"Let's go."

"As you wish, Baron."

The three of them left the White City and the road to the peak of Hogarth was quite long, not only on the plane, but also vertically.

Carriages don't pass through there, it's not just a matter of supplies, Skyrim is safer than anyone could have imagined, not just robbers and beasts, magical creatures and undead, and even dragons now, are all threats to the journey.

As for Ellie, she was taken out by Halfina under the pretext of looking for her parents, because the journey would pass through the village of Ivasted, and if Halfina went to the top of the mountain, there would be a place for her to stay, so Barguv agreed.

However, there was one more person on this trip, Lydia.

She did obey the duties of a guard, and if the baron did not speak, then she tried not to speak as much as possible, and when she answered questions, she tried to be as concise as possible, and still did not lose respect for a baron.

If Halfina is a princess, then Lydia is very correct as a knight, but Lydia seems to be not much worse than Halfina.

If she weren't a warrior, her skin would not have been so rough, there were no wounds or battle marks on her body, and the lines of her body were very smooth, as if it was a feeling that only a model could have.

Still, her tight muscles still prove her status as a guard. Although there is no weathered expression and face, the slightly condensed face reveals a sassy in addition to softness, and there is also a fierceness between the eyes, which is indeed a legacy that can only be left after experiencing battle.

Compared to her, Halfina was indeed a princess, after all, she had only been through the battle for a week. As for Ellie, needless to say, it is not a world at all.

……

"Are you really going to go with them?

Ellie, it's not as simple as you think.

That Halfina, absolutely, has a problem. ”

"Because of the Dragonborn?"

"It's not all.

As you can see, the Dragonborn is the dragon's blood that owns Akatosh, and that Akatosh is a god.

A human being favored by only one god? Even so, what would the other gods think of her? ”

"We're just here to find the source of our power, aren't we?

And even if there isn't one here, it's just tourism and leisure. ”

"Use your brains, Ellie, now is not the time for you to have fun.

That Dagon didn't do you much harm, but he had more control over his mind than you might think.

And there are still a lot of gods on this continent, if you fall into hostility with them, then what are you going to do after that? ”

"How's that letter?"

“…… It's bleak and looks like it's going to take a little time to recover. ”

"So, I'm not really in danger, I'm just following a human who could change the fate of the world."

“…… You'll regret it. ”

After speaking, Xiaobai cut off the conversation by himself, not going to pay attention to Erli, and the other party just shook his head in his heart.

“…… Who knows... Maybe we'll find something else that we can't say. ”

As she spoke, she looked into the distance from the stone wall along the road.

There was a checkpoint on the road, which was occupied by the robbers, and the two of them, who did not intend to pay the toll, naturally cooperated to clean up the place.

Lydia's shield was indeed a great help to Halfina, and every time she wielded the great axe that Barguf had given her, the faithful guards always protected the gaps she exposed: she fended off the fire of her bow and arrows, and the stray arrows were dangerous for a warrior, especially when they were fighting, standing on a dangerously high and not very spacious stone bridge.

"For the !! of Songard"

The robber on the opposite side raised his long sword and slashed over, and Lydia stood in front of Halfina, because of the width, in fact, two people stood up at the same time, which was not as agile as one person.

Unable to retreat, she took the attack of the long sword.

The power of the long sword directly pressed the shield and the person to the ground together, and in order not to let herself fall, Lydia had to half-kneel down to prevent her balance from being out of balance.

But even so, the posture that is not very easy to exert force makes it difficult for her to fight back further.

“！”

Gritting her white teeth, her eyes were fixed on the robber in front of her, and the other party's face was also extremely hideous.

Once the Nords were intoxicated with battle, it was a terrifying will that only orcs could match, men, women, and children.

"Drink!!"

However, comrades-in-arms are even more important to the Nords.

The great axe he had taken from Barguf slashed horizontally at the bandit's waist, and the breath of frost spread from the wound in an instant, but the man's body did not become two, because Halvina did not intend to do so.

The wound was not very deep, but it knocked the man's body out, and the axe blade happened to come out, preventing the robber from pulling him down the abyss.

"Thank you, Baron.

Be careful! ”

She was about to thank her, but instantly she saw an arrow flying towards here, she raised her steel shield, and directly let the arrow graze the edge and fly away.

"Thank you later!

Deal with these people first! ”

"Yes!"

The two of them quickly ran across the narrow stone bridge, ready to deal with the robbers on the other side.

Elle herself picked the white berries around her, as she had just eaten them and felt that her body was not so cold after eating, which caught her attention.

"Medicinal herbs ...... some meaning"

After cutting a lot of fruit with a dagger, he put them back in the gap in case he needed them.

“……”

A black wolf emerged from the nearby snowfield, and thanks to its talent for hunting, it approached Ellie little by little, but it didn't make a sound.

Of course, it's just that for humans, the smell and the sound of stepping on snow are enough to make Elle herself aware of the abnormalities.

However, she waited patiently for the wolf to approach, it would not be good to be too ostentatious to be discovered by that Lydia, and she was still quick to dispose of the corpse.

Getting closer and closer, it was still constantly smelling each other's breath, but its eyes didn't leave each other at all.

The distance between the two sides was actually less than fifty paces, but in order to ensure the safety of his hunt, the black wolf tried to shorten the distance as much as possible.

If a human cub is nearby, it proves that an adult human is also nearby, and the latter is a great threat and will die themselves if they don't complete the hunt in time.

Although it does not have such reasoning thinking, its simple nature makes it easy to come to such a conclusion.

“…！”

Thirty-five paces closer, a distance that even the wolf could clearly see how Ellie's long hair was tangled, it suddenly raised its head and looked in a direction higher than Ellie.

By nature, it took a step back, but in the next second, a bow and arrow were stuck in the position it had just placed.

“————！”

There is no room for it to react anymore, either hunt it or go home empty-handed!

In this way, the black wolf just jumped simply, left that position, and quickly pounced on Erlie's throat, and after simply tearing it apart, he could just drag his feet and neck away.

However, when it was in the air, it saw Erlie, who had already turned around, and the cold light in her hand was far greater than the threat posed by the saber-toothed tiger.

However, there is no longer an opportunity to adjust.

The black wolf and Ellie pounced together, neither of them moving.

But the two people who had just come from the stone bridge didn't see it that way, and among them, especially Lydia, who didn't know the truth.