I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 2 The Beginning of a Legend
pat!

Arthur Pendragon's hand slipped from Sua's grasp and slammed into the pool of blood beneath him.

The splattered blood hit Suya's face.

Suya had no idea what what that scene meant, nor what fate awaited her.

But compared to these,
The first thing he remembered was—

He was currently on an ancient battlefield that resembled the Middle Ages, and the enemy—or rather, the enemy—was pouring in with their massive army.

The only guy around who looked like a tutorial NPC died rather abruptly after spewing some inexplicable threats at me.

"No, you just died like that!?"

"Even if it's time travel, at least give me a tutorial before I die, bro!"

Sua stared in utter despair at the corpse of Arthur Pendragon beside her, the pool of blood gushing from his body...
Suya then saw her own face clearly.

His facial features were no different from before. If one had to find a difference, the only difference was that his hair and eye color were the same as those of Arthur Pendragon, who was lying dead on the ground at this moment.

That is,

Sua looks exactly like Arthur Pendragon.

Based on the words the deceased uttered before his death, including terms like "becoming a king," "curse," and "fake,"
My current identity—

Perhaps, he's a stand-in for this other-world version of 'King Arthur'?

The timeframe is roughly around the year King Arthur was 15 years old, the year he was about to pull the sword from the stone and become king.
This is certain because Sua remembers looking like this when she was 15 years old.

So, I've traveled to the world of the legendary story of "Le Morte d'Arthur" and replaced King Arthur in this world?
But this was clearly not quite right. King Arthur was a legendary figure in Celtic mythology, but the first man Sua saw who single-handedly defeated an army of a thousand—he remembered Arthur mentioning that man's name.

Hero, Seleucus.

Ignoring the word "hero," which could be a title, class, or rank,

Seleucus
This man was a famous general during the reign of Alexander the Great. He started as a guard officer and followed Alexander the Great in his conquests. Later, he founded the Seleucid Empire and ruled over a large area of ​​West Asia.

So, are the two sides currently charging across this chaotic battlefield the armies of Alexander the Great, the conqueror, and King Arthur, or perhaps King Uther, King Arthur's father?
What kind of messed-up development is this?

The two were not even from the same era, and why would Alexander the Great, who was conquering eastward, attack Britain, which was located in the far west?

Has he already fought his way around the world and come back?

For a time,

Even though Suya had tried her best to calm herself down and analyze the current situation and possible ways to survive,
My mind was still buzzing uncontrollably from all the jumbled information.

And at this moment——

Suya really heard a sound in her head.

Cluck, cluck, cluck!

The sound, like three dice striking the skull, spinning, bouncing, and landing smoothly, came from inside the brain!
The next moment,
A subtitle appeared before Suya's eyes:
[Dark Dice pass; detailed effects of the talent trigger will be displayed in captions in the future.]

Your inherent soul talent is: a legendary heart.

[Note: You, who consider yourself mediocre yet yearn for a legendary life, have been overlooking one crucial point—life itself is a legend! So, stand tall and move forward without hesitation! Every legendary path you encounter will become wings to help you embark on your legendary journey.]

[Talent: Legendary Heart, triggered.]

[Triggering the Legendary Path: Master of the Dark Healing World (C++)]

[Achieved F-rank job: Rookie Barefoot Doctor.]

[Note: You know nothing, but precisely because you know nothing, you successfully caused the death of a patient who should have survived. Your trauma treatment skills have been upgraded to the basic level, but during treatment, you have a very high probability of causing serious harm to the patient.]

[Pathway: Continue accumulating treatment experience to obtain a new E-rank job: Experienced Quack Doctor (1/2), and job-specific expertise.]

[You've taken another step forward on your legendary journey!] [Current Legendary Path: 2/4] (Viewable)
The dice stopped spinning and jumping on the skull, and the subtitles floating in front of her eyes gradually disappeared, but Suya could vaguely sense that she could re-project the subtitles onto her retina at any time if she wanted to.

And in the very next instant after the subtitles disappeared...
"Barefoot Doctor's Handbook (Trauma Edition)", "Medical Service Team First Aid Handbook", "Outdoor Survival First Aid Handbook", "Human Anatomy Diagram", "Overview of First Aid for Vital Parts of the Human Body".
A large amount of medical and surgical knowledge was forcibly stuffed into Suya's mind, but it only existed there and did not become effective knowledge. It could only be retrieved when Suya might need it, and she could learn and use it at the same time.
So, is this the effect of the barefoot doctor job placement program? Treating saving lives as an open-book exam?

Is this my cheat code?
But why would such a legendary path, which sounds so ridiculous, be triggered?
A master of the dark medical world, or a fledgling barefoot doctor?

Dude, what do you mean by saving someone? Do you think of it as cooking?
Moreover, how could this help me when I was about to be overwhelmed by the army of Alexander the Great?

Ignore this cheat code that's not very useful for now.

Suya continued to think,
Before his death, Arthur Pendragon gave him a dragon-shaped mark that resembled a magician's circuit from the Type-Moon universe, but he didn't know what it was. Arthur didn't provide him with an instruction manual either; he could only vaguely infer its meaning from the other's words.

Is a dragon-shaped mark something that can prove the identity of a crown prince?

But this still doesn't help at all!

After thinking it over, Suya, who was gradually understanding everything, took a deep breath.

Although he seemed to have gained quite a lot in a short time—the Heart of a Legend, a Legendary Class, and a Dragon Mark—none of these things were of any use in the current situation.

To survive in the current situation, Suya still has to rely on herself!

The lengthy deliberation ended in just a few seconds.

Suya first needs to continue to understand her situation.

Based on the information we have just observed, we can infer that

The hero Seleucus, whom Arthur mentioned, was not actually targeting Arthur. The enemy completely ignored Arthur and Sua, who were hiding below the battlefield, and flew diagonally over the trenches to attack the army's flank and rear.

In other words, the enemy's goal was to launch a frontal attack and defeat Arthur's army.

Alexander the Conqueror, and let's consider his army as such, launched their main attack.
The advance of the army in the hilly environment, and the route of the advance of an army that is about to win, can be calculated based on the width of the 'wide straight line' that Suya just saw coming from the horizon.

Suya roughly simulated the situation in his mind and found that the trench they were in was only on the flank of the Conqueror King's army's marching route. The main army, that is, the large force with exaggerated spears and shields in formation, did not actually pass through this area.

The location of the trench he was in was clearly carefully chosen; it was situated on a slightly elevated earthen slope, providing both easy observation and concealment.

This is a remote observation post.

That is,

Stay here.

Even if Suya does nothing, there's a certain probability that she won't be discovered or attacked?

but,

This is clearly a presumptuous assumption. If this were a proper medieval battlefield, there should also be map-opening units such as scouts, raiding cavalry, and scouts.

In the case of the Macedonian army led by Alexander III, the Macedonian scouts who followed the army would conduct reconnaissance several kilometers in advance, and the general would only issue the order to engage in battle after reporting back and confirming that there was no ambush.

If the pre-battle map exploration did not reveal the two men in the trenches, then Suya only needed to observe the positions of the sentries in the enemy army during the battle to determine how to proceed.

In actual combat, when a battle breaks out, some sentry units will withdraw to the main force and join the attack, while others will continue to monitor the surrounding area of ​​the battlefield.

What Suya needed to determine was the location of this group of people.

This determined whether he should stay here and hide, or seize an opportunity to risk escaping.

then,

He moved away from the lifeless body of King Arthur, straightened up in the narrow trench where the two of them were, which was not connected to any other place, and stuck his head out to observe the battlefield outside again.

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