When the thirteen Kingsman agents arrived, the soul fire of the Holy Grail had begun to gradually shrink, but even so, they could still feel the difference in the Holy Grail. This Holy Grail has remained in Kingsman's secret base for decades, and it has created generations of Kingsman's "Knights of the Round Table" agents.
So the agents all have a very mysterious connection with the Holy Grail. These agents knew very well that before today, the Holy Grail was inevitably weakening, or in other words, the power given to the agents by the Holy Grail was getting weaker and weaker. Compared with the first generation of 'Knights of the Round Table', today's agents are much weaker.
This was one of the reasons why Alfred felt anxious. He knew very well that the Holy Grail had been away from its owner for too long. When Kai left the Holy Grail, he never thought that he would be missing for so many years, so there was not much power left in the Holy Grail.
It would have been very difficult for the Holy Grail to persist until now without Kai's control.
Alfred was almost desperate for Kai's return, and it was also because of this that Alfred agreed to Valentine's participation in that crazy plan.
But now, everything is different.
Alfred looked at the Holy Grail excitedly, and he could clearly feel that the Holy Grail was beginning to revive. Powerful soul power is surging in the Holy Grail.
Other agents also breathed a sigh of relief. Nowadays, it has become increasingly difficult to replace the Kingsman agents. Kingsman used to recruit new recruits only from the noble class. But as the Holy Grail becomes weaker and weaker, they can only expand the scope of recruitment so that they can recruit more suitable personnel. After all, the power of the Holy Grail is getting weaker and weaker. There are fewer and fewer people who can transform, and their fault tolerance rate will become even lower.
Therefore, selecting new employees becomes extremely cautious.
More than ten years ago, Harry Hart, codenamed Galahad, began to develop new selection criteria, trying to select qualified agent candidates from ordinary people. Although that attempt ended in failure, Galahad still did not give up. This time after the sacrifice of the agent code-named 'Lancelot', the candidate submitted by Galahad was still a commoner - Eggsy.
Eggsy was originally a street gangster. Eggsy's father was the first commoner chosen by Harry Hart. Later, Eggsy's father died to save Harry during another operation. In order to compensate, Harry recommended Eggsy.
Eggsy is recommended by Harry Hart and has a chance to become a phoenix. However, he needs to pass the most dangerous test in history before he can truly join this modern knight organization that saves the world. Prior to this, Alfred and Harry had been arguing over whether to accept Eggsy.
Alfred is just like his grandfather, Alfred Sr. They are all firm supporters of the theory of aristocratic superiority. Alfred always believed that it was impossible for a little bastard like Eggsy to understand and inherit the great spirit of chivalry. His entry into Kingsman would only cause Kingsman to deviate from its originally planned track.
But today, Alfred no longer has the position to question Eggsy.
He never thought that he would betray Kingsman one day...
Today, these top agents gathered together not only because of the mutation of the Holy Grail, but also because of the treatment of Alfred.
As the leader of Kingsmen, Alfred actually betrayed his proper position and planned to cleanse the entire world together with that nigger lunatic!
Originally, according to Kingsman's style, Alfred's betrayal could not have a second end, except death!
But things are not that simple nowadays.
First Alfred did not cause any substantive harm. He only agreed to participate in Valentine's plan, but the substantive action had not yet begun. Killing Harry was originally their first cooperation, but at the last moment, Al Fred calls Harry back. Even his betrayal was only discovered because Alfred turned himself in, otherwise it would be impossible for others to know.
Second, Alfred's identity is too special. He was one of the founders of Kingsman, and he also had an extraordinary relationship with the man whom Kingsman served.
That's right, in addition to maintaining world peace, Kingsman's other purpose is to serve the King of Knights - Kai! In a sense, Kai, the King of Knights, is the master of Kingsman, and they all only exist to serve Kai.
Although this has never been achieved in Kingsman for decades. But this is indeed Kingsman's purpose.
It was even relying on this that allowed Kingsman to avoid being annexed and controlled by the British government in the early years. Later, when Kingsman developed and expanded, the British government finally had no choice but to let Kingsman go for one reason or another. This also makes Kingsman the largest independent private intelligence agency in the world.
In the past, Kingsman could indeed ignore Kai and deal with Alfred directly, but not now. Because the changes in the Holy Grail revealed that Kai, who had been missing, was back.
Therefore, one needs to be cautious in handling Alfred.
Before coming, the eleven top Kingsman agents had already met to discuss how to deal with Alfred. (There are a total of thirteen Kingsman's top agents, including Alfred, codenamed 'Arthur'. Due to the death of the agent codenamed Lancelot, the successor has not yet officially taken office. Alfred, codenamed Arthur They are involved again, so there are only eleven agents now)
After emergency consultations, a group of people finally came to the conclusion that Alfred's status should be revoked, but he would not be subject to any substantive punishment.
Because there is no way to punish him at all.
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Now that all the top personnel of Kingsman are concentrated here, in addition to dealing with Alfred, there is another thing to deal with, which is to determine the route after Kingsman.
Looking at the glittering Holy Grail, Galahad Harry, who officially became the leader of Kingsman, asked Alfred on the side with a complicated expression: "Alfred... what should we do next?"
Although Alfred's status has been abolished in name, Alfred has been leading Kingsman for decades. Even if he has made wrong actions before, his status within Kingsman is still irreplaceable.
"First... deal with Valentine! I know all his plans and hiding places. You just need to lead people to deal with them. I don't need to arrange this." Naturally, Alfred can't mess with Valentine anymore. Together, he has more important things. So I sold Valentine very simply.
"Next, what we have to do is find the Duke! No matter what the cost!"
Harry was not Alfred, and he would not understand Alfred's admiration for Kay.
So he didn't quite agree with Alfred asking Kingsman to go all out to find Kai. Kingsman's power should be used to protect the world, rather than wasting power to find people. Besides, with Kingsman’s intelligence capabilities, it’s easy to find someone, so why bother doing anything at all costs?
However, he did not speak out against Alfred because it was not necessary. Now it's not like Alfred said anything, they must actually do it. Don’t forget, he’s now the leader of Kingsman.
"So what about Lancelot's replacement?" This is what everyone present is most concerned about.
According to Kingsman tradition, when a vacancy occurs for a top Kingsman agent, other Kingsman agents are required to provide a candidate, and the vacancy is created among these candidates. This is not just a new problem for Kingsmen, it also involves a bit of a power struggle. The recommended candidate is elected, which also means that the recommender has greater power within Kingsman.
This is inevitable, as long as it is an organization composed of people, it cannot be avoided.
Now that Galahad is the leader, both publicly and privately, he hopes that Eggsy, whom he recommends, can become the new Kingsman. But the power of tradition is still very strong within Kingsman, at least others are not very supportive of Eggsy taking over as 'Lancelot'.
And Eggsy had already failed in previous tests. ;The candidate for 'Lancelot' has been decided. Now that Galahad once again proposed to let Eggsy take over, it is naturally impossible for others to agree.
It is also because of this that Galahad hopes Alfred can support him.
"It should be two... Galahad, after all, I am retired." This was Alfred's answer, and his attitude was already obvious. He did not agree with Galahad overturning the original arrangement, which would make others dissatisfied. At the same time, he also gave Alfred a chance. His retirement left a position vacant in Kingsman, and Galahad could let Eggsy inherit the position.
Galahad was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I understand. I will arrange it."
He understood that this was Eggsy's last chance, so he decided to slow down and wait for Eggsy to train for a few years before fighting for the final position.
No one else objected to this. This was something approved by the two previous leaders, and there was no need for them to forcefully oppose it.
"Okay, it's all said and done. I still say the same thing, we need to find Mr. Kai as soon as possible!"
Kingsman never expected that although the Holy Grail showed that Kai had returned, they still did not receive any news from Kai in the next few years.
So where did Kai go?
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The time came to 2008.
Puerto Rico, San Juan City, at the U.S. Army Fort Buchanan Army Base. Kai is leading his team to repair in the base.
This is the fifth year since Kai returned from the lost world. Back then, Kai followed Professor George's expedition team to South America to find the legendary prehistoric world. Not to mention the result, let them find it. This prehistoric world existed on a plateau in the Amazon rainforest of South America.
When Kai saw this plateau, he was completely confused. What the hell, there is a huge highland in the Amazon rainforest?
Although he is not a geography expert, he has attended high school and knows that the Amazon rainforest is in the Amazon Basin! Where did the high ground come from?
Not only that, there were even more bizarre things waiting for them after entering the plateau.
First of all, the diary that Professor George brought back is true. There really is a prehistoric world on the plateau. No, it should be said that it is more bizarre than the prehistoric world. There, they can discover creatures from all periods of the earth, from the trilobites of the Ordovician, the Dunkleosteus of the Silurian, the Orgydons of the Permian, the pterosaurs of the Triassic, and the pterosaurs of the Jurassic. Dinosaurs, Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex, birds, and more!
Almost all creatures that have appeared in every geological period on the earth can be found on that plateau, including humans.
Well, yes, just normal human beings. From apes to Homo sapiens to modern humans, everyone can be found on that plateau. It is simply a museum of the earth!
This is not the most terrible thing.
What's really terrible is that once they enter the Lost Highlands, they can't get out! In all senses, Kai can guarantee that their inability to come out is not due to any geographical reasons. But the high ground seemed to be conscious and spontaneously prevented them from leaving the high ground.
For example, several times, they found an exit from the high ground, but they really wanted to leave. You will encounter various accidents.
Once is still a coincidence, but if it happens too many times, it cannot be called a coincidence. You know, Kai is not an ordinary person, even he can't escape from this ghost place. No matter whether it was various spells or other methods, it was useless. Even if Kai wanted to contact Kama Taj to help him open a portal, he couldn't do it.
After several years of bizarre adventures, Kai and the others finally discovered that this highland is not really a museum of the earth. On the contrary, it is the source of everything. It has strong creativity. The highland will be updated every once in a while. To put it simply, Said, that is, all living things on the earth were created from the Lost Plateau, and then flowed to the outside world!
This is the origin of the earth!
After the plateau reaches a creation cycle, it will spontaneously generate a force that will erase all creation. Then the next cycle of creation begins again.
Outside scientists have always been curious about why life was produced on the earth. Now the question has been answered. Everything comes from the Lost Highlands. So where did Lost Heights come from? No one knows this, only a people called the Guardians in the Lost Highlands know something about it.
They call those creators - the God Group!
Legend has it that the Celestials came to the Lost Plateau and used it to create all life on earth. Unfortunately, due to some unknown reasons, the God Group never came in the end.
The guardians are left by the Celestials to maintain the balance of creation and destruction on the plateau. Before the creation cycle reaches its end, they will control the power of the plateau to preserve and protect everything in the past until the arrival of the next cycle. This is why there are life on the plateau from all periods of the earth.
This balance of destruction and creation has been maintained for countless generations, but before Kai and the others entered the plateau, the balance was in danger of being broken.
In fact, the reason why the outside world discovered the Lost Highlands was because the guardians hoped to use strength from the outside world to help them overcome their difficulties. In other words, Kai and the others were consciously attracted by the guardians.
As for the final outcome, it goes without saying. Kai killed a line of Destroyers who tried to break the balance - those madmen who tried to use the power of the plateau to rule the world. Allowing the Guardians to maintain balance.
But here, something deceptive happened.
Because the balance has been maintained, the plateau will disappear from the world as before. In other words the plateau will disappear. At the same time, the plateau's cycle of destruction is coming. When the cycle of destruction passes, although everything will return to balance, things within the plateau will remain on the plateau forever and cannot leave.
In other words, Kai must break the power of destruction and forcefully return to the real world!
Kai was cheated. He almost went crazy. If it weren't for the fact that he had a good relationship with Veronica, a descendant of the Guardian lineage, he really wanted to teach those so-called Guardians a profound lesson. It's okay for him to help protect the world, but he can't be so cheating!
In the end, Veronica was interesting enough and used the power of the guardian to force Kai back to the outside world. As for others, they can only stay in the Lost Highlands forever.
But for this, other people have gone to Kuoda. They have experienced too much here and have too much, which makes them unable to leave there at all. So without the chance to go back, they calmly accepted the fate of staying there.
As for Kai who left, the end was not good either.
First of all, because of the special nature of the Lost Highlands, it allowed him to directly transcend time and space. He only stayed in the Lost Highlands for five years. After he came to the outside world, it was 2003 AD!
Secondly, the destructive power of the Lost Highlands was much more powerful than imagined. Although protected by the creative power of the Guardian clan, Kai was still hit hard!
His body changed into a very peculiar state due to the power of creation and destruction, and his body was broken up into a special ionic state. This makes it impossible for him to exist permanently in the real world. He needs a 'petri dish' to reorganize his body.
And Adam, the American soldier who was dying in the jungle, became the 'petri dish' that Kai needed. Kai's body inhabited him, using Adam's body as a medium to reorganize his own body.
There are drawbacks to this, that is, Kai's entire strength will be completely destroyed. In other words, Kai is equivalent to deleting his account and retraining. As for the benefits, there are some. In this way, at least most of Kai's abilities are retained. For example, Desert Fire and the second form are retained.
At the same time, he also inherited Adam's identity and became an American soldier.
Adam's original name was Adam Wayne Milligan, from Windham, Minnesota. He is considered a single-parent family. His mother, Kate Milligan, a doctor, died before he joined the army. The death state was extremely strange, and the internal organs of the body were hollowed out. The police said it was done by wild animals.
As for his father, in Adam's mind anyway, his father John was a mysterious man who was always elusive and rarely accompanied him and his mother. Sometimes it may not happen even once a year. In Adam's mind, his father is equivalent to no one.
At the time of his mother's death, Adam was attending pre-med at the University of Wisconsin. After receiving the news of his mother's death, this young man with a promising future could not bear the blow and left his hometown. Finally, he chose to join the army and was successfully admitted to the Marine Corps based on his excellent physical fitness.
Half a year after joining the army, he was attacked by a terrorist organization during a special mission in South America, and was finally taken advantage of by Kai.
From that point on, Kai replaced Adam. These circumstances are all known from the remaining memories of Kaigen's Adam. Externally, Kai also claimed that he had lost a lot of memory. This statement was accepted by the doctor because Adam's head was indeed traumatized at that time, and although the chance of losing part of his memory was low, it was still possible.
This also helped Kai avoid many internal inspections by the US military. An entire US military squad was killed, and of course the military had to investigate. After Kai was quarantined for two months, the military did not give a decent explanation, as if there was something unspeakable about the attack. However, Kai was not implicated and could still stay in the US military.
After recovering from his injuries at the US military base, Kai did not choose to leave the army because he had nowhere to go for a while. His condition at the time was not good, and at best he was an ordinary person. So it's better to stay in the US military.
Because he had experienced life and death, Kai was quickly selected by a US military special team and became a member of the US military's special response force. His main responsibility was to attack high-threat targets. In short, it was to fight with people.
This is why Kai is reluctant to leave. In modern society, there are not many professions that can kill people reasonably. Kai doesn't want to become a murderer, so if he wants to regain his strength, staying in the US military is undoubtedly the best choice.
In the next five years, Kai quickly adapted to another military career and quickly rose through the ranks during these five years. From a Marine to a Special Response Force second lieutenant commander.
This is the benefit of a first-level combat unit. As long as you can fight, promotion will be as easy as dipping. Of course, this is only for lieutenants. If you want to be promoted to a colonel, you need luck, connections and qualifications. Don't think that the United States is really a beacon of freedom and democracy. There are no fewer unspoken rules there than in other places in the world.
All in all, after five years of fighting, Kai now leads a single combat team on various combat missions.
During this period, his team was also a well-known team within the US military. During the five years, Kai carried out more than a hundred missions and completed them all without exception. The mission completion rate was astonishingly high. After he led the team alone, the mission success not only did not decrease, but because the team not only achieved a 100% mission completion rate in two years, but also did not suffer any casualties in the two years, becoming a A myth!
This time Kai and his team appeared at the Fort Buchanan Army Base because they had just completed a mission. After raiding a Colombian drug lord's lair, he returned to repair.
But before Kai and his combat team members could rest, an urgent mission approached them.
"Secret Service?" Kai returned the ID in his hand to the black woman in front of him and asked with a puzzled expression: "Why did the Secret Service find us?"
The Secret Service, abbreviated as USSS, is a law enforcement agency of the U.S. federal government and is affiliated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Responsible for preventing and investigating counterfeiting of U.S. dollars and bonds, as well as protecting the President, Vice President, President-elect and Vice President-elect, former Presidents and their spouses, and other dignitaries.
But whether it was checking for counterfeit currency or protecting dignitaries, Kai couldn't think of anything to do with them.
Kai and his special combat team deal with all drug lords, warlords, terrorists and some guerrillas. The Secret Service is always in places like Washington, DC, and it is impossible to have any contact with them.
The black woman named Lynn Jobs didn't say much, she just motioned to a general beside her.
That was Kai's immediate superior, Major General Hawke. Real name: Abernathy Creighton. However, due to the rules of the Special Response Force, no one here uses their real names.
Hawke coughed a few times and signaled all the watching team members to disappear. A group of people saw that Hawke was so solemn and knew in their hearts that this must be some kind of private business. This type of private work is not uncommon in troops like theirs. Generally speaking, most of those private work are outsourced tasks by the CIA.
You heard that right, outsourcing. The CIA is an intelligence agency, and field personnel must be considered elite, but they cannot conquer the world all at once. Many killing tasks will be outsourced. For example, many American overseas security companies will accept orders from the CIA and work as thugs for them.
But it is even more impossible for the CIA to ignore the super thug of the U.S. military, so many highly confidential tasks will seek cooperation from the U.S. military.
And these cooperations all cost money!
As a sharp knife of the military, the special response force derives a lot of funding from this.
But this is the first time the Secret Service has outsourced its tasks.
After that, only Kai, General Hawke, and Lynn Jobs were left in the room.
"Second Lieutenant Kai!" Lin Jobs waited until everyone left before speaking.
Kai changed his name a long time ago. This is not difficult, especially in a special force like theirs. Changing the name can avoid a lot of trouble. Even if Kai doesn't take the initiative to change it, the military will help him forge a new identity. . Anyway, the name on Kai's ID card now is "Kay Wayne."
"This time we need you to save a person, a family to be precise. Benjamin Asher and his family, you should have heard of him."
"Benjamin Asher? Who is that? Why should I have heard of him?"
Lynn Jobs glanced at Kai in surprise. He actually didn't even know who Benjamin Asher was...
"He's the Democratic nominee for president!"
Only then did Kai remember that 2008 was an election year in the United States!
