Fate: Typemoon - My Dragon Knight

Somewhat differently from what Morgan and the others had thought, the Lion King did not immediately send people to surround and annihilate their city. Instead, she ordered the Round Table Knights to first capture those who remained in the city ruins, forcibly bringing them to Camelot for the Holy Selection. This caused the already small population of the ruins to dwindle even further, to the point of near extinction.

Is this truly what a king should do?

Gawain chose to directly ignore this question. Agravain remained silent. For Tristan, he didn't care at all whether this was the act of a king. With the "Reversal" gift growing ever stronger, as long as he could kill, there was no problem at all. Recently, Tristan had even taken over for Gawain in conducting the Holy Selection. And one can imagine the fate of those who failed the selection... The Lion King seemed not to care what outsiders thought of her. Even if the outside world called her a demon, it seemed unable to move her heart.

Faced with this situation, Lancelot could only apply more and more for patrol missions outside the city. Originally, this duty of being constantly away belonged to Mordred, but now that Mordred had been taken by Morgan, her mission and position were naturally vacant. Lancelot had only made one mistake in his life, and that was developing an improper affection for the queen. But even so, after the affair was exposed, both he and Guinevere chose to have the King punish them severely in exchange for restoring the King's authority. This obsession with being punished by the King even allowed him to descend incorrectly in the Berserker class. Lancelot was a noble knight; there was no mistake about that. Of course, this nobility did not mean he had never made a mistake in his life, but rather that he always had justice in his heart.

Now, facing the Lion King's actions, he, who held a sense of shame towards the King, could not bring himself to commit a second betrayal. But the current Holy Selection, which was like a slaughter of civilians, was a tragedy he was unwilling to witness again. For this reason, he could only choose this compromise. And Agravain had no objection to Lancelot's choice. The reason was simple: if this knight who had once betrayed the King was not milling about before the King's eyes, wasn't that for the best?

Thus, during this period, the friction and battles between Aslan's side and the Lion King's side mainly revolved around the rescue of these residents who were being forcibly captured for the Holy Selection. Of course, perhaps also fearing that a Round Table Knight might be ganged up on and forced to retreat, the actual capturing was carried out by the Purge Knights.

Compared to the original Purge Knights, the current ones were overall a bit taller, with a few individuals already approaching three meters in height. The armor on their bodies had also become thicker. If Morgan's side did not dispatch a Heroic Spirit, the forces organized by the militia alone would be completely powerless against these beings.

Arash acted as the liaison between Morgan's Holy City and the village in the eastern mountains, constantly running back and forth. This couldn't be helped. The Hassans needed to guard their holy sanctuary. This created a weak point for the resistance forces: if Arash was not in the village and the village was attacked by the Holy Lance, the resistance would face a major reduction in numbers. However, because the village was located within the mountains, it was relatively hidden. If no one scouted carefully, it wouldn't be so easily exposed to the Lion King's view.

More and more people began to spontaneously gather around the Holy City. And for the Lion King, her confusion only deepened. The more this happened, the more the Lion King felt that perhaps she should adopt some special means and methods to forcibly maintain the human population at a number that could continue to reproduce. The number of humans currently preserved in the Holy Lance was still too small.

The only reason the Lion King had not yet adopted such methods was Agravain's counsel. While Agravain wanted to realize his own ambition, he was also thinking about how to make this New Camelot last longer. The King before him was not the King he knew, but she was still the King. So, no matter what, he had to make all of the King's decisions more beneficial to Camelot. Originally, Agravain did not want to do this, but seeing the King's emotional state becoming more and more abnormal, he could only force himself to be a little more awake from the dream.

While the Round Table Knights worried about being ambushed by Aslan and his group during their excursions, Aslan's side was also worried about falling into the Round Table's traps when they went out on rescue missions. Therefore, even when Aslan's side went out to rescue, they did so in groups of multiple Servants. Of course, Aslan, who had descended as a two-in-one unit, was an exception. Aslan alone was a very strong Servant, and Melusine was also a top-tier existence. With these two together, unless the Lion King set a trap with more than two other Round Table Knights, there was really no way to catch them.

After receiving news that the Purge Knights had begun to plunder cities further to the east, Aslan once again embarked on a journey to the eastern part of the continent. As mentioned before, there were always some people who were unwilling to leave their homes, either because they had not learned the truth and still held some fantasy about the Lion King, or because they were unable to travel far from home for their own reasons, be it physical or psychological injuries. He would tell these people the truth as much as possible. If they were truly unwilling, then he could only protect them when danger came. In short, the more resolute the Lion King was, the more they had to protect these people. This was the ideology Morgan had established.

Though a thousand years had passed, and while Morgan understood Artoria, understanding was one thing; dislike was still dislike. Opposing the Lion King was, on one hand, because she found the Lion King disagreeable, and on the other hand, the body the Lion King was using was indeed Artoria's. It was a good opportunity to vent that bit of dislike she had for Artoria as well. However, while Morgan's thoughts were born from her own small bit of willfulness, she had also indeed considered that doing so could further widen the gap between the two sides. How could a 1000-year-old witch still throw a tantrum like a little girl? Heh.

At the same time, in the east, a figure wearing a tattered cloak and silver knightly armor, with their right arm hidden beneath the cloak, stumbled into the ruins of a city. Directly in front of this advancing knight, the tall figures of the Purge Knights were also rapidly approaching this border. After all, besides the people on the border, most of the survivors had already gone to the Holy City.