God-level Demon Hunter

"Is he really your friend? A friend of Professor Oxenfurt's?"

"Your Excellency Ortolan is very talented. He once gave a brilliant speech on biology at the University of Oxburgh. I still remember it vividly."

"Listen to you, he's still a big shot!" Clotte seemed to have solved some kind of puzzle, and shook his fist suddenly, his face excited, "No wonder he usually has such an arrogant and indifferent attitude. It turns out that he is like us. A group of country folks have nothing in common.”

"His temper is weird?" Roy squatted down in a corner. In the demon hunter's senses, there was nothing abnormal except for the traces of mice, cockroaches, and other small animals and insects.

He couldn't help feeling worried. If Ortoran had already left the village, wouldn't the clue stop here?

"Uncle Ortolan lived in the village for less than a year in total, and the number of times he talked to everyone was very small. For a long time, he either stayed in the house or went out, and he came home very late. Nobody knows what he does during the day."

Roy's heart skipped a beat, going out?Will there be his secret laboratory on the island?

"Do you know where he went? Or where he is most likely to go? Who knows his whereabouts?" Roy patted the sand off his hands, looked at the young man, with an irresistible magic,

"I disappoint you. Ortoran never came back after leaving home on a sunny morning. He has been missing for a year and two months." Clotte shook his head and sighed, "Not even Leave a word with his wife."

According to Triss, Ortoran has lived for more than 300 years, but he is indifferent and used to being alone. He has devoted his entire life to magic transformation experiments, and he is an out-and-out research madman.

This sudden addition of a wife was really unexpected for the witcher.

"Where's his wife?"

"I live in the red house on the other side of the village, called Ava..." Clotte said gossipingly, "Shortly after her husband disappeared, the helpless Ava remarried to Fahd, a fisherman in Lovten village. , almost a year."

Roy's eyes turned. This woman dares to cuckold an archmage, isn't she afraid of being blasted to pieces by the fireball?

"Is Ava local?"

"Skellige, I heard that he was born on Great Skellige Island, and was brought here by Ortolan to settle down."

"How is their relationship?"

"Your Excellency Linus, I would like to ask, what's the purpose of your asking?" The young man was a little confused, whether the professor came here for tourism or to investigate household registration.

"Haha, just curious, what kind of woman this acquaintance will find."

"Ms. Ava is a rare beauty..." Clotte said enviously, "tall, with good features...Although she is also from the countryside, she is not as rustic as other girls. It's a pity that Alto Lan doesn't know how to cherish...Everyone in the village knows that his attitude towards his wife is quite indifferent."

Roy sighed, feeling ominous.

"Master, don't just find someone to marry on a whim, and say goodbye when you get tired of playing."

But aren't those long-lived people whose private lives are chaotic?

Pursue freshness.

Next, the demon hunter searched the dilapidated house inside and out, and confirmed that there were no secret doors or basements.

Follow Clotte to find Ava.

……

A blonde woman stood on the threshold outside the red house, her hair was tied neatly behind her head, and a rough fur coat could not conceal her charming and delicate body.

At the age of 20, his skin is delicate and smooth, with a small nose, willow eyebrows and cherry lips, and a happy smile on his cheeks that is poured out by a happy life, and his voice is clear and melodious.

A beauty mole at the corner of her mouth added a touch of charming charm to her innocence.

Even the witcher, who was used to seeing beauties, couldn't help but take a second look.

The guardian blesses the observation skills and confirms that she is just an ordinary person.

"This is Professor Linus Peet...from—"

"Oxenfurt." Roy smiled and stretched out his hand towards the woman. The latter froze for a moment, and was instantly taken aback by his black cloak and big sunglasses. He couldn't help but stretched out his fingertips and shook him gently, "Ai Madam Baby, let me make a long story short."

"Your ex-husband, Ortoran, and I are close friends, and I want to ask you something. If it's convenient, can you let us talk in the yard?"

"What Ortoran, I don't know it!" The woman's smile froze and she denied it, but the witcher clearly noticed the extremely complicated look in her eyes.

The woman wanted to close the oak door.

However, Roy was the first to push against the crack of the door with his thigh, and at the same time blocked Clotte's sight behind him, and secretly outlined a cyan inverted triangle spell in front of the woman with his left hand.

"Don't be nervous, ma'am, I just want to have a friendly chat with you, no matter if there are any clues, I will leave after the chat..."

"Then... you come in," the woman turned and walked into the house with dull eyes, followed by the witcher, but shut the bewildered Clotte out of the door.

The young tour guide smiled wryly and became the gatekeeper.

……

The interior decoration is simple but clean, except for a shark skull specimen, a bearskin rug, and not many decorations, most of the corners are neatly stacked with daily necessities, and the layout is quite warm.

"Why were you so eager to deny that he left you with some bad memories?" the witcher asked, rubbing the bench under his buttocks.

"That's right," the woman on the other side of the sofa was emotionally aroused by the seal, and her cheeks were stained red with anger, "I don't want to have anything to do with this disgusting heartless man, no matter how rich he is!"

"Did he tell you his identity and occupation?"

"Isn't he a businessman? When he was young, he was in business in Long Exeter, saved a lot of money, and retired early." Ava said with confidence.

Roy shook his head.

No, no, he is a famous mage, and he once assisted Alzu in researching the witcher in Fort Risberg.

Poor woman, ignorant of the truth.

"Then where did he go, I'll find out the clues, and I won't bother you anymore."

"Ortolan disappeared a year ago without leaving any message!" The woman vigorously stirred the stewed fish with potatoes cooked in an iron pot on the bonfire in the center of the hall, her arms trembling angrily, and then sat down On the sofa opposite the demon hunter, he clasped his hands on his chin, seemed to have figured something out, and heaved a sigh of relief, "Just left so quietly and never came back!"

"Before he disappeared, did he have any abnormal behavior?"

The woman was silent for a moment, a trace of struggle flashed in her bright eyes,

"Makes me miserable and breaks my heart as always."

"more specific?"

The woman was silent. This question obviously touched her psychological bottom line, and Yakexi didn't let her speak.

"Apart from your home, does he often go to a certain place?" Roy changed the question.

Since there were no obvious traces of magic left in that abandoned house, there must be another secret laboratory in Ortoland on the island.

"I often leave Lovten Village and go wandering in the wild, maybe somewhere else." The woman shook her head helplessly.

The demon hunter patted his forehead in distress. He might search the entire island, "Then let's start from the beginning...how did you meet him?"

Maybe she could find some clues in her statement.

"It was two years ago on Great Skelliger Island. On a sunny afternoon, I was pulling in the net on a fishing boat. The net was so heavy that it hurt my fingers. I caught a lot of good things in the net. I tried my best to get better. Hey, my body was pressed very low on the side of the boat... No one expected that a wave would suddenly hit me and knock me into the sea."

"I fainted, and even dreamed that I sank into the bottom of the sea, and my body was eaten into a skeleton by fish." A look of fear appeared on the woman's face, she clenched her slender hands, her knuckles turned white.

"At that time, without any accident, I should have returned to Freya's arms... But when I woke up on the edge of the coastal reef, vomiting, he, Ortoran, appeared like a knight who rescued the wounded In front of me, gave me a gentle smile. He helped my weak body, put on a thick and warm coat for me, and thoughtfully sent me home."

There was light in the woman's eyes, like a young girl in Huaichun describing the stalwart figure of the lover in her dream, but this light came from the excavation of memory by Yaxi Fayin, and was soon suppressed by her own rebellious emotions.

"Later, it was very simple. My savior and I started dating. Although he seemed to be quite old, and he spoke in a nonchalant and cold tone. But he spent a lot of money, often buying for me and my family. Second, I can feel his sincerity, he should love me at that time."

That's right, Roy said in his heart, this is the love of warlocks, love the new and hate the old.

Except for corals.

"I got married in less than half a month with him." Ava said, "After marriage, he thought Big Skelliger Island was too noisy, so he took me to move to the more remote Indalsfair island, and settled down together in Lovten Village.”

"The first four months we had a very happy time...we were tired of being together all day...I could feel the love in his eyes, he almost obeyed me."

Roy raised his eyebrows. This is not in line with the style of an older research madman. Why did he suddenly become a love brain.

"He's been with you all the time, hasn't he disappeared for a few days now and then?"

“We spent most of our honeymoon in bed!”

The corner of Roy's mouth twitched. This archmage is really strong.

"But the time of happiness is short." The look in the woman's bright eyes dimmed, "Maybe men are so fond of the new and dislike the old...After four months of being gluey, he began to disappear for no reason. At first he left for two days a week, and then he became Three days a week... and later, one day a week..."

"I've always wanted to have a good chat with him and tell him my worries... But he never has time, and he never sees anyone!" The woman complained with a livid face, looking dissatisfied with desire!

"Can you understand that feeling, Mr. Linus?"

Roy shook his head curtly.

She tilted her head and babbled, sending out a series of questions, "Four months after the wedding, he left me alone in the empty room... When I was lying on the double bed alone, I couldn't help but wonder, where did he go? Why didn't you explain it to me? Why didn't you return my concern—does he not love me?"

"The more I think about it, the more lonely, lonely, and cold I feel, and I feel so uncomfortable that I want to vomit blood!"

She took a deep breath, pain flashed in her eyes,

"I started to suffer from insomnia all night, or have nightmares... I dreamed of all kinds of horrible scenes, I was so scared to death, I wanted to find someone to talk to, but he was not at home."

"Later he finally came back, I thought he would change it, but it turned out that I was thinking too much, and he tortured me even harder."

When the woman said this, she took a deep breath, and despair appeared in her green eyes,

"He started fooling around with other women!"

Roy sighed.

How could Ortoran have the heart to hurt such a beautiful woman who was so infatuated with him.

But when he thought of the address in the diary of Algernon who was killed by Spitz, he was relieved again.

The ruthless Ortoran, so apt!

"Who is that woman?" He interrupted the woman's self-report as gently as possible.

"I don't know him, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but a fellow in the village, Ai Ji, who works at the northern port, saw him get off the tourist ship from Long Exeter with his beautiful girls, and more than once .He betrayed me!"

Roy took it to heart, so he had to contact this Edge and find the girl.

"I took the opportunity to question him, and he acquiesced. I asked for an explanation, but he just smiled at me!"

"Haha, this is what I've been thinking about day and night. The man I love the most has betrayed me again and again!"

"My heart was suffering. I really couldn't stand his infidelity, so I chose to commit suicide once!"

She lifted up the sleeve of her left hand, revealing a white wrist and an ugly cut on it.

The witcher's heart skipped a beat, this woman used to be a lover.

"Later he did something even more egregious to me."

"This made me see through him and give up completely!" The woman took a long breath, looked out of the window, and saw the flowers blooming on the side of the road, her voice choked up, "His disappearance is God Freya's gift to me! I finally recovered from the nightmare. , suffering and pain, my current husband is honest, considerate, and treats me very well.”

"I'm very happy!"

Eye sockets were flushed with a trace of crystal, and she covered her face and sobbed.

At the other end of the hall, in the stroller next to the window, there was also a boy crying, as if he was sad for his mother.

Roy shook his head knowingly, Ortoran hurt this woman deeply.

"Okay...ma'am, you need quiet and rest. I'll come back next time."

The witcher stuffed ten kroner into her hand, opened the door, and left.

The warm sun outside dispelled the haze that weighed on his heart.

Go to Aiji first to inquire about the whereabouts of the prostitutes who have been in contact with Ortolan.

"Mr. Linus, why did I hear the woman crying?" Clotte stared at the witcher's face.

"Ms. Ava was indeed heartbroken by Ortoran, and recalling the past inevitably has some emotional fluctuations... Now, you take me to meet Aiji."

"You mean the guard who works in the northern port."

"It's him! Lead the way!"

Chapter No.16 The Betrayed Husband

In the northern port of Indalsfair, the golden waves beat against the wooden boards severely corroded by seawater.

The two ships moored in the arc-shaped bay fluctuated with the rippling sea. A row of white seagulls standing on the mast swayed from side to side, and the yellow-brown coat of arms on the side of the ship shone brightly in the sun.

A hulking man in a bloated gray cotton armor and with a steel ax on his waist patrolled back and forth along the port. His brown beard fluttered with the sea breeze under the horned helmet. He looked tired and sleepy, as if he was about to lie down and snore at any time.

"Little-eyed Aggie, dozing off during work hours?!"

"Stinky boy, you dare to scare me and want to lie in bed for half a year?" The big man rubbed his sandbag-sized fist with a fierce look in his eyes.

"Okay, don't drink with me in the future!" The young tour guide puffed out his chest provocatively.