Era of Heroic Spirits: I Was Exposed by Alaya

Scene Reenactment!

The British delegation fell into silence upon hearing this.

Previously, the King of Heroes, Gilgamesh, and Qin Shi Huang—both supremely proud and confident—had chosen to publicly screen videos related to themselves.

And in both cases, it turned into a public execution of their black histories!

The facts proved that Alaya truly possessed firsthand, unfiltered records of every Heroic Spirit!

Through these videos, it gradually exposed their pasts, awakening the memories of the Heroic Spirits involved.

Qin Shi Huang's insistence on public screening was clearly revenge for having his own black history exposed earlier.

He deliberately wanted to force King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table to act.

However, Gawain, the Sun Knight who embodied radiance, virtue, and justice, was utterly unfazed.

He snorted without hesitation. "Our King is a saint who willingly devoted everything to the people of Britain, hailed as the Perfect King. Why would she fear a public screening?"

Trying to expose our King's black history?

What a joke!

Let's not forget—when Alaya first released a video about King Arthur, the title was The Perfect King.

A treatment no other Heroic Spirit had ever received.

A king so perfect to the extreme that even the most rebellious Mordred became her devoted follower.

How could such a being have any unspeakable dark history?

"Right, go ahead and watch. My father is so perfect that I can't even come close—there's no need to hide anything!"

Mordred also straightened her back, answering with righteous conviction.

As King Arthur's only child and her most fervent worshipper and follower, even when she ignited the Battle of Camlann, attempting to seize the unnamed throne for herself, deep down, she still regarded her as the perfect king.

A king so flawless she transcended humanity, bordering on divinity.

The only flaw such a king possessed was her inability to understand human hearts—naturally, there could be no dark history.

"Public broadcast, then?"

Artoria looked at the two Knights of the Round Table before her, feeling deeply moved.

Truly, they were her most devoted knights, holding absolute faith in her.

More than she had in herself!

...Why did she feel like these two were about to drag her into trouble?

At that moment.

Qin Shi Huang wore a smile of warm hospitality, befitting China's reputation: "Then let it be publicly broadcast. Let Us and Our subjects enjoy the valor of our friends from Britain together."

Since they sought his help in resolving their domestic crisis, naturally, they ought to entertain him.

And what could be more delightful than witnessing the public humiliation of a top-tier Heroic Spirit of the same caliber?

"Very well!"

Artoria had no choice but to nod in agreement.

On the massive screen that took up an entire wall, Alaya's new video began to play—

[The Sacred Round Table Domain]

The opening scene was the same as the previous side story, "The Magus of Flowers."

There,

After the Battle of Camlann, the rebellious knight Mordred had died on the spot.

King Arthur sat alone, powerless, atop a hill of corpses, asking Bedivere to cast the sword into the lake and return it to the Lady of the Lake.

Alas, for the first time in history, Bedivere defied his king's order.

He wanted his king to live!

Once, twice—even by the third attempt, he could not bring himself to cast the sword away.

When he returned for the third time, the king had vanished completely.

The loyal knight fell to his knees in anguish: "I have sinned!"

He wandered to the edges of Avalon, eventually turning into a human-shaped statue.

The recap flashed by in an instant.

Countless flowers bloomed as an all-too-familiar figure appeared on screen—

Merlin!

The moment this figure appeared, the entire British delegation tensed slightly.

Mordred's right hand immediately went to her sword hilt: "That damned Merlin the Heartless!"

If not for this troublemaking incubus constantly meddling, she wouldn't have suffered so much.

"Merlin, is it?"

Qin Shi Huang's crimson eyes fixed on the figure.

One day, he would capture this man and hand him over to the Master for judgment.

Since he dared to act against the Master, he should not blame the Emperor for being merciless!

Under the gaze of all present,

Within the video,

"A fifteen-hundred-year-long journey to return the sword—reduced to a walking corpse, yet still clinging to life."

The beautiful Flower Magus sighed. "Bedivere, your obsession is truly extraordinary."

Indeed, fifteen hundred years had passed since he failed to fulfill his king's final command.

Yet Bedivere, a mere mortal, had endured for fifteen centuries, sustained by the holy sword!

An unbelievable, terrifying will!

Crack—

The knight, now nearly petrified into stone, rasped out: "Please... help me..."

"I have forged the holy sword you never returned into your Silver Arm as a disguise, which can also grant you formidable combat power, but this will consume the last of your life."

Merlin waved his staff, "O wanderer whose flesh, soul, and spirit have all decayed, go fulfill the sinner's pact. This is your final chance!"

Hum~

The surge of magical light completely vanished from Avalon, reappearing amidst an endless desert.

Bedivere gazed at the colossal holy city in the distance, silver hair fluttering in the wind: "This time, I will surely kill my King with my own hands!"

The camera slowly zoomed out.

An immense holy city appeared on the horizon.

Its name was—

Camelot!

At this point, the prologue concluded.

After a long absence, the narrator's voice finally emerged—

[The perfect King did not die perfectly.]

[A walking King of the Dead was born upon the earth.]

[The endless devotion to protection in life turned into cold slaughter after death.]

[Can the knight who spent fifteen hundred years returning the sword, and humanity's last Master, awaken the King's lost humanity?]

Against the backdrop of the narrator's solemn and ethereal voice, a lone Knight of the Round Table trudged through the endless desert.

The scene was profoundly moving.

Countless comments flooded in—

-[Here it comes! This is the follow-up to The Perfect King. Can Alaya even air a series?]

-[My heart aches for Bedivere in advance—just one moment of hesitation led to a fifteen-hundred-year journey to return the sword!]

-[So what exactly is the King of the Dead?]

-[It can't be that King Arthur turned into a bloodthirsty monster slaughtering humans indiscriminately, right? No way, no way, no way!]

-[Stop arguing! You're ruining the video for me!]

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