Chapter 24: I Make a Pact with You, to Build the Ideal Kingdom

"A pact."

This is a very sacred word. God had made a pact with man, and not just one.

As early as the creation of the world, when humans were still living in the Garden of Eden, God made the first holy covenant with man, which included their responsibility in the Garden of Eden to manage the earth, use its resources, and abide by a series of prohibitions.

Later, when the great flood that destroyed the world occurred, God made a new covenant with Noah and his family, which marked the beginning of a new world and the prosperity of mankind.

As time passed, the last god to make a holy covenant with mankind was the Messiah who bore the responsibility of saving the world—he made a new covenant with his disciples on Mount Golgotha in Jerusalem. This covenant surpassed all previous holy covenants and became a guarantee of salvation and eternal well-being for believers. That was also the origin of the [Holy Church].

As a knight, Artoria naturally knew of those sacred covenants—but she never thought that one day, she would also become a "saint" who made a covenant with a god.

Or, to be more precise, no one would have been able to imagine that in this apocalypse at the end of the Age of Gods, there would still be a god who could make a covenant with mankind!

"That's why I said before, that in a moment when miracles are least likely to happen, the most impossible miracle happened!"

The magus standing not far away marveled at the wonder of fate. A king born in the apocalypse, destined to become the last monarch. A god who should not have appeared in this era and had no room for development.

If these two great beings developed independently and did not affect each other, then their endings were completely predictable—they would be nothing more than being buried together with the disappearing Age of Gods. But now, these two great beings were connected.

With the guarantee of a god, the king's power was no longer a rootless duckweed in the waves; and with the support of the king, the god's glory was no longer an illusory castle in the air. The king, with the god as her backing, established an indestructible kingdom; the god, with the king as his tentacles, extended his will into the secular world.

The two complemented each other.

"So, I make a pact with you, an eternal pact."

"Artoria Pendragon."

"As long as you are still the king of this country, as long as you are still willing to be the king of this country, then I am willing to support your ideal kingdom—I promise you, in that noble kingdom, the apocalypse of suffering and death will never come."

The powerful and resonant voice landed like a mountain. Not only Artoria, but everyone present heard this oath, and in the next instant, they felt the great power contained in this oath.

"This, this is..."

Feeling the power that suddenly surged from within his body, Kay's eyes widened in disbelief. In that instant, he felt that his power had more than doubled. What's going on? Did I suddenly become stronger?

"No, it's not that."

After carefully feeling the changes in the surrounding environment, Kay had found the reason: it was the concentration of [Aether Element] in the surrounding air that had suddenly become higher.

The mystery that should have been lost with the end of the Age of Gods had now all returned to this land—slowly, they had actually recovered to the concentration of the peak of the Age of Gods. Of course, this concentration had a range, roughly this small town—because Artoria's influence was now limited to this small town. The god's promise was only effective in the king's ideal kingdom.

"This is the importance of a god."

"A god is a pillar, connecting heaven and earth, and also connecting the surface of the world and the reverse side. As long as a god exists in the world, these aether elements will automatically gather around Him, instead of being lost in vain to the reverse side of the world."

"Although I don't know what the consequences will be in the long run... at least in the short term, the crisis of the apocalypse has indeed been temporarily lifted."

Merlin seemed to let out a sigh of relief. But if you looked closely at the expression on his face, you would find—at this moment, there was no smile at all.

...

Temporarily ignoring the magus's thoughts, in short, under the witness of all the knights, the god and the king once again made a covenant to bring true peace to this island.

But, how should I put it?

Compared to the shocked or fanatical gazes in the eyes of others, Artoria's gaze at the "White Dragon God" in the sky always had a... absurd sense of strangeness.

Alright, Merlin had actually told her long ago. He was a god, just presented in the form of a dragon in this world. But in Artoria's eyes, Shiroryu's image had always been that of a white young dragon with a conspicuously large head—she had been eating with that cute young dragon two months ago. Therefore, looking at this white giant dragon, whose size could be described as "covering the sky and the sun," the girl's heart had no sense of reality at all.

She always felt that this seemed to be an illusion, something that the naughty young dragon had deliberately created to coax people.

But, unfortunately, she tried to reach out her hand to touch the white dragon's body. But the smooth and cold white scales told her that everything that was happening before her was not false, it was all really existing before her eyes.

"How about it, want me to take you for a ride?"

Shiroryu extended his claw and placed the girl in his palm—his huge body and the king's petite figure formed a sharp contrast. But at the same time, the onlookers felt from the bottom of their hearts that these were actually two behemoths of equal stature "looking at each other."

"Alright."

Artoria nodded and sat on Shiroryu's head, which was still very large after evolution. The next moment, the white dragon spread its wings and directly took her to an altitude of ten thousand meters.

This was the first time in her life that she had come to such a high place. She stood at a high place and looked down. Britain, which in her impression should have been vast and boundless, had now become a small island the size of a fingernail, hanging alone in the far west of the world, surrounded by the sea on all sides.

"So small."

She looked at the island, was silent for a long time, and finally let out such a sigh. Compared to this vast and boundless world, that small island seemed really not worth mentioning. But it was on this small, insignificant island that there was something she had to protect with all her might.

"Let's go back."

"The people living on this island are still waiting for us to save them!" Artoria urged with a smile.

No matter what the final outcome was—at least in this moment, this girl felt from the bottom of her heart that she had really found a way to save this island.

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