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"……What do you mean?"
"You don't think Mordred is completely unaware of the arrival of the outsiders you brought here, do you? Perhaps Britain might hide your presence, but those outsiders are a different story. Mordred has already dispatched elf knights to arrest the ones you brought."
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"Those people, guess how she'll react after learning about your existence from them?"
Morgan chuckled as if he had just come up with something amusing. "If I were you, I would leave London right now, find a new hiding place to avoid being caught by Mordred, and then think carefully about who your most trustworthy partner really is."
Quinn immediately broke out in a sweat. "It can't be as serious as you're making it out to be, can it?"
However, Morgan showed no mercy.
“My dear husband, although I want to keep you as a specimen and tie you to my side forever, at least you are rational enough to recognize you. As for your dear daughter... why do you think she is still mentally sound and can recognize you instead of seeing you as a fraud pretending to be her good father? Even if she does recognize you, what makes you think she will listen to you and be a good child?”
The fact that a single person's unwavering belief could sustain a world for over a thousand years is an emotion and power that even I find terrifying.
Without saying another word, Morgan's eyes had already said it all.
Mordred will not allow anyone to threaten the existence of this world, not even you, her father.
You finally realize a fact: the emperor who rules this country is no longer you, but Mordred Europa II. If you were to meet this emperor again, she would only say one thing to you.
Father, I love you. See you at Buckingham Palace.
Chapter 176 The one who responds to you might be your daughter, but it's also unlikely that your daughter will.
Quinn was afraid.
Thinking about it carefully, Morgan's words made sense. She didn't need to scare herself on such matters. Besides, Quinn was very confident in her teaching abilities. The good students she had taught in Greece were proof of that. Mordred, whom she had nurtured and who had devoted the most effort to, was definitely capable of becoming a perfect political being.
There are countless precedents in history of what a competent political figure would do when faced with a former emperor who might threaten his own imperial power. Mordred was indeed capable of doing things like the Xuanwu Gate Incident to ensure the continued existence of this world.
in other words……
"In the end, have we come back to the same old ways? To solve the problems of singularities or Lostbelts, we have to beat up the locals first..."
Realizing he had placed himself on the opposite side of Mordred, Quinn couldn't help but wonder if this was a curse, a curse that Mushroom had placed on Chaldea, just like how Chaldea's Masters always ended up in some inexplicable places when performing spirit particle transfers. It seemed that to save someone, you had to beat them up first, which was also a tradition in FGO.
Fortunately, Quinn was very confident in his abilities. If it were just a one-on-one fight, he might not necessarily lose to Mordred. However... a one-on-one fight with Mordred was a bit unlikely, after all, Morgan had just said that Mordred had a "Fairy Knight" in her possession.
If anyone else had said that word to Quinn, he might have just assumed it was some fairy who had entered the knightly class, but since it was Morgan who said it, he had to think about it more carefully.
From Morgan, you learn that Mordred, in order to fill the vacancies of the Knights of the Round Table, used magic and the Round Table to grant some fairies special powers, enabling them to possess fairy characteristics while also having the same Spirit Origin as the Knights of the Round Table. This allowed those beings who were originally completely different from humans to gain a form similar to humans, and the best among them even joined the Round Table and became the new Knights of the Round Table.
[You realize that Mordred has created another Britannia, a fairy version of Britannia. Although it may be completely different from the situation in FGO 2.0, there are definitely similar beings. For example, a certain Lake Knight who is essentially a humanoid dragon. If such a thing stood next to Mordred, your confidence in your own strength would be a joke.]
Will they win? Absolutely not!
You also need to regroup your forces and build a team that is no less capable than the Fairy Knights to ensure that your battle with Mordred will proceed smoothly. Fortunately, you do have the ability to quickly assemble a team.
[Due to the differences between the worlds and Mordred's interference, Chaldea's connection with the Masters has long been severed, but this cannot affect you, because Britain will not harm you. You can still feel the signals constantly coming from Chaldea, trying to establish contact with the Masters. If you wish, you can connect to this phone from the modern world and use Chaldea's internal summoning system to summon Servants.]
Yes, for you, it's better to gather the Masters scattered throughout Britain and summon Servants than to spend the effort of rebuilding an army. Then, you can use the power of these Servants to fight Mordred head-on. However, Mordred seems to have already sensed the threat posed by the Chaldea Masters and has long since dispatched Fairy Knights to arrest these visitors from another world.
If you want to ensure the survival of the Masters in Chaldea, you should act quickly.
In short, let's find a place to contact Chaldea first.
Looking at the simulator's pop-up window, Quinn felt a bit conflicted. After all, Chaldea's Team A members were quite valuable, and he even wanted to get rid of a few of them himself. But given the current situation, he had to lend a hand if he could. The reason was simple: Quinn didn't want Mordred to learn of his existence from these guys.
Moreover, his good student is also a target of arrest, and he cannot abandon Shiro Emiya and run away alone.
So Quinn quickly made a decision to leave London with Morgan and Lily.
Morgan readily agreed to Quinn's invitation. She had been self-isolating in London for years, plotting to leave this world and go to the mortal realm to capture Quinn. Even if Quinn hadn't come to her, she should have gotten away from Mordred soon.
Lily had no objections whatsoever, nor did she have any grounds to make a choice. Her duty was to guide Quinn in resolving the world's troubles, and as long as Quinn remained on this path, she would be a 100% Quinn supporter.
The Knights of the Righteousness who were originally responsible for guarding Morgan chose to ignore this situation, just as Quinn had done when he broke into Camelot's court. However, such concealment has its limits. Morgan's disappearance could not be completely covered up. When Mordred learned that his mother had suddenly left, he would naturally notice something amiss. And there was only one other case in the world that could make Morgan voluntarily leave the court.
It is inevitable that one's existence will be exposed.
Quinn, who was well aware of this, did not choose to find another secluded place as a sanctuary. Instead, he returned to the castle and began to set up a magic to contact Chaldea.
In just over ten minutes, the figure of the Celestial Sovereign appeared before Quinn through a spiritual projection. He briefly explained the situation in Britannia and stated that he needed resources to set up a Servant summoning ritual so that he could tour the Masters scattered throughout Britannia. Without saying a word, the old director agreed to Quinn's request.
A moment later, a small spirit origin summoning circle drawn with gems and mercury as its base arrived at Quinn's side through Chaldea's spirit particle transfer device. This servant summoning circle based on the Chaldea system is an alternative product derived from the Greater Grail system. Its characteristics are that the Master's Command Seals can be restored every day, and the servants can exist for a long time as long as there is mana supply.
However, the price of this summoning method is that Masters cannot use special relics for targeted summoning, but can only form contracts with Servants from history based on their own affinity.
But this limitation was useless to Quinn. He himself was a natural relic, and even through affinity summoning alone, he would surely be able to connect with those powerful Servants. Therefore, he confidently acted as Morgan's...
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He wanted to show his good wife how much he had grown since leaving her.
Yes, he is very confident.
Quinn was certain that the Servant who would respond to him must be his most outstanding creation, Jupiter, whose blood flowed through his veins and whose connection to him was so close that he could be summoned from a normal Holy Grail War.
As long as the Roman god-king comes to his side and attacks the fairy knights, everything will surely be alright.
until……
“Saber, Mordred has arrived. Father is here…”
The petite figure wearing a conspicuous full-face helmet with conspicuous bull horns appeared in the summoning circle with a confident and high-spirited voice, only to be stopped abruptly by Morgan standing next to Quinn. Quinn knew then that this battle was probably doomed.
Chapter 177? I hit myself?
The silence was only momentary.
Once the summoned Servant's brain started functioning again, she didn't hesitate to grab her greatsword and shield her summoned Master behind her. At the same time, she swung the sword down at a woman's head, shouting as she did so.
"Master, run! Get away from this wicked woman!"
The wind and waves from the greatsword cutting through the air also woke Morgan from her daze. Looking at the petite figure in front of her, she was quite certain that her eyes were not wrong. Even though the other person's face was covered by a fully enclosed helmet, the voice and figure clearly indicated that the summoned servant, the knight who called himself Mordred, was her youngest daughter.
only……
so weak.
Morgan simply waved her hand, and the pure ether floating in the air automatically wove into an exquisite spell according to her will. The chains that transformed into incantations bound the knight's limbs, choking the servant's movements. The greatsword that was about to fall on her head suddenly lost its power and hung in the air, unable to move.
"Damn sorcery..." The knight, whose attack had been thwarted, immediately grimaced. When she caught a glimpse of Quinn still standing there without moving, her already agitated state completely exploded. "Why aren't you running away?!"
"Why should I run?"
Quinn looked at Mordred, who was clearly from the original history, with despair. He felt exhausted. He had considered that the one he summoned might not be Jupiter. After all, there were quite a few people connected to him. But whether it was Atalanta, Medusa, or Hercules, Perseus, or someone like that, he could accept it.
Because all of these people he was closely connected with were heroes, capable of rivaling even some of the fairy knights, and even dominating them. But he never expected that the one who would respond to him would be Mordred, the one from the original Pan-Human History, born from the DNA stolen by the enchantress Morgana from King Arthur, Artoria…
This is bad luck.
"This woman is Morgan, Morgan!"
"I know she's Morgan, so why should I run away?"
Oh no, have I been summoned by that stupid magician? Everyone says this woman is Morgan, and she still doesn't realize the danger she's in? Oh, I get it, this is probably another unlucky soul bewitched by a witch. I should have known better than to respond to the call because I felt some strange warmth; I'd rather just rot in Valhalla.
Mordred seemed relieved, completely giving up the struggle, slowly closing her eyes, and quietly awaiting her tragic fate.
However, after about ten seconds, Mordred felt no discomfort or sensed any other magical fluctuations. She opened her eyes again and looked around. As soon as she opened her eyes, she found Morgan looking at her with a very subtle gaze.
"What are you looking at?" Almost instinctively, Mordred activated her Spinosaurus form and breathed on Morgan. "What mischief are you up to now, you hag? Why did you send a complete stranger, a magician, to summon me?"
"...An unfamiliar magician?"
Upon hearing that this Mordred looked exactly like her youngest daughter, Morgan wasn't angered by the other's overreaction and address. Instead, she glanced at Quinn with interest, a smile creeping onto her face. She roughly understood that this summoned Mordred was a completely different individual from the Europa II she knew. This person was probably the Mordred that Quinn had mentioned, the one who was supposed to appear.
So it seems... I'm much better than my original self in history? At least, no matter how much my daughter hates me, she won't hiss at me like a cat.
I have no idea what I did in the past human history that made my daughter so hostile.
Morgan, his mind racing with questions, finally waved his hand, dispelling the magic that had bound Mordred. Now free, Mordred was somewhat at a loss. Knowing her mother as she did, she knew that Morgan was lucky she hadn't skinned her alive after hearing what she had just said, let alone willingly letting her go.
"You... have you lost your mind too?" Mordred cautiously observed Morgan in front of him and found that the other party's appearance was much better than the crazy woman in his memory. At first glance, he still looked somewhat like a normal person.
"You've got the situation wrong. She is Morgan, but not the one you know."
Seeing that Mordred had calmed down, Quinn took the initiative to speak and explain the situation to the original Mordred from the pan-human history that he had summoned.
After a short while, Mordred, having heard the story of Britannia's rise to power, stared blankly, her brain clearly overloaded.
"So, you mean I came to another world where Camelot's succession was carried out normally according to the primogeniture right of succession, and my mother and father not only had a good relationship, but there was no conflict between them... I am the son of the emperor of Camelot's suzerain empire, and the rightful heir to the throne. Everyone likes me, and even... I became the emperor of the empire through normal succession? This..."
Is this some kind of heaven?
Mordred genuinely felt she was still dreaming, but the magic emanating from Quinn clearly told her that she had indeed been summoned to another world by a magician, and in this world, she, Mordred, was living the life she had always dreamed of.
She wasn't a despised illegitimate child; her parents were of sound mind; her siblings loved each other; and the king she respected was even her godfather…
so envious.
Mordred felt like crying, but she was a realistic person. Having died once, she was filled with envy, but she still had reason. She knew that there must be a reason why the unfamiliar magician and strange mother had summoned her here. So, she asked the question she regretted asking the most in her life.
"Alright, although this is hard to understand, I'll take what you're saying as true. So, why did you two summon me here?"
Upon hearing this question, Quinn did not hesitate at all. Although the summoning ritual had gone wrong, since he had already summoned Mordred, he would do everything in his power to bring Mordred into his ranks. Therefore, honesty was essential, so he spoke frankly without any pretense.
“I need you to help me rebel and overthrow the current emperor of Britannia.”
"Oh, is that all... Wait, who is the current Emperor of Britannia?"
"It is Mordred, or more precisely, Europa II, who holds the Holy Lance and the Holy Sword, sits at the Round Table, and has the Avalon sword sheath at his waist."
what?
Mordred stared wide-eyed at Quinn, bewildered, feeling as if she were still dreaming.
No, buddy.
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Who are you, asking me to overthrow myself?
Chapter 178 A bratty kid can't possibly meet a kind and understanding mother.
Not dreaming.
After breathing directly at Quinn, Mordred was bound by Morgan's magic again and thrown into a room in the castle. Feeling as if she had been through a different world, she finally calmed down. However, the reason she calmed down was not because she was afraid of Morgan, but because she heard some news from Morgan that shattered her worldview.
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