Chapter 21: Heart of Thorns

Where are the tombs of the Nords, where are the powerful groups of Oathbreakers, where can you find the Raven Ghost Woman...... Iola, who has been out and about all year round, has a certain understanding of the various "black * road potentials" that are rampant in Ruichi, and our goal was quickly determined.

Under the call of the "Animal Alliance", two sturdy saber-toothed tigers volunteered to become our means of transportation, and now I am riding with Aiola in the barren mountains and mountains of Ruichi, heading northwest.

"Aeola, what exactly is the doctrine of the Corrupt Lady?"

"I don't know what to do. Over the years, the goddess only told me what I should do, but never told me what the purpose or meaning of doing it was. ”

"Can you tell me about the orders that the Corrupt Lady usually gives you?"

Aiola turned her head and reminisced for a moment, listing to me what she had done over the years, "For example, the Lady of Decay would often instruct me to go to the Nord tombs and plant fungi on ghouls to make them rot. ”

Judging by the name of the Corrupt Lady, she was clearly dissatisfied with the Nord custom of making the dead dry and sealed as corpses. By the way, I just heard Iola mention ghouls.

"Ghouls?"

"Yes, I prefer to target ghouls who can move freely. These ghouls contain greater power in their bodies, and corrupting them is more likely to be appreciated by the Lady of Decay. ”

Belch...... I silently praised this enterprising model worker in my heart.

"The Hall of the Dead is under the care of Akai's priests, and under normal circumstances, no dried corpses will be transformed into ghouls. Since you have gone to Marcas, does this mean that all the ancient Nordic tombs in the wild of Richie have been 'purified' by you? ”

"No, I can't do this amount of work alone. And when I was spreading the glory of the goddess in an ancient tomb, I accidentally disturbed a powerful being. I was no match for it, and if it weren't for the Goddess's blessing, I would have died there. ”

"Is it a ghoul lord?"

"The Ghoul Lord isn't a problem, sowing fungi won't wake it up. The monsters I encountered last time were much scarier than the Ghoul Lords......" Iola's tone was both horrified and glad at the mention of the retreat, which also made me a little intrigued.

Worse than a ghoul lord? Could it be the Ghoul Supreme King of Skyrim Province or the Ghoul Emperor of the Tamriel Continent? Forget it, putting the real rank on the ghoul will inevitably make the brain hole a little bigger, and I will continue to listen to Iola.

“…… It just so happened that I couldn't connect with the goddess by taking mushrooms, so I decided to sneak into Marcus to avoid the limelight, and I met you there by the way. ”

"That's a coincidence...... I smiled helplessly, turning the conversation back to the point, "Essentially, the actions you just said fall into the category of 'correction', and the Corrupt Lady sent you to do so out of disgust with the dried corpses. What kind of behavior does the rotten lady like? What does she expect you to do? ”

"Expecting it...... For example, the Corrupt Lady wants her followers to behave more actively, like the creation of the Goddess. ”

"A creature of the Corrupt Lady?"

Just as I was about to ask further, Aila suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Look, there, here we are!" ”

Arrived? I stopped thinking and looked up, and in front of me was an abandoned fortress built in the mountains. But what makes me wonder how the fort looks familiar.

"Is there anything strange about this fortress?"

"That's Madame Mekar's palace. If there's anything strange about it, huh...... There is a banquet held here during the New Year's holidays, and I attended it a few years ago. ”

Oh, when Aiola said this, I suddenly remembered that it was in this fortress that I first met Flotra. I didn't expect to be back here today.

"Who are you talking about, Ms. Mecal?"

"A raven ghost woman who rules the area."

It's a "palace" and a "lady", a crow ghost woman has made a lady-like pomp alive, I really don't know how to spit out this trough.

"Shall we go straight in, then?"

Aiola nodded.

……

On the dilapidated walls, a few oathbreakers wearing antlers saw our arrival from afar, took their bows and arrows and pointed them in our direction.

Seeing this, I put my hands on my chest to parry, and at the same time turned my head sideways and asked Iola, "What should I do?" We are here to ask for something, will it hurt the harmony to fight with the crow ghost woman's men? ”

Aiola didn't answer me, she condensed a huge ball of fire in her hand and flung it cleanly in the direction of the Oathbreaker.

"You ......" I didn't know what to say as a raging flame dispersed from the city walls, and several of the Oathbreakers were nowhere to be seen in the attack.

"It's okay," Aiola said calmly after casting the spell, "in the eyes of the Raven Ghost, these fragile oathbreakers are worthless cannon fodder. ”

"Even if it's cannon fodder, you can't greet them like that, can you?"

"Not only cannon fodder, but also the crow ghost woman set up an obstacle, and the newcomers must defeat them to prove that they have the right to meet the master of the palace," Aiola pointed to a guy who rushed out of the main gate with a mace in both hands, "Look, the main lord is here." ”

Still an oath abandoner with a staghorn fur hat, but he's nothing like the few cannon fodder you've just been killed. He was naked, with a terrifying hole in the skin of his left chest, and his beating heart could be seen directly from the outside.

No, it's not the heart that's beating, that's the thing...... If I had to describe it, I felt like a golden dragon fruit. I could feel that the "dragon fruit" was beating stronger than the flesh heart, and it contained a strength far beyond ordinary people.

Based on my observations and assessments, it would be difficult for me to gain the upper hand if I fought him in close quarters without resorting to some additional means. It's just a pity that the other party is a sling war that rushes through with legs after all, and there is a powerful master standing next to me, a master who has been taught knowledge by the corrupt lady herself.

Despite the swearer's physical strength and the "dragon fruit" in his chest that greatly increased his magic resistance, the other party had to drop his weapon and limp towards us with his hands raised under a barrage of lightning and fire from Iola.

"What's that role? What happened to his heart? "Seeing that the situation was settled, I told Aiola my doubts.

"They are often referred to as 'hearts of thorns'. It is said that the Raven Ghost Woman is able to implant a material called the Heart of Thorns into the human body as a new heart through a kind of sorcery, so as to massively increase the amount of strength. ”

"What a wonderful black technology."

……

"Lead the way, we're going to see Lady Mekar."

The Abothbreaker's Heart of Thorns came to us, and Aiola told him openly and honestly what we were trying to do.

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