Chapter 273: The Morning Star and the Nightmare
My name is Akatosh,
This is a textbook suicide ......
—4E, 201, Moon of the Fire, 13th, 9:43 a.m.
I'm on my way back to the Sanctuary of the Dark Brotherhood with Gallus, Elia, and Cicero.
The work of the Dark Brotherhood in Marcus City has come to an end, and a strange balance has been created between the believers of Dibella and the apostands of the Red Eagle, with each side trying to bring down the other completely, but refraining from a large-scale conflict, but this confrontation has made the ordinary residents who have no access to the fighting feel much safer around the city, and therefore praise the lord's stewardship.
Due to my previous interference, there is no real irreconcilable contradiction between the two of them, and sooner or later they will gradually understand each other and gradually merge in confrontation and conflict, and when a certain lord in the future comes from the side of the oathbreaker, the city will truly become monolithic.
So, after I had dumped most of the truly unforgivable people in Atayum, Gallus, who couldn't stand Cicero's "hey, hey, hey", offered to return to the sanctuary, after all, Twilight, as Dubella's saintess, no longer had to assassinate her sisters to gain attention, and Illya grew impatient with the priests of Dubella, who always wanted to pull her to be a saint.
The route back was specially arranged by the Oathbreaker King, and most of the distance passed through was in their zone of control, so it was almost impossible to encounter enemies other than wild animals, after all, Gallus, armed with the Sword of the Red Hawk, was now known as the "Awakener" of the Red Hawk.
All this extra work aside, Gallus had come to terms with the Night Mother, as the missions I had given through Cicero as a listener were timely, and sometimes he had just finished the Dark Ritual of the Client's Servant when he was given the assignment to go to the Ritual Location.
'Blanca's Jump Point, Shattered Tower Stronghold, Cass Spear...... It felt as if something strange had gotten in. 'I flipped through the rudimentary maps provided by the King of the Oathbreakers, which differed from generic maps in that they marked some of the occupied caves, ruins, and strongholds in the Rich's territory, and included a threat assessment, even though it was useless to me.
[Sky Sanctuary Temple, Delphine and Isben are analyzing the causes of this dragon plague and looking for a solution, do you need to broadcast live?] 】
'Excuse me, it's too dark in that place,' I stopped the idea of a stupid system opening a new window, and now the surveillance of this whole bunch of key people is a real headache for me: 'How did they get through the blockade of those two dragons?' ’
The Sky Sanctuary is the main route of The Elder Scrolls, with its front and back doors guarded by a dragon, and the Dragonborn protagonist has to enter it with the help of Blade survivors Delphine and Isbourne, read the prophecy mural, and then go in search of a special dragon roar "Dragon Break" that can defeat Alduin, but now......
[There were no dragons hovering near the temple, and there was no obstacle to their entry into the temple. 】
After all, due to Lao Pa's stealing of the scene, this main line was skipped, and the Blade Warrior was not eliminated at all. ’
And due to the farce of the true and false princesses of Dugu City, the emperor is ready to come to the sky, and the eldest sister of the blade warrior will also accompany him.
"Oh~Mother~ Is there any target worth killing nearby? (hearts)" Cicero routinely broke his thoughts.
"Not yet. I replied by cutting the channel.
As the Night Mother, I will never issue a mission to assassinate the emperor, and see how the Brotherhood Sanctuary will be destroyed this time~ Hmph.
[Hint: Babette arrives at Morningstar to assassinate mine owner Betty Yud]
As a result, Sister A was still unwilling to give up her power, and took over the task by herself......
After confirming that there would be no enemies or uncertainties on this side for the time being, I left behind the illusion of Black Chastity and secretly opened the door of annihilation and teleported to the Morning Star.
——10:06——
Morningstar is the capital of The Pale, and to the east is the vast snowfields and hills where Arthur and his men fought, and further east is the crater caused by the collapse of Wintercastle.
The city itself is surrounded by snow-capped mountains that make agriculture almost impossible, but also because it is surrounded by mountains, its harbor is relatively warm, and the frozen months are short, and the profits from the transportation and sale of various minerals from the mines around the city are enough to sustain the inhabitants, in other words, almost all the men and women in the city are good miners.
Bettiud was a capable Nord woman who had owned an iron ore mine of her own after years of hard work, but she was still willing to work with her hired workers, and she often said to her workers: "At Morningstar, there are no poor people, only lazy people." And the fact that her mine's production capacity is among the best even in the whole of Morningstar makes this statement very convincing.
Such a pragmatic female mine owner, even if some people envy her wealth, can not have any dark thoughts, because everyone knows that the gold she obtained from selling minerals is invested in the redevelopment of the mine and the welfare of the workers, except for maintaining her own life that is only slightly more comfortable than ordinary people.
The man who had performed the dark ritual to kill her would have been greatly astonished if the inhabitants of Morningstar had known about it - he was Bettyud's husband and the owner of another mine, Ray Gelph.
Ray Gelfe's mines do not produce more ordinary copper or iron ore, but the more cherished "mercury", well, "silver ore" with "water streaks" rather than "mercury".
To mine this precious mineral used to make all kinds of jewelry, it is impossible to pay as long as you pay like iron ore, what is needed is luck, and the criterion for Ray Gelfe's selection of miners is not to be down-to-earth and hard-working, but to be lucky, for example, some adventurers who have easily obtained a lot of loot will be invited by him to point out the direction of the next stage of mining in the mine.
Originally, the two of them fell in love and married out of complementary personalities at Morningstar, and many miners even blessed their children with "digging mercury like iron ore" - well, at their level, that blessing can only be said.
However, the benefits of the "doer" and the "metaphysician" are very different when the latter's "luck" is not so good, as evidenced by the fact that the iron ore mines of Bettiud are more than four times the size of the mercury mines of Ray Gelfe.
According to the video shown to me by the stupid system, there have been many inexplicable arguments between them, most of which are when Bettiud accuses Ray Gelf of not working hard, and Ray Gelf complains that Betty Yud gives her too many workers and might as well use them to get him to hire more "lucky" workers.
In this case, even if Ray Gelf was a bit of a scumbag, it was still within the understandable range, but then he inexplicably thought that Betty Yod had ruined his "luck", as long as she stayed away from him, he could get better, so the two separated after a heated argument.
But even so, the condition of the mercury mines was still half-dead, and Ray Gelfe further believed that the mere fact that Betty Yud was in the same city would interfere with his luck, and repeatedly asked her to leave the Morning Star.
Betty Yod, who still has some illusions about her husband, goes on a trip after entrusting the mine to her deputy, and recently rushes back to Morning Star for fear of the "resurrection of the dragon" in various places, only to be angrily accused by Ray Gelfe, who had just suffered a landslide, for her intention to destroy his mercury mines, and returned to her house where she lived alone and refused to see him again.
So, a few days ago, Ray Gelph had held a dark ritual at a farmstead somewhere far away from the Morning Star, asking the Dark Brotherhood to kill Betty Yud to "restore luck".
Of course, I wouldn't forward this kind of stupid mission, but Sister A got the information about this mission through her own channels, and then was picked up by Babette.
With the logic of the five-hundred-year-old vampire and her indifference to human life, she would probably kill Betty Yud outright, and then turn around and kill Ray Gelf when he wakes up from a dream and regrets it.
While I'm in favor of teaching the scumbag a lesson, this method doesn't work, anyway, to keep Barbett under control first, she seems to be ready to lurk in the mines, and strike while Betty Yud has just entered and her eyes are not yet adjusted.
The vampire race is affected by spells against both humanoids and undead, and Zerapes, the vest, as the chief mage of the Mage Academy and the holy daughter of Ali-ai, can ...... without help at all Well?
At the entrance to Betyoud's mine, I was about to get a yellow finch behind, but I saw Babette yawn and fall asleep...... Asleep?
[Flash away, that's Vaermina's Nightmare Swamp Breath (Quagmire gas)!] 】
——10:16——
"What's going on now?" I looked at the golden dragon Akatosh, which had just flown past the sky, and the golden Valhalla in the distance, and then turned to look at the "globe" floating on the fountain pool, with many surveillance images, and the little black dragon flapping its wings beside it.
Which demon god suddenly made a move to slap the mage's vest for seconds? Impossible.
[This is, huh...... The stupid system replied: [It is now certain that Ray Gelf's inexplicable dissatisfaction and killing intent against Bettiud was influenced by the nightmare of the demon god Valmina, and his purpose was to have Ray Gelf kill his wife with his own hands, and your and Babette's actions would disrupt his plans, so he directly pulled you into the nightmare. 】
"Oh...... Although Valmina can send Zela into a nightmare, he doesn't have the ability to pull my consciousness in, so he popped up, right? "I looked at Babette and Zerapes, who were sleeping on the surveillance screen.
[Not only that, He pulled you to fail and fell into it yourself, it can be said that he has actually been defeated, but if you want to obtain the doomsday element and the priesthood, you have to enter the nightmare to completely destroy Him. 】
"Hey," I made sure that the illusion on Joan of Arc's side was still maintained, and then turned to the monitor at the entrance of the mine, "Welcome to the EX-class of the Einzberen Interview Room." ”