Recaps

Leon claimed the throne, conquered Camelot’s rivals, married Morgan, and secured Excalibur as king. After declaring war on Ireland, he led an invasion that ended with Giramurius defeated and the Irish army surrendering.

• Leon drew the Sword in the Stone by smashing the stone around it, was proclaimed the Lion King, and gathered knights to march on Camelot.
• Leon conquered Camelot, negotiated his marriage to Morgan, and launched campaigns that crushed Orkney, reclaimed Scotland, and devastated Vortigern’s royal city.
• Leon returned to Camelot, welcomed Morgan’s sons Gawain and Agravain, and summoned Artoria to attend his coronation.
• Leon defeated Lancelot at a festival, then accepted Excalibur and Avalon at his coronation as Welsh rulers submitted and Vortigern’s soul was sent to Avalon.
• Leon married Morgan and learned she had created two embryos through alchemy, while Merlin introduced him to Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg.
• Leon declared war on Ireland as Britain’s harvests dwindled, then departed with Joe, Merlin, Gawain, and Agravain as Lancelot joined his campaign.
• Kay secured an Irish foothold, and Leon’s forces defeated Giramurius’s army before Lancelot killed the king and presented his head to Leon.

Leon’s war against Rome coincided with Morgan’s attempt to restore Britain’s Age of Gods, drawing both into battles against powerful enemies. The stretch left Leon facing the Machine God while Artoria, Kay, and Lancelot confronted Vortigern at the Spirit Tomb.

• Leon defeated Scathach, then accepted her offer to teach him Rune Script in exchange for a future fight.
• Leon returned to Britain, named Mordred his heir, and began sweeping reforms and industrial projects before moving the capital to Caliban.
• After Morgan destroyed Britain’s trains, factories, and ships, Leon launched a campaign against Rome while Morgan pursued her plan to restore the Age of Gods.
• Morgan summoned Vortigern and used him to activate the Dragon Heart, causing Britain to rise as a gigantic stone form.
• Artoria, Kay, and Lancelot fought Vortigern at the Spirit Tomb, and Artoria used Clarent to weaken him before they returned the royal palace and struck him with a causality-based beam.
• Leon killed Lucius and confronted the Artificial God, which revealed itself as a remnant of Zeus and fought him to a standstill before withdrawing to question his rejection of death.

Leon and his allies defeated Vortigern and the Machine God, while Morgan’s rebellion ended in her death and the loss of the Fairy Domain. Leon then prepared to cross the sea as Rome’s army shifted and Clovis faced an advancing force.

• The Machine God declared its love for humanity and recalled how the planet’s worship had restored its sense of purpose, then recovered from the Black Spear and detected an enormous energy source.
• Scathach led Gawain and another companion out of Morgan’s protected palace, identified Vortigern as the enemy, and warned that Morgan controlled her strongest blade.
• Vortigern transformed into a dragon and fought Gawain, Agravain, and Leon, but Leon pressed through the dragon’s mana torrent and killed him before Scathach drew his true form into the Land of Shadows.
• Scathach treated Agravain, who knelt before Leon and asked his father and king to punish him, while Leon struggled with his feelings as he approached Morgan.
• Leon entered the underground cavern and faced Morgan as the Machine God’s wreckage stood over the cratered battlefield, and tremors shook the city, and the Machine God reported that the Fairy Domain had been wiped out.
• After Artoria said goodbye to Morgan and sent her body into the lake for the Lady of the Lake to carry to Avalon, Leon left Mordred in Artoria’s care and ordered Britain’s armies to prepare for war.
• Leon established a bridgehead for the continental advance, while Jupiter organized supplies and Merlin discovered that the Roman prisoners had returned to Rome under a temporary leader.
• Clovis recognized the rumble of a huge cavalry force and watched an endless silver-white army advance toward him.

Leon consolidated his rule in Rome, expanded Britain’s armies and territory, and negotiated with the magi. After the campaigns ended, he returned to Britain and prepared for the challenges ahead, including Scathach’s unexplained departure.

• An assassin leapt onto Leon’s carriage with a poisoned dagger, but Clovis moved to block him.
• Rome’s nobles and tribal leaders bowed before Leon and urged him to accept the title of Augustus, and Leon later named Mordred his heir and Caesar.
• Leon pressured the Jeweled One into accepting his condition, while Merlin explained that Brissin had killed himself to prevent bloodshed and a rift between their sides.
• Leon and Jupiter expanded Britain’s army, and Leon led his forces through the enemy camps as Gawain fought at the vanguard.
• Leon’s forces reclaimed Rome, while Clovis’s commanders conquered the Sassanid Dynasty and Artoria’s forces expanded the Empire near the Black and Caspian Seas.
• Leon brought children with magic crests under Merlin’s care and reorganized Spirit Tomb Albion, placing the Mage’s Association on its first level.
• Jupiter withdrew most of the army from the continent, and Leon rewarded returning generals as Jupiter governed Europe from Rome.
• Leon and Merlin discussed Scathach’s departure and speculated that she wanted a student she had trained to kill her.