God-level Demon Hunter

Following the sword marks, the two found a path left by the human body crawling against the ground, but it almost disappeared after a long time.Only the supernatural perception of the witcher can detect it.

This path leads all the way to the coffin of Marie Villeres.

"I have a hunch that Colgrim's body is inside..." Roy muttered to himself, and Leto gestured to him, and the two surrounded Mary's coffin from left to right.

Then, Lei Suo kicked the coffin board suddenly. With a sound of "Im--", the coffin was lifted, and the two of them bowed their bodies as if they were facing a formidable enemy.The seal in his hand was ready to go, but after waiting for a while, there was no movement.

They took a look, and there was a corpse lying alone in the coffin.He was wearing a tattered black leather armor, and the exposed part was completely bone-shattered, making it impossible to tell what he looked like.

The clothes on the corpse were almost torn into strips, and the chest, abdomen and sleeves were full of holes, which obviously had been intensively attacked.Next to the body was a long sword.

It has a straight-shaped sword frame, with a slender sword body, and the central sword ridge slightly bulges outwards, forming a triangular straight line with the sword blades on both sides.

It has been dusty for two years, it is a bit dusty and not so conspicuous.

Lei Suo picked up the sword, held the hilt with one hand, held the tip of the sword obliquely with the other hand, tilted his head and observed along the spine of the sword for a moment, then put it down, and sighed.

"The fine steel sword used by the old man."

"Is he Colgrim?" Roy remained vigilant.

Lei Suo didn't answer, silently picked up the pendant on the chest of the corpse, and swayed it in front of his eyes, forming a delicate snake shape.

Then he lifted a piece of shin bone and weighed it in his hand, "The bone density of a witcher is half higher than that of ordinary people, and it is much heavier. Even after two years, you can still recognize the difference."

"And how did Colgrim die?"

"There are no obvious scars on the bones, and I can't see it now..."

Lei Suo took the whole skeleton out of the coffin, checked it carefully, and found a blueprint of animal skin and a yellowed letter from the cloth bag at his waist.

"Sincerely, Ivar Evil Eye, Master Demon Hunter of the Viper School.

I have now found the legendary blueprint that once belonged to our school, but now I have a little trouble.On my way back to the castle, I stayed one night in a small village in the Temerian countryside, and the goddamn villagers made me the scapegoat for kidnapping some beekeeper's imp. "

"They took me to the local lord's castle for interrogation. One blueprint was found and confiscated. But don't worry, I'll get it back. They didn't find any other blueprints.

I quoted Temeria's local legal system and asked to accept trial and trial instead of being ruled by the will of the knight.My request has been accepted, and tomorrow I will enter the Sir's family vault and clear out the evil spirits inside.

I don't expect any problems, maybe you got this letter and I'm back at the castle.Leto, Oakes, and Serrit, light up the furnaces—I'm about to start forging!

Colgrim"

"Colgrim."

Lei Suo groaned, and there was a gleam of water in Amber's eyes. He took out a bottle of spirits from the space ring,

"Brother, I'll take you home... I'll toast you first..." With a rock-like twisted arm, the big man drank half of the bottle with a "Gulu Gulu".

With a mouth full of alcohol, he spilled the remaining half bottle of wine in front of his eyes.

All of a sudden, in the quiet tomb, there was only the sound of "drizzling" and spirits spilling on the bones.

Roy held the blueprint of the animal skin tightly, staring at the scene in front of him, feeling an unspeakable sadness in his heart.

This is where most of the witchers end up - buried in a foreign land, turned into a pile of nameless bones without even a tombstone.

The two gazed at the remains side by side and observed a few minutes of silence.

Afterwards, the boy's eyes swept over the empty coffin, and suddenly, his pupils constricted and his back felt cold.

With only Colgrim in the coffin, then—

"Where did Mary's body go?"

Chapter 8 The Brand and the Banshee

Roy and Lei Suo listened carefully. Except for the whistling wind, there was no abnormal movement in the tomb, and the snake pendants on their necks did not vibrate, indicating that there was no active magic nearby.

There are no ghosts.

"Where did Madam Mary's body go?" Roy pondered while browsing the animal skin drawings.The drawing depicts the disassembled sword grid, hilt, and sword body. The size and thickness of these three parts, as well as the materials required for casting, the temperature of the furnace, and the techniques are all recorded in detail.

This is a complete blueprint for casting a steel sword of Viper School.

"Starting with the poisonous snake steel sword, half of the purpose of this trip to White Orchard has been completed, and there is still a blueprint for the poisonous snake silver sword." According to the unsent letter on Colgrim's body, the remaining blueprint was taken by White Orchard. Lord Ignatius hunted down.

"It happened to be on the way..." Roy put the steel sword blueprint close to him, "I will ask Lord Ignacio for a debt."

On the other hand, Reso was still thinking about the issue of Mrs. Mary's body. His long career as a witcher made him feel that there must be something strange about this matter. "There is a connection between Colgrim's death and Mary's disappearing body. Roy, search the remaining coffins as well."

In the past, they would never do this kind of behavior. After all, demon hunters are not grave robbers. They pay attention to certain principles and will not deliberately open coffins to desecrate corpses.

Right now, there is no better way.

"John, Florian... three, my lord has a lot, don't bother with us..." Roy opened the coffin muttering.

In the three coffins, there are two and a half remains. Why do you say half?The baby was too petite, with bones similar to the fist of an adult male, and was automatically excluded.

To determine the sex of the other two remains, the witcher mainly examined their pelvic regions.

"The pelvis is stout, high and narrow, and the great sciatic notch is narrow and deep," said Lesso, a makeshift coroner.In fact, with his decades of experience as a demon hunter, he was already familiar with the structure of human bones. "The pubic symphysis is high and the subpubic angle is small. Judging from these features, both corpses are male."

Still no whereabouts of Mrs. Mary's body.The two of them didn't intend to move the coffins in the surrounding walls, that was unnecessary.

After Lei Suo checked the pelvis, he glanced at the other parts of the two corpses. Unexpectedly, he found a new discovery—a string of tiny black characters were imprinted on the back of the skulls of the corpses.

"This seems to be an ancient saying, Roy, come and see..." Lei Suo turned over the baby's thumb-sized skull, and suddenly took a breath, "God! Who could it be? To the point that even newborn babies are not spared!"

"Let me see!" Roy was more proficient in the ancient language inherited from the blood of the Al-Shidi clan than Lei Suo, "Poswiecac sie..." He read it out.

"What do you mean?"

"Sacrifice, sacrifice? This... this is the meaning of sacrifice in ancient Chinese, which means that they were chosen as sacrifices." Roy looked serious, "This situation is usually recorded in witchcraft books, and It is an evil witchcraft that is expressly prohibited...through cruel and secret means to achieve some ulterior purpose!"

"how do you know?"

"In the Temple of Meritelli, Coral mentioned it to me when she taught the basic theory of magic. She had a very serious expression at the time."

For a moment, there were only two dull heartbeats left in the tomb.

"Unknown, evil witchcraft, sacrifice... So Colgrim's death was not just caused by a simple tomb demon spirit." Leto mused, "Is there something else hidden?"

There must be some sort of problem with the rulers of White Orchard, the Viriles family.

"Shall we continue?" Roy looked around the gloomy tomb, inexplicably feeling cold, "Didn't you often say that curiosity killed the cat?"

"The vitality of a demon hunter is much more tenacious than a cat... don't you want to back down?" The bald man's eyes became cold.

"Just kidding," Roy straightened his face immediately, and changed his words, "Colgrim is an important member of the Viper School, and he will never be allowed to die for no apparent reason."

"As long as you know."

"But about witchcraft... The clues we have so far are extremely limited. Apart from knowing that these three corpses are all immediate relatives of Sir Ignatius, and finding the sacrificial symbols on their skulls, there are no more clues, only seeing Until Ser Ignatius. But I have a new idea about Mary's body."

Lei Suo paused, "There are three possible scenarios..."

"Tell me."

"One is the coffin where she was hidden in the wall, the other is...there is no body in the coffin at all, as for the third case - Roy, do you still remember how the demon spirit was born?"

"A special environment, such as the tomb of the Virileis family we are in now, is undoubtedly an excellent place for the birth of demon spirits." Roy recalled the knowledge of biology. People who can transform into demon spirits all have a huge emotional burden. Before they die, they often feel unwilling, have unfulfilled wishes, or have strong nostalgia and hatred in their hearts."

"Mary Villiers died of dystocia..." Lesso emphasized,

"You mean Mary's corpse turned into a spirit and killed Colgrim?"

"Let me correct you, she didn't kill Kolgrim. It is absolutely impossible for the demon spirit to take the initiative to move the human corpse into the coffin. From this it can be inferred—"

"Colgrim hid himself in the coffin." Roy murmured, and patted his head violently, imagining a scene in his mind, "The exhausted snake witcher knew he couldn't deal with the demon spirit, so he hid in the sarcophagus Heal your wounds and recharge your batteries.”

That's right, the wolf hunter Geralt used the same trick when he dealt with the bloodthirsty demon bird in Vizima.

"Unfortunately, I guess Kolgrim was too injured to survive in the sarcophagus. But where did the demon spirit go?" Roy was puzzled, and Lei Suo couldn't answer this point, "No evil spirit dust was found in this tomb. , I have a hunch that Mary's demon spirit will never die easily."

Roy rubbed the rough surface of the sarcophagus with his palm, stared at its empty interior, and suddenly jumped into the sarcophagus imitating his predecessors on a whim.

"Hey kid, are you having a cramp?"

"I want to have a try, what kind of experience is it like to lie in a coffin." Thinking of doing it, Roy lay down in the coffin.

But he was not satisfied.

"Lesuo, quickly help me cover the coffin..."

"Are you crazy?" The big man showed disdain, but still thoughtfully closed the sarcophagus for him.

In an instant, Roy entered another dark, narrow, and cold world. His mutated eyesight allowed him to still see in the dark.His eyes swept across the stone slab above, and slowly moved down. At a certain moment, his pupils constricted, and he stretched out his hand to touch the lower surface of the coffin lid in a daze. The regular scratches were extremely clear.

"Leso..."

"Are you scared, brat? Then come out quickly, don't waste time!"

"There are words in the coffin...I think this is the warning that Colgrim left for those who come after."

"Any word?"

"Colgrim carved two words with a steel sword—banshee." Roy struggled to push open the coffin board and sat up. "He's telling us that Mary Villiers has turned into a banshee!"

"No wonder!" Lei Suo couldn't help clapping his hands, "At first I wondered why there were no demon spirits in the nearby tombs. This is obviously unreasonable compared with the previous situation, but it makes sense now. Powerful beasts usually With territorial awareness, it will drive away all threatening individuals in the territory. This phenomenon is also applicable to demon spirits. Mary Villiers is a powerful banshee, and she deters nearby demon spirits."

The banshee and the demon spirit are called one word apart, but their strengths are quite different.

The latter is just a kind of unconscious evil spirit that relies entirely on instinct, while the banshee retains a small part of her memories of her life, the conditions for her birth are more stringent, and she also possesses some special and powerful abilities.

For example, the female plague demon, which can spread the plague wantonly.

The banshee can make fainting wails, wake up the dead, and even leave the tomb and move freely in the sun.

"Mary died in 1259, two years ago," Roy walked to Lei Suo, "Mary turned into a banshee must have left the tomb. Where will she go?"

"Mary is Sir's mother. Which place did she miss the most during her lifetime? Let's go and meet the lord of White Orchard, Ignatius Virires..."

Chapter 9 Amavit Castle

When the demon hunter came, he cleaned up the tomb very cleanly, and he was not disturbed by any demon spirits when he left.

And the Villiers tomb could not give birth to demon spirits in a short period of time.

Returning to the ground again, the sky darkened, the stars and the moon dimmed, and in the distance there was a faint fire flickering in the village of Baiguoyuan.But the two didn't plan to spend the night in the village, and it was not a good time to visit Lord Viriles, so they slept in the wild for one night.

Colgrim's remains were put into the storage space by Roy, and they were going to be buried in the newly built witcher base in the future, which Leso strongly agreed with.The vast majority of demon hunters have spent their entire lives fighting monsters and dangers, and in the end they can only end up in the wilderness with corpses turned into bird and animal droppings.It is rare for them to have a tombstone after death.

Under the moonlight, sparks exploded in the bonfire.

The young witcher sat cross-legged on a raised rock, closing his eyes in meditation.

The mind sinks into the template, after the upgrade of Brokleon, there is still one skill point left, it is time to point it.

For the newly introduced Lv1 skills—long sword specialization, crossbow specialization, witcher seal, witcher senses, and alchemy, because the skills are still in their infancy and can be upgraded through training, it is not worthwhile to invest skill points.

As for the Lv5 slaughter skill, he planned to follow the old method of killing monsters to upgrade.

His final goal is on the observation of Lv2 and the meditation of Lv4.

The observation skills have not been used for a long time, and some obvious shortcomings have been exposed - they cannot see through the disguises of the cursed and advanced vampires, and they can only get a bunch of question marks when observing high-sensitivity targets... It is quite reluctant to obtain information.

But the strengthening of the shocking skills last time gave him inspiration. When the skills reach Lv5 and the related attributes reach 10 points, they will get a staged improvement.

Now the attributes related to meditation are 12 in spirit and 11.1 in physique, both exceeding 10 points.

Just the grade.

Compared with the two, Roy is more inclined to meditate.

Concentrate on the "+" sign, and instantly, my mind becomes cool and my body feels warm.

Meditation Lv4→Lv5

Spirit 12 → 12.5

Mana 160→165

Constitution 11.1→11.6

Life 151 → 156

……

"Your meditation has reached Lv5, and your physique and spirit have reached 10. This skill has gained a new feature——

Activation: You are quite familiar with meditation, and you have begun to get in touch with its essence. During meditation, your body will automatically absorb and store the essence of water elements in the surrounding environment.

After a complete round of meditation (5 hours), you will get a chance to 'activate', and quickly restore 20.00% of magic power and life after use. This effect can heal minor injuries.