Chapter 24: 24

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Necromancy, unsurprisingly, is a lot like soul magic. They're not exactly the same, but they are similar enough that I'm progressing faster than I had expected to.

That said, I'm still the worst necromancer in Sky Haven. Even Svar's better than I am from her lessons with Durnehviir.

Svar joined Serana and I a little into my lessons, and started helping me out. While her mastery is focused on the thu'um, she still picked up a lot of practical knowledge from her dragon mentor's lectures.

All told, I've been at it for a week, and I'm seeing progress. Not as much as I'd like, but progress nonetheless.

I'm not too put out though, in fact I'm rather happy. Bullshit powers for the win!

Level up x41

Dusk the Master of the Storm

Level- 398

Class- Illusionist - LVL 100/100 [0%]

Crafting Class- Golem Crafting 41/50 [22%]

Race- Vampire Lord

Tier- Immortal

Alignment- True Neutral

HP- 22020 [13212 per minute]

MP- 38000 [28500 per minute]

SP- 22020 [13212 per minute]

STR- 1174

END- 1101

DEX - 1192

INT - 1900

WIS - 1900

CHA - 1150

LUK - 1000

MP Regen= WIS x 15

MP= INT x 20

SP/Health Regen= END x 12

SP/HP= END x 20

For reaching 800 LUK you have gained a perk!

The Dice Have Spoken

Feel free to attempt the impossible, occasionally you'll get the luckiest roll ever seen

For reaching 900 LUK you have gained a perk!

What are the odds?

Things will randomly go your way for seemingly no reason.

For reaching 1000 LUK you have gained a perk!

Felix Felices times 3

Felix Felices is three times as effective.

You will receive no more perks for your LUK stat.

[Congratulations!]

[That's your third Mage class over and done with!]

The higher in level I'm getting, the slower the dungeons are leveling me up, but I put in a few days worth of effort and was able to max out Illusionist.

[Time for a new one!]

[Please select a new primary class!]

[Mage/Warrior/Thief]

Mage. I want to see what the more advanced magic classes are like. I've put in this much work, so it's about time it paid off.

[Congratulations on unlocking advanced magic!]

[Please select a specialization!]

[Elementalist/Rune Caster/Order/Chaos/Diviner/Aether/Fae/Ley Line/Technomancy]

Ok, I recognize like one of those. Why is Diviner still an option?

[You are now capable of greater magic, but that does not mean you have to utilize it!]

Thanks for the options Game, but if I have the key to ultimate power, I'm gonna use it.

[That is your choice!]

[The option will remain open!]

Thanks game. Hey, will more advanced options open after this?

[Yes!]

[Each advanced class you complete will unlock others!]

Good to know.

Alright, let's give 'em a look over.

Elementalist is out. I'm good with lightning for now, and besides, with some of the other options that would be a waste.

If Rune Caster is what I'm thinking, then it is ridiculously overpowered, and I want it, but there are some others that might be worth it.

I'm not touching Order or Chaos because neither of those ended well for Elric or Corum, and I don't know enough about DC's version to risk it. About all I remember about the DC variant was Doctor Fate stealing people's bodies, and that one witch boy thing breaking reality. I'd like the power to break reality, but I'd like to be able to control said breaking of the fabric of space and time.

Screw Diviner. Seriously, just no.

If Aether is what I'm thinking, it should be rather potent, but I'd rather take Rune Caster. I'd be limited to wherever there's aether, and I'm not sure how reliable it will be.

Fae… no. Yes, Fae are incredibly powerful, but I want nothing to do with their magic. It's strong, but if you mess up you accidentally indept yourself to something similar to Gaunter. Albeit something much weaker.

Ley Line would be cool… if it didn't require me to stand in a very specific spot to work magic. I'm sure it's powerful, but it just seems too limiting.

Last, and certainly least, Technomancy. Given I'm in the Elder Scrolls, there is literally nothing on this list I wouldn't take before it. I'd take Diviner before I took Technomancy. If I were in Halo, I'd take it in a heartbeat, but as I am not in Halo, it's worthless.

Guess I'm going with Rune Caster. It should be incredibly versatile if it's what I'm thinking, and if studied enough I should be able to do quite a bit with it.

[Class] (Rune Caster) - LVL 1/100

Gain 15 INT, 15 WIS, and 10 DEX per Level

You are now capable of crafting runes in the air that create a wide variety of effects. Due to the nature of the class, you will not receive spells. Simply think of an effect, and a rune will appear in your mind. More complicated effects take longer to cast, and require more mana. As your level increases, your speed and efficiency will increase. You may also use this magic to bolster other magics you possess.

I feel a grin grow on my face as I look over the class.

Yep, that's about what I was expecting. This is going to be fun. I should test it out, but let's start easy. I'll try to create lightning.

I hold my hand out and try to summon a lightning bolt from my new magic. A disk of blue spinning runes appears a small distance from my hand, and a bolt shoots out of it.

The bolt is weak, far weaker than what I could do without the rune, but I'm still smiling.

This has potential.

I pull a random cup from my inventory, and focus on it. Another rune appears near my hand, this one green, and the cup very slowly morphs into a frog. The frog leaps off my hand, and starts lazily hopping away.

I can't help it as I laugh in its wake.

That drained a shitload of my mana, and took almost a full ten minutes to cast, but it was a proof of concept. If I can turn a cup into a living organism, what else can I do?

I look over the class again, and my eye catches on a certain part.

I can use this to bolster my other magic huh? How does that work?

I begin channeling my electromancy, and try to push it into a rune. A bright blue sparking rune appears in front of me, and slowly grows bigger as I push more of my lightning into it.

The air around me starts crackling, and the ground shakes under the force of the growing blue rune.

With a grin, I fire the bolt into the nearby wall, and the resulting explosion blows me off my feet.

I recover easily, and look at my handy work. I start laughing like a maniac.

Where before there was a stone wall, there is now a newly formed passage to a chamber a good twenty feet away. I just blew a hole in the wall so effectively I made a damn tunnel, and I wasn't even trying!

"Dusk!" There's a snap hiss as Svar ignites her lightsaber. She runs into the room, and takes everything in. "Are we under attack?" She asks uncertainly.

I get my laughter under control and shake my head. "I'm just testing some new stuff out. I probably should have gone outside now that I think about it."

The second my statement finishes, a living shadow emerges from the wall, and a grey blur speeds into the room.

"Where are they?!" Vampire lord Serana demands.

"Uh, sorry. No attackers, I just got carried away testing something out." I say a little sheepishly.

Definitely should have gone outside to test this.

Serana takes a look around, then slowly changes back.

The shadow condenses into Valerica, and she calmly walks over to observe the newly created tunnel. "What did this?" She asks curiously.

I grin. "I discovered a new form of magic."

Svar's head snaps from the tunnel to look at me. "You what now?"

I hold a hand up, and create a spinning disk of purple runes above my palm.

The three women step in to get a closer look.

"I can honestly say I have never seen anything like this." Serana says contemplatively. "What can you do with it?"

"I haven't figured out the limits yet, but I'm honestly not sure there are any." I say honestly. This magic is incredibly OP. "The hole is from when I used it to strengthen my electromancy."

"So it's a bolstering magic of some kind? Can it be used in other ways?" Svar asks as she watches the lazily spinning disk.

I nod. "I turned a goblet into a frog a little while ago."

All three women freeze, and slowly turn to look at me.

"Could you please repeat that?" Valerica asks calmly.

"I turned a cup into a living frog. In fact…" I feel around with my blood magic a little bit, then speed off. I return holding the frog in question. "Here he is."

"May I?"

I nod to Valerica, and she picks up the little creature.

She turns him around, and probes him with her magic. She turns to Serana with a shocked expression. "I am beginning to realize what it is you see in this man." She turns back to me with a serious expression. "Are you able to teach this to others?"

Um, Game? Wanna take that one?

[You are capable of teaching any of your magic to anyone with the aptitude for it!]

[As a bonus, any student you possess benefits from your Broken Limiter perk!]

[They will learn much faster than normal merely by being your student!]

So that's a yes, I'd still like to level the class up a bit before I start teaching others though.

I nod at Valerica. "I can, but I'd rather get a handle on it first. If I'm going to show anyone how it works, it would be better if I understand it myself."

Valerica nods. "When you are capable, I would be even further in your debt if you would deign to teach me."

"I would like to learn this as well." Serana says, intrigued. "It is not often that I find something I have never seen. This could be interesting."

Svar shrugs. "As cool as it is, it would be a bit of a waste for me. I can already do that frog trick with The Voice."

My eyes go wide. "Wait what?"

Svar grins and shouts, "LAAS SIL!" The air in front of her condenses into a calico cat.

Something immediately grabs my attention. Where the frog has no presence to my soul magic, the cat does.

"Did you just create a soul?" I ask in shock. Serana and Valerica seem to be in similar states of disbelief.

Svar shakes her head. "Paarthurnax explained it, but it's a little beyond me what exactly happens. How I understand it, I'm either pulling a soul from somewhere else, or restoring something that was."

That makes very little sense, and I'm not going to break my head thinking too hard about it. Leave the Dovahkiin bullshit to those qualified to deal with it.

The four of us watch the cat slink off.

Valerica, once more, turns to regard her daughter. "I am beginning to realize what you see in this woman." She starts walking after the cat and says over her shoulder, "I will be occupied for the next three days at least. If you have need of me, I will be in my lab."

As she turns the corner I catch the smallest glimpse of the little frog still in her grasp.

That frog and cat are super dead aren't they?

"Well, we're not going to be seeing her for a while." I say. "Do you two have anything planned?"

Serana takes a moment to recover from the shock of Svar just breathing a soul into being, and turns to be. "I do not. Is there a particular reason you are asking?"

I nod. "I kinda want to go get the Eye of Magnus before it becomes inaccessible." With Solitude attacked, it wouldn't surprise me if the mages start looking around for things to fight off Potema. If I were them, I'd grab as many powerful artifacts as I could then hide behind the College's wards. Actually that's a good idea. "I should also bolster the wards around here with my runes, and layer some illusions as well." I add as an afterthought.

"If you know where it is, I'm good with grabbing it." Svar says. "I'm pretty well off as far as equipment goes, but we could always use a super battery."

Serana nods. "I will prepare for a journey while you construct your wards. I will be ready in a few hours." She walks off, seemingly lost in thought.

"I'll get ready too. Any idea how long it'll take?" Svar asks.

I shrug. "I'd rather not be gone for longer than a day. I'll just teleport us there, we'll bust everything apart, then we'll all teleport back."

She raises an eyebrow. "That'll give us away. You realize that right?"

I give her a deadpan stare. "I would be more concerned about being exposed if we hadn't just taken a vampire infested city with four people. My paranoia is not what it once was."

She chuckles, and turns to leave. "I'll be waiting down in the mess hall when you're ready."

Quest added!

[The Eye of Magnus]

You need powerful artifacts, and there are few stronger than The Eye of Magnus!

Objective- Journey to Saarthal and retrieve the Eye of Magnus

Bonus Objective- ?

Bonus Objective- ?

Bonus Objective- ?

Rewards- ?,?,?

Bonus Rewards- ?,?,?

Failure- Death

I watch her go, then look down at my hand. A yellow disk covered in runes spins into existence, and I grin.

Let's make this place safe.

All told, it takes me around four hours to fix everything up. I improved the wards around the temple, and added a bunch of illusions all over the place. No one will be able to break in here the same way that last group of vampires did unless they have a good mage. Or Yamato, but Yamato's mine.

"Are we ready to go?" I ask as I walk up to the conversing Svar and Serana.

They both nod, and Serana says. "My mother will not be joining us, she is deep in her research."

I shrug. "The three of us should be more than sufficient. The only thing we really need to watch for in that place is the last draugr, but with the Staff he should be easy to take down." I'm willing to bet the Staff of Magnus will beat whatever weird magic immunity that particular Gaulderson had. If not, I'll just Yamato him.

Wow, I have a lot of super powerful weapons don't I?

"Then let's get going." Svar says. "You said we'd teleport right?"

I nod. "I haven't tried this yet, so it might take a bit for me to figure it out." I turn to Serana. "Could you give me a boost?"

She tilts her head curiously, but places a hand on my shoulder. I feel a chain come into being and link our two mana pools.

Cool, let's see if this works.

I channel my magic into the ground, and a large blue rune expands out from me to encompass both Serana and Svar. I pour my magic into it, and I feel Serana giving me short bursts of her own mana so I don't burn myself out.

After around seven minutes, the runic circle on the ground glows bright, and the three of us vanish from the temple.

We reappear surrounded by snow standing near the entrance of Saarthal. There are no mages here, nor any sign of anyone else, so that's good.

I cut my magic off, and chuckle.

That took a lot out of me, but I was able to pull it off. Now my teleportation isn't limited by line of sight. Sweet.

"I must say I am impressed." Serana say as she looks me up and down. "I thought you were going to use your lightning teleportation, but that was much more exciting."

"Yeah, it was cool, but can we hang out for a few minutes before we go in? I'm still getting the hang of this, so that took a bit out of me."

"I'm not in a hurry." Svar says, then begins scanning the surroundings with her thu'um enhanced senses to watch for attackers.

"Thanks." I say, and take a seat.

Thanks to my insane MP regen, I'm up fairly quickly, and we head towards the door.

It's protected by a lot of nasty wards, as well as a large lock, but it's all easily solved by Yamato.

With the entrance now busted open, the three of us head inside.

My first impression? The game didn't do this place justice. Not in the sense that this place is amazing, but in the sense that the game failed to capture just how wrecked this place is. Everything, and I do mean everything is falling apart. The wood is all rotted, the stone is falling away, and even the steel and iron gates have rusted through.

"I was expecting more." Serana says. "This is rather disappointing."

"No kidding." Svar says. She walks over to an old support column and lightly kicks it. A large chunk of stone comes free as a result. "We should hurry up and get out of here before this place falls on us."

"Agreed." Serana says, and the three of us start hurrying through the ruin.

We wind through decaying hallways, and move through run down chambers meeting no resistance. The first obstacle we come across is a weird wall with a necklace hanging from it.

I casually take the necklace, then Yamato my way through both the wall itself and the gate that slammed shut behind me. I inventory the necklace, and we continue on.

This place is much less threatening when you're incredibly powerful.

We continue on, and finally meet our first enemies. A handful of slumbering draugr who are torn apart before they can even stand.

Wow. Why didn't we grab this thing earlier? If it was this easy, we could have got it right after we released Serana. Eh, I was still super paranoid then. I still am I guess, but now I know I'm able to do this fairly easily.

A few more groups of draugr, as well as some ghosts, try to stop us, but they wouldn't be a challenge for one of us. Let alone all three of us at the same time.

Why was I worried about this place?

The three of us enter another large circular chamber, and find it filled with draugr. They pose no threat. Svar burns them, I electrocute and cut them, and Serana freezes and turns them.

This is too easy.

The air suddenly turns sour, and things just scream wrong.

I whip my head around, and see both Serana and Svar frozen. The flame licking one of the bodies that Svar burned has stopped flickering.

Oh shit.

I start looking around for Gaunter, but I only find a man in a yellow robe.

Oh, I completely forgot about these assholes.

Fasntar Leithil

Psijic Monk

Level- 421

Tier- Immortal

HP- 27,500

Thoughts about you- He has finally found a moment to confront you.

I don't like the sound of, 'confront'.

"What do you want?" I ask coldly, as the man studies me.

There's a moment of silence where no words are shared. The man breaks it when he says, "You are a threat."

I raise an eyebrow at him. "Excuse me?"

The man pulls down the hood of his robe revealing his silver hair and pointed ears, and begins striding towards me. "In all our scryings, we never found one like you. You should not be here, and our past attempts to remedy the problem have met with failure. You have forced everything from its path to the point nothing is recognizable. You have unleashed an evil on Nirn so great it has the potential to rival Sithis." Oh come on. Gaunter's not… actually yeah, yeah he is that bad. "We cannot determine your goals, and that worries us, so tell me, what are your goals you who are hidden to us?"

The Psijics have been trying to get rid of me?! What the fuck?!

"I'm not trying to destroy anything, or take anything over." I say honestly. "So long as I'm left alone, I won't go looking for trouble."

The man hums. "And yet, here you are. Seeking one of the most powerful relics left behind by Magnus. Was one of his creations not enough for you? You claim to be impartial, yet you pursue power at every juncture. This cannot be allowed."

I don't like the sound of that. "What are you going to do about it?"

The elf tilts his head, and nine more yellow robed figures shimmer into being at his back. "You cannot be allowed to continue as you have. For your sake, and the sake of all Nirn. You will surrender to us your sword, the Staff, and anything else you carry which you do not deserve. Failure to comply will result in your death." The robed figures begin to spread out around the chamber, and slowly surround me.

This is the definition of not good. How the fuck do I get out of this?! Speed means nothing against these guys, they specialize in time magic for fuck's sake. I'm not familiar enough with my runes to use those, and if I try to pull out the Staff to suck their magic away they'll just use their time bullshit to screw me over.

If Svar and Serana weren't frozen, the three of us could tear these guys apart, but I don't like my odds on my own.

I take a defensive stance, and begin to slowly back away from the men and women who are closing the distance towards me.

"This is your last chance." The first elf says. "Surrender yourself, and you will live. Resist, and you will be disposed of."

I grit my teeth, and bare my fangs. "Go fuck a cactus."

His angular eyes narrow at me. "Very well." He raises his hand, and I'm about to unleash hell when the entire chamber shakes.

"TIID!"

The wrongness in the chamber shakes and cracks, and I snap my head to Svar.

She's no longer frozen, and she looks pissed. She turns to the frozen form of Serana and shouts, "STIN!"

The wrongness cracks again, and Serana begins to move around. She quickly surveys the situation, and backs towards Svar and I. The three of us go back to back, and face down the shocked Psijics.

"How?" The only one to talk so far says in disbelief. "That is not possible."

I grin. It shouldn't be possible, but Svar's a motherfucking Prisoner. The rules aren't even guidelines when one of them enters into the equation.

Svar growls at the man. "I am sick and tired of self righteous assholes trying to take my Dusk." The last words reverberate through the time frozen space. Svar's form shifts into a pissed off bipedal dragon who growls at the assembled mages. "I am going to kill each and every one of you."

"I have fought your kind before." Serana says as she glares at the Psijics. "They were all of them disappointments."

I bare my fangs in a smile, and quickly let loose a rune magic enhanced ward to block all forms of magic that would allow the psijics to flee.

I see one of the female elf's eyes go wide, as she tries to teleport, and grin at her. "We're not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with us."

"Kill them!" The elven man screams now that the situation has flipped in our favor, and all hell breaks loose.

The moment the first syllable leaves his mouth I slam my hand into the ground and unleash a rune enhanced torrent of lightning that bolts around the entire area. Every bolt repeatedly bounces off of walls and redirects towards the psijics, leaving Svar, Serana, and I unharmed. The psijics are forced to dodge, and divert the majority of their attention to the lightning in order to refrain from getting hit.

Serana claps her hand together, and I sense her pulling at the monk's souls. They try to work their magic, but Serana alters the nature of their very souls, preventing them from completing any casting they attempt.

While I force the psijics to watch the lightning, and Serana fucks with their very being, Svar goes on rampage.

Her saber comes to life as she dashes across the distance to the psijic that was speaking, and brings her blade down towards him.

He tries to shift time, but Serana yanks on his soul, and he abandons his casting with a gasp in favor of fighting off Serana's attack. An action that gives Svar an opening.

She rams the lightsaber into the monk's head, and drives it through to the hilt. She then twists the blade around his head, and the top of his head and the majority of his brain falls free of his body.

Seeing the shock on one of the psijics to my right, I use the lightning in the area to disguise a bolt teleport behind her and sink my fangs into her neck. I drain her quickly, and drop the husk.

You have drained a powerful creature!

Vampiric ability [King] added!

King

Lesser undead will heed your orders. Should they resist, you are able to force them into compliance. You must be stronger than their current master for this ability to work.

Temporal magic affinity gained!

I liked that. I liked that a lot.

I turn back to the chaos and take it in.

Svar has moved away from the leader, and is standing over two other dismembered mages. Serana is holding one by his temples, and sucking his soul out through his head.

Didn't know that was a thing you could do with soul magic, I'll have to look into it later.

I pull out Yamato, and turn to a group of three mages that have banded together. They all have their hands facing out towards Svar, and are holding her at bay with their magic. It's taking all of Svar's power to keep from being caught in the temporal freeze once more.

I send a ranged slice from Yamato's blade towards the mages, and their legs come off. They fall to the ground screaming.

One tries to recover, but Svar and I are already on them.

She crushes one's head with her foot, and dices another with her saber while I drain the third.

You have drained a powerful creature!

Vampiric from [Owl] unlocked!

Perk [My Time] added!

My Time

Any temporal magic you cast is 30% more effective

I turn back to the rest of the room with my fangs bared.

I see Serana holding the shriveled corpse of an elf she just drained, which she drops.

Svar, Serana, and I are all perfectly fine, and there's only one psijic remaining.

She panics, and throws a mass of spells at us, but I deflect them all with wards while Serana yanks on the woman's soul.

The monk stumbles, and falls to her knees. She looks up at us in abject terror. "Please…" She starts to say before Svar interrupts her.

"RII VAAZ ZOL!" A wave of lilac energy emerges from Svar and swallows the pleading psijic.

The psijic screams in agony as I feel her soul ripped from her body. It flows out of her, and follows the energy back to Svar. It's different from when she absorbs a dragon soul, but it's a similar enough effect as I watch Svar absorb the psijic's soul.

She lets out a satisfied sigh, and holds her hand up. There's a bright white energy dancing between her fingers. She holds her hand up, and waves it in front of her.

The time stop effect left behind by the now dead mages falls at her command.

"Impressive." Serana says as she studies Svar. "I take it you learned that from Durnheviir?"

Svar grins at her and nods as her scales fade back into skin. "Yeah, now I can drain just about anything's power. Not just a dragon's."

"I'm guessing you got access to their time magic." I say. "I got the same from the ones I drained." I hold up a hand with the same white light, though mine is fainter. It might be that stealing a soul is more pure than stealing their blood. Or it's Dovahkiin bullshit. Either are likely.

Serana nods, and holds up a hand with the same energy. "I did as well. It is a shame my mother was not here to partake."

Thinking quickly, I inventory all the bodies. I turn to Serana. "Now there's a chance she'll be able to get something from the ones who still had blood."

She nods. "Thank you. Now, may we continue? I'd prefer to leave this place before they send more."

I nod, and the three of us begin double timing it through the ruin.

I really don't want to get jumped by more psijics.

We move through more chambers, and kill more ghosts and draugr, before we all stop when we feel the presence of a great power.

"We're here." I say as I stare at the door in front of us.

"Do you have any advice for how we should approach this enemy?" Serana asks.

I shrug. "I'm going to drain all of his protections with the Staff, you two take him down. It should be pretty simple from there."

Svar nods. "Let's do it."

I draw Yamato in one hand, and the Staff in another.

"Go." I say as I cut the door open.

The three of us storm in, and see a draugr staring up at a large floating sphere with blue mana pouring off it.

The Eye of Magnus

Divine Item

A creation of unending mana made by Magnus, the God of Magic.

Has a variety of uses

Jyrik Gaulderson

One of Three

Tier- ???

HP- ???

Thoughts about you- ???

Hello asshole.

I don't give him a chance. The moment I see him, I'm already draining him with the Staff.

He howls in pain, and tries to turn towards me, but Svar takes his legs off with her lightsaber as Serana grabs his head and begins to destroy his soul.

I almost feel bad for the guy. One moment, he's just beholding the beauty of the Eye, then he's on the ground, his magic is gone, and his soul is being torn to shreds.

I keep the Staff on him, and Svar keeps cutting him apart. Before long, he's gone.

Rather anticlimactic after that last fight.

Quest Complete!

[The Eye of Magnus]

You need powerful artifacts, and there are few stronger than The Eye of Magnus!

Objective- Journey to Saarthal and retrieve the Eye of Magnus(Complete)

Bonus Objective- Confront the Psijics(Complete)

Bonus Objective- Resolve your issues with Psijics peacefully(Failed)

Bonus Objective- Kill Jyrik Gaulderson(Complete)

Rewards- The Eye of Magnus, 2 Gacha coins, The Amulet of Saarthal

Bonus Rewards- [Mageslayer] perk, 3 Gacha Coins

Mageslayer

You deal 30% more damage, and take 30% less damage from mages

Level up x37

Dusk the Master of the Storm

Level- 435

Class- Rune Caster - LVL 38/100 [47%]

Crafting Class- Golem Crafting 50/50 [0%]

Race- Vampire Lord

Tier- Immortal

Alignment- True Neutral

HP- 22020 [13212 per minute]

MP- 49100 [36825 per minute]

SP- 22020 [13212 per minute]

STR- 1174

END- 1101

DEX - 1562

INT - 2455

WIS - 2455

CHA - 1150

LUK - 1000

MP Regen= WIS x 15

MP= INT x 20

SP/Health Regen= END x 12

SP/HP= END x 20

"Well, that's done. Are we ready to go home?" I ask.

Both Svar and Serana nod, so after grabbing Jyrik's staff from the table, as well as his Gaulder fragment, I begin working on my teleportation rune.

This time, I pull mana directly from the Eye, and as a result, I'm finished in a minute. There's a bright flash of blue light, and we and the Eye appear in a room I had scouted out before we left. The Eye floats with plenty of room, and the three of us look up at it.

"Gotta admit," Svar starts. "I wasn't expecting much, but this is worth it."

"In contrast, I expected quite a lot, and it delivered." Serana says.

A shadow falls out of the wall and forms into Valerica. "You were successful." She observes as she joins us at the Eye. "It is most impressive."

Before I forget, I pull two blood filled corpses from my inventory and throw them to her.

She easily catches one in each hand, and her eyes go wide when she sees their robes. "Psijics?" She asks. "Were they after the Eye?" She sinks her fangs into the first and quickly drains it.

"As far as I could tell, I did something they didn't like." I say. "They wanted me dead, but Svar and Serana had something to say about that."

Valerica finishes draining the corpses, and holds up her hand. There's a very faint white glow of magic that is by far the weakest of us, but she still has a smile on her face. "I thank you for this, and I apologize that I was not there."

I wave her off. "It's fine. Just let us know what you learn from those two creatures Svar and I made.

She nods. "I will. Speaking of them, I must get back." She turns into a shadow and flows back into the wall.

I turn to Svar and Serana. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm mentally exhausted. Sleep?"

Serana nods. "That is agreeable."

"No."

Serana and I turn to Svar.

She looks between us, then says. "Follow me." She walks from the room.

Serana and I share a look, before we follow after her.

Svar leads us through the halls until we're back in our bedroom.

I raise an eyebrow. "Svar, didn't you just say no to sleep?"

She turns around and faces us. She has an expression on her face I've never quite seen before. "I'm sick of worrying about when we'll next have to fight something that wants one or all of us dead. I talked to Paarthurnax about how much I'm worrying, and he made a suggestion."

"Ok, and this suggestion was?" I ask curiously.

"Dusk." Serana says. "Stop talking."

I turn to her with a raised eyebrow, and see her expression similar to Svar's.

Ok, I'm definitely missing something here.

Serana steps towards Svar, and caresses Svar's face with the back of her hand. "I have been patient dragon, but that patience was running out." Serana growls.

Svar grins at her. "I had to be sure my nature was in check, and it is now." She reaches a hand up behind Serana's head and pulls her in for a kiss.

I enjoy the show, then realize what's happening as Serana uses her magic to pull her robes and armor off.

Oh. I'm as dense as a goddamn neutron star.

Svar uses her magic to take her own armor off, and both women turn to me.

"Are you coming Dusk?" Svar asks teasingly.

In answer, I just inventory my gear.

I'm about to get laid.