Chapter 8: A New House
They arrived at Riverwood and were heading towards the sleeping giant inn however Solomon was stopped in the middle of his tracks as Sven stood in front of him with a face filled with direst cruelty, sven was pissed.
"You're the one who ruined my relationship with Camilla! If it wasn't for you - You're so dead!" Sven ran towards Solomon but Solomon grabbed him and slammed him on the ground with the mostof minimal strength he could muster. Sven was still conscious as he was pinned to the ground by Solomon's arm holding his collar.
"Calm down. You could find yourself a better girl....one day. If you leave riverwood and probably become a great warrior, not a bard, coz I know some sexy chicks that dig nordic warriors, I'm sure they could take you. Now get off my case." Solomon let go of Sven and walked inside the sleeping giant inn leaving Sven who was now sitting on the ground contemplating his life.
After this Sven event decided to travel across tamriel to find his destiny and probably even his destined one, he married a beautiful black haired beauty that was the daughter of a powerful clan in cyrodiil, he became a tailor as he was entranced by the clothes camilia wore and wanted his wife to wear same quality clothes just like her however even tough they were great his skills couldn't be comparable to someone's from the modern world.
Solomon and Esbern greeted Delphine, Delphine was so happy that she rushed and hugged Esbern a friend she hasn't seen for many years, seeing your only friend that's alive was gone for years yet just know appeared surely would make most people happy to see their friends once again. Solomon was moved by this nice moment and said nothing, few seconds later and they headed for the underground room that served as their temporary base.
"I guess you know what's been going then? He's told you hasn't he?" said Delphine as she looked at Solomon's direction.
"Yeah. He filled me in on the details along the way." said Esbern.
"Esbern, are you still willing to join the blades once again?" asked Delphine, she didn't want to drag her friend in to more trouble.
"What a stupid question. Of course, I have been and always will be with the blades." said Esbern.
"From now one we will once again, rise, the blades will rise. You, Solomon. The one with the dragon blood,we the new blades will follow the ancient traditions of the predecessor blades and serve the one with the dragon blood; we the blades serve you." said Delphine as she and Esbern bowed their heads and said.
"The blades greet Lord Dragonborn." they saluted.
"Grandmaster Delphine, Scholar Esbern. I have an idea you can hear, the plan is we'll wait for 1 year. During that 1 year I will train to get stronger and slay alduin, you two will stay in riverwood and keep your identities hidden. Furthermore during the months, we'll hunt dragons together. After we reunite fully, we'll head to Karthspire to reach the Sky Heaven Temple. Why not now? Because we are not ready, Alduin is still powerful, way too powerful; in a year he won't fully regenerate his full strength only a tiny percentage meanwhile my power will increase by dozens and then we'll...I'll...slay him." said Solomon.
As they were hearing Solomon's plan Esbern and Delphine were going to protest as they can't leave alduin for too long, they needed to act immediately however as they listened they understood his reason, slightly, as they still felt they should deal with Alduin now but Solomon was their leader now and so they listened.
The reason Solomon wanted to wait was not because he couldn't kill Alduin but instead so he can improve his magic, especially alteration, as one of the biggest goals he has is to turn Alduin into a hot chick and make him his wife. Why would he turn him into a dragon? Solomon wants to get slight 'revenge' on this dragon for being too cocky and generally to see how beautiful will alduin become.
{a/n: did you know that these 'dragons' are genderless. Alduin and other dragons have no reproductive organs, because dragons have no need to reproduce furthermore they are born from shattered pieces of akatosh}
The blades decided the order of things and now Solomon headed to the ruins of Sal Dun that Bulgruuf marked on his map.
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Sal Dun was located north-west of whiterun next to a river. After an hour of heading west from whiterun to Sal Dun, Solomon found an ancient looking stone temple that was big as a standard house. That stone house had carvings of dragons and gods carved upon its walls as if they were living piece of art.
Solomon pushed the stone door using its silver hoop door knob and made the dense rock move for once after hundreds of years.
Sal Dun was an ancient ruin that supposedly housed a descendant of Ysgramor who was very powerful as he killed a dragon once yet tyrannical as he once destroyed an entire city just because someone offended him. The ancient nords hated him and spat whenever they heard his name, which now all nords forgot, Kriipah, even tough they hated him they still buried him and left all is treasure with him because they respected power and the fact that he was Ysgramor's descendant.
Bulfruuf's father was greedy for the treasure inside it even tough he knew it was hunted, he went by himself and didn't return.
When he entered there was but a very long stone staircase that seemed bottomless with no end in sight; further art was engraved on the walls depicting the story of Kriipah every amazing acts like slaying packs of giants to evil acts like killing and eating babies.
Solomon finally finished walking down the steps and in front of him appeared a narrow door entrance that was under 2 meters tall, the entrance had massive blades swinging from side to side very fast, the blade would swing and come back to the other side in just a second. Any human being would be cut to pieces.
Solomon just punched the blade at its flat base side at just the right time and sent the massive blade flying.
Solomon entered the next room. This room was littered with ordered black sarcophaguses, 16 of them ordered in two rows one on each side, that had no lids which revealed all the uglies inside, Draugr. Hearing the noise that Solomon previously made, the draugr woke up from their slumber with rage as they drew their weapons.
Solomon killed al of them with ease as his swoed went 'Woosh' it cleaved some of their heads, 'shing' and their bodies were cut in half and 'splat' as his sword entered their skull splattering their rotten brain scraps all over the floor.
Solomon went to the room ahead and found that the room was filled with swinging blades, solomon decided he would use unrelenting force to blow them away and as sure as hell it did work as the full power of the voice turned the blades into sharp rag dolls.
He entered the next room and killed three draugr that were having a small 'banquet' without moving, that is until Solomon came and they were after his life.
He went ahead and found a massive stone door that had the carvings of the tyrannical Kriipah , the stone door had two holes inside on the left and right. It looked as if they were missing some sort of keys.
Solomon noticed two door ways one to the left and one to the right, he guessed that each of them leaded to each key.
Solomon chose the left side first and headed deeper down as the corridor was filled with dragur as he went further ahead he found a room with a place swimming pool and a black stone stage/platform above it, on that platform was a vertical gold sarcophagus which then opened and at the same time the dragur on the side emerged and rushed at Solomon. He blew them away but then turned around only to find an arrow buried deep inside his left shoulder.
The culprit was a ancient dragur that had clothes of similar style to deathlords except the armour was made from ebony and the clothing was golden coloured, the horned helmet also had a small skeleton token placed in a slot on the helmet. This dragur was once an ancient warrior that must have been very important and powerful, it was a warrior that probably fought and defeated Kriipah, as it used a dragonbone bow which shot enchanted arrows that shocked, froze and burned Solomon at the same time.
Solomon was very surprised,'wow! Someone actually managed to hurt me in a long time, I have to say this is going to be interesting. I'm excited!' smiled Solomon as he pulled out the arrow and healed his wounds rapidly.
Solomon used unrelenting force to stagger the draugr and then he threw his sword like a javelin and pierced the dragur's armour staggering it even more. Solomon tried to run to the draugr through the black pool however he felt ominous so he grabbed a dead draugr and droped it's already rotten body which quickly corroded with a very fast visible rate
The draugr starts shooting many arrows at the same time showing Solomon further that this draugr had major skills in the bow; Solomon managed to dodge the arrows with ease. he then decided to use the draugr bodies as temporary platforms which he will hop over each one and reach the annoying draugr.
Solomon managed to reach the special draugr and grabbed its head before twisting it very hard and fast, he had to use his full strength as the draugr's body was strong, probably lesser or even equal to his in strength.
The skeleton unluckily fell inside the black poison pool and was not seen. Solomon took the risk and decided to jump inside the pool, he wondered if his resistance to poison was great to this poison as he was invulnerable to poison but he doesn't know, he never tested it, what? he wouldn't like stuffing poison to his mouth.
Solomon could see nothing within the dark depths of this pool however after a minute of holding his breath he noticed two blue dots, they were the eyes of the skull key. He grabbed it and swam back to the other side to get the key from the other side.
Solomon proceeded to head to the area to the right.
Solomon found a similar looking corridor to the previous side where it was infested with a horde of Draugr, and as obvious Solomon slaughtered them all with some ease.
Solomon headed to the next room. He found the next room once again filled with deadly traps such as the swinging blade, fire floor and even something new like small snake heads on the wall shooting never ending poison. In a matter of a minute solomon managed to cross to the other side where a closed gate was blocking the entrance, there was no lever nothing to indicate where to open the gate. Solomon noticed a large dark empty hole to the top of the gate and realized that the skeleton skull was the key to this gate.
The gate opened and Solomon headed inside only to find a golden sarcophagus once again and a massive treasure chest.
Bang!
The lid fell on the ground and revealed a similar looking dragur with ebony armour and golden cloths wrapped around their bodies. But instead of a bow it had a sword, a dragonbone sword with fiery reddish runes engraved on it.
The dragur swung its sword very fast as if it was in elemental fury however that wasn't its fastest as it now used Elemental fury and swung it's sword like a jet. The sword cut and burned solomon's flesh like knife going through butter. However it wasn't that bad as Solomon would use a healing spell to reduce the severeness of the wounds.
Solomon managed to kill the Dragur by severing its limbs and then beheading it. He extracted the silver skeleton skull from its helmet and now headed for the colossal door.
Solomon placed the silver skeleton skulls in the slots as he placed the first one, the one on the left, the left side of the door's carvings and runes turned blue and then when he placed the right silver skeleton key to the right slot, the right side turned red before the red and blue intertwined and made the whole carvings and runes purple whilst the stone door turned darker as if the stone transmuted into ebony, maybe it was ebony.
That's why Solomon chipped a piece of the door and found out it actually did turn into ebony, so Solomon decided to take the whole door and store it into his inventory, which Solomon thought was impossible but actually happened.
Anyway, Solomon entered and found the room very very dark near to the pitch dark before Solomon threw many torches around the stone floor and saw that the room was filled with old treasure chests, the walls which were slightly visible had dried blood painted across them and on the floor was a skeleton laying next to a black sarcophagus.
Boom!
The lid fell off and out came out a Draugr which had golden ancient nordic armour but the cloth was black instead of green and it had black pants with a red nordic symbol, it's skin wasn't decaying green but instead his skin was pale blue as if the colour of the sea reflected on to the skin. His face was covered by a chain-mail veil but his eyes were red like blood. He had a spear, the base was made from dragon bone and it had black runes across the base of the spear; the spear tip was one long blade with two smaller blade tips by the side like a sort of trident they had golden runes engraved on them.
"Intruders must all die!" raged the Dragur, raged Kriipah as the instant solomon blinked the dragur speared Solomon to the ground as Kriipah's spear pierced Solomon's guts before being pulled out; not only that but the spear had an enchantment where small colourful etheral fiery dragon heads would rip his flesh and transfer all the health and stamina they rip from Solomon back to Kriipah and at the same time the dragon heads did fire damage and had a chance to paralyse as their bite had poison.
As Kriipah readied to send a barrage of relentless slashes at the still down Solomon, Solomon sent full powered Ice Form at Kriipah which encased the ancient tyrant however the ice got instantly burnt of by the enchanted armour which was had a medium level of resistance to all the elements and magic.
Before Kriipah could react, the draugr tyrant got sent flying as Solomon quickly unleashed a fus-roh-dah and stood back up trying to heal his pierced guts and drained health but it was going to take a while.
Solomon activated Scale Armour ability and encased his limbs and abdomen in scales (e.g. ssj4 but instead of fur you have green scales). Solomon at this moment thought of trying to use a new spell he created during the weekend.
This spell was called Flame Spear as the idea was to pierce through a being's body and then exploding multiple times at once it pierces to damage the internal organs, this spell would use up thousands of magicka from him, because he's still not a master of this spell.
Solomon tried to cast the spell but as he casted it, an explosion came from his left palm that sent him flying to the end of the room, crashing at the hard stone disgusting wall as he created a dent that more like a outline of his body.
Boom! Boom!
Solomon tried casting the spell twice more but all resulted in him being creating a crator in the wall meanwhile his left arm's skin was black like charcoal as it got roasted by the constant explosions which broke all his scales on his left arm, his face was covered in steaming blood as hot plasma impacted close to his face. Luckily his eyes didn't get harmed.
Kriipah stood back up as it gave a monstrous roar, red steam started to flow out of him as Kriipah was going berserk, it stood back up and ran towards Solomon at super human speeds. He was second away from Solomon who had just failed his third try.
Solomon wasn't concerned with Kriipah closing in on him, this time Solomon figured out the problem that he made, he was imagining the attack and pumping his magicka blindly, probably because he was in a hurry to use it that he forgot the usual wisdom. This time he imagined the flame spear, he spread his magicka to create it like a 3d printer and then he compressed that energy whilst imagining that it was hot plasma which combusted rapidly multiple times creating multiple explosions.
Bang!
Kriipah shoved his spear in the spot he previously damaged, Solomon's gut as Kriipah was smart hurting the same weak spot damaging Solomon again until he dies or bleeds out and dies. Solomon took the spear in the gut whilst trying to hold back his shout and remaining composure until he finished making the flame spear.
Boom!
Solomon hit this Dragur tyrant with the flaming spear right in the gut as it broke through its armour and penetrated the decayed organs before exploding over and over again. In a matter of three seconds the spear exploded five times and severely damaged the draugr, who fell flat on his bottom bleeding black blood, to the point of near death.
Solomon removed the spear from his gut as he took the spear and cleanly cut off Kriipah's head, which landed on his dead chest, like some sort of senpaku.
Before Solomon could heal himself a ethereal figure appeared behind him, it was dressed in pants and tank top which had a pauldron made of deer head connected to a cape made of sabre cat fur, he was also dressed in steel armour and chain mail, he looked like a barbaric king. He was the spirit of Kriipah.
"hahahaha. That was a great fight in a long while even tough you fought a weakened version of me but you still kicked my ass, such a long time my fellow Dragonborn." chuckled Kriipah.
"Wait! You were Dragonborn!?" exlaimed Solomon clearly surprised.
"Ayy. I was once dragonborn, a great warrior king who ruled with an iron fist, I fought dragons and I conquered nearly all of Tamriel but everyone hated me, I never had friends who I could relay on and help me, I never once communicated nicely to my subjects; so everyone in Tamriel fought against me, releasing their pent up fury at me and in the end I died. I was in the end buried here where my name is long forgotten by everyone in all of history." sad Kriipah as he was depressingly looking down.
"What is your name?" asked Solomon clearly not knowing what his name was, he was curious, and if he has time he'd go on the internet and search his name in the elder scrolls wiki.
"Kriipah is my name, please remember it, remember this foolish name. Although you have beat me you will never defeat Alduin with your current strength, he's thousands of times stronger than me, trust me I know, I fought him and nearly died if it weren't for a teleportation scroll I had on me. Alduin has not one form but three forms, one is his regular dragons state where his size is of a normal low dragon that's the form I fought and you've probably met. Then there's the colossal form where he's tall as a mountain few dragons can match his size and strength, he's hundreds of times stronger than the form I fought before. And then there's finally the divine dragon form where he grows to the size bigger than the world and devours it, he's hundreds of thousands of times stronger than the colossal form so much so that the colossal form his tinier than a speck. The second strongest dragon, Paarthunax is only strong as Alduin's colossal form. Now do you know what you are up against?" Kriipah tilted his head.
"Oh damn...He's so overpowered. However I won't give up." smiled Solomon,"Wait how do you know that Alduin came back!?"
"I can communicate with other spirits that have the knowledge of what's going on outside in Tamriel, ya know I'm kinda of a curious spirit am I, you know." chuckled Kriipah as he rubbed the back of his head." Solomon and Kriipah talked about dragonborn stuff and ancient knowledge and if Kriipah was Ysgramor's descendant before asking if he could take all the lolot," Sure take it. It's not like I'll need it when I travel to the afterlife, take everything even the spear and armour but can you also burn my body I hate the state my body has become."
"Sure." said Solomon before lunching a massive fireball at Kriipah's dead body. Solomon and Kriipah said their good byes before Solomon hugged Kriipah, as technically they were brothers. Solomon started looting the chests which had lots of valuable materials, armours, herbs, lots of gold, soul gems. In just one chest he found 40 ebony ingots, 35 dragon bones, 42 grand soul gems and black soul gems. In one chest there were many alchemic ingredients like giant toe, troll fat, salts and many other wonderful ingredients in many quantities. In the end Solomon stored the chests in his inventory that had endless storage.
Solomon then went to the dead skeleton that stood next to Kriipah's sarcophagus, it must be Bulgruuf's father's frind as there were fancy clothes and a crown made from ebony still in his dead hands, which had a dragon skull engraved on the middle of the crown whilst many pointy tips all round the top edge of crown.
How did he get here? Solomon guessed that Bulgruuf's father's friend must have created fake keys which worked and he managed to get in only to get slaughtered by Kriipah as he tried to escape wanting to grab on Bulgruuf's dad but only grabbed the crown instead. Bulgruuf's father's friend must have been a master thief as he had great sneaking skills as he was able to get past all the draugr and traps without a hassle and guiding extra dead weight along with him and then finally he was a great locksmith as definitely had to make fake keys on the spot.
In the past all jarls received special crowns gifted to them by the high king, each one was made from ebony, just like that one, however all the jarls lost their crowns over time and it was whiterun who managed to maintain theirs however it lost it decades ago and too lost face like the other holds, until now. How did they lose them? Some of their family members sold them off for money, some had theirs stolen, some broke theirs and their were many other stupid reasons.
Solomon took the crown and headed back the way he came from and all the way back to whiterun.
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The guards where slightly annoying as some of them wouldn't recognise him and wouldn't let him in until one of the guards that has seen him would have to remind them of him and his relationship with the jarl, being the jarl's helper.
"You're back and it seems by the looks of it you have the Whiterun Ebon Crown. I heard from my father, who would always look back at the mistake he has made and would never forget the crown he has lost and would try to regain all these years. He'd be crying right now. Thank you. You have been through quite a lot by the looks of it. From now on I shall make you the thane of whiterun, Thane Solomon of Whiterun I'll notify the guards and give them a description of you so that they know you're not from the common rabble. Here." said Bulgruuf as he passed Solomon the axe of whiterun a small war axe made from gold and had a dragon eye as a pommel, the war axe had no enchantment and wasn't strong it was just something like a badge of honour.
"You can talk to Avenicci and ask him for the plot of land."
"Thanks."
"You Solomon, you're worthy of my respect. You and me can become friends as long as you never betray my trust in you, if you do...Well you won't be having a good time that's for sure." laughed Bulgruuf as he patted Solomon on the back.
"Bulgruuf - about the civil war...which side do you pick?" asked Solomon obviously knowing the answer it was the...
"The Empire. I don't really like picking sides and would keep things neutral but I know that Ulfric, a man whom I called friend, isn't trustworthy anymore and would stab me in the back and drag witherun with him to danger. Skyrim has always been part of the Empire if I join Ulfric that would be betraying the empire and my whiterun never betrays anyone."
"What if you didn't pick either sides and instead joined my side?" asked Solomon.
"What do you mean? What are you even talking about?" Bulgruuf was confused and was slightly getting irritated since Solomon mentioned the civil war.
"What if you didn't pick a falling empire and you didn't pick a madman. What if you picked my side, I plan one day to conquer Tamriel and bring peace and order to the world, bring back the worship of Talos and furthermore make all the races love one another. I know it may seem like betraying the empire but actually the empire has betrayed you and whiterun as they gave up fighting back against the elves and signed the white-gold concordant. I plan to have an army of dragons and powerful warriors riding the dragons who shall help me conquer all of Tamriel. Hear me on this - please listen! Although my plan seems to involve a lot of bloodshed but it will guarantee peace and prosperity for thousands of year but I need your help." Solomon reached his hand out towards Bulgruuf.
Bulgruuf who was listening in on Solomon's plan he found it ridiculous and very stupid, cruel and countless negative words you could think of. Solomon's idea was more stupider than even Ulfric's idea. His plan involved more bloodshed that would span across the world, causing countless families to lose their loved ones and innocent people dying and Bulgruuf really didn't like bloodshed as for his countless years of being a warrior and a leader he saw many families holding their loved ones carcasses as they cried with grief, these moments have traumatised him and made him change his ways of violence. Bulgruuf didn't think of the positives that this idea had and focused on the negatives as his mind was clouded by the memories of the past." Get out of my sight, Solomon. I don't wish to speak to you right now. I'll pretend you never said it; go and see avinicci about that land." said Bulgruuf coldly.
(Solomon and Bulgruuf were at balcony where they in game they captured Odahviing, they were at the lower level when Bulgruuf gave Solomon the title but then when Solomon and Bulgruuf had their private conversation they went to the top balcony place and Bulgruuf obviously dismissed the nearby guards)
"Next time we see each other, when you feel like it you can give me your answer. Friend." Solomon said before going to Avenicci who was down at the dining hall eating with everyone there.
"Avenicci, Can I buy any land that's available?" asked Solomon.
"Yes, there is some land available for purchase. The White River Mansion it's between whiterun and eastmarch, between white river and next to the Kirt Mountain that lies between both holds. That'll cost 8,000 gold."
Solomon handed Avenicci the eight thousand gold easily as Solomon had hundreds of thousands of gold, even millions which he all made through working as a enchanter smith and alchemist, all this gold was stashed in his inventory and eight thousand was considered not much by the likes of Solomon.
"Are you able to get me the materials to make my house?" asked Solomon trying to save himself the hassle of walking around for materials. Avenicci said 'yes' and then Solomon told Avenicci to get all the materials from his list he just created, which he was going to user to remember what materials to get to build a house, he also asked for an arcane enchanter, Blacksmithing tools e.g grind stone, forge, tanning rack and also an alchemy lab.
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