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I took Nefertiti back to our camp carrying her in my arm. I kept checking on her the whole way to the camp and found that has become more powerful both physically and spiritually. I don't understand the reason for that sudden growth but I need to do more checks.
What is more concerning that she was evolving mentally.
While I was carrying her, she felt me close and held to my robe as if she doesn't want to let me go. I could only put her on the bed and rest beside her. Not until some time later as Nurina and Jullanar returned.
"Where were you two?" I asked them.
"We were looking for you." Jull said while smiling.
"Yes, we were feeling a bit naughty so we tried to find you." Alina continued.
I see, this is a full moon night after all so everyone is either horny or turning into a werebeast. Amazing!
"I know it is mostly my fault but you two need to control your desires a bit." I said.
"Don't worry, we got that covered." The two said and smiled at each other.
So they did it together again, huh! Not sure how to feel about that though.
"What's wrong with her?" Jull asked pointing at Nefertiti.
"Well, it started like this..." I started telling them what happened through the hunt with Nefertiti.
"This is strange. You said the Essence-Energy in her body increased?" Alina reconfirmed.
"Drastically. It is as if she is cultivating like us." I replied.
"Then can't that be because of the 'Beastmaster' ability that your family has?"
"Not possible. It is only a mental link, to affect her like this then it must be something like a soul link which I am not sure if it is possible to establish it between two separate entities."
Soul Links is like how the Augur attached his Astral Extension to me and how Hircine attach his Astral Extensions to the Werebeasts. Becoming a Werebeast is like having a part of Hircine inside you, that is why when the Werebeasts die, they end up in Hircine's Realm of Oblivion, the Hunting Ground.
"I am starting to think that keeping her as a Werebeast is a bad idea." I said.
Jull seemed sad when I said that but Alina replied.
"You have no right to say so, she enjoys being a Werebeast."
When Alina said that, Jull and I were utterly shocked. Alina sighed and kept talking.
"It is true that Kyne is the mother of both men and beasts while Hircine is the one who curses people with his Therianthropy and makes them into such horrible creatures. We follower of Kyne have a bad history with Hircine yet we understand the Prince of the Hunt and his big game. For a cat like Nefertiti to surpass her limits as a beast and become a larger beast is actually not as disturbing as a man turning into a beast. I don't understand the will of the Stag Prince but let's not do something we don't understand for now." Alina said.
"She is right." Jull continued, "I feel like the cat is getting smarter day by day. We won't understand unless we wait. All I know is that this cat loves you so much and she is a part of our family so think carefully before you do something you might regret."
"Yes, and regarding Nefertiti's connection to you, I think it is deeper than whatever we may understand, she this the only one other than you who can withstand my eyes without falling to agony, it is not because of her but that is because of you, her link with you protects her from my eyes as if you two are linked in a way we never saw before. I suggest if you ever have the chance to ask the Stag Prince then do so."
"You aren't worried about me from meeting up with a Daedric Prince now?" I asked while smiling wryly.
"The Stag Prince is fair, that's a given. He won't mistreat a mortal unless he was directly offended."
I nodded to Alina's words and patted the sleeping Nefertiti.
She may have a fate I can't figure out too. Picking her up that day may have ruined her life but I am sure she wouldn't want to become an ordinary cat ever again.
***
I slipped Nefertiti into my Haven Cube and started preparing dinner, a few minutes later, Wulf and Jorna appeared.
The two of them looked a bit energetic and all smiles.
"Oh no! I know that look on their faces." Alina said with a laugh.
"Did you give Wulfur one of those?" Jullanar asked and pointed at her training scroll.
I nodded silently.
Wulfur came towards me with a funny smile and sat silently while Bjorna kept a poker face. These two have strong energy around them which meant they have cultivated very well.
"We never got tired!"
"Pffft!"
Wulfur spoke and I laughed right away. He must have had it real good.
"Hey, Jon. What was that scroll you gave him?" Jorna asked with an annoyed face.
"It is my two years of hard work, something that you are lucky to experience in this lifetime."
"... I am not sure how to feel about it! Angry because you interfered in our private matters or thankful because…"
"We never got tired!"
"Pffft! I am dying."
I could endure it no more and laughed again. Wulfur's brain was still in some place else.
"Anyway, why did we have to mediate between every step and after the whole thing?" Jorna asked.
"Well, it happens like this. You guys transfer different energies to each other and use it to nurture your own."
"We read the scroll." Jorna said.
"The point is that the energies outside your in your Energy Center are not really belonging to your body and eventually it returns to the world once the body dies. What you do is that you take that energy and trap it in your soul, which where your Essence Energy is, by the Meditation or what I call the Cultivation. It is basically stealing the Energy and making it into your Essence. It will increase your Life Force and Magicka as well as make you get tired less often as you just experienced."
"We were like animals!"
"Pffft!"
"SHUT UP, WULFUR!"
Bjorna started shouting at Wulfur who was smiling at her with a silly face. The guy is in love, what can I say.
"So by Stealing that Energy and storing it in our Soul, we are stronger?"
"Physically, nope. Magically, yes. And your Aura also will experience a leap in power."
"What does the Aura have to do with any of that?"
"Do you understand what the Aura is?"
"... Uncle Jonrad said it is an imitation of an ancient Akaviri art known as the Battle-Spirit art. It is the manifestation of the warrior's will that would make him stronger and produce a certain effect related to that warrior's style." Jorna replied.
[A/N: that is semi-canon lore, I just called the Aura to make things easier to understand. Check the Dragonknight lore article on the Wiki.]
"Well, it is a textbook answer but let me explain. You see, when a Necromancer dabble a lot with the dead or a Shadow Mage deals with the twisted nature of the Shadow Magic, their personalities tend to change, you find the Necromancer always walking around with a gloomy atmosphere around him and don't care too much about ethics when dealing with corpses of people and the Shadowmancer becomes twisted with a vague personality. Same goes for the Paladins who carry light and the Fire Mages who burn things without remorse. In the end, power takes its toll on a person, this is when a person becomes immersed in that power and gain a lot of understanding about it to the point where it becomes part of his nature. Now couple that Nature with raw power, that Essence Energy I talked about just now, I said it is in the Soul or the Spirit or whatever you would like to call it. The point is, once you couple that Skill Nature or the Personality Nature with that Essence Energy, you get your Battle-Spirit. Its properties are to buff your physical power as a basic property and act the same way your Nature does.
Take Alina for example, she is the perfect representation of the Skill Nature as the blessed child of Kyne, her white Stormy Frost Aura, resulted by the constant use to Frost and Wind Magic, is so powerful that it chills to the bone. Jullanar is the perfect representation for Personality Nature, she is stealthy and fierce, her grey Stealth Aura buffs her speed and make her harder to notice."
"I see!" Everyone hit their palms with their fist and spoke together.
"When Jon puts it that way, it sure has some understanding behind it now."
"Truly better than Uncle Jonrad's vague explanation."
[A/N: Truth be told, I tried to add something cool to the story without fully understanding it and had to explain it that way. I am a bit sophisticated when it comes to Semi-Lore stuff.]
"What about you Jon? Your Aura doesn't represent you at all!"
"Yes, it is strangely a green Madness Aura and you are not that good with Illusion Magic."
"Well, as you know, I am a special case. I study all Schools of Magic and practice Martial Arts with my long history of practicing the stealth arts in Riften. Overall, my style is a mix of my Skills and Personality are all about overwhelming the opponent in all aspects. I am a bit of an S as you can all tell..."
"Bwahahaha, very… ehem." Jull interrupted but let's ignore that.
"... I personally think that my Aura needs an upgrade but I still need to find the perfect mindset to make it better."
"That was really eye-opening."
"What will we do tomorrow then."
"Finally back to business. Phase 2 is about a Black Book hunting in Benkongerike Cave, a Treasure Hunt in Gyldenhul Barrow the resting place of Haknir Death-Brand, and finally White Ridge Barrow to face another powerful Dragon Priest and take his treasures and Black Book, after all of that is done I would love to visit a Dragon Wall in the North of Solstheim. Our time limit is one week."
I announced my grand plan right away.
"You know what? This guy is a Sadistic fucker." Wulfur said went away.
"""Humph!""" The tree girls snorted and went away too.
"Hey! There was that thing about…"
"SHUT UP, JON!"
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Benkongerike Cave is located in the north of Solstheim just a few miles north to the Skaal Village by going up the mountain. The area was rich with beauty and nature that made me pause every now and then to smell the fresh cold air of the sea. It wasn't like as I missed but the Ashlands are really too filthy to endure. I wonder how the dark elves can do it!
Anyway, this phase the plan was about us six only going around in Nordic Ruins and getting our training done. Any numerical disadvantage will be handled by me as the best Summoner of the group and will also support and also attack, Tanking is for Wulfur, Scouting is for Jullanar, Dealing Damage is for Alina and Healing is for Bjorna. The five of us are a complete team when it comes to facing hordes of monsters.
And this is what happened when we entered Benkongerike Cave, Rieklings attacked us from every side there is.
"What is Ysmir's name is going on here? Is this a kingdom of Rieklings?" Wulfur shouted.
"Hehe, the royal knights are coming at your way, Sir Wulfur."
As I said that, a few Rider Rieklings charged at Wulfur on their boars.
"On it."
Wulfur waved his hammer taking down the three Riekling Riders and their Bristlebacks in one go.
"Hey, Jon. Any contribution to society?" Jull asked.
"I am filling the place with my Undead, what more do you need?"
"Put down Nefertiti and help us like you mean it."
"No, her meowjesty has asked for a massage. Until I am needed, I will keep on serving the Princess."
Nefertiti was in her normal cat form and wanted to laze on my arm since this morning. She was acting all playful and cute since she woke up. I kept stroking her back and she was reacting nicely.
"How is she today?" Jull asked.
"Much like a cat actually, she does not remember all the fight of yesterday's and very happy with the rings I brought her. Also, do you notice that she have grown? She is a bit bigger."
Yesterday, I brought her 4 rings with me. They were all blessed by Hircine and made for Werebeasts. They are:-
[Ring of Bloodlust] Increases the power of her Intimidation growls and hisses.
[Ring of Instinct] heightens her instincts and senses.
[Ring of the Hunt] Increases her Power, Speed and Durability.
[Ring of the Moon] Heals wounds faster.
[A/N: I tweeked the rings to become better than the game]
These rings were all blessed by the Stag Prince Hircine and would benefit Nefertiti greatly. Nefertiti was very pleased with them and absorbed them in her Shadow, I don't understand how or why but she got their power.
This cute little devil is getting more mysterious but the connection between us was never this stronger. There is indeed a link beyond my understanding the same way Alina described it. I can even sense Nefertiti's mood now.
What is important now was that Nefertiti assured me that she passed the unease she was feeling and feels much better. I would take her words for it and keep loving her for a few more hours.
Putting her meowjesty aside for now, I started practicing some new spells was my undead were taking down the Riekling with the rest of the team.
Yesterday, I tested a new spell on the Werewolves that was called 'Electrohand'. It was just an orignal Expert Level. Another new spell that I learned was 'Mimic', Nurina gave me the tome of it a long time ago but I a not good with Illusion and it took me quite a while. The last and the coolest spell I learned was a spell called 'Necro Construction', which is a spell that creates undead.
[Electrohand] is an original of mine as the name gives out, a crossover between Lightning Magic and Telekinesis which is far more powerful and violent than both. I managed to carry a large rock with it, its weight must be around five tons.
[Mimic] is a known spell that can change the voice and slightly the appearance, I can't change my body shape but I can change the simple things like the colors, the hair, the facial features and the maybe can make my ear pointy.
[Necro Construction] is a spell that hailed from the Cult of Worms, the worst Necromancer Faction in the history of this world of Tamriel. The spell itself can gather together the bones and the flesh of dead mortals and animals to create whatever the caster wants, be it a Bone Colossus or just a Skeletal Warrior as long as the caster studied the undead creature of course.
With these three spells in my arsenal, I felt like a new man once again. I haven't learned a new spell in ages.
Back to Benkongerike Cave. We traveled far through the icy cave and started to have troubles with the Rieklings, they were too many and chaotically organized if you get the gist of it. They would swarm in weird synchronization and disperse when they are overwhelmed.
Still, we managed to push through and reached Benkongerike Great Hall which was a Nordic Ruin behind the icy cave.
In the Great Halls, there were some Draugrs that took some effort to bring down until we reached the end of the halls and solved a dump Ancient Nordic Puzzle to cross through the doors.
"Can anyone just tell me what is the point of solving these dump puzzles?" I asked loudly.
"Legends mention that they were created to distract the people who solve them from the traps. Luckily we know that and we solve them carefully."
"Tsk! Too soft. When I die, I want you guys to make a grand tomb for me. Those who want to loot my personal Third Versions of the 'Lusty Argonian Maid' will have to go through death traps, flying traps, Fire Traps, walking on the sky traps and real traps... I want you guys to recreate Diablo 2 on Hell Mode. with a hundred levels deep in the ground and assign the meanest monsters to inhabit that dungeon. At the coffin room, I want a Word Wall that says (Lok Hen, Zeymah), which means (High Five, Bro) as I walk out as a Draugr and troll the adventurers."
As I finished talking, I was stared at by five pairs of dumb eyes. No… four, don't count Nefertiti.
"... Okay." They all were mostly crept out.
"What about you Wulfur? How do you like your crypt to be like?"
"Small one room with an Orichalcum heavy door. Whoever can open the door with a hammer gets to have my personal legacy."
"Oh! How generous! What about you Alina?"
"On the top of a mountain, the closest point to Kyne I can get."
"... Can't argue with your logic. What about you Jull?"
"I'll go with Alina. Your place is so creepy."
"Tsk! Bjorna?"
"Are you guys really going along with his joke? We are in an Ancient Tomb! Which is filled with the dead! And you all are talking about your death? I would just turn around and leave you guys."
"... Makes sense!" "Yeah yeah." "Totally."
With my weird fellowship, we reached the end of Benkongerike Great Hall and there was no boss at all, just an old Word Wall and a passage with a familiar stench.
We walked through that passage and arrived at a room similar to the Black Book room of Ahzidal and there was also a Black Book. We followed the same process and sealed the Black Book in a containment chest.
After doing so, we returned to the Word Wall to study it.
It said:-
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NONVUL BRON DahMaaN DaaR ROT
DO FIN FODiiZ BORMAH KENDOV KRIF
OK KOSIL VOKUL NUZ JUN GaaR
NiiN NAU OK HOKORON
Which meant:
Noble Nords, remember these words
Of the Hoar-Father: a warrior fights
his evil, but a king unleashes
on his enemy
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The important word her was 'Gaar' which meant 'Unleash'.
With that, I have the second and the third words of a new shout, all I need is the first or I can just try to comprehend it on my own which will work but will take a month at least, these Word Wall contain a lot of insight after all.
With that, we left out the tomb by using 'Teleport' to the outside. I may have forgotten to mention that I now can mark the Space itself so I can Teleport back to it.
"How long did this tomb take?"
"Almost a day. Kinda feel tired now that I mention it."
"White Ridge Barrow is that way, we can make camp at its entrance."
We traveled two hours on our Flame Atronach Horses until we reached White Ridge Barrow, we arrived at the barrow's entrance but didn't make a camp, I decided that we all should go in the Haven Cube.
We gathered in the main space and had a meal before sending Nefertiti to bed. Wulf and I started a heated discussion in our corner and the girls actually started to Meditate.
I started working with Wulfur on the Stalhrim we acquired some time ago and he managed to grind it then reshape it in tubes. I took the tubes and started enchanting them to the then stuffed the reshaped enchanted empty Soul Gem into and started to close the product. I was lacking some key material like the core of the reactor but I think with the temperature of the Stalhrim, I will not face any problem with the overheating ever again. My Magicka Reactor is a few days away from being the most promising source of power in this world if I don't royally screw it up.
While we were working, I heard a strange sound and a gust of wind moved inside the space. I looked around me to see where this wind came from as it was strange, the Cube allows air and Magicka to flow in and go out but not wind…
"Jon, I think a force wave came out of Jorna just now!" Wulfur said.
"Are you serious?"
"Yes."
"Come, let's see."
As we went towards Bjorna, she opened her eyes and looked at herself in a strange way.
"Did something happen to me?" She asked.
"Yeah, one of those pulse waves that I talked about before." I said.
Alina and Jullanar opened their eyes and came towards us.
"What is going around here?"
"Jorna just experienced one of those Pulses Waves."
"You still haven't figured out what it means?"
"No…"
This thing was still depressing me.
"Hey, Jon. I think I have experienced that feeling before. You know… my Energy Center felt like something going in strongly and something coming out."
"Oh, you mean the Magicka Pool here. I see! Hmmm… maybe because Jorna is the one with the least Essence Energy between us so you felt more than us. I guess when we steal that World's Energy from the Magicka Pool and pull it to feed the Essence-Energy in the Soul, something comes out while the Energy goes in… everyone, halt your training for now. Cousin, give me your hand."
I bossed everyone around and contacted the Augur to provide him with the update.
{Your thinking is indeed Logical. I also looked into the previous Data you sent and found that when Arch-Mage Shalidor reported that he stole the Secret of Immortality from Akatosh, he was being vague about it. He may have actually did the same process that you are doing right now or something similar to it.}
'Damn! Then this Pulse Waves should be a good sign, right?'
{Indeed. Keep providing me with Data. Also, the conclusion that when you steal the Energy of Heaven and lock it into your Soul as Essence Energy is a good of thinking. There is indeed a form of Energy that comes out.}
'What kind of energy?'
{It is like a lower class energy compared to the Energy you take in. Think of it as the Profound Essence Energy you absorbed replaces the Mortal Energy. Every Pulse Wave means progress and your soul is approaching a realm new to us.}
'So it is also a good sign, good then! How many of those Energy Waves can we expecting to happen?'
{For you, I guess you are nearing the limit and will replace all your Mortal Energy soon, for your friends… I guess you should count how many pulses they have progressed through until now.}
'Thank you, you are really helpful.'
{I am doing something that serves my interest too so don't think too much about it. Just remember to keep me posted.}
'Alright!'
As I cut the connection with the Augur, I started exploring the Soul of Bjorna and compared it to mine.
This should be how three layers of the new Profound Energy look like. I am not sure how to count the Mortal Energy but it is good.
I have eight layers myself… I see.
I opened my eyes and held Wulfur's hands after Jorna, after some measuring, I judged him to have five layers.
Alina was six layers and Jull was five like Wulfur.
I understand now.
I started telling the group the things the Augur and I understood from the Stealing the secret of Immortality from Akatosh like Shalidor to the layers and all that.
"So it means we are advancing and getting stronger?" Jull asked.
"As I said before, your body is becoming abundant with Essence Energy when you get more layer of it and condense them over each other. To answer your question, I would say that we can exert more Physical Energy and have increase Magicka that way but our physical strength is still around the same. Who knows, maybe after we condense enough energy in our souls, our bodies start to get stronger too.
Don't forget that the 'Soul' is the Energies of the body and all that is locked into the 'Astral Body' which is locked into the 'Physical Body' and both bodies are connected through the 'Acupoints'. When the 'Soul' quality reaches the limit, I am sure that the 'Astral Body' will be refined enough to cause changes in the 'Physical Body'."
I said and my head was getting overloaded with calculations.
"Damn, he is a super nerd." Jullanar mocked me.
"He is the best nerd in the world." Alina calmly defended me.
I was being praised by the four as an idiotic otaku idea popped into my head.
"Oh here it comes, he'll ruin the moment." Jull foresaw my idea.
"Totally." Even Alina swiched sides.
"Okay, thank you but now… this new discovery needs some classification. As a discoverer of the profound art of Meditating, I would like to start putting this classification myself."
"You mean you would name it?"
"Any objection?"
"Your naming sense is terrible." "Yeah." "Don't do it, Jon."
"Just hear me out. I am saying that we are 'Stealing' from the Dragon God 'Akatosh' following the example of 'Shalidor', and judging that the Blessing of Akatosh is related to Magicka Regeneration, I would love to name this first Realm of Cultivation, the [Dragon Robbing Stage]. Like that, I am at the '8th Layer of the Dragon Robbing Realm', Alina is '6th Layer', Wulfur and Jull at the '5th Layer' and Jorna at the '3rd Layer'."
"... that may not be bad after all." Alina said.
"Distasteful but whatever."
And that's how we agreed to name our first Realm of Cultivation.
[A/N: The name of the First Realm is made by inspiration from the Chinese Novels as you can guess. [Dragon Robbing] is similar to [Qi Condensation] as in both cases the cultivator robs the Energy and goes against Heaven. I think the Elder Scrolls world is based on the same concept as the Mortals were locked into Mundus by Lorkhan and ascend by the CHIM like Talos. I am not going the Talos Scenario so don't worry about the spoilers.
The rest of the martial arts realms are [Foundation Establishment] [Core Formation] and [Nascent Soul], I intend on changing the names into Nordic Style ones and will accept suggestions. Also, tell me what you think of the [Qi Condensation] becoming the [Dragon Robbing], I think its neat but I will change it based on the opinions.]
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