Dragonborn from Lord of the Rings

Chapter 253 Spider, Spider Again

Frontier Territory is a barren kingdom surrounded by various majestic mountains. To the west of it is the Zydach Mountains, which straddle Hammerfell and the sky. , there are few plains that are flat enough to be cultivated.And Marcus is located in the southernmost branch of the Zhudaqi Mountain Range. The cliffs of the mountain are like a huge moat, blocking attacks from the west and the north.

Maidenach walked up one of the low spur hills, overlooking the camp of the Southern Forsworn Army.

However, the towering and precipitous Zhudaqi Mountains are like a giant across the earth, leaving an awe-inspiring shadow between the sky and the earth, while the Cass River pours down from the southern mountains like a deep ditch. across the entire central region.As a result, an excellent place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack is formed. Anyone who attempts to challenge without plan will fail sadly and be defeated.

The Tattered King is a king with a far-sighted vision but a tough mind. He knows that it is very difficult to break through the Dwarven city that is closely guarded by the Nords with the strength of the Forsworn tribe alone. Therefore, if we say, At the beginning, Maidenaki still hesitated about 'that idea' in his heart, but gradually, his eyes became firm.

Even dealing with the devil!
he thought so.I also want to take back our homeland.Then revive our civilization, so that the tribe can get rid of those ignorant, primitive blood worship and blind and narrow hatred!
At this moment, a mysterious man wearing a thick cloak, hiding his sinister and vicious face in the shadows, came out from behind a rock on the edge of the cliff, "I'm glad you can fulfill the contract, I My dear friend," said the man, "I hope I didn't keep you waiting."

Maidenaki seemed to have already understood it, and was not panicked, but looked at him calmly. "We've never been friends." Tonight's night was thick as ink, Red Moon Secunda and Silvermoon Mather were covered by a big dark cloud, and only the stars in the south were still shining.But even so, Maidenaki still recognized that the mysterious man in front of him was his 'ally', a despicable villain hiding in the dark.

"Halal Silverblood." He said the man's name.

The patriarch of the Silver Blood family showed a weird smile, he raised his head and let the starlight fall on his sinister and vicious face. "But we have a common cause, don't we?"

No one knows how the two met, and how they planned this major historical event that will be called the "Forsworn Rebellion" in the future!But one thing is certain, it is precisely because of Harald Silverblood's betrayal that a series of tragic things happened in the future.

Maidenach didn't speak, but just stared at him dangerously—it may be hard for people to believe that the Forsworn leader, who was as strong as a berserker, was actually a skilled battle mage. "I'm not here to listen to your show off," the magical energy flowed through Maidenaki's fingertips, and the mantra in his mind could almost blurt out at any time, "The reason why we can stand together peacefully is not to smear each other with blood body, just because you said that there is a way for us to enter the homeland of our ancestors without a single soldier."

"That's true." Harald Silverblood said gracefully, looking at the camp of the Forsworn Army not far away, where the lights were dim, and Markas, who was as silent as a ghost town.

Maidenach didn't like the disgusting self-satisfied smile on this insidious guy's face very much, and he wanted to punch him to see if this guy could still smile after his face was smashed.But at the same time, the Tattered King knew that, as he said, the tribe needed his strength.

Medenaki walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down at the battlefield in the distance, "But you have not fulfilled the agreement," the king said coldly, "My people have shed too much blood under the city of Markas, so much The Bloody Prince couldn't help laughing."

"Our agreement is that as long as 'you' reach the city, you can enter Markarth 'without any effort'." Harald Silverblood raised a finger and said slyly, as if he hadn't seen the oath The dangerous magical fluctuations on the body. "They're not 'you'!"

Immediately afterwards, the silver-blooded patriarch raised his second finger.

"It is undeniable that although the real owner of the palace under the stone fortress is too old to even defecate on his own, he is not completely insane. It will take a little time to resolve those annoying voices."

Finally, he raised his last finger.

"And dear friend, you are late!"

Medina was silent.The piercing wind of the sky howled between the two, blowing the cloaks behind the king and the silver patriarch.

After a long time, Maidenaki let go of the clenched gesture.

Harald Silverblood smiled again as he felt the torrent of magic surrounding the king vanish like the wind.

"Tomorrow night," he said, "when the double moons are at their highest point, the gates of Markarth will open to you, and all resistance will cease to exist."

Maidenach stared into his eyes, as if confirming how sincere the other party's words were.

The silver-blood patriarch just looked at him with a smile, with a playful expression, but there was a disturbing pressure of his own.

"As long as things are as you said," the king spat out, "then all the mines in the frontier will belong to Silver Blood!"

"It's a deal!" Harald Silverblood laughed, and retreated into the shadow behind the boulder, disappearing.The ragged king stood alone on the cold and windy hills, silently looking at the distant mountains.

***
If you ask an explorer who travels and adventures in Tamriel frequently, what are the most feared and loathed monsters in Tamriel, the frost-eating spider is definitely one of the first answers that everyone will blurt out.

This is one of the most common arthropods in Skyrim, and it mostly moves in groups.There are many traces of activity on the surface in the south of Skyrim, but most of them live in underground caves. If you dig underground, you will easily encounter spider nests.Its adult body size is various, the small one is only the size of a cat and dog, and the big one is even as big as a carriage.They spit venom to paralyze their prey, which they then tear apart with their feet and mouthparts, making them powerful predators.Because of their large quantity and the presence of paralyzing venom, they have become the most difficult opponents for skyrim adventurers, and they are quite troublesome to deal with, so they should not be taken lightly.

"This place is not right," Islahn patted off a spider larva the size of a fingernail—in terms of size, it's really nothing, but there are too many—spider larvae, and trampled it into a pulp, "We broke into Into the lair of these ghosts?"

Others shake off more larvae in boredom and resignation, only to always run into sticky, wet cobwebs, tangled tangles of itchy threads hanging from cheeks, arms, and ankles.

These monsters, which originally hid in the darkness, eagerly waiting for their prey to come to their door automatically, have black and white spots scattered on their round brown body and eight hard legs, and the huge pale white ovaries are piled in a mess in a group of spider webs. On the walls, in the corners, many have hatched, but many are still wriggling disgustingly, as if some terrifying creatures are breathing inside.

"There's only this way," Turka frowned, avoiding a trap full of victims' remains, some of the frightened arthropods in it hurriedly fled into the nearest dark shelter, "but you didn't say anything. Wrong, maybe we did break into a..."

A Frost Eater spider as big as a pony silently jumped down from the roof of the cave, and pounced on the biggest prey, whose insides were filled with sweet juice.

"J????piikki!"

With a muffled grunt, a sharp ice crystal pierced the bulging abdominal cavity of this disgusting creature, hit the ceiling of the cave above Turka, and shattered into beautiful but dangerous starlight—the spell quickly froze a large area.

But the spider that was pounced on the most honorable one among the crowd was frozen into a ball as early as in mid-air. Turka stepped back gracefully, watching it fall at his feet.

"... An uncomfortable place." Turka let out a breath, looking at the seemingly inextricable darkness in front of him, looking worried.

Ah, yes, after a short rest, the disciples of Stendhal and Turka went on again.After walking through the long, deep and dark corridors, what they encountered was a spider—after experiencing vampires, hellhounds, Vamer, and Chalus beasts!

The memory and knowledge provided by Molag Bal's soul fragments were intermittent and broken. While Turka had to endure the wild laughter and screams of this evil thing in the depths of his mind, he also had to endure the terrifying ravings of the demon god. , He drew the power and knowledge of a god from the soul fragment of Molag Bal, which was no different from setting off a spiritual confrontation in his mind, a battle of faith and self.

Even Turka, after experiencing many soul storm tests enough to destroy the people of a city, now his mind is full of fantasies about inns, warm fireplaces, and a large bottle of black thorn mead.

"But now we can only move forward." An inexplicable irritability welled up in his heart, and Turka muttered, not knowing whether to comfort himself or the Redguards.

With the soul shard of Molag Bal lurking deep within his soul, Turka knew there was one and only one—if his battle with the Father of Vampires hadn't made the ancient Dwemer ruins even worse. Broken, there may be more—there are still remaining passages that can lead to the third Altar of Baal.

But how did he know that there are so many spiders lurking here.

"Ah yo." The half-elf slapped the spider off his mouth, and grabbed the spider web on his face with both hands - he had had enough, Xi Lang swore that he never wanted to enter the dark underground again in his life, "Damn it! He swung the Vamer dagger, and split a spider the size of a wolfhound in two with one sword, but was sprayed with paralyzing toxin saliva on his arm.

The huntress screamed, and stepped on a spider egg, the disgusting juice and countless unhatched larvae immediately covered her legs like pulp - Turka saw, a spider egg The little spider jumped into the full gap in the Nord's chest, causing the lady to snap snaps of surprise and embarrassment.

The ascetic monk waved his two-handed battle ax without saying a word, trying to drive away the ubiquitous arthropods, but found that most of them were in vain.More and more spiders are densely covered with spider webs of various shapes and sizes.They hissed, their mouthparts and foot joints kept beating, and they stared hungrily at the prey that broke into their traps.

They ran fast, but suddenly broke into a huge and terrifying cave.There are not only single strands of spider silk hanging between the ceilings of the cave, but also huge sticky webs that are tangled like the buildings of the rumored lost city; the open space is full of nests full of small spiders.A spider the size of a cow sat in the middle of a vast web where each thread was thicker than the strongest rope Aberdell had ever seen.Its black spherical body is spotted with red spots.Smoking green venom dripped from its twitching jaws.

"Lord Turka——" Islan swung the magic broadsword, and cut off the forelimb of one of the calf-sized spider monsters. The monster let out a long and shrill scream, and retreated quickly. After two steps, another two of the same kind immediately took its place.Israeln pierced one monster's eye, and almost at the same time another stabbed at the Redguard's right leg with a needle-like sharp claw.Israeln snorted, raised his left foot, and kicked the spider's slack abdomen heavily, kicking it up, and the Redguard immediately swung his two-handed giant sword, splitting it in two .At the same time, the powerful magic attached to the sword immediately burst into red light, knocking out the remaining two spiders and burning them into a ball of fire.

"—do something!" he cried.

Hearing the shouts of the Redguards, Turka's heart, which had been annoyed by these disgusting arthropods for a long time, was also ablaze, because this scene reminded him of the scene in Mirkwood and Utumno. The picture reminds me of the land under the starlight and my family and friends.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Israel seemed to hear a loud drum beating.

"Get down!" The demigod roared to remind the others.

Everyone fell to the ground almost as soon as he yelled.

behold!Under the terrified gazes of Islaen and the others, a blazing flame spewed out violently with this demigod as the center, sweeping across the entire cave in an instant.

"Zizi!"

"Clap!"

Countless hissing spiders, big and small, turned into fireballs under the flames of the dragon, and fell from the same ignited spider webs one after another. The stench and the smell of barbecue wafted into the nostrils, and the flames illuminated the entire cave. .

The largest female spider howled piercingly, spit out puddles of corrosive venom, trying to extinguish the scorching flames on her body, but found it was futile.Because that is not an ordinary fire, but a magical flame combined with the blessing of the only god in another world and the bone of Nirn, even steel can melt and burn in water!So it screamed desperately, and with a bang, it fell from a high place and kept rolling until it turned into a pool of ashes.

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