Chapter 2: Legendary Beginning

Pat!

Arthur Pendragon's hand slipped from Su Ya's palm and smashed into the pool of blood beneath him,

The splashing blood struck Su Ya's face.

Su Ya didn't know what that scene meant, nor did he know what fate awaited him.

But compared to these,

What he first remembered was—

He was currently on a battlefield that resembled a medieval one, and moreover, the enemy—should be the enemy—had their army continuously surging toward his location.

The only nearby figure that looked like a novice guide NPC, after spouting a string of baffling harsh words at him, just died in a terribly sloppy way.

"No, you just died like that?!"

"Even if it's a transmigration, at least give a novice guide before dying, bro!"

Su Ya stared in despair at Arthur Pendragon's corpse beside him, using the pool of bright red fluid flowing from his body,

Only then did Su Ya clearly see his own appearance at that moment,

His features were no different from before; if one had to point out a difference, only his hair and eye color matched those of the Arthur Pendragon lying on the ground.

In other words,

Su Ya looked exactly like Arthur Pendragon.

Combining the other's last words—terms like "becoming king," "curse," "counterfeit," etc. —

his current identity—

was probably a stand-in for this alternate-world version of "King Arthur"?

The timeline likely places him around King Arthur's age of fifteen, the year he was about to pull the sword from the stone and become king?

He confirmed this because Su Ya remembered looking like this at age fifteen.

So, had he transmigrated into the legendary world of "The Death of King Arthur," replacing that world's King Arthur?

But this obviously doesn't quite add up; King Arthur is a legendary figure from Celtic myth, yet the burly man Su Ya first saw single-handedly tearing through a thousand-strong army—he remembered Arthur uttering that fellow's name—

Hero, Seleucus.

Ignoring "Hero," which seems like a title or profession/rank,

Seleucus,

This person was a famed general in the era of Alexander the Great, originating from the imperial guard, who followed Alexander the Great in his campaigns and later founded the Seleucid Empire, ruling over vast territories in West Asia.

Then, the two sides clashing on this chaotic battlefield—were they the armies of Conqueror King Alexander the Great and King Arthur, or perhaps King Arthur's father, Yuse Wang?

What a messed-up development?

The two sides aren't even from the same era, and why would eastward-conquering Alexander the Great attack the far-western Britannia?

Could he have already circled the globe and come back?

For a moment,

Even if Su Ya had calmed himself as much as possible and strived to analyze the situation and possible survival methods,

his brain still couldn't stop being bombarded by chaotic information, buzzing incessantly.

And just then—

Su Ya truly heard his own brain start to ring.

Click, click, click!

Like three dice striking the skull, spinning, jumping, and landing steadily, the sound emanated from inside his brain!

The next instant,

Su Ya's vision suddenly displayed a subtitle:

【Dark Dice passed; future details of talent activation will be shown in subtitle form.】

【Your soul's innate talent is: Legendary Heart.】

【Explanation: You, who consider yourself mediocre yet crave legend, have always overlooked one point—life itself is legend! So, raise your chest and advance without hesitation! Every legendary path you encounter will become wings aiding your journey to legend.】

【Talent: Legendary Heart, activated.】

【Triggered Legendary Path: Dark Medical Master. (C++)】

【Obtained F-rank Profession: Novice Barefoot Doctor.】

【Explanation: You know nothing, but precisely because you know nothing, you successfully killed a patient who should have survived; your trauma treatment ability rises to elementary, yet during treatment you have a high chance of inflicting severe harm on the patient.】

【Path: By continuing to accumulate treatment experience, you will gain a new E-rank Profession: Experienced Quack Doctor (1/2), along with profession-specific specialties.】

【You have taken another step on the path of legend!】

【Current Legendary Path: 2/4.】 (Viewable)

The dice ceased spinning and jumping on his skull, the on‑screen subtitles gradually faded, but Su Ya faintly sensed that, if he wished, he could at any time project those subtitles back onto his retina.

And just as the subtitles disappeared, the next instant,

《Barefoot Doctor's Manual (Trauma Edition)》, 《Medical Service Squad First Aid Manual》, 《Outdoor Survival First Aid Manual》, 《Human Anatomy Diagram》, 《Overview of Vital Points First Aid》.

A vast amount of medical‑surgical knowledge was forcibly crammed into Su Ya's brain, but it merely existed there, not yet turned into usable knowledge—only retrievable when he might need it, to learn and use on the fly?

So, is this the effect of the Barefoot Doctor profession? Treating saving lives as a matter‑of‑course open‑book exam?

Is this my golden finger?

But why would it trigger such a legend‑path that sounds full of plot holes!

Dark Medical Master, Novice Barefoot Doctor?

No, buddy, what are you treating saving lives as—cooking like Little Chef?

Moreover, what help is this for me, about to be drowned by the army of Conqueror King Alexander the Great?

Ignore this temporarily useless golden finger.

Su Ya continued thinking,

Arthur Pendragon, before his death, also gave him a dragon-shaped mark resembling a magician's circuit in the Nasuverse worldview, but he didn't know what it actually was, and Arthur didn't give him a user manual; merely from the other's words, he could vaguely infer—

The dragon-shaped mark, is it something that can prove the identity of a crown prince?

But this is still utterly useless!

After thinking it over, Su Ya, who gradually understood everything, took a deep breath,

Although in a short while he seemed to have gained quite a few things—the Legendary Heart, the Legendary Profession, and the dragon-shaped mark—these things are still useless for the current situation.

To survive in this situation, Su Ya still has to rely on himself!

The lengthy contemplation ended in just a few seconds,

Su Ya first needs to continue understanding his situation.

Based on the information just observed, one can infer,

The Hero Seleucus that Arthur spoke of actually did not have capturing Arthur as his main goal; the other directly ignored Arthur and Su Ya hiding below the battlefield, flew diagonally past above the trench, and attacked the rear flank of the army formation.

In other words, the other's goal was to launch a frontal assault and crush Arthur's army,

the army of the Conqueror King Alexander, tentatively considered as this Conqueror King's army; their main direction of attack

is the advance of the army formation in a hilly environment, and it belongs to the advance route of an army about to victory; tentatively, calculate according to the width of that "broad straight line" surging from the horizon that Su Ya just saw.

Su Ya roughly simulated in his mind and found that the trench they were in was merely on the flank of the Conqueror King's army's marching route; the main force, i. e., the large unit formed by soldiers holding exaggerated long spears and shields, actually does not pass through here.

Because the position of the trench he is currently in is obviously chosen, it is on a slightly elevated slope, convenient for observation and concealment.

This is an isolated observation post.

In other words,

Continuing to stay here,

Su Ya doesn't need to do anything, and there is a certain probability he won't be discovered and attacked?

However,

This is obviously a naive thought; if this were a proper medieval battlefield, there should still be reconnaissance sentries, assault cavalry, and scout horsemen—these scouting units.

Taking the Macedonian army led by Alexander III as an example, the Macedonian scout horsemen following the main force would conduct reconnaissance several kilometers ahead, report that no ambushes were present, and only then would the commander issue the order to engage.

If the pre-battle reconnaissance didn't detect the two people in the trench, then Su Ya only needs to observe the position of sentries in the enemy army during combat to judge how he should act next.

In actual combat, sentry units, during engagement, part of the sentries withdraw to the main force and sally forth together, while another part continues to monitor the battlefield surroundings.

What Su Ya needs to determine is the position of that part of people,

which determines whether he will next stay here hiding or seize an opportunity to risk escaping.

Thus,

He moved aside from beside the corpse of the dead Arthur King, in the narrow trench where the two of them stayed, which does not connect to other places, he straightened his body, poked his head out, and once again observed the external battlefield.

Update time: 8 a. m. and 8 p. m., two chapters a day.

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