Chapter Summaries

Sovell watched Gareth defeat Gawain in the tournament before her identity was revealed, while Barghest also impressed the knights until Lancelot beat her. Years later, a journal entry reflected on Gareth’s growth and the passage of time before Sovell was called to depart.

• Gareth won ten jousts and fought Gawain for two hours before Raineis revealed that she was his sister Garethe.
• Gawain conceded after removing Gareth’s disguise ring and discovering her identity.
• Sovell swore Barghest to his service and gave her a reforged Florent, which she used to win twenty tournament matches before losing to Lancelot.
• A journal entry recounted Gareth’s later training under Sovell, her place on the Round Table, and the knights’ affection for her.
• A personal guard knocked and told Sovell it was time to depart.

Mordred won her place at the Round Table while keeping her magical Horned Helmet on, and the vacant thirteenth seat later drew Galahad after he proved himself at a tournament. The chapter ended with the knights trying to dissuade Galahad from taking the seat of calamity, while Lancelot and Mordred stayed silent.

• Kay and Sovell recognized that Mordred's keen combat instincts and fighting style resembled the Young King as she defeated her opponent.
• Mordred won thirty consecutive bouts before Gawain stopped her, and Artoria named her the Morning Star and inducted her into the Round Table.
• Mordred refused to remove her Horned Helmet, and Sovell sensed that its magic blocked scrutiny but chose not to challenge her sincerity.
• A few years later, Galahad won fifty bouts and knocked down Lancelot with one punch at the fifth All-Britain Knights' Tournament.
• Galahad asked Artoria to give him the vacant thirteenth seat, and the Round Table knights tried to dissuade him while Lancelot and Mordred remained silent.

Elaine brought Artoria a sword embedded in red marble, which only the purest knight could draw. Galahad pulled it free and was officially granted the thirteenth seat at the Round Table.

• Elaine presented Artoria with the sword and explained that an unworthy knight would die trying to claim it.
• Artoria summoned the Knights of the Round Table, Barghest, and Galahad to test the sword.
• Palamedes, Mordred, Bedivere, Agravain, Gaheris, Bors, Kay, and Barghest failed to draw it; Gawain lifted the marble with the sword still embedded.
• Lancelot declined to try, while Percival and Gareth only made the sword hum and shift slightly.
• Galahad grasped the hilt and drew the sword free.
• Camelot announced that Galahad had joined the Round Table as its thirteenth knight.

As the Age of Gods declined across Britain and Ireland, Artoria chose to seek the Holy Grail while Sovell favored adapting Britain to the coming Age of Man. A Wild Hunt descended on Connova, and Sovell prepared to face it as the county warned its people to shelter.

• The Round Table knights learned that Princess Elaine had drugged Lancelot’s drinks, adding to the scandal surrounding Galahad’s birth.
• As life throughout Britain and Ireland withered, ministers proposed either seeking the Holy Grail or hastening the Age of Gods’ decline, and Artoria chose the Grail plan after arguing with Sovell.
• Sovell heard hoofbeats and hounds in Connova, saw a mass of black figures approaching, and summoned the Holy Spear.
• Sovell recognized the approaching army as the Wild Hunt, spirits that hunted the living and enslaved their souls.
• Connova’s bells and Magecraft Array ordered townspeople and villagers to shelter, cover their ears, close their eyes, and avoid responding to strangers until the bells rang three times again.

Sovell destroyed a band of the Wild Hunt and used a surviving scout to lure the other bands into a trap. With Artoria’s approval, he then established a Britain-wide magecraft field that guided souls to the Otherworld, ending the Wild Hunt across the islands and earning them a title from future generations.

• Sovell saw the Wild Hunt approaching and decided to attack it after his argument with Artoria.
• Sovell slaughtered the band of Wild Hunt with the Holy Spear, then captured a scout who tried to flee.
• Sovell used his Mystic Eyes to order the scout to spread a false rumor about a soul-destroying treasure in Connova.
• Sovell planned a Soul-Guiding Magecraft Array to guide the dead to the Otherworld and eliminate the Wild Hunt throughout Britain.
• Within a month, Sovell destroyed every Wild Hunt in the Britain Islands and, with Artoria’s approval, built a vast magecraft field that sent souls to their proper afterlives.
• Future generations called Sovell and Artoria the “Tyrant of the Wild Hunt.”

Sovell pursued his plan to prepare Britain for the age of man while the search for the Holy Grail consumed Camelot’s resources. After Galahad found the Grail and returned it to heaven, Sovell questioned his motives and learned Artoria would publicly celebrate the discovery; she also approved the start of Sovell’s plan.

• Sovell outlined four steps to transform Britain into the age of man and remain in Camelot to advance his research.
• Sovell led the campaign that brought more than ninety percent of Scotland under Camelot’s control and scattered the Picts into a few northern tribes.
• Sovell learned that Galahad had found the Holy Grail, returned it to heaven, and departed with Dandelin, and he reacted with anger before questioning what Galahad had witnessed.
• Sovell went to Artoria, who said Camelot would publicize Galahad’s discovery as a form of glory despite its suspicious circumstances.
• Sovell told Artoria that preparations for his plan were ninety percent complete, and she approved beginning it.

As Britain’s crisis deepened, Tristan and Kay left Camelot, and Tristan and Isolde later died. Sovell trained the next generation and prepared for the age of man, while Agravain resolved to punish the man he blamed for Artoria and Sovell’s suffering.

• Palamedes resigned and retired with Percival to Gareth Castle, while Tristan left Camelot with Isolde after Artoria refused to change course.
• Tristan and Isolde settled in a village, where Tristan died from a poisoned arrow and Isolde soon followed; Sovell attended their funeral.
• After the Saxons renewed their invasion, Ector died protecting evacuating people, and Kay disappeared from Camelot, leaving a letter for Artoria.
• Sovell took over Kay’s duties, promoted Barghest and Mordred, and entrusted Agravain with preparing for Britain’s internal challenges in the age of man.
• Agravain blamed an unnamed man for Artoria and Sovell’s condition and vowed to make him pay.

Sovell and Artoria learned that Lancelot had defected after killing guards while fleeing his affair with Guinevere, and Artoria ordered him hunted and Guinevere imprisoned. As Sovell contained the scandal, Mordred confronted Artoria over being denied the throne and vowed to destroy everything she had.

• Bedivere told Sovell and Artoria that Lancelot had defected, and they found Guinevere unharmed and Agravain gravely weakened in the ruined courtyard.
• Artoria stripped Lancelot of his honors, ordered him hunted, and had Bedivere imprison Guinevere for trial.
• Gawain vowed to capture Lancelot, but Sovell stopped him and ordered the knights to keep the defection quiet while Gawain cared for Agravain.
• Mordred demanded to know why Artoria would not name her heir, but Artoria left without answering.
• Mordred broke down and vowed to destroy everything Artoria had.

Sovell and Artoria sentenced Guinevere to be burned for her affair with Lancelot, but she rejected Sovell’s offer of painless poison. Lancelot attacked the execution grounds, killing Gaheris, and Sovell rushed to confront him.

• Sovell told Artoria that Guinevere had to be burned at the stake, and Artoria announced the sentence at court.
• Sovell ordered Gaheris and Gareth to oversee the execution and gave Guinevere poison, but she refused it and accepted her fate.
• A soldier reported that Lancelot had raided the execution grounds with followers, killed Gaheris, and forced Gareth to defend the site.
• Sovell ordered Barghest to surround the execution grounds and declared that he would kill Lancelot.

Sovell arrived at the Execution Ground and found Gaheris dead while Lancelot fought to escape after rescuing Guinevere. Gawain attacked Lancelot in a fury over his siblings’ injuries and Gaheris’s death, and killed him.

• Sovell found Gaheris’s body at the Execution Ground and comforted the wounded Gareth.
• Lancelot admitted that he had rescued Guinevere, then raised Arondight against Sovell.
• Gawain rushed in and struck Lancelot with Carnwennan, while Sovell carried Gareth to safety.
• Gawain’s anger awakened the darkness in his heart, and his attacks overwhelmed Lancelot.
• Gawain killed Lancelot.

Artoria sentenced Guinevere to confinement after Lancelot’s rebellion, while Britain recovered and prepared for another war with Rome. As Artoria departed to lead the expedition, Merlin appeared at the docks and asked what chivalry meant to her.

• Barghest reported that Gawain had killed Lancelot and the rebels had been captured, and Artoria sentenced Guinevere to spend the rest of her life confined at the Kerimud Royal Palace.
• Artoria ordered the captured rebels beheaded, while Gawain crushed Saxon invaders and gained widespread support as a possible successor to the throne.
• Two years later, Artoria finalized a second expedition against Rome and told Sovell she would lead it herself, leaving him to oversee the unfinished Age of Man project.
• Sovell asked Artoria to leave Camelot with him after the Age of Man arrived, and she said she trusted and understood him.
• Artoria departed for Rome with Gawain and Bedivere, and Merlin appeared at the docks and asked her what chivalry meant.

Artoria and Merlin shared a heartfelt farewell before she sailed to lead Britain’s expedition against Rome. Merlin reflected on his past failures and told her that she and Sovell would always be his finest students.

• Artoria recalled Ector’s chivalric teachings and said she did not resent Lancelot or Guinevere, though she mourned their deaths.
• Artoria declared that she and Sovell would leave Camelot to seize Rome’s Royal City and defend Britain’s future.
• Merlin asked what Artoria would do if Britain were doomed, and she insisted that she and Sovell would keep fighting to save it.
• Merlin admitted that he and Uther had pursued an ideal king while Artoria and Sovell pursued the people’s happiness, and he regretted not seeing the difference sooner.
• As Artoria prepared to board the departing ship, she thanked Merlin and said he mattered to her and Sovell as much as Ector and Third Uncle.
• Merlin watched Artoria sail away and called her and Sovell his finest students.

After the Picts seized northern Scotland and Gareth was gravely wounded, Sovell led a new campaign to destroy them. As his army advanced, a betrayal interrupted his plans.

• A blonde girl with silver-white streaks in her hair spoke with her Queen Mother, who urged her to claim Britain’s throne, and she admired the stolen royal sword Clarent.
• The Picts took Scotland, Gareth fell unconscious, and Mordred retreated with fewer than thirty percent of the army to Hadrian’s Wall.
• Sovell traveled north, used his life force to heal Gareth, and sent her back to Camelot to recover.
• Sovell ordered Mordred and Barghest to join him in leading the army against the Picts, determined to avenge Gareth.
• Sovell advanced through northern Scotland with Mordred and Barghest, but a betrayal reached him before the planned confrontation.

Sovell’s army fell to a rebellion, and Mordred betrayed him by stabbing him through the heart. As Picts blocked their escape, Barghest sacrificed her life force to save Sovell, leaving him alive and grieving her death.

• Horn blasts signaled a rebellion, and traitors attacked Sovell’s army from within.
• Mordred stabbed Sovell through the heart and revealed her face, which resembled Artoria’s.
• Barghest escaped with Sovell on Kelpie, but Picts ambushed them along the route to Hadrian’s Wall.
• Barghest prepared to hold off the Picts while Kelpie carried Sovell away, but Sovell insisted they both leave him behind.
• Barghest gave her life force to Sovell, overcoming the difference between their life tiers and healing his fatal wound.
• Barghest kissed Sovell and dissolved into starlight, and Sovell fell to his knees sobbing.

Sovell survived Barghest’s sacrifice and confronted Morgan, trapping them both inside a deadly field that covered Scotland. After sacrificing his right eye to suppress every living creature’s speed and prevent flight, he prepared to face Morgan and the invading creatures.

• Mordred sailed south with her personal troops after Morgan ordered her to seize the vulnerable Royal City.
• Morgan sensed Sovell’s immense magic power, but he evaded her attacks and pursued her using his Mystic Eyes.
• Morgan identified Sovell’s Jewel-Class Mystic Eyes as the source of his speed and realized he had survived Barghest’s fatal wound.
• Sovell sealed Scotland behind a Wind Wall, making Morgan unable to escape through spatial-jump magecraft unless she killed him.
• Sovell removed his right eye and created a field that suppressed living creatures’ speed and prevented flight throughout Scotland.
• Sovell sat beside the Holy Spear in the rain, savoring a moment of peace before inviting Morgan to go to hell with him.

After defeating Morgan at the cost of severe injuries and a beloved family member, Sovell refused a miracle that would claim what came after his death and rejected Solomon’s offer of the Holy Grail. He remained alone on the scorched earth, uneasy beneath the fading light of the Holy Spear, and asked his old partner for a favor.

• A mysterious voice asked Sovell why he had fought, and he admitted he wanted to see the people he cared about smile and to fulfill his responsibilities.
• Sovell recalled destroying the Holy Spear’s core to defeat Morgan, losing his right eye, right arm, and an irreplaceable family member in the battle.
• The miracle offered Sovell a chance to change the ending in exchange for what came after his death, but he refused because someone was waiting for him.
• Solomon offered Sovell the Holy Grail and invited him to join, but Sovell returned it after tasting the wine.
• After Solomon’s rift closed, Sovell looked at the golden sky and asked his old partner for a favor.

After Sovell’s final spell, Morgan awoke reborn and sent his body out to sea. Artoria returned from her victory over Rome to confront Mordred’s rebellion, and as the army marched toward Caerleon, Bedivere realized Artoria intended to die.

• Sovell cast his final spell, restoring the land before falling asleep forever with the fragments of the demonic sword.
• Morgan was reborn as the Lady of the Lake, healed Sovell’s body, and set it adrift in a boat.
• Kelpie met Artoria at sea and told her that Mordred had rebelled and that Barghest and Sovell had died defending Britain.
• Kay helped Artoria’s forces break through Mordred’s blockade, but he died after being struck by a stray arrow.
• Artoria sent Gawain and Bedivere toward Caerleon while she stayed behind, determined to join Sovell and Kay in death.
• Bedivere encountered a demonic beast and recognized in its gaze that Artoria wanted to die.

At Camlann, Artoria defeated Mordred and proclaimed the end of Britain’s Age of Gods before ordering Bedivere to return the Holy Sword and scabbard to the lake. Artoria and Sovell died, Gawain succeeded to the throne, and Britain endured until the ancient kingdom eventually ended in peace.

• Artoria drew Mordred into a battle on Camlann Hill and told her she hated her for being a traitor, not for being the Witch of Dusk’s son.
• Mordred unleashed Clarent’s power, but Artoria pierced her with the Holy Spear; Mordred’s final strike shattered Artoria’s skull and destroyed one of her eyes.
• Artoria proclaimed that Britain had bid farewell to the Age of Gods, then Bedivere rescued her from the rebels and carried her into the forest.
• Artoria gave Bedivere the Holy Sword and scabbard and ordered him to cast them into a lake, where the Lady of the Lake accepted them before Bedivere returned to her.
• Artoria died after naming the Sun Duke as her successor, and the Lady of the Lake carried her body away by boat.
• Gawain ascended the throne as King of the Dawn, Britain was reunited, and the historical account recorded the kingdom’s later peaceful end.

The chapter presented Lily Ambrosius, Artoria Pendragon in her youthful form after drawing Caliburn, and detailed her abilities, weapons, and idealistic journey toward kingship. It ended by noting that she later became a true king, while whether she ever missed her youth remained unknown.

• Lily Ambrosius was introduced as a lawful-good Saber with exceptional magic power and luck.
• Her skills were described, including her red dragon factor, battle instincts, Mana Burst, and bond with Sovell.
• Caliburn was explained as a ceremonial sword that could unleash a powerful beam but might break under its force.
• Lily's Noble Phantasm linked to Sovell let her borrow up to two of his personal skills for a limited time.
• Artoria traveled under the alias Lily Ambrosius to gain experience ruling and restoring order across Britain.
• In her final days as Lily, she changed into a prince's finery, and two years later became a true king.

The chapter presents Gawain Carnwennan’s Servant profile, detailing his abilities, Noble Phantasms, and different Spirit Origins. His final profile entry remains unknown.

• Gawain Carnwennan’s profile identified him as a five-star Avenger whose true name was Gawain Pendragon.
• His class and personal skills described his vengeance, leadership, solar blessing, and resistance to debuffs.
• His Noble Phantasms linked Carnwennan to Gawain and gave him powerful solar attacks, including a judgment strike that branded and burned guilty enemies.
• His profile outlined his tyrant-like first Spirit Origin and his second and third forms.
• Gawain’s sixth personal profile entry was left as unknown.