One With Nature 2

Camelot Arc Epilogue: 2

"King Arthur will one day perish."

One day, Merlin gave a prophecy in Camelot that shook the court pretty badly. Many of the knights were in chaos because of it, despite how happy they were that Artoria successfully fought off the Roman invaders.

I, while worried, found it weird because he said that Artoria would die, but didn't say anything about Camelot falling.

Anyway, Artoria received the news better than expected. She was worried, sure, but she didn't desperately look for a way out.

Her knights still wanted her to take this more seriously, so after a lot of persuasion, they convinced her to send out Galahad, Percival, and Bors on a quest to find the Holy Grail.

After that, most of Round Table went on to pass away mostly as they did in the story.

Lancelot had an affair with Guinevere. I would have done something, but Artoria had long ago told me that she didn't expect this marriage to work, and she didn't fault Guinevere or Lancelot for it.

Agravain revealed the affair, so Lancelot killed him in a fit of rage. However, instead of holding an actual execution for Guinevere, Artoria announced an execution just to keep up a public face, and instead allowed Guinevere to meet up with Lancelot so they can escape together.

Gaharis and Galahad's deaths were avoided because of that. Tristan, however, pretty much died the same way except for the fact he left the Round Table not because he didn't believe in Artoria, but because he wanted to settle things with the woman he loves.

He dug that grave for himself, and frankly, everything he got was something he signed up for. I had no reason to meddle with his love-life.

The real problems came from the 'rebellion'.

It wasn't caused by Mordred though. It was caused by a few nobles that ganged up together and collaborated with Artoria's enemies and the Romans.

Basically, Artoria was such a good ruler that nobles couldn't pull anything shady with her around. Honestly, I wasn't really surprised they did that. Even back in Uruk some councilmen tried to pull stuff like that on Gilgamesh.

The examples he made of them pretty much erased any idea of doing something behind his back.

It didn't help that the corrupt nobles also had Morgan backing them up. She gave up on outright using her children and decided to just outright use any idiot she can get her hands on.

Because of the uproar of Lancelot's betrayal and 'escape', alongside the deaths of Agravain and Tristan, the rebells took this chance to attack.

Gaharis and Gareth died protecting Camelot. They did amazing and barely any of the rebels made it into the city itself. Instead, the rest decided to go for Artoria.

Gawain and Mordred died fighting side by side. They managed to take out half of their forces. The other half was taken out by Artoria herself when they confronted her in Camlan.

But, do to the various small wounds she got from the fighting, she was dying from blood loss without Avalon to heal her. After that... Well...

I watched as Artoria gave Bedivere the third order to do his duty and return Excalibur. When he was gone, I came out of hiding.

Walking closer to Artoria, I looked down at her with a sad smile. "Hey. You're not looking so good."