Chapter 5: The Strange Man in the Mask

"You look like a Brighton, but I know you're not from High Rock." The man in the wooden mask sat on the altar in front of the ebony coffin and spoke the first words. Hey? How did I know that this coffin was called an ebony coffin? And what he said......

I was very interested in this ethnically related topic, and I was even more amazed that I could understand his language. I had been talking to myself for a long time, and I couldn't wait to start a conversation with the man in front of me.

"What methods did you use so that I could communicate with you?" I didn't know the language here, but now I can ask you questions fluently, and I even have two more languages in my memory that are different from what I am using now. ”

"You may be seated...... I cast a knowledge exchange spell on you. The effect of magic, according to the rules of Hemaius Mora, recognizes and evaluates the value of our unique knowledge, and then exchanges it equally. You don't have to worry if I read your memory, the exchange is limited to the realm of knowledge. ”

Magic? Well, I sorted out my memories and realized that there were quite a few more things in my head that came to mind from completely new areas. "I think you must be a great sage, and I feel like I have twice as much in my brain right now."

"The exchange of knowledge is an equivalent exchange, and I can get the same amount from you as much as you get from me. The knowledge you brought from the Alien Plane was an eye-opener for me, the rules of Hemenius Mora gave you high marks, and I also had a lot of things that were traded to you, a win-win option. ”

Ectopoetic? I noticed the words he used, and the breadth of the plane seemed to be much larger than that of the planets...... So to speak, I, crossed? It sounds inexplicable, but it's the only way to explain the events of these days and the things that subvert common sense.

"You mean that this world realm and my original world realm belong to a different plane?"

"That's right. A few days ago, I sensed that this area was being located by a force from an unknown plane, and I came here to investigate the situation. ”

"Positioning? Do you mean that my arrival has attracted the attention of this worldly realm? ”

"Something is right. I am sensitive to this kind of change, and can detect the positioning from the outside world at the first time, and others who are not proficient in this way will only feel the faint disturbance when you officially come. There are probably a number of forces interested in you right now, and there is no strong presence in this area, and I found you first. ”

"Look for me...... Am I of any value to them? I thought of the dragon I met on the execution ground, "Did that dragon come to me too?" ”

"That's Alduin, I don't know why it's in this world, but I guess it has something to do with you."

"If it's going to kill me, why did you keep me alive?"

"I'm afraid Alduin didn't even think you could survive under its dragon's breath." The masked man walked up to me and showed me a projection. I didn't find any tools from him that emitted light...... Could this be what he calls magic?

It seems that this is indeed the case, and I found information about "projection" from the knowledge that I just exchanged. However, 3D projection is not an uncommon thing on Earth, and I quickly turned my attention to the content of the projection. The projection shows a human body with many strange patterns tattooed on it. Although I now have three languages here, I still can't make out the specific meaning of these patterns.

"Sound familiar?" The masked man spoke again before I could ask, "That's right, it's your body. The scroll completely isolates the dragon's breath from you, but the patterns on the scroll are etched into you by the power of the dragon's breath. Now you are the carrier of the reel. ”

It was a bit informative, I rubbed my head and decided to save it for later, it sounded like my constitution had changed, but I didn't feel anything different about my body. In short, it is better to understand the most basic and critical issues first.

"That...... Excuse me, Mr. Mask, what should I call you? ”

"Until we gain the full trust of each other, you can call me Woodon Musk."

Wooden· Mask, a wooden mask, is clean and clean, and there is no muddy kana. So I also gave myself a high-end and high-grade magical name, Freefly· Undermoon, and the name pays homage to a famous agricultural heavy metal rock band.

"Dear Mr. Woodon Musk, allow me to take the liberty of asking a question, according to what you said, many forces are looking for me, so why are you looking for me, or what is my value to you?"

"Your value to me is very important, beyond who you are and what you know," the Masked Man looked at me with interest, "I can feel the value of the Elder Scrolls. ”

According to him, although the scroll had been destroyed by the dragon's breath, the contents of the scroll were engraved on my body - at first I thought those traces were smoked out. By the way, when I first woke up, this scroll was the only one with me, could it be that this scroll brought me here, and even gave me a chance to return to Earth? Thinking of this, I immediately told him where I came from and what I had guessed about the scroll.

"Your guess is close to the truth. According to my initial observations, this scroll is at least a spatial component, and I will have to wait for further research later. ”

Call...... Then I'm relieved. After that, let's follow this Mr. Woodon Musk, who is currently struck me as friendly and knowledgeable, and I hope he will figure out the principle of the scroll sooner rather than later, and send me home by the way.

"There's one more question I wish I could get answered. Why are you so kind and generous to me? You will answer my doubts so seriously. ”

"There's a lot of novelty in you, and I'm interested in you. When I ask you, you should answer it perfectly. While the exchange of knowledge has allowed us to share a great deal of information, there is still a huge gap between our civilizations. If we don't mentor each other, we will only fail to master and apply this knowledge to each other. ”

……

I spent the whole day digesting today's harvest. This planet is called Nairn, and I'm on the continent of Tamriel on this planet. Not all of this world is ruled by humans, but the three languages I have learned are enough for me to communicate with most of the intelligent beings on this continent. According to the rules of knowledge exchange, Musk should also be able to speak Mandarin, my hometown dialect and English.

One of the three languages is dragon, and the phrase "Fus-Ro-Dah" that I learned on the stone wall before belongs to this language, and the three syllables are "force-balance-push" respectively. The grammar of the dragon clan is very strange, and the knowledge I have gained through exchange can only be understood, and if I want to speak fluently in dragon language, I am afraid that I will have to find a dragon foreign teacher.

I didn't find any information about the Redcoats and Bluecoats in the conflict I was involved in, but I had to know what I had about them if I was to avoid being beheaded again in the future. Musk, who is researching, said that he does not care about these things, and if I want to understand these things, I should go to the human world.

The dragon named Alduin seems to be a villain who wants to destroy the world, but I don't have much information about it in my memory.

Musk's explanation for this is that some information is very valuable, or some information that I shouldn't know, or my knowledge has been redeemed to the full amount, and even some things Musk himself is not very clear, so the relevant aspects are likely to be blank.

Musk also asked me about something related to my knowledge. It is very laborious to explain the knowledge of the earth to a person from another world, but fortunately, the previous exchange has already laid the foundation for him, which saves us a lot of time.

I don't have any information in my head about Musk himself, and it's clear that he doesn't want to reveal his true identity to me. I don't care about this at all, now I am willing to choose and can only choose to trust him, and similarly, Musk seems to be very happy with me.

"If I had met you earlier, I would have been happy to take in a student like you who has a lot of curiosity and a thirst for knowledge."

……

"It's almost done here, and we're ready to leave after packing our things. Alduin's movement was so loud that many people would find it after a while. Musk, who was sitting in front of the altar reading a book, closed his book and stood up, and I was ready to leave.

The two of us left the Cold Fall Secret Room along the same path, which was the space where the ebony coffin was located. Musk told me about the history of this area.

Buried here are a group of Nords from ancient times, who kept their corpses as dried corpses with embalming tools, which later became ghouls for some reason.

"What is a ghoul?"

"The corpse crawled up and took up arms to kill the ones who broke into the tomb."

"Why didn't I meet when I came?"

"Because my spell has temporarily closed off their senses, they don't pay attention to their surroundings as long as they don't have obvious ill intentions. I used to live and I had to deal with them a lot, so I figured out a way to not be bothered by them......"

Musk took me into the side door of the semi-circular sectional passageway, where several layers of holes were carved out of the wall, each two meters long and half a meter high, which at first glance felt like a primitive and rugged bookshelf or cupboard, but inside was a dried corpse with an unappetizing taste. Fortunately, I am a science and engineering major and don't believe in ghosts and gods, and I have seen a lot of mummies when I traveled in Egypt, so the feeling of the dried corpse for me is just unappetizing.

As for the reason why the dried corpse became a ghoul, one view is that in ancient times, the Nords believed in dragon worship, and later they betrayed the dragon, so the dragon cursed the Nord people, and they could not rest in peace after death, which is reflected in the tomb custom that the dry corpse became a ghoul. Another theory is that after the death of the Nords, the souls of the Nords went to Songgard to join Shure, the god of the underworld, and the little consciousness left in the corpses and the fighting spirit contained in the weapons interacted to make them ghouls guarding the tombs. Songard is the home of the Nord souls after death, probably similar to Valhalla in Norse mythology.

Neither of these views can be confirmed, one is because of the age, the other is because of the separation between life and death, and it is difficult for Musk to judge this, because he himself is alive, he has not been summoned by the god Shure, and he has not personally experienced the process of becoming a ghoul.

As for the dragon language wall on the platform, Musk's opinion is that the ancient Nords carved some dragon characters on the wall, and then injected the power of the dragon's roar into the dragon language text as a legacy to future generations, such as me, who is related to the way of roaring. I tried to pronounce the dragon words on the wall: Sleep, Guard, Dragonstone, Infinity, Strength, Anger, Darkness......

Musk pointed to the ebony coffin and told me that there was a very powerful ghoul lying inside. After I learned the dragon language on the dragon wall, which is the dragon roar, the ghoul lord would crawl out of the coffin and fight me. When I defeat it, I will inherit the power he guards—including its refined use of the dragon's roar. From this I made up a complete sentence: a dead man sleeps here guarding the stone wall of the dragon, and he has infinite power, and those who cause his anger will be plunged into endless darkness.

Musk shielded the ghoul lord's senses, and it didn't notice my movements. In Musk's eyes, my physique was nowhere near as strong as that of the Nord brothers, and my pronunciation of dragon language was not standard - I pronounced "Ro" as "Lo" at the time, and "balance" became "fraud", and I almost choked myself to death - so I must not pass this test.

I can't defeat the Ghoul Lord alone, and if I can't pass the test, I won't be able to obtain the Ghoul Lord's inheritance, and the power of this "unloading power" dragon roar seems to be quite weak. Musk told me that if you want to get a dragon's roar with full strength, you must either complete the ghoul lord's trial, or kill a dragon and make up for it with the dragon's soul.

"If you come back to this kind of place in the future, there's one thing to watch out for." Musk asked me to pay attention to the hole in the wall, and then pointed to the small bulge in the ground, "When you step on this bulge, the hole in the wall shoots a poison needle here." I came here ahead of time to disarm all triggers for this ruin, otherwise in your state, I'm afraid of more than one bad luck. I've got a trap probe spell that you should have learned, so look for it. ”

I searched my memories and quickly found the spell.

============= the author's words ========================

On the 18th day of the month of Lastseed in 4E201, the protagonist has the ability to communicate with the inhabitants of this world.

There is a level of knowledge and setting about this world, and the author will slowly progress according to the protagonist's vision and the source of acquisition, and now the protagonist is still a rookie, so the information obtained is very shallow. In the future, when the protagonist is exposed to more fields, he will find that there is something closer to the origin behind the phenomenon, so as to reveal the deep structure.

Regarding the dragon's roar, the author has made some changes. The author's current setting: 1: The Dragon Whisper Wall can only allow the protagonist to learn the most basic dragon roar. 2: The author of the enhanced dragon roar has set up two methods, one is to use the dragon's soul to make up, and the other is to kill the ghoul lord and inherit his knowledge of the use of the dragon roar (the ghouls will also use the dragon roar in the game). 3: For some special dragon roars (such as the next one that should be learned), there will be new ways to learn.