The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"Not a demon hunter?"

"No, no. Their eyes are the same as ordinary people, they are human."

Tancred said very confidently.

Human assassin? Demon hunter assassin?

"Shir knows about it?"

"Yes, she is very smart, but also very strict. Thanks to her, I realized how stupid it was to stay with the pastors of Eternal Fire and listen to their preaching. I don't know if I can manage it well. Kerviel, there are still too many places to learn. After Sill catches the Kingslayer, I hope she can go back and assist me. The kingdom needs the wise advice of the wise man, not the foolish preaching of the priest. Demon hunter, you can learn from Establishing an academy from scratch has proven your ability and insight. If you come to Kerviel, please go to the palace. I think I should listen more to the suggestions of people from all places and different professions for my country. "

"If there is a chance, I will go."

Zelin said politely. "I'm going to see the dragon slayer, is Philiba here too?"

"Philippa? No, she is not here, nor is the Dragon Slayer here." Tancred shook his head. "Together with Schill, as soon as the negotiations are over today, they will go to Lomugne through the portal. The specific war reparations and border delimitation will be finalized at the Lomugne summit. Kodwin will send an aristocrat to accompany him. They have already left, and I plan to visit the dwarves' construction craftsmanship, and then return to China. After all, Mahakan is the biggest competitor of the Kerviel Metal Industry. I am curious how these dwarves do it. "

"Are they gone?" Zelin was silent for a few seconds. "Well, thank you for your reminder, Your Majesty."

Philippa took Saqiya out?

Zelin has never seen anyone leaving Fojian in the tavern next to the city gate, but in fact, they have already reached Lomune through the portal!

Chapter 1867: A Gathering of Heroes

Lomune.

It is not surprising that the warlocks chose Lomugne as the new parliament place after the coup in Sinide.

This ancient city is located at the source of the Pontar River, on the banks of Lake Lok Muyny, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. This place is full of spirituality and natural magic. The city completely resonates with magic, but its dilapidated walls show that everything related to magic seems to end in tragedy. Historians say that Muinni was built by the lizard-like Verangs hundreds of years ago. After their decline, the city was occupied by the elves of the Ain Hidi tribe. The rule of the elves was brought to an end by the notorious Ridania commander Tritog’s Milan Rubeneck. His soldiers slaughtered all the inhabitants of the ancient city, regardless of age and gender. After the slaughter, this This city was abandoned and slowly decayed ever since.

Hundreds of years ago, the warlock Geoffrey Munch led his source warlocks, human children with magical talents, to be trained here by the wizard sages. He worked hard to overcome the suspicion of the people of the ancient races, and it seemed that there was an opportunity for the two races to coexist and cooperate, but history did not develop in the direction expected by the ancient sages. War replaced everything. Those who pray for peace are ridiculed, and those who advocate slaughter become heroes. Unscrupulous means to survive has become the motto, and the invaders have become great pioneers. Although there are large tracts of wasteland next to villages and towns, compared with reclaiming land, people are enthusiastic to go to remote places to looting inhuman cities. After snatching the treasure, he burned it to the torch, and returned to their villages and coastal towns along the river again, complaining that inhuman races were robbing human beings for their right to survival.

Even now, there are still no human settlements near the city of Lomugne that was captured hundreds of years ago.

In the past, the elves would leave a complete city when they retreat, allowing humans to establish new settlements on the city ruins. Many famous cities are built on the basis of the elven ruins-Novigrad, Tritog, Wei Gemma, Ailand, Osenfurt. The elves have given up a lot of living space, but humans are still pressing harder, until after the second war between humans and elves, when the elves retreat, their cities will be completely destroyed to prevent humans from building new humans on their basis. City. Since then, mankind has never established a new human city.

"At this speed, if we go further, it is estimated that before sunset, we will be able to see the highest spire in the center of Lida Fort." Roche stood by the boat and looked at the fishing village slowly receding by the river, turning around to face the boat. Said the person. "After we stopped the ship, we left seven people to guard at the dock."

Lida Fort is the last pier on the upper reaches of the Ponta River. If you continue to the east, you have entered the Blue Mountains boundary, where the Ponta River has turned into waterfalls and rapids. If you want to go to Lomugne, you can only start from Fort Lida and walk up the mountain road. It takes about half a day to reach Loch Muyny Lake.

The helmsman turned the rudder, the warship slowly turned the bow, and flexibly avoided the dangerous undercurrent that appeared when the Liseda River merged into the Ponta River at the mouth of the river. The bow of the ship moved forward facing the running water, and white waves appeared.

"Humans snatched this city from us." Eofes' voice seemed to be squeezed out of his teeth. "It's like they took away other places."

"Could it be that the city of Lomune was the city of elves in the past?" Roche sneered. "When we arrived in Lomugne, we found hundreds of lizardmen bones in a deep pit, with traces of slashing with axe. But no one was able to verify how the elves captured Lomugne back then. No remaining lizardmen came out to accuse the invaders, because they were all dead."

"Lizardmen died of climate change." Eofis didn't care about the increasingly unkind eyes of nearby humans. "The climate in the Blue Mountains was humid, and Lomugne was as humid as the rainforest in the floating harbor. The lizard people built huge diversion canals in the mountains to guide the lake water to irrigate their farmland, nourish vines and water plants, and keep the soil moist. But at four thousand. Three hundred years ago, the climate in the Blue Mountains region changed drastically. The air blown from the Dragon Mountains made the vicinity of Lomugne dry and cold. When we arrived, only the dead lizardmen were left here, and they were intact. A lossless city."

"After another thousand years, humans can also claim that the demise of the elves is due to climate change." Roche said coldly. "I don't know why I would allow a former squirrel party to stand on my boat. It stands to reason that I should throw you down immediately."

"I don't know why I want to hunt down the murderer with a group of humans. You'd better make it clear, humans, everything I do is for the safety of the dragon slayer, and has nothing to do with you. If it is not for the demon hunter, it is here too. , I prefer to walk to Lomugne on two legs."

"The argument won't let the king killer take the initiative to come to us and bow his head to beg for mercy." Geralt looked at Roche and then at Iofis. "It won't allow Saqiya to become normal. Lomune is very dangerous. If you fight before you arrive, maybe when we arrive, the summit will be over, and the Kingslayer is leaving with a smile."

"It's very simple." Zelin, who was wiping the ebony blade, raised his head. He knew that the ebony blade would not get dirty, but he still wiped the sword habitually. "In fact, there is only one goal, the imperial mission. Ashley and Philippa in the imperial mission are acquaintances. They may have a common language in academic exchanges. Let us find the imperial people, then find Ashley, and figure out the empire. What people are doing, so that we can also figure out by the way, what exactly is Phileba's plan to take with Saqiya."

He didn't say anything about the existence of the sorcerer assembly. Francesca is one of the members, and if the North wants to investigate this secret organization, she will be involved.

"What else are you planning? These witches are not at ease at all."

Eofes walked to the other side of the ship and looked at the turbulent water beside the ship's side. "I don't want to know what she intends to do. If she dares to treat Saqiya against Fujian, I will definitely cut off her head!"

Now Eofis is no longer a wanted man in the north. In the peace treaty, Saqiya asked Kodwin to remove the elves of Frogen from the list of wanted men in the Squirrel Party in exchange for the release of officers and knights captured in the war. The discussion time of this treaty is even shorter than whether to pay compensation. Compared with the lives of the knights, whether the Squirrel Party is a wanted criminal is not worth mentioning to others.

Facing the afterglow of the sunset, the warship slowly moved into the Lida Fort Pier. The pier was crowded with various ships, waiting for merchant ships to go downstream, cruise ships carrying passengers, and private ships flying different flags among them. A huge warship docked in the center of the pier, and a black pennant dotted with silver lilies floated on the flagpole.

"It's Tamoria." Roche said happily. "It's the sign of Natalis. It seems that he has arrived early. Brothers, raise our White Lily flag."

As the ships gradually rounded the corners in front of the pier, more ships appeared in their sight. The shield flag with a yellow background depicts a black unicorn leaping into the air. This is Kodwin's warship. There is also a huge three-masted ship, more than eighty yards in length, with a silver eagle embroidered on the purplish red flag floating on the ship. Around it, there are five long and narrow sailing ships docked. This is Redania's river fleet. The Adenian people did not appear here, Zelin did not see any representatives of Adenian-whether it was Van Geborg, Gureta, or Eggsberg's flags, but there were some noble flags, and the black background inverted triangles showed them. The title was named from Aden. There are no Livians either. Since the Second World War, Livians have rarely appeared in public.

"Humph, Humphus Alliance is here too." Roche stared at the small boats on the corner of the dock. "They must have heard that Hensett was defeated and wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of the influence of Kodwin. Hensett declared ten years ago that the city-state sovereignty of the Hummers Alliance should belong to Kodwin."

"I dare you to say that they came to the wrong place."

Zelin said softly. The Humphus Alliance is a business alliance formed by several small city-state kingdoms and principalities. They used to belong to the princes in the east of Kerviel, but did not become independent until decades ago during the Kevel civil strife. They happened to be sandwiched between the three powers of Kevel, Rydania and Kodwin. But on such occasions, a city-state alliance is not qualified to enter the venue at all. For kingdoms like Verdon and Hidalis, they can only lobby outside the venue. The only ones who really determine the fate of the North are Ridania, Tamoria, and Cordwin. Aden and Livia are out, and Kerviel remains neutral.

"Look over there, the demon hunter." Iofes' hoarse voice passed into the demon hunter's ears, and Zelin turned his head and looked in the direction the elf was pointing. "It's the Knights."

In a camp on the edge of the small town, a black heraldic flag is flying, and the flag depicts a red rose wrapped in a white ribbon.

"It's the Knights of the Flame Rose." Ze Lin narrowed his eyes. After the Vijiman civil strife that year, many members of the Knights accepted the conditions offered by Ladovide and went to Redania to rebuild a new flame rose. Ladovide general Foltest asked the Reddania people to come to help. When the rebellion was countered, the ceded land was divided into the Knights and became a dominion of the Knights. The knights of the Knights will be loyal to Redania for life, and exist as the direct troops of Ladovide. "It seems that the person from Radania is Ladovide."

"Don't worry, the Knights of Tamoria are here too." Roche said with his eyes cast. "The leader is Siegfried, and I saw their logo on the ship near Marshal Natalis. Let's get to the shore and get all the **** conspirators out!"

Chapter 1868 Debt Repayment

On a hill overlooking Lida Fort’s main street, a long folding table made of raw pine wood was put up on which was covered with a golden tablecloth. Knights in iron-gray armor gathered near the long table in twos and threes. The table was too small to hold everyone. The young knight attendant could only squat nearby and scoop the grated radish in the bowl with a spoon.

"You came in time, Ze Lin, I'm almost exhausted."

The night was already drooping, and all the flags were dyed black. Various camps are located between the river and Lida Fort. Siegfried lifted his head from the wooden bowl, with pale orange mud remaining in the corners of his mouth. Behind them, the two knights yelled at Hu Cong and ordered them to start a fire and bath the horses immediately. A woman held a tray and walked to the camp, wearing only a dark cloak. On the tray were apples from the cellar and a small piece of bacon. She looked left, looked right, and then a knight walked over, put ten Oren on the plate, and took the bacon. The woman hurriedly stuffed the coin into the pocket under her robe, disappearing as quickly as a warlock.

"It's like you haven't slept for three days and three nights." Zelin looked at Siegfried's dark circles and the wrinkled leather shoulder pads under his shoulders. "And it was raining."

"If only this is the case, I would rather drive three days and three nights in the heavy rain." Siegfried said bitterly, and swallowed another mouthful of grated radish. "Sorry, I should treat you well, not let you stand by and watch me eat mud. But I haven't eaten anything a day. If you don't mind, sit by my side. You are also here for the meeting? It's Natta Marshal Liss invited you to come?"

"No, I'll just stand." Zelin shrugged. "I didn't come to participate in the parliament, and no one invited me. I came here to find someone."

"Looking for someone? Who are you looking for?"

"Private question." Ze Lin looked around. The knights were all tired. Several knights were sitting directly on the ground, their heads drooped, their eyes slightly closed, and their faces could not hide their exhaustion. "Your people seem to fall asleep immediately when lying on a rock."

"Actually, in fact, I'm almost...well, cough cough." Siegfried said slurredly. He picked up the wooden plate, used a spoon to dig two spoonfuls of the pureed radish left in it, stuffed it into his mouth, then put down the plate, grabbed a glass of water, and took a sip. "Go to my main account and talk about it. I saw the blue-clad iron guard and you got off a ship just now. This special force is here, so I should be able to feel a little relieved."

"Roche thinks the same as you."

When the battleship of the Blue Iron Guard drew ashore, Zelin happened to ran into Siegfried who had just returned from outside Lidarburg on the dock. Roche went to find Natalis’ camp. He wanted to find out about Vizima. Eofis left straight away. Zelin didn’t know what he was going to do, but in this case, a member of the Squirrel Party appeared. It will inevitably cause confusion here.

"I saw it, they looked like they were going to kill."

On the fire in the middle of the camp, the thin trout was framed on the campfire with only a few flames, strung with a broken twig. Siegfried walked to the table, took out two mugs and a glass bottle containing half a bottle of beer, poured himself a glass and Zelin another glass. "Gods, let's be honest, Lida Fort is almost filled up, and roadblocks have been erected on the mountain road to prevent everyone from rushing into Lomugne. Only merchants, vendors, warlocks and nobles are allowed to enter. I never thought I would see so many people in one place, Vizima couldn't compare to this place, and half of the people here are sorcerers, knowing magic and spells."

"How many warlocks have arrived?"

"It is estimated that half of the warlocks in the north have arrived, and the remaining half are on the road. Do you see the camp over there?" Siegfried raised his hand and pointed to a camp on the other side. The banner in the middle of the camp was blue. , With the hand holding the potion bottle drawn on it. "The Association of Alchemists, the Society of Pharmacists, and the blacksmiths and doctors who use magic. They are all there. Be careful when walking on the road. Books and notes may fly over your head. Can you believe it? Those warlocks There is a hotel in the town. The broomsticks inside don’t need people, so they will clean up the trash, and the warlock will make them alive.”

"Really?"