—4E, 201, Last Seed, 25th, 8:00 a.m.

If you want to cross the entire Skyrim Province from northwest to southeast, you can't just walk away, because beasts and robbers are rampant, and the empire and the storm cloak may fight somewhere, the coachmen in the major cities and villages only provide the nearest transportation service, for example, the coachmen in Dugu City are only willing to go to Dragon Bridge, Mosal City, and Morning Star City, and the fare ranges from 50 to 100 gold per person.

The Rift that Princess Emilia wanted to go to would require at least six car changes along the way, and even if the drivers were to travel day and night, it would take at least four days to arrive.

Not long ago, Parasos desperately stopped the princess, who was about to go out without anything like he was going after General Tullius, and urgently arranged for a chariot, luggage, and refusal to accompany Tasilius before driving out, and finally arrived at the richest village in the snowman's territory, Loristade.

Due to the declaration of neutrality in the civil war by the lord of Snowman, Barguf the Great Shore, neither the Imperial Legion nor the Stormcloak were allowed to set foot in his domain, and the carriage with the imperial emblem turned around, and Palasos went to Old Lori to discuss a request for a separate carriage - even if the princess didn't mind sitting in a carriage with civilians, he didn't dare to do so to avoid the emperor's wrath.

"Ah, Sharp-Eyed Eagle, I know you, Royal Guard." Old Lori is a typical Norder, bold and enthusiastic, with a loud voice, because he has participated in the great war between the Empire and Somo, and has made outstanding achievements, so even if he is wearing luxurious clothes now, he can't hide his evil spirit.

He was the owner of most of the land in Loristed, a wealthy village that provided almost half of all of Xueman's grain production, and the place where the two men conversed was the largest of Loristed's largest double-storey stone houses, known as the "Villa Lori".

"Yes, as you can imagine, this carriage is for a member of the royal family, and for safety reasons, we can't squeeze together with civilians." Palacos nodded, and it was up to him to talk to old Lori because the princess had seen a pair of twin girls arguing before, and had followed with great interest.

In Palasos's opinion, safety is not actually a problem, but he is completely unclear about the standards of the princess's "killer" and "rescue", if the princess is allowed to stay in the crowd, maybe what will happen, and in the end he will have to deal with the aftermath himself, as for this generally rich farming village, there should be no accidents.

——8:30——

"I also want to be an adventurer like you, but Daddy is adamantly against it."

"Ha, do you think adventurers are easy? If you don't have popularity, no one will want to do it for you. ”

The inn in Loristed is called "Ice Fruit" because the innkeeper, Muraki, owns an orchard and has a dish of "Ice Fruit" on the menu.

As a famous grain producing area, there are many merchants who come and go, so the inn business is also good, but the innkeeper's son Eric is not willing to farm or inherit the inn, he wants to become an adventurer, and gets an orc-style sword from the blacksmith Joric, but because Muraki does not agree, he can only use the sword to drive away pests and wild beasts in the fields around the village.

Emilia sat in the lobby of the inn, listening to two little girls arguing about who was to blame for not weeding the fields in time, and watching Eric communicate with another "adventurer", who, of course, was not noticed by anyone.

This "adventurer" must have been in the vicinity of the snow man all the time, and if he went to the Imperial Legion or the Storm Cloak's control zone, he would definitely be arrested, or at least beaten.

Because he was wearing the chain mail of the Storm Cloak, the helmet of the Imperial Legion, the shield with the Storm Cloak insignia on his back, and a standard sword of the Imperial Legion, at first glance, it looked like the equipment he had picked up on the battlefield on both sides, and he didn't beat anyone.

"We've been friends for many years, can you tell my father for me, looking at your appearance, adventurers aren't dangerous, are they?" Eric said to the adventurer, "I can trade this sword for you." ”

"Hey, don't think about it!" Before the adventurer could answer, the owner behind the hotel counter, Muraki, shouted from afar: "Locker, you guy has been stealing chickens and dogs since he was a child, and I don't know where he got this equipment, I won't believe a word of what you say!" ”

"Humph! Don't you know what happened in Helgen? A dragon attacked," the adventurer known as Lockel retorted in the same loud voice: "And I fought with that dragon and saved everyone, and they gave me all this equipment!" ”

"I'm going to talk to you in a serious way......" Muraki shook his head, turning to continue cleaning up the things on the counter.

"Well, Lockell, the story of the Dragonborn Lord who saved Helgen has reached Loristed," Eric patted Lockel on the shoulder, "He brought news of Snowman City and slew a dragon that attacked the Western Watchtower—don't you know?" ”

"I was patronizing and running away," Locker blew up the cowhide and was a little deflated, but immediately cheered up: "I've been completing the mission issued by Lord Vercles for the past few days, so it's not clear, you don't know, how vicious those robbers who occupied the 'Coal Mine Field' were~"

The man was obviously still lying, and Emilia looked at Locker with a fluttering eyebrow, but this time no one seemed to be able to debunk him.

A loud roar rang out in the air outside the inn, and the walls of the inn trembled.

"Yes—dragon!?" Eric looked pleasantly surprised, got up and ran out, "If those Snowy City guards can kill a dragon, then so can we!" Locker, let's go! ”

"Of course! This is a great opportunity! Lockell replied loudly, but instead of running out with Eric, he went to the depths of the inn and hid.

"I think my son might be a bit of a good fit to be an adventurer." Mullachi, who had picked up his axe and shield from behind the counter, snorted coldly as he passed by Lockle.

The Nords were indeed very belligerent, and Emilia saw that the people who had the fighting power had rushed out, and even the two little girls who were left behind were very excited to talk, so she tilted her head, pushed open the door and walked out.

——9:00——

"[Whew-whew-h

As soon as Emilia walked out of the hotel, an icy blue dragon's breath greeted her, and although it didn't penetrate her armor at all, it didn't prevent her from freezing the surrounding area and trapping her inside.

With that breath, the massive frost dragon hovering in the air turned back to attack the other bow-wielding guards, and the Nords with melee weapons were completely dismissive.

"The Holy Spirit is above!" Parathos, who had just arrived from Villa Lori, was startled and hurried to break the ice.

“…… Parazos. Although frozen in the ice, the princess did not look panicked, but turned her head slightly to look at the sharp-eyed eagle guard.

"I'll get you out right away!" Palasos slashed down with a few swords, and the ice cube itself was not strong and shattered: "Please get out of here first!" ”

Seeing that the princess took out a dagger and seemed to be ready to join the battle, he hurriedly stopped it, although the princess was very powerful, but this was a dragon, the sharp-eyed eagle had never encountered such an enemy, and he couldn't let the princess take risks without knowing his strength.

“…… Then you knock it down. Emilia looked at the dagger in her hand, and seemed to sense that the weapon was not quite right, so she pointed to the bow and arrow behind Palasos's back.

It's not a bird...... Finding that the princess did not seem to be leaving, Palacos resigned himself to aim, only to find that in a short time all the guards with bows had been sprayed into ice, and he was the last archer.

"[snort-choked]" A cold dragon's breath greeted him.

“…… No need to hide. Emilia swung her dagger at the dragon's breath, and it split in half from the center, and the arrow that Parasos shot struck its wing, and then bounced off without a second notice.

The Frost Dragon looked at Palashos in some surprise, and let out another breath of dragon breath, but it still failed halfway and took another arrow, the dragon's roar turned from surprise to rage, and suddenly flapped its wings and descended towards the position where the two were, as if intending to engage in melee combat.

"Stop that lizard!" Although they didn't know how they did it, the others who were in a daze due to the lack of long-range attack quickly reacted, and Eric rushed towards the dragon on the ground with his orc sword.

The ice dragon swung its head forward and spewed a semicircular breath that slowed the affected ones and swept away everyone who tried to approach it from behind.

Except for the princess and the guards, only Eric rushed in front of them, but he didn't have any armor, just a sword in one hand, and it barely protected against dragon's breath.

"Boy, catch!" Hit in the leg by the dragon's breath, Muraki, who had difficulty in his movements, threw his round shield with a backhand.

The ice dragon breathed again, this time Emilia didn't cut it off, because Eric had already blocked it with the shield first, and although he had to throw it away in the next instant because the whole thing was frozen, the young man who wanted to be an adventurer had already rushed to the dragon, and jumped on the head that was breathing down.

"Medium!" Taking advantage of the ice dragon's attention, Palathos fired an arrow that hit the dragon's left eye.

"Die! Dragon! Eric thrust the orc sword into the dragon's forehead.

Mistakenly, Palathos sighed in his heart, although it was the first time he had seen a dragon, the skull of this lizard-like was the hardest, and so on-

Click!

The frost dragon's massive head slowly slid down.

"Your Highness?" Palasos turned his head to look at Emilia, and sure enough, she had reverted to her looming invisibility form, apparently not planning to fight for the title of Dragon Slayer.

"Cut, I can't absorb it......" "Hey, I always thought I was a dragonborn too, but I just didn't find out." The corpse of this ice dragon attracted the attention of the entire Loristed residents, and many of them even came to "absorb the dragon soul", but all of them returned with a feather.

"Muraki, I think your son is very good," Old Lori complimented Eric, who was still confused, "I know that you didn't let him go out on adventures because he thought it would be dangerous to be too poorly equipped, so you won't have to worry about it anymore if I give him my original set of armor and weapons." ”

"Thank you......" Eric hurriedly thanked.

"Haha, you must spread the word 'Eric the Dragon Slayer'." Old Lori patted him on the shoulder.

As for the real dragon slayer, he had already left in the newly purchased carriage.