Chapter 7
Chapter 7
[Lydia POV]
As I make my way back to my Thanes home with a small chest of gold coins under my arm from his crafting business which they ran from his own home, well he ran she didn't really do much other than run simple errands and act as his assistant and guard for his operation, well more guard than assistant she really didn't understand anything about alchemy no matter how many times he tried to teach her and she was already his sworn protector so she lamented the fact that she couldn't help her Tavin even after he had done so much for her.
First off was her sudden growth in strength and martial ability it was completely unexplainable, she had always taken a measure of pride in her fighting skill, what nord warrior didn't? Still this level of growth simply didn't make sense she had gone from being one of the more competent guards to head and solders above them in no time at all she had no idea how it way possible and it didn't really matter she had never felt so good in her entire life.
Then there was the amount of money she was being paid, technically a Housecarl wasn't suppose to be paid at all but Tavin wouldn't hear it and the amount of gold gold she received every week was nonsensical it was more than she made in a month as a standard guard, all of the things together made her feel guilty that she wasn't doing enough for her Thane, I mean sure she fought at his side and did her best to protect him and his property but to be honest her didn't really need her protection with the thing she had seen him do he seemed like one of those powerful mages out straight out of the stories.
Her thoughts were cut short as she reached her Thanes home, she pushed open the door with her free hand and stepped inside, she goes to a nearby table to set the somewhat heavy chest down, her Thane isn't in the main room so he'll probably be in the lab she walks up to the closed door and softly knocks.
"Lydia is that you? come in." He say in a smooth calm voice that causes her heart to beat just a little bit faster.
"Then please excuse me." She says doing her best to hide the nervousness she feels as she opens the door
Inside she finds him sitting in a chair in front of his alchemy table, why he needed the lab she'll never know she had seen him turn ingredients into potions without it after all.
As she started to approach her Thane stands up and turns around to face her giving he his undivided attention. She almost squirms a bit under his gaze but manages to keep herself under control even as she feels her face heat up.
"So Lydia what's our haul for today?" He says with a confidant easygoing smile on his face as he walks up to her.
"M-My Thane it was 2000 for today." she said while mentally cursing herself for stumbling over her own words as she's thinking that her lord moved even closer and placed his hand on her cheek and gently caressed it at this point her face was positively burning, this was the main problem with her Thane, well it was really a problem with her every time she was alone with him she inevitably got horny at first she just brushed it off as finding him attractive but as time when on it got harder and harder to control herself around him.
[Tavin POV] [Lemon Warning]
"Is something the matter your face is turning red." I feel her body tense up a bit as I place my hand on her face but she almost immediately relaxes as I use (Arouse) and (Touch of Pleasure) simultaneously by using these skills throughout the past two weeks has trained her to become aroused whenever she's around me. As I look down at her with a concerned expression on my face "you can tell me if somethings wrong." by this point I think I've pushed her far enough.
I'm proven right when Lydia's lips crash onto mine in a kiss with no tongue, I'm sort of caught off guard since I thought I would have to initiate this so I don't immediately reciprocate and Lydia tries to pull away but as she turns I grab her arm and pull her back into the kiss as I embrace her, I deepen the kiss and she doesn't stop me as my tongue enters her mouth and begins to wrestle with hers.
Our hands begin roaming over the others body luckily Lydia was just wearing common clothes today and not her armor or I wouldn't be able to feel anything as one of my hands cup her ass and my other one gropes her breasts as I feel one of her hands land on my crotch gently rubbing my hard shaft through my pants, as I tweak her nipple through her shirt I cast (Touch of Pleasure) causing her to moan into my mouth, after about a minute of groping and deep kissing the need to breath gets to us so we separate and stare into each others eyes panting.
I feel Lydia's hand leave my erection and begin to tug on the hem of my pants, getting the message I pull off my shirt and move my hands to her clothes, we undress each other in record time and soon we're standing in front of each other fully nude, I take a moment to take in the details of Lydia's form from her flawless pale skin to her toned athletic physique to her perky tits toped with light pink erect nipples all the way down to her soaked pussy.
As I'm looking her over she's doing the same to me while fidgeting slightly before she meets my gaze and says "My lord I am at your command is there any way I can serve you." with a sultry smile spread across her face.
I smirk and spin my chair around to face her before sitting down and saying "it looks like you've caused me some stress why don't you get over here and provide some relief." While gesturing to my dick.
"As you command my Thane," Lydia walks up to me before falling to her knees and begins to plant feather light kisses along the underside of my cock starting at the base and working her way up to the tip. "You're even bigger than I imagined." she says before she takes me into her mouth, I lean back in my chair and let out a low groan as I feel her lips suction around my shaft and her tongue swirl around it as she moves her head back and forth, I cast (Touch of Pleasure) through my dick and I feel vibrations on my shaft as she moans around it, one her hands come up and begin to fondle my balls while her other hand is clearly masturbating. While this is going on I get an idea I know I want to cum in her mouth so I make an new skill
New Skill Created (Change Taste) Level 1/100
The user alters the flavor of their cum to be more pleasant
That will work, after about twenty minutes of this I can feel my release approaching, this is my first time getting any action since I died so when I reach my limit I use my new skill before I speak up "Lydia I'm about to cum don't spill and of it!" and with that I place a hand on top of her head and blow my load. It looks like she mostly was able to handle it as she obediently gulps down my large load, I see a small trail of me seed leaking down from the corner of her mouth which which she quickly wipes with her finger before she licks it up.
Once Lydia is done cleaning herself off she looks up at me with a desperate needy expression on her face. "Tavin I can't wait anymore please hurry up and take me."
Not one to decline such a request especially since I'm still hard I grab her by the shoulders and lift her up to her feet before I walk her over to the long wooden table which has my alchemy lab on it and bend her over and roughly thrust into her, she's no virgin but she's still incredibly tight it must have been a while for her, I lose track of time as I fuck her with only the sounds of loud moans and flesh slapping flesh filling the house, through ample use of (Touch of Pleasure) I bring her to multiple screaming climaxes on my dick as I pound into her before I feel my own release coming at the last possible moment I pull out and cum on her back this time my erection goes down, as soon as I stop holding Lydia's she fall back down to her knees, her legs giving out.
"Tavin that was, amazing." she manages to get out in between her panting, by this point we're both covered in sweat, as I'm standing there catching my breath I get another idea and go to make another skill.
New Skill Created (Clean) Level 1/100
The user magically cleans up messes
I immediately cast this on the both of us before I speak up in a confidant tone "Lydia this will be part of your duties from now on."
+20 Affection and Obedience with Lydia
Perk Added for 50 Affection with Lydia (Best Boss)
Affection and Obedience raises faster with your subordinates
By this point it's already starting to get late and I just decide that I'm done doing anything for the rest of the day so I grab my cloths off the floor and Lydia, who has caught her breath and gotten back up does the same "I'm going to bed you should join me." I stow my robe in my inventory and begin heading upstairs to my room, Lydia follows behind me with an eager expression on her face.
[The next day]
As I wake up and get out of bed letting out a yawn and stretching my arms I notice that Lydia is no longer in bed, well it's no big deal she always was an early riser. I take a moment to reflect on these past couple weeks. A lot has happened since I learned that there was a reliable way to grind levels, for starters I have have more than doubled my level reaching level 25 unfortunately I haven't been able to hunt down any more dragons or words of power but still my stats have increased a lot.
Name: Tavin (Bounty Hunter)
Race: Human (Dragonborn)
Level: 25
HP: 1166 + 200 (53 per minute)
MP: 1950 + 350 (300 + 150 every 10 seconds)
SP: 1060 (53 every 10 seconds)
Strength: 50
Dexterity: 50
Endurance: 53 (22 HP & 20 SP per point) (1 HP & SP Regen per point)
Intelligence: 75 (26 MP per point)
Wisdom: 75 (4 Mana Regen per point)
Charisma: 50
Luck: 40
Points: 0
Credits: 70
This is what my character sheet is looking like these days, it seems like every 25 points in a stat is a milestone which grants you some kind of bonus so I got two perks each for my INT and WIS and one each for STR, DEX and CHA.
New Perk Added for 50 INT (Mana Stream)
Through your continued practice with magic your
mana has become more potent
2 additional point of MP for every point of INT
New Perk Added for 75 INT (Mana River)
Your body has become a conduit for pure magical energy
3 additional point of MP for every point of INT
New Perk Added for 50 WIS (Mana Recharger)
Your body has become accustomed to the ebb and flow of
magic as you use it
2 additional point of MP regen for every point of WIS
New Perk Added for 75 WIS (Sage's Insight)
All proficiencies that don't directly relate to combat are increased by 5
and any new non combat proficiencies now start at level 5 instead of 1
New Perk added for 50 STR (Powerhouse)
Large increase to melee damage, melee attacks from you can now have the following effects if your target has sufficiently lower STR than you (Knockback, Knockdown)
New Perk Added for 50 DEX (Elusive)
Your quick and unpredictable movements make you exceptionally difficult to pin down in combat
Increased dodge chance against ranged attacks
New Perk Added for 50 END (Strong Constitution)
You are now immune to mundane diseases and tier 1 poisons
additionally all poison damage you take is reduced by END
New Perk Added for 50 CHA (First Impressions)
When you meet any new potential romance target their affection automatically
increases by a random amount between 1 and 10
I've managed to rack up quite a few stat perks, honestly I wanted to put more into INT and WIS but I would have to be stupid not to go for those perk since I was close to getting them anyway, I have also managed to get a couple new powers as well.
New power added for summoning level 25 (Summon sense)
As long as you are in the same universe as your summons you instinctively know
where your summons are and can see and hear through them at will
New power added for Mana Manipulation Level 25
(Mana surge)
Once per day you can instantly regain INT × 10 MP
The first power is really useful for scouting as well as just keeping track of my summons the second one is basically just extra MP in the event that I run out during a fight, I also made a few proficiencies as well.
New Proficiency Created (Mana Manipulation) Level 30/100
Measures the users ability to control and manipulate their mana
New Proficiency Added (Geomancey) Level 15 /100
Measures the users ability to use earth magic
New proficiency Added (Eromancy) Level 20/100
Measures the user's ability to use sex magic
I honestly felt kind of dumb for taking so long to make a mana manipulation proficiency, its leveled faster than pretty much everything else I have, I've also decided that I needed to just make an eromancy proficiency since I'm sure I'll be using that branch of magic a lot in the future as for geomancy well I thought that it was about time to add another element to my arsenal, in the base game you could only use fire, frost and shock but I don't have any such restriction.
I've also made a whole host of new skills and the system also went through a smallish update which did some work combining and altering some of my skills, the biggest change was that all my spectral summons were combined including my new ones.
(Summon Spectral Entity) Level 35/100
The user conjures any spectral entity that they know and that their INT allows
All summons are now tier 2
Current known summons (Warriors,Archers,wolves,servants,steed)
I don't think I really mind it to be honest, at least I didn't have to start over from level one when all of my spectral summoning skills combined the system just took the skill with the highest level which was my unseen servants and applied that which isn't too bad, I've also made a new non spectral summoning skill.
New Skill Created (Summon Daedra) Level 13/100
The user summons any daedra they know how to and that their INT allows
Summoned daedra are tier 1
Current known summons
(Flame atronach)
I only have one available summon for this skill but it's still always nice to have more options, another change it the tier system which has been applied not just to my summoning skills but some of the others as well, tires basically denote the level of power of something, in the case of summons the different tiers change their stats, abilities and appearance, I also created a whole slew of other new skills.
New Skill Created (Mana Blades) Level 15/100
The user projects some of their mana outside of their body and forms it into magical floating Swords which the user can mentally control
The user can create 2 swords that deal INT damage
New Skill Created (Mage Hand) Level 27/100
The user creates a floating hand out of their mana that can preform any action a normal hand could
you can have two mage hands at once and they can each lift 15 pounds
New Skill Created (Haste) Level 17/100
The user raises a willing targets DEX by 25 for INT seconds
New Skill Created (Touch of pleasure) Level 10/100
The user touches a target and magically causes the target to feel pleasure
The amount of pleasure is determined by INT and skill level
New Skill Created (Fireball) Level 17/100
The user summons shoots a ball of fire which explodes on impact
A target that takes a direct hit takes 20+INT/2 fire damage
Any targets caught in the explosion take 10+INT/4 fire damage
New Skill Created (Quicksand) Level 15/100
The user transforms a section of ground into a pit of quicksand which creatures will sink into, up to the knees for standard human sized enemies, creatures that sink are heavily slowed
New Skill Created (Stone Bullet) Level 15/100
The user creates and fires a small bullet of stone at high velocity
Deals 20 + INT Physical Damage
The crafting proficiencies also got a rework, alchemy and smithing also have a tier system now, with smithing my level determines what tier of material I can work with and with alchemy my level determines what tier of potion I can make with higher tiers being more powerful, as I rub the sleep out of my eyes I stand up and take a look around the fully furnished master bedroom of Breezehome, this was a good investment Lydia and I could have easily continued on living in rented room in the Bannered Mare but having a real home base that I own myself is much better and with the profits from my crafting I still have way more gold then I started out with.
My operations have really expanded I realized that I had been using my unseen servants inefficiently before I just occasionally sent sent them out to gather alchemy ingredients but now I have them working fore me 24/7 not just collecting ingredients but also ores for smithing as well as other various raw materials, I've also had spectral archers prowl the plains around Whiterun hunting and killing animals which my servants skin for leather, with my summons I have and unlimited free labor supply and with my inventory I have unlimited free storage so when I go to sell the finished products its all profit, I just have the summons gather all the materials at several dead drops scattered around Whiterun which Lydia and I pick up on our way from one grinding spot to the next.
Speaking of grinding and profits I don't know how these bandits keep respawning so quickly but I don't ever want them to stop they have been a wonderful source of power, money and reputation, with my summon steed spell Lydia and I are able to make great time on our usual grinding route, we've been making a giant circle around Whiterun clearing out any bandit den in our path from Fort Greymoor all the way to Valtheim Towers and everything in between we've not only been getting their gold but the constant bandit hunting has done wonders for my reputation both with Lydia who used to be a guard but with Whiterun in general.
I stand up from the bed and stretch out my back before equipping my new robes and various accessories which I enchanted myself, they increase my HP and MP and improve my MP regen rate it's not perfect but they're still a hell of a lot better than those dusty robes I escaped Helgen with, also this games version enchanting is completely busted even more than Skyrim's enchanting system which is saying something after I got enchanting to level 25 all my enchantments got way more powerful and I can even put two of them on the same item, which is the last perk you get in Skyrim for maxing out enchanting.
As I open the wooden door and exit my room I hear someone making noise downstairs, Lydia must already be awake, I head down the stairs and see Lydia wearing her common clothes standing in front of the firepit stirring something the cooking pot, in the week or so since I bought the house Lydia has basically taken over housekeeping duties (which I don't mind at all), she doesn't seem to have noticed me yet so I use (observe) on her to check her growth just like I do every morning.
Name: Lydia
Race: Human
HP: 700 + 250
SP: 700
MP: 255
Strength: 30
Dexterity: 30
Endurance: 35
Intelligence: 17
Wisdom: 20
Charisma: 18
Luck: 20
Affection: 45
Obedience: 60
Thoughts about you: Doesn't know you're there
She doesn't grow as fast as me but she's still much stronger than she was before, I clear my throat which gets her attention, she turns her head to look at me over her shoulder while brushing her hair to the side "good morning my Thane I hope you slept well breakfast will be ready shortly."
"Good morning" I reply simply giving her a nod as I turn and walk through an open door and into a small alchemy lab which came with the home furnishings and I do the same thing I do every morning I process all of out raw materials into refined products which takes a few minutes to do because we just have so much now, just as I'm finishing up I hear Lydia call me for breakfast, going back out into the main room I sit down at the wooden table as Lydia passes me a bowl of stew with steam rising up from it along with a large chunk of bread.
Breakfast passes uneventfully with Lydia and I making idle small talk, after we finish eating I pass some time reading a book while Lydia goes back upstairs to her room to put on her armor and to gather her weapons since she can't just equip them like me, I feel like we've reached an acceptable level of power to begin making progress on one of Skyrim's main quest lines so Lydia and I will leave Whiterun today and start traveling to Winterhold so I can start the college quests.
I think this questline makes the most sense given my build, still I do want to sell off the last of the potions and enchanted items we're not going to bring with us before we go, I'm broken out of my thought when I hear the sound of metal boots hitting the stairs, I look over at Lydia whose wearing her new armor, we I was able to get and upgrade her a set of enchanted steel plate armor.
After a few more small preparations Lydia and I leave Breezehome, I make a quick stop at a few various shops around town selling off the last of my crafted items before we exit through the main gate a step out onto the road and summon a couple of spectral horses, the advantage of spectral creatures is that they are considered constructs by the game and thus do not tire so we will be able to cover a lot of ground quickly.
It only take us a few minutes to reach our first stop which is a place we are both intimately familiar with given that it is one of our regular grinding spots, the place I'm talking about is Valtheim Towers. This place was probably a outpost once upon a time but now now it's a crumbling ruin that's infested with bandits, the structure itself appears to be designed to come across the river which is lazily flowing some distance down and to the left of the road, it's primarily made up of two stone towers one is in front of us on our side of the river and the other two on the other side with a great stone bridge connecting them.
The stone towers come into view we slow our horses down from the full gallop we had been traveling at before eventually coming to a stop a bit before one of the lookout bandits are able to spot us, we dismount and take cover behind a large stone on the side of the road as I dispel our horses, there should be two sentries posted on this side of the river one on ground level in front of the tower on this side and another at the top.
I use my telepathy to signal to Lydia who immediately begins rushing up the path at the lookout on the ground with her sword drawn which alerts both sentries, the one she's charging at starts fumbling trying to draw his weapon in a panic but Lydia reaches and decapitates him in one swing before he gets the chance which is about what I expected Lydia may not be as strong as me but common bandits are no match for her anymore.
The bandit on top pulls out a horn and goes to blow it but before he's able to I shoot a (lightning bolt) at him which fries his and sends him flying off of the tower and into the river before I catch up with Lydia at the base of the tower, both of us are as calm as ever as we go for our usual strategy for clearing this place, I summon a dozen spectral warriors who all materialize around me, they take the form of spectral humanoids with an assortment of melee weapons and since becoming tier two they also are lightly armored as well.
Additionally I also summon some spectral archers as well, by this time the bandit patrolling along the bridge will have surely noticed his comrade being killed by my lightning so I command my summons to rush into the tower and kill the bandits, the warriors go first and they immediately climb the tower and charge across the bridge while my archers take up positions at the top.
It doesn't take long before my summons overwhelm the remaining defenders each of my summons has better stats than a common bandit and they have them outnumbered more than three to one, of course Lydia and I both still gain experience even though my summons are doing all the work, I use my summon sense to look through the eyes of my summons and once I'm sure all the bandits are dead I dispel them before I summon some unseen servants to sweep through and loot everything before we head across the bridge.
After a few minutes everything of value this group had is now in my inventory, still this was only a small pit stop I figure if I'm going to do the college questline then I might as well get a head start, Fellglow keep, the place where you gather the stolen books for the college is close by, in fact its just a ways up, Lydia and I spend a few minutes navigating and climbing our way up the face of the cliff before we come to a small plane and after some walking we see the ruined keep in the distance.
As we approach we're able to see it in more detail, the outer walls have almost completely collapsed into piles of debris with only a single watchtower barely still standing with a high elf man wearing long black robes standing on top, luckily he isn't facing us at the moment so I summon some spectral archers who immediately notch and draw their bows while I cast (Fireball), when the elf turns to face us he only has a few seconds to react but he manages to hastily erect some kind of magical barrier which shatters upon impact but still manages to absorb most of the fire damage, of course this does nothing to save him from the volley of arrows that follow.
The mage lets out a shriek of pain as the arrows pierce and kill him which alerts a necromancer cutting into a corpse on a wooden table near the main keep which he flips over to take cover from my archers while he occasionally pops his head out to pick them of with spells, I don't get long to watch this as I suddenly have to dodge out of the way of a firebolt being launched at my by a nearby flame atronach, hiding behind the tower I summon a group of spectral warriors who act as meat shields for Lydia as she charges the deadra.
Lydia's group pummels the flame atronach into to death quickly since it doesn't really excel in melee, I use my telepathy to warn her to get away from it as it explodes in a giant conflagration, a couple of my warriors go up in flames but Lydia and the rest make it out unscathed, meanwhile my archers have been trying to pin down the mage but he has managed to hold them at bay with offensive spells even though he has an arrow sticking out of his shoulder, I decide to use one of my new favorite ways to deal with mages, I confidently stride towards him, recognizing me as a summoner he leaps out from behind his cover and places his hands out in front of him with a smirk on his face as a foul smelling black mist rushes straight at me from his palms.
"FUS!"
As the word of power leaves my mouth the wave of force sends the mage flying back into the wall of the keep where he impacts with a loud crunching sound, I'm pretty sure that broke most of his bones, of course the cloud of mist is also blown back into him as well and I watch as the necrotic mist eats away and rots his flesh as he screams, I quickly put him out of his misery ordering my archers to fire another volley which kills him, and with that the outside of the fort is clear now I just need to deal with the rest of it.
I ultimately decide to play it safe, I mean sure I could just rush in there guns blazing but why take that kind of risk, instead I place a (Shock Rune) in front of the main gate which is currently barred and then after I regen all my MP I start summoning, twenty warriors, ten archers, five wolves and flame atronaches all in addition to what I already have before I send them in through the dungeon entrance which is unlocked then Lydia and I go and wait behind the tower from before, I occasionally look through the eyes of my summons to check their progress and as time passes and my MP comes back I start summoning smaller groups and sending them in as reinforcements.
It doesn't take long before my continuous stream of summons clears out most of the keep the only things left inside besides my summons are the vampires that are locked in cages, Orthorn and the Caller who is the boss of this place, a few of my summons entered her room but were immediately destroyed I did however get a chance to use (observe) on her through my summons eyes before they died.
Name: Elena Athius, The Caller
Race: High Elf
HP: 300
SP: 150
MP: 2750
Strength: 7
Dexterity: 15
Endurance: 15
Intelligence: 100
Wisdom: 84
Charisma: 13
Luck: 20
Thoughts about you: Anger
Well she's like the stereotypical caster archetype also you never learned her name in the game so that's interesting I guess, she has way more MP than me but only a fraction of the health, I command my summons to stay out of her room and wait for me, as I finish my command the front doors burst open and a mage that must have somehow managed to hide from my summons runs out only to get electrocuted by the rune I left, at least I don't have to make my summons unlock the door, Lydia and I head inside and make our way directly to the Caller's chamber not bothering to stop and loot anything I'll just have unseen servants do it after.
When we arrive I see what's left of my summons and to be honest there's more left than I expected the mages here must have been weak, as I go to enter the Caller's room I pause before sending a warrior in first, my suspicions proven true when that warrior is instantly disintegrated by a green ray fired from the center of the room, I immediately respond by firing one of my new spells the (stone bullet) which flies right at the Caller's head, she tries to dodge out of the way but doesn't quite make with the bullet punching through her shoulder instead.
I rush into the room and immediately duck into one of the three alcoves inside seconds later my summons and Lydia start charging into the chamber right at the Caller who scowls and waves her arms out in front of her as a wave of crackling purple energy washes over them, her magic doesn't effect Lydia at all but when it comes into contact with my first wave of summons they sort of just fizzle out of existence, of course this does nothing to stop Lydia who's still running at her sword drawn, the Caller backpedals and casts another spell sending a huge burst of wind which crashes into Lydia launching her into the stone wall.
Sick of just standing around I fire a (lightning bolt) at her which she blocks at the last moment by conjuring a shimmering barrier which absorbs the impact then she summons three atronaches one fire one frost and one storm, the frost atronach which literally just looks like a bunch of large blocks of ice that are just glued together which would sound funny if it wasn't running at me and trying to bludgeon me with it's giant stump of a hand, I manage to roll out of the way of it's first strike which slams into the ground with a loud crash before I back up and gain some distance.
The frost atronach turns and begins lumbering towards me again but before it reaches me I use another of my new geomancy spells (Quicksand), the atronach's charge is halted as it begins to sink into the ground, unfortunately the quicksand isn't deep enough to bury it completely but I'm still able to quickly dispatch it with a steady stream of (flames). While I'm fighting the frost atronach my second wave of summons rush into the room and try to get at the Caller but they are blocked by the storm atronach who charges straight into my warriors and wolves releasing bursts of lightning and electricity.
By this point Lydia has managed to get back on her feet and has had to start dodging firebolts shot at her by the Caller's flame atronach as she slowly advances towards it, luckily the Caller herself hasn't been able to cast anymore offensive spells since she has been busy defending from my archers constant stream of arrows, my wolves have all died by this point and there are only a few warriors left but the storm atronach is almost dead so I finish it off with a (Ice Spike) then I start using (Sparks) which slams into her barrier that starts to crack so I follow it up with unrelenting force which shatters it, at this point Lydia has killed the flame atronach and I have to use a (Mage Hand) to swiftly grab one of the books before it explodes, Lydia learning from her last fight with a flame atronach Immediately sprints away from it as soon as she strikes the killing blow.
The Caller begins waving her arms around preparing to cast another spell but I interrupt her by casting (Mana Blades) and immediately sending the two created swords flying at her at high speeds, the ethereal swords piece both of her hands and send her back into the wall and trapping her there as the swords sink into the stone, she starts screaming curses at me but my archer shut her up by firing another volley at her turning her into a pincushion.
Level Up!
After distributing my points into INT and WIS and closing the notification I use (Healing) to help Lydia recover the little bit of HP she lost I dismiss my combat summons and grab the books while my MP recovers, once it does I spam summon unseen servants to scour the keep and grab anything of value, by the time everything has been looted I check outside and notice that its gotten dark so Lydia and I decide to camp out at the keep for the night so I have my servants move all the bodies outside so we can rest.
We get a early start the next morning and with our spectral steeds and ample use of my (Haste) spell we are able to cover a lot of ground per day and with no more distractions or stops we manage to reach Winterhold after around three days of travel and arrive a few hours after midday, a short distance outside of town we dismount and proceed on foot, once we make in I want to immediately make a beeline for the college but about halfway down the path I hear a thunderous roar followed by the loud beating of wings the few people outside freeze up and I see a couple of the guards pale as the sound grows closer, Lydia draws her sword and readies her shield and as all this is happening only one thought goes through my head.
Things can never just be easy for me, can they?