Chapter 826

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The goddess Rhongomyniad was enveloped in pure white light. By the time the radiance faded completely, she was dressed in silver-blue attire.

“There,” the Lion King said. “Now we can talk, I presume.”

“First of all, who exactly are you?” Rin Tohsaka asked. “Amamiya is very likely to shield you, so I want to hear an explanation directly from you.”

Tohsaka, do you really have that little faith in me?

“My name is Artoria Pendragon,” the Lion King said calmly. “I was once the person you call the King of Knights.”

“Pendragon... the King of Knights... Huh?”

Naturally, the girls were confused.

Since Shirou had initially called this woman a divine spirit, they had assumed she was a goddess from some mythology or other. But... King Arthur?

Luvia remembered that they had fought King Arthur’s corrupted Servant not long ago.

“Then what is your relationship with Saber?”

“She is my immature past.”

The Lion King’s voice was indifferent, and there was not a trace of nostalgia in her divinity-filled eyes.

“Is King Arthur a divine spirit?” Illya asked, looking at Rin.

The twin-tailed girl shook her head.

“King Arthur did live in Britain during the Age of Gods, and in the world of magecraft, King Arthur’s death is considered the definitive end of the Age of Gods on Earth.

“But King Arthur certainly wasn’t a divine spirit... If anything, a dragon would be more accurate than a god...”

“She’s the Wild Hunt,” Shirou explained.

The Wild Hunt of European legend. The King of Storms.

The king of the dead who appeared at the head of a spectral host.

In many stories, King Arthur was believed to be the figure behind the Wild Hunt.

Of course,