Chapter 4: Ancient Voices
It is hard to imagine that there is such a vast and exquisite piece of heaven hidden in the innermost part of the mountain.
I pulled out my binoculars and stood at the entrance and looked in. On the platform under the distant mountain wall stands a stone wall, with a "dragon head" carved directly above the stone wall, and a large number of lines are used around it. The stone wall is recessed in the middle and looks a bit like a ...... I don't know what the shape of the radar is, but I feel like the stone wall is just like the radar, emitting strange signals at me.
Probably hallucinating, I continued to observe the other strange objects on the platform. There is a candlestick at the outermost part of the platform...... Altar? Behind the altar is a solemn-looking ...... Coffin?
At first, I saw the atmospheric stone building on the mountain, and thought it was a decent location, but after going up the mountain, I found that there was no trace of people, and I thought that this might be some ancient architectural ruins...... Is it a tomb?
Well, it's embarrassing, I didn't come to this place to worship the dead. But I decided to take a look, I had come so far, and it would be a little reluctant to turn around and leave, and besides, the stone wall gave me a strange feeling, as if it was calling me.
There are many holes in the stone wall that connect to the outside, so you can clearly see the path of sunlight entering the side, and the flowing water also carves up its own waterway in the space inside the mountain. It has to be said that the owner of the tomb made a wise choice, this place is not at all gloomy as the tomb should be, but gives people a sense of freshness and elegance, and it is an excellent place to rest.
Although it has been artificially repaired, the roads here still have a natural smell. I carefully avoided the vegetation on the road, sometimes climbing with my bare hands, sometimes sliding down, over the ravines, and gradually approaching the platform. Strange fungi that fluoresce like jellyfish grow on the walls, various plants are scattered on both sides of the flowing water, and the occasional bat flies over the sky that I have disturbed. The water in the lake is clean and sweet, and I fill my jug here.
Walking up the neat stairs from the lake, I reached the platform. Fresh blue, purple and red mountain flowers are placed on the altar, while the candelabra on either side displays two angular pale blue gemstones. It seems that someone came to worship not long ago, and maybe the lighting tools along the way were also lit by him.
The coffin is darker in color, and it feels like warm and simple wood to the touch, but when struck, it has a faint metallic timbre and vibration, which must be a precious material.
There was no sign of the coffin being opened, and I didn't try to open it, admiring dried corpses is not my hobby. After a cursory look around the arrangement on the platform, I walked straight to the final stone wall. Getting so close, I was already convinced that there was something strange about this stone wall.
The stone wall is whispering. On it are inscribed some words of unknown meaning, and the handwriting of the words suppresses the rushing light.
I walked over to the stone wall and listened to its whisper. The sound was faint and faint at first, but it became clearer and stronger as I approached. As I walked to the foot of the stone wall, I felt as if I heard countless people shouting at me...... It was like being intimidated by the dragon's spit in the tower before, but my subconscious didn't signal danger. There was a strange magic to this sentence, and I quietly reminisced about the sound that came into my ears and tried to pronounce it myself.
“Fus…… Lo…… Dah……”
Something stirred up my whole body, and a surging breath accumulated in my chest, ready to breathe, but it was not a fraction of a second.
The voice in my ears began to change tone, and it seemed chaotic and irritable, and I felt very uncomfortable not being able to pour out the breath.
At this moment, a flat but deep voice came from behind him.
“Fus-Ro-Dah。”
The three syllables were just plainly spoken, and they did not contain any special power, but they entered my ears like a dusk drum and morning bell, awakening me from my astuding and enlightening me.
I looked back for the source of the vocalization, and saw a blonde man in a wooden mask standing in front of the coffin staring at me, and I decided to communicate with him in the three syllables I had just learned.
“Fus…… Ro-Dah! ”
With my voice, an unrelieved force in my chest was drawn from it, and it poured out of my control and poured out of my control in the direction of the masked man. The air twisted, and I could clearly feel the pressure of the air in front of me shifting dramatically. I realized that my actions could cause harm to the masked man, but the voice could not be taken back.
The air disturbance quickly spread to the masked man at a speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, but the masked man was not knocked down or blown away as I expected. As if hitting a wall, the shock wave was bounced around according to the strict law of reflection, releasing a circle of ripples.
I breathed a sigh of relief to see that the masked man was safe and sound, and collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness with a huge feeling of tiredness.
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Two days later, in the same place, with different people, from different perspectives.
"Bang!! Bang!! ”
The two ghouls were slammed against the wall, and the loud thud came from the badly deformed metal armor on their bodies. A sturdy figure stepped over the broken bones on the ground and stepped into this vast natural secret room. The black cloak that was rolled up behind him by the air flow was close to him under the action of inertia because of the owner's sudden stop, and the figure under the black clothes was printed.
The man in black crouched down, plucked a clump of fungus from the ground, looked at an inconspicuous protrusion that was obscured by the fungus, and then got up and continued to advance. Instead of walking on a tortuous road, the man in black followed the nearest route, as if he were walking uphill, constantly crossing all kinds of rugged and complex terrain.
"Not a single draugr was touched, all the traps along the way were lifted perfectly, and even the gatekeepers were disposed of in such a clever way, this style ...... Could it be the nightingale of Noktunal? The man in black muttered to himself in a low, vicissitudes of female voice as he swung his blade to slash through the intricate vines on the wall.
The sharp blade stabbed a gap in the stone wall, and the man in black took advantage of this gap to bounce up, and easily jumped onto the platform seven or eight meters above the ground through the vines and the protrusions on the wall.
The man in black walked neatly to the stone wall and reached out to touch the words on the wall.
"The power contained in the dragon language wall has all disappeared, could it be a dragonborn?" At the mention of the word Dragonborn, the man in black was a little excited, but then regained his composure, "But...... There are too many suspicions, why haven't the ghouls along the way been disturbed by him? ”
"Boom~~~~"
The sound of friction behind him sounded out inopportunely, and the man in black turned sharply to see a corpse in armor and a crown propped up on the ground with a long sword, pushing open the heavy cover and crawling out of the ebony coffin. Its movements were slow, but it exuded a sense of urgency, as if no one could stop its awakening.
"Absorbing the power of the dragon wall and failing to awaken the ghoul lord? Or is the Dragonborn dead at its hands? The man in black raised his blade cautiously and leaned down, as if he were a cheetah, waiting to burst out with all the terrifying explosive power.
"Forget it, I'd rather believe that this broodborn is favored by Shure. I hope the Dragonborn don't slip too far during this time and save your life by the way, I don't want you to die before you complete your mission......"
"Boom !!!!!" The sound of gold and iron echoing in the closed mountain body kept echoing, and it could not be calmed down for a long time. New metal impacts are constantly added to the reverberating sequences, resulting in eerie percussion compositions. Frightened, the bats hiding in the shadows set out to roam the caves.
“Fus-Ro-Dahhh!!!!” The earth-shattering roar spread in all directions, and countless bats fell from the sky, causing ripples in the middle of the calm lake, and fell into the rapids of the river to be washed over and over again, and fell on the white fungi dyed a pool of blood-red color.
A fierce battle ensued.
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This is written specifically for players of The Elder Scrolls, and others can skip it.
1. In ShearPoint, you can learn three syllables at once.
2. Calculate how many times you have to watch the Dragon Language Wall in the game, and this is a novel, and the space is limited.
3. It can be understood that what is heard in the ears is three syllables, and the inscription seen is a supplementary explanation.