Chapter 180: Ghouls and Spitting Eyes
—4E, 201, Last Seed, 23rd, 13:00 -
"Obviously, their organization is mixed with high-level vampires," Wells, who had been released from his werewolf form a few minutes later, began to rummage through the corpses of the members of the "Silver Hand": "These monsters. ”
Are you qualified to say that someone else is a monster? Arthur looked sideways.
For the rumored "monsters" such as werewolves or vampires, Arthur doesn't have any special prejudice, but he needs to consider what combat methods should be used if he is hostile to both sides, although werewolves are large and powerful, they are still flesh and blood, and although vampires still maintain their human form, the deadly parts no longer exist, so it is basically no problem to use the methods of treating powerful beasts and undead creatures respectively.
"Hey, brother, don't look at me like that, we're not like vampires, we still have our own will," noticing Arthur's expression, Wells straightened up and explained, "After humans are transformed into vampires, they will amplify the evil thoughts in their hearts and obey the words of the transformers, and they will not question their own identity and situation at all." ”
"Well, I do." Arthur smiled and raised his hand to Wells' confiscated purse, "I guess the gold scavenged from these silver hands will be enough to compensate you for that bottle of wine." ”
If it is an irrational beast, how can it still search for property?
"A few years ago, the vampires had a big battle with Stendhal's 'Vigilant', although most of the vampires who raided had been killed, but there were still many who escaped and hidden, such as the Silver Hand, an illegal organization that will accept all kinds of criminals, it is normal to accidentally take one in, but it seems that it has a lot of ability to quietly transform so many people." Wells continued.
"A vampire organization dedicated to the eradication of werewolves and the undead, often using silver weapons, eh...... It doesn't sound like it's true, which is why it hasn't been noticed for so long. Arthur looked at Wells: "But the problem now is the comrades-in-arms, don't tell me it's full of werewolves." ”
"Of course not, only the high-ranking 'Ring' members of the Brother-in-Arms are—and we're completely different from those who have contracted the 'Werewolf Disease'!" Wells explained half of the sentence, and suddenly emphasized.
"That's right, at least I've never heard of a werewolf who can transform and recover on his own, and still maintain his sanity after the transformation, after all, the uncontrollable transformation of the werewolf and the brainless rage after that are also one of the reasons why the territories only declared the silver hand illegal and did not completely eradicate it." Arthur nodded.
However, the "ring"? Inexplicably, I feel that the "round table" seems to be better.
"The comrades-in-arms have a history of thousands of years, but the blood of werewolves is only a few hundred years, Cisco Yue said that this is a blessing from Helsin, and my brothers think it is a curse of some demon god, what is the truth, except for those demon gods, I'm afraid only Krako knows, but after asking many times, the old man refuses to say more at all." Wells went on to explain.
"Let's talk about these trifles later, now we have to focus on the mission," Arthur hung his original saber behind his back and picked up two silver two-handed swords, "Now that you know that the enemy is vampires and undead, let's try this weapon against them." ”
——13:30——
The trap that had been set for Wells and Arthur seemed to be just a lookout team, but as they went deeper into the cairn, in addition to the fallen ghouls, the corpses or ashes of the Silverhand members could gradually be seen, proving that their battle with the tomb owner was very difficult.
Of course, the contents of the corpse were all taken away by Wells.
Then, they encountered the first enemy, a three-headed ancient ghoul surrounding the corpse of a member of the Silver Hand, and from the position, it was clear that this unlucky ghost kept backing as he parried the attack, and was finally succeeded by another ghoul who woke up behind him.
Arthur charged with a silver two-handed sword, and although he was not familiar with the weight of the sword, which caused some distortion in his movements, but its power made up for it, and the ghoul who was slashed by the silver two-handed sword was "dead" almost instantly, and the remaining strength was slashed at the other ghoul beside him, killing him with a single sword.
On the other hand, Wells was reluctant to use the Silverhand weapon for some reason, still using his steel shield and one-handed steel sword, and it took a little effort to kill the last ghoul.
"Only these ghouls who don't know how to parry and dodge can show their power, this weapon is very brittle, and it can easily break if it collides with an ordinary weapon." Wells saw that Arthur seemed ready to go on a killing spree, so he reminded.
"It's no more brittle than the ancient Nord weapons that have been buried for an unknown number of years, and those silver hands also use them, so you can pick them up again if they are broken." At this time, Arthur, who was striding forward, was holding a silver two-handed sword, and two on his back, plus his own original Sky Forge two-handed sword, which made people feel heavy to look at.
As the tomb was almost at the end, there was no longer a single silver hand or ghoul, most of the two sides were fighting each other and were in a stalemate, and Arthur took the opportunity to rush up to a sword and four sections, during which those silver swords did cut off two as Wells said, but due to the large number of members of the silver hand, he could pick up another one at will, and in the end, the two spare swords that Arthur originally had on his back were never used.
“【Fus Ro Dah】!”
A loud roar that shook the walls of the tomb and the hurricane that followed finally stopped Arthur and Wells from the overwhelming onslaught, Arthur only took two steps back, but Wells was blown away and slammed into the wall.
"This guy was a dragonborn when he was alive?" Arthur frowned at the mighty ghoul in Ancient Nord armor and holding a two-handed greatsword standing on a high platform in the middle of the tomb.
Forced to stop, Arthur realized that this was the end of the tomb, and that the ghoul in front of him was a large, solitary, ornate-looking sarcophagus, and at its feet was a silver-handed member in steel armor, gradually turning to ashes.
Obviously, this ghoul is the owner of the tomb "Dastman", the captain of the silver hand who came first has died at its hands, but looking at the cracks in its armor and the burns on its limbs, you know that it is not easy to win, if it is allowed to return to the sarcophagus to rest, it may return to its full state, but since Arthur and Wells collided at such a good time, of course they would not allow that kind of thing to happen.
"Of course, it is not a dragonborn, but it is not uncommon for it to be able to roar dragons, this ability can only be mastered by training for the Nords known as the 'Children of the Sky', but I am afraid that they can only learn two or three spit out in their lifetime." Wells, who had been knocked into the wall, seemed to be fine, and walked over to Arthur with a shield in front of him, explaining at the same time.
"Isn't a word a complete dragon's roar?" Arthur frowned, looked at the powerful ghoul who was standing on the high platform and looked down on them, and suddenly shouted at it, "[FUS! 】”
Bang Bang! The ghoul, transformed from the tomb's owner, staggered backwards, and even the weapon in his hand fell to the ground.
"Well done!" Wells immediately rushed to the high platform with Arthur, and at the same time quickly explained: "A single word is called a 'spitting eye', and each dragon roar is composed of at least three 'spitting eyes', this guy obviously has two more than you. ”
"[Titicaca——! The powerful ghouls who had been repulsed let out an angry roar, and the lids of the twelve sarcophagi on the high platform were all kicked open from within, and the same number of twelve ghouls armed with various weapons stepped out of it.
"So where are these 'spit eyes' going to learn? - Protect yourself! Arthur swung his sword at the two sword-wielding ghouls, then the four ghouls with their double-wielding one-handed swords, and the minions who gathered around the powerful ghoul with their two-handed swords ignored them for the time being.
"If you want to learn, you'll have to go to the Heights of Hosga, where Lord Balguf and the Uffric Storm Cloak are said to have been—huh? Could this be the reason why he wants to make you a baron? Wells explained as he guarded Arthur's rear.
"Well, it's said to be the highest peak in the mainland, I'll go if necessary." The one-handed sword ghoul once again broke the two silver two-handed swords in Arthur's hand, and at present, except for the Sky Furnace, there is only this one left in his hand, even if he wants to search for the silver hand again, he has to ask the tomb owner in front of him if he agrees.
Speaking of which, when he first defeated Cisco Moon and swung his light, he didn't use weapons from the Sky Furnace, although the gray-maned old man said that it was the power of the Sky Furnace, but Arthur felt that they should be his own strength, just like those constellations, he had asked the members of his comrades during this time, but no one had heard of that kind of thing.
The lighting of those constellations seemed to be related to his usual combat methods, killing so many ghouls and vampires, he vaguely felt that the new stars in the "two-handed weapons" constellation were about to be lit, only a little bit short.
"Cover me a little!" Arthur made a decision, striding forward and swinging his silver sword at the nearest ghoul in a sweep, and Wells, though startled, quickly followed up with his shield to block the attacks of the other ghouls from the dead end.
Buzz - In the starry sky that only Arthur could see, the constellation of "Two-Handed Weapons" lit up the sixth star, and at the same time, the swept silver two-handed sword emitted a dazzling silver light, and then blasted a huge pillar of light at the huddled ghouls, the ghouls were reduced to ashes along with their sarcophagus, leaving Arthur with only a bare hilt in his hand.
"Huh? What is this? It looks familiar. Having seen the battle between Arthur and Cisco Moon, Wells wasn't too surprised by the attack, his eyes focused on the bright golden shards that the ghouls had fallen after they had been burned to ashes.
Arthur's gaze was drawn by the mysterious pattern of burning, heat, and evaporation on the wall, as if drawn by sharp claws, and it was deeply engraved into his mind like "Fus".
【Yol】
Inexplicably, Arthur learns its pronunciation, and realizes that he needs to kill another dragon to absorb its dragon soul in order to activate the spit.
"Ha, the dragons of ancient times will be extinct, all because of these greedy dragonborn." Lord Dragonborn laughed to himself.