Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 143 The Surprise of the Demon Hunters

Kaer Morhen, the ancient stronghold of wolf hunters.

In the ancient language (Elf language), the name of this place is "Kar Amu Yilahan", which means the ancient sea fortress.

Because the location of the castle used to be a vast sea, there were many fossils of marine life, so the name of the ancient sea fortress came into being.

Kaer Morhen, in the Blue Mountains of Kaedwen, on the Gwynrich River, lay on the fringes of civilisation, forgotten and few knew the way to its fortress.

Today, it is a decayed, dilapidated, gloomy building, but also full of history.

However, with the arrival of the second mutation method, this fortress, which only wolf-sentence demon hunters would go to, is much more lively this winter than in the past.

Before the quaint gate of Kaer Morhen, eight demon hunters and an apprentice demon hunter rode away from the ancient sea fortress together.

Four of them belonged to the wolf faction: Vesemir, Lambert, Eskel, and apprentice Leo.

In addition to the wolf-sected demon hunters, there are five Griffin-sected demon-hunters here: Elan, George, Cohen, Kelda, and Geron Lumo.

And the leader of these griffin demon hunters is Elan, the master of the griffin school.

Everyone present, except for the apprentice Leo, has undergone a second mutation, which greatly increased their strength, and the three old demon hunters felt that their strength had returned to its peak.

As for the three old demon hunters here, one is Vesemir, the current Grandmaster of the Wolf School, and the other is Elan and Keldar of the Griffin School.

Keldar was the master of the Griffon before Ellan returned. Since the avalanche of the Keir Sirens, he has basically trained the new Griffin School of Demon Hunters.

When the Griffin faction was still strong, Keldar was responsible for teaching apprentices about monsters.

Keldar was the only survivor in the castle after the Kel Sirens, the stronghold of the Griffin School, were submerged in an avalanche caused by the warlocks.

The old master loved his school, and he has since guarded the ruined stronghold while training a new generation of Griffin witchers.

"It's really amazing, Master Elan, now your Griffin Sect has five members. In the past, our Wolf Sect was regarded as the school with the largest number of demon hunters, but all these years, I have wondered if we That's the least faction."

Vesemir sighed, he appeared very modest and prudent in front of Elan, without the attitude of an elder at all.

This is also quite normal, after all, what Vesemir is facing is the first batch of demon hunters who can be traced back, and they are also the founders of the Griffin Sect.

In front of such people, Vesemir naturally couldn't pose as an elder.

"It's just a fluke. In fact, I think there should still be a lot of people from your Langpai scattered outside, but they just didn't come back."

Elam's words reminded Vesemir of a figure, a figure that had left Kaer Morhen not long ago.

"If you say that, there are indeed a few people, but they don't want to have anything to do with the school now, so let's not mention them."

Seeing Vesemir's appearance, Elan didn't ask too much. It seemed that this probably involved some internal affairs of the Wolf faction. Since he was an outsider, he shouldn't care about these matters.

Elan looked back at the team behind him and found that George was exchanging his experience in hunting demons with Escal. The hearing of the demon hunters imposed by the second mutation allowed Elan to hear clearly how the people they communicated with dealt with the vampire demon bird.

George also mentioned his experience in Hackland and the battle he participated in. It was a pity that George failed to assassinate the Ulu Khan.

However, seeing the power of Jinlong, Lilit and Cliff clashing in the sky at the same time, it was worth it.

Lambert was complaining to the wolf apprentice Leo about the difficulty of the grass trial, his words were full of words, and he seemed to want to dissuade the young man.

But the young man seemed very impulsive and completely dismissed Lambert's words.

Elan fully understood what Lambert said.

They also spent the entire winter together, and the Griffin Master had already figured out the character of this wolf faction.

It is very normal for demon hunters who reject the Trial of Green Grass to appear. After all, Trial of Green Grass is a massacre, and it is really normal that no one likes it.

Cohen and Geron chatted with Kelda behind him. Kelda's current mental state is a different person compared to before.

Since Elan's return, Keldar has been full of hope for the future, and he even began to think about recreating the old days when the Griffins were guests of the monarchs.

In Kelda's view, everything is possible when Elan returns.

In this regard, Elan was quite helpless. It was still too far away for the revival school to reach its former state, and he was not sure yet.

The demon hunter will usher in a flashback revival, which is undoubtedly an opportunity, but the flashback is the flashback after all, and the future is still gloomy.

But considering that the Revival School has become a demon of Kelda, Elan can't say anything.

Cohen and Jieron obviously knew this too, so they followed the teacher's temper and said that they would never offend the teacher.

As for Geron, of course it was Geron Moreau, the son of Professor Thomas Moreau, a tall, wiry man, scarred like the other witchers.

Jieron is a very good young man. He has a high moral character, loves his work, and respects the principles of griffins. It can be said that he is an extremely standard griffin demon hunter.

Elan is very satisfied with the young men of the Griffin Sect.

The griffin master is very happy. Even though so many years have passed, although the griffin talent has withered, it still maintains its former morality.

This is more important than anything else. In Elan's view, if the Griffin Sect after he left has forgotten those noble qualities, then the Griffin actually exists in name only.

And now everyone in the Griffin also recognizes the return of their founder, and is full of attraction for the future of the school. They believe that under the leadership of Elan, it is only a matter of time before the school returns to the past.

It had been agreed with the Wolf and the Gryphon that they parted at Ban Ader, the nearest great city to Kaer Morhen.

There, the witchers gather supplies and then split up.

But when they arrived at Ban Ade, as the famous tower of Ben Ade College appeared in front of everyone, everyone realized that something was wrong.

"Is it a corpse?"

Cohen frowned and said,

"Yes, Cohen, you pointed out an obvious fact for us, there are still a lot of corpses."

Lambert said a little angrily, but everyone didn't care about his gesture. After getting along with him for a winter, they all knew that Lambert spoke like this.

"The cuts were clean and neat, and they were basically beheaded. It seems to be a mass execution."

In front of those corpses that had turned into white bones, Elan recognized how these people died at a glance, which was too easy for a battle-tested demon hunter.

They were not surprised by these corpses. These people have lived for so many years, and they don't know how many executions of this kind have been seen.

Vesemir's focus was on another front. He found that the banner of the Unicorn Dynasty had disappeared, and in its place was the tricolor mountain pattern of Aedirn.

"It looks like a lot has happened outside this winter."

Vesemir looked at the flag of Aedirn and said that the flag undoubtedly represented the occupation of the city by Aedirn, so what happened here is naturally self-evident.

"Go to inquire about the news, and then we will gather at the old place."

Vesemir told the wolf faction demon hunters, and the demon hunters naturally followed their orders, and then Vesemir took the griffon companions to the tavern where the wolf faction usually rested.

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The Varn Tavern is a very remote tavern in Ben Ard, so remote that students and miners who are looking for women will not come to this place.

Because of this, it has become a gathering place for some unwelcome people in society, such as thieves, beggars, and even robbers...and demon hunters are among them.

In a dark corner of this remote tavern, Vesemir made several trips, brought a bunch of wine glasses and put them on the table, filled with frothy golden beer.

The wolf faction master distributed the wine glasses to everyone one by one, and then he sat opposite to Elan. He quickly downed a mouthful of wine to ease his surprise.

The tavern boy ran over at this time, put the barbecue and mushroom salad on the table, and then brought a bacon soup and a large plate of crayfish.

"It's just a winter in the mountains. The world has changed so much. It seems that times have really changed."

There was a reason for Vesemir's exclamation, because too many things had happened, and the wolf faction grandmaster felt that his hundreds of years of experience were not enough.

"Yes."

Elan agreed.

As for the juniors below, they have different expressions, but they are all surprised by all of this, it is nothing more than the difference between hiding well or not.

"Kedwin is gone, Temeria has annexed the western countries, and Kevier has regained the eastern border. The political situation in the north has not undergone such drastic changes for many years. It is still beneficial to live long decisively. It can be seen that to something like this."

Vesemir's tone was full of surprise and exclamation, that the world has changed so much in just one winter.

Even if Redania's power declined back then, and it fell from the status of the northern giant, it took hundreds of years, rather than such a short completion in a short period of time.

Elan thought of Herme, and the Lord Protector of Aedirn. To a large extent, it can be said that it was because of him.

Elan had high expectations for Herme's future, but he never imagined that this person could achieve such a high achievement and bring about such a big change in the north.

As the Griffin Master, Elan brought the Griffon Demon Hunters to wander around the palaces of various kings like knights. This experience greatly broadened Elan's political level.

It can be said that among the many founders of the witcher school, he is the one who understands politics best.

And it was precisely because of this that he had the best idea of ​​what Herme was doing.

Annexing a big northern country for a short period of time caused other northern countries to throw off their masks of tenderness and start naked annexation.

There is no doubt that after this incident, the confrontation among the northern countries will escalate.

In fact, Elam had long known that upgrading was inevitable. Nilfgaard's intervention had brought about too many changes. With the invasion of the southern empire, the confrontation between the northern countries would inevitably escalate.

But he never thought that it would be so fast. As soon as the Second Northern War ended, Herme of Aedirn would start this process.

And to say that the person who is least surprised by Herme's achievements here is George. He has seen with his own eyes how Cliff blessed Herme.

But even so, when he first found out what Herme had done this winter, he was still a little shocked.

"Ha, all this is just a matter of those lords and nobles, what does it have to do with us poor demon hunters, two old men, I know that you two are very concerned about the great changes that have taken place in this world. Surprised, but there is no need to be like this, I think such changes will be indispensable in the future.”

The one who spoke so rudely was naturally Lambert, and he was the only one who would do this.

His disrespect naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many people, especially the griffins present. As the knights among the demon hunters, griffins value etiquette and order very much.

It's one thing to endure your bad mouth, but it's another thing to be disrespectful to the master.

Now that Lambert had such an attitude, the three griffins present all looked at the wolf faction with serious eyes, and the atmosphere suddenly became serious.

But Lambert just shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and finally Escal spoke,

"Okay, Lambert, shut up, don't you know how to watch the atmosphere?"

After Escal said this, Lambert finally settled down and did not continue his provocative actions.

"Lambert is right. Those things really have nothing to do with us. We should take care of our own affairs."

Faced with some embarrassing scenes, it was Elan who finally gave a speech to relieve everyone,

"Hurry up and eat. After eating, we can go our separate ways. Now that the situation has become like this, what are your plans? Which area do you plan to go to next?"

As Elan spoke, he tore off a large piece of roast meat, and did not forget to wash down the eaten meat with beer.

"I'm going to Hengfors, which is in a turmoil right now, which is suitable for monster activities, and it was originally a gap for monsters to go south. Moreover, I also want to meet someone who is very important to me."

The first to speak was Escal, who was busily hollowing out a loaf of bread so that it could serve as a bowl.

"Are you going to find your accidental son? Count the days, the Queen of Kankorn is almost 50 or 60 years old, and under the pressure of the Hengfors Alliance army, are you sure she is still alive?"

Of course, Lambert, who is also a wolf faction, knows the grievances involved. Although it is a far away thing, he still has to remember it clearly.

"Well... I'm going to see her, and some things should come to an end."

Escal responded.

"Well, I'm planning to go to the west, to the new occupied area of ​​Temeria. I believe that I can make a lot of money there."

Lambert followed up with his thoughts.

"Master Elan, Master Kelda and I are going back to Keweier. We need to see if there is anything that can be salvaged in the old castle. Some rooms in the castle are protected by the magic of our griffins. The things inside should be Still, Geron will go to the front line of Sintra to find a job and receive orders from the army. After we finish the work of Keweier, we will go south to help Geron. George will go to Aden to see if he can get a job. Get on the line of the Lord Protector and find us some jobs."

Cohen talked about their plans for the Griffins, and it seemed that the Griffins had planned for a long time in advance.

"Sintra? It's dangerous there, Master Elan. It's natural to make money doing things for the army, but it's also dangerous, and it's the front line. If you don't do it, you will be involved in the battle."

"I want to rebuild the school's castle, but doesn't it cost money to rebuild? Our Griffin is still the most expensive school. Plate armor, spell-casting materials, magic instruments...all of these things cost money."

Elan's tone was full of helplessness. Rebuilding the school undoubtedly required money, but for a demon hunter, if he wanted to make money quickly, his only choice was to risk his life.

Hearing this, Vesemir didn't say anything else. As the master of the witcher school, he also knew that maintaining a school would cost more money.

Take their dilapidated castle of the Wolf faction as an example, just maintaining the repairs of the castle so that it can barely survive this winter, and storing food to survive this winter, will consume most of their income for more than half a year.

"I decided to be in Kaedwin."

Vesemir changed the subject and continued discussing this matter, Vesemir suspected that he had to remember something sad too.

"Although it has undergone a second mutation, my old bone should not be too far away from home. I just take this boy Leo to exercise, so that he can master the skills he should have as a demon hunter as soon as possible."

"Then push him to accept the green grass trial and die."

Lambert immediately groaned, while Vesemir shook his head,
"No, this time I plan to invite a warlock to help us with the Grass Trial. Now that the Warlock Order has collapsed, many apprentice warlocks can't find jobs. As long as I get enough money, it's no problem to help us with mutations."

The assistance of a warlock is actually an indispensable part of the cultivation of a demon hunter. Over the years, the grass trial has almost turned into a massacre. An important reason is that there is no assistance from a warlock.

With the Warlock constantly casting spells to assist and heal, the success rate of the Trial of Green Grass is completely different from the hard work before.

"Looking for an apprentice warlock? Well, it seems that we can only hire these incompetent ones. I hope you can find it more reliably."

Lambert immediately answered, although it was not easy to detect, but there was still excitement in his tone.

"Okay, everyone, let's concentrate on eating. After eating, we will set foot on our respective goals."

Elan said at the end.

(End of this chapter)