The Dragoon In Skyrim - Volume 1 Chapter 95 Amell Estate

They walked through the city or better said they were walking around in High Town since the Viscount thought that Vincent wasn’t interested in Low Town.

They arrived at what used to be the Amell Estate as the Viscount knocked on the door of the house when suddenly a man with black hair opened the door.

The man was quite surprised to see the Viscount but turned nervous when he saw Knight-Commander Meredith as he asks, “What does the Viscount want from me?”

“A friend wants to buy the Amell Estate and asked me to bring him here,” says Viscount Dumar as the man looked confused when he suddenly sees Vincent approach and wanted to scream ‘Abomination!’ when Meredith’s hand was over the man’s mouth.

“Do you want to kill us all. I will give you a piece of advice, just sell the estate,” whispers Meredith as she was far too nervous to notice that the man was a mage.

“Hello, my name is Vincent. I’m quite interested in the estate since my family’s ancestors lived here. Name me a price for the estate and everything in it. Maybe we will reach a price we both can accept to,” says Vincent with a smile.

“250 sovereigns and not one coin less,” says the man as he wanted to scare Vincent away while Vincent looked at the estate from outside.

“I give you a hundred. If I were you, I would take it,” says Vincent as the man suddenly was under his blessing that Zenithar gave Vincent.

“I accept,” says the man without thinking as Vincent gave him a pouch with hundred coins.

“Now that it’s official let’s get inside something is smelling fishy,” says Vincent as the man was suddenly back to his senses.

He dropped the pouch of coins but couldn’t go back on his word since the Viscount, the Knight-Commander and the First Enchanter were there when he agreed.

They enter the house and Vincent hears screams coming from downstairs as he looked at the man and asks, “What do you have downstairs?”

The man was now not only nervous but was rather in panic when Vincent says, “Vlad, make him talk.”

Vlad appears as his dagger was ready to make him talk as the man confessed to having slaves downstairs as Vincent looked at the Viscount and asks, “Is slavery allowed in the Free Marches?”

“We don’t look with good eyes on people with slaves,” says the Viscount as he was scared right now.

“Good, the most hated thing that I hate more except than a two-faced liar is a slave owner,” says Vincent as he smiled at them.

That smile made the three higher-ups feel chills run down their spine as Vincent then says, “Since you own slaves let me get that pouch of gold back since you don’t deserve it.”

Vlad takes the pouch as he pushes the man further into the house as they all go downstairs as Vincent says seriously, “Bethany and Leandra can you stay upstairs.”

Both nod as they heard Vincent seriousness in his voice while the others followed them. They see slaves that were barely hanging on their dear life when Carver and Garrett puked on the ground from seeing that.

The Viscount was holding it in as well as Orsino while Meredith was alright as well as Vincent and Vlad when Vincent says, “Vlad release them of their fate and torture the man silently make it so that no one will ever hear him scream for help.”

“Yes, sir,” says Vlad as he released the slaves of their fate by killing them all since they wouldn’t survive even if Vincent healed them completely.

Vincent was cold, too cold for everyone in the room when Vincent turns to his sons and says, “The first rule when you go to war. You don’t show mercy to your enemy. The Empire didn’t get strong by just winning wars but by genociding the enemy, remember that you two.”

This side of Vincent not only made the two Hawke brothers freeze on the spot but also the other three after hearing what he said as they began to think about how many skulls the Empire was built on.

“Carver and Garrett, maybe you two should go up if you couldn’t handle how the slaves were since this man will be in a far worse stated than the slaves when we are done,” says Vincent warning both but wanting to see what both are made of.

They stayed while the other three wanted to leave but couldn’t since Vincent saw it as punishment to them as well for allowing it to happen in their city when Vincent says, “Start Vlad.”

Vlad began to cut the skin of the flesh with such grace that the man didn’t even lose blood from it while feeling the pain of his life.

This went on for an hour until the man seemed to have lost the light in his eyes. Both Carver and Garrett wanted to vomit again from seeing what happened but didn’t have anything in their stomach that could come up.

The other three, on the other hand, had their breakfast on the ground from seeing that while Vincent and Vlad were completely fine making them think that the Empire isn’t someone to trifle with when even the Ambassador had such a strong stomach.

“Put him out,” says Vincent as Vlad did killing the man when Vincent turned away before asking the Viscount, “Can you send some servants to clean the estate?”

“Of course,” says Viscount Dumar as he didn’t want to be on the bad side of Vincent.

“Can you also give the Estate the Hawke Family. It would be a wonderful place to retreat once in a while for my children,” says Vincent as the Viscount nods again.

“Good, I hope everything is done until tomorrow,” says Vincent as he looks at Vlad and says, “You know what you can do with the corpses.”

Vlad nods having a wide smile as he would feast on blood tonight while Vincent went up with the others as Bethany and Leandra looked at Carver and Garrett and see that something horrible must have happened downstairs that’s why he didn’t want both of them down there.

“Does anyone of you know where we could find this Gamlen Amell?” asks Vincent as Viscount nods.

“Yes, he lives in Low Town, near the Hanged Man,” says Viscount Dumar as he really wanted to leave to make the paperwork when he turns to Meredith and says, “Can you escort the Ambassador through the city. I have doc.u.ments to sign.”

Meredith wanted to deny that order when suddenly Vincent says, “That would be nice if the Knight-Commander followed me. That way the people would feel far more secure because they don’t need to fear me.”

Now Meredith had to choose between two things. The first wouldn’t bring any consequences since she followed and showed the city to the Ambassador. While the second would most likely bring his ire over her.

She agreed unwillingly as Leandra was happy but at the same time disappointed to see her brother that lost everything because of his gambling addiction.

They left the estate leaving Vlad behind to ‘clean up’ while they were out. Meredith was guiding them as people were less fearful of Vincent while she was around.

They stopped once in a while as Vincent saw an armor that he liked and asks, “What’s the name of this armor?”

“It’s the Champion’s Armor. I created it myself but it’s not that popular since no actual champion wore it,” says the smith that had it hanging only to show off his craftsmanship.

“Do you have the schematics of it. I would like to buy them,” says Vincent as the man was quite happy that one was interested in the armor even if it was only the schematic.

“I can sell it to you but you need to buy the armor with it,” says the smith as Vincent takes the pouch out with who he bought the Estate.

“This should be more then enough but could you throw in some more schematics,” says Vincent as the smith nods taking the pouch and Vincent looks at the family and says, “Carver put this armor on even if you aren’t a Champion. You will be one, one day.”

Carver felt quite happy that he was preferred over his older brother but Vincent knew that Carver felt inferior to his older brother. So instead of asking Garrett and making him feel more inferior, he asked him since Bethany couldn’t really wear that armor.

Carver put the armor over his clothes and asks, “How is it?”

“It’s good. It just needs some adjustments but I should be able to do so if not my brother will,” says Vincent as the family looked confused at Vincent.

“I will tell you once on our way back to Tamriel,” says Vincent not wanting to reveal it here.

The smith gave Vincent a book full of schematics he collected over the years since he didn’t have an apprentice he knows that the book would collect dust until someone uses it to ignite a fire to keep himself warm.

Vincent looked through it and found even some of the schematics he bought in Orzammar from the Smith Caste and leaves an extra pouch there saying, “This should be more than enough for all the schematics.”

They leave as the man opened the two pouches before closing it immediately while leaving his stand making it clear that he would never have to work in his life again.

The group passed the tavern called the Hanged Man as Vincent says, “I will stay here. You will have a family reunion while I wait for you.”

He enters the Hanged Man and everything turned quite with his appearance. Vincent walked to a table and sits down when a waitress comes nervous towards him before she even asked Vincent says, “Give me some Beer or Ale.”

He places a septim on the table as the woman rushes off to bring him his drink taking the money before bringing the change when Vincent says, “Keep it and bring me another cup once this one is over.”

Vincent didn’t like to walk around with silver and bronze since for him only gold coins are his currency. He began to drink as he finished one after the other when the people realized Vincent was also just a man that wanted to relieve himself like they all are doing as the atmosphere returned to normal.