The Ebony Renegades (Skyrim)

chapter thirty one (p4)

Gentu pov:

As we neared the location of the coordinates that Calcelmo transcribed my heart was racing in anticipation at the prospect of new discoveries we may find in the unexplored dwarven ruin of Muzan Zol as we made it to the sealed location that the coordinates lead to. It was near the shrine to Mehrunes Dagon as we arrived and followed the in-detail clues Calcelmo translated as we found where the entrance was supposed to be we came to a wall in the path, literally. The entire entrance was covered by a rockslide that looked like it had been here for ages, the reason I could tell this was moss had grown on the surface of the stone. " Awe damn it Yamma, it will take forever to remove all of this debris." I said in a bummed-out tone as Yamma started feeling around for any weak spots before he looked up at me with a tusked grin. " Stand back my friend, I may end up using my Berserker rage ability, this lace holds the means to your goal and i'll make sure you get there my friend!" Yamma said as he pulled Volendrung off of his back and smashed into the stony surface. As this warhammer smashed into the solid surface of the stone, I felt the ground crumble beneath my feet before the ground beneath our feet crumbled as me and Yamma plummeted in a freefall along with falling debris. As we continued to fall for what seemed like forever we soon fell into a thick deep aquifer. As I looked around our surroundings a small grin crept up my face as I saw the entrance to a dwarven ruin the very dwarven ruin that my dear friend Calcelmo provided the coordinates of. Me and Yamma carefully swim our way over to the door of the ruins we would worry about finding a way out afterwards. "Gentu, we fell at least a mile underground. if these ruins were constructed from the surface down like the others and we saw the entrance under the rubble so there must be a way up." Yamma said as I nodded and we entered the ruins of Muzan Zol as we entered, I immediately realized these ruins were far different from the others, much more advanced compared to the ruins I'd been in before. As Yamma and I walked around I took notice of the much more industrial vibe these ruins gave off. As we explored room by room with absolutely no falmer infesting these ruins which meant the snow elves were never permitted here at this location this must be a place of extreme importance. We continued searching around the room to find a way out as Yamma searched around the bedrooms I went into the room straight ahead I found what I could only presume was a dwarven horse trailer with a wheel missing then collected it and started looking around I found a hidden passageway around the corner that had a dwarven elevator which would take us I would presume either up to the surface or down to a lower level either way it was better than nothing. After collecting ourselves and me dragging the trailer behind me and onto the platform, I pulled the lever once myself and Yamma was safely on the platform but instead of going up, it went down into a deeper level I decided to keep the dwarven trailer bed on the lift just in case at least until we knew what was down here. We walked through the dwarven ruins lower level and just like the upper floor there was nothing down here not even any dwarven automatons which was starting to freak me out. I was actually almost getting desperate to see those blind and savage falmer and they're creepy chorus pets as we traversed deeper into the dwarven ruins we entered a large room that had almost reminded me of the aethereum forge in terms of appearance only minus the forgemaster or the giant lava lake. The floor was an open grate that exhaled warmth as I observed the large copper steam pipes that led over to what appeared to be a research and development area with multiple tabled with prototype mechanical objects. along with the blueprints and notes that surprisingly had not been corroded with time. " These designs are incredible, turrets that fire soul energy from soulgems as projectiles, sentry automatons, and not only that but the trailer we found is a wagon attachment for a dwarven horse." I said as I pocketed the schematics and went back and dragged the trailer into the room and put the unfinished prototypes next to the semi-finished trailer that I pulled behind me over to the table as I began planning construction on the wheel as if the nine divines were smiling on me there was a dwarven blacksmith forge nearby and I had the schematics I needed to forge the wheels and the reigns but the fact that the ruins were devoid of all signs of life not even dwarven automatons didn't make any sense to me, if this was a research and development location we should have come across some guard or booby trap yet there was nothing. I shook my head as we explored more of the place to salvage some dwarven metal to smelt and forge into the parts required to make the trailer fully functional. We discovered what appeared to be the dormitories for the dwarves to sleep much similar in style to the ones in Nchuand-zel only minus the pesky falmer hoards which at this point as ironic as it is, I would be more than happy to see a few of those blind savage creatures right about now, hell id even settle for a chorus or two but there's nothing and the silence of the ruins aside from the hissing steam pipes and turning gears was starting to freak me out. As we looked in the dwarven chests and cabinets searching for any valuables or items of historical importance such as journals or any other documents that could tell us more about this dwarven ruin aside from what we could tell by just what we were able to see with just our eyes. As me and Yamma kept exploring I kept collecting the prototypes and the notes regarding they're construction as we soon headed into the final room every bone in my body wanted to avoid this room for some reason or another as I surveyed the room and took note that it resembled a boss room, a big empty room much like the one I faced the sky orchestrator in the final room of the runoff caverns, the same place I got my dwarven horse, and this room was giving me the same vibes as that room did. In front of me was a stone tablet similar to the one in Calcelmo's tower however I could tell that this one was not in the dwarven language, in fact I couldn't even translate it. So I took out a big piece of parchment and a large chunk of charcoal and did a rubbing of the stone tablet this way I could try to translate it later. I was careful not to damage the paper or the very old and rustic stone tablet in the middle of the room. Once I was done with the rubbing I placed it inside one of my satchels and I put it in the wagon bed for safekeeping. I left the wagon around the corner just in case as we entered the room I looked around and saw a large gate with a switch. I told Yamma to stay nearby as I pulled the lever to open the door. The flipping of the switch accompanied by the sound of rotating mechanical gears. " Gentu, there is no sign of anything not even falmer, maybe there was trouble here that's why it's deserted," Yamma mused before I spoke my concerns. "Speaking of trouble we should have run into some by now." I said as Yamma looked back at me. " Like what Gentu?" Yamma asked and I answered. " You know, a booby trap, an ambush... or a Guard." Once the mechanism was activated the door behind us shut and from above us four dwarven centurions fell from the ceiling blocking the already shut door. I mentally cursed myself at jinxing our luck and just when I thought things couldn't get any worse than having to deal with four dwarven centurions, the gate dropped revealing a dwarven automaton I had never encountered before. it was much more robust than a dwarven centurion, in both height and width as the automaton activated I remembered reading about it in the book of automatons I had before. this mechanical giant was called a dwarven colossus. it had a folded pair of rotary blades on its right arm while its left arm was equipped with a cannon.