Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf.

Chapter 416: Ben Ade is so miserable. What does it have to do with me, a demon hunter?
Aelin almost died.

Just a little bit really.

The shock wave of the explosion blew him away. When he came to his senses, he saw the sharp rocks on the northern cliff approaching at a very fast speed.

He is blessed with magical power no less than that of a water ghost, but blunt force trauma can still be fatal.

The most common way for people to deal with water ghosts is to tie them up with fishing nets and then beat them into a pulp with sticks or hammers.

So all he could do was to adjust his posture in mid-air to avoid being hit on the face, and try his best to die in a dignified manner, without causing more harm to acquaintances like Vesemir and Ianna who later found his body.

of course.

He might not die. After all, he was still wearing the Wild Hunt's expedition armor. Who knows, at the critical moment, if the armor's judgment was met, he might be teleported to the Wild Hunt's lair - Tir-na-Liya.

But to be honest, Ailin didn't think that as a demon hunter, after being extremely weak after "Beast Roar: Fury", he would be like in the novels of his previous life after being teleported to the territory of Ain El...

He met a kind and beautiful elf girl, healed his wounds, killed everyone in Tir-na-Lia, obtained the treasure, and then returned as the God of War.

A more likely scenario is...

He was divined by the elven sages of Ion El that he was imprisoned in a dungeon or laboratory, just like Ciri and Yennefer were in Vilgefortz's Styggar Castle.

In the experiment where he was neither able to live nor die, the experiment was about how to strip the Gate of Ard Ghaith and even the Demon Hunting Notes from his body, and finally he died in extreme humiliation and pain.

therefore.

In the few blinks before he hit the cliff, he was even thinking about a very serious question.

Do you want to take back the Wild Hunt's expedition armor?

Or in other words, is it a gamble to survive in Tir-na-Lia, or a quick death?
Strangely...

When this question came to Ailin's mind, he actually felt that the latter seemed... more attractive.

next second.

"Whoo~"

Suddenly a strong wind blew from the ground, and he brushed against the cliff and was blown up into the sky by the wind.

"Big Griffin?"

Ailin spun in midair, stunned for a moment.

It's not that he didn't think of sending a message to the griffin, but after [Demon Hunting], just when he realized this problem, the violent explosion made him dizzy.

After waking up, the cliff was right in front of me.

Just three or four seconds is not even enough to think of a last word.

What's more, the big griffin at the entrance of the valley would notice where his master was, take off from the ground, and avoid the aftermath of the explosion to catch him accurately.

I just didn't expect the big griffin to be so capable.

"Wow~"

The big griffin seemed to sense Ailin's thoughts, and a feeling of pride came from its mind, as if asking for praise.

Then, while spinning, Ailin felt the back collar of his breastplate being picked up, and his eyes blurred.

The unique fishy smell of the griffin came like a tide, and he was buried in the hard black mane.

"What a good girl!"

He praised it in his mind, and used the last of his strength to grasp the mane in his hand.

"Wow~"

The great griffin let out a satisfied cry, flapped its wings, and flew high into the sky.

"Survived..."

The cool breeze of the summer night blew, and Ailin let out a long breath, and his whole body relaxed.

At this moment, drowsiness and the muscles all over the body also came to the fore, and the muscles became sore and weak at the slightest stretch.

However, he did not allow sleepiness to urge him to close his eyes. Instead, he bit the tip of his tongue and perked up again.

after all……

It's all over the place.

He took out the white honey from the reagent bag with difficulty and drank it to expel the toxins.

The dark blood vessels at the edge of his eye sockets gradually faded away as the toxins from the potion in his blood were metabolized through sweat, which made Ailin look much better.

But when he had a thought, he put the Wild Hunt's expedition armor back into the Demon Hunting Notes...

The "Greaves·Magic Enhancement" that enhanced the strength of spellcasting disappeared, causing the mutated organ next to the heart to dry up like a mountain spring in winter.

The strength-enhancing "Gauntlets - Iron Grip" made his face suddenly turn as pale as a deathly person.

The combination of the two caused Ailin's hands to loosen weakly and he was almost blown down by the strong wind in the sky.

"Wow~"

The great griffin cried out in worry and tilted its wings.

"Good girl, I'm fine." Ailin gasped, and his hands trembled as he clenched the mane of the big griffin again.

"Although the power of 'Beast Roar: Furious' under [Demon Hunt] is several times greater than before, the side effects have also doubled," he felt the strong weakness coming from his limbs and bones, "My current strength is no more than that of a five or six-year-old child..."

"It will take at least two days to fully recover." Ailin sighed.

Two days...

In the past, this number was only two hours at most, and at the shortest, half an hour would be enough as long as "Beast Roar: Rampage" ended quickly enough.

And it won't be like it is now. Not to mention the spike demons and giant zombies, even a farmer's pitchfork might kill him.

"But after expelling the evil god, there's actually nothing to worry about in two days..."

Before Ailin finished speaking, his ears suddenly moved.

After the explosion gradually faded, there seemed to be... a human voice on the ground...

No, more accurately it was cheers.

The loud and joyful cheers rose from the ground and reached the sky.

That kind of happy and joyful mood, even at an altitude of several hundred meters, infected Ailin and made him curl the corners of his mouth.

More than that.

Someone... no... everyone was calling out to him.

He heard his name, heard his various embarrassing titles, heard...

The traces he left in this world...

"I feel pretty good!" Ailin smiled, and the fatigue that surged from deep within his body seemed to have eased a lot. "But I'm also a knight of Elland, the King of May Day, the Ghost Slayer, and the Blue Death..."

How can so many people stand on the "good girl"?
"Don't you think so?" Ailin smiled and patted the big griffin's neck gently.

"Huh?"

The big griffin tilted its head to try to see its back, but its lush mane blocked it.

The wings tilted and it felt like they were about to throw Aelin off, then they stopped.

"Hahaha~"

Ailin laughed out loud at the big griffin's behavior: "If it's not a real person, don't look for it."

"Huh??"

After a few jokes, the feeling of weakness in my body was slightly relieved.

Although he was still a child of five or six years old, he could stand normally by holding the mane of the giant griffin.

"It's time to report safety," Ailin supported the big griffin, tilted his head and saw that the dust and fog below had gradually dissipated. He took two deep breaths and whispered in his mind, "Go down, good girl." "Screech!"

The big griffin seemed to know the master's physical condition, and slowly flapped its wings and flew towards the ground.

"This good girl is becoming more and more humane." Ailin praised her in his heart.

As he got closer to the ground, his eyes couldn't help but focus on the center of the valley.

of course.

He was now looking at the dust rising in the center of the valley, not to see clearly whether the demon summoning ritual and the evil god were completely dead.

[Demon Hunter] never holds back and is very reliable.

Moreover, the tone of the evil god's last mental fluctuations also clearly showed that [Demon Hunting] had caused him to suffer a huge "loss", although...

Ailin didn't know what this "loss" was, and he was even more curious about the [Demon Hunter], or the Demon Hunter Notes that gave him the [Demon Hunter], what kind of status it was, and how it could even take advantage of the evil god.

The reason why his attention was focused on the valley was because he remembered that before expelling the evil god, the intersection of the celestial spheres also sent three visitors from other worlds.

The large monster sent by the ghoul's celestial sphere intersection was thrown to the ground by the summoning ritual with one tentacle, and its life or death was unknown, so it can be ignored.

The Corruption Demon is also a small monster. Logically speaking, it may be stronger than the Water Ghost King once summoned, but there is also a limit.

But the giant ghoul is not a small creature. Although it is a little weaker, it is also a real large monster.

When a large monster's celestial sphere intersects, what level of monster will be teleported?

Ailin thought about it and urged the big griffin to speed up.

When the demon summoning ritual is still in place, whatever is summoned by the intersection of the celestial spheres will be his help.

But after he destroyed the demon summoning ritual, it became a threat, especially when the human coalition was still immersed in the joy of expelling the evil god...

Of course, even if he rushed over now, he would not be able to fight.

But the big griffin and the sharp claw can let the gravity of this world teach them how to behave.

The premise is that these monsters have not yet recovered their strength from the impact of the intersection of the celestial spheres and the explosion of the evil god.

But to be honest, even if they wake up, it doesn’t really matter. There are so many corpse-eating creatures in the valley, and these two won’t make a difference.

But those two "aliens" are different from the giant ghoul and spike demon, which they know well. After all, they may be unfamiliar large monsters, and it is hard to say what strange abilities they may have.

If it can be solved simply, it is better to solve it simply.

"The crusade has not yet concluded, which is the bad thing." Ailin frowned as he looked at the valley still filled with thick smoke. "Right now, I can't even figure out which monsters are dead and which are still alive."

The rewards for the crusade have not yet been calculated.

The Demon Hunter's Notes has a set of very rigorous escape judgments, the principles of which Erin doesn't know. And as the level of his personal panel and the evaluation in the notes get higher and higher, the escape judgments become more and more stringent.

When he first arrived in Kaer Morhen, he could still use the safe escape from combat to get some experience beads.

But ever since his evaluation changed from "new demon hunter" to "demon hunter", his cleverness has basically been completely eliminated.

It seems that settlement will only take place after both conditions, absolute safety in the environment and absolute escape from war in his mind, are met.

It was gray and all was covered with dust, except for the glittering golden ground at the valley entrance, which was getting closer and closer.

The demon hunter's keen senses allowed him to see the crowd cheering for the "God Slayer" and the corpse-eating creatures on the ground after the smoke and dust gradually dissipated.

He didn't care about his new title, although he felt a little ashamed. After all, he only expelled the evil god, not really killed him.

However, titles are not given by oneself. Once they are recognized by the public, they cannot be taken away even if one wants to. So it has nothing to do with Ailin now.

But the screaming and roaring corpse-eating creatures on the ground suddenly reminded him of something very important.

He quickly opened the Demon Hunting Notes.

I first jumped to the system prompt to look at the records, and then opened the task list with concern.

Corpse-eating creatures:

……

[Hunting Mission: Ghoul II (Kill Water Ghost 213/250)]

[Hunting Mission: Corruption Demon II (Kill Corruption Demon 73/100)]

[Hunting Mission: Giant Ghoul II (Kill the Giant Ghoul 13/20)]

[Hunting Mission: Spike Demon I (Kill Spike Demon 7/10)]

……

"...37 ghouls...27 scavengers...7 giant ghouls...3 spike demons..."

Ailin broke out in a cold sweat.

These numbers actually seemed very high in the past.

Even if there are more than thirty of the most common ghouls, it will take a long time to find them as ghouls usually appear in small groups of four or five.

Not to mention the rarer Carrion Fiends, and the large corpse-eating creatures like the Giant Ghoul and the Spike Fiend.

Ordinary demon hunters rarely encounter one once a year.

but……

but!

But this time it was different. The entire valley was filled with corpse-eating creatures.

If you're not careful, the summoning ritual will be affected by him, and it will raise and lower its tentacles a few times, and the corpse-eating creatures that are usually hard to find will be trampled to death like ordinary ants on the roadside.

If his final [Demon Hunting] attack had been released a few seconds later, the thirty-seven ghouls would have been wiped out, and the same went for the corrosive demons, giant ghouls, and spike demons.

The Spiked Demon is not a big deal, it’s just a first-stage hunting mission.

But if the hunting missions for the second-stage ghouls, rot demons, and giant ghouls were accidentally completed...

Just thinking about this possibility made Ailin shudder violently.

After the Apprentice Fighting Competition, there was a grand scene of water ghosts merging with foreign powers. Now everyone, including the sorceress, is just a spent force and cannot deal with any foreign fusion at all.

"But then again, these hunting missions that are about to reach a critical point have to be released somewhere..."

He stroked the stubble on his chin and thought:

"First of all, this place must not be Elland, and we must be strong enough and have high enough city walls... Well... the height of the city walls is not necessary, what's more important is to be able to react in time..."

"When I think about it..."

Ailin looked up thoughtfully toward the northeast, at the starry night sky.

"...The strength there is indeed very strong. Even though their vitality has been severely damaged, they are still one of the best in the entire northern continent..."

"And the timely reaction...tsk tsk..."

"Is there anyone in the entire northern continent more vigilant than there?"

"There are no civilians yet, not to mention that in the foreseeable future, the resources of the northern countries will be gathered to support that place due to the threat of the Wild Hunt..."

"Not only that, anything that happens there won't be surprising. As long as it's kept secret, no one can link it to me."

The more he thought about it, the brighter his blue cat eyes sparkled: "It's simply the place chosen by heaven where the celestial spheres meet and the place where foreign lands merge!"

"But in this case, wouldn't it be too tragic and too targeted..."

Ailin thought about it and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

"but……"

"Ban Ade is so miserable. What does it have to do with a demon hunter like me?"

(End of this chapter)