Sometimes, after excessive exhaustion, one feels as if their body has been hollowed out…
Hmm, that is indeed the case.
The draugr that awakened from the sarcophagus could be said to be the strongest enemy Sio had faced since arriving in this world.
…At least she didn’t have to worry about this undead, which she had personally sent to its grave, climbing back up, nor did she have to look into those unmistakable eyes again.
“Sio, come take a look at this.” Kaye took a primitive-looking stone tablet out of the sarcophagus and held it up for Sio to see.
Warriors possess superior physical stamina, and their recovery speed is also faster.
“Coming…” Sio drawled lazily.
She had absolutely no desire to stand up and walk, so instead, she wiggled across the floor like a baby maggot.
Seeing this, Kaye had no choice but to step forward quickly, help her up, and offer his shoulder as support.
The stone tablet had been eroded by time, and the carvings were somewhat blurred.
However, Sio could still see the dragon head carved on the tablet, along with those specially arranged “symbols.” “It looks like a map…” Sio muttered to herself and turned the tablet over to the back.
The back of the tablet was carved with Dragon Language text; these characters, which would be difficult for ordinary scholars to decipher, were easily identifiable by the intelligent Miss Sio.
“Uh…
here sleep our fallen lords, waiting for [Alduin] to awaken them…” Sio’s fingertips traced over the Dragon Language carvings, reading the text word by word.
Alduin, the World-Eater, the god of twilight who guides the arrival of the next era.
This dragon god, symbolizing destruction, holds immense significance in Nord religious culture.
It’s just that…
let alone a “god,” even dragons have been extinct for thousands of years.
The best place for these ancient relics would be in a museum…
As if.
A glint of sly interest flashed in Sio’s emerald green eyes.
As an “accident” in this world, she naturally knew of certain…
“futures.” The awakening of dragons, and much, much more.
But for now, she had to pretend to be completely ignorant and act like a little white rabbit.
Well, they say a butterfly flapping its wings can trigger a storm, and she certainly didn’t want to complicate things!
“It seems this place should be…
hmm, ruins of the Dragon Cult?
After all, the pronouns in the Dragon Language aren’t referring to humans; those [lords] must be dragons…” Sio said, tapping her finger against the edge of the tablet.
“Oh, come to think of it, that’s true.
There are indeed quite a few dragon burial grounds on the continent.” Kaye nodded.
Before traveling with Sio, he had wandered through many places and seen many ruins.
There are dragon burial grounds in many parts of the Tamriel continent, said to be battlefields or tombs left over from the Mythic Era.
Most of these tombs are well-preserved, as it is difficult to break the wards of the burial chambers with ordinary means, and contemporary craftsmen lack the ability to process dragon bones.
“We have to take this thing with us!
It might lead us to some treasure…!” Sio decisively tucked the dragonstone into her bosom, afraid that this great treasure might be stolen.
Kaye smiled slightly, having no choice but to indulge the girl.
Furthermore, Sio was also very interested in the draugr’s equipment.
For example, that two-handed battleaxe had a frost enchantment on it.
In the game, she needed to disenchant enchanted equipment at an arcane enchanter to learn the corresponding enchantment recipe.
But in this real world, Sio could use some mage techniques to analyze the enchantment, without needing to find an arcane enchanter and stick her butt in the air to study it for half a day.
The girl’s fingertips traced the patterns on the battleaxe, sensing the flow of magic within the metal.
The technique for imbuing a weapon with frost magic was not complex, and she had deciphered it!
“Alright, this thing is useless now.” Sio tossed the battleaxe aside—it was just an ancient Nord weapon.
If it had been crafted from ebony, it might have had some collection value.
But this one didn’t~ The two searched the burial chamber for a while and discovered a mechanism hidden in the shadows.
For heavy labor like pulling a mechanism, Sio naturally stood to the side with her arms crossed, leaving it entirely to Kaye.
“Do all the tombs in Skyrim like to have secret passages built into them?” Watching the secret door slowly rise, Sio couldn’t help but roll her eyes.
This design was just too deliberate!
Did even the real world need to have such convenient secret passages?!
…Even the location of the treasure stash was exactly the same.
Experiencing it firsthand, Sio felt like it was just more realistic VR.
It wasn’t until she saw a treasure chest behind the secret passage that the corner of her mouth twitched, and she wore an expression that said, “I knew it.” “Leave it to me~” She gestured to Kaye and walked up to investigate the chest.
Whether it was locks or traps, she had to ensure everything was safe to avoid being backstabbed by a hidden trick.
The end-of-level reward wouldn’t be booby-trapped to harm anyone.
After ensuring safety, Sio opened the chest and pulled out…
a book.
The cover of the book had no text, only a magic icon.
Sio recognized this symbol; it was the mark for Destruction school spells.
Well, after all, in the game, magic books only differed in color, and the covers were uniformly marked with the symbols of their respective spell schools!
That’s just too cheap!
She hadn’t expected the magic books in the real world to look like this too!
Shouldn’t they have the name of the spell written specifically, along with the author’s name and notes or something?
Sio suppressed the urge to complain and opened the title page of the magic book.
Alright, at least…
there were some differences.
In the game, as long as you used a spell tome, you could learn the corresponding spell, so Sio had absolutely no idea what was written in the books.
But in reality, spell tomes actually recorded content, such as spell structures and casting essentials, making them more like the “textbooks” she was familiar with.
And this spell tome was even written in the Dragon Language.
She took a rough glance; what was recorded on it was probably some kind of fire-attribute spell, but it was different from the commonly used fire spells today.
It was more like some kind of…
unique “fire,” a “fire” related to dragons.
Sio did know that among the Dragon Shouts, there was a Thuum similar to “Fire Breath,” but she didn’t know what was so special about this fire.
At the same time, normal spell tomes would only record a single spell, but this book recorded many “techniques” for manipulating this fire.
It would take time to study; it seems she had one more reading material to kill time with later~ One can never have too much knowledge, especially since this book looked…
very safe!
This wasn’t some Black Book with a unique cover; there was no need to worry about being blocked by a mass of tentacles the moment she opened it, then entering an unskippable dialogue sequence.
Apart from this, the treasures in the chest were basically some ancient gold coins and ornaments.
Like gemstone jewelry and some dragon-shaped carvings, she believed many collectors would be willing to buy them at a high price.
And as for those gold coins…
they were completely different from the septims circulating on the continent today; the carvings on them were more in line with the traditions of the Nord people.
That was reasonable!
…After all, Sio had long wanted to complain that finding septim gold coins in a tomb from thousands of years ago would be too out of place!
Sio rummaged through the treasures in the chest, having absolutely no intention of packing them up.
Then, she would have to leave it to a certain overworked man to be responsible for packing them up~ ————————
It might not seem tempting right now but who knows what the future holds?
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”