"Boss, let me tell you, bringing me here was the wisest decision you made."
Macul was using a lock pick made of two wires to fiddle with the box in the corner of the tomb, and at the same time he said to Arthur who was standing guard next to him.
After almost being killed by a ghoul, the robber - or thief - followed Arthur, who was wearing iron armor and holding a giant sword, like a frightened bird. He seemed very safe at first glance and refused to stay too far away, and tried his best to encourage him.
Quickly turn around and leave Hanluo Temple.
However, Arthur, who wanted to find out what happened to the dragon, refused. Maybe it was just a coincidence that it passed over the Hanluo Mountain Peak, but the dragon that had not appeared for hundreds of years reappeared. Maybe he could investigate the murals in the ancient tomb.
There will be rewards, especially the ancient tomb with the golden dragon claw as the key.
With a click and a soft sound, the ancient box in front of Markul was unlocked. He opened the lid and looked at it. After complaining about something, he took out a dozen gold coins from inside and put them into his pocket.
As we all know, the Nords are a fighting nation. They are usually buried with their own weapons. However, hundreds of years later, it is impossible for the weapons to be intact as before. The weapons in the hands of the corpses collided with Arthur's two-handed sword.
After it is removed, it will easily break into two pieces.
The weapons and armor were all old and rotten, and no jewelry was found that was buried with the so-called big shots, but luckily some ancient coins were also included.
These gold coins are called "Septim", named after the Septim Empire. If the empire had not ruled Skyrim for a long enough time, these tomb robbers would only have obtained coins that are no longer circulated and have no value.
"Why do I think you are bragging? You may not have seen that door at all." After watching Macul finish collecting the loot, Arthur continued walking deeper into the tomb.
"I've actually seen people looking for dragon claws just because they couldn't open the door." The thief hunched over to explore the way in front: "These guys wouldn't have gotten up and killed people at the time, because the burial objects were in the sarcophagus.
Can’t get it out.”
At this time, as we have gone deep into the tomb, those hastily placed in the grooves of the wall have rarely appeared, and have been replaced by dark and heavy sarcophagi. The architectural style of the tomb has gradually become ancient and majestic, and similarly, the traps have become more deadly.
Click! A ghoul kicked open its coffin and came out. Its hollow eyes burning with blue fire glanced around, and soon saw Arthur and Macul hiding in the passage of the tomb. It dragged a corpse menacingly.
The giant hammer approached them, and was cut in half by the black blade that suddenly swept through the passage.
"Quick, quick, quick." The huge blade slowly retracted, and Macul and Arthur took the opportunity to pass through: "The entire passage is a pressure plate, and it is impossible to pass through it under normal circumstances. Fortunately, there are those brainless corpses."
Click, click, click—after the blade trap behind them was reset, dozens of other sarcophagi in this tomb were kicked open by their "inhabitants".
"Brainless? Huh?" Arthur raised his sword to block a flying Ancient Nord arrow, and then ran irregularly towards the ghouls who were all holding Ancient Nord bows: "Hide yourself!"
For a weapon like a bow and arrow, if you let go as soon as you pull the bow string, the arrow will not fly far at all and will have no force. It may even poke the archer's own foot. The correct choice is to decide how hard you draw the bow according to the target and the specific situation. However,
Naturally, these ghoul archers didn't remember what happened, and each one of them pulled the bow string to the maximum strength before letting go. This gave Arthur, who was also proficient in bows and arrows, a chance.
After Arthur knocked down a ghoul, his giant sword bowed his head directly, then snatched the bow and arrow from its hand, rolled to avoid a round of bow and arrow fire, and then responded to the call one by one.
However, these corpses are essentially mummies. Even if they are hit by an arrow in their torso, they will have no effect. They will continue to draw their bows and aim at Arthur with the arrows dangling on their bodies. They will not finally fall until they are hit in the head and extinguish the blue fire in their eyes.
During this period, Arthur was also hit by several arrows, but after all, he was armored and was not shot through. In the end, all the ghouls who could not rest in peace were still eliminated.
During this period, in the mysterious starry sky, the constellations representing "Bow" and "Heavy Armor" each lit up a star.
"Boss, the riddle door is at the back..." Macul, who didn't dare to show up until the end of the battle, slipped out and searched the corpse archers while saying: "Moreover, there are so many archers arranged in the last tomb.
, there must be a general-level figure inside."
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At the end of the tomb is a wide corridor with abstract relief murals carved on both sides, and at the end is a thick and weird giant door.
The relief mural does not have any explanatory text, but describes a prophetic scene with uninterrupted paintings. The dragon flies across the sky, corpses crawl out of the tomb, and the last scene is the dragon spraying fire on the battlefield.
Out of dragon flames.
"I didn't expect these ancients to predict the war between the Empire and the Stormcloaks hundreds of years ago. It was awesome, awesome." Marcus shook his head and said.
"This kind of ambiguous prophecy," Arthur laughed: "The first two patterns are okay, indicating that the awakening of these corpses is indeed related to the dragon, but the last one can be applied to any war - early
For twenty years it will surely be read as the war between the Empire and the Thalmor."
As he said that, he turned to look at the door with three rings.
In the middle of the door, there is a claw-shaped groove. Arthur took out the dragon claw captured from Macul and compared it. It was just right, but when he pressed it and turned it, it didn't move at all. At the same time, the secret door on the side of the door opened.
, two corpses holding giant swords rushed out.
"I see," Arthur said after knocking them down easily, "It turns out there will be a 'punishment' if you don't line up the patterns correctly."
Surrounding the claw-shaped groove are rings with embossed patterns, which are divided into quarters. There is a pattern on each arc-shaped area, which looks like a dragon, a shroud, a wolf head and a snow bear respectively.
"The dragon returns, the dead awaken, the end of the world." Arthur recalled what Macul was saying, then looked at the surrounding murals, and finally stretched out his hand to turn the ring so that they were arranged directly above the paw prints to form "dragon,
"Shroud, Bear" in sequence, and pressed the dragon's claw again. This time it went very smoothly. There was a friction sound of something turning inside the giant door, but it did not open to both sides, but slowly sank into the ground.
"Can the Nord riddle door still be opened like this?" Macul's eyes widened: "I will also..."
Bang, la, la, a group of bats scurrying behind the gate interrupted his words.
Behind the Nord riddle door is an extremely empty tomb hall. It is not only surrounded by rockeries, but also draws underground water as a river. There is a large platform in the middle of the hall, and the most eye-catching thing is a huge
The gorgeous sarcophagus was placed in the center of the high platform.
"You'll get lucky and get rich..." Macul rubbed his hands and trotted forward, followed closely by Arthur.
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If this is the secret of Hanluo Temple and the Golden Dragon Claw, doesn't it have nothing to do with the dragon?
Arthur stood on the high platform and thought.
The burial objects this time were just as the tomb robbers wished, there were many jewels and jewelry. Makur hurriedly started to put them in his pocket, but the owner of the gorgeous sarcophagus seemed to have no intention of kicking off the coffin board to teach him a lesson.
No, there should be some clues here...huh?
Arthur's eyes were attracted by a semicircular groove on the mountain wall. It was engraved with a large number of rough lines that looked like claws, but they were not words in any language that he remembered. One of the "words" was exactly the same.
The same blue light flashed in the eyes of those corpses.
Could it be... Arthur tried to move closer to it.
In an instant, a cold wind blew in his face from the direction of the "words", making him unable to see anything except those weird words. He picked up the giant sword in surprise, but
But no enemy as expected appeared. It was just that the set of words were engraved into his mind in some unreasonable way. Each stroke was extremely clear. When he looked at the semicircular stone wall, the blue flames on the words had already appeared.
Completely disappear.
"Boss, look what I found-" "Crack!"
Makur searched for "trophies" everywhere, but the owner of the tomb showed no response. Finally, when he boldly opened the tribute box in front of the sarcophagus, the lid of the coffin was kicked open, and a guy who was obviously more powerful than other ghouls emerged from the sarcophagus.
He climbed out, holding a two-handed sword glowing with blue light, and stared at him condescendingly.
"I, I'll put it back right now." Makur said incoherently, and seriously planned to put the buried jewelry back in again.
"[Fus]!" The corpse turned into a ghost by the owner of the tomb roared loudly.
This roar seemed to inspire some mysterious power, and a shock wave appeared out of thin air in front of the corpse, knocking Macul away far away, and the jewelry in his hand scattered all over the ground.
Drink! Naturally, Arthur couldn't wait for it to turn around and repeat the same trick on him. He gave a low drink and stabbed the corpse from the back with his sword.
However, this ghoul seemed to have eyes on its back. It swung its sword in the opposite direction without turning around to block. When the steel two-handed sword hit its ancient Nord sword, the sword was directly covered with a layer of frost. If it hadn't been for Ya
If Se withdraws the sword in time, even his hands will be frozen.
"That's an enchanted weapon -" Macul, who flew far away, seemed to be fine and was picking up his lost jewelry while shouting: "-it's quite valuable!"
"What's that roar!" Arthur raised his sword to confront the powerful ghoul, and at the same time asked Macul what happened that knocked him away.
"That's the dragon's roar -" Macul didn't dare to approach and replied from a distance: "A skill that only the powerful ancient Nords can master!"
I don't know whether the dragon roar has been prepared again, or the corpse is very impressed by Macul's compliment. It opened its mouth towards Arthur again: "[Fus]!"
A huge air current hit him head-on, but Arthur felt that the wind was no different from when he had just obtained the text memory from the stone wall. He was not blown away like Markul, and then suddenly realized that the pronunciation of the text was "Fus".
", but there is still something missing that prevents him from roaring like the corpse in front of him.
This ghoul may have thought that the enemy in front of him would be blown away, so he was a little careless. After the roar ended, he saw Arthur who not only did not fly away but rushed up to kill him, so he couldn't help but slow down his hands for a moment.
Pfft——
The next moment, its skinny head flew into the air, the blue fire in its eyes gradually extinguished with unwillingness, and the last thing heard was Makur's chattering voice.
"We've made a fortune, boss. This frost-enchanted weapon is very valuable, as well as the jewelry he was buried with. Oh, why is there a stone here?"
