Chapter 1: Descending into the Sky, a return to the familiar beginning
The blue sky stretches as far as the eye can see, like a sapphire that can't see the edge, without a trace of white clouds.
The mist was so thin that it spread, and several black birds flew through with their wings waving.
Pull down the view and below is a large lush green forest. Between the trees, a winding path winds out. Guarded by a group of knights, several horse-mounted prisoner carts carrying prisoners moved slowly, the sound of the clattering of wheels echoing through the tree-lined paths.
On the grass of the carriage, there was a half-grown boy lying at this time, he looked fifteen or sixteen years old, with short brown hair, not very beautiful or handsome, but rather an ordinary appearance.
Trying his best to adapt and suppress the mixture of memories in his mind, this time he succeeded in finding a world without pushing the trajectory of fate, although the process has been twisted and turned, and there is not much essentia energy left, but it has already been earned, and there is nothing to complain about.
"You're finally awake, brother. ”
When Zhu Peng controlled himself to open his eyes, the first thing that caught his eye was a middle-aged man with blond hair and tattered armor.
Although his consciousness was still a little dizzy and confused, Zhu Peng first noticed that his wrists were tightly tied by ropes, and the thick ropes were completely unable to break free with his slender wrists at this time, not to mention......
Turning his gaze, looking at the soldiers wearing iron-clad armor in front of the carriage, and the cavalry riding on war horses around the carriage, Zhu Peng knew very well in his heart that it was impossible for him to escape alive in his current state, whether this was a low-demon world or not, it was impossible for him to escape.
"You were about to cross the provincial border, were you? Unexpectedly, you broke into the ambush of the Imperial army, with us, well, and the thief next to you. The middle-aged man with blonde hair and blue eyes in front of him, although he was strong but quite kind, still said to himself.
At this moment, Zhu Peng noticed that there were four people on the carriage he was in, himself, the blonde and blue-eyed man in front of him, a strong man beside him who was not only tied with his wrists, but also had his mouth gagged with a coarse cloth, and the guy who was sitting with the blonde man and the blue-eyed man opposite, whom he called a thief.
(This fellow, and the guy with my mouth tied, were warriors who were accustomed to using weapons, and the horse thief was much worse, but he was also a nimble fellow.) Without responding to the words of the man opposite, Zhu Peng's eyes swept over the palms, waists and legs of the three men in the same car, collecting the information he could collect so far, while feeling everything that had descended on the body.
Although all the magic power and fighting power were emptied of the descended carrier, and the physical quality that was originally as strong as a dragon no longer existed, the spiritual will was still his own, and Zhu Peng quickly checked his physical fitness at this time...... It's just an ordinary person, no fighting spirit, no magic power, and even poor physical fitness.
(Hmm!?It's not completely devoid of magic power, although it is thin, it seems to me that I don't have it for a huge amount of magic power, but this body is not without magic at all, in other words, this is at least a middle demon world, and the advent value has increased by at least five times. While Zhu Peng continued to mentally calculate and improve the data.
The fair-haired, blue-eyed man quarreled with the skinny and agile horse thief next to him, who complained that the Storm Cloak, a subordinate force, had thrown Skyrim into chaos.
"If they hadn't been hunting you rebels, I would have stolen a horse and gone to Hammer Province, maybe it's almost there by now. ”
"Hey, and you, we shouldn't stay here, these Storm Cloak rebels are what the Imperial Army is going to capture. Some horse thieves with black and brown hair said to Zhu Peng, as if they wanted to find an ally for themselves, and Zhu Peng's eyes were slightly closed and he took a deep breath, so cold that the mist passed through his chest to his limbs, penetrating the blood under the willpower of his master, and trying his best to squeeze out every bit of power that could be obtained.
The first task to be completed after the arrival of the spy shadow is to ensure that he survives, otherwise once he dies here and is forcibly repatriated, it is not only a variety of damages, and the development of this world in the future is completed, as the initial discoverer, the benefits will also be minimized, not to mention that Zhu Peng still has many plans waiting to be rolled out in this world.
During an argument between the blonde warrior Ralov and the horse thief Locker, the cavalry and the prisoner cart drove into a fortress, and Locker was horrified to find that he had been escorted with a group of Stormcloak rebels, and it seemed unlikely that he had been transferred to a better cell.
The sturdy Stormcloak warrior Ralov smiled and whispered, "I can feel that the ancestors of Valhalla are opening their arms to me, my lord, and it is my honor to be able to fight with you." He said this to the man beside Zhu Peng who was tied to his wrists.
In this regard, Zhu Peng did not feel much surprised, his target has always been the kind of person whose qi is exhausted to the extreme, in other words, a person who is not far from death, but it is also expected to be sent to the execution ground at this moment.
The convoy drove into a fortress made of stone and wood, and below a tall tower, there were groups of soldiers, generals dressed in more ornate armor, and even female warriors, and they were not of low status, which showed the abundance of magic in this world.
Because only in the middle and high demon world, women can have the talent to completely overcome their physical disadvantages and successfully occupy a place in the men's stage "war".
"It's funny to think about, when I was younger, I always felt that the walls and towers of the empire were so secure. With Larov's last sigh, the carriage stopped, and the horse thief Locker was still a little unresponsive, or he didn't want to admit it: "What are we stopping here for?"
"The end of the journey, or the beginning of everything!" Zhu Peng, who was silent along the way, stood up and spoke at this moment.
Although he still hasn't come up with a way to break the situation, no matter how he looks at his physical state at this time, being sent to the execution ground surrounded by heavy soldiers is a certain death, but Zhu Peng still tries his best to adjust all his states to ensure that he will give up his life before he dies.
"Whoever is named, stand on the guillotine for me, and come one by one. The female warrior was clearly a mid-ranking officer, standing in the middle of the ranks giving orders, and directly below the tower, a strong axe-wielding man, a priest, and a wooden basket for the head were ready.
"Ulfric, Stormcloak rebel, Lord of Stormrudder City. ”
"Ralov, Storm Cloak Rebel, Townsfolk of Creekwood. ”
As the Imperial execution list continued to be recited, it was soon Zhu Peng's turn to steal the horse thief Locker beside him.
"Locker, Stormcloak rebel, townsfolk of Lolik. The not-so-resilient horse thief broke down when his name was pronounced, and he tried his best to defend himself to the Imperial soldiers, but it didn't seem to make sense, and as the female warrior waved his hand at his subordinate to force Lockle, the nimble horse thief scurried off into the distance.
"You can't kill me!" he shouted.
At this juncture, Zhu Peng, who had been slightly closing his eyes to adjust his breath state, also rushed to the side at the same time, but he did not run along the road like Locker, who was already completely panicked, but curled up and crawled towards the house on the side. Only by breaking into the chaotic layout of the houses can it be possible to find a possible glimmer of life in such a military fortress.
Zhu Peng fled at the same time as the Locker, causing confusion among the imperial army.
In this world, warriors pay attention to calmly going to death, and in the case of their absolute disadvantage, rather than being caught and trampled to death like a rat in the gutter, stepping on the guillotine without fear is more popular with the ancestors of Valhalla. Of course, this refers to a situation in which after the defeat there is no longer any chance of survival.
Because of the need to shoot Locker and suppress the remnants of the Storm Cloak, the arrows of the Imperial Army archers to Zhu Peng's back were undoubtedly much less.
He no longer has the sensitivity to unite body and mind, so Zhu Peng tried his best to rush forward, looking for cover, while running in an S shape as much as possible, but he was still scratched by a steel arrow on his left shoulder, almost at the same time, Zhu Peng's figure crashed into a wooden house, and at the same time, he heard a familiar dragon roar spreading over the fortress.
"Whew............"
(There are dragons in this world?)
In the wizarding world, Zhu Peng himself is a dragon veiner, and even as a legendary great wizard, he knows dragon language/demon language/some elven language, and other people in the fortress can't hear it, of course Zhu Peng can hear the killing intent contained in the dragon chant in the sky.
(It's a good thing, there's a dragon that messes things up, and my chances of survival are much higher.) In the wooden house of the private house, a thin old woman hugged her granddaughter like an old hen protecting her chickens, her eyes were gray and obviously blind, but she was quite neat and clean, and at this moment she was trembling and holding a young girl with red hair, but Zhu Peng ignored them and threw herself straight at the kitchen knife in the room.
Before the Imperial soldiers rushed in, he didn't even cut the rope on his wrist first, but rushed to the old woman and the girl in the corner with the kitchen knife in his hand, and pressed the kitchen knife against the little girl's neck.
"Don't move around, I can't hold the knife now, and if I dare to struggle, I will really kill your granddaughter and your grandmother!" These two sentences were said to the old woman and the girl, and the two mothers who depended on each other were really reluctant to quiet down under such a deterrent.
By this time, the Imperial army had surrounded the houses, the archers, the warriors, and the middle-aged male warrior who had read the list before.
"Let go of them, you will never be able to escape, and now letting go of them can also give you a relatively decent way to die, as well as a burial after death. The red-haired middle-aged soldier looked at the behavior of the young man in the wooden house with a look of disgust and disdain.
"Phew, leave it to yourself to die a decent death, you have potions on you, do you? Throw one over, or I'll kill both of them at once." Before the warriors on the other side could react, a low and majestic dragon roar had already spread along with a loud roar, and the majestic power was so great that it even made the entire sky change color.
The red-haired soldier who confronted Zhu Peng and his subordinates didn't care about a fugitive at all at this time, and Zhu Peng directly stuffed the kitchen knife in his hand into the hands of the red-haired girl in the old woman's arms.
"Help me cut the rope off my wrist and I'll leave immediately...... Of course, I advise you to take your grandmother away quickly, the dragon in the sky is planning to slaughter this place. Although he didn't plan to really hurt the other party's orphans and widows, but after all, he was still a little apologetic, Zhu Peng pointed out a way for the ancestors and grandchildren to live, the more they hid in this fortress, the more they were dead, judging from the killing intent of the dragon attacking the city at this moment, it was planning to turn this place into a scorched earth.
The red-haired girl looked at Zhu Peng, and then she really used a kitchen knife to help Zhu Peng cut the rope, Zhu Peng was not worried that she would stab herself, on the one hand, she was holding the blade between her wrists, and on the other hand, killing people was between difficulty and ease, with the courage and strength of a village girl, holding an unhappy kitchen knife, even if Zhu Peng stood here and let her kill, I am afraid she would have to kill for more than ten minutes.
Taking off the restraints and stretching his wrists, Zhu Peng, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly changed his face, and he suddenly threw the red-haired girl in front of him to the ground, and the next moment the blazing dragon flame swept in, almost instantly sweeping the wooden house and the blind old man who was standing blankly into ashes......
"Grandma!"
The red-haired girl cried hoarsely, but was forcibly suppressed by Zhu Peng's arm, and at the same time he looked up, only to see a hideous dragon wrapped in black steel armor fluttering its wings and flying, and from time to time arrows shot at it, but it could not break the defense at all.
"At least legendary, if not much stronger...... This world is interesting. After the dragon flew away, Zhu Peng dragged the struggling red-haired girl by the arm and led her out of the fire.
"Huh, huh, okay, you save my life, I'll save your life, grievances and grievances, you hurry up and run, this place is ruined." As he spoke, he bent down to pick up an iron sword from the ground and ducked into the corner, the Imperial warriors of the fortress were still fighting the dragon soaring in the sky, but they might not understand that for an adult dragon who was at least a legendary man, it was the most basic display of ability to take on the enemy alone.
Zhu Peng ran two steps against the wall, but when he turned around, he found that although the red-haired girl was still in tears, she followed closely with the kitchen knife.
"You...... You send me to Snow City, where I have an aunt, and if you send me there, she will definitely pay you. In the chaotic and noisy environment, the red-haired girl spoke, a little girl with an ordinary appearance and even a little black and thin, but her voice was quite tactful.
"You're not familiar with this place at all, I know there's a tunnel that leads through, but I need your protection. ”
A girl who looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old could react so quickly after the death of her loved one, and seek the most likely help from the surroundings, Zhu Peng was quite surprised by the speed and quality of such a reaction, and he looked the red-haired girl up and down.
"Throw away your kitchen knife, I don't want someone to carry a knife behind my back, so let's join forces to earn a small life for ourselves first. Indeed, as the other party said, instead of scurrying around like a headless fly, it is better to listen to the words of this non-threatening snake, but to Zhu Peng's surprise, after obtaining Zhu Peng's permission, the red-haired girl actually cast a spell between the two of them hiding, and used a healing technique to greatly relieve Zhu Peng's originally bleeding left shoulder.
Originally, Zhu Peng planned to temporarily seal the wound with the surrounding flames and soil.
"You're a wizard?"
"Apprentice, I only know one healing technique, and in two years, my aunt was going to send me to the temple. "A brief exchange, although Zhu Peng really wants to figure out the other party's spell casting method, but at least now is not the time, the entire fortress is in chaos, and there are even crazy imperial soldiers attacking the two.
Of course, he may also be a soldier escorted, and he knows Zhu Peng's identity as a fugitive, but under the madness, the one-handed sword-wielding offensive is quite chaotic, and it may be nothing in the eyes of ordinary battlefield newcomers, or even more powerful, but in the eyes of people like Zhu Peng, it is like a Nobel Prize winner in mathematics watching primary school students do math homework, and it is almost impossible to understand why the other party would make such a mistake.
After the footwork, he avoided the opponent's sword blade almost by a millimeter, and held the steel short sword in his hand with both hands and slashed forward, and the not very sharp blade crossed a perfect arc trajectory and directly smashed the opponent's throat, and the imperial soldier fell directly to the ground. Zhu Peng held the blood-stained standard iron sword in both hands and gasped slightly, if it was an ordinary person, in the moment of melee combat, his mental strength would explode, and his physical energy consumption would be very intense.
However, Zhu Peng's killing is like eating and drinking, although this is not a good habit, but for many years the killing has not counted, it is really a habit of killing, but there is no wave in his heart when the sword kills people, there is no mental explosion at all, what he paid is really just the physical energy of the sword just now, so after a little respite, Zhu Peng took the red-haired girl behind him to continue to move forward in the dragon roar and flames.
They avoided the dragon in the sky and the imperial warriors on the ground, but fortunately, most of their energy was on each other at this moment, allowing Zhu Peng and the red-haired girl to successfully infiltrate a solid stone building, at least without being directly exposed to the flames and terrifying roar of the black dragon.
As the two entered the building's hall, a strong man with blond hair and torn armor was standing in the hall with a battle axe. Ralov turned around, and when he saw Zhu Peng holding a blood-stained iron sword and a red-clothed girl behind him, the Storm Cloak rebel was visibly stunned.
"Oh, brother, it seems that you are in good luck too, I thought you were like that horse thief...... Well, it's always good to see an acquaintance in person, and you can bring Gangar's gear, I don't think he'll need it anymore. As he spoke, Larov pointed to the dead male corpse on the floor of the hall, who had been struck in front of the door with a sword, and his expression showed the ferocity of the battle.
Zhu Peng was not polite to Larov, he directly took off all the armor and equipment of the dead storm cloak rebels on the ground, and then wore them on his body.
When Zhu Peng first came to this world, he only had a linen coat on his body, and he was poor and white, but now he was finally covered with armor and an iron sword in his hand, even if it was just these most basic equipment, it also made his survival and combat effectiveness soar.
At this time, there was a voice in the corridor not far away, because this was in the military fortress of the empire, so Zhu Peng and Larov glanced at each other, and then the two quickly found cover to hide, and the red-haired girl who followed Zhu Peng was the same, and the three of them hid together in the darkness that could not be lit.
"According to an ancient legend, when brothers fight, shadows cover the earth, dragons awaken, and all things perish...... Could it be that the legend is true? The one just now, it is really a dragon!" opened the iron door with the key, and the female captain of the empire who was going to execute Zhu Peng and Larov walked in with a subordinate, it seems that the two of them also came in to take refuge, although even the stone castle is not very strong in front of that dragon, but at least it is a comfort to the human soul.
"Hey, I'll deal with that female officer, and you deal with the other one, how about it?" said Larov to Zhu Peng in the shadows.