Chapitre 9: Open Casket 1/2
"Wow~ that's beautiful. How did they even make such a thing?" Ciri's curiosity flew.
"Slaves." A blunt Lucius quickly walked past her down the winding path.
"Slaves?" Ciri asked catching up to Lucius.
"Mhm, not much is known since it was thousands of years ago, but some texts say the ancient Nords built it while enslaved by dragons." Lucius responded. "Of course, it could just be the ramblings of an old fool. They may well be sacred places built by them for their dead. Who knows?"
"Either way it's magnificent, Lucius." Said Ciri gazing at the site before her. "I thought you'd be more interested considering this is your mother's land. Did she grow up here?"
"I am interested. I'm just focusing on getting there without falling on my arse." Lucius said grumpily. "I knew i shouldn't have put my armour on." He muttered.
"Hah! I told you not to. It's a mountain full of ice and snow, what did you expect, idiot?" Ciri laughed out jokingly.
"As a great man once said. 'The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.' I try to live by those words." Said Lucius flicking his silver man. "At least i have protection, not all of us can flash around a skirmish like a hare on skooma." Lucius nudged Ciri with a grin.
"Yeah, yeah. We'll see who's laughing when you slip." Ciri sped up before Lucius could respond.
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A short hike later, the pair came upon a set of stairs leading up to a breathtaking array of nordic archways. Black in colour, they framed the plateau of stone as if guarding the gate to the dead.
"It's even better up close, eh Ciri?" Wondered Lucius with awe.
"It sure is... Damned shame it's left to bandits." Ciri voiced her thoughts.
"Good thing a set of jaw dropping warriors are about to reclaim it. Sigh~ Truly, such is the way of an unsung hero." Drawled an over the top Lucius, as he began ascending the steps to the tomb.
'Jaw dropping, am i.' Ciri playfully pondered.
Lucius followed the footprints that marred the deep snow and spotted a lone female guard by the enormous black gate, and looked to Ciri asking an unspoken question.
Ciri just pointed at Lucius, with her left hand wiggling fingers.
'That's getting old now.' Lucius thought while sending a spike of ice through the guards head, nailing it to the stone wall she leaned on.
"Get ready, i doubt opening a door this big will go unnoticed." Ciri said to Lucius, drawing her sword.
Lucius nodded as he pushed open one of the giant doors and peaked his head around it.
"It's clear, but there's a campfire at the end of the passage."Lucius informed Ciri. "Stealth or just kill them all?" He asked her.
"The second one." She replied without skipping a beat.
The pair waltzed through gate, advancing to the fire that warmed two bandits who were more interested in their conversation than their surroundings. A fatal error.
A small ball of red hit the standing bandit which made him sink his blade into his partner. Before he too fell to the floor in two halves, the result of Ciri's blade splitting him from balls to brain.
"I almost feel bad for them...Almost." Ciri said, wiping her blade.
Lucius hummed as he went past her, descending down the into the tomb.
They carried on into the tomb before watching a bandit die to a poison trap.
"Did this idiot not see the giant stones and the clear puzzle next to him?" Lucius mocked, kicking the corpse to check if he was dead. "Hmm, that's some potent poison."
"Snake.Snake, Is that a whale? Oh well." Lucius completed the puzzle and pulled the lever, opening the gate. "Onwards we go, Ciri!" Lucius joked, earning him a small smile of amusement from the girl.
They continued to go deeper into the crypt killing a few Skeevers on the way.
"Oh no. Not spiders, why is it always spiders." Complained Lucius eyeing the huge web that blocked the door, with a hand on his face.
"Aww~ is the big bad magician scared of a little spiders?" Ciri teased the elf next to her.
"Little... Yes, i'm terrified. Why don't you go first?" Lucius replied pushing Ciri forward with and evil glint flashing in his eyes.
"Is... is someone coming? Is that you Harknir? Bjorn? Soling?" A familiar voice rung out. "I know I ran ahead with the claw, but I need help!"
"Looks like we found our runaway." Ciri said to Lucius wiping off cobwebs.
"It seems we have. You have some in your hair." Lucius said picking off some of the cobwebs.
"Oh, thank you." Ciri replied dodging his gaze.
What went unseen was the lingering figure above them that slowly crept down from its web.
"No! Not again. Don't let it get me. Help!" Arvel shrieked in panic, hopelessly thrashing against his bindings.
In middle of gaping hole in the ceiling a giant 8 legged colossus leaped onto Lucius, who dodged and pushed the spider into a wall with an orange mist of magic.
"Ciri, stab it through the eyes!" Lucius bellowed out an order.
Ciri flashed onto the arachnid's back and run it through with her blade and jumping over to Arvel.
Monstrous shrieks echoed throughout cavern as the spider flailed around before dying.
"Uh, hello again?" A nervous Arvel said looking into Ciri's unimpressed eyes.
"You ran all this way to get caught by a spider?" Ciri chided the fool.
"Ahhh! Just cut me down, or you'll never get the claw!" Arvel claimed.
"With pleasure." Lucius smiled, as Ciri thrust her blade into Arvel's neck.
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Cut short because i need to sleep.
As i said in the last chapter, it's 4am and i'm slowly dying. I might have insomnia or sum shit idk... I wonder if my writing would be better with a functioning mind?
I won't lie. I've kinda been thinking of having a small Serana romance before Ciri..... But it's x Ciri. But Serena...But x Ciri. Jealous Ciri? Temporary goth gf?! Ahhhhh!
Also, do you guys like the three dots break? or would you prefer (Line Break) when there's a short skip in location?
Regarding the Middle-Earth trip. That might be the next world instead of Cyberpunk, but instead i'll make a tiny Cyberpunk side-story just for fun, no relation to the actual story...
I was thinking Galadriel teaches Lucius how 'magical intent' works. Lucius could forge his own ring maybe? To amplify his Thu'um? Increase his magic power? I'm still drawing it up for now so your guy's ideas would be great.
From your "patently evil" Author.
Have a good one ;)
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