Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 408 Tavern
Two weeks later, in a roadside hotel in the northern part of Winterfell Province.

"I suggest you don't go any further south." A middle-aged man dressed as a farmer sat on the wine table and said to Rhodes and the others: "The lords in the south are all looking for strong men. When you reach the south at your age, you will definitely be punished." catch."

"Didn't it mean that the prairie people in the east launched a surprise attack on the empire from the east? Why is the war still going on in the south?" Rhode asked a little puzzled.

"I don't know the specific situation. I don't know whether the Roman Empire can fight two against one, or they have signed a peace agreement with the prairie people." The farmer shook his head.

"Some time ago, I learned something from the tavern in the south. It is said that the nobles of the empire have reactivated Duke Elvis' men to deal with the prairie people.

Although most of the aristocrats of Duke Elvis' faction were executed or exiled, the numerous and battle-hardened soldiers under him were not dealt with like them. They were just broken up and distributed among the nobles. Be a serf. " said an adventurer wearing old iron armor next to him.

"Those imperial people are really despicable. They actually want us to open the gate of Winterfell Fortress to their army and let their army go all the way north under the slogan of helping us resist the dragon." The chubby tavern owner said while He smashed the wine glass in his hand on the wine table in front of him.

"This table is your own," Rhodes reminded.

"I know." The tavern owner said again: "Not only are they despicable, but they also think that we are very stupid. Even children of three or four years old know that their army will definitely not do good things when they enter the kingdom."

Achim's face was very ugly, because he was an imperial man, but he didn't say anything.

Al, who is also from the Empire, seemed to be in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

"May I ask if you can reach Shuanglin Town through the forest in the southeast?" Rhodes asked.

"Shuanglin Town?" The middle-aged man dressed as a farmer began to say the name silently: "Didn't that town be destroyed two years ago?"

"It was destroyed two years ago?" Rhode felt a little surprised when he heard it.

"Destroyed by whom?" he asked again.

"I don't know." The farmer shook his head.

"It is said that it was destroyed by a group of werewolves who believed in evil gods. This is what I heard from other adventurers in the tavern. It is said that there are many werewolves hidden in the forest next to the town, and they even established their own organization.

You must have heard of the Demon Breaker, right?Just like those demon hunters in the novel, they also specialize in dealing with unnatural creatures like werewolves. However, the demon hunters are not independent civil organizations like the demon hunters. The demon hunters are active in our Winterfell Official exorcism organization around the province.

As early as ten years ago, the demon breakers began to monitor this werewolf organization, but most of these werewolves could disguise themselves as humans, and even many humans in that small town were played by werewolves. Demonbreakers are mostly assassinated or imprisoned.

When someone finally passed the news, it was too late, all they did was to prepare for a magic ceremony, and after the Marquis of Foss and the others knew about the anomaly in the town, the werewolf organization wanted to complete the evil as soon as possible. ritual, killing all the inhabitants of the town. "The adventurer on the side explained to Rhodes.

If I wasn't strong enough at the time, wouldn't I also be one of the dead required to complete the ceremony?

Rhodes asked again: "Then what happened after they completed that ceremony?"

"Nothing happened, what they have been pursuing is actually just a deception, some people say that a crazy mage lived in that forest a long time ago.

He transformed some living people into werewolves. In order to better control these werewolves, he wove some lies and created a non-existent evil god to command these werewolves, and collecting souls was the last task he left for them. "The adventurer replied.

The magic ritual of transforming humans into werewolves has long been lost, because this magic ritual is too cruel. In most cases, the humans who perform the ritual will become unintelligent beasts, and in better cases, they will also lose their memory.

Only a very small number of people can transform perfectly, gaining the power of werewolves while retaining the wisdom of humans.

This kind of power is not worth mentioning even to Al, he can easily deal with dozens of werewolves.

Ordinary werewolves only have the strength of the second level, and few of them reach the third level or above.

In the era when the energy in the previous environment was more abundant, there were still many mages who went on evil paths in order to seek the most power to study this type of magic ritual. Even modern vampires are also products of magic.

The earliest vampires were a race of reproductive isolation that was completely different from humans, and a magician who pursued power developed a certain magical ritual.

He captured a vampire king who survived from ancient times, and then he performed the ceremony, transforming himself into a human vampire, and also possessed the ability to infect other humans.

Some people actually say that a group of vampires are just humans suffering from vampire fever, and that the original vampire fever virus was refined by an alchemist who pursued power.

All these stories were heard by Rhodes in the tavern before, and there are many different versions. I don't know which one is true, or they may all be false.

Now that magic power is declining, there are very few mages who go to extremes in pursuit of power. For most ordinary people, even werewolves and demon hunters only exist in novels and stories.

"I thought of being a witcher before, but my family didn't agree. If I had insisted on my own ideas, many things would be completely different now." Al said suddenly.

"For example, maybe you won't be able to live at all, have you starved to death because you don't have money to eat?" Rhodes smiled after hearing this.

"This kind of thing may indeed happen. It is better to be an adventurer than to be a dedicated demon hunter. Many adventurers occasionally work part-time as demon hunters to help people solve those strange wraiths, curses, and the like." The adventurer on the side said.

Rhodes and Al chatted with a few people in the tavern until very late before returning to their room to rest.

Early the next morning, they set off again, this time they didn't take the main road, they always took the small road, because they were worried that they would encounter nobles who were recruiting soldiers on the road, and if this happened, it would be more troublesome.

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(End of this chapter)