Chapter 52: Reinforcements
The earth-shattering roar startled me to clench my released right hand firmly, and Aiola probably didn't know that she had already walked on the line of life and death. Just stunned my voice...... Sounds like a dragon's roar?
The aftermath of "Fus-Ro-Dah" still echoes in the mountains, and I heard it right, it is indeed the familiar roar of the dragon; The voice is full, powerful, and magnificent, and the level of the voice is far above that of me now. But why does the dragon roar in such a place at such a time? The stranger shouted it out again?
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In the realm of the Ne Realm, created by the Holy Spirits, there are only three types of beings who can use the dragon's roar, except for myself as a dragonborn.
As a mother tongue deeply engraved in the soul, dragons have a huge advantage when they are used by dragons as easily and naturally as they flutter their wings. But it couldn't be them, because I didn't feel the overwhelming majesty of the dragon at all.
Some well-qualified mortals can learn the dragon language through the painstaking study of the day after tomorrow, such as Greybeard, who lives in seclusion on the Heights of Hotgar, who can cast his voice over the snow from the Heights of Hotga, such as Uhfrik, who studied with Graybeard. Cloak of Storms - He is said to have roared through the city of Makas and paralyzed the lord of Dugu (the High King of Skyrim). But this kind of person is only a very small number after all, and after the earth-shattering power just now, there are one after another dragon roars with different timbres and intensities. If these sounds are made by humans. Where do you have to find so many mortals who are proficient in dragon roar?
Excluding the above two items, the source of the roar is locked in the lowest range. At the beginning of the First Age and even earlier, dragons roamed the skies and lands of Skyrim, and the ancient Nords were devout in the dragon worship, and they regarded dragons as gods and served them wholeheartedly, so they also received some ways to use the dragon's roar. Even though they have been sleeping in the ancient tombs for several epochs, their resurrected bodies in the form of ghouls still retain the memories of the dragon's roar intact.
I turned my head in the direction from which the roar was coming from, and what I saw confirmed my suspicion that it was indeed a group of Gounod ghouls! Their sheer numbers are hard to count. The composition of the lineup is also beyond my common sense. Even the smaller, smaller, Coldfall Temple I've visited is far from being able to make such a big deal out of it by letting its inhabitants pour out of its nest - the number of ghoul lords in the battlefield below the cliff alone is enough to count in double digits!
I don't know why these Nord ghouls left the large catacombs they live in, or why they came here over the mountains, but judging by the angry roar they just had. I'm sure they came in no way. There is no doubt that they will crush all the obstacles that stand in their way. And the first one. It is the base camp of the crow ghost woman.
The main force of the regular army on the side of the Raven Ghost Woman had been exhausted in the previous four waves of offensives, and the Thorn Heart Ghouls, who had been driven straight into the hinterland of the Mydnaki base as a secret weapon, were difficult to turn back for a while, facing the army of Grunod ghouls that attacked like a flood. The crow's camp has no power to resist, and can only be trampled by the ghouls.
“Fus! Ro!! Dahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! ”
Another thrilling dragon roar came to my ears like a thunderbolt from the sky, and it was a ghoul lord charging into battle with a giant sword. A crow ghost woman who tried to cast a spell to fight back was knocked into the air by this huge shockwave, drew a miserable parabola, and fell to the ground dozens of meters away. After breaking her lumbar vertebrae, she could no longer make any self-preservation moves, and could only put on a frightened look and wait desperately for death to come.
But the dragon's roar drew my attention to an unbelievable detail. After the ghoul lord roared this unrelieved force, its seemingly strong body was unable to withstand the backlash of the dragon's roar, and at the moment of the dragon's roar, it suddenly disintegrated and exploded into a mess of minced flesh and bone slag and burst out in all directions. And, after a while, I realized that this is not the only thing that happens to it, there are quite a few ghouls who have screamed with their lives have also ended up with the same result after using the dragon's roar.
Not only the dragon's roar, but some ghouls also disintegrate when they move their limbs too hard during the battle, and even some ghouls do nothing and fall apart on their own as they walk.
And they, or all the Grunod ghouls here, share the same physical features: rotten soft tissues around the eyes, underlying bone structures exposed beneath rotten flesh, and the white fungus looming over their bodies...... The flesh of these ghouls is on the verge of complete decay, the connections between bones are no longer reliable, and they cannot afford large-scale upheaval.
I looked down at Aiola hanging directly below me, and only she would have spread the "decay of Namira" around the graves of the Gounods. Now, these ghouls, who are plagued by decay, have come here to get revenge on Iola? And the rotten lady aura that Eora constantly emanated from just now was just to attract this group of ghouls to come and find their "enemies"?
The Rotten Lady's hand is wonderful. Although there are still many doubts that cannot be perfectly explained after careful consideration, no matter what the purpose of these ancient Arnod ghouls is and what hidden dangers they will bring us, our current greatest enemies are about to be completely destroyed at their hands, and they are on our side for the time being.
After slaughtering the Raven Ghost's base camp, the Ghoul of the Gounod followed the path of the Thornheart Ghoul and surged up the slope leading to the base. The next wave of opponents they are about to face is the Thornheart Ghouls who are slaughtering in the Mydernach stronghold.
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The slight tremor of the earth made the Red Hawks, who were standing on the hill overlooking the battle in the base area, look back at the path they had come. Like them, the new arrival was a group of ghouls, but Red Eagle did not find the identification mark set by the Raven Ghost Woman on this group of ghouls.
Since it's not a friendly army, it's an enemy.
Red Eagle raised his arm and pointed his sword in the direction of the Grunod ghouls, and the Thornheart Ghouls, who were raging in the base area, immediately sensed the order given by the leader, decisively stopped the killing in his hand, and turned to meet the new opponent. (To be continued......)