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章 680: Bilge Rat

Soon enough the navy began departing from Winterhold and heading for Solstheim, Surtr flies overhead on his dragon but isn't alone, Charlotte was also up there on Illococoo's back. As is the case whenever sailing through the Northern Sea, Kunkka's Man O' War was required to punch a path through the thin layer of ice that'd grown since the last time they ventured out.

Everything was going pretty well for all intents and purposes, the water was calm, no accidents occurred on the ships, and they'd not even run into any enemy dragons yet...

Surprisingly however, the first threat they encounter isn't even from Solstheim, but instead from Morrowind... A group f Dunmeri vessels appeared over the horizon and cut off their path to Morrowind, anchoring and sending over a couple of messaging birds to communicate their wish for negotiation.

Kunkka allows the bird to birch on his arm as he looks over to Surtr who'd hopped onto the boat from his dragon, "I assume we'll parley? Unless you wish to scrap with the elves too?"

Surtr shakes his head, "No, not yet at least."

"What are you even going to say to them?" Lina asks as she floats over, fire licking her hair. "Solstheim is still technically Morrowind territory, you're invading their land, and I doubt they'll buy the excuse that Miraak was there."

A knowing smirk makes its way onto Surtr's face, "I will deal with it."

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A single ship from each side sails over and lines up their broadsides, not to fire cannons but to enable the Dunmeri Captain to walk over and initiate contact.

He strides over in luxurious robes and two heavily armoured guards at his side, alone with a single mage who eyes everyone on Surtr's vessel suspiciously. "I am Sunver Omaneth, Representative of House Redoran, the rightful owners of Solstheim and all its peoples." he pompously greets while waiting for Surtr to respond.

"I am High King Surtr, ruler of Skyrim and soon-to-be Emperor of the Empire." he simply responds. "Let us cut the politeness. Why are you stopping my ships?"

"You are trespassing into House Redoran territory. We demand that you stop, and compensate for this blatant act of hostility towards our nation."

Surtr tilts his head at the man, "Were you not aware that Solstheim had been taken over by another country? Another Dragonborn named Miraak has begun creating his own Empire, starting with Solstheim. I doubt the men you settled there still live."

"Miraak...?" Sunver asks, eyes slightly glassy.

"Ah... So he's taken control of you too?"

"What do you mean?" the mage behind Sunver questions, having already had suspicions due to Suner's occasional lapse in judgement and the holes in his knowledge.

"If you want proof... Just have him say one bad thing about Miraak. He won't be able to do it if he's under his control." Surtr states as he'd tested this before on his own.

...

Sunver's men look at him expectantly, yet the man stays silent, his lips twitching as if trying to do as told but still failing.

"Do you have a solution?" the mage asks after scanning the man with spells, a hint of desperation in his eyes.

Surtr nods, "I do, I'd like to use it on all of you to make sure Miraak hasn't gotten anyone else. Agreed?"

The mage reluctantly agrees, finding no other solution to this. Not when so far outside of Morrowind. It'd take a week to return, and but then this 'Miraak' could have had them kill themselves or something.

Inwardly, Surtr was barely holding back his victorious laughter. They'd just given him permission to cast his own shout on them, and he wouldn't be as lenient as Miraak was... "GOL HAH DOV!" he shouts and the glowing shockwave washes over the entire Dunmeri ship, bringing all of them under Surtr's thrall.

Their acceptance of the shout only made it easier to control them, not to mention how weak most of them were against such mental attacks.

"Sunver. Have your ships accompany us. We will take the fight to Miraak and free Solstheim." he commands and the Dunmeri Representative nods, returning to his ship to begin aiding the Winterhold Navy.

"Your thrall will not last." Medusa hisses behind him, well aware what Surtr had just done. She and her sister used to utilise such methods in the past, before she traded her beauty for power... "They will eventually break free, and they will know who is responsible."

Surtr nods, "I know that, creature. But it won't matter, I don't intend on allowing them to return in the first place."

The snakes forming Medusa's hair snap at his direction as she scowls at him, "There is a line and while most never encounter it, once you cross it there is no return. You are on the line." she slowly states, locking eyes with the man for a couple seconds before slithering away, leaving to his thoughts.

Nearby, a certain Grand Magus had been observing from a hidden corner of the ship, his glowing green eyes blinking curiously at the magic Surtr had just displayed. "Curiouser and curiouser..."

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"Master... Did you see that...?" Wei asks, looking to Anti-Mage.

"See? I felt it. Vile magic."

"Well... What do we do? We can't do anything against a King... Can we?"

...

"Not yet. But maybe soon...

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The fleet continued on, now with a dozen ships belonging to Morrowind aiding them. They all sail in a rough formation which Kunkka tried to fix during the journey, but didn't manage completely by the time they spotted Solstheim over the horizon.

Then, the dragons came... Around twenty of them immediately flew from the island and circled the boats, too high in the air to actually targets with either spells or cannons.

Surtr stayed around the Navy to avoid getting attacked by many at once, but Charlotte and Illococoo were simply too fast for the enemy dragons to target, forcing them to focus on someone else.


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章 681: Miraakulous

Miraak looks down at the small army of ships belong him from his dragon, he could see the many simpletons staring up at him in awe, all likely wondering who would burn first. "SURTR!" he roars, allowing his voice to reach everyone's ears through the wind. "THIS IS IT! THIS IS WHAT I ASKED FOR, AND YOU BROUGHT IT TO ME! NOW COME! FACE YOUR DOOM! STUN BAH QO!" he shouts, causing the sky to dim and lightning to start falling, occasionally striking an unlucky boat, or an even more unlucky person.

Miraak's dragon swoops down, baiting out the cannons and dodging the projectiles before actually beginning their attack.

Miraak himself had his dragon glide towards Surtr, who moved through the air and positioned himself near the broadside of a majority of the navy, putting anyone who approached in the path of hundreds of cannons.

"Come fight me if you dare! Ancient coward!" Surtr loudly taunts.

"YOU THINK SUCH TRICKS WOULD HARM ME!?" Miraak exclaims as he prompts his dragon to attack, the cannons all simultaneous fire but an Unrelenting Force shout throws them all straight back at the boats, sinking a few and killing many more. His dragon unleashes a stream of fire at Surtr, who with his dragon replies in kind.

The two fire breaths hit the one, overpowering it and forcing Miraak's dragon to twirl in the air, flying under Surtr's dragon before coming back around for another attack.

"IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE, SURTR!?" Miraak yells as they fly towards one another once more.

"NOT YET! JOOR ZAH FRUL!" Surtr roars in response just as his dragon uses Whirlwind Sprint, their form blurring and vanishing as they speed past the First Dragonborn, all while Dragonrend strikes the beast under Miraak.

It roars as the bright blue energy wave hits it, instantly causing its wings to buckle and stopping its glide, it falls towards the ocean while trying to keep aloft, but it's in vain as it soon crashing head first into the water, its body beginning to spin as the water rapidly slows it.

Miraak wasn't caught in this however, as he'd used his own Whirlwind Sprint to land on the back of a nearby dragon, leaving his original one to try and prevent itself from drowning until Dragonrend ended. "What shout was that!?" he quickly questions the dragon under him, having no idea what it was despite all his time spent in Apocrypha.

"Zaan tol oblaan Alduin, dii drog..." (The shout that ended Alduin, my lord...)

"It seems that my blood has more tricks than I thought-"

*Zwooom!*

A blue blur flashes past and multiple things happen at once. A claw rakes across his dragon's face, destroying one eye and leaving a permanent scar. At the same time, a thin blade of ice passes by, slicing at Miraak. It's unable to pierce his mask by it scrapes by that and hits his neck, drawing a long bloody line across it.

A fatal wound.

Miraak coughs and gurgles the blood now beginning to fill his throat, a hand clutching it from both shock and caution, completely baffled that he'd been hit in such a way so quickly. With quick thinking, he pulls a large health potion from the pouch on his waist and gulps it down, but the wound was still too severe to heal, forcing him to employ something else...

"Zi Los Dii Du!" he shouts but the damage to his throat results in it coming out as a whisper, the dragon under him jolts at the words and its body flashes brightly as its soul is absorbed into the First Dragonborn. "You have served your purpose!" he states somberly, less sad at the dragon's death than at the loss of a valuable asset.

"FODINOKDRUN!" he shouts as he begins falling, the dragon under him quickly turning to bones with the removal of its soul. His call is heard however, allowing yet another dragon to catch him from the air.

He looks over towards the thing that came so close to killing him, realising it was yet another dragon rider, this one short with blue hair matching her dragon's scales. "YOU ARE STRONG! JOIN ME! GOL HAH DOV!" he shouts, but the duo easily dodge and quickly gain distance, not wanting to get caught by whatever shout Miraak was trying to use on them.

Miraak's new dragon ducks its head and aims directly for the ocean as Surtr comes around with Wuuthrad, trying to cut Miraak's head off as he passes. This is dodged of course, and Miraak instead turns his attention to the rest of the battle... Something that, surprisingly, wasn't going so well for his dragons.

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Medusa raise her head and the snakes that form her hair focuses on one target each. She aims her large, clearly magical bow up into the sky with no perceivable target... Then looses the arrow...

The arrow glows brightly and then splits into hundreds more that begin filling the sky, groups of them splitting off from the whole like a flock of birds as they pursue the dragons. This strange sight had a few dragons unable to reach, some thinking it a mere illusion while others didn't think such simple projectiles could damage them... They were wrong.

*CRAACK!*

A single arrow catches a dragon's tail, completely obliterating everyone in a meter area where it'd struck. Half of the dragon's tail was simply just... Gone.

Another dragon gets caught in the wing, causing it to flounder in the air and allow even more arrows to strike it. As if caught in a giant strangely shaped blender, the dragon's body quickly evaporated in the sky, with the only remnants of it existing being the bone shards and large globules of flesh that'd been blown off during its death.

These two sights had the other dragons fleeing at the sight of these arrows, using Whirlwind Sprint and other movement-related shouts to flee the freakishly powerful attack.


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