Chapter 5: May I ask, are you my lord?

【Talent: Legendary Heart, triggered.】

【Trigger Legendary Path: End of the Death Battle (A)】

【Obtained F-rank Job: Hyena.】

【Obtained job bonus, the highest of the five stats (Strength) increased by one level, slightly reducing combat skill learning speed.】

【Explanation: Headless Seven Faces, Ghost Buddha White Snake, Ten Thousand Army Carnage, Legendary Sovereign, or Heavenly Curtain High God? Walk this path, and you will have no way back.】

【Path: Victory in a battle where life and death hang by a thread, and continue to obtain the next victory; after the first class change, you will receive the new E-rank job of Junior Warrior (1/2) and the job's exclusive specialty.】

【You have taken another step on the Legendary path!】

【Current Legendary Path: 3/4.】 (Viewable)

As the dice landed steadily, the new path triggered after defeating the enemy bestowed upon Su Ya a job called 【Hyena】.

Unlike the first job obtained earlier, 【Barefoot Doctor】, this job grants abilities that are more direct.

Su Ya only felt his body suddenly heat up, as a strange energy surged outward from deep within his spinal cord,

Immediately after,

a crackling sound emitted from inside his body, only audible to Su Ya, spread and exploded!

It was somewhat like having a veteran masseuse press against his spine and crack his back at a massage parlor,

Crack!

"Ow—"

The pleasant feeling made Su Ya involuntarily exhale a long breath,

the impure gas exhaled from between his teeth turned into a long, straight white silk.

Su Ya clenched his fist, as if boundless power exploded from within,

He couldn't help but widen his eyes,

"Hiss, this surging power—I feel like I could kill a bull right now!"

But soon, this illusion faded.

Su Ya picked up the sword from the ground, gave it a lift, and felt the actual increase in his bodily strength—or what is called the Strength attribute.

There was an increase, but not much; it remained within human limits, roughly equivalent to going from someone who rarely exercises to someone who regularly does strength training.

【Strength rose from unranked to F-.】

【One of the five stats has met the standard; now you can open the panel to view your five stats.】

Subtitles appeared, Su Ya's mind stirred slightly, and a not-too-complex panel quickly appeared before his eyes.

【Real Name: Su Ya.】

【Talent: Legendary Heart, See-Through.】

【Main Job: Unemployed.】

【Path Jobs: Hyena (F), Freshly Graduated Barefoot Doctor (F), Fate Counterfeit (Ex)】

【Strength: F-, Agility: -, Magic: -, Endurance: -, Noble Phantasm: -】

After a quick look, Su Ya had a rough understanding of his golden finger.

This is probably a servant template like Fate, cultivated from zero?

With his current ability level, he can simultaneously trigger up to four Legendary Paths, each having a route for improvement,

As his job rank rises, he can obtain some peculiar abilities, specialties, or Noble Phantasms from the path's advancement?

However, the main job is probably the extraordinary path of this world, which he needs to explore and improve himself.

For now, the most useful job he has obtained is the newly acquired 【Hyena】, which can directly boost his basic physical abilities; the other two triggered jobs, one requires literally beating a person to death to gain improvement, and the other simply shows nothing but its name—Su Ya doesn't even know what it is.

But its rank is ridiculously high.

【Fate Counterfeit (Ex)】

Upon seeing the existence of the Noble Phantasm attribute, Su Ya guessed that this world's battle style would probably be quite similar to Fate.

From the lowest F, E, D, C, B, A, up to the unquantifiable Ex.

If E is taken as a base of 10 points, then C is 30 points, B is 40 points, A is 50 points, and Ex means an unquantifiable over-100 broken attribute, commonly seen in Noble Phantasms of army‑ or city‑level and above.

In terms of a person, it would be roughly equivalent to the Arthur King character card template with full stats, full Noble Phantasms, and full buffs.

But if this is also a path, shouldn't it be upgraded step by step?

Why is its level already maxed from the start?

A jumble of thoughts flashed through his mind,

The satisfaction from the strength increase faded, while the pain from the sword blade cutting his fingertip and the soreness from bumps during rolling resurfaced,

The brief yet fierce battle just now, for him,

was not unscathed.

Su Ya could only temporarily bury his doubts, sheathing the long sword in his hand back into the scabbard tied to his left waist.

And just then,

A light footstep sounded, accompanied by the clip‑clop of horse hooves,

the owner of the voice that had helped Su Ya earlier arrived behind him,

thus, Su Ya heard the following words:

"May I ask——"

That was a tender voice only a maiden could have,

clear yet tinged with an uncertainty that could not be confirmed, but as she spoke the latter part, her tone became utterly resolute,

"Are you the lord I shall serve!?"

Upon hearing those words,

Su Ya's mind instantly crashed, and every corner of his brain reverberated with one sentence,

Hey, you damn are my master?

The first thought when he came to his senses was,

Shit, could it be that my buddy was chosen by the Holy Grail? Which Type‑Moon world's side story is this?

But,

the next second,

a dagger pressed against Su Ya's throat.

A calm voice sounded:

"Answer me!"

"What is your name—"

"Su Ya." Su Ya immediately raised both hands, presenting the French National Gift.

The voice fell silent for a moment, as if discerning, but soon she exhaled heavily and solemnly said:

"Forget it, whether you're Arthur or Su Ya,"

"From now on, your name shall be Su Ya Pendragon!"

"Son of Yuse Wang!"

"Soon to inherit the whole of Britannia as its new king!"

"Now, turn around."

"." Su Ya fell silent; after witnessing Yuse Wang's rather tragic death, he simply didn't want to be some bird king.

Time travel, nice!

Transmigrated into a world of swords and magic with a transcendent path, a 40K Servant war, and also a seemingly very potent cheat—quite good!

But being transmigrated into a doomed king whose country is about to fall and whose body will be cut in half—now that's not pleasant at all!

Not to mention, Su Ya was never the heir of that whatever kingdom, and never intended to become its king.

Agreeing to this request now is equivalent to putting a chain around one's own neck, voluntarily walking toward the guillotine.

Can I agree to that!?

However,

After not receiving a clear answer,

As if caring nothing for Su Ya's life, the dagger blade pressed against his throat was pushed down mercilessly, the cold edge pressing tightly against the flesh, a bead of blood oozed from the skin, fell onto the dagger, and slid along the blood groove toward the red rhombus gem on the hilt.

"Wait!"

Su Ya's scalp tingled instantly; helplessly bearing his fatigue and soreness, he lifted both hands, shifted his body from the ground, and slowly turned around.

"Kneel on one knee, one hand on your chest."

The cool voice continued to command.

Su Ya could only obey, and during this, he had intended to use the combat techniques he learned from 'Women's Self‑Defense' in his past life to fight for his life and reverse‑grab the assailant behind him,

but he caught with the corner of his eye that the dagger pressed to his throat was not being held by anyone; it simply hovered in midair, as if ready to take his life at any moment.

Awesome, it's magic!

Until—

Su Ya fully followed the other's instructions,

turned around, knelt on one knee, and placed his hand on his chest,

and saw a white, tender little hand extending from a silvery‑white lace sleeve, a purple ring on its thumb, raised before him.

"Hold my hand, kiss me!"

(End of chapter)