Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf.

Chapter 514 The once glorious miracle!
The deep secret passage was dim and dark, and so quiet that one could hear the cold wind rubbing against the rough rock walls, like the breathing of a crawling ferocious beast.

"Whether I want to or not, I will go down this path sooner or later, right?"

His tone was a little helpless.

Vera was silent because she couldn't refute.

The source of magic, the wild hunt, the great griffin, the spiked demon, the leopard spirit, the monster's nest, the large-scale corpse-eating creature group, the evil god's host... If we push it back further, there are also the groups of monsters that intersect the celestial spheres, and the large-scale demon spirits that attack the city...

Any of these dangers could kill an ordinary demon hunter.

Most of the demon hunter masters in the northern continent may never experience so many grand scenes in their lifetime.

If Ailin had not been able to improve his strength at an inhumanly fast speed and had considerable luck, he would have died in one disaster after another.

Miracle child!

Is this the miracle child?

In just half a year, he had already encountered numerous hardships.

What happens next?

What will he encounter next?
The real evil god?
Vera asked herself and put herself in the other person's shoes.

If she doesn’t advance, she will die... Under such pressure, what choice does her child have?

He had no choice but to move forward, always forward.

Until the blood drained from the body, the flesh was eaten away, and the clear eyes were covered with the white film of death...

Vera was so frightened that her whole body trembled and she dared not think any further.

The cold wind blew on her exposed arms, but it was like an axe blade cutting her flesh, hammering her bones and blood, and piercing her heart.

"Ms. Vera?"

Hearing Ailin's call, Vera, who had been immersed in bloody imaginations for some time, shuddered suddenly, her body shook, and she collapsed weakly, leaning against the rock wall.

"Ms. Vera, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that the sorceress was unwell, Ailin immediately stepped forward to support her.

The sorceress's forearm tentacles were colder than the damp rock walls.

"I'm fine." The sorceress waved her hand and stood up straight by holding the rock wall.

"She must be tired these past few days." Seeing Vera standing firm, Ailin let go of her hand, then felt the chill around her and advised softly, "The environment in this secret passage is too cold. Let's go out first."

No! I'm afraid!

Vera looked at Arlin with her eyes. She wanted to scream, to hug him immediately and take him away to the ends of the earth to escape his horrible fate.

But in the end, she just remained silent for a few seconds and nodded slightly.

Because she knew that Ailin would not agree to her request. She had tried countless times before the mountain trial.

Her child was a hero, not a cowardly wimp.

Although she hoped that he was the latter...

So, what can she do?

"Let's go," Vera withdrew her gaze from Aelin's face and slowly walked towards the exit of the secret passage. "Let's talk about the Great Deed Container while we walk."

Ailin, who was still thinking about how to convince her, was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then smiled and said, "Okay, Ms. Vera."

……

"Crack squeak~"

The door to the secret passage rubbed against each other behind him, fitting tightly.

Vera snapped her fingers, and everything in front of the secret room, including the arrangement of dust on the ground, returned to its original state. There was no sign that the empty wall in front of her was the entrance to the secret passage.

"How much do you know about the Great Deed Container?" Vera glanced at Aylin and walked down the stairs.

"I only know a name," Ailin shook his head. "Based on the name, I guess the Great Deeds Container should be a container built with so-called 'Great Deeds', or a container that 'holds' Great Deeds?"

Vera nodded: "You guessed it right, the Great Cause Container is the container cast by the Great Cause."

"What is that great cause?"

"The literal interpretation is a great cause, an achievement that can be spread and praised by people," Vera explained, "but in essence, what constitutes the container of the great cause is not what the person who achieved the great cause did."

"It's the strong emotions of praise and admiration from intelligent beings that gathered after the great deeds were spread."

"After being purified, refined, and condensed through certain rituals, these emotions are integrated with the strength and body of the person who has accomplished great deeds, and the result is a vessel for great deeds."

"This is true for both warlocks and demon hunters."

"The difference is how great things are accomplished,"

It’s a bit like the Way of Faith… Ailin had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu from a Western fantasy novel about becoming a god.

But if you think about it more carefully, it seems completely different.

In his previous life, he had read many Western fantasy novels and played some games with Western fantasy settings. The steps of believing in and becoming a god in these games are actually roughly the same.

Through extreme events, a cognitive imprint is planted in a certain group of people—anchoring divinity.

The covenant that wrote the Oracle Tablets transformed abstract beliefs into a communicable symbol system - a concrete representation of doctrine.

Create a divine container, and ignite the gathered divinity in the container through a ritual - Tempering with Divine Fire.

Extract concrete priesthoods from chaotic beliefs, cut off mutually exclusive priesthoods, and achieve pure divinity - division of priesthoods.

Tear open a rift in the astral plane, and use the collective dreams of believers as bricks and stones to build the Kingdom of God - the Kingdom of God is constructed.

At this stage, in the system of belief in deification, one has already become a god.

But most of the time they will also need to undergo the divine review launched by existing gods - the trial of divine war.

After success, one needs to continue to absorb faith, but the more believers there are, the more the godhead will be distorted by desire.

Therefore, believing in becoming a god is actually a big pitfall in the general system.

However, although the Great Deeds Container is somewhat similar to the step of tempering with divine fire in the system of becoming a god through faith, and creating a divine container, Ailin had originally guessed this.

However, in Vera's words, the cognitive imprint that great deeds have left on the intelligent group does not seem to be important. What is more important is the emotions that the intelligent group has because of great deeds.

The "material" of the great deeds container is not great deeds, but emotions.

Ailin thought for a moment and asked, "The great deeds of the Great Deeds Container are the materials that make up the container. What about the container?"

"To achieve great things, what is the purpose of building a container?"

"You are very perceptive." Vera smiled appreciatively. "The purpose of building a great vessel is of course for power. We call it the omnipotent power, the power of the sage."

"Almighty power, the power of the sage..." Ailin frowned.

"Strength, speed, physique, perception, magic power..."

"The omnipotent power can be transformed into strength, speed, physique, and perception, and the sage's power can be transformed into perception and magic." Ailin was stunned.

He thought that the omnipotent power and the sage power were two names for the same power, but he didn't expect that they were two different abilities.

This is completely different from the truly omnipotent divine power in the fantasy novels of the previous life.

Vera did not explain further, but seemed to change the subject: "Do you know Geoffrey Monk?"

"A member of the Novigrad Alliance, the founder of the Brotherhood of Warlocks, the wizard who likes to capture genies?"

The Dijing is one of the four elemental elves that form the foundation of the Demon Hunter world. It is a powerful air elf. Its body is full of magic power and elemental essence, and it has its own consciousness and personality.

Moreover, Djinn is like the genie in the previous life's "Aladdin", who can help people realize their wishes.

According to legend, Djinn can fulfill even the most impossible wishes.

In the original novel, Yennefer once captured a Djinn in order to restore her fertility. However, due to various coincidences, Yennefer and Geralt were bound together by fate, causing their relationship to break up and reunite.

Such magical creatures are of course difficult to find and capture.

However, the story of Joffrey Monk, who was a hobby of catching Djinn, has been passed down to this day, at a time when other members of the Novigrad Alliance and the founder of the Warlock Brotherhood were not well-known. You can imagine his strength.

But why did Vera mention this person at this time?

"Clap~"

A snap of the fingers.

Without Ailin asking, Vera lit the wall lamp in the corridor, nodded, and said:
“The human body has its limits.”

"Whether you are a warlock or a demon hunter, no matter how much you practice and improve, your physical strength and magic power will always reach their limits at a certain point, and it will be difficult to continue to improve."

"Joffrey Monk was one of the first northerners to master the magics of the Old Race, and one of the first to reach the limits of a warlock."

"So Joffrey Monk created a method to condense a container for great deeds in order to break through the limits of human beings?" Ailin asked curiously.

Vera nodded, then shook her head:

"The method of condensing the Great Deeds Container comes from the ancient race, not created by Geoffrey Monk."

"However, he discovered a similar method of breaking limits through archaeological excavations, and then used the wishes of the spirits and his mastery of the magic of the ancient races to perfect it and make it fit the needs of human sorcerers."

“Of course, it was still very difficult and very dangerous.”

"Only one in ten people will succeed in an experiment. If you fail, your body and soul will be scattered across the world."

"At that time, the Brotherhood of Warlocks had just been established, and the inheritance among warlocks was passed down from master to apprentice, so the experiment did not last long before it was banned by Joffrey Monk himself."

"It is said that he and other members of the Novigrad Alliance have been studying the next steps."

The two came to the pointed arch window with a burning flame as the half-elf was still training under the scolding of his witcher mentor.

In the blink of an eye, several apprentices had more scars on their bodies.

"Did he succeed?" Ailin asked.

"There's no news of him." Vera shook her head. "After a long time, Herbert Stanmoreford of the Association of Talents and Crafts predicted his death and continued his work. After several generations of experiments, he created the method that the Warlock Brotherhood uses to condense the vessel of great deeds."

Ailin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something and asked worriedly, "Can I listen to these contents?"

"The following part cannot be told," Vera turned her gaze away from the half-elf outside the window and smiled softly, "What I just told you was just a story. What really needs to be kept secret is the specific process."

Ailin nodded. This was just like the development history of the Wolf School, the Griffin School, and the Bear School. Everyone knew the characteristics of swordsmanship, and the school itself would publicize it so that the client could conduct a screening.

However, the two-handed sword training methods and power generation methods of wolves, griffins, and bears are like a secret that is not passed on.

"but……"

Vera paused, her ruby ​​eyes staring into Aelin's, and she said lightly:
"Since you have the talent of a warlock and the secret contract, I will find a way to break through."

For some reason, the sorceress's gaze was as hot as the scorching sun at noon in midsummer, causing Aelin to look away uncomfortably.

"That shouldn't be necessary. Isn't there another way for demon hunters to condense a container for great deeds?"

"By the way, you just kept saying that the way warlocks condense containers for great deeds was improved by Geoffrey Monk and Herbert Stanmoreford."

"What about the witcher?"

"Herbert Stanmoreford, too?"

"Not Herbert Stanmoreford," Vera shook her head. "That was a man who left a distinguished mark in history, and you must know him."

"Who?" As soon as the question came out, a name immediately popped up in Ailin's mind.

"Alzu!"

The witcher and the sorceress said in unison.

Vera was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly: "Yes, it's Alzu."

"Don't you find it strange?"

"It is clear that the Demon Hunter was created by the wizard Cosimo Malaspina and Alzu, and Alzu is only Cosimo Malaspina's apprentice."

"Why is Arzu, and not Cosimo Malaspina, the most widely recognized 'father' of the witchers?"

"Why should an apprentice be above his mentor?"

Ailin was stunned for a moment, and said, "I always thought that Cosimo Malaspina died earlier than Alzu, or that Alzu's contribution to the Demon Hunter was greater than Cosimo Malaspina..."

"No," Vera interrupted. "On the contrary, Arzu interfered too much in the Dagger War for the throne of Temeria and released the unstable Double Cross Summoning Spell. He was killed by the uncontrolled saliva demon at a very young age for a warlock."

"Cosimo Malaspina lived much longer than Arzu."

"In addition, the Demon Hunter was a research project led by Cosimo Malaspina, and it was recognized as a failure at the time."

"Why do you think Arzu is more famous than Cosimo Malaspina in such a failed project?"

Vera did not wait for his answer and continued, "Because Alzu achieved far more than all the warlocks at that time, or to be more precise, far more than the legendary wizards of the Talent and Skills Association could have imagined, on the failed Demon Hunter project..."

Aelin swallowed, his mouth feeling dry.

"Yes," Vera nodded. "He made it possible for ordinary humans to surpass the limits of their physical bodies in a theoretically replicable way. He also provided examples."

"The 'superman theory' that the Risberg Civil Partnership is crazy about, which is the theory of completing the genes of ordinary humans to make them surpass non-human races in all aspects, both physically and mentally, was laid by Alzu."

"Then why did the demon hunter lose..." Ailin stopped talking as soon as he finished speaking.

Vera said: "Because of that example, in the subsequent repeated experiments, no success was achieved."

"Arzu and Cosimo Malaspina gave up on the 'superman theory' because it had been unproven for a long time and they were unwilling to waste any more time."

"But Arzu also surpassed his mentor and became famous because of that instance."

"You also know that instance."

Vera sighed and looked back in the direction of the secret passage:
"That's Zoey, Zoey Henrietta."

(End of this chapter)