"Fine but can we head out tomorrow? I need to prepare my follower." said Solomon.
"You can't bring them. It's just you and me, as I told you before you can't trust anyone." Denied Delphine as she was too paranoid.
"You're too paranoid Delphine, my friend was with me at Helgen, he and me were both going to die yet both of us survived this tragic fate by working together. Lokir even tough he is a coward he must be at least a true man and true men do not snitch on their friends. " said Solomon trying to convince Delphine, who was rubbing her head in a face palm fashion.
"You're going to be the end of me..." whispered Delphine to herself before agreeing.
"See ya. Need to go to the smithy."
...
It was 14:37 and Solomon was at Alvor's smithy. Right now he as working on making Dwarven Light armour and thinking of the design and he just had the idea of creating a dwarven chain-mail for the top and bottom body.
Solomon called Lokir, who just arrived after spending few days hunting with faendal,he asked for his measurements and used an actual measuring tape he bought from the store.
Solomon started making the chain mail and oh boy was it not easy, pretty impossible for the likes of any human to achieve as making a full set of chain mail took years to make for modern smiths to make so how could he do it in just a few hours? For starters his dragon god bloodline gave him a hidden perk of very good vision/perception this means that he could do it faster than regular humans as they need to be patient and careful; second, his technique was actually more advanced than anyone elses plus the fact that he has more experience in working with complex designs at a fast pace since he was a kid. And furthermore his determination makes him way more focused and fast working than anyone, every second he does multiple tasks at the same time not wasting even a second.
4 hours passed and he finally finished the chain mail set, they were magnificent.
[Dwarven Chain Mail Armoured Shirt]
[Armour: 55]
[Weight: 3]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 973]
[Dwarven Chain Mail Pants]
[Armour: 55]
[Weight; 3]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 984]
He sighed as his brushed off the sweat from his forehead. Now he had to complete the rest of the armour. He made chest armour by smelting the dwarven statues into ingots, then he made few rectangular shapes and aligned them into rows and layers kinda like Lamellar armour and made it very flexible and easy to move in. He also made dwarven kneecap armour, tesset that was at both sides and the centre so that he can protect his thighs, hips and his crotch area. He also made boots that looked like knight boots. Vambrace that looked very awesome with the dwarven patterns he copied from his and put on every part. Finally he made the helmet, he based it on corinthian helmets, the helmet was dwarven gold and he decided to add a mohawk he used the hairs from a wolf to make it but it took slightly longer than other parts.
Solomon looked at the watch and saw it was 1:25, he spent over 7 hours making this set and he was proud of it, this dwarven set he made was made to be very light and flexible so that Lokir can be protected whilst moving about very fast. But why does he need to put so much effort for such a loser? Well he wants Lokir to be his follower and gain experience but Lokir is still weak and can get one-shotted by lesser monsters such as draugrs and he doesn't want that.
[Dwarven Light Helemt]
[Armour: 45]
[Weight: 1]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 765]
[Dwarven Plated Chest Armour]
[Armour: 75]
[Weight: 12]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 1012]
[Dwarven Knee Protectors]
[Armour: 40]
[Weight: 2]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 723]
[Dwarven Vambrace]
[Armour: 35]
[Weight: 1]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 450]
[Dwarven Knight Boots]
[Armour: 46]
[Weight: 4]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 753]
[Dwarven Tesset Belt]
[Armour: 23]
[Weight: 1]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Value: 867]
Solomon was so hyped up by his creation however he still needed to prepare his follower for the dragon hunt tomorrow, he decided to make over 100 iron arrows for Lokir that night and not only that but he enchanted and improved Lokir's dwarven bow and the dwarven vambrace. He added 30 points of chaos damage on the bow with an infinite enchantment and he removed the enchantment from the hide bracers of major archery and placed it on to the vambraces instead.
[Lokir's Dwarven Bow]
[Damage: 43]
[Weight: 6]
[Durability: 1000/1000]
[Enchantment: Deals 60 chaos damage from random element]
[Charge: Infinite]
[Value: 2453]
How is it that Solomon can make the durability to be over thousand? Solomon when smithing, if he uses a specific technique along with his strength, experience and the ring then he can nearly control how durable the creation is, he is used to this pattern that it is easier for him to make durability over thousand but in the end it all depends on luck. He could get higher durability if he wanted to but that would ruin the fun for him so he chooses not to yet, though he managed to get once durability of 12,000 once for a breastplate he made during his teenage years.
It was 7:00 AM in the morning and Solomon went to the sleeping giant inn to the 'attic room' where Lokir was sleeping.
"Wake up sleepy head, I have something for you to try." said Solomon as he tapped Lokir on his shoulder.
"Let me get more sleep please." said Lokir lazily as his head was still resting on the pillow.
"Fine then you won't get that super cool armour that I just made specifically made for you."
Lokir immediately jumped of the bed and was ready to see it as his eyes showed he was very excited to have his own armour as wearing stormcloak cuirass brought unwanted attention from the people around him, questioning if he was with the stormcloaks.
They arrived at the forge where Alvor just woke up and was sharpening an iron sword whilst greeting them. Solomon told lokir to put on the chain mails which he did, Loir saud they weren't 'restricting' as he thought them to be like all armour. Solomon then told Lokir to put on black silk tunic and black silk pants which both had golden lines at the edges. He then told Lokir to put on the tesset first and then the plated armour, then the knee guards and the boots, the vabraces and finally the helmet.
But it wasn't done yet as he told Lokir to put on a black cloth around his wasit like a sort of skirt and then he gave Lokir black fingerless gloves he made from black furred wolves and in addition the arrow bag was also made from black furred wolf hide. Lokir looked cool as fuck.
Whilst Lokir was dressing next to the smithy, Lokir was embarrassed as the public saw him dressing up, he asked Solomon if they could go somewhere else but Solomon told him that it's fine dressing right here and that it was 'training'.
Lokir felt that this armour was lighter than the dwarven armour that solomon wore as every single step he took didn't create even a slight noise where as Solomon's created loud creaks.
Solomon gave Lokir his bow back, Lokir felt the improvements that Solomon made immediately once he held the bow, it was lighter than before, it empowered him and furthermore he noticed a rainbow-like colour slightly tint on the bowstring as he pulled it with his fingers.
The past few days Lokir has been training and hunting with Faendal, he sucked at it and even got his ass kicked by an enraged faendal for ruining the moment, Lokir has to adapt and it had to be now. He decided to keep his mouth shut outside of riverwood and listened to everything faendal said. He got better at archery, yesterday he pinned a falling leaf to a tree which even surprised faendal, Lokir had great potential.
They headed back to the sleeping giant inn, both dressed in amazing dwarven armour, one looked like spartan and the other looked like a tank. They headed down to the underground hideout that Delphine made and lo and behold the witch was sitting there dressed in steel armour with a small skirt. She wasn't wearing that stupid leather armour that she wore in game why would the grandmaster of the blades be wearing stupid leather armour when she's a professional warrior.
"You're finally here. I suppose he's that friend of yours, let's go to Kynesgrove now who knows when that dragon will awaken the sooner the better." said Delphine as she was already walking out of the inn.
The duo went with her and soon they were fast walking to Kynesgrove on their way they encountered a bandit spot where they would rob people. Delphine was sheathing her katana but solomon told her to wait, he looked at Lokir.
"Slaughter them all for me." said Solomon as he pointed at the tower.
"I really can't..." Lokir really didn't want to as his fear of fighting is still there but then Solomon gave Lokir a frown, Lokir has only seen the wrath of solomon once he really should do as he's being told otherwise he'll get on this motherfucker's bad side. "Fine!"
Lokir ran up to the female bandit that was standing guarding the entrance to the tower and also the one forcing people to handover their valuables.
He shot an arrow at her head but instead managed to hit her throat still killing this bitch, he then walked up the stairs as he used his bow to bash one of the bandits running down the stairs towards him; staggering the bandit didn't see the arrow hitting his head until a second after but he was dead few seconds later before he could scream in agony. Lokir used one of the arrows as a spear/dagger and stabbed the staggered bandit in the head.
Lokir managed to reach the bridge part connecting between two towers that were across a river, two archers shot their arrows the moment Lokir appeared.
Ping! Ping!
The arrows had hit lokir but they were deflected by the dwarven armour, he then loaded his bow and shot an arrow second after, it hit the bandit across the bridge's shoulder it didn't kill him immediately but then a shock had hit him and he died.
The archer called for the brute of a chief to attack Lokir meanwhile whilst Lokir's distracted, the archer will snipe Lokir from above on top of the second tower.
"Hraaaa! You're dead meat Goldilocks as the might hammer of chief Hunk will kill you! Bastard!" The brute chief roared as he ran at Lokir with a steel warhammer and was wearing steel armour compared to the grunts that wore scraps of leather and iron.
Lokir panicked and tried to shoot an arrow at the chief but as the arrow got close to the bandit chief he deflected it with the base of his warhammer, whilst still charging, he slammed the hard end of the warhammer connecting it to Lokir's head.
Lokir felt like he had a concussion in his brain, as he screamed from the pain and fell down on his knees luckily not falling from the narrow bridge. The bandit archer shot an arrow but missed and quickly reloaded meanwhile bandit chief used the shaft of the warhammer as a baseball bat to strike Lokir's head.
Lokir further screamed as this time he fell on his back nearly being unconscious and his bow dropped down at the edge of the river, the tactic of the bandit chief was that he would hit Lokir in the head multiple times until Lokir falls unconscious and then it would be easier for the bandit chief to kill him and steal his loot.
Delphine who saw this wasn't going to tolerate this any longer, if she doesn't act now this guy will die by the hands of these bandit filth. "Those bastards! They'll pay for this, justice will be served!" she readied her bow and was ready to snipe the bandit chief but Solomon stopped her once again as he placed his arm on her shoulder.
"Are you gonna let those bandits kill your follower, kill your friend! What kind of man are you! Do you not alue his life?" Delphine was enraged by Solomon on how he could let his friend die.
"No! I bet everything from deep within my heart that Lokir will win, he will not fail me! Let him keep fighting otherwise he will not grow!" Solomon's shadowed abyssal eyes from the dwarven helmet looked her straight in the eye.
'I can't die yet, I haven't even married yet. I haven't visited hammerfell yet. I can't disappoint Solomon otherwise he'll kill me after the afterlife' Lokir said to himself as his vision was slowly darkening. 'I must rise!'
"Rise!!!" shouted Lokir awakening himself from the pulling darkness and immediately stood up, an arrow missed again as Lokir's armour deflected it. He ran towards the startled Bandit Chief as he was sure Lokir was knocked out this gave a chance for Lokir to deck the bandit chief from the bridge and the bandit chief died as his skull crashed against the rocks from a six storey height fall.
'Instinct! It all comes from the instinct and within!' Lokir saw the bandit archer aim again and so did Lokir but this time he jumped and did a three sixty no scope; when the bandit archer shot the arrow it missed again as Lokir's body turned midair and then before he could notice the bandit found an arrow penetrated on his chin.
"Fuck! You! Why do I miss-!" Before the bandit archer could finish saying anything the chaos damage effect kicked in and burnt him to a crisp.
"Good Job!" shouted Solomon from down below as he headed up the tower and on the bridge he healed lokir with healing hands and healed all the head damage that Lokir received from the bandit chief.
"See that's why I told you I hate danger! I said to never bring me towards danger and what did you do? You bring me to danger where I could have nearly died! But I have to say - killing every one of them was kinda fun." Lokir looked Solomon in the eye as he was pouring every single emotion out.
"I made you kill them all by yourself so that you can gain more combat experience and at the same time time strengthen you will through trials of pain in life. I knew you could do it if you would've failed i'd kill all of those bandits to save you".
Solomon gave Lokir a knapsack and told him to take all the loot.
.....
Few hours later and they reached Kynesgrove, a little farm close to Windhelm, a woman ran down the road away from Kynesgrove as she screamed that a dragon has arrived.
The trio headed up the hill where once at the top they saw a black dragon calling out another dragon back to life with the shout, Slen-Tiid-Vo!
"Such arrogance to call your self a dovah, you are unfit. Sahloknir kill this fools fore me and make him understand pain!" screamed Alduin towards the dragon as he decided to fly away.
"I am the great Sahloknir! fear my voice as you will be torn to shreds puny mortals!" said the dragon as it unleashed unrelenting force staggering Solomon and sending Lokir and Delphine flying further away on to the grasslands surrounding them.
Solomon activated Adrenaline Rush, Scale Armour whilst at the same time he sent a full powered unrelenting force, staggering the dragon and then used smoke breath to blind it whilst he used his sword to cut and wound him however after the first hit the dragon rammed Solomon with the side of its body.
Meanwhile both delphine and Lokir shot arrows at the dragon's body, this caused the dragon to fly up to the sky and then the dragon used it's sky advantage to shoot both hot flames and freezing mists at the trio.
Solomon shot another unrelenting force at the dragon and made it crash on the ground as he casted a shock spell through, his sword, dealing a lot of damage to Sahloknir who wasn't resistant to shock damage.
Delphine ran up to the dragon and found a gap in his scale from where solomon cut, she dug her sword in its flesh whilst Lokir sent few shots at the dragon as well.
Sahloknir returned to his normal state after staggeringly crashing on the land and after receiving those attacks the dragon had enough and unleashed unrelenting force again.
Solomon foresaw this and immediately appeared behind the dragon, he jumped on its neck and stabbed him in the mouth from the back as a surprise attack as he shoved his entire sword in its throat ending its life.
'just you wait Sahloknir, just you wait dragons'