—4E, 201, Last Seed, 27th, 2:00 a.m.

The Rift is a mild mountainous area located southeast of Skyrim Province and bordering the Capital Provinces of Syrodil and Morrowind, with the capital city of Rift City built in the middle of a vast lost forest, and to the west of the city is Lake Honrich, the source of the Treva River, the second largest lake in Skyrim Province, which meanders north into the White River that flows north into the White River towards Windhelm.

The Treva Watchtower, or Stareo Manor, is located on a cliff near the confluence of the Dwari and White rivers, and is so beautiful that if it were not for the owner to open the gate, it would have been quite costly to attack it, as evidenced by several charred arrow wounds on Farkas's body.

"What the hell!" Farkas glared at his brother, "Are you sure this is just a stronghold for making weapons?" ”

"At least that's what we get, unless something unforeseen happens." Wilcas looked at the huge manor from a distance, since the vampires didn't need lighting, the whole complex looked dark and dreary, only faintly revealing bursts of dark red light, not long ago several members of the ring tried to rush directly in, only to be hit back by a rain of arrows, of course, silver arrows.

"It's not surprising, weaponry is very important to any organization, so it's not unusual to have more people stationed there." Cisco Yue touched his bald head, because the reflection was too conspicuous at night, he was hit several times, and at this time he was a little angry: "Just kill them all." ”

"You two-handed swords, can you think about it for me?" Wells was priing the arrows embedded in his shield with a dagger: "I was the one who hit the most arrows. ”

"Actually, a tight defense isn't necessarily a bad thing, maybe we catch a big fish by mistake," Wilcas pointed to the main entrance of the manor, "I've observed before that those silver hands have locked the main door, and even if we rush to the door, we won't be able to get in - in 'this form'." ”

"Hey, isn't it you who are most opposed to us carrying out tasks in 'that posture'?" Cisco Moon laughed.

"So what are you waiting for! Whew-" Farkas roared in the sky, and his body began to grow strong rapidly, covered in a layer of black, hard hair, and eventually even his head took the shape of a wolf.

"Heh, what would happen if ordinary peasants and workers saw this?" Wilcas patted Farkas in the form of a werewolf, his hand only reaching his waist: "Explain that we can control ourselves, not that kind of wild werewolf, do you guess they will listen?" ”

"Ella's transformation is good, but it's a pity that no other female members have passed the assessment." Cisco Moon snorted and began to transform with a low roar.

"I'm guessing you really like the feeling of something growing on your head." Wells teased, in exchange for Cisco Moon's close-range bared teeth.

"Wells, you don't have to change, we need a shield," Wilcas nodded at him, and thick black hair began to appear all over his body, "We'll find a way to open the gate after jumping in, and then you can go in again." ”

"Then you little—" Before Wells could finish speaking, he saw three werewolves leap out of the city, leaping high as they approached the walls of the manor, and the screams of the Silver Hand members within the walls began to sound one after another.

"Hopefully they won't kill Redeye and forget to open the door for me." He shrugged his shoulders and approached the manor with his shield in hand.

——3:00——

"Yo-heh-" Ella cheered as she sat on the back of Arthur in dragon form, "I used to think that the werewolf form would be fast enough, but when I met you, it felt like a turtle crawling-"

Don't let the other members of the Ring hear that...... Since Ella couldn't understand the dragon's language, Arthur didn't reply at all for security reasons.

The distance from Wilheimer Castle to Stareo Manor is almost equivalent to crossing the entire snow-covered territory, and it would take about two days to travel in a normal carriage, but it only takes a few hours to fly in dragon form, and maybe even get there before the members of the ring who are hurrying away in werewolf form.

However, due to the presence of the "Blade Warriors", in order to avoid being seen as soon as he looked up, Arthur flew close to the mountain along the way, and it was late at night, so it was impossible to detect unless those dragon slayers were monitoring the sky without sleeping at all.

Arthur breathes a sigh of relief after safely passing by the place where he had previously encountered Sophie and Blade.

"Cowardly, too cowardly." Ella, who was sitting on the back of the red dragon, could naturally feel this, and raised her hand to pat him vigorously: "What kind of blade warrior are you afraid of, it will be all gone after a dragon's breath." ”

Not to mention that he doesn't know how to breath dragons, even if he can, then the first person to clean up this evil dragon is the comrades-in-arms! Arthur grunted twice in his throat in displeasure.

"Well, you can see the destination, they seem to have succeeded?" Ella looked at the intersection of two rivers, where a manor was on fire.

[(Dragon) No! Wrong! Hang on! In Arthur's field of vision, the burning manor was gathering an unusually large "death breath" to the point that it formed a large vortex, and he reminded Ella of it, and immediately fluttered his wings and swooped down.

There was no entity at all, just a vortex of "death" that Arthur felt very familiar with, but it was definitely not the one in front of him, because the "evil" mixed in the vortex of death was so obvious that it must have caused this vortex by some kind of monster that took pleasure in killing for no reason, not ...... What didn't come from?

"Helsin is on top! What's that! Ella exclaimed, completely oblivious to what she had revealed.

The collapsed manor was littered with the corpses of silver-handed vampires, but with the exception of a few who died from sword and claw wounds, most of them had become as shriveled as the ghouls in the tombs, and could not stand up like the ghouls.

In the middle of the corpse, a giant monster with turquoise skin floated, it looked like a human, but it was strong, its hands were replaced by a pair of huge claws, its huge head was hairless, its facial features were vicious, its eyes glowed horribly, and its mouth was full of sharp fangs.

Snort - The corpse of a member of the Silver Hand held in its "hand" makes a strange noise, and then goes straight down, like a dry corpse on the ground.

"Ho-ho-" The monster smiled humanly at the sight of the swooping dragon, and then reached out to grab a werewolf who had fallen to the ground and was struggling.

"Stop! You monster! Ella jumped up excitedly and stomped her foot hard: "Arthur! Kill him! Save Cisco Month! ”

“【Fus】！” If you launch an attack after landing, it must be too late, although the werewolf is strong, but being caught by this monster will not be much stronger than those vampires, and when he dived, Arthur directly spat out and roared.

Boom - As the green monster itself floated in the air and had nowhere to focus, it was blown away and crashed into the burning ruins after being hit by a storm set off by the dragon's roar.

"What's going on! Cisco Month? What about the others? Arthur stared warily at the ruins, and Ella jumped off the dragon's back to help the werewolf form of Cisco Moon.

"Whew...... I'll break it off, let them report it......" Cisco Moon turned back into human form, gasping and said, "Obviously, those guys didn't listen to me. ”

"Hey, the comrades-in-arms don't have the custom of leaving their comrades behind and running away, and the shield brothers will never walk alone." Not far away, outside the relatively intact wall, came two werewolves with burns and embarrassment, and Wells, whose armor was twisted and deformed in many places, and whose shields were gone.

"Won't you run together?" Ella glared at them, "This kind of enemy who obviously can't be defeated still doesn't run?" ”

Boom - the burning ruins exploded, and the monster got back up and reached out to the group of comrades, and the ensuing huge suction force caused both werewolves to stagger a little to lift off the ground, while Ella, who had already flown up the lightest weight, was blocked by Arthur's raised wings.

"Stand back! Arthur pushed his comrades backwards and pounced on the huge monster with its wings, and the monster grabbed the red dragon's wings as if trying to repeat the old trick, but could not absorb anything at all, and was instead left several deep wounds on his body by the dragon's claws, so he became even more furious.

"According to the Silver Hands, that thing is a high-level being called the 'Vampire Maharaja', this bloodline comes from the direct gift of the demon god Morag Barr, but if you don't have enough mind, you will become a bloodthirsty monster who only knows how to kill." Wilcas turned back into a human and said weakly.

"He's been called 'Triva' by the other Silver Hands, and his appearance matches the intelligence, and he was still fighting us in normal size, but he started to grow in size after being injured and absorbing a member of the Silver Hand—" Wells pointed to the huge green monster that was entangled with Arthur, "and then, as you can see." ”

"That guy is crazy, and prefers to suck the Silver Hand rather than hunt us down - I don't know what it is." Farkas, who was the most seriously injured, fell to the ground directly after turning back into human form, and said with a hum.

"So, it's still a weapons factory, but the weapons have become themselves." Ella shook her ears: "Devouring your own kind will become powerful, and it is not a serious force at first glance." ”

"Ha, so we only dealt with the low-level members of the periphery with great fanfare before?" Cisco Moon snorted.

"The Silver Hand must be destroyed." Wilcas concluded.

Bang! “【Yol】！”

The vampire lord, though powerful, had little sense of battle of his own, and only relied on his sheer size and magic to crush the werewolves of the ring, and after encountering a red dragon that was immune to all of those tricks, he was quickly knocked to the ground by Arthur and spewed fire by stepping on it with his claws.

"[Ho-ho-ho!] Eventually, the green monster howled and gradually turned to ashes in the dragon flames.

"[(Dragon) We need to get back as soon as possible—" Arthur turned to the rings, and before he could finish a word, he began to shrink back into human form, and then fainted directly in front of his eyes, and faintly heard the discussion of his comrades.

"It's good that it's not a ...... in dragon form."

"Does he have to eat again when he wakes up?"

"Less nonsense! Where is the nearest village? ”

"I remember it...... Ivasted? Right at the foot of the Horsga Peak. ”