——4e, 201, the last month, 19th, 6:00——
After a night's rest, Arthur and a few Redguards hit the road again early in the morning. 【】
Arthur was not too surprised that the Red Guard woman who called herself "Sadia" could kill wolves with her bare hands.
Because in his impression, there are many women who can do this easily... No, wait, has he come into contact with any powerful women besides town guards?
At that time, Arthur was entangled in his own memories. The two Red Guard swordsmen had no way to seek help, and were detained by Satya as servants in the name of "offending the nobility".
Due to the impact of the ongoing war between Hammerfell and Thalmor, many Redguard nobles moved to other provinces to escape the war. Only a few of them could maintain their status in Cyrodiil or the Interprovince, and most of them were unable to survive after losing their wealth. Do a variety of jobs without hiding your identity.
To people from other provinces, the Redguards may just be a little more proud and aggressive, but if there is a conflict between two Redguards, they will basically declare their identity in Hammerfell and try to use it. Gain the upper hand in disputes.
These two scimitars are relatively unlucky. Even in Hammerfell, they are just mercenaries. And this Lady Satya is a descendant of an old noble bloodline. Even though she is now working as a hotel host in Snowrun City, Their status and force are enough to overwhelm these two mercenaries - of course the main reason lies in the latter.
"You are also going to Xueman?" Satya asked Arthur: "Can I hire you to protect me?"
After passing the intersections leading to Falkreath City, Rift Valley City, and Snowrun City, the four of them were still walking together. Maybe the two Red Guard Scimitars didn't want to go, but they had no right to choose at this time.
"Of course," Arthur replied, "but I think you are probably strong enough to protect yourself."
"Wouldn't it appear that the guards are very incompetent if the nobles take action themselves?" Satya glanced at the scimitar man exploring the way in front: "I just ask you to take action after the two of them are dead. []"
It seems that she is still very dissatisfied with these two guys forcing her to fight in person.
"Of course, but how are you going to arrange them?" Arthur looked at Satya's outfit: "The hotel receptionist won't have any servants, right?"
"I will go to their leader and ask him to compensate for the offending behavior of the nobles. Because they are so high-profile about finding a 'Red Guard Woman', my work has been seriously interfered with." Satya wrote: "It happened to be in the snow Man still doesn’t have enough money to buy a house.”
"Haha, Kaimatu is not a character like us," a scimitar man turned back and sneered: "Even in a cave, he can beat seven of us by himself."
"Ha." Satya sneered back.
"You don't believe it? Let me tell you, Captain, he -" the Red Guard continued.
"You have completely revealed the information about your team." Arthur sighed, reminding the swordsman who still didn't find out anything about him.
A powerful warrior named Kaimatu led seven subordinates who were as good as the scimitar swordsman in front of him, and came to Xueman to look for a certain Red Guard woman, who was currently settling in a certain cave.
"Uh... ah..." The scimitar man was a little dazed. After being speechless for a while, he suddenly picked up the scimitar: "If you go to find him, you will be like this cow, clicking -"
He seemed to be afraid to take action against Satya and Arthur, and struck a passing long-haired cow with his backhand.
It was just an ordinary cow. It was chopped to death with a knife without any time to react. The scimitar man who did it was very proud of himself.
The blue pattern on the cow seemed familiar, Arthur thought, as if he had seen it on some mammoths?
"Aww-" A huge and sad roar sounded in the direction where the cow appeared, slightly away from the road.
——9:00——
As the northernmost province of the Tamriel continent, the temperature in Interprovince has always been very low. Even in summer, the snow line on the mountain peaks can only rise by tens of meters at most. Without the care of farmers, crops cannot grow at all.
Therefore, what looks like "grassland" on the snow-covered plain is actually just tundra. No herbivores other than rabbits can survive. Goats and deer are active near the snow-capped mountains. Even if they have to endure the cold, at least There are plenty of hardy plants growing.
However, on those tundras, there live the largest animals in the world, mammoths. They have bodies that are taller than houses. They cause the ground to vibrate violently when they walk. They have thick fur, sharp tusks, and flexibility. Their trunks are their weapons—and coveted targets for poachers.
They dug holes in the ground, arranged spikes, and placed grass fruits that mammoths loved to eat around the traps. They tried to attract this huge creature that dared to wander around because there were no enemies to approach the traps. Then they obtained tusks, trunks, and furs. It's time.
The reason why these hunters who kill mammoths are called poachers is because almost all mammoths have owners. This owner is not a lord or a king, but a giant.
Giants are a kind of humanoid creature with divine power, with gray skin, thick and powerful limbs, huge palms and soles, and thick gray-brown hair. Their clothes are made of mammoth fur and made from the bones of prey. For decoration, the weapons used were generally mammoth thigh bones.
Generally speaking, giants are three to five meters tall. Giants of ten meters or more rarely appear. There is also a giant that is forty meters tall. Most people regard it as a joke.
Although giants are a major threat to travelers, because they have basic intelligence and only care about their own mammoths, if they don't get too close, they will be completely ignored. Those who really die in their hands are the brave ones. But unfortunately, the poachers did not escape in time after killing the mammoths, so lords everywhere pretended that they did not exist.
The blue pattern that Arthur saw was the giant that crushed a blue plant and used it as paint to smear on the mammoth he owned. Basically, if you see a mammoth with such a pattern, you will definitely see it nearby. The same giant pattern was painted on his chest.
Arthur remembered that his adoptive father had warned him never to provoke a giant, because it would be tantamount to death. If he accidentally angered a giant, running away without hesitation was the best choice - in fact, the two Red Guard swordsmen were Do this.
The giant that rushed out of the jungle beside the road was only over two meters tall. It looked like a giant cub. Its chest was covered in the same blue pattern as the cow.
"Ouch!!" It stood next to the carcass of the long-haired cow and roared loudly, while the two Red Guard Scimitarmen ran away without looking back. Because it blocked the way forward, Arthur was temporarily unable to move forward. Maybe I should retreat back—well no.
Satya was completely stunned, staring at the giant motionless with wide eyes: "Holy Spirit, what kind of monster is that, I have never seen it before."
Obviously, this inter-provincial specialty does not exist in Hammerfell. She has been living in the towns since arriving in the inter-province and has never seen it. However, even if she can move, she cannot deal with such a huge thing with her bare hands.
"Hey..." Arthur sighed again. Due to such a delay, the giant had recovered from the grief of losing his "mammoth". He picked up the bone club at his waist and glared at the two men with ferocious eyes. The murderous intention, and in Arthur's field of vision, Satya's body instantly gathered a dark "vortex of death" like a tornado.
"Okay," Arthur took off the steel two-handed giant sword on his back and stood slightly shorter. He said, "I have always liked hunting big prey, but I didn't expect it to be such a big one."
"Roar!" The giant naturally didn't care what he said, and rushed towards him while waving the bone club in his hand.
Run with long strides and raise your legs to kick the prey, swing the stick from top to bottom to hammer the prey, sweep the stick from left to right to sweep the prey, if not successful, repeat the above actions.
Giants only know this simple attack method, but due to their size, these attacks are extremely deadly. No one can parry with weapons or block with shields. Doing so will only cause them to be blown away like fallen leaves or Smash it flat, even if he is wearing iron armor, Arthur is not going to try to see if he can meet the stick.
He just used the inertia of the charge to make a shovel, passing by the side of the running giant. Although the giant saw Arthur's movements, he had no time to react, and the bone club he smashed towards the ground missed completely. Instead, the target was left with a long wound on the outside of its leg by the steel sword.
Arthur saw that at that moment, the "aura of death" on Satya completely disappeared. If he could see himself, it should have all been transferred to him.
Obviously, the giant's goal has changed from "killing the red-skinned human beings of mammoths" to "injuring its own iron shell". It stood still and turned around, raised the bone stick and roared at Arthur.
"It looks like it's just a scratch on the skin." Arthur looked at the giant who moved without any hesitation. He put away his giant sword and raised his long bow. He shot three arrows at the giant in succession. All of them hit, but had no effect. The arrows on his arms, shoulders, and chest were dangling without falling, but they had no effect at all except making the giant angrier.
"Then, we can only continue to escape. I hope there are guards in Snowman City patrolling outside the city." Arthur, who completely attracted the giant's attention, turned around and ran away. As he guessed, the giant did not hesitate to leave and get closer. Satya chased him.
"I hope no one will be brave enough to fight it head-on," Arthur thought as he turned around and shot a few arrows at the giant to prevent it from turning back to chase Satya: "It would be best if there were powerful archers."
At the end of the descent, the snow-covered plains, the White River, and the farms and mills beside the river became clearly visible.
