Chapter 28: The Ancient Tomb in the Mountains

Creekwood Town is located on the edge of a large river, and the residents can see a majestic tomb on the snow-capped mountain opposite from the river, although only the top of the tomb can be seen as a pale black dragon bone, but no one will disturb the soul in the tomb.

The proud and confident nature of the Nords meant that they were not interested in the treasures of their graves, with the exception of robbers and thieves. Every year, there are many outsiders passing by, with no luggage and goods, hurrying to Ximu Town to replenish, and then disappear into the town at night.

It was understood that the men had broken into the great tomb on the opposite hill, but no one had been seen coming back alive. So, the legend that the tomb was inhabited by immortal kings and ghouls is deeply ingrained in the minds of the townspeople.

At night, the legend of the ghouls who would take advantage of the moon to be obscured by dark clouds would open the windows and enter the house to take away the naughty and disobedient children, which was a childhood nightmare for everyone in the town. Making mistakes during the day, being taught a lesson by their parents, and hiding under the quilt at night, wrapping their whole bodies tightly, afraid that the ghouls in the grave on the opposite hill will come and carry them away, this is the childhood story that everyone in Ximu Town has to go through.

Although I only learned when I grew up that these stories were just made up by adults to deceive children, over the years, the residents of Ximu Town have developed a reverence for the ancient tombs. As for who was buried in that unknown tomb, it is estimated that only the mages who specialize in the history of the sky will know, because only they have the time to spend their days studying in those vast sea of books, to find the truth one after another.

But today is broad daylight, and the town is full of people. Ximu Town was the base of the Empire's ore and medicinal herbs, and it did not produce vegetables or grain, so there was an endless stream of traders who delivered goods. Alwo in the blacksmith shop was even more busy, and Lord Xueman lined up a team of troops to enter Ximu Town, and the security in the town suddenly improved, but the daily ordnance repairs of the army were pressed on Alvo alone, and he was really busy.

There are a lot fewer people who get drunk and fight and make trouble, and they are even more strict about the past vendors, and two small smuggling cases have been solved, and the confiscated goods can be sold at a good price in the same place, so that the army commander who was sent to protect the town this time is very satisfied, and he is far away from the snowy city, and it seems that there are a lot of entries in this town.

A loud roar suddenly appeared far away in the broad daylight, listening to the sound, it seemed to be from the opposite mountain, many people stopped, looked around, the vast mountains were dark, the sound was like muffled thunder, suddenly emitted, with the sound of explosions, for a while could not distinguish the way to come.

"Is there something roaring?" Many of the merchants looked puzzled, because this sound was so unfamiliar to them that they could not tell what kind of animal it was. At this moment, on the mountainside in the distance, a few small black dots flew in, and quickly fell to the distance on the opposite bank, this time many people saw that it was a huge rock of adult size, and for some reason, it flew down from the mountain.

Yes, it was flying down, not falling and rolling down normally, but it looked like it had been knocked away by some great force, and it smashed the wilderness on the other side of the river, splashing countless turf and mud and rocks, and as for those that fell into the forest, they visibly hit several large trees that no one could hug, and broke them at the waist. The tree snapped and fell with a clattering sound, startling countless birds and beasts in the forest.

"What the hell is going on? Is the god angry?" the people of the town immediately chatted.

"Look there!" a voice suddenly rang out in the crowd, talking to a young man, pushing a wooden cart to rest on the side of the road, the cart was full of cabbage, which seemed to be a farmer who was delivering vegetables to the inn. At this moment, the young man was looking at the snow-capped mountain opposite, pointing to the mountainside with his fingers, and everyone hurriedly followed the sound.

On the mountainside far away, a thin white line is like a long silver needle piercing the reckless forest, and the white snow in the mountains and the darkness in the forest can't stop this bright silver white, and it is pierced through by one of them. Where the silver and white passed, it seemed to be silent, but with electric light, countless mountains and rocks and trees disappeared in this silver white, as if they were erased from people's sight by some force.

"It's a thunderbolt attack!" Alvo had participated in the Territory War, and remembered those mysterious mage spells vividly, this kind of powerful thunder light spell was obviously not something that a mage could cast, or that there was a legendary rank thunderbolt mage hidden on the snowy mountain.

"Maybe it's a dragon~A dragon that spews thunder~" A soldier whispered in a trembling voice, he was mending the holes in his feet in Alvor's blacksmith's shop, Alvo also worked as a cobbler, so he has been busy from day to night for a month, although he has made a lot of money, but it is really hard.

It's no secret that there are dragons in the mountains, and more than a month ago, a black dragon flew over the town of Creekwood, causing a hint of fear among the townspeople, and Alvo begged an orc girl who had escaped from Helgen's camp with his nephew to go to Snowman City and report to the lord. Obviously, the girl kept her promise and completed the task, and the army came as promised.

In the past month, the town has been peaceful, and the lumberjacks, medicine pickers, and hunters have no news of the black dragon, it seems that the dragon has flown away, but the current situation seems that the terrible flying dragon is still hidden in the snowy mountains opposite, and at this moment, for some reason, it actually began to attack, spraying such a terrifying thunderbolt.

The army of Ximu Town began to gather urgently, all the merchants, travelers, and hawkers were arranged into the town's bunker, and the goods and goods brought were also piled up in the warehouse, and the streets of the town were empty, and everyone was solemnly waiting, afraid that the dragon in the mountain would suddenly attack Ximu Town under the mountain, but unfortunately, there was no movement in the mountain anymore.

It's a pity that the initiator of this incident is not the dragon that has no trace, our perpetrator Lu Xihua and the orc girl Ann are standing through the heavy snow at this moment, looking up at the grave in front of them.

"It's really big!" The orc girl's head was covered with thick beast fur to resist the wind and snow, but an inch in front of Lu Xihua seemed to be another world, and a dark black shirt returned to her body, in this wind and snow weather, the wind and snow disappeared an inch in front of Lu Xihua.

"It's really rare to see such a magnificent ancient tomb. Lu Xihua nodded, obviously agreeing with the girl's statement.

The front hall of the ancient tomb in front of you is made up of several stone beams made of stone, and the span is very large, and it looks a bit like the torii gate of the Japanese people in the world. The stone beams are all made of the boulders of several zhang square, there is about more than 30 meters between the two stone pillars of the stone beam, there is no other support in the middle, a piece of boulder is piled up on the two stone pillars out of thin air, there is a lot of arch bridge taste, there are about more than 20 meters high, it is a round arch, like a black python hiding in the wind and snow.

The stone beams are built along the mountain, there are high and low between the two sides, the nearest distance is more than 20 meters, standing on both sides of the steps of the huge stone repair, decorating the huge tomb in the snow-capped mountain with a trace of solemnity.

In the wind and snow, several black shadows rushed towards the two, and Lu Xihua raised his hand and a stone instantly hit a woman who was about to draw a bow and arrow at the back of the black shadow, and said to the orc girl, "Kill them, let's hurry up and enter the ancient tomb." ”

The girl rushed to the opposite side with a look of excitement and several thieves holding giant swords and shields.