Age of Heroes: Alaya Exposed Me
Chapter 25

In the Age of Heroes, I Was Exposed by Alaya

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Young Artoria had finally reached the crucial age of fifteen.

The conversation between the nameless man and Merlin's two birds from the previous The Perfect King's video was replayed once again.

After the opening scene, everyone began angrily accusing the other side of having no conscience.

The Extra Story video continued.

After drawing the Sword in the Stone.

Merlin said to the nameless man, "I know her path will be full of hardships, but it will also be filled with magnificent twists and turns. So please, show me every beautiful thing to your heart's content and let me enjoy myself!"

A Child of Nightmare who lacked human emotions and only wanted to see so-called "beautiful things"!

Next.

Artoria, Merlin, and the nameless man began traveling through various nations.

They wanted King Arthur to read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles, see the whole world, and become a perfect king.

Whenever they encountered robbery, theft, cursing, nobles oppressing the weak, or similar scenes, King Arthur would act without hesitation.

Merlin, meanwhile, would use his sharp tongue to escalate the situation.

In the end, the nameless man could only clean up the mess.

A Child of Nightmare who went out of his way to provoke trouble!

He claimed to want to see beautiful things, but was merely enjoying himself!

Uruk.

The King of Heroes watched with great interest. "Merlin, you seem to understand what true enjoyment is!"

Those without self-awareness merely pursued instinctive pleasure, like beasts following the scent of blood.

Their emotions were displayed directly through their words and actions, making them extremely simple and crude.

But true enjoyment—

"Enjoyment is, fundamentally, part of the soul. There is no distinction between 'having it' and 'not having it.' The only difference is between 'realizing it' and 'not realizing it'!"

Gilgamesh became slightly interested in this Magician of Flowers.

A kindred spirit who pursued enjoyment!

While traveling through the various nations, this man had observed every single person.

He treated everyone as clowns whose purpose was to entertain him, and indulged in the journey.

He did not travel like King Arthur and the nameless man, who were always shouldering a mission.

"Nameless, you're far less interesting than Merlin in this regard!"

Gilgamesh's face was full of amusement.

If he could meet this Magician of Flowers, he would definitely make him his subject!

The scene continued.

Merlin stood in the distance, looking utterly relaxed as he watched the show.

Following his gaze, they could see the scene in which Morgan created the homunculus Mordred!

"Ria, this is the disaster you were destined to experience."

The Magician of Flowers sighed.

Tears gathered at the corners of his mouth, while his face was filled with sorrow—or rather, delight!

[Holy crap, this guy knew everything all along!]

[I get it now. This guy is just a spectator who lives for the fun of it. He desperately wants to watch the drama unfold!]

[Merlin, you bastard! I thought you actually felt sorry for My King. So you were deliberately watching this touching father-daughter scene!]

[Nameless, hurry up and come chop him to death!]

"Aya, how many times have I told you? You can know someone's face without knowing their heart!"

Wei Gong pointed at the man on the screen.

If Alaya had not exposed him, even he would never have known that Merlin was an even bigger scumbag than he had thought!

That bastard. He should have chopped him a few more times back then!

"He's far too ruthless. He's not human at all!"

Luo Ya swallowed hard.

He was obviously so handsome, so why did he insist on acting like such a nonhuman?

Oh, right. This guy really wasn't human!

Then there was no problem.

The video continued.

The Child of Nightmare could be seen provoking various women.

In the end, when King Arthur set out on an expedition to the European continent, he provoked the fairies and had no choice but to hide in Avalon.

He completely imprisoned himself there.

And that hiding lasted for over a thousand years.

He did not even emerge for the touching father-daughter scene between King Arthur and Mordred!

"Damn it! What a bastard!"

Wei Gong could not help cursing when he saw this scene.

He had originally thought Merlin had hidden himself because he did not want to cause Lily trouble.

He never expected that this guy had provoked the fairies because of his lust!

"He really is a bastard!"

Luo Ya could not help sharing his outrage.

A Nightmare who was trash to the extreme, and a scumbag to the extreme!

She had originally thought the Extra Story video would show the majesty of Britain's royal court magician, but she had never expected to see such a scumbag.

It was not just her. Every viewer had completely lost their composure and wanted nothing more than to form a group and chop Merlin to death!

But the next scene made everyone temporarily put that thought aside.

Because the touching father-daughter scene between King Arthur and Mordred was about to unfold.

This time, it was the true conclusion, viewed by Merlin through his clairvoyance while standing atop the Tower of End.

The war that destroyed Britain had ended!

Bedivere, who had finally arrived, knelt on the ground, weeping bitterly.

King Arthur handed him the holy sword. "Bedivere, cross that bloodstained hill and find a very deep lake. Throw this sword into it..."

"Yes, my King!"

Bedivere wiped away his tears, picked up the sword, and began walking toward the lake King Arthur had described.

However.

The first time, he reached the lakeside, then returned to the forest.

Once the holy sword's protection was lost, the immortal king would die.

The knight wanted the king to live, so he falsely claimed twice that he had returned the sword, but the king saw through his lies both times.

When he returned to the forest for the third time—

It was gone!

The knight knelt on the ground in unbearable remorse.

At that moment, he realized he had made a terrible mistake.

Because the holy sword had not been thrown into the lake, the holy lance had eroded the king, turning her into a wandering undead king.

"I am guilty!"

Bedivere collapsed to his knees and burst into tears.

He reached the edge of Avalon and transformed into a human-shaped rock, becoming a walking corpse in every sense of the word.

Waiting to reunite with his king fifteen hundred years later...

"Little Bei, the one and only mistake you made was this fatal one, even after I repeatedly instructed you otherwise."

Wei Gong sighed softly. He could not shake the feeling that everything had been destined from the start.

This man had been one of the original Knights of the Round Table and also served as a court steward of Britain, specifically responsible for caring for the king.

He was steady, gentle, and trustworthy.

Unfortunately, this time he could not bring himself to throw the holy sword into the lake, triggering the terrifying Singularity that followed.

Most likely, Alaya would expose the relevant video after some time, shocking the entire world!

They continued watching.

In the video, after losing both the holy sword and the scabbard, King Arthur began to be tainted by the holy lance.

Her originally ageless body—the body of a fifteen-year-old girl, eternally frozen at that age after drawing the Sword in the Stone—began to grow in "one part."

Under Luo Ya's disbelieving gaze.

The area before her chest, as blue as a steel plate, seemed to undergo a tectonic shift, violently surging upward into two Mount Everests.

Even her height, which had been barely 1.5 meters, rapidly increased to over 1.7 meters.

In the blink of an eye, the soft and adorable girl King Arthur transformed into the imposing Lion King who could rally the hearts of the people!

"Coach, I want to learn this!!!"

Luo Ya was practically drooling as she shouted.

It was far too enviable, infuriating, and jealousy-inducing.

"Keep dreaming!"

Wei Gong glanced sideways at her.

He had layered spell after spell onto this girl, perfectly "protecting" her.

Ninety-nine percent of his remaining power had been poured into Luo Ya's body to prevent her from running wild and becoming a world-destroying brat.

There were gains and losses in everything.

Her body had become like King Arthur's after drawing the Sword in the Stone, making it impossible for her to grow any further.

"Ahhh, I don't believe it! I'm going to defy the heavens and change my fate!"

Luo Ya ground her teeth in anger.

Over the past year, she had discovered that her body truly had stopped growing completely, frozen forever at 1.45 meters.

The only thing she could be grateful for was that she had a best friend even shorter than her, Ilya, whose height had likewise stopped increasing.

But she was still so envious!

The viewers were likewise stunned by this earth-shattering transformation—

[So that's why! I was wondering why My King was different from now when the The Perfect King video ended!]

[If your chest can't level the world, how can you level the world? It's easy to conquer a kingdom but hard to defend it! If your breasts aren't huge, how can you gather the hearts of the people? Whoever wins the people wins the world!]

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