"Disciples, I think you are ready to explore Sattar. If anyone still needs time, I don't mind waiting for another ten minutes." Tovdir deliberately used magic to amplify his voice in the entire Hall of Achievement.
Rings.
The Palace of Achievements and the Palace of Faces are the next-level huge buildings in the Winterhold Mage Academy besides the most eye-catching and tall main building, the Palace of Elements. They are embedded in the tall walls of the academy and look like two
Guarded by towers.
They are hollow cylindrical inside, and each has a huge magic well whose blue light reaches directly to the top of the palace. The dormitories of apprentices and lecturers are distributed in three floors above and below the magic well, with twenty independent single dormitories on each floor.
There are stairs connecting the upper and lower floors.
Due to the poor climate of Winterfort, no windows were opened in any room, and the change of day and night was only represented by the light and dark of the magic well in the middle of the hall.
There are no specific living arrangements. Although some tutors prefer to live higher up, Tovdir prefers to live with his students on the ground floor.
It is said that the reason why there is no deliberate distinction between instructors and apprentices is to express the concept that "there is only one sequence in the pursuit of magic, and there are no teachers and students."
For a college with only three, no, four apprentices at this time, this "dormitory" still seemed a bit empty, and you could even hear the sounds of them knocking over coffee tables and cabinets in a panic in the dormitory.
"Before the volcanic eruption of Morrowind Province and the 'Great Collapse', there used to be a lot of people living here - I was still an apprentice who didn't know anything at that time." Anel Gan stood next to Tovdir and said to a little bit
The main hall that produces continuous echoes when you make a little sound is a bit emotional.
"In the face of endless magical knowledge, we are all apprentices." Tovdir slowly shook his head: "Just like where we are going this time, Sattar is clearly underground near Winterfort, but we have avoided it.
Any form of magic detection until the 'Great Collapse' exposed it, and recently, we have completed the analysis of its entrance seal."
"Isn't it inappropriate to let the apprentices enter hastily for a ruins without any information?" Anel Gan looked at the apprentices who were gradually walking out of the door, and lowered his voice: "If there is something that cannot be handled -"
"If all the exploration experiences are written into reports and books for the apprentices to read, they will only become magical librarians," Tovdir patted his deputy on the shoulder: "And the academy originally planned to let
We two masters of transformation will handle this matter."
"You know nothing about power, A-Gump." Someone also tapped him on the other shoulder: "There is no problem that one big fireball can't solve. If there are any, just five more."
"I told you not to call me Forrest Gump!" Anel Gan turned away and said, "Why don't you go find those 'classmates' of yours?"
"Stingy." The blond, blue-eyed, slender Nord girl shrugged and walked towards the location of several apprentices. Since she was indoors without wearing a hood, everyone could clearly see the braids and blue hair on the back of her head.
The aristocratic bun is fixed with a hairband and a lock of hair is inexplicably raised on the forehead.
"What on earth is she thinking? Isn't it wrong to show her true face?" Anel Gan took a lot of effort to see the black-haired and black-eyed elf girl through the disguise.
"I think you are already familiar with barrier spells and have enough power to protect yourself." Tovdir did not answer Anel's question, but once again amplified his voice and said to the four apprentices who gathered: "Continue
Come down, I will lead you to explore the unique application of magic in history. Our goal is the Sattar ruins that the college is excavating. Please follow me."
——5:30——
The obvious reason for choosing to set off at such an early time is that we don’t know how long it will take to explore the ruins, and we must spare as much time as possible. But another point is that it is impossible for the residents of Winterfort to go out at this time, even for patrols.
The guards will not go out to enjoy the breeze because they are about to change their guard.
Although those people did not dare to do anything to the college mages, even being ridiculed was a problem, especially since the apprentices of this generation were all bad-tempered and specialized in destruction magic.
After the team walked out of Winterfort without encountering anyone, Tovdir breathed a sigh of relief and began to think about the personalities of these students and what tasks should be given to them in the next exploration.
Perhaps for ordinary people, it is completely impossible to understand another person's personality in just two days, but for the mages of the Mage Academy, this is simply a piece of cake.
For example, people with aggressive personalities or bad tempers are likely to achieve success in destruction magic; cautious people are good at summoning; people who are cunning and like to influence others; those who are good at illusion; those who pursue knowledge and are good at meticulousness
Logically, you can get twice the result with half the effort in learning the change system. As for the restoration system... well, it is generally considered to be the choice of those with weak personalities. This view has almost made Ms. Colette Mullens, the master of the restoration system, so angry that she went towards the destruction system.
developed.
For those who are new to magic, they basically start with destruction spells, but then they will develop into specific spells according to their own tendencies. For example, the tiger man Zag who is good at lightning is as irritable as ever.
It has been able to gather lightning balls, but the defensive barrier cannot last long. The dark elf Brelina can still only send out ice blades, but it seems that because her race is often discriminated against in Skyrim, she has touched the invisibility spell.
As for the Redguard Onmund, although he may have mastered fire spells due to his origin in the hot Hammerfell province, he inexplicably prefers defense. The enchantment spell has a larger range and is more durable than other students.
As for Zera Pesh..., Tovdir sighed, she can learn any spell in a short time and master it in a while, and the effect is amazing. Can she be said to be the former favored one of Akatosh and the high elf saint?
?
At that time, the "Great Collapse" had just ended, and the entire academy was in chaos. As a little girl, she walked out of the shell mound under the academy with a confused look on her face. No one came to say hello. She happened to be free and she didn't know what magic she had eaten by mistake.
Yao, thinking she was a child separated from her parents in an accident, ran to take care of her. After going through the adoption procedures by mistake, she learned from the previous chief mage that this was a prediction of the Great Collapse, and sealed herself in the shell mound.
Fifty years to delay its occurrence, the "Elven Saint" has been forgotten.
The reason why she didn't use her original appearance was probably to avoid being recognized by the "advisor" sent by Summerset Island. Although Thalmor no longer has her legend, given the longevity of elves, it is inevitable that some will be passed down.
Speaking of the lifespan of an elf, Tovdir felt a stomach ache. For Zera, these twenty years have only grown from a girl to a young girl, but his title has changed from "brother" to "dad"
", and now the "father" is about to become "grandpa".
Fortunately, she was smarter than expected. One day, after thinking about her gray-haired self for a long time, she shouted "Master", which finally alleviated the gradually embarrassing problem of addressing her.
——6:00——
There are numerous ancient ruins buried underground in Skyrim. In addition to some Nord tombs, most of them are dwarven (Dwemer) cities and ancient Nord city ruins.
In comparison, the value of dwarf ruins is greater, because most of them are still running automatically, and most of the weapons, equipment and treasures are well preserved. Since their forging technology cannot be reproduced, the value of buying and selling is also higher, and
The city ruins of the ancient Nords not only have endless traps, but also corpses that get up and attack the intruders because they are disturbed. The only income is tattered and decaying weapons. If you can't find anything of sufficient value,
Exploring it is completely a losing business.
The ruins that are about to be explored were revealed due to the large collapse. They were mistaken by some archaeologists as a dwarf city and were developed by hiring excavation teams. Later they were found to be the ruins of the worthless ancient city of Nord, and they were protected by magic.
It was sold directly to the college at a cheap price.
Naturally, the Mage Academy would not tell them that this was the city "Satar" founded by the ancient hero Sgramer when he first landed in Skyrim Province. After a little cleaning, they sent out the thoughtful Tovdir and Anel.
·Gan has made an in-depth exploration.
The entrance sealed by magic seemed to be the side entrance of Sattar City. After entering, it gradually descended along the spiral staircase. It was pitch black because it was underground. The mages fired magic light spells in all directions before they realized that they had finally arrived.
A huge square, but it cannot be easily explored because there are collapsed rooms everywhere. Only the nearest and largest stone house is still intact.
"Brelina, go check if there are any traps nearby. If you find any traps, don't try to clear them. Come back and report directly. Zag, go look for any enemies and clean them up. Onmond, you protect Zag." Tovdir observed.
Looking at the surrounding environment, he quickly issued an order: "Zera, you and Anel check this house to see if there are any ancient relics."
Directly transferring the inexperienced apprentices away from this stone house, which may be rewarding but also comes with risks, Tovdir decided to go into the investigation personally with his deputy and his adopted daughter who were strong enough.
Although several apprentices seemed dissatisfied, they also knew that they were not strong enough to face the possible dangers of a ruins, so they began to check other parts of the square according to the detection methods they had learned.
"Hey, A-Gump, it looks like we are going to cooperate." Without other apprentices around, Zella changed her tune directly.
"I told you not to call me Forrest Gump!" Anel Gan said angrily while maintaining the candlelight technique on his hand.
