55)The Sixth Singularity, Divine Realm of the Round Table:Camelot

(Author's Note: Give me Powerstones!)

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Poseidon Pov

The Sixth Singularity, the Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot. In this timeline two major events happen making it a singularity, firstly the Bedivere of the Knights of the Round Table didn't return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake, because of which Artoria became unable to die and became a wandering ghost, Rhongomyniad was still in her hand and after 1500 years she succeeded in becoming a Divine Spirit, but in the process, she lost most of her memories and human emotions.

My Artoria has the same backstory as hers, but there is a slight twist, instead of ascending to Godhood and losing all of her memories, she managed to prevent her ascension and resurrect again with her memories intact. But it came with a cost as well, it simply made a realist from the idealist she used to be, coupled with betrayal and a realist king who knows how dirty the world is you get a Trannyical king, which is basically her.

Now, the second reason for the timeline becoming a singularity is that someone from the Crusaders got the Holy Grail and used it to terraform the entire place into the desert and bring the Holy Land down. In their greed they ended up summoning Ozymandius who took the Holy Grail from them and killed them, then he became hellbent on creating his own kingdom and summoned a few more servants to assist him in his task.

Meanwhile, Goddess Rhongomyniad summoned servants consisting of the Knights of Round Table except for Bedievere and Gahalad whom she had forgotten completely. Then she told her plans to save humanity from incineration by preserving the purest souls of humanity. There was also a third group consisting of two Assassin class servants and an Archer class servant who made a small refugee for the people. All of these events took half a year before Chaldea's arrival.

Now comes, me and my subordinates who arrived a few weeks before the Chaldea, My plan was similar to the Sun King, Ozymandius's plan. To create a safe haven for the place, the only difference would be that my place has more water and is greener compared to his. After summoning the Neos Argonauts and letting them get familiar with the surroundings, I quickly assigned each of them a role.

Artoria is supposed to be the main handler of the haven and commander of all the servants equivalent to Jalter. Now I choose Artoria as she had been king once, and despite how it played out in the end, she was a capable king who knew how to handle a populace and servants under her very well. Jalter on the other hand was the main commander for the battle.

She also summoned Fanfir again, in this singularity making her a strong attacker and defender. Then Atalanta and Achilles are concerned with gathering the refugees and taking them safely here. Chiron and Mordred were the first lines of defense in this place, and Astolfo and Medea had been assigned to handle the refugees.

Now other than, sitting on the throne all day, ordering Artoria and other servants a few things, having a lavishing breakfast and dinner with them, and having some quickies with Jalter and Artoria, I have not done really anything else. I just watched satisfied with how the Neos Argonauts alongside their two commanders quickly gathered more than 2000 refugees and quickly assigned all of them some roles.

Just a few days ago, I noticed that Cladea finally arrived in the Singularity, I have the intention of taking their group under me as well, as my quest demands it. Not to mention my merit points will get a slightly higher boost with him aka Protagonist under my command than just him being present in this singularity. I made sure to deactivate my Protagonist killer ability, otherwise, if he was to die then I would lose a free merit booster.

In my view, they are going towards the Holy City on top of a vehicle made by Da Vinci. Other than that a certain archer is present in the city as well while a certain King simp is walking towards that place as well. I wondered if I should send a servant to make them join me, In the end, I decided to leave them as it is, in the end, to seek refugee and help he and his group will come to me anyway.

I sighed and stood up from my Throne slowly walking towards the outside, In the path some of the people from the refugee, chosen by Artoria to help her in handling the huge number of people, knelt before me as soon as they saw me. I was not surprised by this, as both of my women have already told them to bow or kneel respectfully before me, and they agreed it happily, as for them I am their new Lord, their savior.

The tales of me being a God, have been already known by the current refugee, and the tales of a God, giving refugee to people in his self-made haven have already spread quite a bit outside my territory. I continued walking and came outside, then I floated up in the sky to a certain height and then stopped looking down at my entire territory and the people present. Someone suddenly informed me of my presence, then other people looked above me.

Soon, all of them knelt on their knees, and some of them started crying and all of them began thanking me wholeheartedly for saving them. Even if they were to know that I had a reason for saving them, they still would have thanked me with this vigor. After all, no matter the reason I have saved their lives, and in a world that was already barren and hopeless this was a miracle for them.

I glanced at them with indifference, then I shifted my focus in a certain direction, I silent chanted the Ninth Tier Spell,' God's eye ', a name which certainly suited it and thus vision in my eyes magnified thousands of times, as I looked at the Holy City, then I focused for more, my vision passing through the walls, and reached the room where Goddess Rhongomyniad was seated.

A frown suddenly appeared on her emotionless face, and then she glanced in my direction. With a rush of divinity, she destroyed my spell, I wasn't angry or disappointed by this, as despite being a 9th Tier Spell, it was fairly easy to nullify it if one knew how to do and with Divinity, it is certainly possible to block it or even destroy it.

A small smile appeared on my face, as excitement filled my heart,' I am really excited to see how this will fair, a battle between two King of Knights, each of them being alters, and Lancer-class servant, the clash between two Holy Lances, the clash between two ideals. It will be certainly interesting to see it unfold with my very eyes ', I thought.

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3rd Pov

Goddess Rhongomyniad was sitting on her Throne as usual, her face emotionless and deprived of any humane expressions. In front of her, her knights knelt with utmost devotion and loyalty present in their eyes. They were none other than Agravain, Mordred, Tristan, and Gawain. Everyone from the knights who chose to follow her was present except Lancelot who was on a small expedition to get more refugees.

' Hm? ', she thought with a frown and glanced at her left as she could feel someone spying from that direction. She quickly used a gush of her divinity creating cracks on the spell, and then destroyed it creating a mirror cracking sound. The Knights present in the room became alert seeing this, She signaled them to remain calm and said," Some unknown entity again tried to peer at us, but it failed like before".

All of them became except Mordred became calmer hearing her words, Mordred meanwhile," That insolence fool has repeatedly tried to spy on us with whatever ability he has, Father let me go and kill that mongrel for stepping out of his boundary!!", Argavain rolled his eyes hearing her and asked," Mordred, how can you even kill that person if you don't know who it is?".

She grunted hearing that and said," So what?! I will still kill that fool!", Agravain wanted to say more when Artoria said," Be silent", as soon as they heard her calm and emotionless words they became silent unhesitantly. Artoria glanced at them and asked," Did you get any information about that new rising faction?".

Gawain shook his head and said," I would like to apologize on behalf of us my King, but sadly we couldn't gather much information about them other than that they are taking refugees and offering them a safe haven, should I let Lancelot pursue them to their place?", Artoria replied," Well, it's unnecessary, though there is something I need to inform you all".

Her words garnered their attention, and she continued," I have confirmed, there is another me present in this singularity", the gasps of her knights rang in her ears, Tristan who was blind by now asked her with disbelief present in his voice," How is that possible? My King, you are currently in front of us? How can there be another you present? "

She replied," For the past few weeks I have been having a weird feeling, when I tried to understand its cause then I got to know, it is from an invisible connection between me and my newly summoned other self, who belongs to another timeline, her presence is towards the direction from where we have been tried to be spied. Thus, I assume she is within the new faction that we have got news of ".

Her words made everything clear, yet more doubts filled up in their minds. They were slightly shaken by the prospect of another King Arthur currently present in the singularity, if she was like her younger self then what reaction she would have seen to the atrocities they are committing was yet to be known. Nervousness appeared on their faces, Gawain asked her," Then, what should we do, your Majesty?"

She glanced at him and said," Even if an alternate self of mine is present in this singularity it has very little to do with us, let her as be. I don't know If she is trying to preserve humanity like us or not, but unless they contact us we will ignore them, after getting in contact we will understand whether to work together with them or destroy them".

All the Knights nodded hearing that, still to be true, they didn't want to fight against the other Artoria. Even if she was another version of her king, she was their king as well, so it will put them in quite a difficult situation if they were to fight against her. No one of them wanted for such a situation to occur. Thus they decided to ignore her presence for now.

Artoria narrowed her eyes, well aware of the conflicting thoughts of her knight, and asked," Let me ask you all, if such a situation was to occur, in which we have to fight against her will you all still support me?", Mordred, the father simp was the first one to answer," Of course father, it doesn't matter whether if the other you are present in this world. In the end, she might be another King Arthur of another timeline, but she isn't the king I have pledged my loyalty to!!".

Her answer satisfied her, and she gave a small nod. The other knights hearing Mordred's reply too became firm in their actions, and resolutely said that they will serve her only in the end. The reason behind Mordred's firm reply unknown to other knights was quite simple, in the end, the Artoria before her, Goddess Rhongomyniad let her call her father, and she recognized her as her son, as this was the most logical thing to do for her.

Thus, this version of Mordred who got the liberty to call Artoria father didn't care about another Artoria who would possibly even disdain to call her son. For her, the father who recognized her was more important than the father who doesn't recognize her, in the end, it was because of her own simp nature.

To be continued...