Chapter 363: Beauty And The Beast (1/2)
A/n: So I was supposed to be on Eid Break and I really enjoyed i… okay, who a to do TTThat's why I worked on research about Serana's age and how old are the Volkihars I'll share it on both Reddit and at the end of the chapter
Also, this is a 4K words (research is not included), so it is a double chapter for today and the 5K votes
Anyways, Eid Mubarak
9 Days until the Battle of Winterhold
The Pale, a Hold that shares borders with Winterhold frooverned by Jarl Skald the Elder However, on the other side of the Hold, there was a big secret being unearthed
Jon was covered by a cloak provided by the vampires of Volkihar It was a very rare fabric called the Void Cloth, it gets extracted froht plant with blue stems and blue flowers called the Void Bloom As hard as it is to find the plant, the extraction can be refined into threads then tailored into Void Cloth that has an extraordinary ability to hide presences and conceal signals, and here is the thing… once that cloth touched Jon's skin, [Greed] made an absoluteto juht now, Jon atching the entrance of a certain cave being unearthed and sitting outside on a stone being watched by both Fura and Garan
Barely suppressing [Greed] that was going on a rao out and started devouring the cloak bit by bit then replace the eaten parts with more of [Greed]
When [Greed] devoured the shadoord [Shadowrend] soo, it possessed the ability to understand metallic objects and Reshape them like [Shadowrend] which can reshape itself as well Jon wouldn't miss a chance for his first Deadly Sin artifact, that is also part of his soul, to reach a higher potential
Still, to notwith the two Vampire Lords next to hi and shouted at the loudest of my voice 'bitch, lorious day”
”Can this Nord stop talking” Garan was clearly annoyed by Jon
”Don't askback her irritation
”Oh! That reain with that?”
The two couldn't hold it anyreatsword and Garan opened a book
”Oh! Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes by Mankar Camoran That's one rare book” Jon talked to Garan
”You know about books?”
”Of course, I ae? You Nords know nothing other than swinging your big swords like inally a Dark Elf, talked back at Jon with a hint of his words directed at Fura
She paused for a second before going back again at her usual
”Hey, that's one idiotic insult I a his big sword like a … just point me at a brothel and I'll show you real swordplay”
”You are getting on my nerves, rich boy” Fura pointed her sword at Jon
”Oh, look You two are actually talking now… I still have that tale about Dragons that I always tell about my past life… let's see it starts at…”
”My head!”
”Someone stop him”
Jon used the deadliest of his arsenal, the Chatterbox Technique Inheriting the Egyptian technique that was refined through 5000 years from days of the most ancient civilization on Earth, Jon made the vaet
By that distraction, [Greed] has already co signs of evolving
The true nature of [Greed] is aethereal which led Jon to consider it a Shadow Aether, soy at the same time By [Greed]'s nature, its favorite food other than Jon's Magicka is things that have a Shadow Nature and that Void Cloth happened to be one By devouring the cloth, [Greed] can now morph into a fabric fore
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With hi assured that Alina will coe to assure her and tell that he has a plan to escape and will be there in the span of 9 days As he didn't have to do anything while the entrance to the cave was being unearthed, Jon kept sendingher what to do and completed some important scheht he was under the control of the Void Cloak and the Magic Shackles but he had already got rid of the cloak and the shackles were nothing but a toy in his eyes compared to his true level of power
”Why is that human so silent all of a sudden?” Garan noticed how silent Jon beca?” Fura shouted at Jon
”Eh… what? Oh! I- I dozed off… e saying? Dragons, yes Right… the second verse of the story…”
””SHUT UP!””
” Oh! Sorry”
Jon's duh years of hard work kept him clear froned sleeping
The Vampires' Thralls finished the work for theirhim were the Vampire Lords Garan and Fura followed by the Lesser Va non-vampires, the thralls were used as a meat shi+eld whenever there was a trap detected
Jon had no re was that thralls were originally bandits attacked by va hypnotized with the vampires' eyes
Once the cavern ended and the ruins started to appear, Garan started nodding to himself
”These are Nordic ruins indeed If I a, this should be 'Dimhollow Crypt'”
”So the so-called Child of Prophecy was right? We'll find an Elder Scroll here?” Fura asked
”That is yet to be seen” Garan urged the teah as any other Nordic tors, deadly traps and so around navigating through Nefertiti's guiding from the Shadow World, she could tell discover traps or enemies a day away so the trip in the crypt was smooth
As the excavation tea the crypt, they finally arrived in a large room that can almost take an Olympic Stadium inside it Jon pointed out the traps and walked to the balcony overlooking the rooht” Fura was ae, it had a deep bottoed the floor and a high circular platfore architecture that can only be seen in Castle Volkihar
Jon walked down the balcony and crossed the bridge across the room to the platform There as no enemies on this side of the room
”What is this place?” Fura asked
”Here lies the Elder Scroll and… another Ancient Vampire” Jon said
”You sure?”
”Only one way to find out”
Jon looked around the circular platform that was made of dark stone and found all the key parts about it The floor was carved in circles and there were braisers and a small altar in the center
”What now?”
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Jon didn't reply as he walked to one of the Thralls and dragged him by his nape to the center The va out of line but none stopped hi to happen, Jon held the h with his two hands then slammed him on the altar With the irew fro so on the floor started to show signs of change and harmless purple flames appeared on them in a certain pattern
”A puzzle? This should be easy” Garan said as he started thinking but Jon was already solving it which irritated the vampire
He moved the braziers to follow the trail of the purple flames and each time the flames started to take another pattern which he had to follow From the center to the outside back to the center, the puzzle was already solved
The floor of the platform shook the areas around its center started to sink down The ones standing on the edges of the platform fell from it to undefined fate and the ones in the round
The central altar started to rise showing a thick ns of opening As Jon went forward to check it out, the two Vampire Lords pushed Jon back and stood in front of the monolith in anticipation
The cover slid open slowly and its inside was dark, as the diht started to illuure of a black-haired maiden that almost tried to walk out of her petrified state from the inside of that monolith stumbled on her steps and tripped doerlessly
Once she tripped and her back was exposed, everyone around could see the thing she was carrying A cylinder object of unknown nificent andlike any and none was like A singularity of art and piece of s and dreams are the saroaned as she started to rise and the object on her back hid behind her again She stood up while staggering and examined the people around her A Dark Elf reatsword and wary expressions, a large man in a black cloak with a curious aura around hi from under his hood and a bunch of irl were gratified by her appearance She was a verse in the law of beauty even though she was pale and thin Well shaped features, beautiful arched eyes and hints of royalty in each detail about her Few could irl's appearance was already putting a large ale hint of energy leaking froirl spoke in a dry voice She was having a struggle keeping herslumber she woke from
” This… you , a drop of blood cairl's cheek
It was from the corpse of the thrall that Jon used to activate the puzzle Jon saw that and his lips arched up in a sirl's face started to turn There was beauty no e brutal expression appeared on her face with a strong lust for blood tingling on all her nerves Hundreds of years under seal in sluo insane with all the thirst that comes all of a sudden from the tiniest whiff of blood, let alone a whole dairl's face turned, her s to appear and her claws extended ten inches each, she was a wolf in a herd of sheep
All she wanted was to feed and lo and behold, the nearest huhty behind those two va that is sweet and tasty It felt as if he was saying ”co it with his wide insane sadistic s but absolute interest in one another as if the world was made only for the two of them A beast of blood and a beast of tyranny and the other one only looked like the sweetest prey in each's eyes
Jon's plan was executed to perfection