The Collection of The End

My name is Akatosh,

This Alduin is probably blind to a certain extent.

— 4E, 201, Hearthfire, 25th, 7:24 —

"Good morning, Your Royal Highness."

"Gui'an, my lord princess."

"Sister Emilia, this is my donut, let me give you one~"

In the early morning, at the campsite by the White River, Eddie walked through the convoys with an ebony sword in his hand, while the nobles and workers who were packing their bags and preparing to set off greeted her one after another, and the brave children even wanted to share breakfast with her.

The "princess" responded politely one by one, and actually took the kid's donut.

Last night, when the situation was chaotic and no one seemed to be able to escape, Princess Emilia stood up, and instead of using her dagger, she pulled out the ebony sword of Parathos with her backhand, and completely breathed out the dragon with one blow. Killed, the strange black dragon burst out with many deep wounds, it roared in pain and then fled in a hurry.

Then, before the others could react, the princess directly threw the ebony sword into Eddie's arms, and then pulled Parasos to become invisible, so this credit was firmly placed on the head of Eddie who can't be invisible or stealth superior.

The grace of saving lives, the ability to injure a giant dragon, and the status of the princess of the empire are all enough to make these Rift Valley people who are on the road together maintain respect and love.

But if you put aside those who only talk about appearance and figure...

"She's a little girl at all, and the Erhei family's eyesight is really a problem."

"That's right, I thought the Princess of the Empire was a black and strong person who could pick up a battle ax to single out trolls."

Beside the carriage farther away from Eddie, two aristocratic women were discussing in low voices. They probably thought that they would not be heard at such a distance—if the princess was really an ordinary person.

"...It's not a problem to single out the troll." In the air next to Eddie, there was a whisper that only she could hear, it was the real princess.

"Haha..." Eddie didn't know how to respond, so he kept smiling.

"So," Parasos' voice came from the other side: "Among our sharp-eyed eagles, do you like Tacilius the most?"

"Yeah, yeah," Eddie felt he was talking to himself as the princess and her guards didn't show up, so he was a little bolder: "I thought I liked Tacilius as a big boy too." He is tall, but after meeting Esgail, he realized that...he is not black enough."

"... Parry."

"I'm very sorry, Your Royal Highness, I will report to the eldest sister when I go back this time, and transfer Bogel Bearclaw away from the intelligence department."

"Huh? What's the matter with Guan Daxiong?"

— 7:31 —

The western border of Snowrun, the suburbs of Loristed.

Einbjorn and Astrid are resting in one of the tents in the abandoned small camp of the Imperial Legion.

With the resilience of a werewolf, some minor injuries have already healed, and the feeling of losing strength in a desperate battle has also been eliminated. Not only that, he has also obtained the ability to further transform into a giant wolf, which can be said to be a blessing in disguise.

But Astrid was much more troublesome. The other wounds were fine, but the penetrating wound from the back to the chest caused her to lose more than 90% of her fighting power. It's resolved, you have to go to the Qing priest for "advanced recovery".

"I've already dealt with the pursuers." Jeanne Darc opened the curtain of the tent, but did not enter: "When can you leave?"

"Anytime." Ein Bjorn stood up.

When Astrid said that he was going to recruit a "little girl who robbed the Dark Brotherhood's business out of righteous indignation", he didn't take it seriously. Even if she successfully completed several commissions, he didn't pay much attention until [ The Night Mother] and the Listener come,

After she easily suppressed the clown and cooperated with Gallus to make a big name in Markas City, he began to pay attention to her formally.

Unlike his wife who always thinks about how to establish authority in the Brotherhood, which side is more important between the Night Mother and the leader, how to make the clown obey what he says, and other small things, Ein Boyorn pays more attention to the information she reveals inadvertently.

The first is the name. Generally speaking, only nobles or those whose recent ancestors were nobles will have a surname. If a descendant of a noble becomes a farmer or worker, even if he has a surname, he will not show it to shame his ancestors. For example, Ai Emberjorn's surname was "Corvinus," which he told no one but Astrid.

Jeanne Darc, nicknamed Joan of Arc, this is amazing, it not only means that she is from the Darc family, but also shows that at least two elders of other families who have the same status and good friendship have called her that—if it is from her own family The elders will only call her Arang or Nana.

Secondly, it is the "Hino Scholar" status she threw out lightly. Probably Astrid thought it was a mage organization and didn't pay much attention to it, but Ain Boyorn just knew it. This is the only one that has been completed so far. The organization of the exploration of the ruins "Brasilian Labyrinth", in which the "Stand of Magnus" that originally belonged to the owner of the labyrinth, Shalidor, appeared in the hands of Zela Pesh, the chief mage of the College of Winterhold, which also explained Joan of Arc from the side. Why can she be invited to help.

Another member of this organization is Aran Savos, the former chief mage of the academy. Although he handed over the title of chief mage, what he has to do is the same as usual.

Finally, according to the records, the Hino Scholars' headquarters is in "Atayum", a floating island where the whereabouts are uncertain, and it is also the site of the most mysterious mage organization, the "Issyk Order", which is dedicated to "Containment", "control" and "protection" are all things that are not suitable for being touched and controlled by mortals - of course, according to their standards.

The mages in this order have wonderful "projection" spells, the most common function of which is to carry out ultra-long-distance teleportation and dialogue. Reminiscent of the fact that all the targets in Joan's missions are dead, the answer is ready to come out.

Jeanne Darc is a powerful aristocrat.

She deliberately attracted Astrid's attention to be inducted into the Dark Brotherhood.

She teleports all "dead" to Artayum.

The organization behind her is very interested in the "Night Mother".

The conclusion is……

Forget it, an ant running among dancing elephants has no need to know the weight of those elephants at all.

"How did you handle it? Killed him?" Astrid stood up and asked.

"The Night Mother didn't give such an order," Joan raised her eyebrows: "It just hypnotized the few captains who can command and let them sleep for about half a day."

"Oh, Night Mother..." Astrid curled his lips as if he wanted to say something.

"There's no time to chat now, which way should we go?" Einboyorn stopped Astrid's next words and asked Joan of Arc.

"Go straight back to Falkreath," Joan of Arc replied, "Because we made a lot of noise in Markas before, the Imperial Legion thought the sanctuary was nearby, so most of them went in that direction."

"Then, let's set off as soon as possible." Einboyorn bent over slightly and picked up Astrid with his legs bent. Astrid froze for a moment, then put his arms around his neck.

"Tsk." Jeanne turned her head to look to the north: "It's here again, you go first, don't wait for me."

Turn around and leave after speaking.

"Hehe, can't you show your affection?" Astrid looked at Joan's back: "She may be very powerful, but she is not very popular with men."

Regarding his wife's remarks, Ain Bojorn could only smile wryly.

——7:43——

Winterhold, Mage Academy.

Zela Pesh was walking in the corridor holding a glass of milk, his eyes were out of focus, and he murmured something from time to time.

The tiger man Zag blessed himself with many protective spells, put on a gritted expression and stood in her way, and then a group of apprentices were laughing and waiting to see the joke.

Zela's current state is "projection", learned from the Issyk Order of Artayum, projecting himself in certain places he wants to go, can talk and cast spells, can't really touch the entity, but can cast specific Send things back.

It is said that the reason she went to learn this spell was because many mentors agreed that it would be inappropriate for her, as the chief mage, to not show up in the academy all the time, and it turned out that she would not disappear at all.

In most cases, she was playing outside and projected a shadow to "appear" in the college, but there were also cases where she was in the college and projected out.

But a person's energy is limited, and she cannot perfectly control both the projection and the body at the same time, so when her attention is on one, the other will appear dull.

There are other apprentices trying to learn this spell, but the effect is not good. They are completely unable to adapt to this "additional self" situation, and it is easy to cause the behavior pattern of both sides to be the same, or to be completely dazed while moving freely.

Therefore, Zela's behavior of being able to eat breakfast while projecting is quite powerful. Of course, it is also possible that she projected an image of eating breakfast.

And the tiger man's current behavior is a dangerous game called "testing whether Zela is real". Whether it breaks the projection or hits the person, it will be bad luck-in different senses.

Obviously, the guy lost the game of kings.

"[Die! Dragonborn!]" As Zela got closer and was about to bump into Zag, there was a roar of a giant dragon outside the window: "[Yu-Tusu!]"

The raging flaming dragon's breath fell from the sky, but it was completely blocked by the magic circle covering the academy when it approached the building.

Dangdang——The magic alarm sounded, and a small number of people without combat power, such as Ms. Lalina, hid in the depths of the academy, while most of the other mages rushed out.

"What? A giant dragon?" "The dragon bone is mine!" "I want the dragon scales!" "Then I want the dragon soul!" "Bah, do you think you are a dragonborn?"

"[Die! Dragonborn!]" The huge black dragon was still spitting at Zag and Zela persistently.

Hey? Wait, is Zera a Dragonborn? Zag thought quite self-aware.

Before he could think it through clearly, the tiger man suddenly noticed that the eyes of "Zera" in front of him suddenly became more agile. She blinked, looked at the current form, and suddenly showed a sly smile.

"Die! Reptile!" When a group of mages who were about to grab the materials rushed over, they saw "Zera" flying straight into the sky, and with a loud roar, it exploded suddenly, blowing the black dragon far away with a bang up.

"Ah... material..." "No, wait, since this Zela is a projection, then the so-called Dragonborn is—"

A group of mages turned around and surrounded Zag, their eyes wide open.

I will never play king games again! Looking at the students sneaking away around the corner, the tiger man roared in his heart.