Chapter 369: Saving Xikil (1/2)
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The ever dim sky of Coldharbour covered its ever dark wasteland of dead trees, floating stones and towering sharp rocks The real billions of souls that passed over this place since its dah these Shrouded Plains, Jon and Serana traveled on a pair of Cold-Flame Atronach Horses
Not sure if it was some old ruins or a proper stop, the two stopped at every ruin checking for inhabitants They rode past ed to Coldharbour but the ticking clock was suppressing all sorts of curiosities thatin a real may actually prove fatal on one's mental health
After so pyras north of the carried a resemblance to the Ancient Aztec style or rather its counterpart in this world
”An Argonian Village!”
”Really?” Serana looked with curiosity
”Looks rather ee and found it lying in ruins Jon tried to ree in any Elder Scroll Ga
”Haj Uxith, that's the village nao during the Planee was discovered in Coldharbour when explorers started to coed to this realeBal to harvest its sap for the safety of the village inhabitants You kno the Hist trees and the Argonians are connected, right?”
”Yeah”
”And so, after the explorers arrived, the Argonians sought the from the machines the Daedra used to extract its sap with Whether the Hist tree was put to rest or gotthe tree to endure a thousand years is still ie is in ruins as you see”
[A/n: The Hist are a sentient race of giant spore trees that the Argonians are deeply connected to and in both society and religion]
As Jon and Serana rode, arrived at a large tree with a very thick trunk with small branches on its top and the roots stuck in a pool of the azure plase crack at the trunk that[Waterwalk] to see how the tree died but as he tried to look inside, a pair of sharps sickles was aimed at this neck
Jon retreated in one jue crack on the dead Hist and a creature crawling out of the tree
Serana ran beside Jon and evoked ic on her hands ”Be careful, that's a Spider Deadra”
Jon looked with disappointment at the Spider Daedra that crawled out of the tree and shook his head
”It completely ruined my fantasy about Arachne Girls”
Just as Jon mumbled, the Spider Deadra is exactly an Arachne, a half wo like the fantasy fictions he knew, it was a hideous monstrosity with a body made of scales chitin scales until the bosom then a face of that can barely be called a wos and two human arms
[Bloodskal] appeared on Jon's hand
”Hyaa!”
He waved the sword at the Spider Deadra froeting the spider's linizing Jon as soy attacks as its life depending on it but Jon was already trapping it to s
Shriiiiiiek
The Spider Deadra shrieked and a few auras started to appear around Jon checked to see ss are crawling all over the place towards hiht for you”
Jon didn't care anyway and waved his sword to rip them to pieces As the Spider Deadra finally was free froic on its hands and shout lightning towards Jon
Jon was about to put that rude creature in place but Serana stepped in and joined the fight
”Take care of the small ones Leave that to me”
”Aye, Sir… Lady”
Jon effortlessly killed the little spiderlings that tried to attack hi one The Spider Deadra used the Lightning Magic as well as Spitting Webs and Poison but Serana negated it all with Frost Magic
Out of the blue, another Spider Daedra appeared and another one followed it
”I see, so it was buying ti its kids for its sisters to come Tsk, I still never understood why Jull would like those creatures”
Jon and Serana were trying to avoid the flashy ic but in the end, they had to end it fast Nefertiti joined up in her larger form and Jon used [Bloodskal] to send crescent blades of his Aura and used a portion of [Greed] as a blaster gun shooting out his Aura too
The fight was easily over afterward
”Let's leave before anything shows up” Jon was in a hurry and conjured two Atronach Horses to ride away
As they were getting out of the village, Serana noticed so
”Did you use arrows?”
”No, just my Aura Why?”
”I can swear that some of the monsters were dead to arrows”
”It needs a lot of power to kill those things with just a bow and I felt nothing, are you sure?”
”Yes”
”Strange, I didn't feel any Aura Let's just leave and keep a careful watch around”
Jon and Serana rode as fast as they could to lose any trackers if there was any
”Very convenient, this Aura thing” Serana said
”Yes, you didn't learn it?”
”No, I don't know if I will even need it”
”I see… practicing it requires a strong personality and a fixed martial style It is called Battle-Spirit after all”
”How do you use it?”
”Did you notice the sounds Isounds?”