CHAPTER XVIII
The earth-shattering roar startled me to clench my released right hand firmly, and Iora probably didn't know that she was already 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 did the dragon's roar appear in such a place at such a time? Which strange visitor shouted it out?
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In the world of Nairn, 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 of the most qualified mortals can learn the dragon's language through the painstaking study of the day after tomorrow, such as Graybeard, who lives in seclusion on the Heights of Hotga, who can cast his voice over the snow from the Heights of Hotga, such as Uhfrick, who studied with Graybeard. Storm Cloak - He is said to have roared through the city of Makas and paralyzed the lord of Dugu City (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 were made by humans, then where could we find so many mortals who were proficient in dragon roars?
Excluding the above two, the source of the roar is locked in the final 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 at a glance, and the composition of the lineup is beyond my natural sense, even the small and large Coldfall Temple I've visited is far from being able to make such a big deal out of its inhabitants - 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 irascible roar they just had, I'm sure they came with no friendly intentions. There is no doubt that they will crush all obstacles in their path, and the first to bear the brunt of this is the base camp of the Raven Devil.
The main force of the regular army on the side of the Raven Ghost has been exhausted in the previous four waves of offsets, and the Thorn Heart Ghouls, who have been driven straight into the hinterland of the Mydnaki base as a secret weapon, are difficult to turn back for a while, and in the face of the flood of the Grunod ghoul army, the Raven Ghost Woman's camp has no power to resist, and can only let the ghouls trample on it.
“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 out 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 pile 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.) )