Chapter 38: See the sun again

After passing through the old broken hole at the bottom of the fortress, what caught the eyes of the two of them was a huge cave. The howling cold wind passed along the rock, grinding the rock very rough, as sharp as a blade.
"The history of this place is probably more than three hundred years." Bernardo touched the stone wall beside him lightly, looked at the ancient Nord carvings on it, and whispered, "I saw it in a crypt After this stuff...very...um...old." At the end, the boy was a little unnatural.
"That's it?" Hadawa said reluctantly. In the battle just now, under that picture, the boy shocked him too much. Although after that battle, the two of them took a break and simply treated the wound - by the way, Bernardo used magic to conjure a small scalpel, and cut off the rotten flesh of his abdominal wound without blinking. Hadava had a convulsion—to get rid of the blood on his body—using Bernardo’s water magic and cleansing techniques—but Haddava still felt that there was still a faint smell coming from the boy.
"Ah, in some Nord's tomb... the owner entertains the adventure team, um... "very warm." "
"... ghoul?" Hardawa asked uncertainly. He knew some customs in the tombs of the ancient Nord ancestors, but he had never been there. In Skyrim Province, it is not something worthy of admiration to disturb the deceased’s sleep. Most of the tomb thieves’ bodies have always been left in the graves and ancient roads that are heavily organized.
"Yeah." Bernard frowned. "Thousands of ghouls were awakened, with blue light in their eyes, and they kept rushing towards you... At that time, there were only three of us. All three of us were good at it. Finally Several pillars collapsed to help us get in the way before we escaped."
"Those ghouls, won't you chase out of the tomb?" Hardawa asked worriedly, hoping that the willful behavior of these adventurers would not bring disaster to the innocent residents of Skyrim.
"Impossible." Bernardo waved his hand. "The ghouls are naturally afraid of the sun. This is related to the way they are made... You don't understand magic, and you don't understand why you don't understand why you don't want to waste your tongue with you. However, it is not impossible for the ghoul to leave the tomb, but the possibility is very...no...now very..."
"What are you talking about?" Hadawa was puzzled. He had just vowed to say that it was impossible, but now he was muttering.
"The book says that some of the ghouls in the ancient tombs are undead warriors created by dragon priests in the dragon era to help the dragon enslave humans...Of course, the dragon has long disappeared, and people don’t need to worry. This question, but recently..."
Bernardo did not continue to speak, and Hardawa did not need him to continue to speak, he understood what was going on.
"Hergen's dragon!" Hardawa was shocked. "This news must be reported to the boss!"
"Guru... Guru..." Hadawa's increasing voice successfully attracted the attention of some existence.
There is no sign of human activity in this ancient crypt that connects to the canyon. Therefore, this underground world has long been occupied by some animals. Frost spiders, fang mice, and... this giant bear.
The giant bear who was awakened from his sleep shook his head, seeming to express his dissatisfaction with the interruption of the dream.
Its confused gaze quickly locked the two animals walking upright in front of it.
Simple thinking loop judgments, they are the people who disturb the dream of labor and management.
dead!
The gigantic bear of the growler rushed towards Hardawa and Bernardo.
"Hadawa." Bernardo squinted his eyes and looked up at Hardava, who was nervously taking up his weapon next to him, ready to deal with the charge of the giant bear. "Do you want to see a good show?"
"What's the show?" Hadawa answered subconsciously, staring at the giant bear getting closer.
"That's... this way!" The magic energy rose again, and several groups of magic light enveloped Bernardo's left arm!
He raised his left arm and gently pushed Hadawa away. Then in Hardawa's surprised eyes, Bernardo didn't evade, just watched the giant bear pounce on the boy in front of him and bit the boy's arm.
Bears have a huge bite force and can easily shred human necks. However, this giant bear was surprised to find that he had already used the energy to breastfeed, and the delicious gluttony in his hand made its saliva fall in large drops, while the boy's arm was bitten. Is unscathed!
Hadawa was surprised and found that the boy’s arm had more burn marks that he had camouflaged when he tried to lure the Stormcloak soldiers before!
The giant bear released his mouth in pain. Where did I bite into the fresh delicacy just now, obviously I bit an ancient Nord steel plate! It adjusted its posture in annoyance, ready to change its position and bite down—
Looking over from Hardawa’s perspective, the boy at this moment has been completely covered by the giant bear, and the giant bear is about to bite his neck—
Suddenly, a sharp cone of ice emerged from behind the giant bear's head with a sharp horn.
Afterwards, the huge magic circle on the ground shone brightly, and the power of frost burst out, instantly freezing the giant bear into a sculpture. The young man who had been crushed under his body before slowly stood up.
"..." Hardawa found that he seemed to underestimate these magical people.

"Dragon Skin Technique?" After Hardawa tried to peel off the bear skin with a knife, but found that the bear skin could no longer be sold for a good price because of the damage of the ice magic, the two of them walked a little longer. The performance just now surprised Hadawa, this kind of slightly comic effect also made the heavy atmosphere brought about by the killing removed. Hardawa began to wonder the source and purpose of these magic. And Bernardo explained to him very carefully.
"It is a transformation spell, which can strengthen the hardness of the local skin to protect the wizard from physical damage...but I am not very good at this. This is already a difficult one in the transformation spell. I can't maintain it for too long. My professor at the College’s Department of Transformation, Tovdir, can keep the dragon skin technique hardened for up to ten minutes."
"How hard can this dragon skin technique be?"
"I think it might not be able to withstand weapons made of dragon scales or keel bones... and ebony weapons, let alone the legendary demon weapons... But what is certain is that normal attacks are not It may break its defense."
"So...oh yes, you said you also use necromantic spells, what's the matter? The academy shouldn't teach this?" Hardawa remembered what happened when he left the torture room. Bernardo should be How can someone who hates necromantic spells have learned it, or even said to be better than that creepy torturer?
"No one will take the initiative to teach, but if you stay in the academy for a long time, whether it is for you to complete the research needs of the soul stone enchanting thesis, or to explore the ancient tombs and complete the professors' research tasks... you have to contact Of course, the professors will not teach you this, but these books can be found in the bookcase in the Arcane Hall."
"In other words, you have never actively used such spells?"
"Yes. I am also a person who has experienced many battlefields and seen many companions die. I cannot accept this despicable act of blaspheming the soul of the dead."
"Then... what do you say, are you more familiar than that torturer?"
"You..." Bernardo shook his head and smiled bitterly. "This question is difficult to explain clearly... Let's start from the beginning."
Bernardo cleared his throat.
"First of all, you have to know that no matter what race or person on the continent, as long as there is a soul, their soul is essentially made of light... and the source of magical power is also from this Come. Therefore, anyone who has a soul can learn simple magic."
"Including me?" Hardawa couldn't help asking. The one who rubbed the fireball... can't imagine.
"Yes, the simplest enchantment technique should be possible. However, there is a talent gap between people, and magic is a profound knowledge...Therefore, there are countless genius wizards who will spend their lives. The research is compiled into a book for later generations to learn and use. Almost all masters in the magic world are elves, and only one archmage is a human recognized by the elves."
"... Archmage Shaliddo, isn't it?" This archmage is also a household name in Skyrim Province, which is not a fan of magic. "I heard that the huge mazes and tomb formations in Labrinxian were built by him. of."
"Yes...but this is not the focus of our discussion. In short, in order to study these magic quickly and efficiently, subsequent magicians choose to establish an academy to preserve, teach, and pass on this knowledge."
"Isn't that great?"
"Yes...but the problem is that the archmages are unwilling to teach those students who are not talented. And magic is a temptation different from force. How many people expect to be able to make achievements in magical achievements, and then become prosperous. Of course, the residents of Skyrim advocate force, and many people may not have these ideas.
"And those who study magic, there are also some people who are not right in their minds and are induced to go to the evil road. They will be expelled from the academy, and they will be permanently wanted by the wizards' union and the palace wizards everywhere.
"These people no longer have the right to appear openly in the magic world. But they are addicted to their own delusions... Therefore, they use what they have learned in the academy as a bargaining chip to attract those who are not talented enough and rely on magic. People, these people are called wild wizards and are despised by traditional wizards.
"These people who have no way to learn must pay a huge price to get a little bit of knowledge and magic skills from the stingy tutor in return... It is precisely because of this that they hate those academic mages who are respected and superior in their eyes."
"And he is such a wild wizard, and you are from the right class wizard, aren't you?" Hadawa had a bitter face. He could not forgive these people for their extraordinary behavior, but he could understand the feelings of some of these people. After all, who doesn't want to fly to the top?
"Yes." Bernardo nodded, "The Eight Achievements in the iron cage is a certain desolate academic wizard, right? Those two books are standard textbooks of the academy, written in Old English, that 80% of the torturers cannot understand, and their mentors will not teach him such profound and valuable things."
There was silence. Hadava savored it carefully, and he found that he had begun to understand a new world he had never touched before.
"We are here." The unprecedented dazzling sunlight, fresh air, and Bernardo's voice reminded Hardava. He raised his head and opened his eyes--
All the way to the cave has been left behind.
After several hours of trekking and fierce fighting, the two of them saw the light of day again.
Reply to the comments in the previous chapter and the comments in the book review area (I wanted to reply directly, but the result suggested that I didn't have enough points...). If you don’t like to watch the plot, you can reduce it appropriately, but there are quite a lot of artifact unions. The main character in the story cannot be skipped, otherwise it will affect the role of the protagonist. Of course, I will still cut some, except for the characters that must be mentioned in the outline plot, I have deleted a few characters that can be written or not, and I will definitely write the rest of the characters and stories. Try to explain in detail some of the details and the problems on the setting background, so that readers who have not played Lao Gun or have played but can also understand the plot.
Another question, about the style of writing... this is the case, because the locus itself is a light and warm story style, emphasizing the beautiful things of friendship, affection and love, and even this caused the war of sen 2 to be playful, but Lao Gun’s worldview is not The comparison is too dark, I really want to dig it down and write, the two-phase comparison will produce a strong sense of contradiction; therefore, I did not even consider the demon missions of Poite, Pojesia, and Morag Barr at the beginning. Related. Coupled with my intentional or unintentional adjustments, it looks like what my friend Minoletta in the book review section said, it's not Nord, it's a Japanese magic style...
My current idea is to change the plot of the trajectory to be more realistic and highlight the dark side that is actually indispensable in political struggle... Of course I won’t add too much, and I won’t give the characters the so-called evil spirits. Sending lunch or feeding glass to readers... Overall, it is still a warm story that emphasizes the truth, goodness and beauty of friendship and love. In terms of old things, it also weakens some serious plots, and changes the writing style so that they are closer to each other. a bit.
I don’t know if this answer is satisfactory. If there is any follow-up, please continue to raise it in the book review area~ Tomorrow should be enough experience of 500, you can post in the book review area...
And, today I changed 5K, and there is still 1K from the 3K that I owed on the day of completion... Tomorrow 4K should be added again~ The old gun plot will end in 2-3 chapters, and then return to a trajectory original plot, just Enter the FC line, so stay tuned~