From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

A breakthrough has been made in the witcher's mutation experiment, which is great news for Lann now. It's no wonder that Lann was so eager. You must know that when the experimenters such as Geron produced results, they were many times more excited than Lann is now.

Facing Lan En's inquiry, Geron affirmed: "We haven't conducted human experiments yet, and we are only using animals for horizontal comparison. But what can be expected is: under the joint supervision of several warlocks—that is, me, Mo Cesark, Triss, and Kelda can barely count as one role—the success rate of mutation has increased to about 50%.

Geron added: "But if we want to further advance the experiment, we also want to refer to the mutation formulas of other schools. Mossak is already negotiating with the wolf faction. If possible, I hope that the snake faction can also give A helping hand."

Lan En patted his chest and promised: "I'll go to Leto and say, no witcher will refuse this kind of career. Don't you want the one from the cat party? I can also go to Novigrad to find Kayan of."

Jie Long hesitated to speak: "For Mao Pie, it's still... Forget it, come here too, it will always help to understand."

Lan realized the other meanings in Geron's tone, and nodded amusedly.

"Besides, I also need to collect some samples of your blood and tissue." Geron said, "You are the most special and perfect mutant individual so far, and you can serve as the most ideal blueprint for mutation. Plus Using the ancient blood in your body may provide new ideas for our experiment. I didn’t look for you before because our experiment has not yet reached that stage, but now is the time.”

"No problem." Lane nodded, "Just draw blood, and what tissue samples do you need?"

Jieron looked at Lann with a very strange look, from bottom to top, and from top to bottom.

"Various forms of tissue samples."

At this point, the two had already reached the entrance of Kyle Siren's laboratory, opened the door, and Lan found that there had been a lot of changes inside.

The first thing to enter is a huge constant temperature incubator, which Lane has not seen before. And the things in this incubator made Lan's eyes widen.

"This is……"

Geron chuckled and said, "This is the first gift that Mossac left here for you."

I saw a little golden monster lying on the inside and sleeping soundly.

This sleeping little monster has an extremely strange appearance, with a bird's beak, but a beast's head and body. There is a circle of black and golden mane around its neck, and two wings that have not yet begun to develop are attached to its two forelimbs. This ugly and cute appearance looks as if two kinds of beast cubs were forcibly blended together.

It's a griffin.

When Lan went to Brokiron to rescue Ciri who strayed into the forest, he once killed a couple composed of a griffin and a big griffin for the town. On myself and Ciri.

It was the first time he faced a monster with a mortal body. The weak Geralt came to help him with his sword and nearly overturned. Levin almost fell there, and was saved by the dryad in the end. It was a blessing in disguise and forged a lot of "friendship".

And among the spoils of that battle, there was a huge griffin egg, which was given to Mossak by Lann.

At that time, Lan didn't have much knowledge of magic at all, and he didn't know how to use the griffin eggs. Originally, he thought that this thing should have been consumed by Mossak as a magic material in an experiment, but he didn't expect it to be hatched now.

Seeing Lan En's surprised gaze, Geron smiled and said, "Griffin eggs are actually not uncommon. But Mossack found that this egg still retains amazing vitality, and he thinks this egg is quite good for you." It is meaningful, so I decided to hatch it and give it to you as a gift."

"He brought this egg back to Skellige's Druid Ring for incubation. The Druids there themselves have mastered the skills of taming pterodactyls, and have a relatively complete training process and animal taming methods. But After establishing contact with our school, Mossak and I agreed that the Feilong Mountain Range is more suitable as a place for Griffin training."

Jieron pointed to the winding mountains covered with snow all the year round outside the castle: "There used to be a lot of griffins here, which shows that the environment inside is very suitable for their growth and life. It's just that these griffins were cleaned up by our school. It's rare now."

Lann twitched the corners of his mouth and looked at the sleeping baby griffin inside. Fortunately, it still couldn't understand human language, and didn't know that the school he was in used to particularly like its compatriots.

Geron suggested: "You can hold it out, let it get used to your smell, and then come over to feed it a few times from time to time. When it gets bigger, you can carry out corresponding training."

After Lan heard this, he carefully put his hand into the incubator. He wasn't very eager to develop a relationship with this little griffin, it wasn't necessary for him. With the [Follower] system in place, just one skill point can make this little guy who has not yet given birth to wisdom recognize the master on the spot.

But now Lane doesn't intend to contract this little guy so early. Just like Leo who is still being trained as a demon hunter - the little griffin has not grown up yet, although I don't know if he has [talent], but he will definitely not have any good [skills]. Now spending a skill point to contract it is not worth the gain.

Lann picked up the little griffin at this moment, more out of curiosity and looking forward to the future. This is the first time he has a monster cub in his arms, and this is a powerful monster that will soar in the sky in the future.

The sleeping little monster seemed to smell something, and with a "hissing" sound, it opened its immature eagle beak, revealing a small section of pink tongue. Immediately afterwards, it buried its head, which had not yet opened its eyes, into Lann's cloak of the great griffin, as if there was a scent of the same race that made it feel at ease.

"I suddenly felt." Lan En said with a tangled face, "We once killed its parents, and now we even put his father on..."

Said Lan En raised the big griffin cloak on his body: "Taming this little guy under such circumstances, and then riding on others... feels weird."

Jielong glanced at Lann: "Some of your concepts are also weird. But if you care about this, don't worry - get closer and see the breed and coat color of this little guy. Have you learned it well? I'll give it to you." The monster illustrated book?"

Suddenly there was a feeling of suffocation that the teacher couldn't answer the random checks for not studying hard. Lan hurriedly followed Jielong's instructions and took a closer look, muttering to himself:

"It looks like a griffin...huh? But it has golden fur, thick mane, and no poison glands..."

Lan En said in surprise: "Is this [Royal Griffon]?"

Jieron nodded and said meaningfully: "Yes, it suits you very well. [Royal Griffon] is the most powerful and best-looking of all Griffin subspecies, and is often used by nobles as family crests." Zhang. In the early years, it was almost extinct by those royal families who liked to collect, but I didn’t expect to be able to hatch one under such circumstances.”

Lan En looked incredible: "Can a [Griffon] and a [Great Griffin] give birth to a [Royal Griffin]? No...so this Royal Griffon was not born from that pair of couples, or even from them. egg?"

Jielong nodded, and sighed at the wonderful encounter in nature: "I heard that the pair of griffins attacked you because of this egg? Maybe there are many other strange habits of monsters that we haven't studied clearly. Demon hunters are also We only focus on recording their aggression and hunting-related knowledge, and we don’t know much about their possible biological and social structures.”

"But in this way, at least you don't have to fall into the moral dilemma of 'killing its parents and riding it'?"

Hearing what Geron said, Lan smiled shyly.

…………

The baby griffin is only a few months old, and it is still growing its body through sound sleep. But from its sharp claws and sharp beak, it can already vaguely see the majestic appearance of the proud "air knight" in the future.

In the future, with the blessing of Lane's [Follower] panel system, it will surely become the strongest griffin in history, and even have the opportunity to rival the dragon, truly winning absolute air supremacy for Lane.

If his thinking diverged a bit, Lane even wondered if it would be possible to form a griffin cavalry team with this royal griffin as a starting point? A true force of air aces...

But for now it's just a cub that needs to sleep in an incubator.

After lightly stroking a few handfuls of the fluff on the body surface of the little griffin to satisfy his curiosity, Lan put it back in the incubator. It will be about half a year before it can fly freely in the blue sky; if it is long enough to carry people, it will be a year and a half, which is still very early.

Keldar is said to be interested in domesticating griffins. You must know that the condition for the apprentices of the Griffin School in the golden age to be a teacher is to sneak into the Feilong Mountains and steal a Griffin egg. Kelda didn't know how many eggs she had witnessed being brought back by the apprentices, and most of these eggs were turned into alchemy materials.

But they have never tried to hatch the little monsters inside these eggs, and this is the first time.

By the way, Leo is mainly led by Kelda now. This vicissitudes old witcher master is particularly enthusiastic about training and teaching younger generations.

"How is Leo doing?"

Hearing Lann raise this question, there was no lack of affirmation of Leo in Geron's words: "He works very hard and learns quickly, and he can be regarded as an upper-middle level among the apprentices in the past. We are very sure that he We can pass [Choice], but the subsequent [Grass Trial] and [Dream Trial] cannot be completed with talent and hard work. We don't plan to switch Leo until the mutation experiment makes a real breakthrough."

Lane nodded, this is what they agreed at the beginning.

"Of course." Geron added, "Compared to you, Leo still has a lot of gaps."

Lan En couldn't help but smile.

This royal griffin cub was Mothsak's first gift to Rann left behind at the Kael Sirens. After teasing the little monster, Lane also ushered in the second and third gifts from Mossak's stay here——

The enchantment of [Blood Sucking], and the enchantment technique from Ofir.

"This [blood-sucking] enchantment is really unprecedented. You said it was a weapon of a demon from another world, right?"

Facing the unique effect of blood-sucking enchantment in the mainland, Jielong couldn't help sighing: "So far we haven't been able to reproduce the alchemy pattern above, we can only crack the downgraded version. But since you have come, let's give you the weapon first." Carry out elementary enchanting. After we thoroughly understand the subsequent crafts, we can upgrade."

"That's enough." Lane said with a smile.

There is a small problem here. That is [blood-sucking] can only enchant [Alice] machete, but not [Sword of Lake Lady]. Because the enchanting process on [Sword of the Lake Girl] has reached its peak and is integrated, whether it is Geron, Keerda, or Mossak thinks that this sword can no longer withstand new enchantments, and it may even be modified rashly. It will destroy the original power of this sword, so I can only give up.

On the contrary, the black magic scimitar [Alice] and [Vampiric] enchantment have a good compatibility and are perfectly compatible. Especially considering that the special effects attached to this scimitar will consume life force, and with the [blood sucking] enchantment that robs life force, the two can reach a strange balance.

The enchantment of [Vampire] is a surprise, it can add a new special effect to the existing rune system. What Lane is looking forward to most is the new alchemy system from the Kingdom of Ophir--Infusion.

After Triss brought the warlocks of the Kingdom of Ophir back to Brokilon, Mossak contacted the two masters of the Griffin School almost immediately. Geron was unwilling to leave the base camp, and Kelda rushed to Brokiron immediately after hearing about this magical technology, and learned the magic injection technology with Mossak; after returning to Kyle Siren , and taught this technique to Geron.

Infusion is similar in essence to the alchemy enchanting technique that is prevalent in the mainland today. It also uses magic and alchemy materials to endow armor with unique additional abilities. But this is a whole new system. For a long time, the people of Ofir have only been helping others to perform magic injections as merchants or craftsmen, and there has never been a precedent for teaching others to learn magic injection techniques.

Although Prince Ofel didn't care much about the rumors about infusion, but thinking about it, how could such a precious technology be handed over to other countries casually? Imbuing others and teaching others to infuse are two completely different concepts. It can only be said that Lann's rescue of the long-lost Prince Ofir this time really made the Kingdom of Ofir owe a big favor.

At the same time, since infusion and enchantment are two completely different alchemy systems, they can be compatible to a certain extent without interfering with each other. That is to say: even if it is [Sword of the Lake Lady], which is already fully enchanted, it can also add an additional special effect of enchantment.

Now Lann's two swords can be infused once each, and the armor can also be injected once. Geron and the others also plan to open a new research project to see if they can reduce the area of ​​the infusion, and infuse similar gauntlets and cloaks. It's just that now they really have no other skills and can only give up. Their main energy is still perfecting the craftsmanship of the witcher's mutation.

There are six main types of infusion techniques that Ofir taught Sintra, and they are:

[Break]: Make the weapon extend a sharp blade formed by chaotic energy when attacking, and increase the attack distance.

[Deflection]: It can make the armor deflect the enemy's arrows and other long-range attacks at a small angle.

[Protection]: Absorbs the chaotic energy in the air to automatically generate a small shield.

[Retribution]: There is a certain probability that the damage on the armor can be reflected back to the enemy.

[Balance]: The weight of constant equipment, whether it is light armor or heavy armor, will become the weight of medium armor.

[Frivolity]: Reduce the weight of the equipment, the effect is enough to reduce the heavy armor to the level of light armor.

Among the various infusion effects above, some are suitable for weapon enchanting, and some are suitable for equipment enchanting. It can also be seen from these special effects that, unlike the enchanting craft that "increases elemental attack by a percentage", the enchanting craft is not so simple and rude, and many special effects are biased towards auxiliary types.

After simple consideration, Lane planned to add the special effect of [Break] to both of his swords to increase the attack distance of the two swords. This allows him to mow the grass more happily when driving Wushuang in the crowd in the future; when fighting against some large monsters, he can also avoid the embarrassing situation where the long sword enters without a handle but cannot reach the opponent's vitals.

As for the infusion on the armor, under the insistence of elders such as Mossak and Geron, Lan chose [Offset]. After all, he was going to the battlefield, so Leng Jian and Liu Ya still had to be guarded against. Although [Quen's seal] is in the body, how can active defense be reassuring than passive deflection?

"The enchantment of [Blood Sucking] is okay, but the cost of infusion is very high, just like Warlock Ofel said, this kind of thing can only be circulated between the upper layers. At present, the materials here are only allocated for you to inject. The amount of magic, and the rest have to be put into more important research."

"But Mossak also has a new idea. He intends to simplify [frivolity], saying that this will help form a powerful heavy cavalry. Of course, this will be discussed later, and he has no time now."

[Frivolity] If it can be simplified and used on a large scale in the army, it is enough for heavy cavalry to gain the maneuverability of light cavalry without losing the impact and defense of heavy armor. Just thinking about this scene can make any military officer in the world tremble with excitement.

But Lane pursed his lips: "For spellcasters, [Protection], a craft that can automatically generate shields, is more important, right? Shouldn't Uncle Mossak give priority to researching this infusion?"

Jie Long chuckled: "It's his choice."

Lan En only felt an inexplicable warm current surge in his heart, which made him vulnerable when he was fighting outside.

But soon he calmed down again, changed the topic and said with a smile: "If you think the cost of infusion crafting is too high, teacher, I can just solve this problem now."

Under the puzzled eyes of Geron, Lan took him to the empty warehouse next door, waved his hand, and let the gold and silver treasures in the [Inventory] pour out.

The burst of light called "Fortune" at that moment even covered the sun reflected by the snow on the top of the mountain.

Rao, a person like Geron who was used to seeing the big world in the golden age of the Griffon and the Demon Hunter's eyes widened for a moment, his breathing was heavy, and his hands trembled slightly.

Lan looked at Geron's reaction and smiled with satisfaction: "These coins are not only enough for everyone to infuse magic, but the extra coins should be enough to buy the castle under our feet, and this is far from all I have now wealth."

Jieron pressed his chest hard, took a few deep breaths, and managed to calm down. There was still excitement in his eyes, but he had recovered a calm expression:

"I don't want to know where you got so much money. You want to use this money to help me rebuild the Kyle Siren, right? Let's put it away, Sintra needs this money more now."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and stopped Lan En who was hesitant to speak: "This is my choice."

Lan showed a tangled expression, but hearing Geron's firm tone, he had no choice but to give up.

But Geron suddenly laughed again: "You want to help me rebuild the Kyle Siren as soon as possible, and then let me go to Sintra to help you, right? Actually, it doesn't need to be like this. During this time, I was in the Kyle Siren After thinking for a long time, I don't want to leave here to settle in Sintra..."

The master of the Griffin School looked at his disciple and said, "But if you encounter any enemies that cannot be solved, you can use our school's notes to contact me, and I will help you. Not just me, So does Kelda."

Lan En heard this, and the eyes of the lion were as bright as the eyes of a cat: "Really?"