"Where are you, King Arthur! Show yourself, King of Knights!"
'Who the hell is screaming...? I'm trying to nap here!' Her eyes shot open, ready to confront the loud individual, but what awaited her was a scene straight out of hell. Corpses littered the landscape for as far as the eye can see. Knights whose armor now dented and bloodied, and peasants who were conscripted and thrown into the meat grinder.
'What is this...? Where am I?' She attempted to move her body, but it didn't respond to her command. Instead moving on its own, turning around and cutting off the arm of a knight trying to attack her. What shocked her was the weapon she held, Clarent.
She began to piece everything together, and it clicked. 'The Battle of Camlann...'
Her body moved once more and gazed upon the top of a hill where a familiar figure stood in silence. A figure that that made Mordred feel a sense of admiration, longing, hatred and rage. King Arthur, the King of Knights, and her Father.
"Look! How do you like it, King Arthur? Your country is now finished! Face retribution for your refusal to relinquish the throne!"
Arthur didn't not respond, remaining silent, and instead readied her sword, the Sword of Promised Victory.
Arthur's action only fueled Mordred's temper. "Tch. Do you hate me?! Do you have such a deep hatred for me?! Because I'm a child of a witch?!"
Yet, Arthur remained silent, and this pushed Mordred to attack, rushing forth at Arthur.
"Answer me, Arthur!" Their swords clashed, pushing both of them back as Excalibur was sent flying, disarming the King.
"Never once have I harbored hatred toward you" She finally spoke and summoned the Divine Lance to her side. "The reason I did not relinquish the throne to you..." Arthur instantly appeared in front of Mordred who didn't have time to react. "...was that you lacked the qualities required of a King"
The lance penetrated through Mordred's armor and into her stomach, appearing out the other end. Mordred's helmet shattered, revealing a face similar to Arthur's, then darkness was all she saw.
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[Warning: Beginning system update]
[Unsealing chosen parameters... completed]
[Unsealing chosen skills... completed]
[Unsealing soul bound items... completed]
[Issuing request to admin for integration of Helm of Secret Pedigree into Incursio... Accepted]
[Issuing request to Incursio for integration... Accepted]
[Integration successful]
[Updating system software... completed]
[Adding new system features... completed]
[Updating user interface... completed]
[Update completed]
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"AAAHHHH!" She screamed out, her body launched out of the sand, her breathing heavy as her right hand went down to check her stomach for a gaping hole. She spent a good minute calming down and coming back to reality. She was still wearing her Incursio armor, but it looked different than before. Then she felt something in her right hand and looked over at it. Her eyes widened in disbelief as she held a beautiful silver sword adorned with splendid red decorations.
Mordred stood up and held the sword in front of her. "Clarent?"
[Good morning host. System update has been completed]
"What? Oh right, the reward for facing my greatest fear huh..."
Mordred gave the sword a twirl and few swings, for some reason it felt right to hold this sword despite it still not accepting her.
"Status"
[Name: Mordred Pendragon]
[Title: None]
[Class: None selected]
[Race: ???]
[Parameters]
[Strength: D+]
[Endurance: D+]
[Agility: D]
[Mana: D]
[Luck: D]
[NP: C]
[Abilities]
[Mana Core: Rank D --> C]
[Mana Burst: Rank D+ --> C]
[Skills]
[Swordsmanship: Rank E --> C]
[Marksmanship: Rank D]
[Administration: Rank D]
[Magic Resistance: Rank D]
[Riding: Rank C]
[Instinct: Rank B]
[Battle Continuation: Rank B]
[Charisma: Rank C-]
[Expand to view all skills]
[Noble Phantasms]
[Clarent Blood Arthur: Rebellion Against My Beautiful Father]
[Anti-Army]
[Rank B+]
[Warning: Host currently cannot unleash its full power]
[Helm of Secret Pedigree]
[Anti-Unit (Self)]
[Rank C]
[Incursio]
[Anti-Unit (Self)]
[Rank C]
...
"Holy shit!" Mordred was surprised by the amount of information now displayed in her status. Before, it was pretty bare bones in her opinion.
"These aren't the full parameters that Modred as a Heroic Spirit had, they were much higher"
[Correct, as you are now you are not as strong as your Spirit counterpart. However, you are alive and have the opportunity to still become strong. It should also be noted that the parameters listed here follow different ranking then what Heroic Spirit parameters are ranked on]
"Well, I can't argue with that" She recalled Incursio into its sword form and set Clarent aside. She began stretching to get a feel for the changes in her body. She then looked around her at the beach she was on. 'This place is quite nice, I should make a beach house here to use for vacation. Oh, there's even flying whales' She watched the flying whales in the distant skies, only for the island to shake a little and a leviathan of ungodly scale to emerge out of the deep blue, biting down on one of the whales and collapsing back into the deep sea, its long body taking five minutes to fully submerge into the depths.
Mordred was silent for a while, trying to comprehend what she had witnessed. "You know what, screw the beach house, I just remembered I don't like sand. Ava, get me out of here, I want to go to a different world" Mordred said, she would explore the changes in the system when she was somewhere comfortable.
[Affirmative: Beginning world travel]
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...
[Location Unknown]
A loud emergency siren sounded across a city. The residents fleeing towards emergency shelters. Unknown to all of them, was a large airship that sailed over the city, its stealth system keeping it hidden from the public eye.
Inside the ships command center was a little girl who seemed to belong in an elementary school then on the bridge commanding a warship. Her red hair styled in twin tails.
"Commander the readings of this space-quake are unusually strong" One of the crew members spoke. "We are detecting an unknown energy that doesn't match Reiryoku"
"Hmm, send me the data" She then turned to the woman next to her who had long pale blue hair tied into a right sided ponytail, she had blue eyes with dark circle beneath them and wore glasses.
"Reine, contact Shiori and teleport her on board"
"Yes commander" Reine replied.
...
...
Mordred emerged from a large crater, looking around she saw that she was in a city. 'Is this Japan? Why did I make a crater when I got here? This hasn't happened before' Before she could ask Ava what happened, her instincts flared to life, she turned her body and saw a missile just inches away from her. She could only brace for the impact which sent her crashing into a building.
"Can't say I've had this type of welcoming reception before... No wait, I think I have..." She joked, pulling herself out of the debris only to be rained down on by bullet fire and more missiles. None of it getting passed Incursio.
"Tch, this is getting annoying!" She could hear her attackers yelling out commands to the rest of the group, something about switching ammo type. One of her attackers didn't seem to care about orders as she charged at Mordred with what looked to be a light saber. Mordred got a good view of her attackers, young women wearing... skin tight mecha suits?
A white haired girl launched herself at Mordred with an energy blade in hand. Mordred dodged the melee attack and grabbed the girl's face then slamming her into the ground, knocking her unconscious. "I've had enough!"
Her body burst into crimson lightning and Clarent appeared in her hands. Clarent seemed to absorb the lightning as its blade became a bright crimson red, discharging crimson lightning. She took several steps forward, completely ignoring the ineffective rain of bullets. There were too many targets to start fighting in melee, and they were all flying, something Mordred was incapable of currently.
She could use her rifle and attack at range, but why do that when she has another method, one that she's been wanting to try since she woke up and saw it on her status.
"Boil over!"
She raised the sword above her head.
"Wrath of the planet!"
The attackers who saw the increase in energy quickly brought up transparent force fields around their bodies to defend against the charged up attack.
"CLARENT BLOOD ARTHUR!"
She swung down the sword, emitting a sword beam of colossal scale, drowning her attackers and sweeping through the city streets.
As the dust settled, only half of them remained, surviving only because they weren't inside the attack. They quickly retreated, not having the option to retrieve the bodies of their comrades as they had been reduced to nothing, only saving one of their comrades who had been knocked out earlier.
'Damn... and this is supposed to have reduced strength... Noble Phantasms are crazy...'
Mordred let out a sigh of relief as they left before turning to an alleyway, she pointed her sword toward it. "I know you're there! Come out before my patience runs out!"
There was silence for about a minute, then a figure crouched behind a dumpster slowly got up and walked forward. They walked out of the darkness of the alley and into the sunlight, revealing the appearance of the figure who had their head down in fright. A woman with long blue hair and eyes, wearing a typical Japanese High School uniform, and in Mordred's opinion looked quite cute and more importantly, harmless.
"Who are you?" Mordred asked, still pointing her blade at the unknown woman. She would not let her guard down at a stranger who appeared harmless, she made that mistake already in the past and would not do it again.
The girl looked scared, Mordred assumed that she saw her obliterate a bunch of people, who wouldn't be scared after seeing that?
The girl finally found the courage to speak. "I- M-My name is S-Shiori..."