Chapter 160: Myoho-renge-kyo

On what came to be known as the "Night of the Fire", Stormcloak lost a total of nineteen important high-ranking figures. and more than twenty mid-ranking officers. This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the already understaffed Stormcloak. And in this sudden assassination operation, the forger "Bloodless" Tom . Sue and his follower, Sadako Yamamura, were quickly promoted for their outstanding performances.

In his final moments, the mage of Wintercastle, Master Tovdir, who saved Lord Uffric's life with his subtle spell skills, somewhat enhanced the not-so-good reputation of the Mage Academy. And when the Bloodless Power is at stake, Ufrik finally realizes that with the other party's powerful magical support, the best solution is to win over another group of arcane users.

As an envoy, Master Tovdir undoubtedly exceeded the task given to him by the Chief Mage. In the letters he brought back to Wintercastle, Ufrik. The Stormcloak Lord invites Chief Mage Savos. Mr. Aran himself serves as the Stormcloak's magical advisor and makes his own assessment of the current civil war.

"It's impossible for them to stay out of it."

Su Jing commented.

After that assassination, Lord Ufrik, who had been exhausted by using a dragon's roar beyond his limits, lay in bed to recuperate for a while, and during this time, all the tonic he used was provided by his closest friend, Tom Sue. In fact, even if it was handled by someone else, Su Jing and Sadako Yamamura would have a way to directly move some hands and feet inside.

With the help of the alchemy potion left behind by Lu Mengyao, Ufrik's strong willpower is being eroded by the narcotic drugs and the pervasive mental power of Sadako Yamamura. Su Jing spent a short time observing his reaction to these medications. The effect looks quite noticeable. Fortunately, his administrative abilities had not faded, and Su Jing needed his ability to retain these ruling territories. For the Zerg adventurer, all he needs is to be able to exert influence on Ufrik with his psychic arts. And not to take over his body completely.

And the rest of the work is quite simple for him. After solving the problem of energy, Su Jing began to make the "Hunter" type simplified power armor at a high rate of eight sets per day. In order to ensure the efficiency of the operation, after three days of intensive preparation, a team of twenty-four Stormcloaked armored infantry captured the fortress of Castav with lightning speed, which was almost the last line of defense in front of the Windhelm City. However, due to heavy casualties and logistical reasons, progress was halted.

In this vengeful battle, the brave Nords recaptured the military base of Stormhelm, and the previously strategically retreating army re-encamped into the fortress. This battle was also a declaration from the Cloak of Storms to the Imperial soldiers, proving that he had not been weakened by internal turmoil.

The power armor that appeared in this battle was suspected by the Imperial Army to be some kind of ancient technology excavated from the dwarven ruins, and the invulnerability of the defense and the great power provided to the soldiers completely attracted the attention of the Imperial officers, and this new weapon was written into a post-war report and presented to the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army, General Tullius.

But these are not the focus of Su Jing's concern. After confirming a total of forty power-armoured Stormcloaks manning the four major cities and corresponding four forts, he asked Ufrik to take a leave of absence to travel to the western part of the Imperial army. Enter Dugu City, and then join up with Lu Mengyao, who was making spell scrolls there, and assist her in her plan to seize power.

And at this moment, Sadako Yamamura has returned to the mage academy in Wintercastle. The first step in the Winterhold Academy Strategy. The quest in the game, known as "Under Sattar", officially opens a series of quests around the artifact "Eye of Magnus".

In view of the fact that the story mission in this game can become the chief mage of Winterhold Academy in one go as long as you follow it all the way, Sadako Yamamura decided to follow this main line for the time being after listening to the information. Try not to change the original plot.

"Are you sure you want to leave her on a mission?"

"I'm pretty sure."

The conversation with Lu Mengyao that day still echoed in my ears, although I had already made a decision. But when she really left herself to go on an adventure, Su Jing still felt a little worried.

"Rest assured. Jing, I'm also trying to make myself more useful. ”

When leaving, Sadako Yamamura gently stroked Su Jing's face, and then the two kissed deeply for a few minutes.

Although the four-star strength of Sadako Yamamura was enough to deal with most of the enemies in this world except for the dragon, Su Jing was still very uneasy about her, considering that her spiritual power might not be of much use to non-human creatures in the magical world, Su Jing also lent her the strongest demon hunting insect "element" that she had always carried with her, so that she could have the power of destruction to control the element.

After this, Su Jing himself had to embark on the road to Dugu City.

In fact, all along, Su Jing's route has deviated a lot from the main line of this Elder Scrolls World Realm. And the main story line of this era is to bring about the return of Alduin, the dragon of destruction in the world, and the appearance of the most descendant of dragons in the timeline of the world. The story is simply the story of the Dragonborn, who found the Elder Scrolls to record all the information in the world in order to defeat Ordu, learned the ultimate dragon-breaking spell "Dragon Break" created by humans themselves from the ancient Nord heroes, and finally defeated Alduin with this spell. The spell known as "Dragon Break" erupts in the form of a dragon's roar, which "negates" the dragon's "immortality", or "transcendence", in a short period of time, causing them to fall from the sky and weaken enough to be destroyed by mortals.

From the dragon's point of view, the meaning of this "dragon break" is extremely unnatural and completely incomprehensible, and there is no corresponding grammar in the dragon language, and it is completely a paradoxical dragon roar created by human beings through their own wisdom. And the Dragonborn can only truly defeat Alduin after learning to "Dragon Break".

And there's an interesting question here. Because he had been trying to use his mental power to manipulate and influence Ufrik's thinking in the past few days, Su Jing thought of a very interesting thing.

In terms of the background setting of the story. The Dragonborn (the main character in the game) and the Dragon of Destruction Alduin (the Great Demon King) are essentially "doppelgangers" of the dragon god of time, Akatosh. Fragments of dragons stripped from Akatosh's body. This is also for the sake of what only the Dragonborn can actually kill Alduin. From the perspective of the theology of this world, the protagonist is more like the ...... "incarnation" of some kind of god.

Judging by the later game expansion "Dragonborn". Each existing Dragonborn has its own consciousness and personality, as well as its own mission. But......

What if someone killed the Dragonborn so that the dragonborn Akatosh's will would not be fulfilled?

Or is it possible to somehow "control" the Dragonborn? If it succeeds, then how will Akatosh adjust this worldly realm? Unlike the demon gods, the Holy Spirit almost always appears in this world in a "regular" way (for example, Akatosh is the flow of time), and there is almost no personification. But if so, then how can they maintain the survival of this world through the Dragonborn?

After thinking about it for a while. Su Jing felt that this seemed to be explained by a theory of a parallel world. In other words, it was not Akatosh who allowed the Dragonborn to successfully kill the erroneous Dragon of Destruction, Alduin, but the God of Time was the only one in the universe of possibilities that singled out the line of the world where the Dragonborn succeeded in saving the world, and used this world as the true history.

In other words, the timeline I am in at the moment is still uncertain, and it is very likely that it is an abandoned time independent of the "canonical history". How will the neutral adventurer interact with the red-haired drakeborn during the mission of the Thousand Nights Lionroar? However, these are not the issues that I need to care about, and now I had better focus on the next cooperation with Lu Mengyao's friends......

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Somewhere in his mind, a large, hideous black dragon was crouching on a hidden mountain peak. Around it lay seven or eight smaller dragons. These dragons defend the black dragons that stand tall above them. The giant dragon's horns were hideous, and it looked much higher than the rest of the dragons.

[Traveler from another world...... What conditions do you want to put on me? 】

Standing in front of the dragon was a red-haired dragonborn in golden armor and a bald adventurer in black robes. And at the moment, the state of the Dragonborn looks very wrong. It's like being controlled by some kind of force. Her pupils turned from brown to gold, and a rune faintly appeared on her forehead. She stood meekly behind the Chiba Lion's Roar, while the black-robed monk seemed to be in complete control of the situation.

"It's a condition you can't refuse...... "The Thousand Nights Lion roared calmly. No less than the person on the other side of the negotiation, "I have a way to get you completely out of Akatosh's control from now on." Truly able to rule the land, not to be a doomer of destruction. ”

【……………… So. What do you want? 】

Alduin naturally had a way of distinguishing the truth from the falsehood of the other party's words, and he lowered his head slightly. As a detached concept of divinity in Akatosh that represents the "end of time", it is not supposed to have thoughts and feelings of its own. But even the most sophisticated program can be wrong, and after it has acquired wisdom and self-consciousness by chance, it has acquired a theological "deterioration", and it has acquired a faint desire...... Including the desire to rule the world......

If it deviates from its own path and embarks on a path that belongs to the mundane, then it no longer possesses the immortal divinity of being the "Devourer of the Worldly Realm". What Alduin longs for most is to completely sever his ties with Akatosh and reclaim his powerful powers.

The bald man on the other side had an incredible amount of strength even for him. In him, Alduin could smell some kind of magical energy related to "concepts" and "rules". Like an astonishing energy aggregate capable of walking, this bald man has even reached the pinnacle of what this world realm can hold in terms of strength...... Even if the Demon God descends into this world again in his true form, he will be defeated by him.

Even Alduin himself......

As if sensing the other party's malicious scrutiny, a set of ancient Japanese armor began to emerge from the Thousand Nights Lion's roar. It is made in an eerie style, and although it is shaped like the ornate samurai armor of the old era, it has a fairly modern jet propulsion device on the back. With a buzzing sound, the long knife at his waist shook.

Without Alduin's signal, an ancient dragon with black and red skin flew up from the mountain peak, looking down at the armored warrior below.

[Before cooperating, show your strength.] Otherworldly travelers. 】

A hint of cruelty flashed in Alduin's pupils.

Under the visor of the ancient samurai, a slightly muffled voice came, as if it was a chant, and as if some kind of seal was being opened.

【…… No ghost is not killed, no Buddha is not killed. The principle of the sword is here! 】

The katana, wrapped in countless golden spells, slowly pulled out of its scabbard, as if brewing some kind of strength. But just between the samurai and the dragon, there was a distance of more than thirty meters. This distance is exactly the best range for a dragon to release its breath, but for a katana, even a two-meter-long Notai sword, the attack range is far from it.

But, in this very moment. The Elder Dragon's breath erupted with a continuous high temperature of over 3,000 degrees Celsius, engulfing the entire samurai, and almost at the same moment, a flash of light swept through the breath and went upstream, slamming into the dragon in the sky at lightning speed.

Two seconds later, the dragon's breath came to an abrupt end. Then the corpse of the dragon, or rather the body of the dragon, which was divided into two parts, fell from the sky. The skull and body were cleanly cut open, split in two, and the incision was incredibly smooth. Then it turned into patches of dust and returned to the long river of time.

It's not too much of an exaggeration in terms of destructive power, but if this is his normal combat power...... And there's an unstoppable feel to it...... Alduin thought to himself, like the sharpness that could be cut off even cause and effect......

The Dragonborn, who had been standing quietly beside him, stepped forward, and the Dragonborn, who was about to return to the flow of time, seemed to be pulled by some kind of magic and forcibly sucked in by the Dragonborn's body. Her face was unusually flushed, as if she had taken drugs.

【……………… What kind of weapon is this? 】

As if intimidated by the terrifying sword, Alduin's tone sounded calmer.

“…… Myoho-renge-kawaido Muramasa. ”

The lion roared in the thousand nights and put the knife back into its sheath. (To be continued......)