It took me a bit to realize where I was after I woke up.
I kind of hoped that everything that happened was just a bad dream. But at the same time, I also hoped it wasn't.
No matter how frightening this world is, I still find it beautiful and I want to stay here. I want to study magic, learn all kinds of spells and travel to all kinds of different places.
With a sigh, I stretched my body, and it was one of those very good stretches that had your legs quiver and shake. I then rolled off the bed and noticed that Aurash wasn't here.
I stood up and rubbed my eyes, then exited the room and followed the delicious scent of food downstairs, and smiled when I saw Aurash set a plate of warm soup on the table. What a nice way to wake up.
"Morning.." I mumbled loud enough for Aurash to hear as I yawned. I sat down on one of the chairs around the table and turned my head to stare out the window that faces the garden, smiling when I saw Fenrir laying under the sun on her back with her legs in the air.
"Good morning Flora." I turned back to Aurash as she sat down at the table right in front of me, having prepared everything at the fireplace. I'm going to miss electricity and all that stuff. "How do you feel?"
I hummed as I pulled the plate close to me and contemplated the question, relaxing quite a bit from the delicious scent coming from the soup.
"I'm scared, but I can think more clearly now." I sighed out as I took a sip of the soup, and I may have made a weird noise because I heard Aurash choke. I can't help it! It's so tasty! "I already have a plant to prepare ourselves for the imminent attack. If it doesn't happen then good riddance, but if it does happen, we'll give that fucking dragon a nice welcoming party."
I spent too much time being afraid and thinking that we couldn't put up a fight against a dragon after seeing Alduin, but not all dragons might be the same size as him. And by the time the dragon attacks I should at least have all my Magic Skills in the Apprentice Rank.
"So, what's the plan then?" Aurash asked, leaning against the table with a serious look. I gave her one of my best smiles at that. Just the fact that she decided to stay and fight and accept her fate as the Dragonborn is enough for me to like her even more.
"We need to do a lot, mostly me." I took another sip of the soup before setting the plate down and licking my lips. "I need to get better at Enchanting, so could you leave me any of the scrap weapons and armours you gathered at the crypt that you can't smelt?" Aurash blinked at the request but then nodded, making me relax. I know how much she loves weapons so I may just have to make her a very powerful Enchanted Greatsword to thank her.
"Next, if you can fix that black armour the draugr was wearing and make me Enchant it then we'll be perfectly set for you." The excited grin that I received from Aurash was all that I needed to know that she loved the idea very much. "And another thing that will be useful for you will be Alteration Magic." I went on to explain to her how Alteration Magic worked and about the boosting of the Flesh spells. This would be a huge way for her to have more power, mixed with the Enchanted Weapons and armour I'll make for her, plus her Berserk rage.
"I'll have to practice with that if it's as good as you say." Aurash hummed and I nodded my head. Her control over her Mana shouldn't be horrible since she can use the spatial storage, which should be a very hard to learn spell, so hopefully by the time the dragon attacks she should have the Stoneflesh spell put down.
"As for me, I'll focus on Enchanting during the night and getting better at using my other magic during the rest of the day. I'll practice in the dungeon so I don't have to worry about destroying anything." Aurash nodded, albeit she looked worried at the fact of having me go into the dungeon alone, but I will have Fenrir with me so it won't be a problem as long as I don't go in too deep.
"The problem will be finding a Blacksmith that will allow you to use his equipment." I hummed and she frowned at that. I wonder if the Companions will let us use the Skyforge, else I'll have to pay some other Blacksmith once I get the money from my Alchemy business.
"Oh well, let's finish eating then we'll go to the guild and see what we can do." I shrugged and dove back into the warm soup as I kicked my legs happily, feeling much better than yesterday. I honestly can't wait to get better at magic and go wild with it.
I have so many ideas that I want to try, so many possible spells combination. Like, can I shoot fire and lightning out of the same hand at the same time? Can I create a spell that is a mix of the two?
But most importantly, can I learn to use spells from other magic schools and unlock their skills? I really, really hope so, and that's something I'll test out the moment I am inside the Daedric Dungeon.
We finished eating a few minutes later and I walk outside to play with Fenrir for a bit, scratching as much of her belly as I could while avoiding being toppled over by her. Giant puppies are dangerous.
I soon pulled Fenrir inside my Pet Space after giving her a few more hugs and kisses then walked out of the garden. I then looked around the house to find a good empty spot, and then put the Arcane Enchanter there alongside the box filled with the usable Soul Gems. I didn't have many, but I'll gather Souls once I am inside the dungeon since I have several dozen empty ones. I still need to find out if Souls are graded or not.
Aurash then dumped the old weapons and armours she looted back at the crypt next to said boxes, and while most were very rusted, I am sure they can handle a powerful Enchantment before they break after a single use. I might as well turn them into incredibly powerful one-shot weapons to use against the dragon. Mostly because I'd be gaining more experience by making powerful Enchantment, and because like this they can be useful instead of being thrown away after I have Enchanted them.
While I can make use of the Enchanting leveling trick here too by spamming one on any scrap weapons, I still need Soul Gems.
Besides, I doubt I can level the Enchanting Skill quickly, I have a feeling that it's going to be the hardest to level up.
I also have to test any kind of physical boosting or healing factors Enchantments to put on armours and weapons. It will be difficult as I need to be specific with I write on the equipment.
Farengar said that he was glad he used scrap items, meaning that if you fail the object you are trying to Enchant will be lost, and I'd rather not have that. I want to put the strongest Enchantment possible on Aurash's armour and weapon to guarantee her safety. Then if I manage, I'll put some on Irileth armour and weapons too.
Maybe if I have time, I'll buy a lot of good weapons and Enchant them all and then distribute them before the fight. Be they bows or swords. I wonder if I can Enchant quivers to have them give magical properties to the arrows inside them.
Explosive arrows? Fuck yes.
Give said Enchanted quiver to Aela and gain the chance to maybe take a closer look at those legs? Fuck yes.
Being around a sexy orc is driving me nuts. Especially after remembering how she easily lifted me up yesterday.
I wouldn't mind if she did that again and slammed me against a wall-
Okay, I'll be putting a stop to that before I decide to explore this body more intimately. Which I am very eager to do, but alas, the dragon attack comes first.
I think I can actually Enchant all the scrap equipment during the night but the problem will be the headaches that I'll suffer from exhausting my Mana constantly, while also waiting for it to regenerate.
Maybe I can ask Ariana to save some Mana Potions for me so that I can use them while I Enchant, because they will be incredibly helpful. Pretty sure she wouldn't mind.
I step back from the Arcane Enchanter and dust my hands off. I'll have to clean it when I get the chance, but for now, it's best that I go to the guild.
I turn towards Aurash just in time to see her put on her boots and straighten herself up, then we both go out of the door and into the slightly lively streets.
I shut the door behind and follow after Aurash as we walk towards the guild, and as we pass by the Temple of Kynareth I send a smile and wave to the priestess standing by the doors. And then she starts bowing profusely.
My eyebrow started twitching at that but I keep up my smile and turn away. I really want to strangle them so bad! Why do they still think I'm the Champion of Kynareth!? I hope their stubbornness doesn't get me in trouble with said God.
We soon walk up the stairs and enter the guild, and after a quick look around I notice that it's mostly empty. Looks like not many come here early in the morning.
I turn to the reception and smile when I see Aela and Ariana there, they seemed to be making small talk while the alchemist was either writing or signing something on the desk. There was someone beside Ariana though, a nicely dressed man, but since I don't recognize him I draw my gaze away.
"Good morning!" I greeted the two, drawing their gazes to me as I gave them a smile and short wave. "Sorry for yesterday Aela, I've been very stressed these days." Aela simply gave a comforting smile while Ariana rose a brow towards her, clearly out of the loop, but she just shrugged it off and turned towards me. Damn, I like all that visible cleavage.
"It's good that you're here, I was just about done finalizing a few details for potion selling." Ariana stated, nodding towards the man beside her as he gave a friendly wave. "This is William, or Will if you want. He'll handle the potion selling business towards all the other cities." I give the man a friendly now, but otherwise I don't exchange much pleasantries. I'd rather my involvement with the Alchemy boom to be kept a secret for as long as possible.
"I have a favour to ask to both of you." I state, changing the argument to avoid bringing up my involvement with alchemy and getting straight to the point. "Aela, is there a good forge nearby that Aurash can use freely? If not, I can pay for it." Said Companion blinked at my request and turned her gaze towards Aurash as she hummed with a slight frown. I really hope she gives her access to the Skyforge, as I remember that in the lore it's supposed to have some sort of power. Maybe anything forged there is several times better and stronger.
"Eourlund shouldn't be hard to convince seeing the situation we are in." She mumbled aloud before sighing, nodding her head to the side as she turned and walked off. "Come with me." I smile in relief at that and give Aurash an encouraging thumbs up as she walks off and joins Aela. Hopefully it will be a success.
"Oh right, talking about pay." I turned towards Ariana and noticed that William had taken his leave, probably to not intrude on our conversation. "I'll have your payment ready soon, but what's the favour you wanted to ask?" I nod at her words, not minding if I receive the money now or later. I don't plan on buying anything for a while, just save the money for when I do, and also give half of it to Aurash for anything she might want to buy.
"I need to do something that requires constant use of Mana, and it's very important. Could I receive a share of Mana Potions? If not, I can just buy them." Ariana just stared at me with the most deadpan face I've ever seen. I couldn't help but get more and more nervous under her gaze, but finally she sighed and simply facepalmed.
"Flora, I'd give you all the Mana Potions you want without batting an eyelid. Hell, it's thanks to you that we can even make them!" I just chuckled nervously at her. I never liked asking for things, I'd be either too shy or nervous to do that. Sometimes I'd even feel like I don't deserve them.
But right now I kind of do deserve them, don't I? Man, my self worth is really low huh? I hope I can fix it here.
"We got to work on making potions very later yesterday, so we weren't able to make many. But we made a cauldron of the most important potions, Mana Potions included." I am quite sure that Alchemy is both easy and hard. The hardest part should be preparing the ingredients for the 'cooking', or at least I think they cook said ingredients since they mentioned a cauldron. "How about I give you a tenth of the total amount of Mana Potions we made? We might have made just a cauldron, but said cauldron is quite big, so more than three hundred bottles came out." I literally choked at the number she mentioned. Holy shit, that efficient? Making Potions might be much easier than I even thought! Or they are just very skilled.
"That's thirty or more potions in total…" I mumbled to myself before smiling and nodding at Ariana, "Yeah, they should be more than enough! Can we make this a daily deal? Pretty sure I'll use all of them during the night." I chuckled nervously, but thankfully Ariana just snorted and nodded her head. I also hope they taste good, I'm not too good at swallowing things that taste horrible.
"Wait here, I'll go grab your batch. Your payment should also be here soon." I nodded my head and took a seat on one of the tables close by as she walked off, kicking my legs lazily as I glanced around the almost empty hall while thinking about what to do.
Levelling up my Restoration skill will be the hardest to do, as I do not know how many get injured in the dungeon and need healing.
The best way to levelling it up would be killing draugrs, but all kinds of crypts are too far away even if I ride on Fenrir. I'll have to check it out thought, if I have the chance to go to one then I'll take it. I'll have to be as careful as possible though.
"Miss Flora?" I perked up and turned my head towards a large group of waitresses, all with a very large bag in their hands. Is that my payment? Holy shit, there's like… eight of them! "This is the payment from helping Lady Ariana. It's a thousand Septims per bag, totalling to eight thousand Septims." Holy mother of God! That's a shit ton of money! What am I even going to buy with this!?
I gaped at the large bags as the waitresses set them down onto the table and swiftly left after a slight bow. Three days into Skyrim and I'm already rich, wow.
Am I cheating at life?
I shook my head and collected all the bags into my inventory, then I turned towards the hallways leading to the Alchemy room just in time to see Ariana come back with a large box in her hands. The Mana Potions looked exactly the same as in the game. Small light blue bottles- actually no, the liquid inside them is blue, the bottles are transparent.
"Here you go…" Ariana sighed as she placed the box onto the table and took a seat next to me. She reached inside and pulled one of the bottles out, they were neither small nor large but were filled almost to the brim with that blue liquid. "The Mana potions we used to make in the past could at most restore a third of an Expert class Mage Mana reserves. But with the incredible quality of the ingredients you made for us, this should at least restore more than half of their total Mana reserves now. I don't know what class you are, but these should be goon enough for whatever you have to do." I whistled at that as I gingerly took one of the bottles in my hands. I have quite a lot of Mana, of that I am sure, and thanks to the Mage Stone Blessing I spend much less than others. These will definitely help a lot, especially since just one Enchanted Item took almost all of my Mana.
"But remember to always take one and then wait a whole minute before taking another, unless you want to spend the whole day inside the bathroom." I nodded my head at that, I kind of expected there to be a drawback for drinking more than one Mana Potion, otherwise all mages would just down them like vodka shots. I am also very sure that the reason the Mana Potion bottles are this size is because anymore than that and it would give someone a bad stomachache.
"By tomorrow we'll have made more than a thousand bottles, and once those I hired finally arrive, we'll be able to make thousands upon thousands of bottles." I smiled at the very excited look on Ariana's face, I'm glad that at least my need for money helped make someone happy as they can finally spend time doing what they love. "As for the ingredients that can't be grown, I've already asked the guild to hang several missions on the board, all of them paying handsomely." She nodded her head towards said board, and I turned to see a man hanging a couple of papers right below the one with the nine star electric griffon. So they are treating these missions as high priority huh? I wonder if it's because of the incoming dragon attack.
"Oh right, can I enter the dungeon?" I asked Ariana, not knowing if there were times were one could or couldn't enter. I also had to visit the Waystone for when I plan on visiting the other cities, so that I can go back and forth without the need of spending days out in the wild. While I'd definitely love spending my time in the forest, I'd rather not do that when there are monsters hiding behind each corner or tree.
"You want to enter the dungeon?" Ariana's gaze snaps towards me, clearly very worried. I appreciate the worry, but this is something I need to do. I need to be as strong as possible for when the dragon attacks.
"Yeah, it's the only place where I can train with my magic without any collateral damage, and I need to collect souls for my Soul Gems." I explained, but the worry in her eyes didn't fade. After a few seconds she sighed and stood up, nodding her head towards the large doors at the other end of the hall.
I quickly collected all the Mana Potions and left the box on the table before going after her. I didn't have a chance to exit this door and see the gate up close yesterday, but damn is it massive. It should be at least twenty or thirty meters tall and large, made out of some pitch black rock that had dark purple glowing cracks all around it. Inside the gate was a swirling mass of light and dark purple fog that spun around like a vortex, releasing a loud sound of rushing wind.
Around the gate were large walls made out of stone with several entrances, probably to inspect the items and the people that come out of the gate while also keeping order.
On the far left side of the open area was a large artificial garden with dozens of beds. And tending to the beds were the golden robed priestesses of Kynareth. They all started waving at me excitedly and I just wanted to groan so loudly, but instead I just smiled kindly and waved back at them. I hope they get over this phase soon.
"Are you sure you want to go in?" Ariana stopped by one of the entry points and looked at me with that worried look that almost made me give in and turn back.
"Don't worry, I have a few tricks up my sleeve!" And an apocalyptic puppy just waiting to be unleashed, but I'll keep that to myself.
"Don't worry, I'll be back by dinner to take a quick break to eat so that you can relax!" I still have those cubes of meat from yesterday night now that I think about it, I wonder if they are still warm.
Ariana hardened her gaze for a few seconds before sighing through her nostrils and sagging her shoulders. She ran a hand through her blonde locks and threw a glance towards the Daedric Dungeon before finally taking a step back.
"Be extremely careful and don't go in too deep." I gave her a thumbs up before I turned around and started walking towards the gate.
The closer I got the louder the sound of rushing wind grew. It was almost deafening, but the moment I stepped into the purple fog the sound vanished instantly and everything went black.
And then the blackness was replaced by a blood red box that made my blood run cold.
[Warning! 'Mind Reading' has been prevented by 'Gamer's Mind'!]
Fuck! Fuck!
Of fucking course Mephala would do this shit! This is a sub-realm created by her, of course she would check out the people that enter! But why though!? Why would she read the mind of anyone that enters her realm? What does she gain from it? Is she perhaps looking for a new 'Champion'?
Too many questions, and I don't really care anymore. Her attention is most definitely on me right now since I can block a literal God from reading my mind. So she is either furious at me for daring to block her and will order all her minions to attack me and slaughter in the most painful way possible, or now she is very curious about me and will still send all her minions to 'test me'.
I blinked when my naked feet touched cold sticky ground. I blinked a few times to get used to the light before I was finally able to see the area around me.
Damn, I can't see anything other than webs, hills made out of webs, and mountains made out of web. Hell, even the sky is made out of webs. Very bland.
The first thing I do is set fire to the ground and erase all the webs around because feeling them stick to my feet is disgusting. Luckily, the webs burn easily and quickly, and beneath them there is actual ground, meaning that I can still use my nature related powers.
Once I cleared a large enough area I pulled Fenrir out of the Pet Space and smiled when she stood straight and let out an incredibly loud but beautiful howl. And then turned her drooling maw towards me to try and slobber all over me. Dang it.
"Down girl, keep your nose up in case anything approaches us okay?" Fenrir stomped happily on the ground and released a cute bark and sniffed the air a couple of times. I felt sorry for her since the air didn't smell that wonderful, it smelled foul, like something was rotting nearby.
I turned around and looked at the 'sky' and indeed I noticed the purple light lighting up the horizon that Gnoll told me about yesterday, so that's where I need to go to get out.
I flipped around when I heard the menacing growling of Fenrir, her blood red eyes seemingly glowing as her claw sank into the ground as if it was made out of butter. I looked in the direction she was looking a blinked at the utterly horrifying and giant spider. It had sickly green eyes and at least twelve legs while being much bigger than Fenrir herself.
I don't know how deep I am into the Dungeon, but I very much fucking doubt that a monster this big appears in the beginner area.
Fenrir was waiting for my order to pounce as embers and smoke billowed out her slightly open jaw and nostrils, giving her a very menacing look.
The spider lifted it's large head as it's mouth opened, showing several rows of teeth before it spat a large glob of sickly green liquid towards us. It was the size of a person, and not taking my chances I lifted my left hand up and poured my Mana into creating a large Lesser Ward. The more Mana I pour into it, the bigger it becomes.
The ball of green liquid splashes against the glass-like barrier and starts sizzling, smoke rising from where the droplets fell on the ground. Acid huh? It's very strong too.
I lifted my right hand as Flames coated it, growing hotter and larger the more Mana I poured into it. I then turned my open palm towards the large spider and released a large torrent of flames.
So even beginner spells become several times stronger the more Mana you pour into them. But I am sure this effect is strong because I have the Mage Stone Blessing.
The spider hissed as flames washed over it's face and body, jumping back and shaking it's body left and right to put off some of the flames still lingering on it's body. Of course I don't give it time to recover as I switch from Flames to Sparks, spraying rays of lightning all over it. It wails in pain and sprays more acid towards me but my Lesser Ward still stands and keeps the dangerous liquid away.
This will be useful to get my Recovery skill up too! Using a Ward to protect myself from projectiles will surely give me a lot of experience!
I couldn't help but have a very menacing grin on my face as willed roots to sprout out of the ground below the giant spider and wrap around it tightly, easily forcing it down and keeping it still thanks to having shocked it's body quite a bit. I made sure to leave it's face free so that it can still spray acid.
"Now, go ahead and spray all of your acid you ugly bastard!" I cackled as I kept the ward up, my evil grin growing bigger as the large spider did just that, splashing acid against my Lesser Ward over and over!
I walked forward while it did so, spraying flames on the ground to erase the acid that fell on it so that I wouldn't injure my feet. Luckily my own magic doesn't seem to hurt me, I just feel the warmth and nothing else.
Fenrir whimpered as I cackled like an evil villain about to get his shit kicked in by the Hero that just remembered his childhood. I blinked, then stopped and coughed into my flaming fist before sending Fenrir a smile to calm her down. I guess I lost myself for a bit.
I kept the Ward up as the spider spit acid over and over while I just stood in front of it, letting it do so with a wide grin.
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 19/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (4)
Restoration (10)
Enchanting (4)]
One level in the Destruction skill and two in the Restoration Skill, or maybe it's just one in the Restoration Skill as I might have been on the cusp of level 9 before. Either way, I need more levels in Destruction, I hate how low it is.
I drew my attention away from the floating box and turned to the spider. It wasn't spitting acid anymore so I sprayed flames on it's face and quickly killed it before moving on.
I threw a look around and frowned when I saw nothing but webs and no spider, but then my gaze fell on some large cocoons that were almost everywhere. There were quite a lot of them scattered around.
I thought back to my Diablo 3 days, remembering how these balls of webs could be broken and sometimes would drop gold or mini-spiders. Since I have nothing to loose I approached one of them then set it on fire.
Only for a swarm of fist sized spiders to flow out from the hole I burned on the cocoon, some on fire others not.
I'll be honest, I screamed. So hard that my throat went sore.
I had just started releasing a massive spray of flames onto those dozens of small fuckers when Fenrir butted in and just turned the whole thing to cinders with a bark that released a large stream of scorching flames.
"Oh god…" I sighed and placed a hand on my heaving chest as Gamer's Mind helped me calm down. I couldn't help but laugh at the way I screamed. I did not fucking expect so many of those things to pour out!
"I'm okay, let's go to the next one." I chuckled and gave the worried Fenrir a hug before we moved on. But I soon frowned and turned towards her. I don't want her to just follow me around and wait for an order to do anything, I want her to go around and have fun. She isn't a tool.
"Sweety, why don't you go and run around?" I smiled at how she perked up at that, her tail wagging left and right fast enough to become a blur. "Go around, kill anything mean and that attacks you. Make sure not to go too far from me and to come back if you get injured okay?" Fenrir barked in understanding and hopped on her front paws, obviously very excited. I scratched her cheek a bit before pulling back and watching as she hopped over a large hill of webs and started barking and howling.
While she can sense if anything approaches us from behind through scent, I can always mentally call her back if I find myself in a tough spot. And at least she hasn't gone too far and seems to be running in circles around me.
I kinda feel bad for all the spider monsters that will end up in the path of a very excited apocalyptic puppy with flaming breath.
Oh well, at least that should give me some experience.
I throw another glance at my status but I still didn't level up to level 20, but I am sure I am very close. I have to reach level 30 or more by the time the dragon attacks, so I might need to go deeper into the Dungeon.
I walked to the next cocoon and set it on fire, but this time I made sure to use both hands and release a much bigger and hotter stream of flames on it. There were only a few head sized spiders in it, and one of them tried jumping at my head. Needless to say that I turned all of them to cinders.
I was hoping for more monsters to appear so that I could train my Restoration and Destruction skills, but I can't do that with just these few tiny spiders.
I might really need to go deeper right now…
A loud hiss made me snap towards my left as another giant spider just like the first one I encountered appeared from beneath a hill of webs. It easily moved the webs away as it's large legs stomped on the ground to lift itself up, making me notice the large hole in the ground from where it was coming out from.
So there's a cave system below? Is that from where they come from? I wonder if there is something down below or just a big cave full of giant spiders.
Oh well, thoughts for later.
I will the ground to sprout roots and tightly wrap them around the large spider, forcing it onto the ground as I summon the Lesser Ward just in case it starts spitting acid.
Good news, it did. Bad news, I could hear another spider moving behind me.
I turned towards the second spider as I kept up the Ward towards the first one to protect myself from the acid it was spitting. I hope Fenrir doesn't get hit by some of this because it must hurt a lot.
The second spider was different from the large and fat ones. This one was tall ad thin with very long legs and dozens of eyes spread all over it's body. Stuff of nightmares.
Oh, and it jumps too!
I summoned a large Earth Pillar in front of it to block it's lunge, then wrapped it in roots once it landed on the ground. Then I turned away as the Earth Pillar fell forward and splatted it's insides all over the place. Their blood is green. Ew.
I approached the first spider and doused it in flames, killing it after a few seconds, then I pulled back and summoned a Spirit Raven and let it fly high up in the sky to scout the place. I should have done this the moment I appeared in the dungeon but I can't do everything perfectly.
It didn't take long for an image to appear in my mind, it showed Fenrir snapping a large spider in half with her jaw while around here were two more corpses of smaller spiders, both charred black and smoking. At least she is having fun.
I furrowed my brow and rose my hand again, summoning another Spirit Raven, and then another two. I remember that the skill didn't say anything about a limit, which is good I guess. The more eyes I have around me, the better. I'll have to summon them outside too to keep a look around for any flying monsters or dragons in the distance.
I turned my head towards the large pillar of earth that I summoned. Now it was in pieces, but there were some that were still much bigger than me. I lifted it in the air with my Geokinesis and then threw it has hard as I could, and grinned when it actually flew very fast and smashed into the ground in the distance with quite a lot of power behind it.
I am very sure that my skills grow stronger alongside me, which is something I very much like. I could also just make them stronger by pumping more Mana into it but I don't think that would work with Geokinesis or Hydrokinesis.
A loud bark draws my attention as Fenrir jumps into the clearing, panting and wagging her tail happily as she sat in front of me while lifting her front left paw in the air. I narrowed my eyes as I saw a large spot of dark red skin along her paw, probably caused by acid.
I scolded her a bit and told her to be more careful before I had her lay down so I could fully check her out for anymore injuries.
Seriously, how can she be so nonchalant about being burned by acid!? It must hurt like hell but she still ran and used the leg that was injured.
I poured as much Mana as I could into my Healing spell and watched as the red skin slowly recovered and went back to a more healthy colour, then it was followed by pitch black fur regrowing and covering the injured spot.
"Be more careful sweetheart." I warned her as I checked the rest of her body, but other than a slight slight scratch on her side, probably caused by the tip on the spiders long legs, there was nothing else.
I rested myself against Fenrir's belly as she licked her healed leg and opened my status, and smiled at what I saw.
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 20/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (6)
Restoration (12)
Enchanting (4)]
[New Druid Skills Learned!
Pyrokinesis: Grants the ability to control all fires around however you want in a range of 2 meters around you. Range gains one meter for each Level.
Fire Pillar: Grants the ability to raise a large pillar of fire from the ground before it slowly dissipates. The more Mana is poured into the spell before activation, the larger and hotter the pillar will be.
Poisonous Fog: Grants the ability to create a poisonous fog anywhere in your available range. Once breathed in, the poison will slowly grow worse. The more fog is breathed in, the faster the poison worsens. The poison will inflict muscular atrophy on targets.
Acid Plant: Grants the ability to magically modify a plant, allowing it to grow a 'mouth' from where it spits strong acid. Can be used on any plant. The more Mana is used in the Acid Plant creation, the more acid it will spit.
Explosive Flower: Grants the ability to magically modify a plant, allowing it to sprout a highly volatile flower. Once the flower is hit, or is in contact with fire, it will explode. The more Mana is used in the Explosive Flower creation, the bigger and stronger the explosion will be.]
Oh yeah, now we are talking!
First thing first, let's test these skills out, I need to familiarize myself with them.
Pyrokinesis is going to fit so well with my Destruction Skill!
I turn towards a hill made out of webs and activate the Flame Pillar spell, but I don't pour any additional Mana inside it.
The webs are soon incinerated by a large gout of flames that shot ten meters in the air for just two seconds before shrinking by half and persisting for a few more, then fading away and leaving a circle of scorched ground.
The flame pillar is quite big, around five meters I width I'd say, and the initial burst of flames was quite hot and powerful.
I mentally activate the skill again, but this time I keep constantly give it a small stream of Mana.
Another flaming pillar appears in the same place, but this time the initial burst of flames that reached ten meters kept going as I poured Mana into it. I hummed and started pouring more and more, feeling the heat increase rapidly as the pillar of fire kept rising up while also growing larger, the roar of the flames filling my ears.
I cut the stream of Mana and watched as the pillars took more than ten seconds to finally die down. Yeah, fire is going to be my favourite element. Not only because it's incredibly powerful, but I just find it so cool. Too bad I can't use Ice, that is also incredibly powerful.
The next thing I'll try is the Poisonous Fog, and I made sure to summon it at the very edge of my range just to be safe. It came into existence with a weak pop of air that spread a large dark purple cloud around the area. The fog grew thinner by the second and fully vanished half a minute later.
I know what muscle atrophy is, and this fog is definitely horrifyingly powerful. I hope it's effective against the dragon as weakening it's body is going to be the best way for us to win.
I shake my head and have a few roots sprout out of the ground, then used the Acid Plant skill on one of them and watch as a plant sported out of said root and soon grew to the size of the head. At a glance it resembled a peashooter from the Plants vs Zombies games, but it didn't have eyes and had a very large sack behind the mouth, possibly containing the acid.
I had it shoot at a random spot and hummed as I watched it spray all the acid it had before it quickly withered. The acid is strong, but there isn't much and I'd need a lot of these acid plants to even do anything to the dragon. Or I'd need to create a massive one and use a lot of Mana to do that.
Wait, it said that it can be used on any plant! Can I use it on the Malboro Plant and mix them together? If so, that would be an amazingly strong combo.
I turned to one of the other roots I sprouted and started turning it into a Malboro, but this time I didn't waste a great deal of Mana into making it giant, I just made activated the skill and let it form.
Turned out that normally, the Malboro is just a meter and a half in height and a two meters in width. Not that strong unless it's against some dumb draugrs.
I shook my head and then activated the Acid Plant skill onto the Malboro, and watched as the tentacles around it's body bulged and grew slightly thicker, the tips changing to have holes in them. Have I created a powerful monster or some hentai tentacle monster?
…
Both are good, but the second one is unneeded right now.
But at least this confirms the fact that the Malboro and Acid Plant skills can be used together, this will be a good combo for when I need a big monster to wreak havoc.
I dismissed the Malboro and sent it down the hole from where the large acid spitting spider came out.
I watched as the Malboro sulked and turned around, then went down the hole in a suicide mission. Now I kinda feel bad.
I just shrug and turn my attention to another root to test my last skill, the Explosive Flower. I have great hopes for this.
Actually, lets have it sprout somewhere away from me. It is explosive after all.
I had a large root sprout a dozen meters away from me the used the Explosive Flower skill on it. It didn't take long for a head sized flower with bright red petals to sprout on top of the root.
I coated my right hand in flames and then used my new Pyrokinesis skill to throw a small ball of fire against the flower.
Boom!
I jumped and blinked at the loud explosion. The very root the flower was on was obliterated along with the ground in a two meter radius. The shock-wave was actually hard hitting, it managed to ruffle my hair from where it happened. Imagine how strong it was up close. Or imagine if multiple ones are stacked against each other.
It's powerful, but I noticed that it took quite a bit of Mana. Almost as much as a Pillar skill. Thankfully I have a lot of Mana, and I will only gain more as time passes.
Now that skill testing is over, I want to try my hand at using spells from other schools of magic.
I know how to control my Mana, I may not be skilled in it, but I am sure I can cast a Novice class spell. Hopefully.
The one I want to unlock the most is Conjuration, so I sit down against Fenrir's belly and slowly gather my Mana into my right hand.
I watched as the beautiful swirling sky blue particles wrapped around my hand and gathered in my palm. I then closed my eyes and focused, concentrating the Mana into a ball and thinking of summoning a familiar from the planes of Oblivion.
I kept going for a whole minute before clenching my fist around the ball of Mana and letting it sweep outward. I opened my eyes with a smile and surveyed my surroundings, but nothing happened. No portal, no familiar wolf, nothing.
Dang it.
I guess it won't be easy huh?
I tried again, but I failed once more. Then again and again.
I stopped after the fifth failure as I was getting too frustrated. Maybe it's best I switch the easiest type to learn, which is Alteration.
I took a deep breath to calm down and leaned back against Fenrir's soft fur as I concentrated on the Mana that is sticking to my skin. This is the Mana barrier that all mages have and that doesn't need one to be concentrated on it.
I very slowly started pouring my Mana into the barrier, feeling it grow stronger at a steady and slow pace. I slowly opened my eyes as I kept the stream of Mana as slow as I possibly can, smiling at the now visibly glowing barrier sticking to my skin.
I sped up the stream of Mana just a bit as the white glow started turning green, then dark green.
Once I saw the dark green colour I released the stream of Mana and smiled when I felt a warm current rush through my body as the green glow flashed brightly, then remained.
I couldn't help the ecstatic grin that spread across my face when a small blue box appeared in front of my face.
[Alteration Magic Skill unlocked!]
"Fuck yeah!" I cheered as I threw my arms in the air, then stood up as I felt the changes in my body. I honestly felt quite a lot stronger, I don't know how much to be precise but it's definitely quite a lot. I should also be tougher now, which means more protections.
This feels very nice! Let me take a look at my Status!
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 20/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (6)
Restoration (12)
Enchanting (4)
Alteration (1)]
Yes, I have Alteration now! I think that I can simply level it up by keeping up the Oakflesh spell, so that's what I'll do the whole time.
The good thing is that it doesn't seem to take that much Mana to keep up, but it took a fair bit to actually activate. Ariana didn't mention that, but it's probably because she didn't know.
Either way, I have Mana Potions for when I am about to run low, bur for now, I need to run quite a lot of tests.
I just need to go and find some guinea pigs!
(Four Hours Later)
I groaned as I massaged my temples before gulping down the third Mana Potion of the day, sighing softly as I felt my Mana reserves go back to full while my headache swiftly disappeared. I threw a meat cube in my mouth to wash away the blueberry taste of the Mana Potions, a taste that I did not really enjoy.
I'm so happy that my inventory can time lock anything inside it. The meat cubes Ariana bought for me yesterday are still warm and juicy! Such delicacy!
I shook my head and turned away from the massive charred spider corpse and looked at Fenrir. She was actually eating some of the corpses. It was a bit disgusting but apparently she finds them tasty. Hopefully she doesn't catch anything.
I then turned my head towards the massive reddish black tower just a dozen meters away from me. It was connected to the 'sky' and was surrounded by dozens of giant spiders, half of them lay dead and burnt to a crisp around me and Fenrir while the others were too afraid to approach us.
I experimented a lot with all of my skills and found out quite a few things.
The most important one is that I can't raise my Destruction Skill if I use Fire Pillar, but I can raise it if I use Pirokinesis to control the flames I create from my Destruction Skill, so I simply went around to release massive waves of flames against whatever monster or thing we encountered, leaving a massive stretch of burnt land.
The second thing I learned is that the Malboro spell actually has a time limit of ten minutes. I had summoned it when me and Fenrir ran into this massive wave of spiders to help us deal with it. It was very useful and killed a lot of them with the poison breath and acid sprays, or it just outright ate them.
My Poisonous Fog also left a lot of spiders paralyzed on the ground after I released it on top of those that were coming to join the mayhem. There should still be some alive around in fact, I'll look for them later.
Another thing I found out is that it's taking me a lot more to level up my Druid job than before. Even after killing so many giant spiders of all kinds I didn't level up that much. It's going to be harder as I go on, but I'll deal with that later.
Then I discovered something by accident. I don't need Soul Trap spells to grab the souls of the monsters I killed. As long as I have the Soul Gems in my inventory they would still capture the souls and absorb them. This is something I liked quite a lot, but there was a catch.
One Soul doesn't fill a Soul Gem, I need several. I think it depends on how powerful the Soul is. And so far I've filled only ten Soul Gems, I'll need more than that if I want to level up my Enchanting Skill.
Then, the last thing I have discovered is that levelling up the Alteration Skill is going to take a long ass time.
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 23/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (14)
Restoration (16)
Enchanting (4)
Alteration (5)]
A little bit more and I'll be able to reach Apprentice Class in both Destruction and Restoration.
I could have gained more, but then that thing showed up and I was forced to run away with Fenrir as I just created a giant tree filled with Explosive Flowers to kill the majority of the spiders chasing after us.
I glanced at the bottom of the tower where a giant ten meters tall and six meters wide spider stood. Or should I say Arachne? It does have the upper body of a woman, just with dark blue skin and glowing red eyes. It glared towards us and didn't dare to give chase luckily.
This bitch came out from the tower and charged at us, and I had to use a lot of powered up Lesser Ward to block the javelins of ice she kept throwing at me and Fenrir.
Hell, she even survived the large explosion from the tree of Explosive Flowers I left behind, she just lost three of her legs and the left side of her body is charred black.
This was dangerous. If just Depth One monsters are so powerful, I wonder what Depth Five monsters are like, since that's where the Ebony Blade was found.
The adventurers that reached that place must have been crazy strong.
I turned Oakflesh on then mounted on Fenrir. I had her turn around and start rushing towards the purple light in the sky. It's best that I take a break from the dungeon for now, but I'll keep Oakflesh up to level up Alteration as much as possible. Four levels in a couple of hours, and that's just the first levels, I can't imagine what the higher levels will take. Maybe I'll have to start modifying the ground with it to level it up even faster.
Thoughts for later. Still, blocking spells with my Lesser Ward surely levelled my Restoration Skill quite fast. If it didn't look weird, I'd ask a strong mage to destroy my wards over and over so that I can level up the skill.
Actually, I may be able to get away with it. I'll have to see how strong the head priestess of Kynareth is in Destruction magic. I'm pretty sure she would be happy to assist who she thinks is the Champion of Kynareth, but also, one here needs to practice with magic to get better at it, so if I ask someone to help me with my Wards they might just think that I want to get better at them.
It took half an hour of Fenrir running as fast as she could for us to finally catch a glimpse of the giant gate. We did have to stop to kill some giant spiders that came from underground a couple of times during the travel, but this still shows how giant the Daedric Dungeon actually is. And I was just at the first tower.
Oh well, Fenrir will surely grow stronger and faster with time so the time to traverse this place will definitely shorten quite a lot.
Several adventurers screamed and ran away at the sight of Fenrir, which made for quite an amusing sight, but what I noticed the most was that the majority of the adventurers were going inside the holes in the ground from were a lot of spiders come from.
Perhaps that's where the treasures are from! I've been going at it wrong.
Not like I can bring Fenrir in those tight tunnels, not all of them are as big as her.
I had Fenrir stop by the gate once we reached it, and I gave her a lot of pats and hugs before sending her into the Pet Space to rest.
She ran and fought a lot, and I could feel that she was tired, and she deserves it since she is a good girl.
After throwing a glance around I stepped into the swirling purple fog and everything went black.
A few seconds later, I appeared back at the guild, and this time Mephala didn't try to read my mind. I don't know if I should be glad or worried.
I walked forward and stepped through the gates, then took a right and went straight to the artificial garden where the priestesses of Kynareth were healing quite a few people.
"Need a hand here?" I asked politely to one of the priestesses, only for her to give a very exaggerated gasp and bow towards me.
Great.
"Lady Flora!" I turned my head and saw the head priestess approach me with a massive smile that almost blinded me. Wait, did I ever introduce myself to them? Oh well, they might just have asked Aela or Farkas. "I'm glad to see you back safe from the dungeon! But are you sure you wish to help us?" I simply smiled and nodded my head. I wasn't tired and I was full on Mana, I'll just help for a bit more then go to eat, and then keep healing for most of the day to see how effective just healing is in levelling up my Restoration Skill. I had my fill of webs for today. Besides Fenrir has to rest.
"Don't worry, I'll take a break to eat in a bit." She sighed before nodding her head with a gentle smile, and with her approval I started going around to heal the injured.
There were two dozen of them, some with badly injured body parts thanks to acid, others poisoned by bite wounds and some with puncture wounds from the legs of the spiders. All in all, there were quite a lot of injuries. They should diminish once the Health Potions start getting sold at low prices but in large quantities.
I went around and started healing those with the worse injuries first, quickly healing them before moving to the next, and then the next. The poisoned guys took longer to heal as it takes a while for Healing to neutralize the poison, but I didn't mind. It probably gives me more experience.
Even though the stream of adventurers going in and out of the dungeon was quite large, very few people came over to get themselves healed. I actually voiced out the question to one of the priestesses beside wondering if the adventurers were just that good, but actually the majority of them were hiding their injuries to save their pride. Very pathetic to be honest.
Still, I did notice how more were coming over for some reason, but I didn't care and just started healing anyone I could put my hands on.
It didn't take me long to realize why more people were coming over. To flirt with me and 'ask me out'. And by 'ask me out' I mean them deciding that we should go out by themselves without even thinking about my input. Is this how some of the guys in this world do things?
Their behaviour is really starting to grate on my nerves and no matter how many I ignore, more will just step forward to pretty much say the same lines. It's taking me all the self-control I have to not call out Fenrir and send these idiots running.
I sighed through my nose and went to heal another patient even as Danica, the head priestess, told me to take a break. Mostly because my annoyance was visible on my face and she wanted me to relax.
But I bet these fuckers would just join me inside the guild.
"Say cutie, are you single?" And there it is. I lost count on how many times I heard this question in the past hour. "We should grab a drink together once you are done healing me." Huh, this is a different one. Sounds more like an order than a propositions. He's lucky I'm not electrocuting his brain right now, because I really want to.
I sigh again once I finish healing the acid burn over his shoulder then step back and prepare to go heal the next possibly annoying patient. Only for the hand of the guy I just healed to grab my wrist in a tight grip.
At that point I just snapped.
A ferocious growl bought silence to the whole area as a massive Hellhound appeared in the middle of the artificial garden, her snarling maw inches away from the large guy's body. I glanced at him as Fenrir snarled, releasing smoke and embers as a loud hiss could be heard from her slightly glowing mouth.
I could feel Fenrir's fury and she was seconds away from releasing the biggest fireball she could ever muster at point blank on this moron.
"Release me, or I'll feed you to her." I stated plainly, but loud enough for everyone to hear. His hand quickly released my wrist as he scampered back while I massaged it, my eyes boring holes through him.
I'm done with this bullshit. Being beautiful is a fucking curse.
"If you are here to try and hit on me, then leave, I'm not interested." Fenrir menacing growl grew louder as her head snapped towards the large crowd waiting to take a seat at one of the medical beds to be healed, some with more serious injuries than others.
"If you need to be healed, then sit down and shut the fuck up, or else I'll make sure that whatever injury you got will be the last of your fucking problems." I don't care if I sound vulgar or whatever right now, I'm just too pissed. I ignored the guy that grabbed my wrist as he ran away and turned to Fenrir to calm her down with a few well placed scratches.
It helped me relax too as she soon laid down and huffed, still glaring at the group of adventurers waiting to be healed. I feel sorry for the girls in the group, some of them had even butted in to stop the overly flirty guys from time to time, but there were just too many.
"Don't worry about her, she'll be keeping guard." I told the priestesses of Kynareth that were all gaping and gazing fearfully at the giant Hellhound that appeared out of nowhere, some of the companions by the guild entrance had even picked up arms. "Feel free to pet her if you want, her weak spots are her ears." And with that I moved on to keep on healing the now very quiet adventurers with a very bright smile on my face.
It didn't take long for the priestesses to swarm Fenrir and just swoon on how beautiful she was while filling her with scratches and pets. Fenrir was in heaven, I could feel that through our link.
Of course they all had to get back to work soon since I couldn't do everything myself. And now that everything was more peaceful and quiet I went on to make small talk with Danica and find out more about her.
I mostly asked about her class as a magician and I was pleasantly surprised at finding out that she was actually an Expert Class Restoration Mage and an Adept Class Destruction Mage with the Ice affinity. I will definitely ask for her help in making my Wards 'better' next time, but for now, there are actually a great deal of Adventurers that are coming over for healing.
I didn't go take a break to eat in the end as I'd feel bad for leaving the priestesses to deal with this swarm of injured adventurers so I just stayed behind and kept healing. Luckily, the Healing spell didn't cost much and even after multiple hours I just used slightly more than half of my total Mana reserves.
Ariana came out to check if I came back, and after seeing me helping heal the adventurers she stopped by for a few minutes. All those minutes were spent petting the giant Hellhound keeping guard over the place after realizing that she was a good girl, then she quickly left as she was very busy herself. No one can catch a break here huh?
It wasn't until the sun was starting to set that I ran out of Mana and drank a Mana Potion to recover it all and to erase my headache that I decide to stop. The stream of adventurers was now just a few every couple of minutes and many of the priestesses had also switched with others as they were out of Mana too.
I had made quite a few gains at least. So the suffering was kinda worth it.
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 23/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (14)
Restoration (20)
Enchanting (4)
Alteration (6)]
Just five more levels and I should unlock the Apprentice Class spells hopefully. My Alteration went up a single level too, not much but eh. I'll take everything at this point.
I put Fenrir back into the Pet Space after the priestesses were done petting her some more then went into the guild to grab a large bite to eat as I was famished.
I didn't see neither Gnoll, Farkas or Aela anywhere so I simply picked a table by myself and started eating a large plate of Mountain Goat meat, which was so soft and tender and delicious!
I could feel the stares on me from the noises I was making but I don't really care at this point, I'm just enjoying myself. I wonder if everything is going alright with Aurash? I can't wait to see her reaction once I put the strongest Enchantments I can think of on her armour.
I gave my body a stretch after I was done eating and then stood up, I had something to ask the reception. I needed Soul Gems for my Enchanting, and right now I barely have twenty. I need way more than that.
"Excuse me!" I drew the attention of the man behind the counter. Big wall of muscles wearing tight leather pants ad a pink apron together with a spiked choker. Why the fuck is he wearing a pink apron behind the reception?
"What can I do for you sugar?" And why the fuck does he remind me of the black lunch lady back at school? That woman was an angel.
"Can I ask where I can purchase filled and empty Soul Gems?" I got straight to the point, making the man behind the counter blink a few times before he hummed and grabbed a book from below the counter. He opened it and went through a couple of pages before stopping.
"You can buy them here sugar. Five Septims for the empty ones, Fifty Septims for the full ones." That's very cheap! It's probably because while one can recharge an Enchantment with them, depending on the quality of the sword, one can use and Enchantment a limited amount of times before the weapon breaks. And I doubt it can be repaired while the Enchantment is on.
I ended up buying forty empty ones and forty full ones, for a total of 2200 Septims. They will be enough for a while I think, or I can just go and fill more inside the dungeon tomorrow.
"Flora!" I turned my head as Aela approached me with a very sexy walk that truly made her long legs shine. I tried my best not to salivate at the sight. "Damn, you look dead on your feet, you should go back and rest." Damn, do I? I know I am quite a bit tired but I didn't think it was that visible!
"Aurash will be back in a few minutes too, she looks just as tired as you." I nod my head in thanks and wait for my purchase to be delivered as I make small talk with Aela.
Apparently they had now put a large numbers of sentinels all over the place and on the walls, sent runners to all the major cities about the danger. A runner had actually come from Windhelm to warn the city about the possible dragon threat. It was a surprisingly good move by Ulfric, and while I thought that he wanted to bring the city to his side, Aela stated that Ulfric has been the only one to care about keeping Whiterun's neutrality. The Imperials not so much.
Is it just me or are the Stormcloaks much better than those I remember? It might just be my imagination though.
Either way, the dragon attack is interfering with Ulfric winning the Civil War, but I doubt he'll just stand still. Neither will the Blades. They should be capable of handling dragons too, but I just hope Delphine isn't the damn leader. I want them on my side, but I can't see myself just getting along with that woman.
I didn't have to wait long for my purchase to be delivered, and after collecting it and bidding Aela farewell I departed to my house.
While on my way there I made sure to release a dozen Spirit Ravens into the sky to keep watch all around just in case, I'd rather not be caught off guard.
I stepped into my house and went into the garden to release Fenrir, then fixed the garden and sprouted another tree that won't survive the night before retreating back inside. And then just as I made my way towards the Arcane Enchanter I was hit by a genius idea on how to get back at Aurash.
I cackled evilly as I walked back to the living room right by the door and got everything ready for my revenge.
(Ten Minutes Later)
The door to the house creaked a bit before it was pushed open, the large figure of Aurash coming into view as she yawned into her hand and shut the door behind herself. Then she froze when her eyes landed on me.
I was fully naked, tied up with vines and kneeling on the table, giving her the best fearful expression I ever could.
"W-what-"
"Oh no! The big, perverted Orc is back!" I 'screamed', cutting her off as I 'struggled in my bindings. "Oh, what perverted things will she do to me? I shall never submit!" I kept up my act as Aurash actually flushed and tried to shush me, it was hard to hide the smile and to stop myself from laughing, but I managed to keep going.
"Go ahead then, tell me how you plan to ravish my body! Tell me all the erotic things you will do to me!"
"Flora!"
"So rough it is! I hope my mind can handle those rough hands defiling my body while that mouth tastes my nectar and drinks it from the source! As expected from an Orc, their favourite sex toys are young virgin elves!"
"Flora!"
"Ah! It's starting, but my heart isn't ready yet!"
"Flora!" I couldn't hold back anymore and burst out into laughter, my face red as I dropped on the table, the vines coming undone after I lost focus on my magic. I pointed at the panting and flushed Aurash as I rolled on the table while laughing loudly, unable to even speak as I held my aching sides, my stomach starting to hate.
Oh god, this went better than I expected!
"Fine…" I stopped laughing as my head snapped towards Aurash, the grin on her face making my legs quiver. "Since you went so far to prepare dinner for me, it would be rude if I didn't savour it." I squeaked and rolled off the table, gathered my clothes and ran upstairs as Aurash laughed behind me.
Dang it! She managed to make a comeback!
I put my clothes on before going back downstairs with the most vicious pouting glare I could ever muster, but Aurash grinned at me. I know she was still affected by what I did as her cheeks were still darkened. Funny how us humans blush red and Orcs just blush dark green.
"I have to admit though, that body of yours is a piece of art." I squeaked and covered my chest, then just gave her a vicious hook in the belly that made my hand ache. Her muscles are made of steel!
She's lucky I don't have Oakflesh on!
"Anyway…" I coughed into my fist and ignored my flushed face as I went ahead and changed the topic. "How did it go?" We sat at the table as Aurash bought out a few full plates and set them around the table. She probably grabbed them at the guild before coming back. They do prepare everything quite fast.
I already ate but I won't say no to more food, so I dug in while Aurash told me everything she did.
First, the black armour we had found was actually made of Ebony, but because a long time has passed, she can't bring it back to it's full glory but can still smelt it back and reforge it to a very good and strong state. I inquired about how to acquire more Ebony to forge weapons and stuff, but she told me that Ebony costed tens of thousands, and right now we couldn't afford it yet. But once the Alchemy business picks up we'll be able too.
She also told me that she will use this opportunity to familiarize herself with smelting Ebony and forging it so to better her skills for the future. Luckily, since she was using the Skyforge to do everything, Eourlund told her that anything forged within the Skyforge would come out quite a bit stronger than normal. Which should slightly make up the fact that the Ebony Armour was very aged and weakened.
And then she told me that she practiced with Alteration magic and could easily cast the Oakflesh spell and keep it up for several hours without problem, which is very good.
We kept eating as I told her about what I did during the day, the things that went down into the dungeon and outside of it. Then I had to stop her from barging into the guild and finding the fucker that grabbed my wrist and 'Bend him over her knee the wrong way', or that's how she put it.
I kinda like how protective she is of me.
"Are you going to sleep tonight?" I hummed at her question before shrugging as I stood up. It depends on how long it takes me to give in into my headache after Enchanting items. "If you do, tie yourself up." I blinked and then sent her a very confused look, and received a very deadpan one in exchange.
"You moved around every second. You backhanded me in the face several times, bit my chest three times, headbutted my chin four times and then wrapped yourself around me like a snake for most of the night. You even fell off the damn bed and didn't wake up!" My face flushed more and more with each word she said as I just covered it turned away.
I forgot that I'm possibly the worst sleeper in the world! I'm worse than a tornado once I fall asleep. I toss and turn and kick and snore a lot.
I sag my shoulder and turn around, sighing as I walk to the Arcane Enchanter to ignore the laughing Aurash behind me. I could always sleep in the garden so to not rob her away from her sleep, as I'd feel bed.
But cuddling while sleeping is just divine.
I shake my head and grab an old weapon from the scrap pile beside the Arcane Enchanter, then placed ten filled Soul Gems to the side so that I can easily reach and grab them when needed.
I'll try and put a very powerful Enchantment first and see what level these old weapons can handle, then I'll experiment with the few armours I have to see what kind of Enchantment I can put on them.
I first went with: Flame, Burst, Wave, Thirty. It should create an explosion that will then release a large wave of flames in an area of thirty meters, but the sword couldn't handle the Enchantment and it crumbled to dust along the Soul Gem.
I didn't let it bring me down and lowered the Thirty to a Twenty, but the next sword still crumbled. They can only handle a Ten unfortunately. Neither too little nor too much but it's acceptable. Not as much as I wanted though.
I'll have to make up with quantity over quality.
I enchanted five Swords/Axes/Greatswords/War Axes with Fire, then five with Ice and five with Electricity and used a total of seven Mana Potions through the whole ordeal. I can handle more Enchantments now before having to recharge with a Mana Potions. My reserves have truly grown quite a lot.
I then switched to the armours and had a pretty good idea of what kind of Enchantments to put on them and the how. Of course they are just for tests, no one will wear these old dusty smelly things.
The Enchantments on the gauntlets are: Boost. Physical. Twofold.
The Enchantment held and I tried them on, and needless to say I could feel the difference. I could easily lift a War Axe now without a problem by wearing the gauntlets, where before I had to lift it with roots.
The Enchantment on the boots are: Boost. Speed. Twofold.
I didn't put them on but I was sure they work like I want them to. I placed the same Enchantment on the other pair of boots before tossing them aside too while massaging my temple, but I didn't stop and bought up a chestplate. I only had two of them so I have to make them count.
After a bit of thinking I decided to go direct and put: Boost. Defence. Twofold.
Luckily it worked, so it should give some additional protection to whoever wears it. I should also see to Enchant necklaces and rings, or see if I can do that at least, it would be incredibly useful.
I tossed the chestplate aside and grabbed the only helmet I have. The Enchantment I have in mind should work hopefully as it's very specific and direct.
What I put on it was: Boost. Regeneration. Twofold.
And luckily it held! So anyone that wears this will heal twice as fast, which is fantastic. I should be able to put stronger ones on the armour Aurash will make, but first I need to see if I can notice when a piece of armour or weapon can't handle an Enchantment.
Oh well, those are thoughts for tomorrow. Right now my head is killing me and I want to sleep.
I downed a Mana Potion to alleviate the headache as I walked into the garden, willing a pair of tree to sprout and grow, then have them join together by several branches together and create a hammock out of them with leaves as bedding.
I stripped myself down fully and blew a kiss towards Fenrir as she happily chewed on the tree I had previously sprouted before hopping onto the very comfy hammock I created, then opened my Status to check my gains.
[Name: Flora
Race: Nymph
Title: "Child of The Earth"
Job: Druid lv 23/100
Mage Skill Trees:
Destruction (14)
Restoration (20)
Enchanting (15)
Alteration (6)]
Eleven Levels in Enchanting, a massive gain if I do say so myself. Today I gained a lot, and hopefully tomorrow and the rest of the week will be the same as I don't think we have much time left.
I just hope we are can take on whatever comes at us.
[Crossposted from Questionable Questing!]