Stray Chapter 198: The magician’s self-cultivation

Only by seeing the specific properties of this knife with your own eyes will you understand how powerful it is, and guess how terrifying the power of its original heyday should have been.

It is said that as early as sometime in the early Second Era, a researcher among the high elves was searching for the artifact of Tamriel and discovered the Ebony Blade, which he believed to be an ancient Acavia Warglaive, take it away for research.

Mephala's whispers then corrupted his mind, and eventually he stole the souls of his students and colleagues, throwing them into the hands of the Demons for eternal torment. To ensure that his wife suffered the most terrible pain, he tore her soul to shreds.

Hundreds of years later, a group of fearless men swept the dreadful tomb, cleared the demons and undead entrenched in it, released the tormented souls, and restored the wife's soul to its original state. .

Something happened then, and the wife's soul took the Ebony Blade and established a connection with the whispering daemon.

Mephala tried to corrupt her mind again and bewitched her soul, but she firmly refused, and at the cost of her own soul, she cursed this terrifying magic knife so that it could not stay in any around people in the hope of saving the souls of those who might have been bewitched by this knife.

After that, a lot of pretty terrible things happened in a row-

For example, in the story of a generation, in the series of events that caused the turmoil in the West, there is a whisper of the Ebony Blade hidden behind the history...

For example, during the Third Era, the warriors of Cyrodiil called Mephala and provoked the two major families in a certain place to kill each other. In the end, only one person survived. In the end, the warrior received the ebony blade as a reward...

As another example, at some point in the current Fourth Era, the Ebony Blade fell into the hands of the lord of Snowman City, who threw the blade into the Sky Forge in an attempt to destroy it. However, no amount of flame could melt it, on the contrary, it extinguished the flame of the furnace.

According to its original fate, the magic blade later fell into the hands of the Dragonborn, but after being isolated for so long, the weapon has lost too much power. So Mephala taught the Dragonborn to nourish the Demonblade with the "deceptive blood" of murdering loved ones.

It is precisely because he has so much information that Xia Ran is afraid of this knife. No matter how Mephala shows her sincerity, it shows that he does not intend to use this knife to corrupt his soul——

After all, a normal, living lost person is valuable. If something goes wrong, accidentally kills or loses the identity of the lost person, and eventually can't leave this mission world and return to the white space...

So what does Mephala want? Although He has a very bad taste, he is still able to restrain his bad taste when it comes to the key issue of life and death involving his own existence.

It's not just him, other gods are probably the same. In the face of the possibility of surmounting the dream of the gods and truly controlling their own destiny, their tolerance is unimaginably high...

It's just the truth. If Xia Ran is not worried at all, it's definitely impossible.

Looking at the shining ruby ​​ring on her hand, Xia Ran took a deep breath before closing her eyes, so that she no longer had that kind of confrontational psychology, and turned to And concentrate on listening and sensing this magic knife.

Of course, the lack of psychological confrontation does not mean that the spirit is not vigilant. If he perceives that something is wrong, he will guarantee that he will throw this thing into the inventory as soon as possible to isolate the connection.

The whisper of the Ebony Blade resounded in his consciousness, constantly instilling evil knowledge in him, while a strange force was trying to erode his mind, but Naya the Ring of Fire was very strong against **** , easily exempted from this negative impact.

Xia Ran listened patiently and carefully. After all, impatient is not enough. This knife is not a radio after all, and there is no button to tune him.

After a long while, he seemed to notice something and raised his head to look in a certain direction.

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Half an hour has passed.

Xia Ran found a bottomless crack in the mountain stream. I don't know how deep it is and where it leads. If ordinary people don't have professional technical equipment and team support, it is impossible to think about it. Go down and find out.

If one goes wrong, the little life will be lost in it——

A suspenseful adventure story in the ordinary world, where you are exploring and dying, and you can't find a way to come back alive; in this magical world, it is very likely that you will encounter alien creatures in the underground world and eventually be eaten by them. .

However, Xia Ran didn't feel anything. With his current attributes and skills, coupled with a set of equipment, he couldn't be more professional.

So I didn't think much about it at all. Instead, I blessed myself with a spell, and I jumped straight down, but my body didn't fall straight down, and then fell all over the ground deep in the ground.

It's like a leaf, a feather falling from the sky...

As a cleric, Xia Ran can't teleport or even fly yet, but she has to master some things like levitating, so that she won't be killed by the terrain or something, that's funny.

The figure fell at a moderate speed, passed through the crack, and gently landed in the depths of the dark underground. He stretched out his index finger a little in the air, and a light source appeared at the fingertips, shining and dispelling darkness all around.

At the bottom of the crack, there is not much snow, but there is the sound of running water, and a trickling stream seems to be flowing not far away...Identified it carefully with the help of light, Xia Ran He picked up the magic knife and listened carefully to the induction for a while, then walked in the direction of the sound of running water.

There is indeed a larger space in the depths of this crack. You can enter the interior of the mountain or the interior of the underground by following the flowing water. It is a darker and more secluded underground space. I don't know what kind of secrets are buried. what a danger.

Mephala's dilapidated altar may be in the deepest place. It used to be the shrine of another of his demon artifacts. Although it is unknown why the ruins sank to the depths of the ground, it is the truth.

Just like many fairy tales, the genius treasure always emits energy to attract some beasts to guard around it. There are all kinds of monsters.

Xia Ran explored the deeper cracks along the stream, and found that it was as if she had entered an alien planet. The passage in front of her became wider and wider, and no longer seemed narrow. It was just a crack with steep mountains on both sides. The walls are overgrown with plants.

It was a strange plant that I had never seen before, similar to some kind of fungus, but it was emitting fluorescence. There are also some spiral-shaped single leaves that look more like living animals. When Xia Ran walks past them, they will immediately shrink back, like mimosas.

The further you go, the more it looks like a colorful alien biosphere-like environment, and many plants are emitting fluorescence, and even lighting spells are not needed.

And he also noticed some traces of animals, stalking and sneaking, peeping at himself in the dark in the distance, with a little curiosity and more malice...

While strengthening his spiritual shield, he said something softly, uttering a few mysterious and inexplicable syllables:

“laas-yah-nir—!!”

"Aura Whisper" is a very special dragon roar that does not require the user to make a loud, loud roar, but rather a soft whisper. It only takes a whisper to see all the vitality at a glance.

Because the "sound" will arouse the surrounding aura, causing it to radiate in all directions, passing through all obstacles, just like ripples on the water surface. And no matter what you encounter on the way, it will feedback like an echo.

It's like the extraordinary echolocation method possessed by bats. After sending out ultrasonic waves, bats can determine the position and distance of surrounding objects according to the emission of various objects. This is probably the case. This dragon roar also Able to determine the surrounding environment through breath feedback.

In the game, it seems to be used to see the enemies in the unexplored map through the wall. It has limited effect and is very tasteless. However, after using it once, Xia Ran found that this ability is very useful——

You only need to whisper a word, and the surrounding aura will radiate and spread out in an instant, and then you will be able to receive the feedback information, and the high enough intelligence attribute can also synthesize and filter this information in an instant, and in the mind It builds a three-dimensional map within a few kilometers of the surrounding area.

It seems to be projected in his mind, and it is very detailed, including the intricate terrain passages, the growth environment of animals and plants, almost all details are available, not just simply revealing the surrounding vitality exist.

It can be said that it is very easy to use. The only downside is that this is not a real-time dynamic map projection. Every time Xia Ran uses "Aura Whisper", she will get an information about the surrounding area within a certain area. map information.

But that is fixed. Maybe at the moment when he uses his ability, he detects the edge a few kilometers away from the end of the front passage. There is no danger, but it is very likely that after the ability ends, there is something Scary creatures walked in...

——This is the information he doesn't know.

If you want to refresh the map once, you have to use this dragon roar once, which will cost a lot.

Xia Ran quickly used the new ability to understand the surrounding terrain, grasped his current situation, and knew how many things were staring at him in the darkness in the distance.

But it doesn't matter, his intuition has no warning, and the aura of those things is not enough for him to pay attention.

If he hadn't considered that he was in the mountain, under the ground, the surrounding space and environment were limited, and he was also worried that a mountain collapse would directly crush him to death, he would have already set off a storm with flames, directly A fire burned.

It's just that, at the moment, it is impossible to use such rude means, he thought while pressing his right hand on the hilt of the magic knife at his waist.

Then, Xia Ran seemed to have thought of something, stunned for a moment, then lowered her head to look at her palm that naturally held the hilt of the knife, and frowned—why did she act so naturally ? Aren't you a magician yourself?

Well, it must be the power of this magic knife itself. It can directly strengthen one's skills in mastering long-blade weapons. As long as it is worn on the body, one will naturally become a true swordsman master.

In my mind, I naturally have more experience and skills in using swords, and I have mastered countless brilliant swordsmanship...

This kind of change is very natural. It is not to strengthen his skills bluntly, but also to load up the experience condensed by the previous holders of this magic sword, making him feel like a man immersed in this way. people for countless years.

Yes, that's what it looks like.

Xia Ran suddenly found the reason and felt a lot more at ease. After all, she was still a pure blood magician specializing in magic technology...

In the next instant, the sword light flashed, the ebony blade was already unsheathed, and the magician made a side-step attack, as if the prophet was greeted by a rapidly whistling black shadow!

Like Iga's sword-drawing technique, it uses the arc of the sword to create an instant terrifying explosive force, and the sword is as fast as lightning, and it unexpectedly slashes with an unparalleled slash!

No matter what the swift creature that rushed out of the darkness and suddenly attacked was the slashing line that just hit the blade head-on!

One hit is a sure kill!