The Collection of The End

My name is Akatosh,

Xueman is now in a meeting with carrots... I mean a gathering of heroes.

— 4E, 201, Hearthfire, 11th, 11:18 —

Asgail Snowhoof thinks he's gotten smarter.

Otherwise, how would he have the ability to find the lair of the Thieves Guild, which has always been a headache for the lord?

The specific actions are very simple. The first step is to enter the "rat path" from any sewer entrance at random. The second step is to choose a direction to advance and smash all doors and walls. Come out, Mir, or I'll destroy the whole place—"

After beating a large number of Rat Lane residents who came to hear the news, several teams of Rift Valley City guards who tried to stop him, and a secret troop (?) of the Thalmer Elf, Esgail finally met Sapphire, the president of the Thieves Guild. .

Although she is also a beautiful girl, she is a little taller, a little older, her hands and feet are too long, her hairstyle and eye color are not very good-looking, and she is always inferior to Emil.

"You..." "Where is Amir?"

"I—" "I want to marry her!"

"She..." "Become a wife!"

At that time, Sapphire was obviously overwhelmed by his very bold and continuous questioning, so he quickly confessed the key information that "she is from the west, maybe she is a lady from a noble family in Xueman or a more western city."

Basically, it is similar to Esgail's conclusion based on the analysis: as a girl who can be valued by the second son of the Snowhoof family, Amir will naturally have a matching family background, and being a thief is just out of interest. Yes, that's it.

Then, regarding his plan to go to propose a marriage, his father and elder brother expressed their dissatisfaction by spitting out honey wine and hitting the wall respectively. Only sister Lilith packed his bags and gave him strong support.

"After you find Amir's family, come back and tell us not to do anything casually. Think about it, if the person who wants to pursue me hits Xiao An, will you forgive him?"

"Of course not." He would clap his hands.

But as expected, my sister's words were easy to understand, and my father and brother's strange words about "balance of camps", "intensification of conflicts", "resurrection of dragons" and "rise of dragon descendants" were all very difficult to understand.

Although listening to them, I will encounter many difficulties in this trip, but now that I have successfully arrived at Xueman, it is naturally a good start.

Asgail observed the market in the plain area, and quickly found his target: a man in leather armor leaning against the pillar of the house, with a rather sturdy figure. People with this kind of clothes and style are generally news A very well-informed and more capable guy, the slippery Moore in Rift Valley City is such a person.

He strode over and held down the man who was about to slip away: "I'll buy you a drink! Tell me everything you know!"

——11:43——

"Ah, unlucky Joe Warcrazy."

Sophie, who was lying on the roof of the "Cauldron of Arcadia" pharmacy, looked at the man whose smile was uglier than crying, and said to Ria beside her.

Before the strong rise of Satya, "Joe of the War Crazy Family" was synonymous with well-informed people in Xueman. Big Septim pay, but those days are long gone when a tavern maid starts a business of intelligence.

Even if he stood there all day, he would only see a few fish that slipped through the net now and then - a very big fish today, a tiger shark.

In contrast, after a series of adventures, Sophie and Ria's "guide" business is getting better and better as they become more eloquent, but the problem is that those who would normally only run around the city and make trouble for adults The troublesome little ghosts also learned this trick.

Even Bryce's mantra after meeting an adult, "What are you looking at, I'm not afraid of you" was abruptly changed by her to "I, the tour guide, give me the money", um...sometimes it is unexpectedly popular?

In this case, there is no room to choose passengers, and if you take a slow step, you will be snatched away by other children, but Sophie has the biggest shortcoming - she cannot pick up the tour guide to the "Dragon Slaying Monument" on the west side of the market business, because there are complete dragon bones there.

Fortunately, Mirmenir is a fiery dragon, which is relatively ferocious, and it is not surprising that children will be afraid at all, while Nahagliiv, the ice dragon in Loristed, has very soft skeleton lines, and the monument is like Works of art generally do not scare anyone at all, and if Sophie hadn't been scared away, someone would have noticed with her horror at the monument.

Moreover, apart from the "business" of the tour guide, she will definitely see him suck the dragon into a skeleton more than once when she fights with Arthur's father in the future. If she drags her back every time, she will not forgive herself.

So, Sophie is exercising herself to see the keel.

The roof of the "Acadia Cauldron" is just in front of the monument, and seeing or not seeing is just a relationship between looking up and down, and the movement of Joe Zhankuang being captured by the big black traveler just made her look up, So just look away a little bit...

"Ah!" Sophie tightly closed her eyes and hugged Ria.

It seems that it is still too early to come up with the results of this training, Ria thought while hugging the trembling Sophie, listening to the shout of "Emir is the cutest in the world!" from the Mare Banner Inn.

——11:52——

"Oh... do you want to find me, an old lady, for something? Do you want me to use a crystal ball to divination for you?"

"Weak" Orava is an old lady with completely white hair and eyebrows and a stooped figure. She seems to have no husband or children. She usually stays at the mare's banner and her own home, and occasionally appears in the market and some of the same Elderly people chatting.

Although she claims to be an "astrologer" and "prophet", some people have asked her to try divination or prophecy out of curiosity, and she has never said anything, so over time, she has been regarded as a brainless person. A plain old lady.

At this time, Orava was talking with a man and a woman in a remote corner of the market. They were about thirty or forty years old, wearing ordinary coarse clothes, they looked like farmers or hired labor, and there was nothing special about their appearance. If you don’t pay attention It will be forgotten in a blink of an eye. .

"How about using gemstones instead of crystal balls?" the woman among them said, and then spread her hands and handed a purple gemstone to the old lady. Although it was crystal clear and beautiful, its value was ruined by poor cutting techniques. The edges are very rough, and the whole is a distorted rhombus without aesthetic feeling.

"Oh..." Orava took the gem and stroked it, then nodded, "What do you want to know?"

"Regarding the inexplicable failure of the Dark Brotherhood mission recently, we wondered if someone was deliberately targeting it," the woman said.

"No, the mission of the Dark Brotherhood has not failed, at least I haven't seen it." Orawa replied without any fluctuations.

"However, our mission has failed many times." The other person was a taller man with a slightly hoarse voice. He said dissatisfiedly: "If no one is secretly obstructing us, is it possible that we are being targeted by the demon god or the Holy Spirit?" gone?"

"Is 'you' really the 'Dark Brotherhood'?" Orawa raised her eyes slightly, her sharp gaze was enough to make all the timid people tremble when they saw it. At this moment, she was no longer "Weak Orawa" , but of the Dark Brotherhood—

"What do you mean? 'Astrologer'?" The woman replied with a cold snort.

"Neither the devil nor the holy spirit will pay attention to a small assassination organization. In addition to 'soil', 'Nain' also has the meaning of 'arena'," Orawa pointed to the sky: "Before the winner is determined, whoever takes the initiative to leave the field will break the rules and will be directly 'eliminated'."

"Night Mother..." the woman murmured.

"When I was a real 'astrologer' and 'prophet', all the 'dark rituals' were under the control of the 'Night Mother'. The contract of the ceremony cannot be fulfilled by anyone who does not approve of him." Orava turned over the palm of his hand, put away the amethyst, and then turned back into an ordinary old lady again. She stopped talking to the two and turned around silently. leave.

"So, we have to find potential contractors before they perform the dark ritual. How is this possible?" The man was a little anxious.

"No, just ask Nazr to replace 'maybe held a dark ceremony' with 'may want to hold a dark ceremony' when collecting information," the woman said, "until we get further information from Markas City, we can temporarily Stay in Xueman for a while."

——12:10——

In Yunding District, on the steep cliff behind Longxiao Palace, two people were descending with ropes wrapped around their waists.

"Why don't you let me teach that guy who casually called the princess's nickname a lesson?" Delphine, who was half in ebony armor, complained to the companion who descended by her side.

"The name 'Amir' is not uncommon." This companion is a thin but agile old man: "If you teach him a lesson, wouldn't it just prove that the identity of the person he is looking for is more important?"

"Should we let him yell all the way to Dugu City?" Although Xueman's back mountain was steep, it wasn't too high. Delphine rolled over and landed, and retracted the rope with a shake of her hand.

"Of course it's impossible. Not all sharp-eyed eagles are fools." The old man landed right after him, and laughed after putting up the rope.

"You are the stupidest one, Isben," Delphine said with a sidelong glance at the old man, "After Thalmer proposed to the emperor to abolish the 'Blade Warrior', you hid it without waiting for the emperor to make a specific decision, if it weren't for that The fools from the Xuehoof family accidentally drove away the group of Thalmer who were looking for you, and you are now on the way to be escorted."

"Hehe, this incident proves that my judgment is correct, otherwise those Somo wouldn't have come to stop me." After putting away the rope, the old man touched his waist and was stunned: "Ah, my ebony sword."

"Don't worry about that sword, you don't know how to use it." Delphine responded angrily: "Leave the front door open, I must be stupid to listen to you."

"It's called being cautious. How do you know that Suo Mo didn't plant spies in Xueman?"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

After the two "Blade Warriors" walked away from the mountain, an arc-shaped ebony sword that was left in the pool near Dragon Cloud Palace suddenly trembled.