Lost Narrative Poetry

"Mage?"

The burly and powerful Lord Balgruuf, the ruler of Xueman Territory, sat on a seat at the end of the Longxiao Palace hall, frowning at the black figure standing in the palace.

Wearing a black cloak, with a pure black exterior and red lining, the wide cloak fell neatly behind him, making him look very neat and elegant. Most of his face under the hood was hidden in the shadows, with only his smooth lower jaw exposed.

A very young mage, and not a race other than humans, which made Lord Balgruuf a little disappointed.

He had not originally planned to meet the other party. Although he was not a lord who liked to put on airs, he was indeed busy with everything going on. There were too many things in the Snowman Territory that he needed to worry about, especially now that the situation in the entire Skyrim Province was in danger. in the case of.

If anyone who came to Longxiao Palace could be received by him without saying his name or whether he had brought important news, would Lord Balgruuf still have to work?

The reason why he changed his mind now was because when he was worried about the situation, he received a report from the guard. He couldn't help but feel that no one would be bored to entertain himself. In addition, the guard said that the other party looked mysterious. , he would subconsciously think that maybe he should meet him.

Unfortunately, Lord Balgruuf was a little disappointed with the mage's first impression.

The mystery is indeed very mysterious...

But young is indeed too young...

If you have no hair on your mouth, you will not be able to do things well. Even if many people don't say it on the surface, they actually still think so. Especially the profession of mage is different from that of warriors. What is required is not youth and strength, but the accumulation of wisdom, knowledge and experience, which often increases in proportion to age. of.

Not a race with extraordinary talents and no special bloodline, such mages are basically just apprentice-level rookies, right?

In order to confirm this, Lord Balgruuf also felt carefully and found that the opponent's sacred magic power fluctuations were extremely weak and could not be felt at all. Finally, he gave up completely.

"What's the matter with you?" The lord asked in a deep voice without expressing his thoughts and disappointment, with a majestic look on his face.

"Lord, please introduce yourself. I am a traveler..." The magician looked at the Lord Xueman who had not been seen for a long time with some emotion, and then smiled slightly, "I came to visit you this time because I want to communicate with you. You make a deal.”

"trade?"

Lord Balgruuf was startled for a moment, then became more interested. He leaned forward and held his chin with one hand, looking at the mysterious man in front of him with interest: "Tell me, what is it specifically?"

Then, he saw the mysterious mage raised his head slightly and smiled at himself. The clear eyes under the hood suddenly looked at him, as if there was a kind of creepy magic power. Able to suck people's souls in.

Without any resistance, Lord Balgruuf felt a strange stiffness spreading in his body, hindering even the simplest movements, making him unable to look away.

In just an instant, he felt as if his consciousness had been pulled out of his body. Pulled by some invisible force, he was sucked into a pair of eyes that were more terrifying than a black hole. The sky and the earth were both within his consciousness. Moving away quickly, time becomes visible and instantly zooms in, constantly magnifying.

Or maybe his soul was not actually pulled out of his body, but some information flowed into his mind, as if a whole image of the universe was slowly unfolding in his mind, as if he was standing on the edge overlooking the darkness and horror. Like a bottomless abyss, he could definitely see it at this moment——

future!

From the very near to the very far, from the very large to the very small, they swarm in and revolve around the human senses.

It was a magnificent scene of doomsday destruction, the void was shaking, and chaos was disintegrating.

It is extremely vast and endless, far beyond the horror that humans can imagine. It is an ancient celestial body that is trembling and cracking...

Disturbing revelations flooded Balgruuf's mind, and he instantly understood what was going on.

In the universe of Orbis, there are a total of eight planets. According to those extremely ancient legends that have been passed down to this day, those celestial bodies are actually the "body" of the fallen Idra... In other words, each planet They are all the planes or bodies of one god, corresponding to the legends and beliefs of the eight holy spirits.

The mass and volume of each god's plane are infinite, but they appear as a ball in the eyes of mortals. This is the true face of the planet. This is due to the limitations and stereotypes of mortals' own thinking. Their horizons are not widened and they can only see the extremely distant corpses of gods as a limited "point" in the night sky.

As it stands now, this is not nonsense.

Those celestial bodies and those huge planes wrapped in the night sky are trembling and disintegrating at this moment. They have been silent for eternity and endless years. They are resurrecting from "death" and struggling to survive in the universe. Break free from the shackles of the void.

The void is like an angry ocean that is constantly biting. The surging waves are coming in waves. The gods are resurrected and the world is collapsing. The trembling shock waves are passing through, shaking the trembling void. . As a result, space was distorted, time was also rolled into a whirlpool, and all orders, laws and even common sense began to become chaotic.

Everything in the world has been subverted, not to mention the rules of physics, even magic will go abnormal at this moment.

On a macro level, even the river of time is shrinking, and everything is falling apart. The eight planes are like eight spokes, like a wheel structure supporting the material plane in the middle. The entire world is falling apart from the inside out. Collapse and shatter.

From the virtual historical information to the physical material energy, everything is like a sand castle piled up on the beach, which has collapsed the moment the waves hit it.

It's a very simple truth. If the world is a house, then the current situation is that all the pillars, foundations, load-bearing walls, etc. of the house suddenly come to life. They are trying to escape outwards and escape from their destined destiny. But no matter what, the house will definitely collapse.

Balgruuf could only passively accept this information. Even the most determined Nord barbarian could not help but lose consciousness at this moment.

This had nothing to do with race, nor was it an impact that a mortal's will and mind could easily withstand. He only felt dizzy, with countless terrifying sights and thoughts squeezing his consciousness, suppressing his instincts and rationality.

This fear can overwhelm the rationality of any mortal, especially when it is directly revealed and understood what is going on.

He subconsciously looked at the planet Nirn and the world where mortals lived.

Immediately afterwards, we saw the furious ocean swallowing the land, volcanoes erupting and billowing smoke, and under the unprecedented super earthquake, the islands and the mainland cracked and sank into the sea...Nairn was no exception, the bones of the earth cracked , the ancient god crawled out of the abyss.

next moment--

A clear and clear voice sounded beside the man: "This is the end. They come from the stars, and everything will end."

…………

With a jolt, Balgruuf returned to reality in a trance.

He turned his head and looked around in confusion, and found that he was still in the familiar Longxiao Palace. The palace of Nuoda inevitably seemed a bit empty, with two long tables and rows of long braziers arranged below. Neat, with a roaring fire burning in the brazier.

It made the air in the empty palace feel a little warmer in the cold.

In the past, he would feel a sense of fulfillment sitting here, even though he was troubled by all kinds of endless affairs and troubles... But now, all of this made him feel unusually unreal, as if he was rootless and floating. Ping, will disappear at any time.

"Lord?"

The captain of the guard next to him was an elite among the elites. He noticed something strange in an instant and immediately misunderstood.

Could it be that this mage was so unafraid of death that when he met with the ruler of Xueman Territory, he dared to use illusions to try to confuse and control the spirit of the lord?

"Stop, I'm fine." Balgruuf came to his senses, raised his hand and said in a deep voice, stopping the guards coming from all around.

The latter and the others looked at each other in confusion. For a moment they were not sure what was going on. However, the court mage was still nearby. He carefully observed the lord's condition and confirmed that he was not affected by any spells before he nodded at the captain of the guard. head.

A confrontation that was not only confrontational but also ended invisibly, and nothing happened.

"..."

"..."

After being silent for a long time, Balgruuf, who was sitting in his seat, didn't know what he was thinking, and his face was very gloomy.

He very much hoped that everything he had just experienced, those brief and fragmented consciousnesses, were all a false dream, but it turned out to be so real that it made his hair stand on end. It was neither an image nor a sound, but an undeniable revelation.

This extremely mysterious mage, who claims to be just a traveler, has just sent his mind into the river of time, across the abyss of time, and the spirit projected into the future has clearly seen the terrifying doomsday——

Mu Yong questioned that the entire universe will undergo a major collapse, catastrophe, and mass extinction in the not-too-distant future!

"Why is this happening?" The man asked with a hoarse voice, staring at the mysterious existence in front of him.

He met the other person in the hope that this person could bring some change to himself who had been having a headache these days.

Fortunately, a turning point has indeed appeared. Balgruuf had always been troubled by the sharp reduction in food production due to the civil war in Skyrim. Now it seems that he no longer has to worry about it - in the face of more terrible disasters, this is not worth paying attention to at all. The problem.

"After the creation of the world, no Idra survived..."

The magician smiled slightly, "But why did the gods sacrifice themselves to create the world? The world and mortals do not enjoy the dividends brought by their sacrifices as a matter of course. They don't want to continue to maintain the world now, it's that simple."

The fall at this time is for the ascension at that time, and the gods created the world for the purpose of transcendence.

It is not because God loves the world and is selfless, so he created the world and incarnated all things...

There is no right or wrong in this kind of thing, and there is no distinction between good and evil. It's just that the weak really don't have the power to choose, so everything can only end here.

"Mage, what was the deal... you were talking about before?" Taking a deep breath, Balgruuf asked in a deep voice.

This is definitely an existence that can rival the gods. No matter what, this is the only glimmer of hope he can rely on at the moment.

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Time flies by, about two months later.

A tall tower, invisible to ordinary people, stood up in Xueman Territory. It imitates the structure of the world wheel, places itself at the absolute center of the universe, reproduces the basis of the rules of creation, and becomes the pillar of the world.

Xia Ran personally visited the Throat of the World and took away the original stone of the Snow Tower without anyone knowing. "Tower" is a very important concept, but in this world, not all It refers to tower-type buildings.

For example, the "Brass Tower" is the god created by the Dwemer clan for themselves. This walking giant tower looks like a human, and it is a brass giant walking in the world...

Another example is the "Staff of Chaos", which itself is one of many "towers"... So the true face of the "Snow Tower" is actually a mountain, the highest peak in the world standing in the sky, which is not surprising.

The magician itself has nothing to care about. It has already reached this point. Rather than letting these things disappear with the entire universe, it is better to use them and maintain the key process of this history.

That's right, Xia Ran does not intend to tamper with history during this time period. Doing so will cause unnecessary trouble.

Because this universe is the dream of the great god Anu...

Time and space can be played with at will in front of the transcendent, but if the timeline to be modified is caught in the struggle between two powerful beings, it will become very troublesome. Although God Anu doesn't know what he went through to fall into such a long dream, he is definitely the best among the immortals.

His dreams created the universe of The Elder Scrolls. This is not surprising, but the scary thing is that even the thoughts in the dreams can evolve into conceptual gods. After escaping from Anu's dreams, they are also real gods. Immortals in a certain sense can be said to be existences like gods and demons in the upper world.

This is very scary.

Xia Ran didn't want to have a meaningless fight and waste time, so after looking back at this period of history, he felt that maintaining this time and space node was a more profitable option. Don't clash with Anu and let everything continue as history does.

In this way, this part of his past can be protected twice - if someone wants to make a fuss about this, the changes in the timeline will also affect this powerful immortal who gave up on himself and fell into a long dream. At that time, there will be a double whammy plus getting out of bed.

"It's so nostalgic..."

On the high tower, facing the long hunting wind, the magician stared at the group of people who arrived in this plane accompanied by the invisible law light pillar.

They appeared out of thin air in the depths of the snowy mountains just north of Xueman Territory, shivering amidst the heavy snow and the roaring cold wind all over the mountains and plains. Each one of them was as cold as a grandchild. But because of this, they appeared in the inaccessible place. In the wilderness, it was easy to integrate into this world in the first place.

The magician saw the scene where Loli, who was still 1.4 meters tall, was chattering to the members and temporary members, and he also saw himself who was still very young at the time.

Xia Ran, a lost person who had just entered this mission world, also brushed away the snowflakes falling on his head, turned to look at the tall tower standing in the snowman collar in the distance, and smiled calmly.

The magician looked away and no longer looked at himself. After all, this feeling was really a subtle feeling of schizophrenia.

He turned his eyes to the sky, staring at the beams of light coming in the past or future. These were traces of the space's time-travel delivery technology, as obvious as the trajectory clouds of fighter jets.

During this period of time, the world continued to have an influx of visitors from outside the world. Some of them had no physical strength and were unable to rely on muscle power to break the rules of physics. Their speeds were as slow as an old woman crossing the road, unable to reach the speed of light at all. of ordinary people.

There is also the aura of those in superior positions.

This is understandable. The levels of this world are not ordinary dungeons for wanderers. There are also many opportunities such as power, knowledge, etc. that they can use and pursue. Therefore, when the main line of space is opened, they will definitely use all their means to come to this world. international.

Xia Ran is a peace-loving person and does not want to have any conflicts with them, so although he does not stop these colleagues who are working hard to make progress, he expresses to them tactfully that he does not want to be disturbed by others——

Under the infinite divine radiance, the huge ancient snake entrenched itself in the sky province of countless timelines, looking indifferently at the wanderers who descended in different event elements, its huge sacred body exuding Cold meaning.

Don't get close to strangers, stay away from familiar ones, I'll beat you to death if you dare to get close!

This undisguised and naked threat, after measuring the gap between them, those alien gods and demons wisely chose to stay away, and none of them entered the boundaries of the Skyrim Province.

At the same time, in the depths of Longxiao Palace, not only was it shrouded in infinite divine radiance, but the demonic artifact that was extremely close to the source of divinity could not help but tremble and hum. Even the demon god himself in the realm of annihilation outside the world felt trembling.

Unimaginably powerful...

Mephala felt an extremely terrible sense of crisis, unprecedented.

Because the Ebony Blade, a demonic artifact, was equivalent to an extension of his power, he could very intuitively feel how majestic and majestic the existence so close at hand was. It was definitely not an existence that he could compete with, so he also had A suffocating feeling that death can happen at any time.

While arousing strong curiosity and interest in the unknown areas beyond the world, Mephala also felt the need to do something.

That god is an alien god whose image is an ancient snake with seven heads and ten horns. It makes him unable to think of confrontation, and his sealed demon artifact is still under the eyes of the other party. This is uncomfortable... Now the other party can't even see it. He doesn't even look at himself, but it doesn't matter if his life is in other people's hands.

Hurry up and find an unlucky guy to bind his magic weapon, at least take it away from the range of Longxiao Palace, and don't get so close to that tower or snake, which will make him feel insecure.

At the same time, you can also further implement your own escape plan...

——Thinking about this, Mephala felt that she had to act as soon as possible.