that I miss her a little bit, but I miss her to the extreme.

"Then hurry up and find what I want. I can't let you see living people in your world when it becomes weak. Even if I want you to taste the sweetness first, I can't do it. I can't help you." I can't solve the disaster over there. After all, the only thing I can do in your world is what I am doing now. Just work hard..." Othinus said.

To be honest, after this period of time, she also knows that Nan Zhukong has no clue now, and the journey of finding power and solving the world's problems has not even really begun...

There is no need to rush, there is no need to rush these things now.

Maybe Nan Zhukong won't be able to solve it when he gets old. When he gets old...

Speaking of which, what should we do when that time comes?

Oh, let's talk about it then - she was just looking for a way to achieve her goal. Even if she failed, it would just be her falling into an endless pursuit again, that's all.

The lifespan is different. To all her memories, this guy's existence is like a grain of sand in the desert. Now floating in front of her eyes, the next second may become a thing of the past.

"Yes, I know." Nan Zhukong responded. He was just a little melancholy and wanted to talk to the girl about it, but actually when he thought about it...he and Otinus were not that close.

But even so, he still liked her quite a bit.

First of all, it was because he was lustful, and secondly, because the relationship between Othinus and him was actually not that tense. The relationship between the two was not hostile, nor was it coercion, but an unspoken cooperation.

"..." Othinus looked at the people around him, thinking about his performance in the past month...

Originally, she thought that Nan Zhukong would be hostile to him for a long time, but she didn't expect that the situation eased not long after arriving here.

I'm afraid that guy saw something, the power of the "creator"?

I don't want to destroy his world, I just want to use the safety of the world as a bargaining chip to make a deal with him.

But Othinus didn't like the idea of ​​a deal, so she chose to use the information gap for coercion.

She is the only demon god, a pathetic person who can no longer find her own home. It is absolutely impossible for her to trade favors with mortals, otherwise mortals will come close to her, worship her as a totem and idol, and then decline and disappear... all the time This has always been the case.

It's very annoying and frustrating, because the mortal who worships his idol is not the devil, because she is the devil.

Speaking of which, how did he become the "Demon God" in the first place?

Take out one of your own eyes, systematize the ritual through destructive behavior, and finally sublime yourself into a demon... It's that simple.

Back then, I did a lot of things with a rush of motivation. Some were successful and some were failures... Why did I fail?Isn't she a demon?

That's because her demon power is so powerful that she has equal chances of success and failure in anything she does.

Did you fail in what you wanted to do this time?Did you make it?

The outcome is unknown.

But what is certain is...she has failed in everything she has done before.

Whether you want to fully control your own demonic power, or you want to find your own world.

All of these things failed, all...and there was no second chance.

Why, isn't she a demon?Why does it become like this...

So, it is better to become an ordinary person.

The "Creator"'s "archive", this retroactive ability, can allow the entire world, including her, to retroactively...

So, she decided to find this power.

"Otinus, what will happen to you if I find them?" Nan Zhukong suddenly wanted to understand Otinus' purpose of seeking retrieval and control, so he looked at the girl and said seriously.

In the past few days, Nan Zhukong probably learned about her side of things.

Except for her, no one in the world where Othinus lives has such a thing as magic, but technology has developed well...

She once got Fantasy Killer and reshaped the world many times...

After talking about many things, Nan Zhukong felt that the two of them should be considered friends.

So he asked... and was met with silence and rejection.

"This is not something you should understand." Othinus turned away, with a hint of reluctance in his tone.

"Okay, then I won't ask...but you are welcome to talk at any time." Nan Zhukong looked relaxed.

"By the way, how long can you stop the operation of my world?" Nan Zhukong asked.

"As long as you can keep going, it will be forever." Othinus replied angrily before he could calm down.