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"morning..."
When Artoria saw Mordred wake up, she felt a little embarrassed, but still greeted her. Mordred was somewhat surprised, but when she saw her father greet her, she immediately responded.
It looks like the first step in easing tensions between them.
However, when Roland greeted Mordred with a smile, Mordred's face turned pale, and she immediately scurried back into her room, slamming the door shut. You could even hear the sound of it locking!
"She was scared by you, 28."
Artoria sighed helplessly, then glanced at Roland with a somewhat subtle look. Roland, noticing Artoria's little gesture, smiled even more broadly.
He knew that the preparatory phase for addressing Artoria's inner conflict had been successful.
She's now starting to think about things beyond her identity, and this version of Artoria seems so much more real than the one who was blindly obedient or the one who was the chosen one...
"I think you deserve some credit for scaring her..."
Roland said this, then saw that Artoria's face was red, so he smiled and changed the subject.
"...Okay, I'm going to the meeting room now. Go and comfort her. There's no need to hide our relationship from her. And remember to bring her to the meeting room too."
"Well, there's no rush to hold a meeting. If you have anything you'd like to discuss, then go ahead and talk about it."
After leaving those words, Roland turned and left, while Artoria watched him go.
She stood there in silence for a while before letting out a long breath and knocking on Mordred's door.
"Mordred, I think we need to talk."
Three hours later, Jeanne d'Arc, Rin Tohsaka, Illya, Bazett, Aya, and Merry gathered in the conference room, and then Artoria and Mordred knocked on the door and entered.
After the two of them were seated, Roland clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention.
"Alright, the enemy is now approaching Einzbernburg, so I should give you some instructions now."
Hearing Roland say this, everyone present perked up.
As Roland said this, he looked at Mordred and, seeing that Mordred did not resist at all and directly led him into this situation, he smiled and nodded to her.
"Welcome to join us."
"what..."
With such a simple conversation, Mordred's name appeared in the list of members of the God Group, increasing the number of members from 40 to 41, and Roland also gained an additional enhancement point.
Meanwhile, Mordred also shed her Heroic Spirit form. She sensed it briefly. Artoria had already told her everything she needed to know with Roland's permission, so Mordred didn't have any special reaction.
Suddenly, Mary's gaze fell on Mordred, and after staring at Mordred for a while, she looked away, somewhat puzzled.
All of this was under Roland's watchful eye. Once it was over, Roland immediately resumed the previous topic.
“Bazette, Azuma—I’ve already arranged the spells for the Greater Grail. After that, you two can go to the Greater Grail. You can now directly reach the Root by making a wish through the Greater Grail.”
Joan of Arc and Merry were clearly taken aback when Roland said that.
Mary was fine, but Joan of Arc, after sensing it for a moment, cast a somewhat puzzled look at them.
"You actually bypassed the rules of the Holy Grail War and chose the winner... How did you do that?"
"The so-called Holy Grail is just a kind of magic, isn't it? Since it's magic, I, as a magician, naturally have my own magician's methods."
Joan of Arc nodded as if she understood, while Melisandre thought of the relationship between Roland, Alaya, and Gaia, and felt very at ease.
Mordred didn't react much; in fact, she was using the God Group Communication to chat privately with Artoria.
Bazett, Rin Tohsaka, Ari, and Illya all looked at Roland with somewhat dazed expressions.
They knew Roland's magical talent and how long he had studied magic—altering the rules and spells on the Greater Grail was something Ilya could also do, but it was part of the Third Law, and they hadn't expected Roland to be able to do it too.
At this point, they also realized that although Roland did not participate in the Machine God manufacturing project, Roland's magical skills had not remained unchanged since he first became a magician.
"Alright, Bazett and Yuzhu, you two can go now without worry. Leave the rest to us."
Roland rested his chin on his crossed hands, a smile on his face as he spoke, showing no sign of tension at all about the so-called enemy attack.
Seeing Roland's expression, Bazett and Yuju nodded, then turned and left the meeting room without asking any questions, heading towards the Greater Grail.
Although Mordred had been asking Artoria all sorts of questions in the God Group Communications, she was still somewhat surprised when she saw Roland say something and then everyone else carried it out without hesitation, and no one questioned Roland about it.
She was somewhat interested in matters concerning the king and the administrators, so her questions to Artoria began to gravitate towards Roland.
After Bazett and Yuju left, Roland looked at the empty space in the middle of the group. Then, with his gaze, a short incantation was completed, and a simple projection spell appeared.
"While we were transporting the Greater Grail, our enemies were ready and are now charging toward the positions I had set up."
On the light screen created by the projection technique, the Servants of both the red and black sides appeared one by one.
The last one to appear was Jack the Ripper, who, besides Mordred, was the only Heroic Spirit that Sieg didn't find.
"You don't need to worry about Jack. Her existence is rather unique; I'll handle her—as for the remaining enemies..."
The image on the screen changed again, this time showing Zieg dressed in a black robe.
"...He's the only one left."
Roland didn't mention any of the Heroic Spirits other than Jack; he just smiled and looked at Sieg on the screen, saying this.
"Our only enemy, the poor man trapped in a parallel world, Mr. Sieg."
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181. Mary: Oh no, I'm the one who's having the fun!
Roland had already sensed what Sieg was doing, so those Heroic Spirits were not enemies at all. Therefore, Roland did not discuss the issue of Heroic Spirits at the meeting, but only emphasized Sieg to the people present.
He didn't say much about the White Demon, only that she was a visitor from outer space.
It was also mentioned that Sieg was one of the parallel world binders created by this extraterrestrial visitor.
He also said that the inhibitory force had begun to deal with such a special existence, and then indicated that he would deal with this Zig here.
Hearing Roland say that, Mordred frowned slightly.
She felt that Roland's words were too succinct.
It made no mention of what benefits would be gained from eliminating Sieg, nor did it explain the necessity of doing so.
At this moment, Mordred was listening to his father talk a lot about Roland in the God Group Communication, but since he had never experienced it himself, Mordred's attention was subconsciously drawn to the others.
She's new here, and she won't do anything attention-grabbing before she fully understands the situation.
But what about everyone else?
Wouldn't they be dissatisfied?
With this thought in mind, Mordred glanced at his father, then noticed that Artoria had no objections whatsoever. However, after hearing that Roland wanted to get rid of Sieg, she seemed to be preparing to kill him!
Aside from Artoria, the other members of the divine group all had the same reaction.
There was none of the doubt Mordred had anticipated!
This greatly surprised Mordred, and he gradually began to understand what this so-called group of gods really was.
The so-called divine group is not the same as the kingdom Mordred imagined...
In Britain, there is a Round Table, where every Knight of the Round Table is entitled to express their opinions. Based on Mordred's rudimentary modern knowledge gained after her arrival and the historical knowledge she actively sought out after her arrival, she believes that while other nations may have different systems from Britain, one thing remains constant.
That is, the state is fulfilling the will of the people, not the will of the king.
A king can guide the will of the people, divide the will of the people, weaken the will of the people, manipulate the will of the people, or even disregard the will of the people—but what determines the direction of the vast system of the state is definitely the will of the people.
Because the people make up the nation, only the people are the true masters of the nation.
The king is a representative, a leader, but he is by no means everything, and not even necessary.
This is something Mordred only recently realized.
But Roland's group of gods is different...
This group of gods seems to be entirely steered by the will of Roland, the leader of the group!
Roland's will is greater than anything else!
The divine forces will unconditionally carry out Roland's will!
Regardless of right or wrong, regardless of the reasons, regardless of the interests...
The members of the divine group were like Roland's hands and feet.
This structure intrigued Mordred.
This also made her even more curious about Roland.
After experiencing that dream, Mordred would inevitably pay more attention to Rolando.
After learning about Roland's deeds, she paid even more attention to him.
Add to that this current curiosity...
Before she knew it, Mordred's gaze had fallen entirely on Roland, and she was inevitably drawn to him.
After Roland noticed Mordred's gaze, he looked over as well.
“Dealing with Zig is my personal opinion. After all, the parallel world convergence they accepted was too brutal, which would make them convergents even more extreme, and this extreme behavior would then feed back to that extraterrestrial visitor.”
"I'm going to meet that extraterrestrial visitor and deal with things related to her, so before that, I plan to cut off these parallel world convergents."