Chapter 67
After spending the rest of the day with Nysynea and Shetinoth I went back to Skyrim, meeting up with Serana again and using the [Warp] to appear near Dragon Bridge for Serana's relief, from there we again enter a tunnel to cross the mountain appearing near Northwatch Keep, which is full of Thalmors.
Much more than I expected... I think something strange is happening here too, they are too nervous ... but first we have to take Serana back home... although I'm not going to row to a castle that I can hardly see anywhere on the horizon, so I buy a small motor boat from the system and we head to the castle.
After more than 30 minutes we finally landed I remember something I should have done before, I'm supposed to have a super mind and intelligence, so why the hell I keep forgetting the little details...
"Serana, here I will give you a gift, with this device you will be able to communicate with me and other people when you need it." Serana only curiously looks at the phone I gave her...
"Is it some kind of mirror? In that case, better give me one of full body, like the ones that were in the baths, with this little black mirror I can't even see myself well." Who would think that a Vampire of Elder scrolls can reflect themselves in mirrors, I thought that as a vampire they couldn't, well you learn something every day.
After that and while we walked to the castle, I started to explain the functions of the phone and the chat system, since for some strange reason the system has not responded for several days, the bastard must be planning something, I can clearly feel it, so In the end we enter the castle and I enter the main room like in the game...
"My long-lost daughter returns at last. I trust you have my Elder Scroll?" Lord Harkon says while standing in the middle of the room and watching how Serana and I go down the stairs, as we hear more... people whispering with each other, saying things about the scroll.
"After all these years, that's the first thing you ask me? Yes, I have the scroll." I see how all the vampires stop eating and watch carefully the meeting between the two of them, for my part I do my best to simply not attract attention I am really surprised by the level of Harkon.
[Lord Harkon LVL: 200 HP: 10,000,000/10,000,000 MP: 150,000/150,000 Race: Vampire Element: Undead 4
Lord Harkon is an ancient Nordic pure-blood vampire and progenitor of the Volkihar bloodline in Skyrim. He lives in Volkihar Keep off the coast of Haafingar with the rest of his brood.]
It's much weaker than I thought, I can easily finish it here and now, but I can't risk the system failing and not being able to return the girls to their worlds, Kurumi and Pyrrha need to return to their worlds I don't know what changes it could bring if they suddenly cease to exist.
"Of course I'm delighted to see you, my daughter. Must I really say the words aloud? Ah, if only your traitor mother were here, I would let her watch this reunion before putting her head on a spike. Now tell me, who is this stranger you have brought into our hall?"
"This is my savior, the one who freed me." Well, not wanting to attract attention worked while it could, now let's see what happens...
"For my daughter's safe return, you have my gratitude. Tell me, what is your name?"
"Leonhard Hauser." It was a good decision to come with the Swordsman class so I'm probably just a strong human, nothing special.
"I am Harkon, lord of this court. By now, my daughter will have told you what we are."
"Yes, You're very old and strong vampires" That made him smile a little... and I feel a small amount of friendship towards him.... so this is what is called Vampire Charm, although it really shouldn't be very effective if my Gamer's Mind doesn't react.
"Yes. we are among the oldest and most powerful vampires in Skyrim. For centuries we lived here, far from the cares of the world. All that ended when my wife betrayed me and stole away that which I valued most." I forgot that this bastard is in love with his voice, and so he continue for almost five minutes... I'm sure if this happened in-game, we would require the skip button to be implemented.
"Yue know what Serana, you've come home safe, so without further ado, I'm leaving, I really can't stand this nauseating smell." So I turn around to leave.
"We have not finished speaking yet. Come back at once." Lord Harkon commands, sounding somewhat annoyed.
"I'm sorry Lord Harkon, I can't stand the smell of this place so I better go before I make a fool of myself."
"You dare walk away from me? In my own hall, before my own court, you dare insult me?" If he sounded annoyed before, now he's clearly starting to get angry.
"No, no, no how could I, though may I suggest washing your mouth every now and then as I've only heard shit come out of it since I got here and unlike you who have been here for millennia and you are used to, I have a short life span and I want to take advantage of it."
"YOU DARE!" Right away the guy screams like we're in a Chinese novel and uses his Vampire Lord transformation, which surprises me a bit, that means that Serana have a similar level of power?
[Lord Harkon (Vampire Lord) LVL: 550 HP: 100,000,000/100,000,000 MP: 1,500,000/1,500,000 Race: Vampire Element: Undead 4.]
"Even if you have done me a great service to me, do not think that I will put up with your insolence! There was one gift I have think to give that is equal in value to the Elder Scroll and my daughter. But now I don't think it's possible for you to get out of my castle alive."
"With only your power? Or perhaps with all of them? Do you really think you can stop me here?"
"Hahaha, you really amaze me mortal I walk as a lion among sheep. Men tremble at my approach, and you.... you will never fear death again." Once he finishes speaking, he throws himself at me, although I can really see that he's just playing, so I easily dodge him.
"You have found our fortress, my bastion and you will only leave if I say so...." Ignoring him and, I turn around again and walk towards the door, how much I wanted to kill him...
"You have returned my daughter. But what is it you seek? It is to be one of us, to make the darkness your own, to feast on the souls of the living... and the dead? Or are you with them? The Dawnguard. They think they can stop us, and we will find them. The Elder Scrolls will be mine... and the Tyranny of the Sun... shall end!" And again he attacks me, although this time he is serious and really moves fast.
I quickly switch my Job to Knight and bash him in the face, feeling like something broke when it made contact with my hand, if I didn't have Gamer's Body my hand would probably have broken too, the bastard has a very fucking hard head.
"It seems you have a little mental problem. Yes, I came to your castle and brought your daughter, but I'm not locked in here with you." At that moment I smiled and changed my Job to Crusader filling the room with holy energy, I need to be underestimated, since it is not yet the time to finish off Harkon so I cannot show my true power now... "You're locked in here with ME!"
All the vampires at this moment get up from their places finally reacting to what happened, and two idiots attack me, and to see myself more heroic I took a spear from my inventory using [Holy Cross] to hit both of them turning them to ashes before their bodies hit the ground.
[Holy Cross Lv : 20/20 Skill Form : Active Type : Physical Attack
Description: Slices a target with a cross shaped attack to inflict Holy property physical damage. It has a chance of leaving the target [Abnormal Status: Blind]. The chance of blind is reduced by the target's resistance to abnormal status. The damage is doubled with a two-handed Spear.
[Lv20] : ATK 800%, with a two-handed Spear ATK 1600%]
For a moment I thought that just that display of power would be enough, but no, I don't know if they are that obedient or have such fanaticism since several vampires attack me without any consideration.
[Volkihar Vampire LVL: 60 HP: 150,000/150,000 MP: 12,600/12,600 Race: Vampire Element: Undead 3
The Volkihar vampire clan is a group of vampires led by Lord Harkon. They are renowned as the most powerful court of vampires in Skyrim. Residing in Volkihar Keep, an ancient castle situated on a remote island off the coast of Haafingar, the court is among the most ancient and pure-blooded of vampires in Skyrim..]
[Volkihar Master Vampire LVL: 120 HP: 450,000/450,000 MP: 37,800/37,800 Race: Vampire Element: Undead 4
The Master Volkihar vampire are renowned as the most powerful court of vampires in Skyrim. Residing in Volkihar Keep, an ancient castle situated on a remote island off the coast of Haafingar, the court is among the most ancient and pure-blooded of vampires in Skyrim, they fight against the tyranny of the sun.]
However, even if they are powerful, they really don't stand a chance against me, even if my status is low, so being surrounded by 5 'normal' Vampires and 3 Masters, I use the [Grand Cross] skill, also killing a couple of gargoyles that decided to join the party at some point.
[Grand Cross Lv : 20/20 Skill Form : Active Type : Special(Magic)
Description: Inflicts Holy property Hybrid Damage 1 to 3 times to all enemies in a cross-shaped area around the user. Each cast drains 20% of MaxHP and inflicts a third of the damage to the user. Cast Time cannot be interrupted. All demon, undead race monsters becomes [Abnormal Status: Blind].
[Lv20] : ATK, MATK 1,000%]
This time everyone seems surprised, even Harkon paused a bit before starting to speak, is it really that impressive to see something like that? Well, I've been here for a long time and I don't think I want to continue listening to bullshit, something interesting is that according to the map, Serana still sees me as an ally, but well, she'll come looking for me later.
"STOP! You have forsaken my gift! Now I'll drain the life from you!" Harkon yells, but the bastard doesn't move towards me, he's standing behind his servants and the idiots are ready to launch themselves at me...
Of course I don't even pay attention to him anymore, I just turn around and raise my hand showing my middle finger... now that I remember it, does this sign mean anything in Skyrim? I will have to ask Serana later... and at the end there's one more idiot and assassin that attacks me while sneaking so I use Turn Undead and I kill it in one hit, it really feels good to be able to do whatever I want.
"MORTAL. I will darken the skies! And all of your kind will perish!!"
"I would tell you to suck my balls but considering what you are you would surely do it gladly!" Is the last thing that I say while I'm going out, knocking down and killing everything that crosses my path, and there really is a lot of shit coming my way, I send Serana a message through the chat, apologizing for what happened and asking about my doubt, although apparently she hasn't opened the phone yet.... So in the end I teleport to Dragon Bridge again.
Where apparently nothing happened, at least no monks, carriages or people have passed here, apart from an evil rider on top of an extremely loud white thing that sounds like hundreds of dragons, mammoths, bears and tigers are fighting, so people are really avoiding the zone.... I wonder who would have been....
In any case, without really wanting to waste any more time, I contact my subordinates and ask them to look for information on a blind monk and watch the bridge, also to kill any vampire on sight for my part I go back to my store to visit the last world I have access to... . although I guess I can go find the Elder Scroll of Septimus Signus for now, while I wait for Serana to go to the Soul Cairn which will really kick in the....
*Jingle*Jingle*
"Welcome! We have a wide variety of objects in our humble store! If we don't have it, I'll return your money!" Well before I can walk out the door it opens and a very peculiar brown haired girl walks in.
"........... "The girl just stares at me and smiles after that she comes my way and takes out her scroll and writes something... wait Scroll!?
[*How are you going to give me money back if I haven't bought anything?*]
"That's my secret miss, I never have to return anything! But enough kidding, were you looking for something in particular?" For a moment I didn't recognized this girl, a famous thief... Trivia Vanille or Neopolitan of Torchwick Syndicate. Also on my map she is shown as Orange, but it doesn't really matter as long as I can access her world.
Although apparently my Gamer's Mind works on her too, since I can only see a normal girl in a black dress, with none of her flashy colors of the show, but hey, it doesn't matter if I manage to make her take something, I can have access to her world, and as far as I know, the store must notify me when someone tries to steal something from my store...
[*I would like to buy some Dust, preferably fire, how much do you have?*] Now that I think about it, it's lucky that she decides to write in her scroll, if she starts using her Semblance to do it I wouldn't see shit thanks to Gamer's Mind.
"I'm sorry, after what happened in the city I ran out of dust quickly... but don't worry if you want a fire attack I have something that might interest you." If what Pyrrha said is true, in 1 month she will travel to join Beacon, so they must already be stealing Dust, we're still going to give Salem and Cinder a headache.
"Sorry for the delay this is what I want to sell you." On the table I place several scrolls from Ragnarok, which are actually Level 1 Fire Ball, Level 1 Fire Wall, Level 1 Frost Diver, Level 3 Lightening Bolt, Level 3 Earth Spike and Level 3 Fire Bolt.
".........." The look she's giving me is adorable, she's even pouting... but hey let's show her how they work.
"Hey, don't look at me like that, let me show you how it works, you just have to break the seal at the top, don't worry about it being activated prematurely, it has to be fully deployed and make sure you're aiming where you want it to attack." I quickly open a Level 1 Frost Diver and aim for a corner of the shop where some plate armor is.
In front of me pieces of ice begin to come out of the ground very quickly creating a path towards my goal, to tell the truth I was a bit surprised by the speed, in less than 1 second it crossed about 12 meters so if you are distracted it will really take you by surprise, and again the open-mouthed look she has is just too cute...