Chapter 159 Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls Online is not fun at all)

Chapter 159 Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls Online is not fun at all)

When Duanmuhuai and the Guards arrived at the guard tower, it was too late.

I saw that the entire sentry tower had been burned to pieces, with rubble and debris everywhere, and blazing flames burning on the ground.

"Damn, it looks like we're late!!"

Seeing this scene, the Guards Captain bit his lip and turned pale. At this moment, a guard poked his head out from among the ruins of the sentry tower and waved to them.

"Hey, come here! That dragon is still nearby!"

"Are you the only one still alive?"

Seeing that there were survivors, the guard captain was relieved and hurriedly stepped forward to ask, while the guard nodded.

"That's right, the others were caught by the dragon when they were escaping... Oh, damn!"

However, before he finished speaking, the guard's expression suddenly changed, and he stared at the sky with wide eyes in surprise.

"Here it comes again!!"

Following the shouts of the guards, everyone looked up and saw a giant dragon flapping its wings and flying across the sky, letting out a thunderous roar.

Seeing this scene, the guard captain also hurriedly raised the bow and arrow in his hand.

"Everyone, please take cover! Prepare bows and arrows, attack!!"

Although they were frightened by the giant dragon in front of them, the soldiers quickly took cover and launched an attack on the dragon. They bent their bows and nocked arrows, and fired arrows at the giant dragon. However, these arrows were completely unable to penetrate the dragon's scales - well, that's natural.

"Mr. Knight, it seems that this dragon is not the one we saw before."

Looking at the giant dragon curiously, An asked, and Duanmu Huai also nodded. Indeed, as An said, although this dragon is also very large, it is still smaller than the previous black dragon. And its body is white, not black... Well, although I don't know what's going on, but now that it appears in front of me, there is only one solution.

"Kill it!"

Following Duanmuhuai's order, everyone immediately started to take action. An raised his hands high, and soon, a huge magic circle appeared above the dragon's head, and then purple thunder thundered down, hitting the dragon directly. The giant dragon obviously couldn't withstand the thunderous bombardment, and fell directly to the ground after wailing.

At the same time, Duanmu Huai, Lorena and Gu Leiya also rushed towards the dragon in front of them in three directions.

"Roar————!!!"

The giant dragon that fell to the ground was furious when it saw someone trying to attack it. It opened its mouth and pointed it at the people in front of it. The flames flickered in the huge mouth. However, before the dragon could spit out the flames, he saw Ogis held her hands in vain and pulled hard. The next moment, the dragon's head was pulled to the side by invisible threads. At the same time, the flames spurted from its mouth also passed by the three of them, hitting them. Empty.

But the dragon obviously won't stop there. Unlike Regnis's dragon, the dragon here's two front claws are fused with its wings, looking like giant bat wings. At this moment, facing the coming attack, it hurriedly raised its two front paws to hug its head. At the same time, the wings connected to the front paws spread out, blocking everyone in front of them like a shield.

However, this level of defense is completely ineffective.

"Drink ah ah ah ah!!!"

Faced with the dragon's obstruction, Lorena held the holy book high and waved it down with all her strength. I saw the thick temple directly hitting the dragon's front paw arm, and with a soft "click" sound, the extremely strong dragon arm suddenly moved in an impossible direction like a piece of bad wood. The bending and strong impact even made the giant dragon let out a deafening cry of pain.

However, this is not over yet.

Just as the dragon's body flashed, Gu Leiya rushed past it like a cheetah. Her right hand turned into a dragon's claw and easily cut open the dragon's wings, holding it like a piece of paper. Completely torn in half.

The giant dragon, which had lost the support of its two front paws, fell heavily to the ground again. When it raised its head, all it saw was a heavy hammer flashing with thunder.

"Boom!!!"

Duanmu Huai's thunder hammer fell from the sky and directly smashed through the dragon's head, completely breaking its head in half from the middle. It was like a stone being split apart by a hammer, with blood and flesh flying everywhere and brains spilling out. The giant dragon's huge body suddenly twitched, and then became unresponsive.

The cooperation between Duanmu Huai and others can be said to be flawless. From the moment the dragon appeared to the moment it was killed, it didn't even take a minute. Seeing this scene, the guards at the rear all widened their eyes in surprise, unable to believe what they saw. They originally thought they would have a tough battle with this terrifying giant dragon, but they didn't expect that in front of these adventurers, this giant dragon would be defeated so easily? !

"Sure enough, this dragon is very weak."

Looking at the corpse of the giant dragon in front of him, Duanmu Huai nodded and couldn't help but sigh. Compared with the black dragon that appeared in Helgen before, this giant dragon is not that powerful, and it does not display a dragon roar with mysterious and strange power. At least in Duanmu Huai's view, this is just a very powerful dragon. Just an ordinary dragon.

However, just when everyone was about to get close to the dragon's body and take a closer look, suddenly, a strange scene happened.

I saw the giant dragon's corpse lying on the ground suddenly burst into flames. Then, countless rays of light flew out from the burning corpse of the giant dragon, as if attracted by a magnet, and flew towards Gu Leiya. In the blink of an eye, they were Gulea enveloped it.

"Gulea!"

Seeing this scene, An suddenly screamed and hurried all the way to Gu Leiya, looking at her uneasily.

"Are you okay?"

However, facing An's question, Gu Leiya did not answer immediately. On the contrary, she closed her eyes and seemed to be immersed in some kind of aftertaste. After a while, she opened her eyes again and looked at An with a smile.

"Don't worry, Ann, I'm fine."

"But, that dragon...you..."

An turned his head and looked at the body of the giant dragon - at this moment, the giant dragon was completely reduced to its skeleton. No one knew what happened to this dragon just now.

However, what Gu Leya said next shocked everyone.

"I...seem to have learned how to roar."

"Huh?"

Hearing Gu Leiya's words, everyone was stunned and looked at her in surprise. Gu Leiya also turned around and looked at a huge stone not far away - it was originally part of the sentry tower, but now it was lying in the grass, just a huge stone. Facing the stone, Gulea took a deep breath, and then...

“————!!”

With a roar, everyone saw a powerful wave of air emerge from in front of Gu Leiya, directly hitting the stone and knocking it away.

"Eh??!!"

Everyone was shocked when they saw this. Although it is not the same, it is indeed very similar to the roar of the black dragon they encountered in Helgen before.

But...why did Gulea suddenly learn it?

Just when everyone, Monk Zhanger, was scratching their heads, a guard came over. He looked at Gu Leiya in surprise, unable to conceal his inner surprise.

"I can't believe it! You are...Dragonborn..."

"Huh? Me? Dragonborn?"

Gu Leiya was also stunned when she heard what the guard said. Facing Gu Leiya, the guard nodded vigorously.

"I'm afraid you don't know that in the oldest legends, when dragons still existed in the sky, the dragonborn would kill them and seize their abilities. Isn't that what you did? Absorb the power of the dragon? ”

"This...I..."

Facing the guard's question, Gulea didn't know what to say for a while. She was indeed a hybrid of dragon and human. It was not unreasonable to say that she was a dragonborn, but could she gain its power by killing a dragon? Gulea never knew that she actually had this ability!

"You couldn't roar before, but now you can, right? That means you're a Dragonborn."

"That's right!"

At this moment, other guards nearby also spoke excitedly.

"My grandfather once told me the story of the Dragonborn! Those people were born with the blood of dragons, just like the ancient Tiber Septim! According to legend, the Dragonborn can kill dragons and seize their power. You must be a Dragonborn!”

Having said this, the guards turned their attention to the guard captain.

"What do you think? Irelles?"

"Humph." Facing the guards, the guard captain seemed very indifferent.

"You'd better not make irresponsible remarks about things you don't know. This dragon is dead. This is the only thing we can be sure of. That is to say, the dragon can be killed."

Speaking of this, Irelles glanced at Gulea first, and then turned his attention to Duanmuhuai.

"I don't know much about the Dragonborn, but I'm glad to have you fighting with us. I will clean up the aftermath here. You'd better return to Whiterun City immediately. Lord Balgruuf will be very interested in knowing what happened here. What happened?”

"Okay."

Duanmuhuai put away his weapon and then looked at Gu Leiya, who was also shocked at this moment. Obviously, Gu Leya never thought that she would have such blood and power - well, she didn't know Of course, according to these guards, dragonborn need to kill dragons to gain their power...but...

"It's strange. When we went to eliminate Fafna before, we also killed many giant dragons, but why didn't Gulea absorb their power at that time?"

An obviously also thought about this problem.

"Maybe it's because of the different types?"

Duanmuhuai still remembered that the dragons on Regnis and Favre's side were all four-legged dragons, while the dragons here had bat-like front claws that were fused with wings. They were probably Is there a difference because of different types?

"Anyway, let's go back and talk about it first."

On the way back to Xueman City, Gu Leiya said nothing. After all, this was indeed a big shock to her. Although they wanted to comfort Gulea, no one knew what to say, so they came to Longxiao Palace and reported to Lord Balgruf about the dragon's attack on the sentry tower and the death of the dragon.

After listening to Duanmuhuai's report, Lord Balgruf nodded with satisfaction.

"Very good. It seems that everything in the letter is true. You actually have the ability to repel and kill the dragon. It is simply unimaginable..."

"It's just that this dragon is too weak."

Duanmuhuai shook his head.

"The dragon that attacked Helgen was much stronger than this dragon. Apart from flying and breathing fire, this dragon has nothing particularly powerful.

"There's nothing particularly powerful... Hahaha, for us mortals, just being able to fly and breathe fire is already terrifying. I can't imagine that the kind of dragon you mentioned could be What does it look like?”

Lord Balgruuf smiled bitterly and shook his head, then he looked at Gulea.

"So...she is the Dragonborn?"

"That's what the guards said. In fact, we're not sure."

Duanmuhuai spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders.

"So, I would like to ask you something about the Dragonborn..."

"There's someone better to talk to you about this with than me."

After saying this, Lord Balgruuf paused.

"Did you hear Greybeard's call just now?"

"We did hear a loud noise just now."

Duanmuhuai did not hide it. Shortly after they stepped into the gate of Xueman City, they heard a huge roar erupting in the sky, and even the ground began to tremble under the roar. It really shocked everyone at that time, thinking that the dragon was attacking again.

"That is the call of Greybeard, the masters of the dragon's roar. They are isolated from the world and live at the highest point of the world's throat."

"They can use dragon roar, does that mean those people are also dragonborn?"

"I don't know about that."

In response to Duanmuhuai's inquiry, Lord Balgruf shook his head.

"But if that lady is really a dragonborn, they will teach her how to use her talents as a dragonborn. The dragon roar before was the call of Greybeard. They are calling you to go to the peak of Hogarth... …I really didn’t expect that this kind of thing has not happened again for almost hundreds of years since Tiber Septim was summoned.”

Speaking of this, Lord Balgruf looked at Gulea.

"You'd better leave for Hrothgar Peak as soon as possible. No one can refuse Graybeard's invitation. This is a great honor. But today, you should have a good rest. I will prepare the best guest rooms for you. Please don't You’re welcome, this is the reward a hero who slays a dragon should receive.”

Lord Balgruf also kept his word. He provided Duanmuhuai and his party with the best rooms and Xueman's unique delicacies. Of course, there was also remuneration. After a tiring day, everyone was exhausted and quickly went to the guest room to rest.

The next day, when Duanmuhuai got up, others were already waiting for him outside.

"Really, Mr. Knight, you are too slow."

"Sorry sorry."

Duanmuhuai smiled at An's complaint, and then looked at Gu Leiya - Gu Leiya was still not in good spirits at the moment. From the look of her, it seemed that she had not slept well last night.

"Gulea, have you decided?"

"I...I'm not sure."

Gu Leiya seemed to be hesitant about Duanmu Huai's question, but at this moment, An suddenly thought of something and clapped her hands suddenly.

"By the way, Mr. Knight, I actually have a proposal."

"What proposal?"

"I suggest, how about we split up?"

"Split up?"

"That's right."

Ann nodded.

"I discussed it with Lorena. This place is so big. If we investigate together, it will waste a lot of time, so I think it's best for us to split up."

"Since you said that, you obviously have a goal?"

"Of course, I plan to visit the Mage Academy in Winterfort, while Lorena will go to other cities to investigate the situation about the belief in the Nine Holy Spirits."

"Are you two going alone?"

"Of course not...!"

As he spoke, An pulled Ogis over with a smile.

"It's too dangerous to be alone, so I decided that it would be best to work in two teams. Miss Ogis and I are in one team, and Miss Lorena and Audrey are in one team. Mr. Knight, just stay with Gu Leiya. How is it?”

.........Is that what you had in mind?

Seeing An winking desperately at him, Duanmu Huai also understood what she meant. It was obvious that An was aware of his friend's situation, so he deliberately made this suggestion.

But, this is a good suggestion.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai nodded.

"Okay, that's settled."

(End of chapter)