The Collection of The End

——4E, 201, Last Seed Moon, 17th, 16:00——

"Boss, let me tell you, bringing me here is the wisest decision you've ever made."

Markuel was tinkering with the box in the corner of the tomb with a lockpicker made of two wires, and at the same time said to Arthur who was standing on guard.

After being almost killed by the ghoul, the robber—or the thief followed Arthur like a frightened bird, wearing iron armor and holding a giant sword. He felt very safe at first glance, and refused to stay too far away, and tried his best to persuade him Turn around and leave the Hanluo Temple quickly.

However, Arthur, who wanted to find out what happened to the dragon, refused. Maybe it was just a coincidence that it passed the cold mountain peak, but the giant dragon that has not appeared for hundreds of years has reappeared, and it might be possible to investigate the murals in the ancient tomb. There will be rewards, especially the ancient tomb with the golden dragon claw as the key.

Click, with a soft sound, the ancient box in front of Makur was unlocked. He lifted the lid and looked at it. After complaining about something, he took out a dozen gold coins from inside and stuffed them into his pocket.

As we all know, the Nords are a fighting nation, and they will usually be buried with their own weapons, and hundreds of years later, it is impossible for the weapons to be intact. The weapons in the hands of those ghouls collided with Arthur's two-handed sword Once down, it can easily break in two.

The weapons and armor were old and decayed, and no jewelry was found buried with the so-called great people, but fortunately there were some ancient coins in the account.

These gold coins are called "Septims", named after the Septim Empire. If it weren't for the fact that the empire had ruled the province of Skyrim for a long enough time, these grave robbers would only get coins that were no longer in circulation and worthless.

"Why do I feel like you're bragging, maybe you haven't seen that door at all." Seeing that Makur finished collecting the spoils, Arthur continued to walk deep into the tomb.

"I've actually seen people looking for Dragon Claw because they couldn't open that door," the thief bent forward to explore the way: "At the beginning, these guys wouldn't get up and chop people up. Can't get it out."

At this time, since they had already penetrated into the tomb, those hastily placed in the groove of the wall rarely appeared. Instead, they were replaced by dark and heavy sarcophagi. The architectural style of the tomb gradually became ancient and majestic. Similarly, the traps became more deadly.

Click! A ghoul kicked open its own coffin and came out. It glanced around with blue eyes, and soon saw Arthur and Marcoul hiding in the passageway of the tomb. It was dragging a giant The hammer approached them, and was cut in half by the black blade that suddenly swept across the passage.

"Quick, quick." The huge blade slowly retracted, and Makur and Arthur took the opportunity to pass through: "The whole passage is a pressure plate, and it is impossible to pass through under normal circumstances. Fortunately, there are those brainless ghouls."

Click, click, click - after the blade trap on the back was reset, dozens of other sarcophagi in this tomb were kicked open by their "occupants".

"No brains? Huh?" Arthur raised his sword to block a flying Gornold arrow, and then ran irregularly towards the ghouls who were all holding Gornold bows: "Hide yourself!"

With bows and arrows, if you let go of the bowstring as soon as you draw the bowstring, the arrow will not fly far and will not have any strength. It may even poke the archer's own foot. The correct choice is to determine the strength of the bow according to the target and the specific situation. However Naturally, these ghoul archers didn't remember what happened, and each of them pulled the bowstring to the maximum strength before letting go. This gave Arthur, who was also proficient in bow and arrow, a chance.

After Arthur fit and knocked down a ghoul, the giant sword directly took the head, then snatched the bow and arrow in its hand, rolled to avoid a round of bow and arrow shots, and then responded to the roll call one by one.

However, the essence of these ghouls is mummies, even if the arrows hit their torso, it will have no effect. With the dangling arrows on their bodies, they continue to draw the bow and aim at Arthur until the head is hit, and the blue flames in the eyes are extinguished. Down,

During this period, Arthur was also hit by a few arrows, but after all, it was iron armor and was not shot through. In the end, he still wiped out all the ghouls who could not rest in peace.

During this period, in the mysterious starry sky, the constellations representing "bow" and "heavy armor" each light up a star morning.

"Boss, the riddle door is behind..." Makur, who didn't dare to stand up until the end of the battle, slipped out and said while searching the ghoul archers: "And, there are so many archers in the last tomb , there must be a general-level figure inside."

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At the end of the tomb is a wide corridor with abstract relief murals carved on both sides, and at the end is a thick and strange giant door.

The relief murals do not have any explanatory text, but describe a prophetic scene in uninterrupted painting. The dragon flies across the sky, the corpse crawls out of the tomb, and the last scene shows the dragon spraying on the battle field. Out of Longyan.

"I didn't expect these ancients to predict the war between the Empire and the Stormcloak hundreds of years ago. It's fierce, powerful." Marcus said, shaking his head.

"This kind of ambiguous prophecy," Arthur laughed: "The first two patterns are okay, indicating that the awakening of these ghouls is indeed related to dragons, but the last one can be applied to any war—as early as In twenty years it must be read as a war between the Empire and Thalmer."

As he spoke, he turned to look at the gate with three rings.

In the middle of the gate, there is a claw-shaped groove. Arthur took out the dragon claw seized from Makur and compared it. It was just right, but he pressed it and turned it, but it didn't move at all. At the same time, the secret door on the side of the gate opened. , two ghouls holding two-handed giant swords rushed out.

"That's why," Arthur said after knocking them down easily, "It turns out that if you don't line up the patterns correctly, there will be a 'punishment'."

Surrounding the claw-shaped grooves are rings with embossed patterns. They are quartered, and each arc-shaped area has a pattern, which looks like a dragon, a shroud, a wolf's head, and a snow bear.

"The return of the dragon, the awakening of the dead, the end of the world." Arthur recalled what Makur chanted, then observed the surrounding murals, and finally stretched out his hand and turned the ring so that they were arranged directly above the paw prints into "dragons, Shroud, bear" in order, and then the dragon's claws were pressed, this time it went very smoothly, there was the sound of something turning and rubbing inside the giant door, but it didn't open to both sides, but slowly sank into the ground.

"The Nord Riddle door can still be opened like this?" Makur's eyes widened: "In the future, I will also..."

Pa la la la—a group of bats fleeing in panic behind the gate interrupted him.

Behind the Nord riddle door is an extremely empty tomb hall, which not only surrounds the rockery, but also attracts groundwater as a river. There is a large platform in the middle of the hall, and the most eye-catching one is a huge And the gorgeous sarcophagus was placed in the middle of the high platform.

"Big luck, rich..." Makur rubbed his hands and trotted forward, followed by Arthur.

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If this is the secret of the Cold Fallen Temple and the Golden Dragon Claw, wouldn't it have nothing to do with the dragon?

Arthur stood on the high platform thinking.

The funerary objects this time were as the tomb robbers wished. There were many jewels and jewelry, and Makur hurriedly began to pack them into his pockets, and the owner of the gorgeous sarcophagus seemed to have no intention of kicking the coffin board to teach him a lesson.

No, there should be some clues here...huh?

Arthur's gaze was attracted by a semicircular groove on the mountain wall, engraved with a large number of rough lines that seemed to be scratched with claws, but it was not written in any language he remembered, and one of the "words" was exactly Shining with the same blue light as in the eyes of those ghouls.

Could it be... Arthur tried to approach it.

In an instant, a gust of cold wind blew head-on from the direction of the "words", making him unable to see anything except those strange words for a while. He picked up the giant sword in surprise, but But the expected enemy did not appear, but the set of words was engraved into his mind in some unreasonable way, each stroke was extremely clear, and when he looked at the semi-circular stone wall again, the blue flame on the words had already disappeared. Completely disappear.

"Boss, look what I found—" "Crack!"

Makur searched for "trophies" everywhere, but the owner of the tomb didn't respond. Finally, when he dared to open the tribute box in front of the sarcophagus, the coffin lid was kicked open, and someone who was obviously stronger than the other ghouls came out of the sarcophagus. He crawled out, holding a two-handed sword that glowed with blue light, and stared at him condescendingly.

"I, I'll just put it back," Markul said incoherently, and really planned to put the funeral jewels back in.

"【Fus】!" The ghoul turned into by the owner of the tomb roared loudly.

This roar seemed to inspire some mysterious power, and a shock wave appeared out of nowhere in front of the ghoul, sending Makur flying far away, and the jewels in his hand spilled all over the ground.

drink! Naturally, Arthur couldn't wait for it to turn around and repeat its tricks to him. With a low snort, he swung his sword and stabbed the ghoul from behind.

However, this ghoul seemed to have eyes behind it, and swung its sword in the opposite direction to block without turning around. When the steel two-handed sword hit its ancient Nord sword, the blade was directly covered with a layer of frost. Se withdrew his sword in time, and even his hands would be frozen.

"That's an enchanted weapon——" Makur, who flew far away, seemed to be fine, and shouted while picking up his lost jewels: "—it's quite valuable!"

"What is that roar!" Arthur raised his sword to confront the mighty ghoul, and at the same time asked Markul what happened to the blow that knocked him flying.

"That's the dragon's roar—" Makur didn't dare to get close, and replied from a distance: "A skill that can only be mastered by the powerful Old Nords!"

I don't know if the dragon's roar has been re-prepared, or the ghoul took advantage of Makur's compliment, it opened its mouth to Arthur again: "【Fus】!"

A huge air current hit his face, but Arthur felt that the gust of wind was no different from when he got the text memory from the stone wall just now. He was not blown away like Makur, and then suddenly realized that the pronunciation of the text was "Fus ", but there is still something missing that prevents him from making the same roar as the ghoul in front of him.

The ghoul probably felt that the enemy in front of him would be blown away, so he was a little numb. After the roar ended, he couldn't help but slow down when he saw Arthur who was charging up instead of flying away.

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The next moment, its skinny head flew up into the air, and the blue fire in its eyes was gradually extinguished with unwillingness. The last thing it heard was Makuer's chattering voice.

"We got rich, boss, this kind of frost-enchanted weapon is very valuable, and the jewels buried with him, oh, why is there a stone here?"