Chapter 164: Mages and Ruins
—4E, 201, Last Seed, 20th, 5:00 a.m.
"Fellow apprentices, I think you're ready to explore Sattar, and if anyone needs time, I don't mind waiting another ten minutes." Tovdil's magically amplified voice resounded throughout the Hall of Achievement.
The Hall of Achievement and the Hall of Countenance, in addition to the most striking and tall main building in the Wintercastle Mage Academy, are slightly less massive than the main building, the Elemental Temple, which is embedded in the tall walls of the academy and looks like two arched towers.
They are hollow cylindrical inside, each with a large magic well with blue light leading to the roof of the hall, while the dormitories for apprentices and lecturers are arranged around the magic well in three levels, each with twenty separate single dormitories, connected by stairs between the upper and lower levels.
Due to the poor climate of Winterhold, all of the rooms were not windowed, and only the light and darkness of the magic well in the middle of the hall indicated the change of day and night.
There are no special rules for specific living arrangements, and while some tutors prefer to live a little higher, Tovdir prefers to live with the students on the ground floor.
It is said that the reason for not deliberately distinguishing between instructors and apprentices is to express the idea that there is only one order in the pursuit of magic, and there are no teachers and students.
For the academy, which only had three, no, four apprentices at this time, this "dormitory building" still seemed a little empty, and even the sound of them stumbling over the coffee table cabinet in the dormitory could be heard.
"Before the volcanic eruption and the 'Great Collapse' in Morrowind, it was full of people – I was an apprentice who didn't know anything." Anel Kim, standing beside Tovdil, felt a little at the slightest sound in the hall, which would produce a continuous echo.
"We are all apprentices in the face of endless magical knowledge." Tovdir shook his head slowly: "Just like the place we are going to this time, Sattar is clearly underground near Winter Castle, but he has avoided any kind of magic detection until the 'Great Collapse' has exposed it, and recently, we have completed the analysis of its entrance seal. ”
"For a relic that doesn't have any information, isn't it appropriate to let the apprentices in?" Arnell Gan looked at the apprentice who was gradually walking out of the room, and lowered his voice: "If there is anything that cannot be handled-"
"If all the explorations were written into reports and books for the apprentices to read, they would only become magical librarians," Tovdill patted his lieutenant on the shoulder, "and the academy was originally going to let us two change masters handle this matter." ”
"You don't know anything about power, Forrest Gump." His other shoulder was also patted: "There is no problem that cannot be solved by a big fireball, if there is, five more shots." ”
"Don't call me Forrest Gump!" Arnell Gan turned away: "Why don't you go to your 'classmates'?" ”
"Stingy." The blonde, blue-eyed, slender Nord girl shrugged her shoulders towards the apprentices, and since she was indoors without a hood, you could clearly see the aristocratic head held in place by braids and blue headbands at the back of her head, and the inexplicable lock of hair on her forehead.
"What the hell is she thinking, isn't it good to use her original appearance?" It took a lot of effort for Arnell Gan to see the black-haired, black-eyed elf girl through the disguise.
"I think you're already familiar with enchantment spells, and you have the power to protect yourself," Tovdil didn't answer Arnell's question, and once again amplified his voice to the four apprentices gathered, "Next, I will lead you to explore the unique use of magic in history, our target is the Satar ruins that the Academy is excavating, please come with me." ”
——5:30——
The reason why I chose to set off at such an early time is that I don't know how long it will take to explore the ruins, and I have to make as much time as possible, but there is another point, because it is impossible for the residents of Wintercastle to go out at this time, even the patrolling guards will not go out to blow the wind because they are about to change the guard.
Although those people didn't dare to do anything to the academy mages, even a few words of cynicism would be a nuisance, especially since the apprentices in this class were all violent tempers who specialized in destruction magic.
Once the group had walked out of Wintercastle without encountering any of them, Tovdill breathed a sigh of relief and began to think about the students' personalities and what tasks they should be given in their quest for the rest of their quest.
It may be impossible for ordinary people to understand another person's personality in just two days, but for the mages of the Mage Academy, it is simply a breeze.
For example, people with radical personalities or short tempers are prone to achieve something in the destruction of magic, cautious and cautious people are very experienced in the summoning system, cunning and like to influence others, and are good at illusions, while those who pursue knowledge and are good at careful logic will get twice the result with half the effort in the study of the change department, as for the recovery department...... Well, it's widely regarded as the choice of the cowardly, and this view has almost made the recovery maestine, Lady Camelot Marens, angry with the destruction system.
For people who have just entered the threshold of magic, they basically start with destruction spells, but then they will develop towards specific departments according to their own tendencies, such as Zag, the tiger man who is good at lightning, he is as irritable as ever, and he can already gather lightning balls, and the defensive enchantment does not last long, the dark elf Brilina, can still only send out ice blades, but it seems that because her race is often discriminated against in the sky, she has touched the threshold of invisibility, as for the Red Guardian Onmond, Although he may have mastered the fire spell due to his hot birth in the Falling Hammer Province, he inexplicably prefers to defend, and the enchantment technique has a larger range and is more durable than the rest of his classmates.
As for Zela Pesh's ......, Tovdil sighed, any spell can be learned in a moment, and the effect is amazing, should it be said that he is worthy of the former god of Acatosh and the Holy Maiden of the High Elves?
At that time, the "Great Collapse" had just ended, and the entire academy was in chaos, she was still a little girl, and she walked out of the shell mound under the academy with a confused face, and no one went to greet her, and she didn't know what kind of potion she had taken wrong, thinking that she was a child who was separated from her parents in the accident and ran to take care of her, and only after going through the adoption procedures by mistake did she know from the previous chief mage that this was the prophecy of the Great Collapse, and the "Elven Holy Maiden" who had been forgotten had been sealed by Beiqiu for fifty years to delay its occurrence.
The reason why she didn't use her original appearance was probably to prevent the "advisor" sent by Xia Dusk Island from recognizing it, although Suo Mo no longer had her legend, but with the elf's longevity, it was inevitable that some would be handed down.
Speaking of the life span of the elf, Tovdil has a stomach ache, and the past twenty years have only grown from a girl to a girl for Zela, but his title has changed from "brother" to "father", and now "father", and he is about to become "grandpa".
But fortunately, she was a little more clever than expected, and after thinking about her gray-haired self for a long time one day, she shouted out a "Master" (Master), which finally alleviated the gradually embarrassing problem of the title.
——6:00——
In the underground of Skyrim, there are many ancient ruins buried, except for some Nord tombs, most of them are dwarven (forging Mo) cities, and the ruins of ancient ancient cities of the ancient Nords.
In contrast, the value of the dwarven ruins is greater, because most of them are still running automatically, and most of the weapons and treasures in them are well preserved, and because their forging techniques cannot be reproduced, the value of buying and selling is higher, while the ruins of the ancient Nords not only have endless traps, but also ghouls who have risen up to attack the invaders because they are disturbed, but the only benefit is tattered weapons that are about to decay, and if you can't find something of sufficient value, exploring them is a loss-making business.
The ruins that are about to be explored are revealed because of the great collapse, because some archaeologists mistakenly thought it was a dwarven city and hired an excavation team to develop it, and then it was found to be the ruins of the ancient city of Nord that were worthless, and they were protected by magic, so they were directly sold to the academy cheaply.
Naturally, the Mage Academy would not tell them that this was the city "Sattar" established by the ancient hero Sgrammer when he first landed in Skyrim Province, and after a little cleanup, they sent the thoughtful Tovdil and Anel Gan to explore deeply.
The magically enclosed entrance, which appears to be the side entrance of Sattar City, descends down the spiral staircase after entering, and is pitch black due to being underground, and the mages go out and shoot magic magic before they finally find that they finally arrive at a huge square, but it is impossible to easily explore due to the collapsed rooms everywhere, only the most recent and largest stone house is still relatively intact.
"Brilina, go check if there are any traps nearby, if you find it, don't try to disarm, just come back and report, Zag, go find if there are any enemies and clean up by the way, Onmond, you protect Zag." Tovdil observed his surroundings and quickly gave an order: "Zela, you and Anel inspect this house to see if there are any ancient relics. ”
Directly transferring the inexperienced apprentices from the stone house, which may be rewarding but also carries risks, Tovdill decides to personally enter the investigation with his lieutenant and his adopted daughter, who is strong enough.
While several of the apprentices seemed dissatisfied, they also knew that they were not strong enough to face the possible danger of a ruin, so they began to inspect the rest of the plaza in accordance with the discovered techniques they had learned.
"Yo, Forrest Gump, looks like we're going to work together." With no other apprentices by her side, Zela simply changed her tune.
"Don't call me Forrest Gump!" Arnell Gan said angrily as she maintained the candlelight technique in her hand.