Faced with the description of the King of Conquerors in the setting collection, the people who read the content could not help but start discussing it.
"Iskander is worthy of the title of King of Conquerors. He conquers everything he goes through. At the same time, he follows the kingly way and uses both hard and soft tactics. It is really admirable."
"But to be honest, abandoning your own country for such an illusory wish as the End of the Sea, even if it means sacrificing everything to satisfy your wish, is too overbearing. It is really difficult to call you a wise ruler."
"Yes, the King of Conquerors' country is strong and powerful, which allows him to expand at will and continue to go on expeditions. If it were a little weaker, the result would be that the entire country would be buried with him and be despised by everyone."
"So in the end, we still have to look at a person from both sides. What the King of Conquerors did was grand, and his determination to pursue his ideals was noble, but his willful actions still led to the complete collapse of the empire he built. There are good and bad, and there are gains and losses. All we can say is that no one is perfect."
"Even so, if I were the person in the story, I would also be attracted by the figure of the King of Conquerors. After all, a king who sets out for hegemony for his ideals and continues to conquer for the truth is indeed very charismatic."
"I don't think so. Based on our empire's experience, the kings of the empire have never actively expanded or conquered. However, it is precisely because of this that the empire has become increasingly powerful and has been able to continue from generation to generation. Therefore, active conquest is not necessarily a good thing."
"So, our current king is indeed a very powerful man. Although he never seems to boast about his achievements, people who know about that period know that he is a very capable king."
"Who says it's not true? And it's not just His Majesty Hubbard. Without the efforts of generations over the past thousand years, our empire would not be able to live in such peace and stability now."
"A great king doesn't necessarily have to choose to conquer."
"… "
The people's words fell into place, but their evaluation of the King of Conquerors would obviously not be so easily ignored.
However, people’s thoughts are different. No matter what kind of evaluation is made, it will not change or reverse anything. Justice is in the hearts of the people.
Chapter 362: "Fate Zero" Complete Setting Collection Released! (Part 3)
Chapter 362
The release of the "Fate Zero" setting collection caused a sensation throughout the empire. In addition to ordinary people in the empire, the magicians of the Imperial Magic Academy were also the first to get the setting collection brought by Durin.
All of a sudden, the entire academy became bustling with activity, and everyone was busy looking at the contents of the setting collection.
After reading the chapter about the King of Conquerors, the magicians were quite moved by the content of the story. After all, even in this world, it has only been a few hundred years since people knew that the world was round.
For a long time before that, magicians had made various conjectures about the nature of the world, and ideas similar to the King of Conquerors had also been discussed.
Of course, all of this was ultimately shattered by the evidence provided by the first magician who explored the entire world.
"Conquer the world, until the end of the world. I have to say that the ideals of the King of Conquerors are really ambitious."
"But no matter how lofty the ideal is, if there is no strength and method to support it, it will be nothing more than the nonsense of a madman in the eyes of outsiders."
"In this regard, the King of Conquerors is very lucky. His kingdom has enough strength and confidence to support him in doing so. If it were our empire, we wouldn't be able to conquer other countries, let alone the Orc Kingdom at our doorstep."
"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, there are no other races in Fate's worldview. As humans, the advantage in numbers can solve many problems. But in our world, humans are almost at the bottom in terms of talent and racial strength. Only now that the number of magicians has increased, we can finally compete with other races."
"Yes, but racial superiority is not forever. Isn't the Orc Kingdom that completely crushed us back then about to be trampled under our feet now?"
"That's true. Racial disadvantages also need corresponding systems to be effective. The current system of the Orc Kingdom is too corrupt."
"… "
As they discussed this, the magicians did not pay too much attention to the King of Conquerors himself, but were more interested in exploring the gap between the worldviews of reality and the worldviews in the story.
And their discussion was far from over. At the same time, more people couldn't help but turn the pages to read more stories in the setting collection.
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After the King of Conquerors, the second character described in the setting is the oldest king - Gilgamesh.
Compared with the King of Conquerors, the story of Gilgamesh is extremely fantastic and clearly has a mythological tone. However, since gods already exist in this world, and the existence of gods is not far away in all aspects, the people of this world quickly accepted this kind of story.
According to the setting, Gilgamesh was created by the ancient gods in order to suppress the growth of human power after excessive reproduction. They combined the royal family of the world with the goddess and created a wedge for the gods to control mankind.
He is called the Hero King, not in the sense of "the king of heroes", but in the sense of "the king of all heroes", that is, the original of all myths and the template of heroes.
As a child, Gilgamesh was an approachable and sensible wise man, but in his youth he showed completely opposite characteristics and became a tyrant that made people helpless.
However, he was not just a brutal and cruel tyrant. While exercising his brutal rule, he also led Uruk back on track and brought it prosperity.
In order to punish Gilgamesh for not fulfilling his duty to suppress mankind, the gods created Enkidu, a warrior who served as the "Chain of Heaven" to fight against Gilgamesh.
In order to show the gods' anger and bring him back to their side, the gods sent it to fight Gilgamesh, but the result was a draw.
Even after the battle, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, who met their equals for the first time, became friends.
Later, Gilgamesh went on adventures with Enkidu, defeated various mythical beasts, and shocked the world. He became a dazzling and powerful existence that even the gods could not take their eyes off. Even the goddess Ishtar proposed to Gilgamesh.
However, Gilgamesh accuses Ishtar of being fickle and cruel, and rejects her outright.
The enraged Ishtar cried to her father, begging for revenge, and released the strongest divine beast, the "Bull of Heaven", to the ground.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu teamed up to fight off the bull, saving Uruk from destruction.
Even so, after her defeat, Ishtar still petitioned the gods to execute one of the two for killing the divine beast.
As a result, Enkidu, who was unable to disobey the gods, became weak and died, and Gilgamesh, who lost his best friend, fell into great grief and shadow that he could not control.
After witnessing Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh realized that he would die in the same way one day, and finally embarked on a journey to the underworld in search of immortality.
He spent the same amount of time as he had spent in the previous half of his life, wandering alone in the wilderness, and finally met a sage named Nabisteen in the underworld. He learned that the secret of the sage's eternal life was that he was included in the list of gods.
After the sage realized that Gilgamesh did not want to obey the gods, he told him another way to gain eternal life.
So, Gilgamesh found a magical herb in the abyss and decided to bring immortality back to the city-state as a human being with flesh and blood.
However, on the way back to Uruk, when Gilgamesh was bathing in a spring, a snake stole the magical herb, shed its skin, gained a new body, and slipped away.
Gilgamesh witnessed this scene and was not discouraged at all. Instead, he suddenly felt enlightened and couldn't help laughing.
He finally came to the conclusion that "when everything is over, nothing will be left in his hands", and believed that he had seen through the distant future from the beginning and there was no need for eternal life.
I have already existed in this era and have become immortal. Even if I cannot grow older with the years and cannot grow as old as the heaven and earth, it is enough as long as I can see through the distant future.
Afterwards, Gilgamesh ruled Uruk as the king who led all the heroes, and left the world quietly without any regrets.
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Compared to the story of the King of Conquerors, the story of Gilgamesh is more grand and more shocking. The confrontation between humans and gods has stunned the audience of this world. They never thought that such a thing could happen.
After all, the gods of this world are real and are absolutely invincible to humans.
The story of Gilgamesh broke this rule and shocked everyone.
Chapter 363: "Fate Zero" Complete Setting Collection Released! (IV)
Chapter 363
In front of South Cinema.
After reading the story of Gilgamesh, the audience's expressions changed slightly.
Everyone was in shock at this moment.
"I didn't expect that the seemingly tyrannical and violent Hero King actually had such a past. He was a pawn of the gods and suppressed humans, but he defied the gods and made humans more prosperous."
"All I can say is that everyone has two sides. Although Gilgamesh may seem cruel, his ability to govern as a king is definitely not bad. Judging from the final results, he even did a better job than the King of Conquerors."
"In the story, Gilgamesh actually has a friend named Enkidu. I really can't imagine Gilgamesh having a close friend."
"Forget about close friends. I can't even imagine how kind and wise Gilgamesh was when he was young. I feel like he must have been a troublemaker since he was young."
"He's not a devil, but it's true that he's very different in the story and the movie. I just can't imagine that scene no matter how hard I try."
"No wonder Gilgamesh is so strong. It's only natural that he has such strength since he once fought against gods."
"In a sense, Gilgamesh should have been the real protagonist of his time, but unfortunately, he failed to obtain the elixir of immortality and his glory faded, and the curtain fell."
"I think the story of Gilgamesh ended when his best friend Enkidu died. After all, the lonely king could not understand others, nor could he guide them."
"But I never expected that Gilgamesh was once a hero who fought against disasters for mankind."
“This is really unexpected.”
"But even so, as a Heroic Spirit, he is clearly not a good person. At the end of the movie, he even survived with Kotomine Kirei. It's hard to imagine what kind of terrible things these two guys would do."
"So when will the sequel to the Fate series, Fatestay Night, be released? I'm already looking forward to it!"
"Me too, me too..."
"… "
For a while, the people were talking about this.
As for the story of Gilgamesh, they had no other opinion except that they were amazed that he was actually a great king during his lifetime.
After all, the character of Gilgamesh in the movie "Fate Zero" is too domineering, and it is difficult for most people to have a good impression of such a tyrant.
Although the stories in the setting collection did change people's views on the character of Gilgamesh, it was only a little bit, and it was still difficult for people to quickly change their attitude towards him.
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At the same time, at the Imperial Magic Academy.
There is no doubt that the shock felt by the magicians when they read the story of Gilgamesh was even stronger.
After all, although the story in the setting collection is obviously fictional, and everything Gilgamesh experienced is obviously similar to a myth, for magicians who have a deep understanding of God and have even been studying God for a long time, the excitement of this story is really too strong.
"I didn't expect the story of Gilgamesh to be like this. An era where gods and humans coexist, an epic of demigod heroes. How come this looks more exciting than Fate Zero?"
"The gods created the Wedge of Heaven to suppress humanity, but the Wedge rebelled, defied the gods, and made humanity more prosperous. Why does all this feel so familiar?"
"Don't talk nonsense. In reality, gods have never interfered with humans. After all, in our world, there are more than just humans. There are only a few gods. I think they deliberately remain neutral and don't interfere with the world."
"Do you believe what you said? How could the Holy Light Church brainwash you so easily? If the gods really maintain neutrality, then what about the war between gods thousands of years ago? Why did the gods fall? What about the Chaos Realm that has existed until now and constantly denies the glory of God?"
"This... these can always be explained."
"Who knows? After all, in our current era, the presence of gods has been reduced to the lowest level. If it weren't for the Holy Light Church that has been there to maintain the glory of gods and strive to make gods show their miracles again, I'm afraid no one would really believe in any god anymore."
"Is the Age of Gods really over? Have all the gods disappeared?"
"… "
The magicians finished their words, but they didn't discuss this topic any further.
After all, even for great sages, it is difficult to have a clear understanding of the topic of gods. It has completely surpassed the concepts that humans can understand and belongs to the non-human realm.
In this field, it is simply impossible to pursue the so-called truth. Even if you are told the answer directly, not everyone will believe it.
But at least, gods do exist and still exist, which is still the recognition of the vast majority of people.
Therefore, at this moment, even the great sages at the top of the Tower of Mages did not express much about all this after reading the story of Gilgamesh. They just briefly analyzed the various motives of Gilgamesh's behavior and kept silent.
After finishing this topic, both the magicians and the people of the southern border showed great interest in the next content of the setting collection.
After all, the past experiences of the two kings, the King of Conquerors and the King of Heroes, are already so exciting and gripping. What did the last remaining Knight King, Altria, experience in her lifetime
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"Now I am looking forward to the story of Saber, or Altria, more and more. As a king, what did she do in her life?"
"Compared to the domineering style of King of Conquerors Iskandar and the aloof kingly style of Gilgamesh, Altria's experience should be more profound and more ups and downs. Otherwise, she would not have placed all her hopes on the illusory Holy Grail."
"The Knight King's goal in participating in the Holy Grail War is to save her country. So what on earth has her country been through that would make her fight to the death for it, even at the cost of such pain?"
“It’s really curious.”
All of a sudden, many readers opened the subsequent chapters without hesitation and appreciated the ups and downs of the life of the Knight King Altria.
Chapter 364: "Fate Zero" Complete Setting Collection Released! (V)
Chapter 364
In the setting collection of "Fate Zero", Altria's story is very long, even longer than the story of the previous two kings combined.
Before all readers have time to think, they immediately turn the pages and immerse themselves in the story described.
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The story of Altria originates from a country located on an archipelago, Britain.
Due to the invasion of a powerful external empire, the British Isles where it is located are increasingly showing signs of extinction and division, with numerous internal parties and complex disputes.
The fate of the whole of Britain is like hanging on the edge of a cliff and may be completely overturned at any time.
In this situation, in order to save Britain from danger, Uther Pendragon, one of the princes, and his royal magician "Merlin" planned to create a new king who was born superior to mortals.
They mixed the blood of the British king, the ideology of the British incarnation of the Red Dragon, and the noble female bloodline to perfectly blend the two to create the mother womb.
In this way, the legendary King Arthur—Altria Pendragon, was born quietly.