Chapter 36: Kneel! (Kneel!) Please Collect and Recommend
Arthur is in love!
Merlin seemed to be in a dream. Arthur, the straight-faced man, actually fell in love with a woman at first sight! More importantly, for this girl, Arthur did not hesitate to evade his responsibilities. He gave up his original responsibilities. He evaded inspections and banquets just to have a tryst with the girl.
This is very un-Arthur.
However, Merlin thought it wasn't bad.
No one can live without falling in love. Merlin felt that Arthur's behavior was normal, at least more normal than before.
Of course, what Merlin should be thinking about right now is how to get through the current hurdle.
Well, now let’s talk about Merlin’s situation.
Didn't I say before that Arthur has been busy dating recently and completely forgotten his responsibilities. So the question is, why didn't King Uther break Arthur's leg?
The answer is as usual, Arthur has a blame-shifting weapon - Merlin!
In the past three days, Merlin has used his poor performance to take the responsibility of Arthur's missing various activities on himself... So Merlin also set a record, being dragged to the square to throw fruit for three consecutive days...
On the other side, Morgana was different again. She is very scared now!
Because she recognized the woman brought back by Arthur! He recognized her the first time he saw her! She is the woman who often appears in Morgana's dreams! The woman who drowned Arthur in the lake!
There are no words to describe the shock in Morgana's heart at that time! This woman actually appeared in front of him alive!
Morgana was very scared at first, afraid that there was something wrong with her. But the fear soon passed. She had always thought that her dream was a omen. Now the omen has come true. The woman is really here, which means... her dream is very likely to come true! Arthur will drown!
Now Morgana is even more worried about Arthur.
Morgana tried her best to warn Arthur to stay away from that woman. Unfortunately, Arthur didn't pay attention to Morgana's various hidden warnings. He even didn't hear Morgana's deep meaning at all. He thought that this was It was his sister teasing him again.
As Arthur himself often said, Morgana often thought he was a fool.
I won’t be fooled!
In short, Morgana was almost dying of anxiety. Morgana even ended her cold war with King Uther and went to find King Uther herself, hoping that he could intervene in Arthur's blind love. →But King Uther didn’t take it seriously either.
Of course King Uther would not allow his son to marry a down-and-out noble woman. (The two people rescued by Arthur claimed to be nobles from the north. Because their homes were invaded by barbarians, they planned to go south to join Carlyon's relatives, so they were nobles in decline)
Arthur is the prince of Camelot, the heir to the most powerful kingdom among all the countries. His marriage is not just his own business, but an activity of great political significance. Marrying with another powerful country is Asia's most important thing. Se's destination.
But falling in love is not within the scope of King Uther's consideration. In King Uther's view, it would be good for Arthur to have a relationship. As long as they don't get married, King Uther won't care. Besides, Arthur is already twenty years old and he is still the first brother. Do you think King Uther is not worried?
Just in time!
Anyway, King Uther is confident that he will be able to break up these two people in the end. As for what Arthur will do before that, King Uther really doesn't care. Anyway, Arthur cannot suffer...
Typical gangster logic, but this is exactly what King Uther thinks.
Morgana was very anxious, and she tried to warn the woman to put away all her inappropriate thoughts. But the effect was very bad. The woman didn't take Morgana seriously at all, and even ridiculed Morgana in return, thinking that she prevented them from being together out of jealousy.
This made Morgana feel both embarrassed and extremely annoyed. She is a woman, so she can naturally tell what a woman is thinking. When she warned the woman named Sophia, the woman only had contempt and frivolity in her eyes, and there was no love for Arthur at all!
She is using Arthur, Morgana is sure, and will definitely kill Arthur, and Morgana is also sure. After all, the dream is there.
At this moment, Morgana even wanted to publish her dream, hoping to alert the two male chauvinists, King Uther and Arthur! Unfortunately, Morgana knew that this wouldn't work. She could not care about herself, but she couldn't care about Kai.
Once she gets involved with magic, what will Kai do? She didn't want Kai to be stuck choosing between her and Uther. So she was particularly helpless now, and she could only talk to Gaius. Gaius was also at a loss, even though he knew Morgana was a prophet.
Gaius has observed this for many years, and Morgana's dream predictions are very accurate.
But even so, Gaius couldn't use Morgana's words to target the father and daughter. →How should he explain to King Uther and others?
More importantly, how to explain it to Arthur?
Gaius thought about it for a long time and suddenly thought of something. He asked: "How many days has Kai been away?"
Morgana thought for a while and replied: "It's already the twenty-eighth day."
Then she reacted. "You mean, let Kai handle this?"
"That's right! Kai will be back in the next two days. Once he comes back, everything will be easy to talk about." Gaius said with certainty.
Morgana is now full of energy! That’s right, if others don’t believe her, Kai will definitely believe her!
Thinking of this, Morgana immediately sent someone to find Kai. Calculating the time, Kai should be on his way back. All she had to do was get Kai back as soon as possible!
…
Just when Morgana was expecting Kai to come back as soon as possible to break the deadlock, the father and daughter on the other side were also impatient.
"You're back so soon? Sophia." The father of the father and daughter called himself Elfrek, an elegant old man. Although he looked almost 60 years old, he moved quickly and vigorously, not like a 60-year-old man at all.
"Someone is hindering us." Sophia was no longer as innocent and pure as she was in front of Arthur, but was very cold and arrogant.
"What happened?"
"I almost died. At that moment, I felt like I was going to die like a mortal." It turned out that during today's date, they happened to meet several soldiers who were searching for druids. One of the soldiers didn't see clearly and thought that the two unfortunate couples who were having a tryst were druids, so he shot an arrow and almost hit Sophia.
"He saved me." This is about Arthur. At that time, Arthur pushed Sophia aside, so that Sophia was not shot. Unfortunately, Sophia was not grateful at all. "That weak and incompetent man saved me! I can't stand this situation anymore."
Aelflake comforted him softly, "You don't have to stand it anymore. When you get his heart, the gate of Avalon will open to us again, and we will regain our true bodies."
"I need a little time." Sophia nodded and said.
"Very good, I will go to the elders today. It's best to sacrifice this mortal prince tomorrow night."
...
That night, Arthur ran out to date Sophia as usual, and Merlin helped Arthur as usual. But when Merlin returned to Gaius and learned part of the truth, he was not well. He actually sent Arthur into a trap!
In order to make up for his mistake, Merlin followed Aelflake under the command of Gaius.
As a result, he learned a more terrifying fact. Ælfrek and his daughter are not human beings at all. They are elves from the land of immortal youth, a utopia far away from the world, a paradise in the other world, the land of elves - Avalon. They were expelled from Avalon for committing a serious crime and had to live as human beings until death.
If they want to return to Avalon, they must use the soul of a mortal prince as a sacrifice. And Arthur is their target!
This is a serious problem!
They must stop this from happening.
Unfortunately, the development of things far exceeded their expectations.
The next morning, Arthur brought Sophia and her daughter to meet King Uther.
"I came here to discuss important matters with you at the request of the people, father." Arthur faced King Arthur with a very solemn attitude in the morning.
King Uther was a little confused.
Arthur continued: "I think you should have noticed that Miss Sophia Timmer and I have been very close these two days."
King Uther certainly noticed it, otherwise do you really think Merlin can fool King Uther about this kind of thing?
"I hope we won't get so close." This sentence was a joke. King Uther didn't mind what happened between Arthur and Sophia, but he would never allow Arthur to do anything more outrageous. For example, he would tell everyone about their relationship in court.
Arthur hesitated for a while, but still said firmly: "We are in love."
"I sincerely ask you to agree to our marriage!"
King Uther was stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed.
"Hahahahahaha." King Uther still hoped to attribute this matter to a joke. "This is the funniest joke I have heard this morning. Well, well, how should I respond to your childish joke? My son?"
"No, it's not a child's joke. I sincerely hope to marry her." Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.
...
King Uther was completely overwhelmed. He thought Arthur was just playing around, but he really played it? Morgana on the side was even more shocked. Morgana could accept falling in love, but marriage? They had only known each other for three days! When did Arthur, this idiot, become so romantic?
King Uther naturally couldn't agree, but unfortunately Arthur had no idea what he was doing at this time. So the two of them got stubborn.
Arthur declared that it was none of his business whether King Uther agreed or not.
After saying that, he grabbed Sophia and prepared to leave, regardless of King Uther's anger.
King Uther immediately ordered the arrest of Sophia and her daughter, and Arthur also fought back.
"You can't stop me! I will marry her if I want to!"
But at this moment, a majestic voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"Oh? Really?"
It's Kai!
I saw Kai walking in from the main entrance of the hall in a dusty manner.
"Our Arthur has grown up, and he actually knows how to openly oppose the king's order in the king's hall."
Kai saluted King Uther first, and then took off his cloak with a smile in Morgana's concerned eyes. Originally, the maid was going to take over Kai's cloak, but Morgana took it one step ahead.
"Don't worry, I'm here." Kai smiled and hugged Morgana.
Then he turned his head to look at Arthur, whose face was changing constantly, and said expressionlessly: "Kneel!"
Arthur's face was a little struggling, but when Kai's eyes became dangerous, Arthur still knelt on one knee. Past experiences told him that it was best to be obedient at this time. Otherwise, the end would be very miserable. This conditioned reflex could not be suppressed even by Sophia's charm.
Seeing Arthur kneel down, Kai's face looked much better.
"Very good, this shows that you are not completely confused." Then he said to King Uther: "Let the guards hold him down. I'm afraid he will be a little excited later."
Although King Uther absolutely trusts Kai, he is still a little confused at this moment. He has never seen Kai treat Arthur like this. Arthur will definitely become king in the future. Kai has always paid attention to this. Even if he punishes, he will not humiliate Arthur like this. But now...
However, out of trust all the time, King Uther still did it.
At this time, Kai turned to Sophia and her daughter.
"Kneel!"