God-level Demon Hunter

The witchers all shook their heads.

Tree Heart continued,

"That whispering woman, do you know? She is one of the three sisters who likes to cut off human ears and use magic to make her eyes and ears; the weaver woman likes to use human hair to weave into a thin gauze to cover her whole body. It's the bloated flesh of the folds; the cook, who often cooks broth, and invites her sisters to dine with her, occasionally joined by other miscellaneous evil creatures."

This Roy knew that among the evil creatures was the notorious Wild Hunt.

"What do you think—" Shu Xin slowed down, and said word by word, "What are those three things?"

"So, Ms. Tree Heart, you are not the fairy mother who created the lady in the forest, and the three sisters are not the gods who protect the people of Waylon as they appear on the surface?"

"It's good that you know." Shuxin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm sorry, it's been a long time since I've had such a happy chat with someone, I've lost my composure."

"We can understand..." Lesso nodded, if they were trapped in a big tree for hundreds of years, they would also go crazy. "Then what is your identity? Are you willing to help us deal with the old witch?"

"Everyone, if you are willing to patiently listen to the nonsense of a 'monster', then I would also like to share with you some truth about Waylon." Shu Xin paused, and the five pricked up their ears.

"I am a member of the ancient Druid ring, guarding the forests and swamps of Velen, maintaining the natural and ecological balance. You can call me Kungulan. And the old witch, the three sisters, or the lady in the forest , They are alien monsters that came to Velen during the first celestial sphere convergence, they can draw magic power from the land and manipulate the fate of nearby creatures."

"They coveted the land of Velen, so they joined forces to destroy my body. They sealed my soul into this banyan tree. The nature I once served protected me from the old witch's schemes and schemes." .”

"Because of the death of the guardian, Mother Nature has been in a state of anger for a long time. She created this whispering hill to liberate the wildness in the animal body and vent her anger wantonly. At the same time, it also prevented the minions of the three sisters from approaching me and hurting me!"

"Now, demon hunter, since we have all suffered the vicious injury from Mrs. Lin Zhong, and you are willing to cooperate, please agree to a request."

"What request..."

"Let me free from the heart of this banyan tree that dwells."

Chapter 10 The Second Seal

The sun was setting and the sky was getting dark. The five demon hunters moved in three directions on the Whispering Hill.

"The crow's feathers, the remains of the heart of the tree, the black mare... Such a weird ceremony, how do I feel like a step to release the devil?" Lei Suo and Roy stood side by side on horseback, with a serious face, "Little devil, why is that?" If the ugly monster finds all the materials for resurrection, it won’t cause a catastrophe, right? Did the ancient blood warn you?”

"I'm sure, the heart of the tree is not a 'devil'." Roy looked at the dark area in the southeast of the Whispering Hill. The night is the time when the beasts are most active, but this time they stayed in the grass obediently and did not come back. Assault the witcher as you did during the day.

Because they are covered with the green sap taken from the root of the tree heart, exuding a faint fragrance of plants, like a sign of friendship, to disperse the violent beasts that meet.

"But it's not a good thing! Even if she once belonged to the ancient Druid ring, I admit this, there are indeed clear records in some ancient books that there was a Druid ring in Velen. But this guy described the three sisters as It's heinous, it's slightly different from what we know..."

The bald man watched the sunset fall into the horizon, and put forward another point of view, "We have all seen the situation in Lower Valen. The lady in the forest asked the villagers for sacrifices, but also gave them a good harvest of crops and cured the disease. to save them from the endless stream of beasts and monsters in Velen. To a certain extent, the three sisters are fair, maintaining a bloody and fragile balance. Is there a better substitute for destroying this balance? ?”

"Leso, the old witch kidnapped Carl, they must understand a truth, the witcher is not so weak and deceitful!"

"Release Tree Heart is not the only way." Lei Suo groped his smooth chin, still insisting on his own opinion, "An unknown creature who has been imprisoned for hundreds of years and is full of resentment... If he is freed, he will definitely retaliate, causing this incident" The cataclysm of No Man's Land."

"In order to fight against the Three Witches, releasing another terrifying monster, the imp, is definitely not an option!"

Roy sighed, his brows tightened and then loosened,

"Well, in fact, I still have a solution. As you said, the three sisters are not a good thing, and Shuxin can't be completely trusted, so..."

His tone suddenly turned cold, and his dark golden pupils flashed brightly, "Do you still remember the blood gem given by the lady in the lake? Let's do this later...you will use it..."

……

A bright moon hung in the sky.

Not long after, the witcher left the Whispering Hill on horseback. After repelling a wave of water ghosts in the Weren Swamp, he came to a small hill surrounded by three oak trees.

In the dark night, the moonlight illuminated a blue stone tablet, located in the middle of the hillside.

The stele is oval in shape, simple and cold, full of the vicissitudes of time, the surface is covered with cracks, and clumps of grass stubble stubbornly drill out from the cracks in the stone.

Roy squatted down, and then felt some rough and distorted symbols on the surface of the stone tablet: irregular triangles, stars, moon patterns, and simple but vivid wild animals outlined with a few strokes. This is some kind of ancient stone carving .

He could not understand the meaning of these patterns at all.

"What does it say?" Roy glanced at the bald man,

"These symbols are characters created by the Ring of Druids. The Snake Sect does not have this branch, and I have never learned this kind of characters. I can't understand them, but I think it is undoubtedly the tombstone of the heart of the tree."

The gazes of the two of them turned to the open space in front of the tombstone at the same time.

"Kungulan, Ms. Shuxin, you asked us to dig your grave, don't blame me..."

The two pulled out their steel swords and began to dig the soil. Soon after, they dug up a set of remains from the space in front of the tombstone, and then managed to piece together a pile of broken bones into a human shape.

It has obvious limbs and skull, but there are sharp canine teeth on both sides of the gums that do not resemble humans, and long dry nails extend from the top of the finger bones. The most striking feature is that it is extremely small, less than that of a normal human. one third.

Remains of an unknown creature

? ?

"Look, these are not human bones at all!" The bald man's eyes grew more fearful.

"Maybe it's the old man, is it possible?"

Lesso shook his head and said firmly, "I have seen many remains, including elderly people over 80 years old, although most of them are hunched over, suffering from severe osteoporosis, and their bones have become deformed, but not the one in front of us. The skeleton is of such low bone mass that it shows no signs of missing or excessive weathering."

"Like a dwarf, halfling, gnome, or goblin bone?"

"They don't have such sharp canine teeth!" Letho said, "and, whether dwarves, halflings, goblins, or gnomes, the number of ribs is much less than this remains."

"Then what exactly is buried here? It's not a human, but it bears the responsibilities of a druid?" Roy also wondered, could it be that the so-called ancient druid is another kind of non-human intelligent creature?

It does not exist in the literature, and I have never seen it myself.

"Perhaps only those hundreds of years old and knowledgeable druids can reveal the answer."

The two witchers exchanged in low voices for a while, then quickly collected the remains and returned to the Whispering Hill.

Almost at the same time, on the other side, the cat faction demon hunter Fliers had found a crow's nest among the luxuriant branches of the big banyan tree, and obtained a few pitch-black feathers.

On the grassland near the Camelback Swamp on the west side of the Whispering Hill, the Serrit brothers used the Axi sign to seduce a black mare that was dozing while standing.

The three waves of demon hunters each brought a material, and returned to the cave in the Whispering Hill, before coming to the heart of the tree.

"Demon hunter, you have found everything, what are you waiting for? Start the ceremony now!"

Tree Heart's voice was trembling, full of uncontrollable excitement. She manipulated the gray-brown rhizome and circled around the body of the black mare for a while.

Like a boa constrictor sizing up its prey.

The mare seemed to have sensed something, snorted restlessly and anxiously, and paced finely with its hooves.

"Ms. Kungulan, everything is here." Roy took out the package containing the remains in the saddle bag and held it in his hand. "But before the ceremony, we still have some questions to ask..."

"Say!" Shu Xin looked very anxious.

"Ms. Kungulan, do you still remember the conditions we raised earlier?"

"Guys, it's come to this point, you still don't want to believe me?" Shu Xin said displeased, "I repeat, once you are free, I will help you escape the eyes and ears of the three sisters and sneak into their base camp Bao Deshan, teach them a profound lesson."

Tree Heart said solemnly, "But I warn you, don't expect too much, such as killing any of the old witches, that's unrealistic! Regardless of the powerful mana of the three sisters themselves, they can also summon a large number of monsters from other worlds, Even the help of the Wild Hunt."

"Wild Hunt?" The hearts of the four Snake Sect demon hunters all jumped. They did not expect to hear this familiar name from the mouth of the tree heart. The Snake Sect's lifelong enemy, they deeply understood the power of Wild Hunt.

"How many of you have heard of those ghost knights flying in the sky? To tell you the truth, the executives of Wild Hunt will attend the night banquet held by the three sisters every year. The long-term contacts have allowed them to maintain a good relationship." Tree Heart sighed, "So If you want to kill the three sisters, you have to go through the wild hunt. With the current strength of the few, with all due respect, it is impossible."

Memories rolled in Roy's mind. As far as he knew, the three sisters held a banquet every spring on Bald Mountain to entertain the powerful aliens of Waylon, and at the same time accepted the sacrifices of the peasants under their rule—young and beautiful boys and girls .

Send back some "reborn" children every other day, and give farmers acorn oil that can water lush crops.

This is the most crude and primitive relationship of sacrificial shelter.

In addition, Shu Xin's words also made Roy confirm a guess long ago: Wild Hunt's participation in the dinner party of the three sisters was definitely not for simple enjoyment, and they must have also participated in Waylon's "business".

Perhaps some of the children the old hag snatched from the people of Velen were given to the Wild Hunt.After all, this group of ghost knights across the sky has been kidnapping people all over the world to strengthen their legions.

"Don't worry, we don't plan to fight Mrs. Lin Zhong head-on at the moment."

"a wise decision……"

"If you don't confront the lady in the forest head-on, how can you improve the old witch's memory after entering Mount Baldur?" Serrit asked.

"Set it on fire, let's burn it all!" Oakes said harshly,

"If you set fire in front of someone else's house, it's uncertain how much it can burn. It will definitely form a death feud with the three sisters." Lei Suo expressed a veiled objection.

The heart of the tree fell silent suddenly, and the witcher could feel the struggle and hesitation in her heart. After a long time, the old female voice replied, "I have a better idea, if you can destroy the sacred oak tree on Bald Mountain , will make those three old bitches vomit blood."

"Sacred oak tree?" Roy thought for a moment of the exceptionally good crops in Lower Varenna, and the acorn oil the villagers used to irrigate the farmland.

"That was the seed I planted before I was alive. Later, the three sisters killed me and took possession of it. Instead, they used it to give favor to the people of Waylon. Ordinary acorns can be ground into oil to water a good harvest and given to the healers. It can be used to treat diseases and heal injuries, and the pink acorns that are more than 200 years old and the golden acorns that are more than [-] years old are of great benefit to human beings." The heart of the tree paused, "Even if you can't destroy the oak tree, take it away The precious acorn will suffice their heartache for a while."

"Sacred oak, pink and golden acorns?" The eyes of the five witchers lit up.

Seeing this, Shuxin continued to urge, "Guys, I've told you such a precious secret, but I'm not sincere enough? Let's start the ceremony... put the crow's feathers and bones under the heart first!"

Roy exchanged glances with everyone, and took the crow feather from Fliers, "I present the crow feather..."

With a dignified and serious look, he put the material in front of Shu Xin.

The heart of the tree immediately responded with a ritual solemn voice, "I was once a body of flesh and blood—" The echo triggered a torrent of magic power, causing the cave to vibrate continuously, as if it was about to collapse, "I will regain my freedom!"

However, the witcher's cunning voice came in at this moment of uncertainty, "Ms. Kungulan, how can the method you mentioned allow us to escape the eyes and ears of the old witch?"

As Roy asked, he dangled the white skeleton in front of the tree heart.

The arrow was on the string, and the heart of the tree couldn't bear it, "My blood! Later, when you cut open my body, collect part of my blood, and apply it all over the body, you can hide it from the eyes and ears of the three sisters!"

Satisfied, the demon hunter placed the skeleton under the heart, "I offer your skeleton..."

The Heart of the Tree shouted, "I was flesh and blood..." The cave echoed, and the wind blew in from outside, blowing feathers and bones into a heap, "I will be free again!"

Treeheart yelled.

"Demon hunter! Bring the horse here, let it drink my blood!" After the heart of the tree finished speaking, it peeled off the layer of spiked shell covering the heart, revealing the soft and warm horny skin.

Fulius led the black mare to the front, and Lesso drew out the steel sword, and pressed the cold and sharp tip of the sword against the heart of the tree.

Roy didn't do anything, if the heart of the tree died under his hands, it would turn into nothingness.

But he asked another question, "Ms. Kungolan... will you take revenge after you leave the tree heart?"

"What revenge? Demon hunter, are you still in the mood to joke at this moment!?" Shu Xin was already out of anger, and his tone became very cold.

"It's not a joke...you know what I mean," Roy asked seriously, "Will you take revenge on the residents of Lower Warren? As far as I know, because of the orders of the three sisters, they once wanted to kill you."

"How do you know?"

"You mentioned it to me, Ms. Kungolan, have you forgotten?"

"I forgot?" Shu Xin said, "Sorry, I don't think I'm that forgetful."

Roy didn't hesitate anymore.

According to the plan, he gave the sword-wielding Lei Suo a look.

A cold light flashed in the cave... Amid the hearty laughter, a terrifying wound opened in the heart of the tree, and blood gushed out like a fountain, a small part flowed into the leather bag prepared by the witcher, and most of it mixed into the materials on the ground.

The blood, the bones, and the crow's feathers instantly merged into one.

The black mare bowed her head to drink the blood, and the only sounds in the cave were sipping and swallowing.

When the blood is drunk...

Shen Jun's black beauty raised her head, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes.

"Free!" It lifted its front hooves, and gave a lively cheer of a young woman. "By the spirit of nature, I, Kungulan, have finally regained my freedom! I want revenge and kill all—"

A hand suddenly touched the mane on the side of the black beauty's neck, "There is still one step in the ceremony... Kungulan."

"what?"

The poisonous snake steel sword in Lei Suo's hand had not yet been sheathed. After saying this, he took advantage of the situation and slashed the black beauty's neck with the blood-dripping blade.

The skin was torn apart, blood, fascia, and bone stubble were exposed, half of the neck was cut open, and the ground was stained red by more turbulent blood than before.

"Why!" The black beauty only had time to say this before she fell to the ground, her hooves twitching. She had just been free, and she hadn't had time to run wildly on the whispering hills.

She was full of unwillingness, and the last image in her eyes was the cold and rigid face of the bald man.

In his hand was a jewel that was as bright as blood, and that was her final destination.

"Okay..." Roy breathed a sigh of relief, took the blood gem from Lei Suo's hand, and weighed it in his palm. There was a black smoke rampaging in the crystal wall, but he still couldn't get out of the cage.

He closed his eyes and tried it, and sure enough, the blood gem that was put into the soul could no longer be put into the loot package, so he could only carry it with him.

"Ms. Kungulan, although I released you as promised, it is more reassuring for you to stay inside."

"The soul of the heart of the tree is just sealed in this stone?" Serrit looked at the incomparably agile but inconspicuous black smoke in the gemstone, with a look of disbelief, "The so-called soul is just like this Something like a tadpole?"

"This is not a simple stone! Only the blood gem bestowed by the lady in the lake can hold the soul. Whether it is a human or a monster, most of the cores are the same." Roy explained patiently, and handed the blood gem to Serrit looked at it carefully.