The Journey of the Demon Hunter

In the end, they walked through three levels of stairs and came to the place where the stone pier was connected to the castle. An old wooden door separated the castle from the pier area.

"This is your home, Serana." Zelin looked at Miss Vampire, who shook his head.

"This is not my home. This is just a castle I once lived in. I don't have a home anymore."

"Then let's find a way to pry open the door, hope my craft hasn't regressed." Gnaiya pushed Selana away and pulled out a lock opener from her waist. Just as the demon hunter saw the lock opener used by the thief girl Jacqueline in Rift Valley, it seems that the dragonborn girl learned the method of unlocking from somewhere.

But this is just a wooden door, not an iron door or a door made of other hard metal.

"Let me, Gnaiya. I'll take care of this."

"Why? This lock is very old. Give me a minute and I can fix it." The Dragonborn looked at the demon hunter unknown, and Zelin walked past her and stood in front of the door. Then, the sudden explosion of Alderfayin turned the antique wooden doors that were unknown for many years into pieces of wood.

"You know? When I encounter a wooden box, if I can break it open, I won't bother to figure out how to open it."

Zelin waved his hand, set aside the flying sawdust and oncoming stale smell, stepped over the wreckage of the wooden door, and walked into the ancient castle of the Wachihara vampire.

Chapter 300 Gradual Progress

Selana's description of this place is correct. There is no doubt that this is the garbage dump of the Wachihara vampires. It is just a sewer. The sewage with floating garbage and dead mice flows down the stone waterway into the sea outside the castle. The air is filled with the disgusting smell of carrion. You can see huge mutant rats gnawing on the corpse, and the low footsteps of the death hounds wandering in the aisle. Selana said that there are humans in captivity by vampires in this castle, which are used as food just like the slaughterhouse. The remaining remains of human beings will be thrown into the sewers. Feed to pet dogs and vampires who are locked up here because of their mistakes.

"It's here, be careful, I still remember some traps, but... well, you know, I have hardly been here. In thousands of years, they can completely modify the castle into a thousand different appearances."

"Don't worry about vampires coming. Since the father and mother fell out, he has sealed the passage between the backyard and the castle in front. It has been so long, and the stone that closed the aisle is probably as hard as the wall."

Relying on Selana's knowledge of this castle, the demon hunters and dragonborn can avoid some traps along the way. As Miss Vampire said, the area behind the castle has been abandoned for too long. The biggest trouble they encountered was not the vampires and death hounds, but the skeleton monsters and ghouls wandering around. This is not like a castle inhabited by vampires, but like a Nord’s tomb.

At the end of the sewer, they saw the real garbage dump of vampires. This is a square stone space with a cylindrical vertical passage connected to the castle above. The sewage on the ground is no longer a concern, but once you see the dense bones that are piled together, almost flush with Zelin's waist, it is estimated that no one will care about the stagnant water on the ground.

Some bones have started to darken because of too long time, but most of the bones are still bloodshot, because it should be the human being eaten by the vampire recently. Several death hounds were searching for food among the bones, or gnawing on the human corpses left by the vampires. The strong body odor almost made people unable to breathe, Gnaiya's face was pale, and one hand was covering her nose. Zelin was not surprised. Compared with a battlefield full of crows, there is no difference between a few thousand corpses and a few hundred corpses. Serana frowned, "I think it should be right below the room on the right side of the hall... I remember there is a passage there."

Serrana had just finished speaking, and with the sound of falling, a Nordic corpse who had been eaten by most of his body was thrown down from the pipe. Several death hounds immediately threw away the bones in their mouths and rushed to bite the remaining meat.

But none of them could enjoy the delicious meal, the silent crossbow arrows shot out in an instant, and shot through the death hound's head one by one like a rollover.

"Let's go."

Zelin drew the crossbow arrow from the dead hound's body, wiped it clean, and put it back in the quiver. The Dawn Guardian provided him with a lot of crossbow arrows. He asked the master blacksmith to create lightning crossbow arrows. This kind of extremely precious arrows can be achieved in this world only by enchanting the wizard. There are also crossbow arrows worth 1.5 kroner each, and Eslahn readily provided more than one hundred crossbow arrows for the demon hunter.

Each world has its own advantages. Zelin has been considering whether the portal can be made orderly and the direction of opening can be controlled artificially. When he needed money and artillery, he went to Rome to find Ezio. When he needs crossbow arrows and equipment, or potions, he goes to Tamriel. Also, rescue the friends who are still trapped in Yanan.

If only this can be done.

"I don't understand that such a dangerous vampire castle is just north of Solitary City. It only takes ten minutes to row a boat across the sea. Now the news of vampire attacks can be heard everywhere in Skyrim Province, but the people in Solitary City and Windhelm are all about it. Pretending to be blind.” It seemed that Dragonborn had seen such a scene for the first time. She complained from time to time along the way, “Why the Imperial Army and the Storm Cloak were unwilling to deal with them, whether it was a dragon or a vampire. The dragon was once enslaved.” Humans, Old Pa told me stories. Vampires would treat humans as livestock. If they had Skyrim..."

"We are standing here, so we understand how harmful this is." Zelin shrugged, knelt down and picked up a few gems from the gargoyles crushed by Alderfa's seal. These gargoyles attacked the invaders. But Selana said that if a gargoyle appears, they will be much closer to Selana’s mother’s garden. "But it’s all ethereal and nothingness. For anyone, vampires are monsters. They are the same as human-eating beasts. , The dragon flying in the sky, and the robber who occupy the mountain as the king are no different. But for the empire, the storm cloak is a real threat. If you don't kill them, they will enter Solitary City. The same is true for the storm cloak. Vague warnings are always inferior to real threats."

Zelin patted the dust splashed on his body. "If I tell you, don’t worry about the dragon’s calamity, and don’t worry about the vampires, just drop all this and deal with another thing, because that event will cause the whole continent. Destruction. For example, the Demon God is about to invade again, and the evidence is those Demon God altars that have not known how many years have been erected. Will you abandon your mission to do these things?"

Long Yi thought for a while, and finally shook his head.

"Well, you are right again."

Zelin counted the garnets in his hand and put them in his pocket. In the first thirty years of his life, the Demon Hunter realized how important it is to look at problems from other directions, which allowed him to understand many things.

Serana looked at the dragonborn, and then at the demon hunter. "Do you often argue like this? You seem to have a good relationship...but every time I argue with my father, it will have bad consequences."

"Maybe your eloquence is not good enough. Maybe the way you ask is wrong, you can persuade Hakon in another way, such as...matherfack?"

"What?"

"It's nothing, let's keep going."

In the end, they came to the end of the passage. This was a square garden. Every corner was planted with a variety of flowers and plants, many of which were alchemy materials. However, due to the fact that it has not been taken care of for many years, weeds grow in the soil, and the herbal medicine that has been taken away from nutrients is weakly drooping its stems and leaves, hiding in many dead grasses. In the center of the courtyard is a huge moondial, covered with rust stains. Many moondial plates embedded on the ground have fallen off, and I don't know where they are scattered. And in the northeast of the courtyard, there is a door leading to the inside of the castle.

"This is the road leading to the front hall, but it must have been blocked inside."

"Let's go inside and look for it. Maybe your mother will leave clues nearby..." Zelin stared at the large moondial. Maybe your mother would be happy about it." The demon hunter took a deep breath, he didn't think that a vampire who was much older than Serana would easily believe in two humans. Without trust, how can I get a clue to the Elder Scrolls?

"I'll look for it inside, don't worry, my sneaking skills are very good, you have seen it. Even if there are vampires in it, they can't find me." Dragonborn decided to go to another tower alone to look for clues. And Zelin and Serana, they will stay in the courtyard looking for suspicious things.

"No problem, Gnaiya, anyway, we will meet here in a quarter of an hour."

Chapter 301 Laboratory

In the story, vampires have huge wealth, luxurious castles, gorgeous clothes and noble manners. This is not groundless, because they can accumulate countless treasures with their lives of thousands of years, even a few silver cups, or gold objects, hundreds of years, or thousands of years later can be sold at a good price.

In Valerica's garden, Zelin found several moondial fragments among the weeds on the ground. Most of the alchemy materials of the plants on the ground have withered, only the death bell that grows in the darkness and humidity and some stubborn herbs, which are barely growing among the many weeds. But this allows the demon hunter to judge what kind of alchemy material is more suitable for planting.

Zelin and Serana have gained little, but Gnaiya has gained a lot.

"I don't think you can fight normally with so many things..."

Longyi didn’t know where to find a cloth bag. Listening to the clinking sound she made when she threw the cloth bag on the ground, it was probably filled with gold and silverware that could be called antiques in any market, and maybe there are more. Gems and ancient necklaces. The sound of steel collision should be the weapon she found. In Skyrim, selling weapons has always been a good way to make money.

"You... have you searched all the things in the castle?" Serrana knelt down, opened the mouth of the cloth bag and looked inside, and asked slightly in surprise.

"Of course not, I regret not bringing Lydia here." In response to Serana's questioning eyes, the Dragonborn explained to her, "Lydia is my good friend and a good partner to fight with me. Many times, it was thanks to her that I was able to return to the city."

Although Gnaiya said it very well, Serana seemed to have regarded Lydia as the life and death friend of the dragonborn girl, but the demon hunter who spent some time with the dragonborn in Snowman knew very well. Every time the Dragonborn solves the robber camp or robber cave outside, it relies on Lydia to help drag a mess of loot back to Snowman City for sale.

"These things can definitely sell thousands of gold coins, or more. Look at this, I dare say that this must be a silver plate from the time of the slave queen, and this, this must be something from the time of Taber Septin. These things will allow me to buy the best house in Solitary City, maybe buy a piece of land outside the city, build a manor, and go to a place where no one can find it."

"Buy a house?" Zelin glanced at Dragonborn.

"Of course, after everything is over, I must find a place that can shelter from the wind and rain." Gnaiya shrugged. "Hiding in caves and rocks all day for shelter from the rain, no matter who it is, there will be a day of boredom."

"If you need help..."

"Hi, hi, I'm not so weak that I need you to support me. I will solve it by myself. When I'm so difficult that I can't deal with it alone... I'll ask you to borrow money."

In addition to searching the abandoned second half of the castle, the Dragonborn also found some moondial fragments. Similarly, she did not find any valuable clues in the tower. There are some ghouls, some wooden boxes, no notes, no clues, nothing.

Now, only the moondial has not been checked. If the moondial had no valuable information, they would have to reconsider where Selana's mother was hiding. Valerica sounds like a shrewd vampire, she can't seal herself up like Serana. If she was fighting against Hakon, then she would stay in Skyrim instead of running away.

"Let's fix this month's dial, maybe we can find something."

"Are you sure?" Miss Vampire was a little skeptical. "I used to stay here for a long time. At that time, my mother asked Somo designer to build this moondial. I have seen what this moondial looks like when it is used." She touched. The moondial pointer that has faded in the wind and sun "My mother likes it very much. I don't think she will destroy this moondial in order to put some clues..."

"So this is the problem, Serrana." Zelin put one of the moondial fragments in the place where he responded. "These fragments, wind and sun won't throw them into the garden or hide them in the castle. It was destroyed by your angry father, so surely he will not only remove a few signs, he will destroy everything. And the road to the castle is blocked, you are right, who is willing to bear the anger? The danger of Kong, come to the backyard to remove a few meaningless moondial tablets? Think about it, a vampire who parted ways with Hakon, or a vampire who has feelings for the moondial and does not want to destroy it too much...Yes Who is it? Valerica doesn't do anything meaningless, let's fix it, maybe some clues will appear."

"Oh... you must have been a detective or a thief?" Serrana picked up a crescent stone and placed it on the moondial "I never thought so much."

"If you spend most of your life accepting some weird commissions, judging things from all kinds of truths and lies, or distinguishing how much exaggeration there are in words, sooner or later you will be like me. ."

As Zelin had speculated, when they finished repairing the moondial, the moondial began to vibrate, and the pointer rotated and descended, revealing a spiral downward staircase. It may not be known when Selana's mother transformed this moondial and built this secret passage that could allow her to hide in times of danger.

The appearance of the secret path also let the dragon descend a sigh of relief. The Hogarth Peak Peace Conference does not know when it will start, but it will definitely be within two months. If Selana's mother is not here, I am afraid they really don't know where to find another Elder Scroll.