The Journey of the Demon Hunter

Chapter Three Hundred and Four

The annihilation realm is the place of the devil, or the ruling kingdom of the devil. Serana said that this is the world created by the demon god, just as the eight holy spirits created the world of Nairn. If this is really done by the devil, then Zelin is very happy that they have not forgotten to create the air that humans need in a world of the dead.

As Zelin walked along the road, he encountered many ghosts, some of them were suffering, although most ghosts were still sane, but they had nothing to do. After all, they had nothing to do in this world. Whether it's good or bad. They can't enjoy food, drink, sleep, their body touch is already news, and they can't enjoy any physical pleasure. This is a gloomy world, and even a barren world.

Stones, sand, and a few clusters of dry shrubs seem to be imitations of the inferior plants of Tamriel, and some plants called soul coats are imitating corals or mushrooms.

The fact is like this, there are no plants, no animals, there is no entertainment for the soul here, and there is no goal to fight for. They live stiffly every day---if they really remember the time, there are ghosts. Complaining that he no longer knows how long he has been here, one day, or a century.

They are just souls and cannot change anything. They cannot escape the control of the ideal master. They can only face the unchanging scenery all day long, lose their sense of touch, time and various concepts, and finally slowly forget the memories of their lives. Become an existence like the walking dead. What's more frightening is that they can't even let themselves die.

This is not hell, but it is no different from hell.

"You must help me! You must help me find Avak! It has never been here before, it must be terrified!"

Most souls do not respond to the sudden appearance of a living person, but this soul seems to have encountered some urgent trouble before choosing to ask other people for help.

"Calm down first and tell me who is Avak?"

Zelin wanted to ask the soul if he had seen Valerica's whereabouts. There is no bounds here. Valerica entered the Soul Tomb a thousand years ago. Whether she will stay near the entrance to the Soul Tomb is unknown. Rather than looking around aimlessly, it's better to communicate with these sane souls, maybe there are some clues. A vampire must be unique among so many souls.

"It's my beloved horse! We were attacked by monsters on the road, please help me find the horse back!"

As soon as this soul finished speaking, his figure disappeared from Zelin's face instantly, leaving no trace, as if he had never existed.

"It feels really bad here..." Serrana fought a cold war. "Do you think that vampires will feel comfortable in the soul stone grave? No, I would rather leave here next moment."

"She's right. Let's ask other souls. I don't like this place, and I don't like to think about whether or not I will meet the ideal master here." Dragonborn shares the same opinion with Serana on this issue." It doesn't make any sense to help find a horse that doesn't know where it is. We don't even know... what happened to that soul just now. Damn, if it wasn't here that made me nervous, I would help him. It's not the time. "

The demon hunter looked at the place where the ghost disappeared, and couldn't help but frowned. "Let's ask around. Finding someone and looking for a horse does not conflict. I don't want to stay here if I can." He raised his head and looked towards The black hole in the sky, it seems to be spinning, staring at it all the time, there is a feeling of being sucked in. "Let's go, be careful."

There are not as many souls as he imagined. Where are the other souls? Are they scattered to other places, or have been swallowed up as food by the ideal master. Where is the ideal master? Castle? Palace? Or heaven? The demon hunter always had the feeling of being stared at, which made him constantly observe the surrounding environment and the sky, even if a giant dragon suddenly fell from the sky, or opened a pair of eyes in the sky, he would not be surprised.

The inhabitants of the soul stone mound are not only ghosts, but also many crazy undead creatures. Although rational ghosts will not be hostile to them, some skeletons or other undead creatures face the three living into the soul stone mound. Strong hostility held by the invaders. The bones piled up on the ground may climb out of one or two black skeleton monsters to attack them at any time, or arrows shot from the dark. They had to kill some skeletons along the way. Fortunately, no more powerful undead creatures appeared.

There was a ghost, who looked like a businessman, sitting next to a stone house closed by iron fences with a dumped carriage beside him. When the demon hunter walked over to him, he took the initiative to stand up and greet Zelin." Oh~ guest, come and take a look, there is an honest businessman in front of you."

"But you are a ghost." The demon hunter looked at it up and down. Unlike other ghosts, there was obviously an unusual vitality in him. "I guess, you have only come here recently."

"Ah, yes, that's right. I used to transport goods for a gathering of necromancers. They were in a cave in the west of Solitary City. I just transported what I received to them, but how would I know that there was a problem with the materials? The mages were very angry, saying that I had affected their big plans, so when I woke up, they found that I was already here." The merchant smiled self-deprecatingly, "Although I am dead, my soul is still there, so I I have to find a way to do something. Do you see those soul coats on the ground? This can be used as currency instead of gold coins for trading. I found some weapons, gems, and necklaces, which can be used as goods."

"You are so motivated." Zelin commented, glanced at the cargo under the carriage.

"Of course, I have to find something for myself, I have to find a way, you come over there, you must see those ghosts." The businessman's soul said with lingering fear, "They have become walking dead, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, I I have to find something to do for myself so that I can remember who I am. Hey~Would you like to pick one, 25 soul coats for one item"

"If you really want to do something, I have a good thing that allows you to pass the time in entertainment. It is a paper game that is convenient, easy to understand and easy to use."

After listening to Zelin's explanation, the merchant soul expressed his interest. In fact, as long as he can find something that can bring entertainment for him, he will happily agree. Taking advantage of this, the Demon Hunter threw out his own problems. The merchant can collect the goods, indicating that he must have searched around, if Valerica will be nearby, this soul should be able to notice.

Of course, there is also the horse named Avak.

"A horse? I think about it... Oh, yes, a horse, go northeast from here---if I really face north now---I see a horse skull, you want The soul of the horse must be related to the skull. Go there and take a look.” The merchant was very happy to hold a few Gwent cards, and then began to imitate cards on the soul coat, something similar to paper.

"As for the vampires, I'm sorry, I really haven't seen a vampire, but I know a place, which is in the north, where other ghosts call it a necropolis. No one can go in, there is a magical barrier blocking the road, and no one knows. What's behind the barrier. But be careful, there is an undead dragon around the cemetery. Don't die... Hey, why do I even hope you can die and stay here to teach me to play cards?"

"I'm afraid I can't help you this time, there are more people out there who need me."

In the end, Zelin exchanged the 25 soul coats he found on the road for a good hatchet, which could be used as a throwing weapon.

"Where shall we go first?" Selana looked at the two positions pointed by the merchant. The latter was focusing on using stones to paint some marks on the skin. "Horse skull? Or a cemetery?"

"Go to the first one, after all, this is the confirmed road. It will be more convenient for us to go to the cemetery after we have a horse."

Chapter Three Hundred and Five

The skull of a horse, the skull emitting light blue light was placed near a high tower, where Zelin saw another undead creature. It is like a human with bones growing outside. Of course, it has no flesh, and there is only a thick black underneath its exoskeleton. It appeared on the stone chair under the tower, as if sitting on its own throne. It took a lot of effort to get rid of it, but not much time was wasted.

"Now, we got the skull." Gnaiya looked at the ghost horse that appeared with the skull. "And I found the horse, but where did the soul go?"

"Let's keep it first, and return it to him when we see the ghost again." Zelin still remembered why they came here to find Selana's mother Valerica. To the ideal master, they are intruders. In such a dangerous place, everything is the best. For this reason, the demon hunter also refused a request from a ghost hoping to help him find the pages scattered everywhere, after all, they were not here on vacation.

The place called the necropolis is like a giant fortress, at least from the outside, it is a place surrounded by stone walls and high towers. This area is larger than the Dawn Guard Fortress. If this is the city where undead creatures live, there may be close to a thousand undead living in it. If you consider that undead creatures need much lower living conditions than humans, this number will be even higher.

Zelin cautiously approached the outer wall of the cemetery. He noticed a layer of lavender light shrouded outside. There were two high towers on both sides of the cemetery gate, and the soaring soul light gushed out from the top of the high tower and extended to the sky.

"The ideal lord has its soldiers and army...Look there." When they passed a tower-shaped building, several black skeletons were standing on it holding bows and arrows, and there was a creature like a ghoul. , Their appearance reminded Zelin of the army stationed in the guard tower. Considering that there are many soul gathering places nearby, the demon hunter has reason to believe that the ideal master is using these undead to control this area.

"These undead are not strong, they are not even as threatening to my mother as a human being... but my mother has been here for thousands of years."

If Valerica were to live in seclusion somewhere in Tamriel, Selana would certainly not be so worried. But here is the soul stone mound, the realm of annihilation, and there are hidden threats everywhere. The ideal master is not a kind and honest master. The fate of the necromancer who traded with it is almost written in the story book. For more than a thousand years, who knows whether Valerica will make a deal with the ideal lord, and then die in an unknown corner.

"If you don't feel good, wait until you find your mother, no matter what she is, it's up to Gnaiya and I to solve it." Zelin said to Serana.

"I...thank you."

They gradually fumbled under the steps in front of the city wall. There were mountains of bones everywhere around them. Most of them were human-like, but among them were the skeletons of Argonians and Tigers. Gnaiya even saw one from the inside. Something that looks like a keel. Undead dragon, some ghosts warned the demon hunter that there was an undead dragon nearby. The dragonborn girl has killed many dragons, ordinary dragons, and blood dragons, but she has never heard of undead dragons.

A rotten dragon, not the bone dragon that Zelin and Virginia saw in Labrinxian.

"Be careful, let us walk against the wall and try not to attract any attention." Zelin thought of the Brotherhood Assassins he had seen in Rome, but he didn't know if the undead guards here would be the same as the Bochia family guards." We must be careful...Gnaiya, if the dragon does appear, you can see if it is the same as the dragon outside."

"No problem, if it is the same as a normal dragon, I can kill it and absorb its soul." Gnaiya shook her head. "But Pa never told me that a dragon entered the soul grave. , And then still serve the ideal lord.” The dragonborn roars and can kill the dragon, but the dragon in the soul stone mound is a little beyond her understanding. After all, she became the dragonborn less than half a year.

But at this moment, Selana stood up suddenly and trot a few steps like the entrance to the cemetery. She opened her eyes wide, as if seeing something incredible. She opened her mouth slightly, made a few meaningless trills, and then whispered in disbelief.

"...Mom?"

Miss Vampire took a few steps forward, and then she hit a transparent wall. A completely transparent wall stood at the entrance of the cemetery, like solidified air. Zelin could see the high black gate at the entrance of the necropolis, but Serana could only stop a few meters from the gate.

A mature female voice came from behind the square stone pillar at the entrance. A mature woman dressed in the same costume as Selana came out from the hiding place behind the stone pillar. Her eyes were the same as Selana, the golden eye pupils representing the Vakiraha vampire, and the same as Selana. Hair color.

"Creator... Serana!"

There is no doubt that this is Selana's mother, Valerica. Zelin imagined countless kinds of meeting situations. The worst thing is that Valerica has lost her mind or became another victim of the ideal lord, but such a peaceful and normal meeting has never appeared in his imagination. Within several situations.

"Mother and daughter meet, oh, it's great." Long Yi sighed, and she looked at the demon hunter. "Go and interrupt the atmosphere of their meeting. I will take a look nearby. If there is a dragon, I can also find out. ."

"I don't think it is a good thing to separate and act at this time." The danger of the soul stone mound is beyond doubt, even if it is the dragon descendant.

"Please, I just thought of the nearby tower to see if there is anything left by the souls. When we killed the monsters in that tower just now, I saw a lot of soul stones and gems." Gnaiya cast aside her face, "That's all. It's a very valuable thing, and there are soul stones full of souls, which can be sold at a good price when you bring them back. Don't follow the rules, I don't want to divide you half according to the rules." Dragonborn grinned, "You have a lot of people hired," Don't share this money with me anymore."

Zelin stared at Gnaiya's eyes, and the dragonborn who looked at touched the corner of his eye, thinking that there was something. Finally, the demon hunter sighed.

"Go, don't take too long, it's dangerous here."

Looking at the figure of Gnaiya quietly leaving, with Zelin's psychology, of course, he understood how the Dragonborn could just want those Septins.

Longyi has no parents anymore.