The month passed as Vincent was training his other jobs while training Runa now more seriously attending his children more seriously to improve their skills and praised them for being that hard on themselves.
The same month Vincent was questioning Esbern finding out that the Blades had a secret base in the Reach that Vincent now wanted to use to strengthen his hold in Skyrim as they could now easier make the Forsworn disappear if they had an outpost there to question them before killing them since sometimes they would die before arriving at another outpost or headquarter.
Vincent gave Esbern a choice to either join his Network or die since he didn't need the Blades. Esbern was thinking that he could escape later on if he said yes but only found out that there was no escape from the Network since even the Thalmor were in chains when he arrived at the Headquarter as he never tried his escape to not share the same fate as the Thalmor.
A week before the wedding of Avulstein, Vincent leaves with Vyrve and Karliah towards that secret Blade outpost in the Reach as Vincent asks, "How rare that you would join me on this quest, Karliah?"
"It's about an outpost for the Network my lord. I have to know if we could use it or if it would be a waste to use resources on it," says Karliah as she was more like ordered by Nocturnal to make Vincent her husband because of her bloodline.
Nocturnal would gain much favoritism even among the Aedra by doing so since it would strengthen Vincent's reign over Tamriel with Morrowind, Skyrim, Summerset, Snow Elves, and Vampires in his pocket.
"Then let's keep going it should be around here," says Vyrve as he looked down to the land from Behemoth's back. They see a camp right where Esbern told Vincent the Blade outpost would be as they see many Forsworns and some Hagraven.
"We really arrived at a party it seems," says Vincent as he falls down and transforms midair into a Dragon taking care of their enemies before turning back making Behemoth land safely.
Once they were on ground Vincent says, "There is the cave. Maybe more of the Forsworns live inside."
Vyrve takes his hammer in hand while John had his new daggers in hand as his armor changed into his Ninja Set. Karliah was surprised since she has never seen Vincent do that as she had her now at hand.
They enter the cave with Vyrve as their tank with Behemoth being their healer and Vincent and Karliah were damage dealers. It looked quite funny for Vincent as he remembered the old times with Estinien, Bultechu, Alphinaud, and Ysayle.
They fight their way through as Vyrve asks, "How deep do we need to go?"
"They didn't want to trespass this point. That means that something they couldn't handle is on the other side," says Vincent as they walked and arrived at a puzzle with three little pillars that could be moved to show another engravement.
"Well now we know that they lack some intelligence," says Vincent as he plays with the pillar until he had the right combination and a bridge appeared. They followed and another puzzle was in front of them.
Karliah takes stones and drops them on the three different plates they would need to walk on. Two of them activated a trap mechanism as poisoned needles came flying from the walls towards the position the plate with the stone were.
"Follow the dragon and we should be alright," says Karliah as Behemoth just flew over to the mechanism and stopped the traps from working as he pulled on the chain that deactivates them and Karliah says, "That works too."
She then pets Behemoth while saying, "I never thought I would meet such an intelligent mount. You should breed them for the Network and soldiers. They can fly, use magic and really loyal. We could profit from that."
"That will need to wait for some years. Even if we started breeding them now maybe the second or third generation will have a Chocobo since it isn't as easy as you think," says Vincent as Behemoth stood proud showing that he could deal with anything when Vincent says, "You shouldn't be too proud. Your only partner is Lily and she isn't really too attracted to you because you sometimes still behave like a little chick."
Behemoth lets his head down as Vincent pets him and says, "But that's one of your fortes so don't lose it or you wouldn't be the same."
They continue as they had to pass a similar maze now that spanned over two maybe three rooms as they mounted Behemoth and overflow it. Some spiders showed themselves and they took care of them from Behemoths back or the traps did it for them.
"We will need to clean it up later on," says Karliah as they continue on their way arriving at a wall that had a head engraved in it.
"What now?" asks Vyrve as he didn't see a way to keep going.
"Esbern said we needed blood so," says Vincent as he cuts his hand and holds it over the floor that looked like the look. Blood dripped onto the lock as it turned red and the head began to move making the entrance visible.
Behemoth healed Vincent as Karliah says, "This could become a fortress for the Network for the higher ranked people if something were to happen to have a conference."
"Maybe if some kind of Rebellion happens in the future," says Vincent as his hand was healed thanks to Behemoth and they walked the stairs up.
They use Candlelights to navigate in the dark as they arrive in front of a Wall and Vincent says, "This is the Wall they made in the past to remember us how to defeat Alduin. Or at least that's what Esbern said. He had such a disbelieved face when I told him Alduin was dead for now."
"It tells about past events the Oblivion Crisis and the Civil War. If they knew this much why didn't they warn us," says Karliah as she was now angry.
"That we will never know," says Vincent as they continued finding the barracks and the smithery. Swords were hanging around as well as armors sets and he continues, "Now we have armors for the army. I have been thinking of a law that would strengthen Tamriel in the overall making people not rely on guards any longer."
"What law would that be?" asks Karliah as she was curious what that law could be.
"I thought you were joking about that law. That is crazy many will go against it," says Vyrve as he was serious about it.
"I wanted to make all citizens into soldiers. Everyone would have to dedicate at least two hours of their day to train and can still be merchants or farmers or whatever they want to be. Just that when danger calls everyone is obligated to draw their weapon and go to war. Children and people that are far too old to swing a sword and gold a shield aren't included but that would make the army far stronger since everyone would be trained and could defend themselves. They would also be paid not like a full-time soldier but still enough to motivate the people," says Vincent explaining it to Karliah.
"You think there will be another invasion?" asks Karliah as Vincent only nods.
"Yes, there were many already. The more recent was of Mehrunes Dagon. But before that many other Daedric Princes tried to rule Nirn without success and Stendarr told me that it could happen again. Even if I rule for 200 years, I want my children to have a normal time as Emperor when I retreat from that position," says Vincent as both looked at him like saying 'Good Luck with that.'
"Well then I should call the others to make this more lively and your idea might not be bad but what will you do about the law?" asks Karliah curiously.
"Guards will still be patrolling to upkeep it. Just that if something like the Oblivion Crisis happens again the people can defend themselves against it. I heard that many provinces couldn't defend themselves since the Imperial Army retreated to protect Cyrodiil," says Vincent as Karliah nods while Vyrve looked at both confused.
"You can't be agreeing with him?" asks Vyrve as he was thinking in the worst-case scenario seeing every province rebel against the Empire after some years.
"No by doing that many lives could be saved that weren't saved when the Oblivion Crisis was plaguing Tamriel if back then the civilians were trained like Vincent tries to do many would have been alive," says Karliah as she thought the idea was good in theory when she continues, "I know that you are worried about the backlash of such a law could bring. But he has dragons to win his wars before it even starts. No one would want to fight against a horde of Dragons."
Vincent took a blade into his hand that had a green glow on it and says, "This one seems special."
"Yes, it has an enchantment on it. It must be pretty special. Maybe you should take it with you and let someone examine it," says Karliah as they then enter the courtyard and find the sky was dark.
"It seems we will have to stay here for tonight. But let's talk about the courtyard. It's quite big and it we could train recruits here," says Vincent as it could fit three Dragons in it and it still had some space.
"So not an emergency outpost but a training outpost. We just need a good smith to join us," says Karliah as Vincent was already thinking who they could recruit.
"How about Thorald Gray-Mane? He is Eorlund's son and has experience in the smith since he helped his father from young. He right now smiths for the Legion if he isn't deployed somewhere to fight," says Vincent as Karliah nods in acceptance.
"If he inherited just a bit of his father's talent he will be a valuable asset for us. I will inform my people to recruit him when I return to Castle Volkihar," says Karliah as she wanted to leave right away.
"Where are you going? I won't let you leave in the middle of the night while we are in the Reach. It's far too dangerous for that," says Vincent as he stops her.
"*sighs* I really didn't want to do what Nocturnal told me to do and you are making it harder for me," says Karliah as she glared at Vincent who retracts his hand from her shoulder.
"You mean the whole Dunmer Queen thing. She told us long ago saying that she would be scolding you because you didn't take the opportunity but I can understand that you might have someone in your heart and that's why you wouldn't do it. I'm not forcing any of my women to marry me well except for Elisif but that was more of a political marriage we both needed and now we are pretty close. So take your time. You Dunmer have a long life after all," says Vincent as he leaves her standing there as he enters the room of the commander and goes to his bed while Behemoth was lying beside him warming him through the night.