The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"In Rift Valley City, it took me half a month to find Ispen hidden in the rat road, and then I convinced him that he walked out of that **** secret room." The dragon descended fiercely into a mouthful of honey. "I couldn't convince him. He was not willing to go with me until Somo's assassin also chased him into the path of the rat."

The dragonborn girl saw an ancient organization that had lasted for hundreds of years, and once provided a guard for the emperor of the Septim Dynasty who had the dragonborn bloodline. Once, the emperor was the dragon descendant, until the crisis of annihilation broke out, the blood of the dragon descendant of the Septim Dynasty was completely cut off, and the empire of the third era fell apart as a result. Until the warlords of the Maid family stood out among many competitors and established a new empire in the fourth era, which is now the Maid dynasty.

Therefore, although the girl in front of me also has the blood of the Dragonborn, she also has to run for her own life.

"Greybeards are all masters, but they are recluses, and pilgrims will provide them with food. Lao Pa is a good...elder, but he knows that people need food and water to survive, but these things are also Need money. As a result, I spent every coin on my body while looking for the Horn of Jorgen Windcaller for them. When I was exhausted from fighting with the ghouls in the tomb, I was tired and hungry. Killed a chicken while passing by a village.

"So?"

"So I was chased for several kilometers by those villagers holding pitchforks and kitchen knives."

The down-and-out hero shrugged, cut off a piece of venison and chewed it. This dragonborn who was supposed to save the world from Alduin, the devourer of the worlds, had to make a living for himself everywhere.

"There is also the Blade Club, they have no money, Delphine...Yes, it is her, I didn't expect to be in the Sleeping Giant Hotel." The girl shook her head "She told me that she had no money, before I went to the Rift Valley. When the city was looking for Ispen, I also met someone from the Thieves Guild. Then... Then I inexplicably owed that **** little **** a thousand Septims." Dragonborn sighed tiredly, "I hope she can comply. Credit, no interest."

Compared with the exhausted and lonely journey of the Dragonborn, the story of the Demon Hunter is much easier. Demon artifacts, vampires, dragon sacrifices. Although it sounds almost the same as the dragonborn girl's night in the Somo Embassy and killing the dragon, Zelin has met many people along the way, whether it is the vigilante, the dawn guard, or the Virginia of Winterhold , Or the vampire eldest lady Serana who used indifference to cover herself. But the dragon descendant is still fighting alone.

"I've seen Virginia in Winterhold, she is a good person... Serana? Who is this?" Dragonborn raised her eyebrows. "A eldest lady in Solitary City? She carries thousands of gold coins and lives in a huge The noble girl in the castle?"

"She is a vampire, and I don't think I will see her again in the future." Zelin shook his head. The food and wine in the Night Gate Hotel were very good. If it were not for war, it would never be so sluggish here. Although the fire of war has not burned the hotel to the end, the war has destroyed it. No flames are needed. Spiders and mice will slowly tear down the hotel. "I still have some gold coins left here. I don’t need to use it to guard at dawn. They, I can lend them to you."

Zelin knew the character of the dragonborn girl, she would not like gifts from others.

Unexpectedly, the girl shook her head and rejected Zelin's suggestion, "No, no, I have already owed a thousand Septim debts, and I don't want to let another debt be entangled."

"Why not consider changing to a more tolerant creditor? Let's go to Rift Valley City together and use the money to pay back the money owed by the Thieves Guild, and then you can wait for the money to be returned to me later. I will not urge you. You."

The girl squeezed her mouth and closed her eyes. In the end, she shook her head, "Thank you, Zelin, I know you are my good friend and I am willing to help me, but...I'm enough."

After all, the dragon descended his head and continued to deal with the steak in front of him. Zelin stared at the girl's face and said nothing. Only the crackling sound of firewood burning and the collision of knives and forks with wooden plates remained in the hall.

"What are you... afraid of, Dragonborn?"

The girl did not answer. She put the last piece of meat in her mouth, drank the honey wine, stood up and patted the clothes, she smiled, "I don't want to be here...Let's go together, I want to listen to you and Vigie Niah also has the story of the vampire lady..."

The demon hunter sighed and stood up together. The road is a good place to tell stories, because the air and the wilderness will be two good listeners, listeners who can always keep secrets.

Chapter 288: A Little Sacrifice

Inclined birch trees grow on vertical cliffs in an incredible way. The birch trees have yellow leaves. It is autumn. The peculiar climate of the sky always makes people sigh. A sparkling river meanders and twists all the way to the Rift Valley City. There are guard fences on the riverside. The color is white. It is a barricade cut from the surrounding birch forest not long ago.

The soldiers of the storm cloak strengthened the defense between the Eastern Territory of the Rift Valley and the Snowman. Perhaps Snowman Lord Balgruf is shifting towards the empire, and Ulfric has to consider that when the Morningstar is surrounded by the empire, Open the situation from Xueman. After all, as long as it can capture Xueman, the storm cloak can march towards Mosar, cut off the back road and supplies of the White Territory Empire Legion, and the situation in the encirclement of the Morning Star will be self-defeating.

At that time, whether it is Markas City led by Reach, or Mosal or Falkreath, the Imperial Army will be passively beaten.

"Do you know? Lydia wrote to me secretly, saying that Lord Balgruuf had received letters from Solitary City and Windhelm at the same time. It was rare that it was not for him to choose his camp. Guess what letter it was?"

"Let me think about it. Queen Alicia and Ulfric Stormcloak will not chat with Balgruuf, nor will either party want to negotiate peace through the neutral Snowman City. Queen Alicia is just a banner. , The real power in Solitary City is the imperial general Turius and Governor Ruiji, Turius and Uffric. Only one of them will survive. No one wants to die, so they have to change their bargaining chips to win. Many...No one knows the whereabouts of the dragonborn, the face of the dragonborn, except for the Snowman City where she first appeared, Balgruuf and the people in his court have faced the dragonborn directly. So, I guess that should be two copies. For your invitation letter."

The dragonborn girl smiled slightly, revealing her small white teeth, "What else can escape your speculation? Yes, that's it."

Two horses walked side by side on the muddy trail. Before it rained, the horseshoe stepped on it and left deep marks. The air was extremely fresh, and the world was as clear as being washed. The coniferous forest on the mountainside in the distance finally showed its head from the hidden mist. The blowing wind made the birch leaves along the road hunt and hunt, and the falling dead leaves passed in front of Zelin, caught under the horse's hooves, and were stepped into the mud.

Dragonborn, the legendary hero of the Nord, and the Nords of Skyrim have risen because the empire accepted the platinum contract of the elves and prohibited the worship of Taros. And Talos, or Tabor Sepdin, the founder of the Septim Dynasty, is also a hero who can use Dragon Roar and is called the Dragonborn.

Now, after two hundred years of silence, a real dragonborn appeared. This is the horizon torn apart by faith and war. Representing Ulfric, who worshipped Talos and the Nords who were dissatisfied with the empire, Queen Alicia who inherited the orthodox jurisprudence of the Supreme King Toig, and the Septim dynasty, who was born as a warlord and eventually replaced the dragonborn bloodline , To establish the empire of the Maid Dynasty.

"Queen Alicia invited me to Solitary City. She would fill my head with honors and titles, at least the Baron of Havengar. So is Ulfric. The Stormcloak invited me to be their commander. Under Ulfric, there are those honorary titles that can circle my head three times."

"As long as you join any party, that party will win the people's hearts and morals. But as long as they win the war, they can take down your glory and your head together, as long as they can do it."

They rode on a flat gravel road, with azure mountain walls on one side, and dark golden hills filled with dry grass on the other. The peaceful lake nestled in the plain surrounded by mountains, and they entered the rift valley. It is said that from the towering peaks of the Rift Valley, looking south, you can see the towering Platinum Tower in the center of Cyrodir. That was the power center of the empire, whether it was the former Septim dynasty or the current Emperor Titus Maid II.

"This is not the life I want. As a banner, as a benchmark, as a puppet hung by a silk thread woven with honor and wealth. The dragonborn they need is not me, it's not this that I have long lost Family, go back to Skyrim's hometown alone, desperate girl who wants to find a way to survive."

"I understand...I understand."

Zelin knew the children who were abandoned by their parents outside of the Demon Hunter’s Castle Kilmohan. They were just children before, a child who didn’t understand anything. But one day, these children realized that they were going to become Demon Hunters. , Whether they were obtained by other demon hunters from farmers who went bankrupt due to natural disasters, or were directly abandoned because of the inability to raise them, or obtained through mysterious accident rates. They are just ordinary children.

Then, this child was stuffed with various highly toxic substances in his body. No one would ask him if he wanted to, and he had no right to refuse. No one knows that his head will become more sensitive, or will be torn apart by dreamlike hallucinations, whether his eyeballs will become cat eyes, or will burst and squeeze out, leaving only empty blood holes, let alone no one can. Foreseeing, this child will pass the trial of the grass, or die in his own pool of blood or vomit.

He has no choice, he must accept all this. The accident rate, this is fate, the child's parents don't know when they owed the life-saving grace of the demon hunter, so the child had to pay it back. He must let others inject poison that can kill a few cows into his body, and use the mutants of those monsters to transform this child from a human into another creature. If everyone can choose their own destiny, accept or reject, then none of this will happen, let alone a demon hunter named Zelin who will come to another world and meet those friends. Altria, Gascoyne, Yusefka, Ezio, Claudia, Virginia and the dragonborn girl in front of him.

Isn't it the same for the dragonborn girl?

She is very young, just an ordinary person who is unknown and wants to support herself by hard work. But suddenly one day, she became the dragonborn, the destined hero, the hero who emerged from the legend, a dragonborn who must fight against the terrible devourer Alduin. Before that, she was not an emperor, a general, or a warrior. She had nothing but a prisoner whose head was almost cut off.

This is the prisoner. Overnight, the Blade will need her. The Stormcloak wants her to join. The Queen of Solitary City hopes that the Dragonborn can become her ally. There are people, or creatures, whether it is Somo or the dragon, who wants her. Die. Overnight, she was thrown into the whirlpool. A group of ghosts stood on the shore and reached out to her, while another group of ghosts pulled her down in the water. And the identity of the dragonborn could not give her a strong ambition or a cold calculating mind. She is smart, so she understands many things, but even so, she is still an ordinary Nord, a young girl.

Now, she is the child who can't choose his fate; now, she is the dragonborn who faces the responsibility imposed on her body to face Alduin. No one knows whether the child can become a demon hunter, and no one knows whether the dragonborn can finally defeat Alduin. All the demon hunter had prepared was to let the child accept the terrible poison, and the fate of the dragonborn pushed her to meet the legendary Alduin. In any case, she will stand in front of Alduin and defeat the evil dragon, or be swallowed by Alduin. It was like Zelin couldn't control the poison injected into his body.

"I understand you..."

They sit by the lake. The area of ​​the lake is larger than half of the Rift Valley. There is a small island on the left side of the lake, where you can see several houses and a small port, supplying the Black Bramble Winery in Rift Valley City. The golden manor is located on the island. The wooden boat leaned on the shore, with heavy goods placed on it, all transported from the manor and covered with white cloth. The canoe stirred up a lot of water in front of it, and the obtuse-angled bow separated the river water, pushing the straw and leaves floating in a thick layer of dusty soil and moving still.

Sitting on the lawn, Longyi stretched out the shapely legs that covered the bottom of the animal skin boots, stretched his hands back, and stretched out a lazy waist. On one side was a tree that was blown down by the wind, and a cluster of dogwoods with many branches and leaves that were blood-red.

"Selina you said, she's a vampire. I am a vampire hunter, and the guard of the dawn. Do you really think that the vampire turmoil in Skyrim during this period has nothing to do with the most powerful vampire family in Skyrim? This Selina , She is beautiful, right."

"She is beautiful because she is a vampire."

"But she is indeed much more beautiful than the ordinary Nord, you seem to describe it like that."

"We argue that these are meaningless."

"No, I might... have nothing to do in the next period of time." In response to the demon hunter's gaze, the dragon descendant shrugged. You must go back to Xueman. You know, Longxiao Palace, where Olaf once caught a giant dragon, so if you want to catch a real dragon, it’s best to do it in Longxiao Palace. The ancient record is us. Provides a viable path. After catching these dragons serving Alduin, I can know where this **** Devourer of Worlds is. Then let it all come to an end!"

"I think it's not easy to catch a dragon."

"Yes, it's extremely difficult." Long Yi nodded.

"This is not a peaceful age. Everyone is praying, hoping that the dragon and the army will not appear outside the walls. If Balgruuf is still thinking about his territory and his people, he will not agree to your kind of crazy Plan." Zelin knew what Balgruf was, and had also heard from other places that he needed a chat about the lord of Snowman City.

"So... the Greybeard Masters plan to use their influence to let the Imperial Legion and the Storm Cloak sit on the same table and discuss peace." The Dragonborn said a plan that no one would believe. "The messenger will go to the Windhelm. City and Solitary City, invite Ulfric Stormcloak and his commander, as well as General Turius and Governor Ruiji to the Hogarth Peak to discuss a temporary truce in the name of solving the dragon calamity."

"I don't think they will easily agree."

"Yes, so when the letter is sent, all I have to do is wait. So..." Dragonborn's words hesitated for a moment. "If I join the Dawn Guardian to deal with vampires for Skyrim, no one will think about it. It’s not normal. You will need my help when you face the Vakiraha vampire. That Serena, she owns an ancient scroll, although I don’t know what scroll it is, don’t worry, I’ll help you solve her ."

"Dragonborn..."

The girl moved quickly to touch the arm of the demon hunter, put one hand on her shoulder, and put a finger in front of her mouth with the other hand, making a quiet gesture.

"Your name is Zelin, what is your last name?"

Zelin shook his head, "It doesn't exist."

"Don't call me Dragonborn again. I still can't remember everything, but... call me Gnaya." The thin lips of Dragonborn leaned against Zelin's ear, and the Mara talisman swayed on his white neck. "You are the only one." Someone who knows my name."