lost narrative poem

Chapter 172 The Door That Can't Be Opened

The properties bestowed by Lord Balgruuf are very good, and they are basically located in the windy area. This area is mainly a residential area, including the temple. Even the former comrades-in-arms group is located here, and there are often strong mountain winds blowing from all directions.

But despite this, the scenery here is still excellent, and people can freely choose a place to look at and appreciate the nature and vastness of the entire Xuemanling.

It is said that the dragon descendant in the rumors also has real estate in this area, but because this is a real-world city, it is much wider than the lost people's impression, so there probably won't be anyone who happens to be a neighbor things happen.

Xia Ran visited Xueman City with great interest. Because he took off his mask, people couldn't recognize him as the "powerful mage" before, which saved him a lot of trouble.

The residents of Snowrun City are hospitable and very friendly. Even the vegetable vendors in the market are enthusiastic and want to lower their prices, even if customers don’t want it.Many people seem to be full of passion and hope for tomorrow, from the guards down to the vendors, and even the children walking in the streets are talking about today's dragon slaying incident.

It seems that what happened this time was really a shot in the arm, giving them the most precious hope and sweeping away all the haze since the war.

Xia Ran is not good at commenting on this. He is not very familiar with the situation. Apart from his impression of the plot of the work itself, he only has some information from hearsay... But even so, he also knows that the current Xueman City is not very good. better off.

The idea of ​​wanting to remain neutral is good, but it is not so easy to achieve in practice. If you are caught in the middle, you may be under greater pressure, like walking on thin ice.

Unless the war can end in a short period of time, the empire is restored to unity, and the whole returns to its previous state, otherwise, it is estimated that Snowman City will be difficult to maintain.

Even Stormcloak won't do, because once it develops to that point, Stormcloak will definitely put the entire Skyrim Province under their control, and will no longer allow Snowrun City to exist independently...

However, it is impossible for the war to end in a short period of time, and no one can guarantee that the empire will win, and everything will return to the normal track before.

Perhaps these ordinary people, the soldiers of Snowman City who obeyed orders, did not have such a long-term vision, but Xia Ran did not believe that Lord Balgruf would not have thought about this aspect, and after substituting himself into it, he did not think Is there any way to break it.

Unless Balgruuf is so strong that he seems to be the legendary Nord hero who slayed the giant dragon and built the Dragon Cloud Palace... What personal force can't change anything, only strength can't do anything, this kind of statement is simply a joke.

The person who said this is just too weak, so it is impossible to imagine how far a truly powerful person can do it.

Or maybe he is not only too weak, but also has no self-awareness at all. Instead, he feels that he is already very strong, and he can't imagine that there is anyone in the world who can be stronger than himself. It is a problem that cannot be solved by personal power.

But no matter how you look at it, Xia Ran doesn't think that Balgruf can break through at the critical moment, develop his strength by leaps and bounds, achieve great feats, and become invincible... This is unrealistic no matter how you look at it.

However, if you do nothing, it should not be the style of this lord to sit and wait for death.So he was very curious, where did Lord Balgruuf put his chips, and what kind of gamble could make him put all his chips on it?

Intentionally or unintentionally, he got some words from the guards, and by the way, he went to the Mare Banner Inn to listen to the news of the lost, and he confirmed one thing——

That is the court mage Farenga Secret Fire. It is true that he has not shown much for a long time. It was probably a few days after the battle in Xueman City that he gradually felt like he disappeared, until now.

Some people say that he was seriously injured during the war and has never recovered until now...

Some people said that he was cursed because of the magic artifact in Dragon Cloud Palace, unable to resist the power of the demon god, and became weaker day by day...

Some people also said that he betrayed the lord and was executed in secret when he settled accounts after the fall. A person who no longer knows where he died will naturally not show up...

Anyway, there are different opinions, and everyone has their own opinions, but there is no evidence to prove it.Even the owner of the inn said during the chat that Lord Balgruf had expressed his intention to recruit court mages more than a month ago.

However, no suitable candidate has been found——

Because the Nords are barbarians with only muscles in their heads, and Winterhold is the main gathering place for skyrim mages. The number of mages in other places is not only rare, but they often have special reasons, plans and other things , will stay in a certain place for a long time.

And compared to the natives, there may not be more magicians among the lost. The low-level ones are not in the eyes of Lord Balgruuf, and the high-level ones are not satisfied with being court mages. , but has a more ambitious pursuit.

So it was only now that Xia Ran triggered the condition and took over the position of court mage temporarily.

After all, he knows his actual level, and he doesn't have such grandiose and unrealistic pursuits, but in the eyes of others, his spells are already very advanced, especially the fire magic that specializes in destruction, which has reached an astonishing level.

Maybe other aspects of magic attainment will be slightly worse, but at least he has the qualifications to be a court mage...

It can be said that the two sides hit it off, and everyone is happy.

However, Xia Ran felt that she might have triggered some hidden branch or secret mission. If not, the disappearing Farengar might be the source of confidence for Lord Balgruf, and the latter bet on the former.

Perhaps the wise court mage found something and felt that there was hope to change the dilemma of Xueman City, so he devoted himself to it and started research, but because the matter was so important, he had to block the news.

Lord Balgruf also felt that he could take a gamble, so he chose to support this matter?

Of course, there is no evidence to prove that this is the case. Xia Ran just made a subjective guess based on her doubts and some untrue information collected.

Maybe there will be more clues to support his guess, or to deny his idea, anyway, it is not yet possible to draw a conclusion.

After buying some food in the hotel, Xia Ran went straight back to her property.

This is a two-story building, probably because it has been cleaned, so it looks very empty, there are no books on several shelves, and there is no special decoration around it. There is a room upstairs with An alchemy table.

The alchemy table is a relatively special auxiliary device, just like the enchanting table. Only when this kind of facility is found in the game can alchemy or enchanting be performed... But in this real world, there is no such restriction.

They can only handle and preserve materials better, improve the quality of finished products and the success rate of manufacturing, and the range is relatively small.

If the user is highly skilled, he can easily succeed with or without this kind of thing; and if there is a problem with the original design, don't expect these things to be of much use.

Xia Ran felt that the purpose of this alchemy table was to help him familiarize himself with the methods and steps used. After all, as a court mage, he always needed to master alchemy and enchanting.

In Farenjia's workshop in Dragon Cloud Palace, there is an alchemy table and an enchanting table, which seem to be quite advanced, and there is no shortage of materials... Maybe he doesn't need to be proficient in this aspect, but the basic formula is always To master it.

If he can't even make a bottle of basic recovery potion, or if he doesn't know the basic operation of charging enchanted weapons, then he, a court mage who pretends to be a fake, will probably be exposed that day, and then pack his luggage and leave in disgrace...

After careful inspection, Xia Ran found that in addition to a utility room behind the stairs, there was also a trap door on the floor, leading to the basement below.

He went down to take a look, but he didn't think about the whimsical idea of ​​"there is some treasure below, which was ignored when it was cleaned up before, but now it happens to be dug out by myself".

Although it was dark below, it was relatively dry, and there was nothing left.There was an old wooden door that was closed very firmly, and he thought it was a real adventure——

After all, strictly speaking, this property used to belong to one of the two traditional forces in Xueman City, and those two families had hidden some secrets, which seems to be a reasonable setting, right?

As a result, after tossing for a long time, he couldn't open it anyway, so he used his mental power to detect...

Then it was found that the back of the door was solid, without any space. It seemed that the original owner was going to expand the space, but only had time to build a door, and the follow-up plan had no time to unfold, which made him happy in vain. .

Think about it too, how could I have such good luck!

He sighed, stood in the dark basement and looked around, feeling that overall, this building is barely okay, at least as a temporary shelter, there is no problem...

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at the same time.

Outside the house, two guards knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response. They could only look at each other with wry smiles: "Do you want to go back and report to the lord? It seems that the mage is not in your room?"

"Let's go back first, it's not too important..." Another guard sighed, "Speaking of which, others said that the mage entered the house before, why is he not there?"

"After all, he is a magician, who knows what will happen... By the way, could it be in the basement, did not hear our voice, should we wait?"

"Don't be stupid, there is no basement in the houses in this area..." The guard stared at his companion with a look of foolishness, "The underground space is already taken up by the hall of the dead in the temple, where else can we dig?"

The two walked away while talking like this.

(End of this chapter)