Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf.

Chapter 529 Demon Hunters and Warlocks Are Both Elves
As Arryn entered the castle hall, he found Vera staring into the eyes of Ada Emin.

He couldn't tell what kind of emotion it was, but it wasn't anger or resistance, it was more like mutual sympathy.

He squinted to see more clearly.

The two most powerful sorceresses in the Northern Continent, however, heard the noise of the door opening and tacitly looked away.

"Erin, you're finally here!" It was Vesemir who spoke.

He, Aristo and Dante were standing by the fireplace in the restaurant, keeping a fairly distant distance from the two sorceresses.

"Are you all going?"

Ailin was somewhat surprised when he saw the three witcher masters fully armed.

He remembered the mission of the second mutation. The monsters he had to face from beginning to end were just a few water ghosts, a few black panther statue guardians, a few gargoyles, and he had to hunt a few white widow centipedes to gather the materials for the second mutation. That was all.

The black panther statue guardian and the gargoyle are certainly not easy to deal with, but he is not Geralt who broke in privately. Ada Emin and Vera will definitely "ask" about the mechanism inside.

The only ones they really had to deal with were water ghosts and white widow centipedes, and he and Vera were more than enough to handle them.

Has something changed in the laboratory?
“We’re not going,” Vesemir glanced at Vera and Ada Emin and shook his head quickly. “The person going with you this time is Ms. Ada Emin. We…we…”

"They are just here to worry about nothing." Ada Emin's voice was lazy and her tone was straightforward.

The three witcher masters of the Wolf School looked at each other. Vesemir and Aristo opened their mouths but said nothing in the end.

Dante, who was already in low spirits, became even more depressed after hearing this.

"I'll find a way." Arlin approached and whispered to comfort him. Then he thought of Vesemir's words and looked at Lady Ada Emin. "Vesemir said that we should act together this time?"

Ada Emin raised an eyebrow: "Your Veera... teacher, if you don't trust me to stay alone in Kaer Morhen, I can only accompany you on a trip."

The female elf deliberately paused before calling Vera.

The three witcher masters of the Wolf School did not notice this, but Ailin subconsciously looked at Vera.

To be honest, this was the first time that Aelin met Vera after that confession.

In the past few days, he often imagined what the first meeting would be like after the confession, and how he should behave to be considered normal.

Unexpectedly, after we really met again, everything was so dull, as if the confession had never happened.

Do not!
Still different!

Vera looked at him with a more loving and gentle look, and without the worry she often noticed in the past, as if...

After letting go of some of the burdens, I inexplicably felt like I had seen through the mundane world...

"It's just that Soyi can't do without me." Vera nodded to him and said softly.

Aelin raised an eyebrow, knowing that this meant that Ada Emin knew about their relationship.

The relationship between Vera and Aida Emin is a little unusual. She is almost on the same level as Ianna, the high priestess of the Temple of Meliteli and her goddaughter.

"Soi... Chief, what's the situation now?" Ailin thought for a moment and asked.

"Not very well." Vera shook his head gently, but the gloom on his face was much less than when he just returned to Kaer Morhen.

"The second mutation should be effective," Ailin consoled her in a somewhat stiff tone, then looked at Ada Emin, "Ms. Ada Emin, is there anything else you want to prepare?"

"If not, let's go now."

Ada Emin glanced at Vera, nodded, and waved.

An orange-red portal appeared in the hall.

Ada Emin's portal skills are obviously much better than Vera's. The noise when the portal appears is extremely small and normal people cannot hear it at all.

I just don't know if there is any blessing in terms of transmission distance.

"I'm leaving. Wait for my good news."

Ailin took a deep breath, his eyes swept across the faces of Vesemir, Aristo and Dante, and finally stopped for a moment on Vera's face. He turned back resolutely and followed Ada Emin towards the portal.

"Aylin!"

Just before he was about to step into the portal, Vera's cold voice suddenly sounded behind him.

He turned around and saw the sorceress pursed her slightly pale lips.

"Alin, Soyi told you not to feel burdened. Everyone has their own destiny after all."

"If something is impossible, then there is no need to force it..."

Vera's voice was very soft, and she seemed to be trying her best not to burden him, but the struggle in her tone was more exposed the more she tried to hide it.

“There is hope.”

Ailin paused, said a few words, then turned back and walked into the silent portal.

……

The Elven Sage's portal was no different from Vera's, or his own.

The only difference is that it takes a little longer to move forward in the empty and magnificent darkness.

Ailin observed the "bridge" structure built by the starlight under his feet, hoping to gain some inspiration for improving the portal structure.

Of course, one cannot learn by oneself like the members of the Demon Hunting Corps, who can improve themselves and gain the experience needed to upgrade to the next level.

However, some minor improvements can be applied not only after reaching the corresponding level, but you can still learn something from them.

"You're doing much better than the average demon hunter."

Just as Arlin was learning the solid structure of the Star Bridge, the voice of Aida Emin suddenly sounded in his mind.

"You mean portal syndrome?"

Ailin raised his eyebrows: "In this respect, I am indeed somewhat different from ordinary demon hunters."

"This is not a small difference..." Ada Emin looked back at him, "I have never seen any demon hunter who is as relaxed as you are in the passage of the portal, as comfortable as you are..."

"Not even Elan of Larvik, Anahad, or even Soi."

"How brave they are in the outside world, how miserable they are here."

"Have you met Elan and Anahad?" Ailin asked with interest.

“Of course, I watched them grow up,” Ida Emin said without looking back. “Those were unforgettable years.”

Watching them grow up... Ailin was stunned when he heard this.

The Wolf School's records don't seem to show...

"Are you curious why my name is not in the lab book?" Ada Emin chuckled and guessed what he was thinking.

Ailin did not deny it, nodded, and said: "Vera said that you are not good at genetic mutation." "I am indeed not good at it," Ada Emin did not deny it, "because I did not participate in the transformation of human physique, but in other aspects."

"What aspect?"

"Spells and swordsmanship..."

"Sign?" Ailin paused and asked in surprise.

Swordplay is not difficult to understand, as the so-called Adepts and Elven Sages are naturally all kinds of things, and are proficient in everything from forging, sewing, divination, etc., not to mention the melee skills that all human warlocks can learn.

But Cosimo Malaspina and Arzu were both sorcerers, so how could they ask an elf to participate in the transformation of spells?

Aida Emin smiled and said, "You don't know enough about warlocks."

"Ever since the last 'Mage King' Farad the White died in the Warlock's civil war, it has become very difficult for Warlocks to encounter situations where they need to fight in their daily lives."

"The main hostile forces at that time were humans and elves. Most of the warlocks originated from us, Ain Sheedi, so the secular rulers of humans also rejected the participation of warlocks in the war."

"Later, it was because the violence controlled by the sorcerers became too dangerous for the rulers."

"Only when it is absolutely necessary will we recruit warlocks who are not so obedient because of the establishment of the Warlock Brotherhood."

"Therefore, elemental spells, especially offensive spells, are becoming less and less effective for an academic warlock."

"In order to enter a higher level of sorcerer, they focus more on certain practical fields, such as alchemy, or research fields, such as genetic mutation, and these two aspects of spells that can be used."

"So Cosimo Malaspina and Alzu, um, Alzu in the Demon Hunter Project, are not very proficient in elemental magic."

"I participated in the transformation of the Quen, Igni, Alder, Arden, Otrope, and Axi signs that you are using now."

"Especially the Axis Seal..."

Aida Emin drew an inverted triangle in the air: "Do you know what kind of spell this seal is?"

"What spell?" Ailin asked politely.

The sorceress turned around and gave him a look that said "you are very sensible" and said, "Ada Emin's mind-confusion spell."

She did not explain what specific effects the spell had.

However, spells named after a warlock must generally meet a number of conditions. First, they must be original, secondly, they must have power that is widely recognized, and of course the warlock himself must be willing.

Just like the "Vera's Body Transformation Spell" known as the Leech Transfiguration Spell.

In other words, this spell named "Ada Emin's Mind Bewitching Spell" is at least a signature spell recognized by Ada Emin herself.

Considering the effect of the Axis Seal, it is probably this mind-confusion technique that allowed Ada Emin to dig out the location of the laboratory from Thomas Moreau's mind.

Well, that's a pretty powerful spell.

Ailin was a little envious.

However, unique spells are rarely passed on to outsiders, and Ada Emin is not Vera, so Ailin only envied it for a moment and changed the subject:

"Then why is there no record of you left by the Wolf School?"

Aida Emin was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "How do you think the Witcher Cult fell apart?"

When Ailin heard this, he was stunned: "Isn't it because the monster resources are getting less and less, but the number of monster hunters in the Monster Hunter Cult is increasing?"

Ada Emin snorted disdainfully: "Do you really think that the Demon Hunter Cult's hundreds of demon hunters alone can wipe out all the monsters in the entire northern continent, and even Anahad has to compete with other companions for prey?"

"Isn't it?" Ailin was really confused this time.

He had heard about the history of the Demon Hunter's demise since he was a child, and had also read related information in his previous life.

Every relevant content is that the number of monsters has decreased due to the hunting of a large number of monster hunters, resulting in a gradual shortage of commissions from the Monster Hunter Cult.

In the end, a witcher killed the prey commissioned by Anahad in advance, which angered Anahad and led to his death, which became the fuse and set off the curtain of the disintegration of the witcher cult.

As for how the subsequent witcher schools split up, perhaps each school has its own explanation, but the origins are the same.

"No," Ida Emin shook her head, "or not all of it, only a small part."

"Of course, Anahad is a scumbag, that's for sure."

"It's true that the Demon Hunter Cult received fewer and fewer missions in the later period, but the essence is not that all the monsters in the northern continent were killed."

"What's the reason?" Ailin had some guesses in his mind.

Aida Emin glanced at him with disdain in her eyes: "Because the human nobles tacitly restricted the commission."

"The Demon Hunter Cult never died because of their duty, hunting monsters, but because humans tightened the noose around their necks little by little."

"Isn't it similar?"

She turned back and looked seriously into Aelin's eyes.

"Resemble what?" Ailin swallowed.

"It's very similar to what's happening to the Wolf School now," Ada Emin looked at the deep invisible darkness beside the Star Bridge, as if she saw the future of the Wolf School from it, "It was reused in the same way, and was gradually replaced in the same way. If it weren't for you, the Child of Miracles, it would eventually fall apart in the same way."

"Erin," she looked back and met his gaze, "A sword can be cleaned if it's dirty, sharpened if it's dull, and recast if it's broken. If it's cherished, it can be passed down for thousands of years. But if it's not valued, it might just be broken on the stone the day it's cast, and rusted away in the grass or deep ravines over time..."

"The Demon Hunter is the sharpest sword in the hands of humans. The only ones who can render a sword useless are humans themselves."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Ailin couldn't help asking.

Ida Emin did not answer. She turned back and continued walking forward, saying:

"The reason why the commissions of the Demon Hunter Cult are restricted is that most of the demon hunters in the cult have good character and helped Ein Sheedi who was driven to the edge of the world by humans."

"When the Demon Hunter Program first started, the relationship between humans and Ein Sheedi eased, so naturally everything was fine."

"But as time went on, the greed of the short-lived species became hard to suppress. They wanted more and wanted to exterminate Ain Sheedi."

"At that time, the actions of the Demon Hunter Cult naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of some nobles. They found that the Demon Hunter Cult was no longer a useful sword, so they naturally planned to destroy it..."

"I am also a short-lived human." Ailin couldn't help but interrupt.

"Oh, really?" Ida Emin didn't look back. "Are you really still human?"

"There are humans who can live for three or four hundred years, have vertical pupils, and can cast spells?"

"Warlock..."

"Are warlocks considered humans?" Aida Emin asked back, "Rather than saying that warlocks and demon hunters are humans, it's better to say that they are Ein Sheedi. You see, the similarities between us are higher than the similarities between you and humans, not to mention..."

She paused:

"Do humans really recognize you, recognize warlocks and witchers as their own kind?"

(End of this chapter)