Morning came quickly after I was able to properly distract myself with the Destruction spell list on the book. I had just given it a cursory glance before, but now that I fully immersed myself in it I noticed just how many incredibly powerful spells there were.
There was a spell that made the fire sticky and burn much longer. Most fire spells were AoE type spells, while Ice and lightning were both singular target and AoE.
Lightning spears, bouncing balls of lightning, lightning whips and even liquid pools of lightning, but the last one was an Expert class spell. I honestly can't wait to use that because it just sounds so powerful! Lightning still erases the Mana from others with each hit, so just imagine being dropped inside a pool of liquid lightning. Your Mana would be gone in seconds.
Restoration magic also had similar spells to Destruction magic. There was the Sunfire cloak, that harms all undead and vampires close to you, and there was the Restoration cloak, which would heal you and those besides you over time. It's not as good as the Restoration Spells of higher levels, but if multiple people put it on at the same time while healing patients then the effects would be much greater, allowing for quicker and better healing.
There was also the Ward Shield spell, which basically creates a spherical ward around you that persists for a certain amount of time, or until it's hit by a powerful spell and broken. It acts like a Ward spell, but it also protects your back and sides. In my opinion, the Ward Shield is much better than the normal Ward spell, mostly because you could maybe layer them over each other for more protection.
Anyway, after the first rays of light started appearing, I went to take a bath into the cool river, then came back just as Aurash woke up. As she went to the river to do her things, I pulled out the still very warm pot of food I stole from the mine and placed it on the fire just to keep it warm until she came back. While also drinking some of the very delicious soup. The bandit that cooked this should really have gone after a cooking profession. If everything is this delicious, then i can't wait to taste all kinds of foods in this world! I hope I don't get fat from that though.
"Did you even go to sleep tonight?" Aurash voice makes me perk up, seeing her coming back from the river while tying her hair in a ponytail. I don't think she took a bath since the river must be freezing for others, she probably just washed up.
"I can go a long while without sleeping, don't worry. Not like I would have slept much tonight." I shrugged while I gathered some soup inside the wooden cups I had grabbed at the mine, and offered one to her, trying my best to ignore her worried frown. It's not the first time I pulled all nighters, I can handle going another full day without sleep. Besides, I am not physically tired, but mentally, and Gamer's Mind helps me ignore that. I wonder if it helps with nightmares too.
"Don't push yourself too hard." She told me with a very pointed look that promised pain if I went against what she said. What a demanding woman. I could only nod nervously at her intense look, and relaxed when she grabbed her own cup and downed it in one go.
I covered my face with the cup when her gaze slowly rose behind me, one of her eyebrows going up in amusement at what she was looking at.
I mean, sitting on the ground with rocks and all is kinda annoying, so I may or may not have grown a tree and turned the branches into a very comfy couch full of leaves. At least it allowed me to find out how strong my Plant and Growth Manipulation skills are. News flash, thanks to the Mage Stone blessing I can make a large tree sprout in less than ten seconds, and it had barely any Mana cost. This will help a lot in the long run.
"What do you think it's going to be inside that crypt?" I ask her to draw her eyes away from the tree, and because she could know what we might end up facing inside there. I'm not too worried since I can use Sunfire, but I still have this feeling that something powerful is inside that massive temple. I don't think it's a Dragon Priest, but seeing how much Skyrim changed I am not too sure about it. Let's hope not.
"Depends." Aurash shrugged, stopping to drink another cup of soup before continuing, "There's definitely going to be draugrs, a lot of them. Maybe even more skeletons, but those thing crumble easily. We may encounter Shades, floating pitch black skeletons, they usually use bows and can take a few hits, but they are very weak to magic." She paused again, tapping her fingers against her cup as she hummed in thought while looking towards the mountain, "And since it's cold up there, we might run into ogres, both outside and inside the crypt. Big, fat and mean fuckers, don't let their blood touch you as it's hot as hell." Another new monster, Ogres. I should really just get used to it and accept the fact that I may run into mythological beasts too. That's a terrifying thought.
"As for what might be at the end of the crypt? Lots of treasures guarded by either a Draugr Lord, big draugr in armour, or if our luck is shitty? A Wight, undead necromancer. They aren't that strong, but they have hundreds of skeletons buried with them and that can be problematic." I just groaned and downed my cup of soup, hopefully I'll level up enough that anything we encounter won't be a problem. The one thing I hate the most is the fact that I still haven unlocked any new skill for my Druid Job even after I reached level five, it's annoying honestly. At least I can rely on my other magic spells.
We soon finished the soup, and after turning off the fire we finally set off towards the mountain. We were already by the road leading towards the peak, so all we had to do was just follow the road. Big Smoke would approve.
I pulled out the cloak and threw it around me just in case, I'd rather not risk anything even though I still am barefoot. I'll put trust in my Title.
Still, I can't help but be nervous! First time going to a crypt, full of unknown dangers and treasures and whatnot! Good thing I came up with a more powerful fighting style than my simple whip!
"You know…" Aurash speaks up, and I turn towards her while still psyching myself up. I may or may not be swinging my fists like a clumsy boxer while bouncing on my toes. "I can tell you are nervous. Y-you're ears bounce up and down when you are." She snorts, covering her mouth to try and not to laugh while pointing a finger towards my long ears.
I blink and focus on them, and I can actually feel them bounce and tremble! I mean, I was able to make them bounce already in my previous body, but right now they pretty much show if I am nervous or not! This is kinda cute, but it's so embarrassing too!
I give a vicious pouting glare towards Aurash, but she just laughs harder at me and I can't help but groan. She is going to be teasing me a lot isn't she?
I was about to say something, but the sound of heavy footsteps made me instantly pull out an arm-long cylindrical staff of wood that fit perfectly in my hands.
I quick glance around told me that we were a third of the way to the top, and while the mountain didn't change much from the game, maybe it was just a bit higher, it was definitely larger. It did not have any trees in the game, I remember that much, but now there are quite a lot of them, and some were already covered in snow, but they offered a great deal of cover for anything that might want to sneak up on us.
Not like this thing could get any cover. I stared wide eyes as a very large and fat creatures stomps towards us. It had long bulky arms that almost reached the ground, large pointed ears, a bald head, a mouth full of sharp fangs and a nose that resembled a pig. It's skin was a dark blue, with the belly being more of a sky blue. I presume this is an ogre then?
Without a care, I swung my staff to the side as the large ogre, bigger and larger than Aurash, stomped into the clearing. Roots instantly sprouted from the staff, growing into the thickness of my wrist and moving like tentacles. The dozen plus tentacles sprouted large hooked thorns that were incredibly sharp and wrapped themselves around the ogre with a single thought of mine, then lashed out and tore the large creature skin off alongside his throat, releasing a shower of sizzling blackish blue blood. Damn, I could feel the heat of the blood all the way from here!
The ogre dropped dead a second later, and the roots that I sprouted from the staff dried at the base and crumbled off, giving me back the original staff. It's a good thing that I tested out the Growth Manipulation skill during the night. While I can make living things bigger, I can also make them age faster, which is crazy. I don't know if it works on human beings and other species, but I won't go out of my way to test it out as that would be far too inhumane.
I decided to switch from vine whips to wood whips because the difference is quite large. During the night, I tried to make saplings and maybe even a tree sprout form vines, but all I could bring out were just the thorns or more vines. So I changed to wood as it's more durable than the vines, as even I can tear them apart with my noodle arms, while I can't do the same with wood obviously. Besides, I can sprout a literal tree from one of the many wooden tentacles and just drop it on any target I can't kill with my thorns, which might I say are very sharp and covered in wooden barks so that they can tear more flesh off. Very gruesome, and maybe painful, unless I can tear their throat off too. I feel disgusted with myself just thinking these things but I brush it off and put away my wooden staff.
"That's brutal." Aurash muses before shrugging, throwing a glance around to see if any of these fat fuckers are around. It didn't even say anything, or roared, or whatever, it just charged at us without a second thought.
"Keep your guard up, that was just a scout." My eyes widen at her words, and I instantly bring out the staff again as she pulls out her greatsword. Thankfully I have her around, I'm just too inexperienced at this shit! Besides, did these fuckers seriously send one of their own to die just to observe us?!
"They always send the weakest and dumbest forward, watch how their targets reacts, and then wait for the right time to ambush." She explained, and my gaze burned holes through the trees. Hell, there weren't even that many trees as I could see that it ended before a large rock wall. Question is, how are these large fat fuckers hiding so perfectly from view?
"Any weaknesses I should be made ware of just in case?" I hummed, eyes narrowing as I heard a stomp, and then another. Why can't I see them?!
"Fire barely hurts them, and Ice helps them cool down as they have very hot blood. Electricity does hurt them, but it's best if you use your staff." Yeah, that's a good idea. I can tie them up and just slit their throats without a problem, but they are somehow hiding from our sight.
I clutched my staff tightly in one hand, eyes narrowed towards the trees. And then I saw it. It looked like the air distorted, akin to when you look above a fire and see those waves that distort what's behind them. It was barely a second, but it was very close, right at the edge of the trees. The moment I glanced down and saw a slight large footprint on the little bit of snow on the ground instantly lashed out. Wooden whips exploded out of my staff and impacted against something, and that something instantly became visible as my whips dug into it's blue skin and slashed at his flesh.
It was obviously an ogre, and the moment he became visible, four more of them appeared right after. One was right beside the first, and I instantly sprouted more wooden whips from the previous ones to entangle it. It tried to resist but was quickly tied up in seconds, causing the barbed thorns to dig into it's flesh and tear it off without a problem.
There were two more ogres behind them, and one of them had an old looking staff with a gem at the top. So that's how they became invisible, a staff that can cast a sort of invisibility spell over a large area. And since they were moving slowly towards us, it means that fast movements might cause the spell to break.
The other ogre, the one without the staff, released a battle cry and charged at us, only for Aurash to split it's head in two with her greatsword, while I killed off the ogres that I tied up.
The one with the staff tried to run, but I grabbed one of It's legs with a root and made it trip down on the ground, then finished him off by tearing it's throat open too, spilling boiling blue blood all over the ground.
"This is weird…" Aurash muses, moving through the bodies and grabbing the old, very aged staff with a black gem on top. A black soul gem. They either got lucky and killed a mage with this staff, or they grabbed it from Bleak Falls Barrow. "Usually they move in groups of ten, or twenty, and are led by the smartest one. These guys were complete idiots even though their plan was quite good." She looked at the staff, then towards the crypt, and we shared a knowing look. Their group must have entered the crypt, and only five of them came out. I don't know how deep they went, but I doubt they grabbed anything other than the staff.
Still, this makes me even more nervous. If even a large group of these guys was reduced to just five, then what the hell is inside that crypt?
"Here, this thing might save our lives if we use it well." I nodded as Aurash threw me the staff, and I sent it into my inventory together with my other weapon.
"Should we grab the corpses too? Or are they useless?" I ask her, since she knows more than me about pretty much everything. Maybe some parts of their bodies can be exchanged for money or whatever.
"Well, their blood can be used to make a potion that increases physical strength, but I don't have enough space to carry more than one of their bo-…" Aurash paused and gaped at me as I tapped every single one of the corpses and sent them into my inventory, then gave her a very smug look as I walked past her. Pretty sure I got infinite space in my inventory, that would be incredibly useful.
"You're lucky that you're cute, else I would have thrown you off the mountain." I laughed as she walked up beside me, clearly grumbling about of her pocket dimension is too small. I mean, of course it is, she pretty much put everything we found in the bandit storage inside it.
Wait a second, did she say I'm cute?!
"Please, I'm beautiful." I say with a very prideful tone, throwing my long hair over my shoulder, eyes closed and a quivering smile. I snorted when I heard her groan loudly and face palm.
"By the Divines, you're becoming a Thalmor…" Aurash whined loudly, making me burst out laughing. Are those idiots really that prideful? I mean, of course they are. We're speaking about Thalmors here. They have the 'We are better than thou!' mentality since birth.
"Looks like we both hate them." I mused to myself. I noticed that when she mentioned the Thalmors, there was so much anger and hate in her eyes, and I can't help but wonder what spurred it. Was it perhaps related to her younger brother?
I decided to change the subject to distract her, not wanting her to be in a bad mood even though she is quite good at controlling her emotions. I asked her from where she is from, and I learned that she was born in Black Marsh, but grew up in Morrowind, and then moved to Cyrodiil five years ago. She had come to Skyrim to dive into the crypts, and was pleasantly surprised when she found out about the Daedric Dungeons yesterday. They do sound quite cool and terrifying.
I learned that she travelled around to learn from whatever good smith she could, and collect cool items for her collection. Said collection is either buried in Helgen or in the hands of the Imperials. And we both hope it's the first one.
"Say, at how much can we sell an enchanted weapon?" I asked her as I pulled out the staff and twirled it around. We had just walked by the Nordic Tower, and surprisingly it was empty. I had to remind myself that this isn't the game, and not everything is the same.
"Enchanted weapons always go for auction, and might sell at more than ten-thousand Septims. They are very rare after all, even if the enchantments on them are aged and might expire anytime." I furrowed my brows at that as I looked at the staff and poured my magic into it, letting the old wood grow full of vitality once more while making sure not to push my magic towards the gem at the top, else it activates the enchanted spell on it and waste it.
I narrowed my eyes and bought the staff closer to my face when I saw something move along the surface of the staff. And sure enough, I can see very faint light purple runes move around.
Invisibility. Cloak. Sphere, and Five.
Even though they are from a seemingly different language than the one on the books, I can somehow still read it.
Is this how enchantments work? You write out a spell or an effect, the type of way you want to manifest it, if you want the spell to target yourself only or instead have it target a large area, and maybe either the number of targets or maybe the diameter of the sphere, or whatever. I'll have to read the enchanting book once we are done with the crypt.
"Are enchanted weapons that hard to make?" I ask Aurash as I throw the staff back into my inventory and take out my weapon, the staircase that leads up to the temple entrance was close. I just noticed that I am walking barefoot on the snow and I don't feel it, I actually don't even feel the cold. Gotta thank my title for that.
"It's not that they are hard to make, but that no one can make them." Oh for fuck's sake. Wait, is it because no one can understand the runes? I can read them so maybe I can write a translation for each rune, a sort of alphabet. Actually no, I'll keep that to myself, this knowledge might spark terrifying conflict and cause even more death. More powerful weapons means more destruction and death, and doesn't Alduin grow stronger the more death there is?
Not like that big ass motherfucker fucking needs it. How are we even going to deal with something of that size!?
I decide to keep my knowledge about the runes a secret for now, I'll tell Aurash later, for now, it's crypt diving time.
We reached the stairs and walked up, the layout of the outside being exactly the same as in the game, just much bigger. I feel like an ant in front of these structures. Then my gaze landed on the slightly open giant doors that lead inside the temple.
"Yeah, those ogres were definitely here." Aurash states as she pulls out her greatsword, clearly on guard for anything that might come out or is inside.
The doors were open enough for the both of us to peek in, and thanks to the light coming from a large hole in the ceiling we could see the absolute massacre that was beyond the door.
Corpses everywhere, ogres, humans, draugrs and pitch black wolves. There were scorch marks here and there, and on several corpses too. Severed limbs, blood and a couple of heads.
I threw a look around and could see at least two dozen graves, both standing or laying down, and all of them are open. I presume that the bandits came in first, woke up the draugrs and were attacked by these wolves that might have been residing here. The ogres came in during the fighting and everything was chaos at that point, everyone fought against everything. Some of the ogres won and gained a staff from that altar right in the middle of the hall probably, and then left, afraid of what might be further down.
Some of the ogres here are even bigger than those we met some time ago, and a few of them even have some sort of armour around their arms and head, marking them as the stronger ones probably. But the draugrs were stronger, I can see traces of Lightning, Ice and Fire being thrown around, together with arrows.
I bit my lip in anger at seeing all these dead wolves, the smaller ones weren't even anywhere near the fight, but some fuckers still decided to kill them!
"This either happened yesterday or some hours ago, the ogres blood is cold. And the snow outside had no footprints." I nodded my head at Aurash's words, going around and throwing the large bodies of the ogres inside my inventory while also gathering all the weapons in one place just in case. Aurash might want to check them out too.
I walk around the bandit corpses and finally stumble on one with a sack covered in blood. I crouch down and open the sack, and my eyes widen as I pull out the Golden Claw from inside it. Is this dude the thief, like in the game? I don't remember if he was a dark elf, but I do remember that he wasn't with the bandit group that you run into at the temple.
I shrug and throw the golden claw in my inventory, and after checking out the rest of the bag I stand up and walk towards the altar.
It was covered in dust, and had a few books on it but they all crumbled when touched. The staff was definitely placed here as there is a pair of hooks facing upward that were probably holding it. I wonder why such a weak staff was placed here though, the spell is not that useful in my opinion but maybe it has to be used inside the crypt.
As I was turning towards Aurash I catch some movements out of the corner of my eyes, making me call upon both Flames and Sparks as I walked in the general direction of where I saw it.
There was something hiding behind a coffin, something small. I blinked at the thought and my eyes flashed towards the wolf cubs that had been killed. My magic vanishes as I crouch down while looking towards the coffin, hoping that at least one of the cubs survived.
I didn't have to wait long as a small head peeked around the corner, whimpering at the sight of me but not drawing back. It was a little cub, with pitch black fur and bright, almost glowing red eyes. She looked to be around four months old, small enough that she could still be carried but big enough that she was the size of my torso.
"Come here cutie, don't be afraid…" I wagged my fingers as I slowly leaned my palm out, my eyes stinging with unshed tears at her whimpers and cries. The moment I laid my eyes on her I could tell she was a girl, and that she was hurt, so I almost begged her to come closer so that I could heal her. Hopefully the Healing spell works on others too.
She whimpered again, but limped around the corner while her tail quickly wagged left and right on the ground, clearly very scared. My Title was perfect for this, as it made her trust me and slowly approach me, making me notice a large cut over her right side that reached her right front leg. How did she survive so long with a cut that large? God, she must have been so cold and scared!
Her cold nose pressed against my fingers and she started licking them, and her fear soon vanished when I started scratching her chin and ears, but her whimpering and soft cries did not stop.
I gently cradled her in my arms, activating Healing in both hands, and then placed them above her cut before activating the spell. I released a sigh of relief when her cut started closing at a rapid pace, making her pained whimpers fade away into tiny sobs as she licked my left arm and neck.
"It's okay sweetheart." I kissed her head as her cut fully closed and fur grew back over it, her side going back to normal. It wasn't very deep luckily, else she wouldn't have survived.
I laughed when she started licking my chin and face, releasing cute happy whimpers as her tail wagged excitedly. She is so cute! I am definitely going to keep her. No questions asked.
"You know…" I jolted at Aurash voice, whom was staring at me amusement, which grew when the little girl in my arms started barking at her. "This would've been cute, if what you're holding wasn't a Hellhound." A Hellhound? This cutie in my arms?
I hold her out and we stare at each other, her tail still wagging happily as she gave a few cute barks. Yep, I'm keeping her.
"What's so different between wolves and Hellhounds?" I asked Aurash as I pulled the cute pup back into my embrace, much to her delight. I do know what Hellhounds are, I just can't remember what is it that they can do. Spit fire, maybe?
"Hellhounds are a type of monster that look like wolves but can use magic. When they are young, at most they can spit out explosive fire balls. But when they grow into adults and reach their peak…" Aurash visibly shivered, and I wonder how something so cute and grow into something terrifying. I mean, come on. "Adult Hellounds are the size of a horse, Elder Hellhounds, those that have lived more than a hundred years, can be as big as a house." Oh damn. So this cutie can become a very big fluffy girl? More reason to keep her I guess.
"Elder Hellhounds are terrifying. Never met one luckily, but I heard that they can release literal seas of fire from their jaws. They can turn people into cinders and melt steel in seconds. Why am I even talking, you're still going to keep her aren't you?" Aurash grumbled and I gave her a huge grin, because it was totally true. I can't let this cute girl go, not after she became so attached to me. Maybe I can have her wait here while we explore the crypt so that she doesn't get hurt.
"Do you want to come with me?" I ask the cute little Hellhound, and the moment she gives a cute little bark I feel some sort of connection forming between the two of us. I can feel her emotions. The happiness of being held, the love she feels towards me, the fear of being left behind, and the anger she feels at being weak.
So this is what it feels like having a Pet. I have a connection with her, and I'm pretty sure she can feel my emotions too. This feels kinda nice for some reason.
"I… think I have an idea on how to make her stronger…" I hum aloud, making Aurash raise a brow as I mulled over the possibilities in my head. What if I use my Growth Manipulation on the pup? I know that it works on living beings but what if I fuck up? I could make her body age faster so that she can fight and help and won't need to be just scared and wait all alone. She does want to be strong, but am I willing to run the risk.
I gaze into her beautiful red orbs and smile at her adorable panting face. I'll be extremely careful and I'll stop the moment I feel something wrong. Besides, I won't focus on a single part, but the whole body.
I kneeled down and placed the pup on the ground in front of me, scratching her behind her ears to further calm her down while also calming myself down too. I already have a name in mind for her, but let's hold it until I am done with her.
"I'm going to try something, and she might be very hungry later, so could you bring out some of the meat that Hadvar gave us?" Aurash furrowed her brows, she was confused but did what I asked either way. I gave her a grateful smile, took a deep breath, and then closed my eyes.
The only things I think about when I use my Growth Manipulation skill are simple: Grow longer, grow thicker, grow thorns, grow hooks. Simple and easy commands that take effect almost instantly.
So I decide to do the same while focusing on her, and the changes happened instantly. I felt her go completely still as her body pulsed, then grew and grew. Her bones grew thicker, bigger and stronger as they enlarged and expanded. Her muscles followed next and I focused a lot on making her body, bones and muscles as strong as possible.
I could feel her organs, and I was extremely careful as I let them grow and keep them the constant right size. Her whole exoskeleton was growing, her flesh and fur doing the same as she grew longer, larger, bigger. I could tell that right now she could reach my waists by standing, but I wanted her to be bigger. I don't want to take any risks.
Her brain was the hardest part to take care of as I a simple mistake and everything is gone, had to make sure her skull was the right size too. And as I took care of her incredibly sharp and large fangs I noticed two sort of glands. They were growing alongside the rest of the body, and had some liquid inside them, not a lot of course. Could it be some sort of venom gland? Actually, could that liquid be very flammable? And the Hellhounds use magic to ignite it and release their flame attacks? That could possibly be it.
I'm surprised by how I can survey internal organs and stuff with this skill somehow. It's like a flashing mental image that change whenever I think of what to look at. It helps me keep things stable, but so far nothing went out of control or grew too much, just kept going at a steady pace.
I think she should be around two times bigger now? Probably reach my chest in height, which should be enough. I did a few quick check up everywhere that is important before cutting off the stream of Mana and turning off the skill.
I release a sigh and relax my shoulders, having pretty much used half my total Mana to do all of this. I honestly think it's worth it- oh dear.
I look up at the quite large wolf staring down at me with huge glowing red eyes. She is much, much bigger than I expected. What gives?
Ah, the Mage Stone blessing.
I turn towards Aurash with a very nervous look, and she was already staring at me with a very exasperated one. I mean, at least she is loves me, no?
I look back at the quite massive wolf. She starts panting and wagging her tail happily, sending dust flying everywhere while inching closer. Oh shit.
She gives me a lick. Like, almost a full body lick. Fuck.
"Alright, no more licks from you." I grumble as Aurash laughs in the background. I instantly feel bad when the massive wolf whimpers and gives me the most adorable look in the entire world. Yeah, I can't win. "Fine, but only my hands." And she instantly goes back to panting happily, then releases a bark that echoes around the entire hall and makes me jolt. That was loud.
I sigh and just accept the fact that I turned a pup into a big ass wolf two times bigger and longer than a damn horse. Just her head is more than half my body!
"What are you going to call this…" Aurash starts to ask, only to stop ad throw a glance in a certain direction before turning back towards me, "...Big girl?"
"I'll call her Fenrir." I answered, smiling as the now named Fenrir starts panting happily and looks at me with a gaze filled with so much love and happiness that I almost swoon. Hell, I could feel it from our bond, but she can be quite expressive somehow. "It was the name of a giant wolf whose rapid growth terrified the Gods to such a point that they tried to seal him, and succeeded on the third try. But in the end, he was able to get free, and managed to swallow and kill a god before his ultimate demise." I was a big fan of mythology, so of course when I have a big ass wolf as my pet I would name him or her Fenrir. Mostly because I also find the name very cool.
And because I did not have another good name in mind.
"Well, I'm not complaining, I don't mind having her around." She shrugged and turned towards the pile of weapons that I made, then turned back towards me with furrowed brows. "By the way, is she as strong as an Elder Hellhound now?" I blinked, then turned towards our new companion as I contemplated her question. Fenrir isn't the size of an Elder Hellhound, she is probably around the size of an Adult Hellhoun, or slightly bigger. Her body is very powerful, that's for sure. Her claws are incredibly sharp and her jaws can very likely chew through steel like it's paper. The only problem is that her total Mana capacity, while it has grown a fair bit, it's still little. It should grow quickly thought, but of course, it will take some time.
"Her body most definitely is, but I don't know if she can use her magic just yet to use the flame blasts you told me about. Her mentality is still that of a puppy, and she needs time to grow smarter, I can't do anything about that." I say as I start scratching behind Fenrir right ear, smiling as one of her rear paws starts kicking, pointing out that this is one of her weak spots. I grab the four pieces of meat that Aurash pulled out and gave them to Fenrir. She didn't seem that hungry even after growing so much, and I think that's because the growth was fuelled by magic. She still happily munched on that large deer's leg though, crunching the bones under her new and powerful jaws.
I walked beside her, scratching her sides as I estimated just how big she became. She probably is around five meters long and tall, which is quite massive honestly. I hope the crypt is large enough to handle her moving around, but I can just pull her into my Pet Space in case she can't go through something, or a room is too small for her.
I walk to the other end of the large hall, which is far bigger and different that the one in the game, and towards the tunnel leading downward, filled with webs and draugrs. I can just burn through the webs- wait a second.
A hiss comes from the bony white corpses on the ground as they all stand up. There's at least a dozen of them, maybe more, and they are all wearing armour and have either axes or swords in their hands. Why are there so many of these guys here?
"Aurash, we got company!" I call out, my hands being coated in Sunfire as I step back. I really need to test out how effective Sunfire is on these guys, so I know if I should use it or it's a waste of Mana. And I should really check my level after this, because I don't get notification I forget that I am a Gamer. I hope I at least get some new fucking skills though! They might become useful in this crypt.
Aurash immediately springs up and rushes towards me as one of the draugrs comes into view, only to be set on fire by a stream of Sunfire. My eyes widened as his body rapidly turned into glowing ashes, then grinned. Yep, Sunfire is very powerful against these weak draugrs!
Three more soon rush into the hall, and one of them is kicked back down the tunnel by Aurash while I quickly turn the other two to ashes. They are followed by a fourth one, unharmed, who runs straight towards me, only for a massive paw to painfully slam the poor dude into the ground hard enough that cracks appeared all around the impact area.
"Thank you Fenrir!" Said massive Hellhound releases a happy bark as I burn the draugr she turned into a pancake to ashes, just to be sure.
Five more draugrs come in at the same time, and one of them has their head turned into powder by Aurash's fist. Are they that fragile or is she that strong? I'm leaning towards both.
I turn two more into ashes while Fenrir bites one in half, only to spit it out and shake her head in disgust. Turned the corpse to ashes and then joined Aurash as she kicked the last draugr down the tunnel. Isn't this the same guy she kicked down the tunnel before?
"Having fun?" I ask, noticing her grin. How violent. Give her Fus Ro Dah and she might just abuse this poor draugr even more. I mean, I did the same too in the game. But this is real life… but it's still kinda funny.
"I don't know why, but I love beating up draugrs! I once beat one to death using another draugr as a weapon!" This woman is a menace! And for some reason I can totally see her just grabbing a draugr by the legs and swinging it towards the others.
I just shake my head as the draugr comes into view again, then turn my attention towards my Status.
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 9/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (3)
Restoration (3)
Enchanting (1)]
A four level increase in my job and a two level increase in my Restoration skill, wonderful. Still no new skills though, which means that I might get them each ten levels. This could be annoying, but I hope said skills are at least powerful enough to be worth the wait.
Fenrir large nose pokes my cheek, drawing my attention to her and making me smile. I cuddle her large head and give her a few scratches before Aurash finally finishes off the draugr. Poor guy suffered a lot.
I turned the remaining corpses to ashes, then I went to do the same to the other corpses in the hall just to be safe. I can't do anything about the bandits dead bodies, so I'll just leave them there. Hopefully no necromancer will walk by here. At least I took away the bodies of the ogres.
After I'm done burning the draugrs bodies to ashes, we finally walk down the long tunnel, and thankfully Fenrir fits in it, albeit she almost touches the ceiling.
The tunnel was filled with dust, webs and even some shelves filled with books that just crumble at the touch. There were even some jars here and there, but nothing inside them other than dust.
There were hundreds of roots and dead ends, and I soon had to set fire to a long stick to light up our way. This place was so quiet, and it was giving me the chills.
After several minutes, many turns and dead ends, we finally found and walked through a large pair of doors that led into a very dark room.
Aurash grabbed my torch and walked to the left side of the door, where there was a small hole inside the wall. She pushed the torch inside, then pulled it out. I was about to ask her what she was doing, but then several large fires lit up all around the very large room, lighting it up.
At the other end of the room was a familiar gate, and right below the ceiling, exactly above the gate, there were three very familiar stones with images placed on them. A lever five meter in front of the gate with very well hidden small holes pointed right towards it all around said gate.
There were wooden stairs right beside the gates and beside our door, leading to a second floor where the gate keys should be. We just have to turn them into the right order and then we can go through.
But of course, the corpses inside the dozens of graves placed around the room have to come out no?
I glanced at the second floor and saw quite a few skeletons come into view too. This might be a little troublesome.
Fenrir growled at the approaching mob of draugrs as Aurash took out her greatsword. Taking these guys out would be easy, but the skeletons all have bows with them, and there might be more draugrs on the second floor too, they might come from behind us.
"Aurash, I'll take care of the second floor! Fenrir, stay here and help her out!" I turned around and bolted up the stairs, receiving a loud bark from Fenrir as she shot forward, her paws stomping heavily on the ground. With her down there, Aurash won't have a problem, I'll just need to take care of the archers.
I clicked my tongue and threw my cloak inside my inventory when I saw several Draugrs up here too. My left hand lit up with Sunfire while my staff appeared in my right hand.
I ran forward and swung my staff, wooden whips instantly grew out of it and stretched out and tripped the three draugrs charging at me. I threw a glance behind me and saw no one, it was a dead end with one of the puzzle keys for the gate. I flipped back around and sprayed Sunfire on the draugrs I tripped, setting them on fire and turn into glowing ash.
I ran past their remains, decayed the wooden whips I created and sprouted new ones, then swung them again, destroying the skeletons archers I ran by while spraying Sunfire towards them, turning their flying bones into ashes. The good thing is that they didn't reform after crumbling.
A much bigger draugr than normal came into view right around the corner above the gates, and this one took longer to turn into ashes and would have got me if I didn't trip him with the roots.
I threw a glance down at the first floor and bit my lip in anger at seeing a few arrows sticking out of Fenrir's fur, but I quelled it by telling myself that I can heal her over and over again. At least they had killed more than half of their draugrs.
Pain suddenly erupted from my leg and a short cry escaped me as I painfully fell down on the ground. I faintly heard Aurash shout of worry, followed by Fenrir's enraged howl and an explosion.
I rose my head up at the sound of heavy stomping, and instantly rolled to the side as a large war axe slammed right where I was, sending sparks and small pieces of stone flying. I bit my lips from the pain in my legs, definitely an arrow, but ignored it and reached out with my hand and grabbed the leg of the draugrs, then set it on fire with Sunfire.
My staff escaped from my grip when I fell on the ground, so I reached down with my free hand and pulled the arrow out of my leg, then used Healing right after.
It fucking hurts so bad!
My eyes were stinging with tears from the pain and fear, but I took a deep breath as Gamer's Mind helped me remain focused and not freak out. My wound wasn't fully healed yet but I threw myself on my feet, just to see four more draugrs running straight at me! Just how many of these fuckers are there?!
I was about to throw more Sunfire at them, but my eyes widened when Fenrir huge head pushed through the opening of the second floor, snapped her jaw shut around the four draugrs and then pulled back as embers poured out from the crack between her teeth.
I absolutely love you Fenrir!
The happiness and worry that I felt pouring through our bond made me smile as I ran forward to take out the remaining skeletons, only for two huge arms to pull me into a tight embrace and for my face to be smashed into two very large and soft orbs. I just got a faceful of tiddies! This made being shot with an arrow worth it. Should I get shot with arrows more often?
No wait, bad Flora!
"By the Divines, you had me worried to death, girl…" Aurash sighed as she pulled me back from her mega tits and inspected me with a worried look.
I felt my eyes sting with more tears but I just shook my head to drive them away.
It's been so long since someone cared about me. Didn't know it felt so nice.
"It's okay, it was just an arrow to the knee." And ain't that common in Skyrim. I pulled back and finished healing my leg, then healed the several cuts all over her body and the two arrow holes on her right leg.
A bark drew my attention to the balcony, where Fenrir's head was staring at us while panting happily, flames flickering around her mouth. I gave her a huge hug as my heartbeat calmed down from the panic and fear of death. This was a very close call, I shouldn't get distracted when there are so many enemies around.
"I'm sorry, we shouldn't have come here. We can still leave though." Aurash sighs from beside me, but I just shake my head as I give Fenrir a few scratches, then tell her to go and lay down and wait for me. I need to heal her after all.
"It's okay. If we didn't come here I wouldn't have found Fenrir." I nod towards said Hellhound, whom barked happily from where she was. At least she wasn't crying in pain, else I'd be running down there immediately. "Besides, I have to get used to these things. This place is in the middle of the war, you never know when they force you to take a side." I just shrug and walk back, quickly finding my short staff and throwing it in my inventory, then coat my hands in Sunfire, ready to turn the other bodies to ashes.
"You are trying to cope with your fears by keeping yourself busy, aren't you?" I freeze at Aurash words, my hands clenching slightly as I take a deep breath. I hate that it's so true, and I hate that someone that I just met yesterday can instantly tell my coping mechanism for pretty much everything.
I was scared of something? I either ran away or distracted myself by doing other things until it went away, or until I am was forced to take care of it.
I had to go outside to do errands? I gave myself excuses to busy myself so that I don't go out. It's actually quite funny. I was so afraid of the outside world, and then I was thrown into one filled with magical beings, literal gods and monsters. Compared to this place, my home world was all sunshine and rainbows
I am scared of anything and everything. Of meeting new people, of being looked at, of talking, of going outside. Yet, I am very good at hiding those when I need to. I'm a master at hiding my emotions and putting on a perfect poker face.
And yet, Aurash is able to read me like a book somehow. That's both irritating and comforting. It feels like I can confide in her, and rely on her.
I'm a coward, and I hate it. The only reason I am holding on right now is because if I don't, then I die. And I have Gamer's Mind to help me alongside my coping mechanism.
But maybe, just maybe, I don't have to rely on some stupid game power. I can use Gamer's Mind to grow mentally, so that I can stop being a constantly terrified little girl and grow into a woman that can be relied upon.
Aurash soon pulls me into another hug, and I don't hesitate to hug back, releasing a shaky breath and taking in a deep one.
I pull back after a bit and take in another deep breath, and give Aurash a smile. She truly is reliable.
"Come on, I'll get rid of the corpses, you open the gates." I point my thumbs at the three sided pillar stone behind and she nods her head. She gives me a smile and a pat on the head before walking past me, making me pout.
I'm not a kid that needs head pats… even though it felt nice.
I shake my head and run around, spraying Sunfire on all the remaining corpses on the second floor before going down at the main lobby, which had definitely seen better days.
There was a large area charred black with several burned corpses. I remember hearing an explosion after I was hit by the arrow, was this the spot where the explosion happened?
This is definitely Fenrir's doing. I guess she learned how to use her magic. I smile when I receive a happy bark from said large Hellhound, which made me quicken my pace and turn the rest of the corpses into glowing ashes, then rush to her side. I frown as I see more than five arrows on her body, but surprisingly, some of them didn't even go that deep inside as some were hanging by the tip.
I still carefully pull them out and heal the wounds, then take care of her paws were there were several cuts left by the draugrs with weapons as she was too big. At least her wounds aren't that deep. It took a bit to heal her since Healing acts only over the area used on, not the whole body, but it at least gave Aurash the chance to spin all the three sides pillars into the hopefully correct place.
"Was it Fish, Snake, Snake?" I take that back. I glance up at the stone with the images on them, and I think they are the same as in the game. Snake, Snake, Fish.
"The one on the left is Snake, the one behind me is Snake, and the one on the right is Fish." I told her, as the one behind me was right in front of the gate, so of course it's the middle one. Hopefully.
Aurash looks left and right at the pillars on her side, then groans and walks off to spin them again as I just chuckle at her. Oh right, I definitely levelled up now!
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 13/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (3)
Restoration (6)
Enchanting (1)]
[New Druid Skills Learned!
Hydrokinesis: Grants the ability to control all water around however you want in a range of 2 meters around you. Range gains one meter for each Level.
Geyser: Grants the ability to summon a powerful geyser anywhere within range. The more Mana is poured into the spell before activation, the stronger and bigger the geyser will be.
Earth Pillar: Grants the ability to raise a large pillar of earth from the ground before it collapses forward. The more Mana is poured into the spell before activation, the bigger and larger the pillar will be.
Summon Spirit Ravens: Grants the ability to summon spiritual ravens for reconnaissance or to bother targets. Last until hit by a strong enough blow or the caster disperses them. The ravens can communicate with the summoner.
Create Malboro Plant: Grants the ability to modify a plant and turn it into a carnivorous monster that can spew a strong poisonous breath and attack with it's tentacles whips. The plant monster will follow your orders. The more Mana is poured into it's creation, the bigger and stronger the Malboro will be.]
Okay, the wait was worth it.
The Spirit Ravens are a godsend! I can send them to scout forward so that we don't just run blind into anything, and can avoid almost being surrounded by draugrs just like how it happened now.
The Geyser and Earth Pillar attacks are just amazing too as I lacked any type of fighting moves so far, and while I will still rely on my Destruction magic and the rest, at least now I have something to use from range. And damn, my range is a whooping thirty meters now! If I didn't have the blessing of the Mage Stone it would be around fifteen meters I think. Having it be so big is kind of bothersome because I still can't do anything too big with it as I just started out, and I doubt I have enough Mana to just go ham on everything, even with the Mage Stone blessing.
Still, that Malboro plant skill is terrifying. Like the good Final Fantasy fan that I am, I know what a Malboro is. Big, ugly and strong plant monster. I think it's cost is quite high even though I gained it at level ten.
Hydrokinesis is very useful too since I can now control the boiling water I create through the Geyser skill. I pity whoever I end up showering in said boiling water, I know exactly how much it hurts.
My Restoration magic also grow by some level. I honestly don't know if it's like Skyrim, where it stays the same, or it grows stronger by level. Like, the simple Healing spell grows stronger and better and things like that. Oh well, thoughts for later.
The problem is, how do I explain these new abilities to Aurash? I might need to bullshit some more. I really don't like that I have to lie to her, but I guess it's for a just cause.
"Okay, it should work now!" I perk up at her voice, seeing her walking down the wooden stairs. I give her a nod and pull out my wooden staff, then send out a wooden whip to wrap around the lever and open it.
The gate clicked, then groaned loudly as it rose, and Aurash heaved a breath of relief. Pretty sure those turning pillars are heavy as hell.
"Wait." I stop Aurash just as she was about to walk forward. She turns towards me with a raised brow, but I simply rose my left hand up as a sky blue glow appeared on my palm. Soon, an ethereal sky blue raven appeared on my palm and flapped it's wings.
With a quick mental command, it flew in the air and past the now open gate and disappeared into the darkness. Hopefully it can see in the dark.
"Before you say anything, I'm still learning more about my powers. I lived away from danger my entire life, never had a reason to train my powers. Now I do." I explained to Aurash, whom just gave me a weird look, then shrugged and walked forward.
"I was just going to say that was cool, but okay!" Oh come on! Next time I'll just wait for her reaction before I decide to spout bullshit or not. I don't want to lie to her unless it's necessary.
I blink and stop when the image of giant doors appears in my head, and it took me a few seconds to realize what it meant. The raven had reached a dead-end, which was a giant door with three wheels on it, each having a different animal portrayed. So are we very close to the end of this place? Or do we have traps and whatnot waiting for us after those massive doors? Good thing we have the raven. I'll send him through the door the moment it opens just a crack to check what's on the other side, and if it's the final room then we can prepare before we dive into it. Because I highly doubt there is just a single strong draugr like in the game.
I pull Fenrir into my Pet Space as she was too big to go through the door, then create another torch and pass it to Aurash as we walk into the dark tunnel. Wish I had that Mage Light spell in my hands right now, would be very useful.
It doesn't take us long to reach the massive door, and I let out Fenrir since the room was big enough for her to be in it. Luckily, the room was lit by some orange crystals on the ceiling.
"Here, I think this might be useful." I catch Aurash's attention as I pull out the golden claw, showing her the three symbols below it and then nodding towards the door. "One of the bandits had this on them, good thing I kept it."
Aurash takes it and approaches the door. It was similar to the one in the game, just much bigger. Right at the bottom of it was the circular spot where you use the claw to turn it, and above it where the three spinning rings with several images on them.
In the game there were three images per ring if I remember right, but this one had dozens of them, one after the other and each one different.
I bit my lips as Aurash started turning the rings in search of the right images. I may be exaggerating, but I'd rather be safe and just prepare for the worst than regret it later.
I pulled out my wooden staff and tore off a small branch from it before tossing it back into my inventory, then started growing the small branch more and more until it became a large root, and then a tree.
And then I mentally activated the Create Malboro Plant skill.
I instantly felt the familiar pull of Mana, and I poured it all into the tree laying down on the ground. It instantly started shifting and changing. The dark brown colour of the tree changed into a dark green, the leaves fell off and were replaced by large tentacles as thick as my body.
A large mouth with several rows of sharp and large teeth soon appeared as the dark green mass grew larger and taller as more tentacles sprouted, forming a ball with a large mouth and no eyes. The ball soon pushed itself up by using several dozen tentacles, being slightly bigger than Fenrir herself and much larger than her.
I panted and stopped the stream of Mana as the massive plant monster wiggled around while I rubbed my temples. I didn't know that using more than half of my total Mana in one go would give me such a horrible headache!
I turned to Fenrir, whom was growling menacingly at the large plant monster. I pat her to calm her down before walking towards Aurash. I'm barely left with a third of my total Mana, and I'd rather recover at least half or more before we open the massive doors.
Luckily, she had watched me as I created the Malboro monster so she didn't freak out at the sight. She just found it very disgusting and terrifying, and I don't blame her, that thing really is terrifying.
And is it me or is it sulking? Nah, must be my imagination.
"Don't worry, these doors take a bit to come down, so you'll have plenty of time to recover enough. If not, we can just wait here." Aurash assured me, and I sighed and went to take a seat beside Fenrir. The headache was quickly fading, but the sudden loud groaning of the doors as they very slowly came down did not really help make it go away faster.
The moment there was a slight crack from the door, I had the raven squirm through, and it instantly sent me an image of what it saw.
A massive chamber with a large stone bridge that led us towards a throne of sorts. Below the stone bridge was a literal mountain of bones and skulls, and beyond the bridge was a slight open area with a circular table filled with books and scrolls and several chairs around it with robed skeletons sitting on them. Then after it were a set of stairs leading up towards a throne.
And onto the throne was sitting a skeleton in dark purple robes and a crow with a staff that was obviously enchanted laying against the left side of the throne. Behind the throne was a large sarcophagus, and beyond that was a massive Word Wall.
"Fuck." Aurash turned towards me and narrowed her eyes, and I'm pretty sure she was about to chide me for my language but stopped at my very scared expression. "I think there might be a Lich waiting for us."
Aurash expression changed and she threw a gaze towards the large doors before kneeling in front of me and giving me a very serious look, "Tell me what you see."
And I did. I described the chamber to her, the large amount of skeletons, the skeleton on the throne and the sarcophagus behind it. I'm pretty sure it's a Lich, and those bastards are quite strong. The skeletons will obviously come back to life, especially those below the bridge, but I'm afraid that those sitting around the table are mages and will be a pain in the ass.
"Okay, relax. It's not a Lich, but a Wight." I give Aurash a confused look as she releases a relieved sigh. I think she might have already told me about it before we entered the crypt but i must've forgotten about it. "Wights are much weaker than Liches. Wights can only bring back a large amount of skeletons and a very strong draugr at most, while Liches can bring back a massive of skeletons and draugrs, and they would for sure have them around in their burial chambers. This guy only has skeletons and that one draugr in the coffin behind the throne, which will definitely be powerful, but it's much better than several dozen of them." Okay, yeah she is right. I can easily turn skeletons into ashes with Sunfire, and I can do that pretty much instantly since they are so weak and will crumble once touched by the holy fire. As for the skeletons around the table…
A grin stretches over my face as I come up with a plan. Some of it may work, some might not, but either way, it will give us a bigger chance of victory.
"You better be useful." I point at the massive Malboro monster with narrowed eyes. Even with the Mage Stone blessing, just creating this guy took almost my whole Mana, and just to make him slightly bigger than Fenrir. I just hope it's powerful, or else I won't waste my Mana on this skill anymore.
Giving the monster one last narrowed glare, I turn towards Aurash to tell her my plan while I slowly recover my Mana and the door comes down. The loud groaning sound is starting to get on my nerves.
After an agonizing long time, probably half an hour or more, the gate was finally fully down and I have a full tank of Mana once more. Good thing Mana recovery is fast.
Taking a deep breath, I walked into the large chamber with Aurash, Fenrir and the Malboro.
And then I instantly sent my raven to dive down and snatch the enchanted staff beside the throne. Only for a bony hand to snatch it out of the air just as it approached the staff and squeeze, causing the raven to explode into particles of light.
The Wight glowing eyes turned towards us, my first plan turning into a failure as the skeleton rose from the throne and grabbed it's staff.
"Fenrir, now!" I gave the signal, and Fenrir opened her mouth and spat out a large ball of fire towards the table below the throne. It created a large explosion that caught the whole table and chairs, sending the bones of those skeletons flying everywhere, some shattering on impact against the rock ground of the cavern. I grinned as the skeleton mages were taken care of before they could even be used, causing the Wight to release a very pissed off howl as it slammed the blunt end of the staff on the ground, a light purple glow coming from it and wrapping around the Wight as it started to fly. Great.
A dark blue glow appeared in the Wight free bony hand, turning into a ball that he crushed, causing a large blue aura to sweep past the whole chamber.
The bones below the bridge started glowing and putting each other together, but I snorted when they all had no weapon to hold. There might be some mages among them, but I have the Ward spell to help me out just in case.
But the bones weren't the only one to start moving. The sarcophagus behind the throne opened, and coming out of it was a large draugr as big as Aurash donning a full body pitch black armour. Then it reached inside the sarcophagus and pulled out a large sword that looked like a Zweihander, and then frost started gathering around the sword once the draugr wrapped both of his hands around the hilt.
"I want that." Aurash stated with no small amount of greed while my eyes narrowed at the draugr. It's definitely strong, and I don't know if Aurash can take it on alone, so I'll have to switch between assisting her and holding off the Wight.
Challenge accepted.
The Malboro released a resounding roar as it moved forward, going down to the left side of the bridge to pound the skeletons into powder while I took care of those on the right side with Sunfire, turning dozens of them into ashes each second, but with how deep this ditch was and how many bones there were it mattered little.
Fenrir shot a ball of fire towards the Wight, whom waved it's staff and created a purple dome around himself. Is that a psychokinetic enchantment or what?
Of course, the dome shattered once hit by the explosive ball of fire, but it still protected the Wight, whom flew out of the way of Fenrir's jaws. She just had to keep the fucker busy while I fully cleared the skeletons so that they wouldn't bother us.
Aurash stomped forward and met the draugr charge with her own, their large swords colliding against each other with so much power that the metallic impact between them made my ears ring. Those two are fucking monsters!
I kept an eye on Aurash, but relaxed when nothing happened to her even after clashing against the enchanted sword. That means that the enchantment won't take effect unless it hits her directly.
I did warn her to keep on guard in case they draw their heads back, as these two fuckers might know Shouts.
I ran across the bridge and to the right, where the slope that bought me down to the ditch filled with bones was. The Malboro was almost done thanks to his massive size and the force of his blows turning the skeletons to powder before they could do anything. I gave it the order of assisting Fenrir with stalling the Wight once it was done with his side.
I threw a glance down the ditch, then shrugged. The next second a massive geyser of boiling water exploded from beneath the pile of bones, stopping them from reforming and sending them flying everywhere. This of course had the Wight release another enraged screech, but it was cut short when Fenrir rammed into the barrier and shattered it, causing it to fly further up in the air to dodge her deadly jaw.
The Malboro roared and climbed out of the ditch with it's tentacles, then roared again when explosive fireballs impacted against it, lighting some of it's tentacles on fire and charring a part of it's skin black.
Seeing that the skeletons weren't reforming, I threw a glance up at the Wight. Fenrir could still jump up to reach it, but the Malboro couldn't, and the bastard just dodged or used barrier against Fenrir's fireballs.
A powerful shock-wave ruffled my hair, and I looked down just in time to see Aurash get flung across the room then roll on the ground.
"The fucker does know how to use Shouts!" She shouted, clearly furious at being thrown across the room. I nodded my head and pulled out my staff as the draugr charged forward, but this time came towards me as I was closer.
I just smiled at it as a large pillar rose right beneath his feet and smashed him against the ceiling, hard. It caused a large portion of the ceiling to fall down and I had to run out of the way, but I grinned when the large zweihander that was wielded by the draugr landed loudly on the floor not far away from me.
"Aurash!" I called out to her, drawing her gaze towards me as I wrapped a root around the sword and threw it towards her. She caught it with an excited grin and turned where the draugr she was fighting ended up getting buried beneath the rocks. It didn't stay buried for long, but the majority of his armour was shattered from the impact and he was also unharmed, so he didn't pose much of a treat towards Aurash.
"Now…" I narrowed my eyes and turned towards the Wight, and then swung my staff while shouting "Get over here!"
A large root wrapped tightly around the Wight barried, and then from said root many more sprouted and covered the whole barrier as I slowly pulled him down, Fenrir ready to pounce.
The Wight was trying to burn my roots off, but I just replaced the burn ones with many more, trying to destroy the barrier by clenching said roots tightly around it.
A sudden blast of purple energy destroyed all the roots tying the barrier and pulling it closer, pushing me on my back as I glared at the still flying Wight. That damn staff is OP.
But then I grinned as I realized that the idiot was in reach of the Malboro. Said plant monster roared and wrapped it's large tentacles around the Wight new summoned barrier, but it was very dim, showing that it was much weaker.
It tried to get away, but the barrier soon crumbled as the Wight released one last enraged screech before the Malboro pulled the undead necromancer into it's mouth. I wrapped a root around the staff and pulled it away from the Wight's grasp as the Malboro snapped it's jaws shut, killing it once and for all.
I released a sigh of relief at that, turning towards Aurash and smiling when I saw her hugging her new enchanted sword. To think that I'd feel jealous of a sword. I wanna have my face between those tiddies again!
"This went better than I though." I said, as the Malboro started withering and turn into a pile of goop after I de-summoned it. I'll definitely use it more often, but hopefully I'll have more Mana to use the next time. It'll definitely come in handy against the dragon that will attack the watchtower next to Whiterun.
"Your plan worked wonders. But we were also lucky since the Wight didn't seem to be that good at magic. He probably relied on that staff of his when he was alive and was only slightly good in necromancy." I nodded my head at her words, then turned my gaze towards the Word Wall.
I walked up the stairs and around the throne, grabbing the Dragonstone map that was inside the sarcophagus and then looking around for any kind of chest or useful thing. Oh well, might as well check my Status real quick!
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 19/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (3)
Restoration (8)
Enchanting (1)]
Holy shit! I almost reached Level twenty! I didn't expect the Wight to give me that much experience. Actually, it might be from the large amount of skeletons and the Wight too, then the little bit I gained from the draugr. Either way, it's all very welcome!
I blink when Aurash slowly walks past me, as if in a daze, and my eyes widen when I realize what's happening when some words on the massive Word Wall started glowing blues, wisps of energy coming out of it and flowing into Aurash as she just stood then.
A few seconds alter the glowing word dimmed, and Aurash recoiled back and shook her head, then turned towards me with no small amount of worry and confusion in her eyes.
"Welp, guess you're the Dragonborn."
[Crossposted from QQ!]
[A.N.: I'll quickly answer some questions. Yes there will be stuff from DLC and other stuff i made up to make the world more interesting. Flora won't have a romantic partner, but there might be sex. And thank you all for the compliments, really makes me happy to hear that stuff!]