My name is Akatosh,

The Shura field is really interesting, I mean Gallus.

—4E, 201, Moon of Fire, 19th, 18:12 -

The "Stink Tower" doesn't stink, and it doesn't resemble a tower.

It looked like a chunky, dull yellow barrel, but a large piece was missing diagonally from the top to the bottom, and the lights from inside could clearly see the forged rooms, steam pipes, and various massive machinery that had ceased to work.

Although it is impossible to analyze the specific function, it can be roughly concluded that the main work of this stinking tower is to collect waste, then compress it mechanically, and finally send it away.

Around the "tower", there are many fragments of buildings of different sizes similar to the material of the tower.

"[In my judgment,] said Paladin Gleb through the Snow Elf's metal armor, "[The reason why the 'Stinking Tower' became like this is due to the fact that most of its machinery needs to be controlled manually, and after the dwarves suddenly disappeared, the machinery went out of control on a large scale and eventually caused an explosion. 】”

No, no, it's more like someone who took a big bite and chewed twice while the "Stink Tower" was still working, and then it was stinky, and then spit on the ground......

Arthur inexplicably thought of the dragon he had seen in his nightmare not long ago, and suddenly felt that its image was gone in a funny direction.

"Quack-scare-" As he was about to reach the main entrance of the Stench Tower, Oried, who was leading the way in front of him, suddenly stopped and roared at the side of the road.

"Roar—" Several mutated snow elves who were also wearing bronze dwarven armor came out of the darkness and exchanged roars with Oried, these snow elves were not wearing full armor like him, some lacked hand armor, some lacked helmets, and even no cuirasses, and the missing parts were replaced by Zerus's leather armor, which looked very strange.

"I've never seen any snow elves on either side, it's interesting." Septin said implicitly, touching his beard.

"I can only listen to the explanation of the 'paladin'," Arthur shrugged, "It's better to talk here than the [Twilight Zone] who wants to use us as slaves directly." ”

In order not to irritate Jane Rassai, Arthur did not take the initiative to inquire about the internal situation of [Twilight], but judging from the few words she revealed, the snow elf king probably controlled the foreign adventurers to work for them through the scarlet neengen they called [Blood Thistle], and for ordinary snow elves, they were attracted to join by "being able to transform back into an ancient form", and it was obvious that this "paladin" subordinates were unwilling to accept that transformation.

After communicating with the guards, Ored continued to lead Arthur and his party to the Stinky Tower, where Sophie, who was a little afraid of the name, covered her nose, but soon found that there was no need for this, except for dwarf oil and the vapor of mechanical steam, there was nothing that could be called a "foul smell".

——18:39——

"Welcome, guests from the surface."

“……”

In a dwarven mechanical control hall, the adventurer team saw the "Paladin Gleb" who had already communicated with them and was busy in front of a giant dwarven machine.

Tall, wearing silver light and gorgeous metal armor, with a broken gold sword at his waist, his skin was snow-white, but not unhealthily white, his platinum-gold shawl long hair shone in the light of the magic stone lamp, pointed ears, a straight nose, slightly slender silver-white eyes seemed to smile when looking at people, thin lips were lightly opened, and his voice was more hoarse and lazy than when it came out of the dwarven armor:

"Perhaps, I should call you the pioneers of the Brothers-in-Arms? Snowy City envoys? ”

Tsk, sure enough, such elves deserve to be called "snow elves", should those mutated snow elves outside be called instead?

"Call me 'Dragonborn' if you can." Arthur replied quickly, stating that he had come in his personal capacity and had nothing to do with his actual background.

Septin implied no response, just watched with interest the large dwarven machine that the paladin was tinkering with, as if it was somehow using dwarven armor to make a sound.

Lydia and Ella performed in unison, and after being amazed, they turned their heads to look at Arthur together, as if trying to find something in him that could compare to the other.

No need to look for it, at least not at all, Arthur rolled his eyes inwardly.

As the only elf present, Jane Lassay looked like she was devastated and muttered something "how can men be so beautiful".

Barbas ...... Well, it's eyeing Rabit, and Sophie is busy clinging to the rabbit to keep it from jumping out.

"I'd love to tell you what I've prepared, Mr. Dragonborn, but I'm sure you won't accept it all," Gelleb raised a silvery-gray slender eyebrow at Arthur, "So, how about we start our conversation with 'you ask me and I answer'?" ”

He waved his hand and made a few strokes on the giant console beside him, and with the sound of mechanical friction, the ground opened and two rows of metal seats were raised.

"So...... Why don't you have a 'mutation'? Arthur patted the nearest seat to make sure there was no dust and sat down.

"Well, to the core?" Ghaleb also sat down, his hands folded in front of him: "I want to correct a concept first, which is not 'mutation' or 'degradation', but 'curse'. ”

"Hmm...... Something to do with the sudden disappearance of the dwarves? Arthur responded.

"The Snow Elves and Dwarves are the natives of Skyrim Province, leaving behind many buildings and ruins," Galeb pointed upwards, "until they were driven away from the surface by Sgramer wielding 'Witch Slacdo'." ”

"Uh, hehe." Arthur quietly adjusts his sitting position to block the "Sword of Oath and Victory" behind him.

Gelleb pointed around again: "The dwarves took advantage of the danger of the people to ask the snow elves to be their slaves, but soon after they all disappeared inexplicably in the 'Battle of the Red Mountain', how could it be possible to turn an elven race into the monsters it is today?" ”

"Indeed......" Arthur looked around at the machinery around him.

The common saying on the surface is that the snow elves live underground for a long time, and their eyes deteriorate because they can't see sunlight, and they work as slaves all year round so they are thin and woody, and finally because they are restricted by the dwarves from learning knowledge, they even move closer to monsters.

But the dwarves who would have forced them to be slaves disappeared thousands of years earlier, huh? And, can't see the light? What are the magic stone lamps that shine day and night in those dwarven ruins?

"I have two guesses about who did it, the 'God of Enslavement and Harvesting', [Morag Bar] or the Nameless Demon God in 'Black Sun'." Galleb nodded slowly in acknowledgment.

The so-called nameless demon god refers to the demon god who has not disappeared unexpectedly after the fall, and after losing all the godhead and priesthood, although the power is still there, he can no longer use the original god name - because it has been inherited by the new demon god.

Arthur frowned: "If there is a fallen demon god in there, it can indeed explain what [Twilight] did, but that Baal? You can't guess about His involvement just because His ministry is compatible, right? ”

"Although the evidence is not sufficient, there is still a case," Galeb smiled slightly, "[Blood Thistle] means 'blood of Baal' in the Snow Elf language, and the king of [Twilight], Archbishop Vershuo, he has survived because he has been transformed into a vampire." ”

Vampires who have been fighting on the surface for almost a month, and it turns out that there are also underground?! Arthur almost reached for his two-handed sword behind his back.

"After the events that you call the 'Hall of the Watched', he returned to our original cathedral for some unknown purpose, took out the Bow of God and handed it to the saints of Baal, Lord Hakong, this evidence is sufficient, by the way, to answer your question at the beginning, I have spent thousands of years in the cathedral because I was frozen in the cathedral." Galeb said.

The arrow that shot out even Sgrammer's bow could only be stopped?

"'Archbishop' and 'Paladin', is that what you called in your day? Is it also the worship of various Holy Spirits? For some reason, Arthur felt his heart beat a little faster.

"There is an overlap and overlap between the gods of our elves and the holy spirit of mankind, some of them may be the same person, and some of them may be misinformation or variants," Jan Rassay suddenly interjected, "but if we say that thousands of years ago, there was only one main god of the elves. ”

"Aka, the god of time." Gelleb continued: "The Elvish word is 'Ali-E.' ”

"Not the 'Dragon of Time' [Akatosh]?" Ella asked curiously.

"That name ......," Ghaleb sighed, shaking his head, "and when I heard it after the thaw, I thought: the Holy Spirit is merciful that humanity is still alive. ”

"Just changing the name of the god?" Arthur continued to ask.

"Since you are a 'dragonborn', do you know the existence of the dragon roar [Dragon Break]?" Ghaleb looked at Arthur.

"I've heard of it." Arthur replied that, in fact, he had come to find The Elder Scrolls to learn Dragonbreak.

"Humans created this 'time-changing' dragon roar, wanting to achieve the fact that [Acre] and 'Ali-E' are not the same Holy Spirit through it, but they didn't think that the 'time-changing' thing itself was hurting [Acre], and the time dragon created [Dragon Break] that lasted for a thousand years under the pain, and anything could happen during that time, such as the inexplicable destruction of human beings, but in the end he didn't choose to do that, after the end of [Dragon Break], [Acre] became [Akatosh], and' 'Ali-Ai' also became the name of a certain elven king. Galeb sighed.

"Indeed...... Benevolence ......" style made Arthur feel inexplicably familiar.

A few seemingly inconsequential pieces of information have linked the surface and the underground, and said most of the information Arthur wanted to know, it is clear that the archbishop Versh has somehow disarmed his vampire bloodline - maybe a dragon break, and then handed the 'Ariel's Bow' to Hakong, and went underground to save his people, but there seems to be some hidden dangers in the way, it is likely that he has been affected by the demon god without knowing it, then, now only the last question remains.

"What is your purpose?" Arthur stared at Gleb.

"My purpose is actually the same as that of Vilshon: to change back to the way it was thousands of years ago and re-establish the kingdom of the Snow Elves, but the method must be achieved by looting or conquering, and it is absolutely unacceptable to cooperate and trade with the Demon God like him." Paladin Gelleb said, looking up at the sky slightly: "Also, cut off the connection between the surface world and the Black Fall, lest a second 'Sgramer' appear and put our people in a situation from which we will never recover. ”