The search for the Holy Grail continued.
The knights left Camelot one after another, departing from Britain.
Some even buried themselves in the libraries of Christian churches, praying they could find the faintest trace of a clue among the countless texts.
Yet of all the Knights of the Round Table, Sovell alone paid no attention to the Holy Grail.
Sovell believed it was wrong to seek some supposed miracle to preserve the age of gods, reject the age of man, and forcibly turn back the wheels of history.
Britain had only managed to retain its age of gods because it lay far from the continent.
To put it bluntly, in the current world of the age of man, Britain was nothing more than insignificant residue of the age of gods that had yet to be cleared away.
Nor did Sovell believe that the gods of myth had taken no measures against the arrival of the age of man.
But whatever the reasons, the age of gods had ultimately vanished from the European Continent.
Thus, Sovell did not believe Britain's age of gods could survive either.
Only by adapting to the times and this world could Britain find a way forward.
That conviction grew especially strong when, after wiping out all the Wild Hunt and reporting to Artoria, Sovell saw knight after knight leave Camelot in pursuit of something as elusive as the Holy Grail.
His resolve hardened once more, and he chose to remain in Camelot to spur himself on in his research.
In Sovell's conception, actively advancing the arrival of the age of man in Britain involved four steps:
The first was to launch a large-scale campaign against the Picts in the north and bring Scotland's vast lands firmly under the control of Camelot's Royal Court.
Sovell had already