The Collection of The End

——4E, 201, Moon of the Last Seed, 26th, 16:00——

Fairheimer Castle, located at the junction of Snowrun City and Morningstar City, firmly guards a narrow mountain path. It is said that it was a relatively famous pass before Skyrim Province was unified, and "Fierheimer" It is the name of an ancient general who was stationed here. Although it is impossible to test what he did specifically, there are rumors that he once blocked the attack of 20,000 people with 300 defenders here.

"Twenty thousand people, if two hundred people fight here, it will probably be seriously blocked, so..." Behind a boulder outside the castle, Ayla was happily explaining the legend to Arthur, and Arthur looked not far away Little Castle shook his head.

"So what?" Ella, who had painted two white lines on her face vertically passing through her eyes today, flashed her claws towards Arthur.

"So... being able to resist 20,000 with 300 under such circumstances, Philheimer is indeed a hero among the Nords." Arthur continued.

Arguing about the merits of a general who has been dead for years and maybe turned into a ghoul is not a good idea to annoy a lady, especially now that there are no other shield brothers following, Ella wants to show her true colors. The trouble is, she doesn't care about the historical truth, what she cares about is Arthur's attitude towards the fact that "she's telling a story".

"Hmph..." Ella withdrew her claws and pointed at the castle: "Why don't we just go in? All the vampires will wake up and move around at night."

"Our day is their night." Arthur explained: "The most sleepy time for human beings is before dawn, and the worst time for this nocturnal creature's attention is at dusk. What kind of resistance will there be—you haven't forgotten that our mission is to quietly control this place?"

"Yeah," Ella nodded, and suddenly changed the subject: "I can understand that you are afraid that I will get hurt?"

"Uh..." Arthur stopped, what should I say? Isn't fear of her getting hurt just a lack of trust in her skills? Can you look down on ordinary comrades if you can become a dragon? As for not being afraid that she will get hurt... If you say this, you will be the one who gets hurt.

"We are shield brothers in this operation," he finally found the right words: "It is necessary to take care of each other."

"It's the Shield Sisters." Ella was noncommittal to Arthur's statement, but she didn't continue to entangle her.

"Wait a while, after the last vampire on 'Night Duty' shifts, we can sneak in." Arthur looked at the sky, and then moved a little behind the big rock.

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Stinging——Before entering the castle, Arthur tore a magic scroll, a faint blue light enveloped him, and the unavoidable sound of armor clashing when Arthur acted disappeared immediately.

These scrolls were bought by Arthur from the court mage Farenja when he learned that he was going to "infiltrate" operations, and the scroll alone was worth 200 gold coins.

"Waste." Ayla glanced at the scroll that had turned into ashes and disappeared, before silently touching the castle first.

The werewolf form sneaked silently, it was really incomparable, Arthur shook his head and followed.

Filheimer Castle is not so much a castle as it is a well-guarded small manor. There are many passable ladders built up and down between the stone wall and the main building. Anywhere under attack can be quickly reinforced. At the same time, since there is no key position in the strict sense, if you want to occupy this castle, you may have to kill all the defenders.

"Crack", "Puff", "Uh..." "Ugh!"

As the time was approaching dusk, the Silver Hand members in charge of the guards, or the vampires, were a little relaxed. Ella and Arthur silently killed all the enemies in less than half an hour, using throat-cutting and gags. The method of piercing the mouth directly through the heart ensures that they cannot sound any alarm.

"I killed four, what about you?" After reuniting, Ella, who had turned into ears and a tail, looked at the silver two-handed sword that Arthur picked up in disgust.

"You moved so fast, I only killed two—and it's nothing like that?" Arthur hid his two-handed sword behind his back.

Although Ella hates these weapons, she can't throw them away as she likes now. There may not be such enemies with weapons that can cause fatal damage to themselves in the future.

"Hmph... There shouldn't be many vampires left," Ella looked at the low fortress, "unless it has a huge basement."

That's not necessarily true... Arthur took a closer look at the structure of the fortress. It was built against the mountain and firmly embedded in the mountain wall. It would not be surprising if they expanded the space into the mountain, but this is not the case. It is necessary to speak out.

"You—uh!" When Ella was walking towards the main entrance of the fortress, a Silver Hand member just pushed the door out. Before he had time to warn, six cold lights flashed in the air, and he directly clutched his throat and fell to the ground in fatigue.

"Some enemies are already waking up, hurry up!" Ayla shorted her body and jumped in through the open door.

What about the shield brothers who agreed to protect each other's backs? Arthur sighed and ran after him.

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The interior of the castle is as narrow as it can be seen from the outside. Walking through the arsenal at the door and the circular meeting hall is directly the barracks, but it is quite scary to have more than a dozen coffins in the barracks where the beds should be arranged.

"Ah!" "Enemy attack!" "It's the dog of the comrade-in-arms group!" "Meet the enemy!"

Even if they can be killed silently, vampires with a keen sense of smell cannot ignore the smell of living people here, so after Ella and Arthur seized the time to kill a few vampires who were still sleeping in the coffin, the raid began. It turned into a big melee.

Although Ella's sharp claws cut her throat and Arthur's silver sword pierced her heart, she could instantly kill those vampires, but doing so meant that she would fall into a predicament where she could not deal with the attacks of others, and could only use weapons to gradually injure the enemy, while Silver Since the hands are willing to become vampires, it means that they are afraid of death. It is impossible for anyone to try their best to create opportunities for other companions. What's more, if there is a possibility of danger, they will grab nearby companions to fight against them. cylinder.

In the end, under the ebb and flow, the vampires who clearly had the advantage in numbers were completely wiped out by Arthur and Ella, who had only two people. Maybe they regretted why they didn't unite to fight when they were dying?

"Uh...no one noticed us sneaking in, right?" Ella looked at the vampire corpses everywhere, and breathed a sigh of relief: "So this sneaking operation is perfect."

"Ah, you can put it that way." Arthur threw away the third curly-bladed silver sword exhaustedly, not intending to correct Ella's sophistry.

"Everyone, go!" "Those vampires are in trouble!" "Boss, stand behind!" "Boom!"

Ayla and Arthur were about to clean up the battlefield and trap the silver-handed teams who were delivering goods here as originally planned. When they turned their heads, they saw the wall of the meeting room explode, and a group of ragged clothes waving brand new weapons rushed out from the big hole behind. Humans with silver weapons.

"Stop!" "Who are you!" Ayla resumed her readiness for battle, and Arthur drew his two-handed sword.

"Don't move!" "Drop your weapons!" "We have too many people!" "Kill those vampires!" The humans in rags also shouted emotionally.

"Put away your weapons, don't you see that all the vampires are dead?" When the two sides scolded each other and were about to fight, an old voice came from behind the group of "fugitives". The better white-haired old man was helped out of the cave.

"My name is Camry Staleo, and these people are my guards." The old man walked to the middle of the confrontation and asked Arthur weakly, "Did you kill these vampires?"

"Yes, we are members of the comrades-in-arms group, and we followed Silverhand to come here." Arthur replied, "Why are you locked up?"

"Ah, Silver Hand," the old man sighed and looked at the corpses on the ground around him: "At the beginning they said they wanted to eliminate all the undead and werewolves, and I supported it, but I didn't expect..."

"Staleo? Have you ever been the owner of the 'Staleo Manor' near the Rift Valley?" At this time, Ayla had put away her ears and tail, and she looked like a heroic huntress.

"Yes, little girl," the old man turned to Ella: "I made them silver weapons against undead and werewolves in the manor. I never thought they would become what they are now."

"So, the manor was not occupied by robbers, but you gave it up voluntarily?" Arthur frowned, thinking of the three Wilkas brothers and Cisco Yue who went to investigate Staleo manor. If the information was wrong, they would If you decide to attack directly, you may fail.

"Thinking about it now, everything changed after the person named 'Treva' came. Although I evacuated my family in advance as expected, these children who protected me still did not run away and had to stay with me. Mining here, if the old man didn’t threaten them with my life, these children must have been transformed into vampires.” Staleo coughed, and a man behind him immediately dragged a chair to help him sit down.

"Is there a silver mine under Wilhelm Castle? No wonder they would occupy it." Ella nodded.

"Heh, the mere vampire wants to use silver weapons, and he can't dig mines, so he arrested us." The man who helped the old man to sit down snorted, "Good job."

"Well... what are your future plans?" Arthur said: "We can't stay for long, because some companions have already gone to attack Staleo Manor. Since you are here, it is not the 'silver weapon' we expected build a field', they are likely to be in danger."

"We will stay here for the time being," the old man waved his hand, "The location of this castle is not bad, the old man's craftsmanship has not been lost, and there is no shortage of silver mines. You may not be able to recognize him when you come back after a while." gone."

Was he going to make the castle his new home and start over at making silverware to sell?

"Then, let's take our leave now." Arthur pulled the somewhat reluctant Ira out: "There is no time to search for loot now, we have to save Cisco and the others, it will be dark soon, you are going to bite me .”

"Hey~ This is what you asked for~" Ella licked her lips, showing her sharp canine teeth.