Mist City, outside the city, Sir Pugin's manor.
Within the Knight Organization, everyone sat around the enormous Round Table. They were the leaders of Knight Organizations from various regions, and an identical box had been placed in front of each of them.
Security here was extremely tight. Outside the door of the Round Table meeting room, all the current Twelve Round Tables except the kidnapped Lancelot were standing guard. There were also nearly thirty Great Knights and over a hundred elite knights.
"Let's begin."
Sir Pugin spoke softly and was the first to open the box before him. He took out a green gemstone the size of a pebble.
At the same time, the leaders of the various Knight Organizations also took identical objects from the boxes in front of them.
Sir Pugin then unscrewed the ornament on his cane and inserted it into a small groove that had opened in the table before him... He turned it.
The sound of gears turning rang out, and the floor at the center of the Round Table opened as well. A statue of a king holding a sword slowly rose from beneath the floor.
The blade of the stone sword held by the statue was covered with round grooves, each corresponding to the gemstone held by one of the leaders.
As the gemstones seemed to be pulled by some force, automatically flew from their hands, and embedded themselves into the grooves in the stone sword, everyone held their breath and watched the scene cautiously.
"Although I have always known it existed, I have never truly seen it since taking over... I never imagined that I would actually be able to witness its emergence in my lifetime."
The speaker was an old man much older than Sir Pugin. His gaze was distant, and