——4e, 201, the last month, 17th, 16:00——
"Boss, you and I, bringing me here was the wisest decision you made."
Markul was using a lockpick made of two wires to fiddle with the box in the corner of the tomb, and at the same time said to Arthur, who was standing nearby on guard.
After almost being killed by a ghoul, the robber - or thief - followed Arthur, who was wearing iron armor and holding a giant sword like a frightened bird. He seemed very safe at first glance and refused to stay too far away, and tried his best to encourage him to hurry up. Turn around and leave Hanluo Temple.
However, Arthur, who wanted to find out what happened to the dragon, refused. Maybe it was just a coincidence that it passed over the Hanluo Mountain Peak, but the dragon that had not appeared for hundreds of years reappeared. Investigating the murals in the ancient tombs might reveal There are rewards, especially the ancient tomb with the golden dragon claw as the key.
With a click and a soft sound, the ancient box in front of Markul was unlocked. He opened the lid and looked at it. After complaining about something, he took out a dozen gold coins from inside and put them into his pocket.
As we all know, the Nords are a fighting nation. They are usually buried with their own weapons. However, hundreds of years later, it is impossible for the weapons to remain intact. The weapons in the hands of the corpses collided with Arthur's two-handed sword. Once down, it will easily break into two pieces.
The weapons and armor were old and rotten, and no jewelry was found that was buried with the so-called big shots, but luckily there were some ancient coins in the account.
These gold coins are called "Septin", which is named after the Septim Empire. If it weren't for the empire ruling the Interprovince for a long enough time, these tomb robbers would only get coins that are no longer circulated and have no value.
"Why do I think you are bragging? Maybe you have never seen that door." After watching Macul collect the loot, Arthur continued to walk deeper into the tomb.
"I've actually seen people looking for dragon claws just because they couldn't open the door." The thief hunched over to explore the way in front: "These guys wouldn't have gotten up to kill people at the time, because the burial objects were also in the sarcophagus. Can’t get it out.”
At this time, since we have gone deep into the tomb, those hastily placed in the grooves of the wall have rarely appeared. They have been replaced by dark and heavy sarcophagi. The architectural style of the tomb has gradually become ancient and majestic, and similarly, the traps have become more deadly.
Click! A corpse kicked open its coffin and came out. Its hollow eyes with blue fire glanced around, and soon saw Arthur and Macul hiding in the passage of the tomb. It dragged a giant handle menacingly. The hammer approached them, and was cut in half by the black blade that suddenly swept through the passage.
"Quick, quick, quick." The huge blade slowly retracted, and Macul and Arthur took the opportunity to pass through: "The entire passage is a pressure plate. It is impossible to pass under normal circumstances. Fortunately, there are those brainless corpses."
Click, click, click—after the blade trap behind them was reset, dozens of other sarcophagi in this tomb were kicked open by their "inhabitants".
"Brainless? Huh?" Arthur raised his sword to block a flying Ancient Nord arrow, and then ran irregularly towards the corpses who were all holding Ancient Nord bows: "Hide yourself!"
For a weapon like a bow and arrow, if you let go as soon as you pull the bow string, the arrow will not fly far at all and will have no force. It may even poke the archer's own foot. The correct choice is to decide how hard you draw the bow according to the target and the specific situation. However, these Naturally, the ghoul archers didn't remember that, and they all pulled the bowstring to the maximum strength before letting go. This gave Arthur, who was also proficient in bows and arrows, a chance.
After Arthur knocked down a ghoul, the giant sword bowed directly, then snatched the bow and arrow in its hand, rolled to avoid a round of bow and arrow shots, and then responded to the call one by one.
However, these corpses are essentially mummies. Even if they are hit by an arrow in their torso, they will have no effect. They will continue to draw their bows and aim at Arthur with the arrows dangling on their bodies. They will not finally fall until they are hit in the head and extinguish the blue fire in their eyes. During this period, Arthur was also hit by several arrows, but after all, he was armored and was not shot through. In the end, all the ghouls who could not rest in peace were still eliminated.
During this period, in the mysterious starry sky, the constellations representing "Bow" and "Heavy Armor" each lit up a star.
"Boss, the riddle door is at the back..." Macul, who didn't dare to show up until the end of the battle, slipped out and searched the body of the ghoul archers: "Moreover, there were so many archers arranged 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 weird giant door.
The relief murals do not have any clear text, but describe a prophetic scene with uninterrupted paintings, with dragons flying in the sky, corpses crawling out of tombs, and the last scene is the dragon spraying fire on the battlefield. Dragon flames emerge.
"I didn't expect these ancients to predict the war between the Empire and the Stormcloaks hundreds of years ago. It was awesome, awesome." Marcus shook his head and said.
"This kind of ambiguous prophecy," Arthur laughed: "The first two patterns are okay, indicating that the awakening of these corpses is indeed related to the dragon, but the last one can be applied to any war - early For twenty years it will certainly be read as a war between the Empire and the Thalmor.”
Then, he turned to observe the door with three rings.
In the middle of the door, there was a claw-shaped groove. Arthur took out the dragon claw captured from Macul and compared it. It was just right, but when he pressed it and turned it, it didn't move at all. At the same time, the secret door on the side of the door opened. , two ghouls holding two-handed giant swords rushed out.
"I see," Arthur said after knocking them down easily, "It turns out there will be a 'punishment' if you don't line up the patterns correctly."
Surrounding the claw-shaped groove are rings with embossed patterns, which are divided into quarters. There is a pattern on each arc-shaped area, which looks like a dragon, a shroud, a wolf head and a snow bear respectively.
"The dragon returns, the dead awaken, the end of the world." Arthur recalled what Macul was saying, then looked at the surrounding murals, and finally stretched out his hand to turn the ring so that they were arranged directly above the paw prints into "dragon, "Shroud, Bear" in sequence, and pressed the dragon's claw again. This time it went very smoothly. There was a friction sound of something turning inside the giant door, but it did not open to both sides, but slowly sank into the ground.
"Can the Nord riddle door be opened like this?" Macul's eyes widened: "I will also..."
Bang, la, la, a group of bats scurrying behind the gate interrupted his words.
Behind the Nord riddle door is an extremely empty tomb hall. It is not only surrounded by rockeries, but also draws underground water as a river. In the middle of the hall, there is a large platform, and the most eye-catching thing is a huge and The gorgeous sarcophagus was placed in the center of the high platform.
"Good luck, you'll get rich..." Macul rubbed his hands and ran forward, followed closely by Arthur.
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If this is the secret of Hanluo Temple and the Golden Dragon Claw, doesn't it have nothing to do with the dragon?
Arthur stood on the high platform and thought.
The burial objects this time were as the tomb robbers wished. There were many jewels and ornaments. Makur hurriedly started to put them in his pocket, but the owner of the gorgeous sarcophagus seemed to have no intention of kicking off the coffin board to teach him a lesson.
No, there should be some clue here... huh?
Arthur's eyes were attracted by a semicircular groove on the mountain wall. It was engraved with a large number of rough lines that looked like claws, but they were not words in any language that he remembered. One of the "words" was exactly the same. The same blue light flashed in the eyes of those corpses.
Could it be... Arthur tried to move closer to it.
Instantly, a cold wind blew in his face from the direction of the "words", making him unable to see anything except those weird words. He was surprised and picked up the giant sword, but But no enemy as expected appeared, but the set of words were engraved into his mind in some unreasonable way. Each stroke was extremely clear. When he looked at the semicircular stone wall, the blue flames on the words had already Completely disappear.
"Boss, look what I found-" "Crack!"
Makur searched for "trophies" everywhere, but the owner of the tomb showed no response. Finally, when he boldly opened the tribute box in front of the sarcophagus, the lid of the coffin was kicked open, and a guy who was obviously more powerful than other ghouls emerged from the sarcophagus. He climbed out, holding a two-handed sword glowing with blue light, and stared at him condescendingly.
"I, I'll put it back right now." Macul said incoherently, and he seriously planned to put the buried jewelry back in again.
"[fus]!" The corpse turned into a ghost by the owner of the tomb roared loudly.
This roar seemed to inspire some mysterious power, and a shock wave appeared out of thin air in front of the corpse, knocking Macul away far away, and the jewelry in his hand scattered all over the ground.
drink! Naturally, Arthur couldn't wait for it to turn around and repeat the same trick on him. He gave a low shout and stabbed the corpse from the back with his sword.
However, this ghoul seemed to have eyes on its back. It swung its sword in the opposite direction to block without turning around. When the steel two-handed sword hit its ancient Nord sword, the sword was directly covered with a layer of frost. If it hadn't been for Ya If Se withdraws the sword in time, even his hands will be frozen.
"That's an enchanted weapon -" Macul, who flew far away, seemed to be fine, and was picking up his lost jewelry while shouting: "-it's quite valuable!"
"What is that roar!" Arthur raised his sword to confront the powerful ghoul, and at the same time asked Macul what happened that knocked him away.
"That's the dragon's roar -" Macul didn't dare to get close and replied from a distance: "A skill that only the powerful Ancient Nords can master!"
I don’t know whether the dragon roar has been prepared again, or whether the corpse ghost was very impressed by Macul’s compliment to him. It opened its mouth towards Arthur again: "[fus]!"
A huge gust of air hit him, but Arthur felt that the gust of wind was no different from when he had just obtained the text memory from the stone wall. He was not blown away like Markul, 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 corpse in front of him.
This ghoul may have thought that the enemy in front of him would be blown away, so he was a little careless. After the roar ended, he saw Arthur, who not only did not fly away, but rushed up to kill him, he couldn't help but slow down his hands for a moment.
Pfft——
The next moment, its skinny head flew into the air, the blue fire in its eyes gradually extinguished with unwillingness, and the last thing heard was Makur's chattering voice.
"We are rich, boss. This frost-enchanted weapon is very valuable, as well as the jewelry he was buried with. Oh, why is there a stone here?" 232
