Artoria the Big Liar

"Of course I'm happy!" Suddenly, the silly girl realized something, her face flushed, and she became as shy as I expected. "That... Mordred? Did I just say that? I had a great time..."

"It's nothing. You must maintain this happy feeling! Only by drawing strength from these most basic happiness can people not be crushed by the burden of hills on the long road. Barbecue is very good, as long as If you eat barbecue, you will be happy. There are other things, as long as it makes you feel happy, you don’t have to care too much.”

"Has Mordred experienced anything very unhappy in the past?"

"...Let's talk about it later when we have a chance. It's not a good thing anyway."

"Oh... that's it... let's talk about it later."

She lowered her head and continued eating the roasted rabbit.

Recalling the agreement just now, another idea came to my mind.

"Artoria, how about we exchange our respective past stories then?"

"This... I... I have no story. My life has always been very stable. There is nothing to say about my past experience. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to ring the first bell..."

"I was protected too well by my father, and I didn't experience much. Then you can just say whatever you want--I'm very smart, unlike you, a silly girl who doesn't understand anything. Even the most Even small things, I can guess what you went through and why you became what you are today."

"...It's amazing. I'm different. I'm often deceived by others. I was deceived so badly many times..."

"This skill belongs to the king. I want to inherit the existence of a country. I was taught by my father to learn these talents since I was a child. That Merlin only taught you magic. It's normal for you to not understand."

However, recalling the experience of my father and King Arthur, a thorn suddenly grew in my heart.

If Merlin didn't have the so-called "teachings from the king", Artoria would be about the same as she is now, right?

This thorn pierced me very, very painfully.I can't imagine what kind of things the girl who is as clean as a white paper has to go through to become King Arthur - I don't hate King Arthur, but I never want the girl to become King Arthur.

Now that I have decided to protect her, I must prevent her from going down that path no matter what.

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"... Forget it, it's better not to understand. The more you know, the more pain you will suffer. If you don't understand anything, it will be easier to become happy." She wanted to refute, but I didn't give her this chance. "You want to say, you're not happy at all, are you? It's good enough to feel happy after eating this barbecue. Some people can't be happy no matter how good the barbecue is."

"...As expected, Mordred has experienced many things and is very talented." Unexpectedly, she smiled, but her emerald green pupils were full of disappointment. "It's not like me. Even though I've experienced so much, I'm still so immature. I don't know when I will become as mature as Mordred..."

"You are a goblin. Goblins are a difficult race to grow up. It's actually quite good to maintain this state-you may not believe it, but my father hopes that I will be as carefree as I was when I was young, and never grow up." big."

She didn't respond, just stared blankly at the flames.

Seeing that this topic is over, I won't say much.

"Cough... there's too much gossip. Eat meat, there's still plenty of rabbit meat!"

It takes time to roast and eat now. Before you know it, the fire has been replaced twice, and the sun in the sky is moving closer to the center of the sky.

After eating, the fairy Artoria cleaned our hands and wooden sticks using magic, and kept the wooden sticks well.

We are driving on the land of Britain.

The kingdom of fairies makes the earth flourish abnormally, even though it is already summer, flowers are everywhere beside the road.

According to the fairy Artoria, this is the shelter of the Eternal Queen. As long as everyone maintains the devotion to the Horned God and keeps their hearts clean, the earth will be blessed by the Horned God. It will be spring all year round, and the excess nectar can be easily consumed. The goblins collect and make sweet candy or syrup, and eat it as a staple food.

Because it is the Lost Belt, whether it is elves, humans or elves, the number is very small.

The road was indeed opened, but there were very few pedestrians, and the fairy Arturia and I didn't even have a chance to hitch a ride.I can only plan to buy a carriage for transportation in the town in the future.

When I asked about the prices in the Lost Belt, the fairy Altria’s answer surprised me—unlike the precious metals in pan-human history, the currency here is a dark blue crystal, like sapphire, which can be used as energy and materials used.

But in order to worship the Horned God, keep the land fertile, and maintain the existence of the city wall to stop the monsters and disasters in the north, the Eternal Queen collected most of the currency, leaving only a small part for ordinary people.But this is not mandatory. Every collection will increase or decrease the social status of the individual, and the tradition of more than 1000 years has made every individual attach great importance to taxation. If you don’t pay any tax, you will not only become without social status. "Refugees" will also be expelled by the community and wander in the wilderness.

Meeting that goblin last night was the result of being expelled.

The goblins are loose by nature and can only rely on daily output to maintain tax payment.Human beings follow the order, can use their work to earn income, and then use the income to pay taxes, and some human beings with active thinking have become businessmen and bureaucrats, and their social status is higher than that of ordinary goblins.An elf is a noble promoted by the queen. Before becoming an elf, it was a high-level elf. It was already very powerful, and after becoming an elf, it became even more powerful. There is no need to worry about taxes.

The traces are too obvious, you don't need to think about it, this is the system designed by the father for the eternal queen - how to set the tax rate, how to restrain comparisons, how to protect individuals who pay less tax, how to collect taxes, how to make the public accept taxes , How to adjust social relations and social status, without sufficient knowledge and wisdom, it is impossible to design this complete system.Not to mention that the goblins have almost no way to manage them. Getting the goblins to take the initiative to pay taxes is a difficult problem that can drive people crazy.

Because of my father's advance notice, I also know that the purpose of these taxes is not just what I said.The rituals of elf promotion and the construction of arks that can navigate the universe are the main purposes of those taxes.

However, it also puts my mind at ease - I am the White Dragon of Britain, with enough magic power to waste as I please.As long as I want, I can become a "millionaire" in an hour without worrying about financial problems. 【[*

This is the "high magic world", right?Magic is a technology that can be mastered by ordinary individuals.Everything is centered on magic, and ruled by a philosopher king who surpasses human intelligence.No wonder Artoria the Fairy is discouraged by her mission.

"By the way, will Mordred suddenly fall into a coma like before?"

When camping at night, the fairy Arturia asked me this question.

I didn't think about it until now, I don't know if she was slow to respond, or if she always wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.

I raised my eyebrows, smiled, and answered her under the bright moonlight——

"Oh, you mean the connection was lost? Not anymore. I have a way to log in seamlessly."

"...connection lost? Seamless login?"

Fairy Artoria was stunned, she didn't understand these modern vocabulary at all.

I scratched my head, thought for a while, and gave a detailed explanation.

"That is to say, no matter how long I have stayed in reality, the next time I enter the dream, the time will not be synchronized, but immediately follow the previous moment. Even if I wake up from the dream during the battle, the time will not pass when I enter the dream again ——But there is no need to worry about this, even if it is this Lost Belt, the existence that can injure Weilong is only another Weilong."

"That's it... Mordred is indeed very powerful..."

"Right? I'm not so powerful. I can definitely protect you and ring the six tour bells."

Artoria heaved a sigh of relief, and after cleaning up with magic, she entered the dreamland to find Merlin for class.

And I also closed my eyes, and entered the dream in this continuous day's rush...

——But suddenly, my dragon's vision sensed a presence approaching.

I immediately got up, pretended that there was no accident, smiled and said to the fairy beside me in a relaxed tone: "Artoria, wait a moment, I have something to deal with, I will be back in a while."

"... Mordred, what happened?"

"There's a very familiar smell. I can't mistake that thing... for 'Wild Hunt.'"

"Wild Hunt? Did Mordred mean... an elf?"

I froze for a moment.As a fairy in【"$

In many fantasy worldview settings, branches such as "wood elves", "wild elves", and "nature elves" regularly hold wild hunting activities.There is even a tradition of the semi-deified King of the Wild Hunt being the king of this elf branch.

"Did the Mother of the World introduce the concept of the Wild Hunt to the elves?" I asked.

"Uh... that... At least here, 'Wild Hunt' refers to an army that only obeys the command of the Dragon King, and all of them are elves. Because of the dragon blood bestowed by the Dragon King on their bodies, they are also called the 'Dragon Legion'. Commander The elf of the Wild Hunt is named Meluxin, and she is one of the adopted daughters of the Eternal Queen. But because of the dragon's blood, she prefers to call herself the daughter of the Dragon King."

Hearing this answer, I couldn't help raising my eyebrows.

"Claiming to be my father's daughter? Interesting... Let's see if she has the ability to take on this title. But first... I'll go and negotiate with that Wild Hunt first, so as not to cause misunderstandings and cause bad things to happen. matter……"

Chapter 47: Elven Knight Ithil

◆Mordred◆

In fact, there is no misunderstanding between me and the elves of the Lost Belt.

Fairy Artoria is now wanted by the Eternal Queen, I have not forgotten this.Even though the wild hunting elves belong to the father, they are elves after all.From the perspective of the faction alone, we actually have nothing to talk about, and fighting will definitely break out, resulting in death.

It’s just that my strength is too strong, and I have the strength to fight against the entire legion, so there is a so-called “misunderstanding”—that is, the other party misunderstood what I am, so that I do stupid things, then the responsibility is not on my side. The king was face to face, and I also had an excuse to defend myself.

For safety's sake, the fairy Altria hid, and I met the fairy alone.

It was an elf riding a white war horse.Her extremely long silver hair swayed as the horse ran, her purple pupils shone with spiritual brilliance under the moonlight, and her fair face was as pure as creamy fat.Her ears are long and pointed, about 15 cm in length, and her hearing must be very good.Overall, she looked like a woman in her twenties, tall and tall, with an immature air mixed in her cold expression.But considering that the other party is an elf with a long life, I can't judge her age.

Her armor caught my eye.Because although there are metal stitching and decoration, but the main component is a solid piece of blue gemstone.The interior of the armor emits a little white fluorescent light, as if the stars are shining, and it seems that the armor itself is condensed from the night sky.Due to the hardness, any armor made of metal would definitely not be able to harm her, and there was no way to even leave any traces on the armor.

Behind her was a slender blue lance, an extremely gorgeous blue recurve short bow, and a shield with gold patterns on a blue background.In the center of the shield was etched the dragon's emblem—that was the coat of arms of my father, and the pattern on Jeanne's flag.Since there is no quiver at the waist, I have reason to believe that the arrows released by the short bow are magic arrows.

Obviously, there was a fully armed elf knight on his body, and his body was also covered with horse armor, but the elf war horse was galloping on the road at a speed of nearly [-] kilometers.This is still the cruising speed of the war horse, and it will be much faster when it charges.

She is a powerful warrior, and within three seconds after I stared at her, she pulled the reins and turned to look at me on the hillside.

She frowned slightly, and she could see me clearly even 300 meters away.

After hesitating for a moment, she drove the elf horse, left the road, and stopped about ten meters away from me like a gust of blue wind. All vigilance and scrutiny.

I have to say that the elves are indeed beautiful, much more beautiful than the goblins, it is simply the difference between the stars and the moon.With human aesthetics, she is even more beautiful than her father's Mei Lin.Not to mention the luxurious sapphire armor, which is even more ingenious, just a glance makes people unable to look away, and the heartbeat unnaturally speeds up.

"You don't have the mark of the queen on your body... Are you a 'vagrant'?"

Her speech was quite slow, but her tone was very high, which gave people a very arrogant feeling.

This makes me very uncomfortable——if it is an elf belonging to the father, it should be able to recognize my identity immediately.

"Do you think I look like a refugee?"

"Shoddy clothing, what else can it be if it's not a refugee?"

These are the daily clothes my father bought for me!Even if it is really shoddy, it is not ordinary shoddy!

——I really want to refute her like this, but this extremely cheap blouse and denim trousers really have nothing to do with "exquisiteness", so I can only ignore her speech and communicate with her in a sophistical way.

"You're really superficial to judge a person's identity just by their clothes."

"My patience is limited—tell me, why are you observing me in the dark?"

"It's nothing, I just feel you moving around quickly, wondering if you are hostile. It looks okay, at least not a fool who draws his sword and shoots an arrow before he speaks."

"Heh, you are a mere refugee, you have a serious tone..." She squinted her eyes, and her purple pupils were stained with suspicion. "I have important business to deal with, and I have no time to waste—leave, and I will pretend I didn't see you."

"Okay, okay, I just care about my safety...so see you later by fate?"

But the next moment, obviously there was no danger, but my right hand was lifted up, holding a handful of arrows.

This is a transparent arrow made of starlight, the arrow is cone-shaped, and the beauty reveals danger.The magic power inside it tried to make it explode, but unfortunately I am Mordred, the magic power was quickly absorbed by me and disappeared in my hands.

I turned my head and looked at the elf knight with evil eyes, with a playful smile on my lips.

"It seems that you are not as friendly as you appear?"

"Who are you? It is impossible for a refugee to take my arrow with his bare hands."

The point is to catch the arrow, not absorb the magic power of the arrow?

...It was deliberately hidden, probably related to a certain characteristic.

After all, the attitude of elf knights is no longer vigilant and suspicious, but dangerous and hostile.

"...that's interesting. It doesn't look like you're going to let me go?"

"The duty of the Dragon Legion is to suppress disasters. You are suspicious, and I must know your details."

"Sure enough, it's almost meaningless... Don't you feel what kind of existence I am?"

"If you refuse to answer, I can take it as a ghost in your heart... Please come with me to the legion's garrison. We will not make things difficult for you, as long as you tell us your identity, and after the magic monitoring confirms that it is not a disaster, you you can leave."

It seems to be a very old-fashioned elf. Whatever the rules are, they must be carried out. This reminds me of the Agga rules.

It's really a pity that he has a near-perfect appearance, but is so unreasonable... However, I don't hate this kind of person.After all, she was fulfilling the duties entrusted by her father, and she performed it very well, even too much, so that she didn't realize that the iron plate was mentioned today—well, looking at the other party, it seems that she can break the iron plate look.

Among other things, this special armor alone shows that her status in the dragon army is definitely not low.

I turned around completely, then shrugged and spread my hands, still with a playful smile on my face.

"Then I'm sorry, Wild Hunt Knight, I also have important things to do here, and I don't have time to waste on this."

With that said, I turned around and left on my own.

As I expected, she immediately spoke——

"Stop! Before I allow you to leave, you'd better not make any changes, otherwise the next attack will not be a deliberate shot."

"I said, I have no time to waste—this unknown Wild Hunt knight, didn't you hear me?"

The dark red thunder surged, materialized, and transformed into a silver-gray armor in my body.

This is express.If the other party is really under the father's hand, he will definitely be able to sense my identity.

But she let me down.Her brows were knit together, and the vigilance in her purple pupils exuded a frost-like coldness.

"This aura...! There's nothing wrong with it! You guys... are a disaster!"

"Disaster? What is that?【,

"Then I have nothing to say... Please don't force me to use violence. Otherwise, I will not be able to guarantee your safety."

"Are all elves as rigid as you? If you want to do something, what do you need to talk so much? Or do you think I'm afraid of you?"