Chapter 193: The Mage and the Necklace
—4E, 201, Last Seed, 26th, 13:00—
In the northwest of Skyrim Province, between the towering Dugu City and the ancient Mosal City, there was originally a fertile plain, and the crops that can be seen from a condescending perspective during the harvest season are very impressive, which is probably one of the reasons why Dugu City is designated as the capital of Skyrim Province.
But due to the effects of the "Great Collapse" many years ago, this low-lying plain was gradually submerged by rising waters, and after years of soaking, even now that the waters have receded, these places can no longer grow crops and have turned into hunting grounds for swamps and amphibians.
It was precisely because of the disappearance of the largest granary in the Skyrim Province that Stormcloak dared to start a rebellion, and no matter how the two sides fought, they did not dare to be too tough on Snow City, which declared its neutrality and was rich in food.
In this swamp, due to long-term erosion and soil erosion, a Guunod ruin called Forguunse, which had been buried deep in the ground, was revealed, and many tomb robbers and official archaeological excavation teams were eager to try it, but they did not expect that a team was already exploring the depths of this ruin.
"Zha!" Zag, covered in flames, swung out his claws, and the ghoul in front of him fell stiffly to the ground with a crackling sound of electricity.
"Very good." The tiger man turned around and looked at the classmates behind him who had also solved their respective opponents, "I feel more powerful." ”
"It's like who's not." Brielina Majoux patted the silent ice elemental beside her.
Cut, his lightning claws really couldn't break through the guy's shell, Zag snorted.
"And your control of the flames is just too clumsy." Onmond commented briefly, and then knocked on a huge sarcophagus beside him, and after the ghouls inside angrily kicked open the coffin board, the pile of fire runes engraved there instantly burned to ashes.
"That's right, that's a great point." With Zela Pesh's words, there was a bang, boom sound from her position at the same time, and the remnants of the spells that the three mages had used in their previous anger were directly absorbed by the gorgeous platinum staff in her hand.
"Tsk...... "For this blonde and blue-eyed Nord female classmate, Zag really has nothing to say, very admired, not only can she send out powerful attack magic from various departments, but also have dabbling and understanding of the magic of other departments, and can make suggestions according to the specific situation of several of them, and finally defeated Ancano, who wanted to steal the power of the Eye of Magnus, and became the chief mage - oh, this is not.
Although the Chief Mage wanted to give way to Zela, he was opposed by all the mentors of the Academy, and even Zela herself firmly disagreed, and in the end Savos Arian simply gave her the staff, which was almost equivalent to his own logo - who would have thought that the ugly staff would be the legendary "Staff of Magnus" before the stupid elf tried to absorb the power of the Eye of Magnus?
"Of course, I'm not saying you, Angmond, I mean that all of you here are crappy mages." Zerapesh said as he blessed himself with armor.
Is this ready to be attacked by a group? Zag laughed silently, but humans probably couldn't tell the tiger's head's expression.
"You guy, I'm going to duel you - do you think I'm going to say that? Ha ha! Onmond laughed and turned to head deeper into the tomb.
"Alright, little Zela," Brilina shrugged at her, "Maybe we'd have been fooled if we had been a few days earlier, but now ......"
In the attack of the "Mana Vortex" and "Mana Abnormality" caused by the "Eye of Magnus", even if he accidentally took several hits, he had to protect other mentors and apprentices with all his might, and finally faced the extremely dangerous Ancano, saving the entire Mage Academy, during which no one was injured - what kind of dark psychology would such a person have to say bad things about others? A mage who specializes in destruction may be irritable, but he is not a brainless fool.
"You're a good girl," Zag said to her, "don't deliberately make that arrogant and arrogant gesture, we've seen it all." ”
"What, what?!" Zerapesh glared at her blue eyes: "Even a tiger dares to send me a good guy card?" Believe it or not, I put you ...... What's that. ”
Look, that's it, even if she wants to deliberately say something bad, she subconsciously doesn't use the scornful name "cat", and when she threatens people, she can't think of any practical means at all.
Zag spread his paws at Zela, and hurried towards the two classmates who seemed to be fighting in front of him.
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In the deepest part of the crypt, the mage's apprentice squad struck down a powerful ghoul in heavy armor and wielding a huge black sword, which was very powerful, but it limited its own speed, and the light-footed mages slowed down and immobilized and repelled the kite from a long distance.
"Well, this guy seems to be called 'Mirakel Goldson.'" Onmond found an ancient piece of parchment from it, which he made with a little difficulty: "The same handwriting we found in Sattar." ”
"That's right," Zag continued, "we thought that guy was the caretaker of the 'Eye of Magnus', this idea was completely wrong, it was only that strong that it could partially borrow the power of the eye, and this guy was weaker. ”
"So, that's what we're looking for?" Brilina kicked the ghoul in the head and removed a strange, metallic necklace from its neck, similar to the one she was wearing.
"Well, this is a powerful magic item that can greatly enhance vitality, and this two-handed sword is also a powerful magic item," a white ball of light appeared in Zela's hand, and after cleaning it up a little, he pointed at the Red Guard: "It's very suitable for recklessly going up to play melee combat when it's okay, and it's also Onmond who has a late hobby of great swords." ”
"It's useless for you to say anything now." Onmond happily walked over and took the necklace and broadsword.
"Alright, you two stand closer, and be careful that I throw you into the Twisted Void with a shake of my hand." Zela looked disgruntled, brandishing the Staff of Magnus.
She was trying to say "Annihilation Realm", and Zag got closer.
Speaking of which, the mages of the Saik Order will all teleport accurately, and when dealing with the 'Eye of Magnus', a strange white light appeared with their heads, and then they taught her this spell under Zela's soft grinding and hard bubbles, although they can only locate relevant magic items and cannot travel at will, but it is just right for them who are searching for treasure, and the reason why they can come here is because they have located the ancient necklace that was brought out from Sattar and given to Brilina by Zela.
These necklaces are said to have three of them, belonging to three generals who betrayed the ancient emperor "Gordo", and they were sealed in the tomb of Nord and their names were cut off from the historical records, so it is impossible to find them by looking up the records, and the spells of the Saik Order can be used.
But...... As the surrounding scenery began to blur, Zag wondered why he kept seeing the view of the Annihilation Realm during the teleportation. Isn't that "Atayum Island" in the realm of a demon god?
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"Wow-help-"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Click! Roar! Roar!
After the teleportation was over, before Zag could observe his surroundings, he heard strange noises coming from all sides, sounding like a large group of skeletons and ghouls arguing together...... They've got to be noisy.
"Hit the jackpot—" Angmond's whispered but somewhat excited voice came from beside him.
The vision gradually became clearer, but in front of him was a large group of ghouls and skeletons, they formed a large circle, and the screams and cries of women were coming from the circle, and if you carefully identified them, you could see that there were three two-person high platforms in the circle, and on them were standing three heavily armored ghouls with black bows in their arms, and their movements were not serious at all, and every time the arrow flew out, there must be a scream.
"Have these brainless undead learned to entertain?" Brilina began to wave her hands to unleash some kind of large spell: "I just don't know who is so unlucky. ”
"Probably accidentally fell in while collecting medicine," Zela pointed to the void above where she could see the sky: "This guy should be the third traitor who was sealed in the Legend of Skyrim Province, 'Sigdes Goldson', I will save people, you don't have to scruples, use the most powerful spell to destroy the ghouls on the periphery." ”
Well, sure enough, it was like that again, looking at Zera, who was sneaking up on those high platforms from the side, Zag and the other apprentices looked at each other, and then invariably used their strongest destruction spell.
Great fireballs, lightning chains, and ice storms, Brilina's spells were obviously one level higher than the two of them, and it must be the effect of her necklace.
After the combined spell, the large group of ghouls was already scattered, Brilina stood a little disengaged and rested, while Onmond laughed and raised his black sword and rushed towards the remaining ghouls, Zag thought for a moment, tore open a scroll of his own making, lit the flame cloak around his body, and rushed towards several men with bows and arrows on the high platform, but the blow was missed.
"Stand there and don't move!" On another high platform, Zela, who had just rescued the trapped man, shouted, "We have occupied two platforms, it must be real when it appears next time, just be ready-"
"Where is it so troublesome!" Zag replied and jumped towards the empty platform, but detonated a lightning rune in mid-air and blew herself back, stunned even the female human who was rescued, not to mention the bow-wielding ghoul who took the opportunity to appear on this supposed unmanned platform.
"You, give, I, die!" "Whew-" Zag's claws wrapped around the thunder tore the ghoul in half.
"Uh...... Its necklace is supposed to be a stamina-boosting for more charged attacks and extra moves, just like that bow, it's more suitable for you......" Shocked, Zela forgot to taunt him in passing, much to Zag's pride.
"Thank you...... I, I'm Reda of Evastead, who accidentally fell off while collecting medicine...... Can you send me back? The rescued woman looked to be about thirty years old, with a backpack containing a lot of herbs on her back, and looked at Zag and Brilina with some fear.
Cut...... In the rest of Skyrim Province, the discrimination against tigers and dark elves is still so deep-rooted, Zag, who originally thought he would be grateful, picked up the black bow boringly, wiped it, and put on the ghoul necklace by the way.
"Let's go."