[Comprehensive] A good snake has a safe life

"The teacher will not die."

King Arthur has always insisted on this.

After Gawain's victory, he found that the arranged archmage was taken away by his younger brother, but Mordred refused to explain Merlin's whereabouts anyway.He just sat so quietly in the cell, looking at Gao Wen's anxious look with a relaxed smile that he had finally accomplished something.

"She is dead," said Mordred. "A witch is dead, brother. Why do you grieve for a witch?"

"Merlin is not a witch." Gawain didn't know what to say. He looked at this younger brother and felt as if he had never known him before: "I am not your elder brother either."

The noble knight finally couldn't bear to say these words, and left the cell with his sword.Mordred leaned against the wall, looked at Gawain's back, and suddenly asked.

"Do you remember your mother?"

Gawain's footsteps stopped, and he looked back at Mordred with complicated emotions in his eyes.

"I was almost ten years old when I left my mother, and I remember many things very clearly." Gao Wen seemed to have something in his words: "But unfortunately, you are different from me."

It is indeed different.

In Mordred's memory, he was a child raised by fairies since he was a child.

Fairies themselves don't have children, they will pick up children from various places to raise them, and finally those children who grow up under their hands have become very famous people.

Like Lancelot, Knight of the Lake.

"Then will I be able to become a knight like Lancelot in the future?" He often asked the fairies on the island with such expectation, but the fairies always avoided answering.Mordred remembered holding the apple, sitting alone on the shore of the lake, imagining how he would become a knight of the round table in the future.

He must be majestic and handsome, and everyone will praise him.

It must be so.

But in fact he also dreams.

In another dream, he grew up surrounded by a pair of invisible men and women, and finally became a knight.Everyone praised him for his honesty and kindness, and everyone was willing to give everything to him and believed in him.

Why am I not like that.

Mordred was a little disappointed, but he usually woke up happy the next day.He'd pick an apple and nibble on it himself, then pull the fairy queens' hair or stain their skirts on the island, get a little fleeting joy in a little scream, and then another night Have this dream again.

Until one day Lancelot returns.

The knight Lancelot came back to visit the fairy queens, and he would come back every once in a while to talk about outside things with the fairy queens who raised him.He brought mortal gifts, which were nothing more than jewelry and vases carved by skilled craftsmen.

But this time, he brought a small sword and gave it to Mordred.

The fairy queens didn't know what expression to make, but Lancelot patted him on the shoulder, encouraging him to practice his sword well and not to damage the dresses of the fairy queens every day.

Mordred held the sword, and it took many years to find an accurate description of the familiar and strange feeling in his chest at that time.

His head does not yet know what his future will be, but his body has already felt the call of fate.

That sword was just an ordinary sword, but it opened a door.

There is also a dead end that everyone must embark on.

Mordred no longer remembered what Lancelot said when he was holding the sword, it was nothing more than to be good and the like.But Mordred cherished this sword very much. He subconsciously felt that his fate would be closely related to such a weapon, and practiced hard.

But the practice is actually just chopping with a sword, no one taught him, he can only grope by himself.

Later, when Gao Wen was on the training ground, he started to have a headache when he saw him swinging the sword. He felt that his younger brother's moves were disorderly, overly ferocious, and without any protection.

Mordred felt that Gawain's appearance was fake.

Because Gao Wen has always been smooth sailing, no one has ever found out a sword move that looks more powerful by himself through thousands of trials, nor has he practiced his sword in the night listening to wolves howling.

He grew up with his parents when he was a child, and then he was taken to King Arthur, and he had the king's teacher to teach him how to draw a sword like a real swordsman.

Gao Wen's most depressed time was probably the moment when he knew his parents had failed in the rebellion, but what happened afterwards?

Regardless of previous suspicions, King Arthur took his nephews to his side to raise them personally, allowing them to live in the royal court that their parents desperately wanted to live in.In a sense, this is too ironic, so ironic that Mordred felt that his parents' rebellion was actually successful—even if they succeeded in their rebellion, they would actually live in the royal court for only a few years.There are not many people who can live for a long time these years, and in the end, their children will live in the royal court and become the next king.

This was the case with Gawain. King Arthur placed high hopes on him when he had no heirs, and anyone with eyes could tell that he was the heir to the throne.

After Mordred was taken to the royal court by Lancelot, he watched many people salute Gawain.

He didn't know why, but a kind of anger broke out from the bottom of his heart.

Why not me.

He flickered in his mind, thinking so.

And that voice in his head made him hate someone else.

Kill Merlin and let King Arthur suffer like this for the rest of his life.

Mordred remembered the face of the dying man.

Her throat seemed to be knotted, and it was extremely difficult to speak every word.

Let your father lose everything, let him destroy the kingdom he owns.

Ok.

In fact, Mordred also doubted why the person who claimed to be his mother stabbed himself in the chest with his favorite sword in front of him.He watched the blood flow all over the place, until it seeped into the soil, turning from bright red to pitch black.

He always dreamed of this scene in his dreams, and every time he woke up, he was covered in cold sweat.The fairy queens wanted to comfort him, but for some reason, Mordred always felt that the next second the fairy queens would appear in the face of "mother", and then dragged him to make him avenge her.

"Arthur has deserted me," she said to him. "The witch has bewitched him."

Mordred didn't have time to think about those convoluted logical relationships, and became irritable in the day after day of nightmares.The royal court finally let Lancelot come and take Morgos' son to the royal court.

In fact, Mordred didn't hate Lancelot, but with an unspeakable resentment, he wanted to hurt everyone who approached him.

why.

why why why.

He couldn't stop thinking about it.

Why does everyone seem happier than me.

Mordred actually knew.

King Arthur was his father.

After he entered the royal court, he used to have endless expectations, hoping that the legendary king, that is, his father, would be able to come and see him.

But since he entered the royal court, he never saw him at all, except for lying on the window during a celebration and watching the blond figure from afar.

why.

Mordred gradually calmed down, watching the apothecary, other knights, and his blood brothers who came and went to see him in turn, and finally saw Merlin again.

that witch.

When he fell asleep, he heard someone asking, the voice was soft, but very quiet.He watched in a daze as the silver-haired figure approached and touched his forehead.

Gao Wen replied to her: "It's better than before, but now it still loses control from time to time. The blow caused by his mother's suicide is really too great, and it is difficult to eliminate this influence in a short time."

Gao Wen was also blond, standing beside her in a gentle manner.The silver-haired woman touched Gao Wen's face and sighed.

"Don't be too sad, Gawain, it's going to be all right." She said, "You, Aggressive, and Gareth have all worked so hard, and you are brothers, with the power of blood, he will love you of."

The blond knight tilted his head and smiled, hugged the unusually young figure for the last time, and rested his head on her shoulder as if coquettishly.The archmage named Merlin felt a little helpless, and patted his head again.

"It will be fine, it will be fine."

Mordred watched all this, but another sentence popped up in his mind.

The witch blinded everyone.

is that so.

Mordred's mood of wanting to see who hit whom was gradually suppressed, and he watched the people in the royal court come and go with a smile on their faces.He still couldn't see King Arthur, but every time he leaned against the window and watched the blond man lead the great magician out of the city, everyone cheered.

They seemed so normal, like any loving couple, not hiding their feelings for each other.Mordred sometimes wondered why King Arthur had to marry Guinevere as queen.

Can't you marry Merlin back home?

Oh yes, and the queen.

Mordred asked a question when Gawain pulled him out to practice swords, but Gawain thought about it and shook his head.

"I can only say that now is the best result the queen can seek."

yes.

Mordred found that the queen always sat alone in the garden late at night.

He went to watch the leak one day, only to hear something terrible.

"Lancelot, don't you know how sad it is to be unloved?"

Gao Wen's words came to his mind again.

The best possible outcome?

Some people seem to disagree with this view.

Sometimes Mordred also felt that what he did didn't make sense.

Whether it's leading Gawain and the others to discover the so-called queen and knight's sex, or planning to send a letter to Lancelot afterwards, asking him to rescue the queen, there are some things he doesn't know why, just do it that way up.

He knows that Lancelot is a loyal knight, so he must want to know everything about Camelot and black magic. Even if it looks like a pit in front of him, he will resolutely jump into it; Lancelot rejected the queen's courtship, but Lancelot is a person who has a sense of right and wrong. If the queen is punished for unwarranted rape, he will definitely save him.

Lancelot was the kind of person who would explain everything afterwards and wanted to be forgiven, but Mordred felt that he might not have such a chance.

He thought well.

The break between the knight and the king, the king's expedition, and the collapse of the empire.

As a result, King Arthur didn't seem to care about it. He lightly executed the queen and let Lancelot flee without even an edict of condemnation.Mordred was puzzled. He thought his plan had been seen through, but later found that the king really didn't care about it.

The queen's cheating is not even as serious to him as the great magician not allowing anyone to enter her room one day.

This made Mordred feel ridiculous.

His mother's voice sounded from the corner again.

The witch bewitched everyone.

And Mordred himself didn't know whether the great magician was a witch or not.

The so-called witch should have done a lot of bad things, and then let the king sing and sing every night, so that the people would have nothing to do with their lives.

Mordred looked at the paddy fields as he was taken out to play by Ranmallock, who stretched himself, by the way.

"In the past, this place was used by the minister of crops. Later, His Royal Highness Merlin asked someone to cover it with plant ash. After almost two years, new things grew." The tall knight pointed to the smoke in the distance: "This is from the Those who moved from other places in response to the king's relocation order, they used to be farmers, but now they are free people."

"But why let them be free men?"

"Because this is where the kingdom needs them to come, and when they come, the kingdom will thank them in this way." Lanmaloch said: "It is a very hard work to open up wasteland, and replace money and money with the identity of a free man." Tax benefits, this is an idea proposed by His Highness Merlin."

Mordred looked at the people passing by and saluted the knight, always feeling a little unreal.

She doesn't look like a witch.

But she has a snake tail.

Lemongrass of Avalon wards off evil and calms the mind, so the fairies often included it in Mordred's diet when he was still having nightmares.Giving the cake to Merlin was purely for superficiality, but the effect was unexpected.

She has a snake tail.

Mordred was not the first to know about this. He was resting in Gawain's room and heard the conversation between Gawain and Kai.

"But what does that matter? No one ever said that a person with a snake's tail must be a bad person."

Kay made his voice quieter: "Don't wake Mordred."

After that, all food inspections in the royal court became extremely strict. Gareth sat in the kitchen and helped cook every day. He was so happy that he would hold vegetables under his nose and smell them one by one.

"This potato is much tastier than the previous one." Gareth once said: "Merlin doesn't know how to make the potato less astringent, but it is extraordinarily sweet just roasting it directly in the fire."

Everyone loves her, Mordred thought silently.

He suddenly remembered another person.

The woman fell to the ground, not even having enough strength to breathe.

"no one loves Me."

Mordred felt as if something had hammered his heart.

So why was I born.

Mordred wanted to ask that question, but the people around him kept changing, and none of them knew enough to talk to him about it.He also remembered running into Merlin's room once, and finally saw the blond man standing in front of Merlin's window. He opened his mouth several times, and finally called him that.

"uncle."

He saw King Arthur's face, and saw the expression and hesitation on it.

"Why did you come here? Are you lost?" King Arthur said, "I'll take you back."

That was the first time King Arthur held his hand, he led him through the winding road, and finally sent him into the room.

"Uncle." He asked, "Do you hate your mother? So you hate me too?"

"Your mother did something she shouldn't have done, and I think she has been punished. I won't blame you for her mistakes, so you don't have to worry about anything."

So said the blond king, and sent him to the door: "Go back to sleep."

"But uncle, you like your brothers but you don't like me." He still didn't give up: "I always feel that it would be great if I wasn't born in this world."

King Arthur just looked at him and didn't answer the sentence.

As if, acquiescing to his point of view.

Mordred always wondered afterwards, if King Arthur had denied him at that time, would he not have done everything after that with the idea of ​​agreeing with his mother's last entrustment.

Will not.

Mordred straightened his thoughts.

What exactly does he want.

He sat in the hard, damp and cold dungeon, thinking about everything he had dreamed about, as well as his current situation.

In fact, he just wanted to be a knight.

and then.

"Your father is King Arthur, go find him."

Morgoth found Avalon's lake in a panic, and grabbed his shoulders.Tears had glistened in the woman's brown eyes, and it had been so long that Mordred couldn't tell what kind of emotion it was.

He felt that Morgoth had lied, but it didn't matter now.

He was actually quite happy, because his father was King Arthur.

Later, he also thought about when he would be able to stand beside the king of England and call him father in a dignified manner.

But in the end he was still a child who was not expected.

Mordred thought of how he felt when he hugged the snake-tailed woman.

Her body is warm, with a soft fragrance.

He knew she wasn't a witch, but he hated her.

He shouldn't be cruel to her, and he doesn't think he should throw her into the well.

But ah...

His steps toward the mouth of the well carry a touch of anticipation.

If the witch is gone, will everything change?

He walked over there step by step, feeling that the person in his arms still had a living breath.That breath is not at all the same as Morgos, even in her drowsiness, she still has a warm and sweet fragrance.

And who knows that under this calm appearance, there is a imprisoned soul inside.

Great magician.

The boy laughed lightly and threw her into the well.

King Arthur learned about this on the way back, and rushed back to the royal city with his knights.He saw Gawain with a sad face and two other knights who were heartbroken. He led the men to search the royal court for several days, but in the end they couldn't find any trace of Merlin.

Gao Wen was invited out during the discussion later, and the king sat on the throne, his eyes were so dark that he couldn't let go.

His green eyes seemed to be immersed in the night, never to regain their former glory.

"But no one found the teacher's body."

King Arthur did not admit that Merlin was dead: "Since it is not found, then the teacher must not be dead."

He said, "Look."

From the royal court to the upper and lower cities, and then from the upper and lower cities to the entire territory of Camelot.Wang searched almost every inch of the land, but he found nothing.

Mordred heard about it in prison, and Gawain finally came to see him again.

"Last time you asked me if I remembered my mother." The blond knight laughed, "How can there be a child who doesn't remember his own mother?"

The blond knight looked at his younger brother, not knowing what to say.

"I don't have many memories of my mother. Most of them are scenes of her studying magic in the castle room." Gawain said: "My mother hates King Uther, thinking that he forbids the practice of magic because he is afraid of the talents of others. That's all. She also hated King Uther, thinking that King Uther deprived her of her right to the throne simply because she could use magic—she always believed that she should be the master of Camelot."

Mordred looked up.

"You want to scold me for forgetting the kindness of my parents, Mordred." Gawain asked him, "But my brother, what should I think of a man who has already expressed his surrender at the banquet, but then turns around and tells the jester to prepare What a poisonous snake, trying to poison Merlin's mother to death."

The blond knight will always remember that time when he was sitting on Merlin's lap.His mother just ordered him to come over, but she didn't do anything else.

She had given up on him at that point.

"The Merlin you hate, but you protected me in your arms when facing the poisonous snake, and your whole body is facing a poison that may bite her to death at any time."

Gao Wen was indescribably disappointed: "I originally thought that after all these years, you should be able to feel right and wrong, or other people's sincerity and kindness."

"Here I am," said Mordred. "If you want to kill me, do it, brother."

Gao Wen took a deep look at him.

"As I said, I am no longer your brother."

Merlin is gone.

King Arthur finally accepted the result, and with the pleas of the Knights of the Round Table, including his adoptive father and brother-in-law, he withdrew his order to find Merlin.

He sat alone on the throne, surrounded by flames burning in a man-high candlestick.Kay has been standing by his side, silent, just accompanying him.

"Mordred, burn at the stake."

King Arthur suddenly said: "Those who participated in the turmoil at that time will be stripped of their noble titles and exiled."

The steward of the palace was startled, seeing Wang standing up and looking at the starry sky in the distance.

"Invite the Archbishop of Canterbury over and say that I have something important to discuss with him."

The blond king stroked his hair and showed a long-lost smile.

"Why did I forget, there is also the Holy Grail."