104: Homecoming (4)
"The wind today… it smells nice, Lestrade."
"Yes, my lady, the summer is almost over and soon it will be autumn. The weather is turning nice." Lestrade replied.
"Autumn… I love autumn. It makes me think of Emberwood. Oh, how I miss my hometown! Oh, how I do…"
Looking at the large sea from her balcony, the Duchess felt nostalgic and put back the cup of tea on the table.
"Your appetite isn't improving, my lady. Are th...
103: Homecoming (3)
There was a lot of conflicting news and misinformation going on around the three duchies. For once, many fights started between highly skilled pilgrims and some groups of combatants that were either mercenaries, knights, or even mages.
In truth, after the attack on Fort Marth and when Leon encountered the Medjay, Eleanor mobilized a lot of agents from the Godfrey duchy and started irritating and harassing the pilgrim caravans. This exposed a ...
102: Homecoming (2)
The Border of the Dark Duchy, passing through here is like an announcement to the administration of the duchy that Leon has returned.
This would give Leon precious little time to act before the opposition starts moving, or that was what they thought.
"A message arrived 3 days ago to His Highness, Young Lord Leon Dark."
In front of the six stood several elite knights that were stationed at the border point.
"Let me g...
101: Homecoming (1)
Traveling as fast as they can across the main road, the group of six was ever so silent since yesterday.
Leon left them with only one thing to think about and made a deal they do not ask any questions. This made them keep thinking of what the hell they just saw and they couldn't calm their thoughts.
The Medjay, a group of killers that worked for the Holy Temple, was targeting Leon. This is a confirmation that nowhere is safe.
Bu...
100: Reunited
At the gate of the Marth Fortress, Leon left behind a steaming pile of mess.
The Fortress was burning nonstop, the guards were scattered trying to save what they could save, and the Medjay team was shattered.
Minerva was rammed by the Bison and she was only knocked out a minute but this minute was destructive and she couldn't have guessed what happened if not for her assistant Milla telling her what went down.
As she hurried to the wa...
99: Medjay
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we welcome you to the secret festival at our branch in the City of the Sun, Heliopolis.
Our performers shall enter the stage to perform the renowned martial display, "Dance of the Hawks and the Cobra."
Shady stood in the middle of the stage with a single weapon in hand while Nadia and the rest of the team surrounded him.
"Ready to get your ass kicked?" Nadia asked.
"Isn't this supposed to be scripted?" Shady...
98: Opening the Way
Committing crimes and sabotaging the enemy was part of the Medjay ways. Of course, stealth and discretion were key to such a rogue organization.
Through the reminder of the night, Leon changed his appearance multiple times as he traveled through the Fort. He killed all the guards he could by breaking their necks in order not to spill too much blood and he hid the bodies in all the locations he could.
What seemed to be a problem to him ...
97: Infiltrating Fort Marth
"Haha! This has come out perfectly." Leon said as he put his knife aside and tied the last knot.
It was a few straight branches gathered together in equal lengths and a piece of cloth tied to them tightly. Leon used branches, tree fibers, and feathers from a few birds he shot down.
"It looks like a bird."
"It's a kite."
Rhyme could tell that it was a kit but Leon tied no strings to the kite, rather, he made it str...
738: Apocrypha's Basement
He wasn't sure how this happened but as he opened his eyes, he knew it was troublesome.
"Oh no!"
Neloth was about to pull out the hairs of his head but too bad he was bald.
The floor he stood on was made of parchment paper and old book covers, the walls around him were made of stacked up stinking old books, and the sky above him was covered in green anomalies infested with squirming tentacles.
The profile matches so...
96: Necromancy
Vadim couldn't stop as he ran away from the chasers. A Dwarf is never the fastest person one may see out there but Vadim used every dirty trick in the book to keep his chasers busy with him.
Rather than speed, what he needed was Stamina. He entered the forest not too far from the road and kept using Combat Magic in order to Rush and Leap and perform all the tricks he knew.
"Search for the Dwarf, return with him alive!"
Vadim watched ...
737: The Path of Knowledge
If somebody were to ask Jon, why on Nirn… or in Oblivion… would you steal a part of an Oblivion Realm that belongs to a Daedric Prince and take it away with you?
For that question, Jon would simply shrug his shoulders!
In truth, however, he was just looking for a way to vex Hermaeus Mora even more than what already happened with the Oghma Infinium.
But there is more to just that. Jon's intention of making enemies with...
95: Minerva
The Marth barony consisted of many rural villages and a big garrison. Such baronies would hold a gathering for their citizens at a central land between all the villages to hold a weekly market for exchanging food and goods.
Upon hearing news of this local market, Vadim, who was adamant about not wasting any more time, was the one to suggest a detour.
Rather than his love for rich dairy products and local county ghee, he wanted to make a disgui...
94: The Book of the Dead
"You… You are… You are…"
"I am what?"
"Finally… It's over."
Vadim wasn't the kind of guy to believe in myth and miracles since even in a world of magic, there was a limit to how far a fantasy can go.
Such fantasies are Good Demons, Evil Light Spirits, Friendly Undead, etc.
Well, this was the first time Vadim would hear of… or rather witness a Banshee, an undead of woe, becoming a friendly spirit.
...
93: Banshee
"GIVE!"
Leon was stunned in his place, the banshee's screams resonated deep with something in his core.
"IT!"
It made him shiver but neither from fear nor demoralization.
"BACK!"
It was almost too familiar… the pain… the suffering… it felt like it hit him somewhere he needed to be hit at.
The Banshee, however, was already reaching out to him and the hundred Will o' Wisps swarmed all over the place.
"LAD...
92: The Book of Rhyme (2)
Possession inanimate objects, phasing through matter, going invisible, a Will o' Wisp is basically a mob on cheat code.
"That's one problematic fucker!" Leon whispered.
"You read it then… here goes our element of surprise." Vadim sighed lightly and aimed his hand forward.
Three dots of light formed at his fingertips and moved at a hasty speed targeting the closest Will o' Wisp. Sadly, he missed and the four wisps started...
91: The Book of Rhyme (1)
Vadim Igorson, son of the Tsarina of Dwarf Cave Empire of Dandaros, a Prince among his people, and a senior mercenary who held the position of chief for 8 long years at the Hall of Mercenaries in Karanberg.
At the height of that man's career, he was the leader and figurehead of Reign, a very large and influential Mercenary Group that had many nobles and famous warriors from every place across the continent. They participated in wars, po...
90: The Cave's Secret
Leon opened his eyes and saw a bright light coming from outside the cave. He gazed with narrowed eyes and saw Vadim approaching.
"I've widened the cave's entrance, lad." Vadim said as he seemed to have shed some sweat doing physical labor.
"Single-handedly?" Leon asked.
"Why? Something wrong with that?* Vadim asked while seeming a bit offended.
Any Dwarf can clear that amount of earth without much trouble. They are just...
Recapping "Relife System: The Unholy Mage"
Transmigration…
Leon Dark & Shady (pronounced: ˈʃaɪdi) are two souls met in one body. Shady was a famed super thief (codename: Black Cobra) working for the Medjay, an Egyptian organization that works for the preservation of Egyptian culture in light and dark, while Leon was an aristocratic young man from a different world.
The two souls came together by death. Shady died by setting up a ...
89: Leon vs. the Water Mage
"You want to die, you fool?" Leon shouted as he kept trying to free himself but Hector pressed the blade deeper into his neck and it started to sink in.
"Next time won't be just simple…" Hector wanted to affirm his demand by putting more force on his threat.
At that moment, what he didn't expect came to hit him. The ship shook immediately and the whole deck went left, right, and left. With the blade deep in Leon's neck, he fe...
736: Hijacker in Oblivion
Apocrypha comes from the word Apocryphal, which means something obscure and hidden. In terms of scriptural and theological studies, the meaning evolved to False, Spurious, Bad, or Heretical.
What does this have to do with Hermaeus Mora's Apocrypha? The answer is nothing… or maybe everything.
Apocrypha is the trove of all the hidden knowledge in the world, especially the ones that are forgotten and falsified. In other words, if ...
What would be expected for you to do when an enemy of yours kicks in a door to your house and comes in like a maniac killing your servants and pillaging your valuables?
The answer is always self-defense.
Hermaeus Mora was well known to be a hoarder, a collector, and a vicious taskmaster. His collections of knowledge were his most prized possessions which he would use to lure many puny mortals to snare them to his r...
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"Hey!"
"Don't hey me!"
"My legal team shall contact your steward to pay for the damages."
"You don't even smell anywhere near sorry."
"Dragon fighting has a lot of occupational hazards."
"Not what I want to hear."
"Sorry."
"Well… nope… too easy!"
Jon Dare and Arcgmage Neloth were a very unusual mix. Jon vs Neloth is basically a hopeless narcissist vs another hopeless narcissist.
<...
733: Tug-of-War
The sky trampled as the battle raged. Jon was fighting solo on equal footing with a Dragon that was empowered by devouring the soul of another dragon. The two took it to the sky and things developed in unprecedented ways.
From the ground, people could see fire lighting up the clouds and magic bolts striking like thunder. The shadow of a man and a dragon wrote a saga for the ages on the sky of Solstheim and it made those people tremble in fear. Pr...
The Dare Troopers dug trenches around what seemed to be a consolidated resistance of the last cultists. Jon's actions of retaking the All-Maker's Stones from Miraak all in one day, save for the Tree Stone, seemed to have caused the Miraak to finally retaliate and it was there when he sent out the last of his cultists to defend the Sun Stone while dispatching two dragons from Apocrypha to hold out the Dragonborn, th...
731: Cleansing the Stones
The man that was seen sitting on a black throne in the sky suddenly made quite a stir in Solstheim. He was seen in many locations all around the island and many speculated that this man is some dark apparition that is somehow connected to the mess the island was trapped in.
This situation came simultaneously with a strange phenomenon that plagued the Riekling populace of Solstheim. As the appearance of the man on t he dark throne starte...
730: Sloth 3
The power of the sun flowing through the spell that Jon cast was powerful enough to take a toll on both Jon and Pride. It was clear that his arm was being burnt by the strong aura of the sun's energy and even Pride was emitting smoke. The one who was enduring despite being on the wrong end of this spell is Karstaag.
The ancient ghost of the Frost ...
Jon contemplated the meaning of many things and from that, he learned many things more. Things that he should never have learned as mortal and meanings of higher and better minds than his.
As he shed off his Greed, he understood that material is irrelevant and he doesn't own anything. This gave him ownership of everything he wanted as long as he never desired it.
As he shed off his Pride, he understood that honor is not as subjective as many wo...
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728: Sloth 2
Was Jon ready to face this one? He can't really say there is anything ever ready… for THAT.
That was a new kind of insanity even for him.
He faced dragons and many monsters and mortals that could do things unbelievable but nothing was anywhere close to this one. It was simply too one-sided at this point.
But despite everything, Jon felt something he couldn...
727: Sloth 1
There are certain complications regarding fighting the First Dragonborn as well as many advantages and disadvantages Jon needed to take into consideration.
First, Miraak is powerful but a bit slow. Many ages in Apocrypha as the Champion of Hermaeus Mora have indeed taken a toll on him but they have most certainly involved many trials and tribulations so that Miraak doesn't completely become rusty. Second, Miraak is proficient in both combat and magi...
726: Humiliation
As the Last Dragonborn explores the Temple of Miraak with Frea of the Skaal, he reaches the deepest part of the temple deep underground and finds the Black Book of Waking Dreams.
Upon entering the Realm of Apocrypha through the Black Book, the Last Dragonborn, whatever his name is, runs into the First Dragonborn, Miraak, the Champion of Hermaeus Mora. Surrounded by multiple Seekers of Apocrypha as well as Miraak and his Serpentine Dragon servan...