The Collection of The End

——4E, 201, Last Seed Moon, 20th, 11:00——

The western sentry tower is a defensive tower located west of Xueman. It is built on the Xueman plain that is about to reach the mountain. It can protect the commercial road to the south, and can cooperate with another "White Watch Tower" to monitor the north. The entire northern mountainous area might be infested by monsters or robbers. As for those wandering giants who domesticate mammoths, they will not approach this kind of difficult-to-destroy building. It can be said that it is quite safe to be on duty here-provided that it is completed.

Sowad King is the guard captain of this western outpost. He has spent several months building this outpost. At present, the main stone tower has been built by the workers, and he only needs to wait to go to the creek. The guards who bought the building materials from Muzhen returned, and the wall around the tower can be built, and it becomes a barely qualified defensive outpost as a whole, and then the lord will send more guards to settle in, so naturally he doesn't have to continue to face this kind of guards. The two, and the rest were all workers, more of a foreman's dilemma than a captain of the guard.

"Hey, boss—" Thor, who had a relatively loud voice, waved to Thorwald when he was still some distance away from the tower construction site: "We brought back construction materials, and a group of workers—"

It’s strange if it’s the workers. Thorwald stood on the half-built city gate and watched the convoy. Since the stones and logs were transported without any shelter, it was impossible for any robbers to be stupid enough to rob them, so these were forced to Pulling the cart, the four or five guys who looked like robbers probably took over from Ximu Town.

Ximu Town is nearly two days away from here, and Thor and Loki need to ensure the safety of the wagon, so it is basically impossible to have time to pay attention to those captives, so they are unwilling to work. The stubborn ones had already taken the opportunity to escape, leaving behind only some preparatory workers who were willing to do the labor themselves. They may not be good at work, but they can be taught slowly, and it should be no problem for them to take up weapons to drive away beasts and monsters.

"Hurry up!" Thorwald responded loudly to the convoy: "Unload all the building materials just in time for dinner!"

Loki and Thor are fine, and the robbers pulling the cart seem to have become more motivated, which shows that the two brothers often talked to them about the benefits of being in the sentry tower on the road, and it also proved that they have not killed them yet. Extraordinary, truly evil-hearted robbers will never yearn for "working and eating", and that kind of guy is also the main target of the guards everywhere.

"If I were you, I would let them leave the convoy and hide in the sentry tower." A female voice sounded beside Thorwad.

Thorwald looked back and saw a girl wearing a mage's robe. She had the appearance of an imperial person with black hair and black eyes, but she had a pair of pointed ears like an elf. It was impossible to determine her identity for a while, although the Nords generally I don't like to see mages, but I can't ignore the power they have. Maybe this is a mage apprentice who goes out to do errands?

"Citizen," the captain of the guard finally chose a proper address: "This is the military base of Snowman City, please don't hang out here if you don't have important things to do."

"Important thing," the elf mage raised his finger and pointed around: "Does it count that this place will be destroyed by Long Yan soon?"

"Dragon Flame?" Thorwald laughed: "Ms. Mage, I don't know if you have studied the prophecy spells, but our court mage Farenja made several prophecies for the site selection of this sentry tower, and finally Sure it's safest here—and, dragons? They've been gone for centuries."

He was even more sure that this was a sorcerer's apprentice who knew something about prophecy spells but was not good at learning, but since she kindly reminded him, he didn't need to speak harshly. It was almost noon at this time, so he could consider treating her to a meal. After her prediction is wrong, maybe she can take the opportunity to ask her to enchant the standard weapons in the arsenal a little bit.

The elf mage looked at him, blinked,

But no further explanation.

"Hey~Boss~" At this time the first carriage of the convoy had arrived at the sentry tower, and Loki jumped out of the car: "Do you know what news is circulating in Ximu Town? They say that a dragon destroyed Helgen , is flying towards Xueman, isn’t it ridiculous? It hasn’t arrived in two days, is that dragon crawling underground?”

It's ridiculous - Thorwald originally planned to smile in agreement, but he couldn't laugh at all. He can become the captain of the guard, so he naturally has better intuition than ordinary guards. He just refuted the mage's words with the only argument that "dragons don't Existence", but the news of the material convoy made up for it.

"Dragon..." He turned his head to look at the elf mage beside him.

"Here," the mage gestured to the long convoy on the road, except for the stone carriage that had already entered the wall of the sentry tower, all of them were vehicles loaded with logs: "One swooping breath can completely burn it, even if I Also... I mean, if I could fly and breathe fire, I wouldn't be able to resist doing that."

"Mu, what's the purpose?" Thorwald began to look around the sky.

"Do you want to talk to the beast about your purpose? It's probably just for fun." The elf girl raised her hand and swiped in the direction of the convoy, and finally pointed to the tower: "There is something that can't be burned at last, and it will probably spray a few more. "

"[choke——]" A huge, wild and coercive roar resounded in the sky, and the nasty horses pulling the cart broke free from the reins in panic and fled in all directions, while the robber escorts even fled directly towards the tower. But Loki and Thor brothers drew their swords instead and looked around, as if they were ready to meet the enemy.

"You two idiots!" Thorwald yelled, "Hurry up and get out of the tower!"

It was as big as a mountain and as black as ink. In the next moment, a huge monster gliding down from the sky, hovering in the air with flickering wings, watching Loki and Thor, and Thorwald swore he saw this monster only in the sky. The lizard-like face of the "giant dragon" seen in murals and books showed a playful smile.

"It's really troublesome." He heard the female elf mage beside him say, and when he turned his head to look, he found that she had taken out a weird staff at some point, and slammed it on the ground under his feet.

"[Roar!]" The giant dragon spread its wings and swooped down towards Loki and Thor. The dragon flames from its mouth completely ignited the timber carts along the way.

Huh—— Thorwad, who was distracted, noticed that although Loki and Thor were in a panic by the breath, there was no sign of fire on their bodies at all, and they were retreating to the tower in panic, while the elf mage was inexplicable. A flame ignited, and its heat made him take two steps back involuntarily.

"Ha... I might be able to draw Joan now?" The mage robe on his body was burning violently, but the mage said something inexplicable without realizing it, and even took out an "M" shaped forehead ornament and pressed it on He turned his head, and then turned to Thorwald: "That guy will come back in a few hours, evacuate the workers as soon as possible and ask the lord for help, and [you don't need to mention about me]."

In the next instant, her whole body completely disappeared in the flames.

——12:00——

Thorwald had never run so fast before. It took him two or three hours to reach Xueman from the western outpost, but he ran there in less than an hour. Afterwards, he went all the way through the plains and winding areas Directly to Dragon Palace in Genting District.

Although there seemed to be a noble-looking guy on the road who stopped him to complain about "someone shouted in his ear", Thorwald, who was eager to be warned, pushed him into the artificial canal beside the road. Anyway, all the guards in uniform It's all the same, and he has no place to complain.

"Calm down, kid, calm down." Balgruf the Great seems to be entertaining someone, but Thorwald is too exhausted to pay too much attention to him. Make a report.

"Western Outpost was attacked by a dragon—a legendary dragon!" Got it, and I ran back fast to report, Holy Spirit, I've never run so fast!"

Seems like there's something else to report? Thorwald gasped for breath, but couldn't remember for a while.

"What? A dragon? Is it alive? What is it doing? Has it left? Will it come back?" Thorwad heard the court mage Farenja Secretfire asking continuously in a slightly sharp voice.

For this mage he usually admires, Thorwald has an inexplicable contempt and disgust at this moment: "It is going to destroy the sentry tower, and it may come back again at any time!"

"Ireris! Immediately take people to the western outpost for support!" Lord Balgruf ordered his guards very decisively: "Remember to bring enough shields and bows and arrows."

"I'm going to help too, Lord Lord." An unfamiliar voice sounded, and Thorwald, who was almost unconscious due to too much overdraft, looked up. A, looking confident in himself: "I have plenty of experience fighting dragons."

"Yes, maybe we need your experience." The lord nodded slowly.

"I'll go too, a living dragon! It's more important than studying dragon burial pictures." Farenja also recommended himself.

"No, Farenga, that's a dragon. My soldiers cannot guarantee that they can protect you well in the battle against this unknown enemy, and you are very important to Xueman, so there must be no mistakes." Balgruf the Great He patted the mage on the shoulder and pushed him back into his seat.

"And you, child, you have worked hard. I order you to go to the Dragon Cloud Palace Barracks to rest immediately. Xueman's warriors will protect that sentry tower." The lord turned to Thorwald, whose consciousness was already blurred.

What the hell did I forget? With some doubts, Thorwald's consciousness fell into darkness.