Davidian's Holy Grail War

David could only crouch down and ask Casey Palug in front of him, but Fou just lay on the ground and didn't want to make a sound.

Its meaning is very clear: it doesn't want to exert any strength now, it just wants to lie down.

David reluctantly stood up again, knowing that this was not a good option.

If Casey Palug really goes all out to fight Tiamat, then even if he manages to hold Tiamat back, things will probably become very difficult to handle afterwards.

And since Casey Palug is unwilling to contribute, it means there are more important things waiting for him. It seems that this hurdle can only be overcome by their own efforts.

"As expected, I'll have to make the first move! If I go all out, I might be able to hold her back." David's expression turned serious; this time, he had no other choice but to step in.

"Are you 100% sure?" Gilgamesh asked him.

David Ann shook his head. If miracles were 100% guaranteed, what would they be? It's precisely because they are rare and precious that they are miracles.

"Then don't go. This is just an obstacle, not the final battle. If you lose here, what about the battles to come? Can you guarantee that Tiamat is already at her final stage?"

Gilgamesh's words immediately put everyone on alert. Indeed, none of them had witnessed the Sumerian gods' creation war.

What if Tiamat, like those bosses in those terrible games, has a second... no, Tiamat is already in her second phase. What if she has a third phase?

Thinking about this, everyone felt a chill run down their spines. Tiamat was already so difficult to deal with; how terrifying would she be if she had a third stage?

Everyone fell into deep thought again, then Davidian suddenly said:

"By the way, how does Tiamat move with such a huge body? Her upper and lower body are severely disproportionate, making it practically impossible for her to walk. So, does she move by levitation or by flying?"

Gilgamesh also thought of this, and he directly asked Roman if he could analyze whether Tiamat's movement required the seawater or the black mud. If that was the case, there might be other methods.

[Like a train derailment? That's possible! Okay, leave the analysis to us, we'll give you the answer before dawn!]

After Roman finished speaking, he continued working overtime, and Gilgamesh adjourned the meeting.

Regardless, such continuous battles have exhausted Ritsuka and the others, and now they need to clear their minds and rest for a while to recover their energy and stamina.

Chapter 278 Sacrifice is the cornerstone of prosperity

After the meeting, David went into the air, where he could still see Tiamat slowly approaching the coast.

Even now, this thing feels incredibly imposing, but there's no reason to back down now.

"How about it? You couldn't have seen this kind of thing in Britain before, could you?" Morgan teased him, her tone light and cheerful, clearly not in a bad mood.

"Of course, the biggest dragon we ever killed was Vortigern. A group of us rushed at it and killed it before it even made a ripple."

David smiled. The most troublesome dragon to deal with in Britain was Vortigern, but that was nothing compared to this one.

Aside from the time they fought off Casey Palug, although they managed to hold him off together, it was Merlin who ultimately played the key role.

Thinking about this, David felt somewhat helpless again. When Merlin was around, everyone despised him or complained about his immoral private life, but when it really came down to getting things done, his absence just lacked that sense of security.

Just as Artoria said, Vortigern is nothing more than a petty tantrum from the island. Tiamat is different; I'd suffer a great loss there too.

"You actually called her Artoria?" David didn't hear anything Morgan said after that; all he knew was that Morgan had actually called Artoria by her name.

This! This! David was speechless with shock.

[Forget about it!] Morgan fell into a hasty silence, and no matter how David asked, he received no response from her.

It seems she really let it slip, because no matter what she did, she refused to answer David's questions.

But at this moment, David felt more relaxed, and the thing he had been most worried about had slowly disappeared.

Morgan's attitude towards Artoria has finally softened; the tense atmosphere of the past has been eased.

However, David also knew it was best to avoid letting the two meet, not just because of the past, but because their priorities were ultimately different.

Back then in Britain, our king loved the people of Britain more than the island of Britain itself. David and she had considered abandoning that wretched island and living on the mainland overseas, but they were unable to do so due to the pressures of reality.

Morgan, however, was different. What she loved most was the island of Britain, whose people were merely embellishments, props necessary to maintain the nation.

She might be similar to Vortigern in this respect, except that Vortigern was even more extreme than her in the end, actually wanting to push Britain back to its original state and kill all its people.

Since he received no response from Morgan, and finding Tiamat's presence rather uninteresting, Davidan could only return to the main hall of the Divine Tower. He arrived just as Ritsuka and the others were already chatting with King Gilgamesh.

Let's not get into any of that messy stuff right now, everyone can relax and have a good chat.

"Where's Siduri?" Davidian noticed this the moment he arrived; she should have been here.

“I sent her to organize and lead the remaining people to seek refuge. As you said, this is the end. If she stays here, she will only be wasting the destiny that you saved her from with great difficulty. It would be better for her to leave here and go to Nippur to seek survival.”

Gilgamesh explained these things to her, and Davian nodded. It was best if only they remained; the living were simply being sent to their deaths.

"So, where were you guys talking about?"

David steered the conversation back on track, and Gilgamesh replied that he was trying to reason with the two idiots in front of him.

They seem to have taken the blame for the destruction of Uruk upon themselves and are heartbroken over it.

They had just praised each other for everything they experienced in Uruk, saying it was something to be talked about at a future celebration banquet, but afterwards they both fell into this inexplicable slump.

This was not a happy thing for Gilgamesh.

"Fools, it's too early for you to blame yourselves. The people of Uruk are people who knew that destruction was coming and still managed to live on until now. If you pity them, you are defiling their will."

David explained to them that six months earlier, King Gilgamesh had told all the people of Uruk that Uruk would be destroyed and that this was an unchangeable fate.

What happened after that is self-evident; even Chaldea, which arrived late, witnessed many stories of the people of Uruk.

"You think it's painful that only so many people survived. But you're wrong. It's not that only so many people survived, but that so many more survived—do you understand?"

As long as they live, even if they were all wiped out tomorrow, I will acknowledge their value. They crossed the end of this era, and I consider it a great achievement!

Gilgamesh's words inspired Ritsuka and Ritsuka from another perspective. He continued to tell them that there was no need to defeat the three goddesses in the first place.

After all, an alliance that's all show and no substance will inevitably crumble sooner or later, so there's no need to intervene. In fact, intervening would only draw Tiamat out prematurely, potentially causing the situation to spiral out of control.

Therefore, he and Merlin ordered Davidian not to attack, but to simply hold the north wall.

Davidian also completed his task brilliantly. With his and others' efforts, the North Wall was practically impregnable, giving the inexperienced Beast Goddess a good lesson.

However, the Chaldeans loved this land and the people who lived on it, and fought hard for them, ultimately choosing to fight the three goddesses. This choice gave those who are still alive hope for survival.

At this point, King Gilgamesh stood up, waved his hand dramatically, and said to the two of them with great authority:

"You should know that in the future I first saw, when Tiamat attacked Uruk, I was the one who faced the enemy alone."

"Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight of Chaldea, feel proud! You have indeed accomplished what even I, the King, could not! You have something to be proud of!"

Ritsuka and Mash immediately showed uncontrollable joy, and then, while Roman was away, Gilgamesh told them some things about humanity and singularities.

The most important point is that people who have been killed will not be resurrected; their deaths will simply be justified.

These words made Ritsuka and Mash feel breathless and even question the meaning of their fight. However, Gilgamesh gestured to David to say a few words.

Stop pretending to be dead. Did you waste those twenty-one years of your life in Britain?

"Don't be discouraged. Your battle was by no means meaningless. Although you did not manage to save some people in the end, you did save many people during this long journey, didn't you?"

If you don't go to save them or think that you can just fix the singularity and ignore those people, then the death toll will only be greater.

Sacrifice is the cornerstone of human history’s prosperity, but your efforts have minimized it.

And many people have found joy in the process of protecting others, and I think... that's certainly true.

Chapter 279 The Two Sides of the Scale

However, Davidian suddenly stopped talking at this point, because he saw the sad looks in Ritsuka and Mash's eyes.

He roughly knew what the two were thinking; it was probably about the Sixth Singularity.

So he organized his thoughts and said to the two of them, "So we Knights of the Round Table did indeed make many mistakes in the Sixth Singularity, Ritsuka, Mash."

We will not deny our mistakes; a mistake is a mistake. I am the same, so when the opportunity for redemption arises, I will gladly seize it.

David Ann readily admitted his mistake, acknowledging that a mistake is a mistake and that atonement must be made when the time comes.

During the Sixth Singularity, he allowed the Knights of the Round Table to commit many sins, so when the time comes in the future, they will surely contribute to the Chaldea's fight to save human history.

"You're quite a serious person too. Actually, even if you didn't go, things would still be the same, wouldn't they? Even without the Holy Grail of the Magic King to disrupt the world, there would still be the same level of negative impact."

Good and evil on the scales will be measured by the morality of that era, and their ultimate value will be judged by history and future generations.

It's like you were simply doing what you felt you should do in Britain, yet posterity has bestowed upon you the title of paladin and venerated you.

Gilgamesh first spoke these words to David, and then turned to Ritsuka over there and said:

"Fujimaru Ritsuka! What do you fight for, what are you protecting, and what kind of person are you? Neither the King of Uruk nor the Lord of Camelot can define these things for you."

That's something your successors will only know. Since that's the case, you can relax and just follow the path you believe is right.

Ritsuka and Mash both nodded in agreement with King Gilgamesh's idea, and then King Gilgamesh began to tell them about those interesting things from the past.

For example, after returning from searching for the herb of immortality, he found Uruk to be dilapidated and ruined, and was severely scolded by Siduri. After that, he became a wise king and worked hard to revitalize Uruk until now.

Looking back now, these memories seem both long and short, yet they are all happy recollections, and not a single one was superfluous.

He had done things that made him and his subjects suffer, but he would not regret them. After all, for him, the way of the king was for his subjects to live for him, not for him to live for his subjects.

David glanced at him and then slowly distanced himself to indicate that he was different from him.

Although King Gilgamesh later said that Uruk pleased him and that's why he governed the city, which was a way of making amends for his earlier statement, Davian could still feel the essential difference between himself and him.

Well, that makes sense, since every transcendent being is essentially a different existence.