From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

"Long time no see, Colgrim. Come in."

"Don't worry, Lan." The snake witcher smiled slightly, "Do you still remember the school partners I told you about before? Today I will introduce you to some new friends."

Lan stepped aside to allow Colgrim to come in through the window.

In his surprised eyes, there was another sound of footsteps on the roof, and then a second person climbed in through the window sill, then a third, and a fourth.

They lifted the hoods of their cloaks one after another, revealing familiar faces Lan En had never seen before.

The surprise in Lan En's eyes turned into surprise, even ecstasy.

As for Colgrim, who was about to speak, his eyes suddenly fell on Chapelle.

"It seems that I have one more surprise for you." The snake demon hunter pointed at Chapelle, "Lan, be careful, he is a shapeshifter!"

Before Lan could reply, a piece of [Moon Dust], which had been unlatched, swirled out from the hand of a person behind Colgrim, and exploded with a "boom", blowing Silver before everyone could react. The crumbs were arranged around Chapelle.

Chapelle's eyes became flustered when he saw the four witchers suddenly enter the house. He seemed to want to call the temple guards, but at this time the shout suddenly stopped in his throat.

Under the shroud of mercury, his whole body suddenly melted, like a puddle of mud, and like a piece of baked cheese.

His hands and feet began to stretch, becoming as slender as a spider, all the facial features disappeared, and his skin and clothes became one color or even one material, and he didn't even look like a creature anymore.

"Chapelle" whimpered, and rushed towards the door in a hurry, only to find a man with snake eyes standing there.

"Call, call your temple guards in and let them see what they have been serving these days."

Triss' eyes lit up, looking at the magical creature in front of her that she had only seen in books. Then she looked at Lann again, her eyes became brighter.

"He's a doppelganger," Colgrim explained. "When we arrived in Novigrad, we heard that 'Chapelle' had undergone a stroke. No more access to silverware, and later we even found the body of 'Chapelle I' through witcher senses."

"These evidences confirm our guess about his identity. The current 'Chapelle' is a shapeshifter!"

"It's ironic. The real Chapelle was feared and died silently. The fake Chapelle came to power, but gained fame and even raised the image of the eternal flame to a higher level."

"Chapelle" whimpered again, and the shapeshifter's personality would change with his own image. At this moment, he no longer had the aura of the security officer of the Eternal Fire, and became pitiful. cry.

"Lan, don't do this, don't hurt me...I haven't done anything against you, and I haven't hurt anyone..."

He seemed to be grasping at a life-saving straw: "Is what you said before true? You said you would not harm a life that did no evil, and you didn't even harm that toad...you are Geralt's." My friend, me too... Please don't hurt me..."

Although he had expected Chapelle's true identity a long time ago, after seeing such a sudden change in personality, Lan still couldn't help showing a tangled expression—this is really the same as the image of the security officer who was sneering and dignified before. The gap is too big.

That's right, the current Chapelle is a shapeshifter.

In the original novel, Geralt once had a friend of the halfling race who was robbed by a shapeshifter in the outskirts of Novigrad, and then the shapeshifter turned into a halfling and went to live in the city, giving the halfling a Here comes a lot of trouble.

Geralt finally helped his friend catch the doppelganger, but he felt that the other party was not guilty of death, and only wanted to punish him slightly.

It's a pity that other people in Novigrad didn't think so. At this moment, "Chapelle" appeared, and under the cover and protection of the security officer, the shapeshifter was safe and sound. And "Chapelle" also revealed his identity in front of Geralt - another shapeshifter.

Naturally, Lane would not want to hurt the current "Chapelle". From a perceptual point of view, the other party is a kind shapeshifter. After becoming Chapelle, he uses this identity to improve people's livelihood, spread faith, and protect the weak. He is more like a security officer than the original security officer. A believer is more like a believer.

Rationally speaking, the current "Chapelle" is more able to help Lann. They had already established a vague friendship, and they were even ready to start a deep conversation before the snake sent the witcher in.

And Lane believes that after he has seen the real body of the other party, this friendship will become deeper and even unbreakable.

Lan En said softly, "Of course Chapelle, I won't hurt you."

The voice was soft, as if coaxing a child, and even Triss shuddered. Obviously this is a product of emotional management on the line.

After speaking, he turned to Colgrim again.

"Thank you for your help, Colgrim. I also had some suspicions before, but I didn't confirm it. Now there is no secret between 'Chapelle' and me, and we can communicate more frankly."

He didn't show off that he knew the secret a long time ago, and he didn't protect the shapeshifting monsters. Instead, he followed Kolgrim's behavior and thanked the snake demon hunters to prevent them from falling into "doing bad things with good intentions" when they first met him. in embarrassment.

To be honest, Lann had no reason to be angry.

Who among those present had reason to be angry?

"Chapelle" timidly glanced at the snake-eyed witcher blocking the door, and then at the sorceress. She didn't know what to think, but ran to Lann's side by waving her thin spider-like legs. , it seems that this can give a little sense of security.

"Well, since you insist." Colgrim shrugged.

The misunderstanding came to an end, and Lan invited everyone who came from afar to sit down.

He first introduced Triss to the four witchers. The badges on the necks of the four were already trembling. They were all concerned about the existence of the sorceress.

For a witcher, a warlock is necessary. Because the witcher trial must be controlled by warlocks to increase the success rate, and the Snake School has long since had no warlocks.

I don't know what the expressions of the Snake faction will be when Lann mentions Mossack and Yennefer later.

After the host's introduction, the guests who came to the door began to introduce themselves.

At this moment, Lan En finally calmed down a little bit, and began to look at the four big men who came in through the window in the middle of the night.

Never before had so many witchers appeared before his eyes at the same time.

"This is Reso, our current school leader."

The giant bald man standing in the middle stretched out his hand towards Lan: "I am Leto of Guleta, thank you for your help to Colgrim. If it weren't for you, we would have lost a partner."

"I'm Lane from Sintra." Lane smiled and shook hands with the other party. "It's impossible for any demon hunter passing by to let the situation go on like this."

Colgrim pointed to the two demon hunters behind Letho again: "This is Serrit, and this is Oakes. They are both good and trustworthy fellows, and I and them are like brothers."

Lan shook hands with the two Snake witchers again, accepting their thanks again for saving Colgrim.

Serrit and Oakes are very similar in dress, they are mainly made of rough stitched leather armor, with a little steel element on the shoulders and gauntlets; Colgrim is slightly better, the armor on his body is more delicate, I don’t know if it is It wasn't during the journey that I modified the armor myself with the blueprints in my hand.

These three demon hunters all have a strong style of the snake school: they are strong and medium-sized, and they are always fully armed but the equipment is extremely simple, like a poisonous snake ready to hunt at any time.

And their Snake leader is nothing like their image.

If the three of Colgrim and the others are poisonous snakes, then Leto's image is more like an anaconda, and it is poisonous.

In front of him are: Leto of Guleta, the giant bald man, the man who has deflated Geralt many times, the current leader of the Snake School, the future Warlock Killer, and the Kingslayer.

If you don't look at the badge on the neck, Reso is more like a bear pie, or he is more like a "bear": he is as wide as two of his companions combined, and his upper body is only wearing a leather vest. The arms were about as thick as Lann's legs combined, and the muscles on them were knotted like tree roots.

He was the strongest man Lane had ever seen, the man who could actually express the word "strength" in a visual sense.

The record of Lei Suo's later generations is also shocking. In order to revive the school, he will accept the entrustment of Emperor Nilfgaard, take two companions to the north, and then split up to assassinate King Demavy III of Aedirn and King Foltest of Temeria alone, paralyzing Lost half of the north.

Players with good things feel that Resor is more like a "king hunter" than a demon hunter.

Lane and the Snake Demon Hunter were sizing each other up, and Colgrim began to explain to Lane why he was here.

"Since the headquarters of our school was destroyed, we have developed a technique for peers to find each other's traces. When I took a boat all the way south from the White Orchard, I happened to find that they were nearby; what's more, they also Go north."

Hearing what his companion said, Lesso nodded: "Emperor Nilfgaard knows that we have the idea of ​​rebuilding the school, and has been trying to win us over, wanting us to work for him."

"Before Colgrim returned, a warlock came to me and said that the emperor ordered us to go north to attack the lions of Cintra, so that he could not reach Haji Fortress for talks. But then they They modified the conditions again, wanting us to go one step further and capture the lion—that is, you.”

Lesso sneered, perhaps because he thought it was absurd: "Niflgaard first destroyed our school, and then came to win us over in the name of helping us revive. It is too good to think so. So we have not agreed, the emperor's people So we have been watched, and we have been restricted from leaving the country. We can only wander around Nilfgaard, unable to settle down-until we are reunited with Kolgrim."

"I heard Kolgrim speak of your power and your promises: about the Order of the Witcher, about the future of Cintra, about the blood of the ancients. So I want to come and see you in person, to verify what you said , Rann of Cintra."