6.3: The Windcaller's Horn
System Prompt: One Handed 32 -> 33
"What the hell was that?" Darius questioned particularly to no one, He was disappointed in the number of Draugrs. There were only 4, one was a restless one, and the other three were weak ones.
Darius looted their bodies and sold the weapons.
+164 Gold
He sighed, standing up from the steps he was sitting on, he "read" the Spell Tome Oakflesh, the spell increases armor's durability for sixty seconds, 'Another useless item,' He thought. He opened the gate with a lever, and the three went deeper inside the barrow.
Just a few steps ahead they came across a spiraling stair leading up, and they began climbing the stairs and were met with an iron door, but the stairs didn't end there, there was another floor.
"Top to bottom," Darius said, and they continued to climb up the stairs, coming across another Iron door, but it was locked.
'Master Lock' Darius thought and began his work, he turned his pick left and right, trying to find the "sweet spot" Even though the Lockpicks were more durable than the game, they were still breaking more frequently on this lock, raising his skill level.
System Prompt: Lockpicking 18 -> 19
He tried a few more times, and it finally opened after Three lockpicks were broken.
System Prompt: Lockpicking 19 -> 20
The Item found within was trash, a Steel sword, which he sold in the system, and A Steel armor, which he donned as the previous had been penetrated.
+19 Gold
They came down to the first floor, and opened the door, triggering a trap, arrows firing it in the narrow path, it stopped after a few moments.
Darius' face expressed his boredom for this barrow, but he continued with the two lasses following behind him.
The next room was dark, some walls were made with wooden beams, and in the center were 10 skeletons, standing in what seemed to be a puddle of flammable oil, above them were hanging braziers.
Darius' face lit up, his arrow pointed at the braziers above, he let go of the arrow, dropping the braziers in the very flammable oil what happened next was a big explosion lighting up the room for a few seconds, burning the skeleton.
The dopamine lasted only minutes before Darius went back to his usual face.
Uthgerd and Lydia were shocked at his archery, they didn't even know when he had aimed his bow at the brazier, or even when he took out his bow.
To their side was a room locked from all sides, but its entry was obvious to any, a black stone, was placed on the opening blocking the entry, and on its side was a pulling chain.
Darius pulled it, making the heavy black stone fall on him, but Darius was unbothered as he pushed the stone to his side and entered the room, his lit up when he saw a chest, only to be disappointed again by its content.
An Iron Armor and 22 gold.
Darius sighed again, selling the Iron armor, and a steel sword, he found on the rack beside the chest.
+22 Gold
+40 Gold
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They crossed the burned center of the hall, and up the stairs when the lid of the standing tomb in front of them dropped and a restless draugr revealed himself.
The other three tombs followed after him but the other three were weak, 'Just like before,' Darius thought.
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+380 Gold.
'At least this was worth it,' Darius thought, he had found an amethyst on the restless draugr.
To the next door was a draugr standing in between what seemed to be Axe's hanging from the ceiling, at Darius' foot was a trip wire, which he stepped on, dismembering the draugr in the process.
Darius used his new shout to go through the swinging axes.
Wuld!!
On the other side, Darius pulled a chain, stopping the Axes so his companion could come through.
On the front were two draugr still asleep, Darius gestured to Uthgerd and Lydia to kill them quietly which they did, and then looted the bodies.
+80 Gold
There was a turn ahead of them, Lydia not looking down stepped on a pressure plate hidden in the rubble, causing a spiked gate to launch, at her face.
Wuld!!
Darius again used his shout to save Lydia, at least from death, as he bumped into her, making her crash on the wall. Once the word is said, Darius can only go in one direction, be it front or to the side.
Darius and Uthgerd quickly checked up on Lydia, she was unconscious, lying stone cold on the floor, and her arm and ribs were broken.
Darius used his healing hands on her, "It won't work," Darius muttered after seeing no effect on her, is it an internal injury?
Darius withdrew a healing potion and made her drink it, just like he had done with Sigrid when she had burned herself.
Darius had used the strongest of potions he had on him, his heart was beating fast, worried for the third time since he got here.
Uthgerd seeing his expression tried to comfort him, "The potion will take time, she'll wake up soon,"
Darius stood up, "I'll be going ahead, when she wakes up you can catch up," Not giving Uthgerd a chance to argue, he went ahead.
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+240 Gold
+1 Minor Magicka
After he had killed all the Draugr in his way, Darius was inside the Shroud's hearth's depths, ahead of him were tens of tombs.
'This is what I'm talking about,' Darius said as he stepped in the portcullis behind his was shut locking him in there.
The lids of tombs were shot up as the skeletons and draugr were awake, and then an unexpected event happened, the overlord of the barrow awoke within the chaos.
'Just be safe,'
Darius summoned Atronach, who got to work as she was called upon, Darius with an Imperial sword used the shout with his hand out to the side when the undead had made a line, a line like cattle heading to the butcher.
Wuld!!
Darius cut through them like butter, heading closer to the Overlord as he looked down at the play.
System Prompt: One-Handed 33 -> 34
Atronach was shooting fireballs at the skeletons, on the two island-like structures, on both sides.
Darius was fighting against the Overlord with a sword, as he was out of Magicka.
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