Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf.

Chapter 554: The second demon hunter with a second mutation in the world! (4800 words)
"The condition has stabilized."

Vera, who had been sensing the "Iron Maiden" with her eyes closed, opened her eyes, turned around and nodded.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

"His-"

Every pore of the "Iron Maiden" is filled with a faint dark red gas.

The rate at which the gas overflowed was much slower than in the previous water ghost experiment.

After all, the water ghost was only seriously injured in the soul, and his body was intact, while Soi's body was already in extremely poor condition, so it was naturally impossible for him to be as rough and reckless as during the experiment.

Although it cannot be terminated once a secondary mutation occurs, it does not prevent the speed from being slower, and it is also convenient to deal with special situations.

Therefore, the entire process of Soy's secondary mutation is expected to last for an afternoon.

Everyone in the laboratory was silent.

However, no matter how deep the relationship with Soi is, no one can spend such a long time worrying and thinking about nothing.

So as Soi's condition stabilized, it was inevitable that some people began to recall the past, worry about the future, and consider the way forward...

And all these thoughts will eventually fall into the same point.

And since all the parties involved were present at the scene...

Then they started to look busy.

As an outsider, Geron Moreau never raised his head from the moment Soyi entered the "Iron Maiden" to the end.

A heavy shadow fell on his face, making it difficult to see his expression.

His hands silently touched this pipe, then that pipe, as if checking the tightness of the iron pipe.

However, problems may occur in any part of the "Iron Maiden" except these iron pipes, because they are newly made and the secondary mutation does not require high sealing.

Vesemir, Aristo, and Dante had nothing to do, so their hands were naturally busy, but their mouths and eyes were not idle either.

The three witcher masters exchanged one hundred and eighty glances in one second, and with the help of their mouth opening and closing shapes, they were able to communicate without any obstacles.

Dante looked at Vesemir and Aristo blankly: [Did you hear what the chief just said? What did he mean by Arryn being his child, the offspring of Henrietta and the Trience family?]

Vesemir's face was still filled with shock: [Henrietta is the chief's family, the ruling family of Toussaint, and Trience is Lady Vera's...]

[Don't talk nonsense, you know I'm not asking that,] Dante glared at him and interrupted him, [I mean Ai... How could Ailin be the child of the chief and Vera? ]

[Can a demon hunter and a sorceress have children? ! ! ]

[And leaving Soi aside, Ailin is only fourteen years old now, and Vera must have been over two hundred years old by then. Even if there was no erosion of magic, it would definitely be impossible... absolutely... this... this...]

Vesemir was even more shocked. He glanced at Vera carefully and took a step away from Dante with a face full of fear, as if to say "Don't let my blood splash on me": [You are going to die!!!]

[Female sorcerers can read minds, do you want to be the next Leto? ]

Dante glanced at Vera subconsciously and stopped talking.

At this time, Aristo seemed to come back to his senses and looked at Vesemir with a hesitant look: [Didn't you know this before? ]

[I don’t know,] Vesemir shook his head silently, [This is the first time I heard this news too…]

He looked at Aylin, who was staring at the "Iron Maiden", with emotion: [No wonder Vera treats Aylin better than the Chief, just like her biological child. It turns out that they are really biological children.]

Aristo looked dazed, followed his gaze to Aelin, and said nothing.

[Aristo,] Dante and Vesemir looked at each other and exchanged glances, [You don’t really want to be our chief, do you?]

Aristo's thick eyebrows stood up, as if he was humiliated, his face full of anger: [I have never thought of this! ]

Vesemir was puzzled: [Then why... did you agree just now? When the Chief approached me a few days ago, I immediately agreed.]

[Me too.] Dante also nodded.

Aristo glanced at the Iron Maiden:
[The Wolf School is different from other organizations in the Northern Continent. It has a loose structure and is just a place where demon hunters gather together for warmth.]

[Rather than saying that the Wolf School is an organization with strict hierarchy like the Warlock Brotherhood, it is more like a family in an ordinary village. ]

[“Every morning” the family members go their separate ways, some farm, some sell goods, some cook, all support the family in their own way, and then “in the evening” they come back to chat and rest.]

[We, the Demon Hunter Masters, have a higher status, but essentially we give more than we receive. ]

[In order to maintain this family, we paid most, or even all, of the bounty we earned from fighting for a whole year, without expecting any reward.]

[What warlock would be so selfless to the Warlock Brotherhood?]

[Which merchant from a chamber of commerce would devote all his energy to his own chamber of commerce? ]

[Which king or noble would not collect taxes, but instead give everything for the people? ]

Aristo did not wait for the two demon hunters' responses and shook his head firmly:

【No! 】

[The Wolf School is a family. What binds us together is emotion. We are brothers without blood ties.]

[In a family, when a grandfather or father passes away, is there anyone who can replace him? ]

Vesemir and Dante looked at each other and shook their heads.

Aristo continued: [Before the chief got into trouble, someone might have wanted to replace him, but it couldn't have been me.]

[Although I am younger than him, I am not much younger than him. I have accumulated more hidden injuries than him over the years.]

[I always thought that the god of death would knock on my door first in a severe winter.]

Vesemir and Dante looked at each other: [Then why...]

Aristo glanced at Ailin and sighed: [I was serious about what I said just now.]

[You all know the current situation of the Wolf School. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as being in a precarious situation.]

[Even in this state, it’s all thanks to Ailin. 】

[Ordinary demon hunters may not know this, but how could we not know it? ]

【The Wolf School is a burden to him.】

[To be honest, I don't know why he has such deep feelings for the school and is willing to give so much? ]

[You all know what a demon hunter apprentice from the Wolf School who has just passed the Trial of Choice, Green Grass, and High Mountain is like. Disgust is the mildest attitude.]

[Many people have more or less hatred, but as time goes by, they gradually let go of the rejection from the outside world and integrate into the society.]

[The original purpose of the Travel Trial was not just to let apprentices learn how to survive on this continent. 】

[But Ailin is not like that. He seems to have developed a deep affection for the school since the Trial of the Green Grass.]

Vesemir thought.

[Is it because of the Chief and Ms. Vera? ] Dante asked tentatively.

Vesemir, not Aristo, shook his head at this time: "I don't know how Arryn knew his life experience, but it was probably recently."

[Why?] Dante looked curious.

"You may not have noticed," Vesemir looked at Arryn, "when they first came back, Arryn and Vera were as close as real mother and son."

[But the next day after meeting the chief, we immediately became distant, as if a gap had suddenly appeared, and it has not been resolved until now.]

[Originally I thought it was because of Soi's serious injury that they were too busy to pay attention and were in a bad mood.]

[But now it seems that Ailin knew his life story not much earlier than the rest of us.]

After that, the three witcher masters fell silent.

The Witcher Order is far from being as glorious as it was when the Witcher Order was still in existence. At that time, due to the deliberate concealment of Alzu and Cosimo, many young people took the initiative to participate in the trial.

just now.

People will still respect them, respect real witchers, but if it were not for accidental laws or poverty, no one would take the initiative to participate in the trial, and no normal parent would voluntarily let their child become a witcher.

After a long while, Dante could not help but say: [Alin actually spent so much energy to find a way to save Soi... Chief...]

[If it were me, I would only hate that I couldn't kill him myself! ]

Vesemir said nothing. He knew that Dante was sold to the Wolf School by his father.

The person that Aristo mentioned, who after the trial, grew disgusted with the hostility towards the school, and finally reconciled with himself and the school over time, was Dante, and it should be said that this is the case with most of the Wolf School's demon hunters.

Aristo, who was closest to and most respected the Chief, did not refute, but silently looked at the child who was carefully observing the "Iron Maiden".

He also didn't know why the Chief would send his child to Kaer Morhen.

Even though he could not inherit the Grand Dukeship of Toussaint due to the long time, with him and Vera around, Arryn could live more comfortably than the king even if he was useless.

[Aelin has always been a sensible child,] Vesemir was deeply touched, [He is different from all the apprentices, and seems to have never had a rebellious period. After the Trial of the Grass, he grew up all of a sudden.]

[The Wolf School is a burden to him,] Aristo repeated his words again, his eyes fixed on him. [When he first became a demon hunter, Vesemir only took on five commissions a year. When he had bounties, he would go to brothels and taverns. He would only look for commissions when the bounties were gone.]

Vesemir looked embarrassed and said defensively: [Dante is the same.] [All demon hunters are the same.] Dante shrugged and did not refute.

Aristo shook his head: [But Ailin is not like that. Before he became the chief, he already had no time for himself. He was trying to save the school with all his heart...]

[But even so, if one day the school is really irreparable, he will still have other opportunities and a more relaxed life.]

[But once you sit in that position...]

[Enemy, compatriots, passers-by and even himself will not let him go...]

He turned to look at Vesemir and Dante: [Who can be so cruel as to do this? ]

Dante and Vesemir were silent.

[I didn’t think that much at the time.] Vesemir smiled bitterly.

[I didn't expect it either. I just think he is fully qualified.] Dante took a deep breath and looked at the "Iron Maiden" with complicated eyes. [But the Chief must have thought of it, and the Chief has made up his mind...]

Aristo said: [He is the strongest demon hunter in the world and the most selfless master of the school, but...]

He paused:

【Not a good father.】

[So you don't plan to keep your promise?] Dante asked.

Aristo was silent for a while and shook his head: [Aelin is not my child. I am only responsible for the current chief. As for the future chief...]

[At worst, I can build bridges and roads for him, and then die before him...]

Dante and Vesemir said nothing.

They didn't realize that the prerequisite for Ailin to take the chief position was Soi's death, or they deliberately ignored it.

After all, how could a case that had never been cured be saved by a half-baked person who had only been involved for half a month?

Although they were reluctant to admit it, they had actually been prepared in their hearts.

However, as time passed, Soi's condition remained very stable. Ailin, Vera and Ada Emin were close to the "Iron Maiden", their expressions became more and more nervous, but they did not make any unusual movements.

This gave several people a faint sense of hope.

Soi/Chief, can you really survive?

"laugh--"

The dark red gas was completely emptied, and the liquid in the crystal containers connected by several iron pipes was completely exhausted.

"Next stage!" Ailin pulled the wrench that had been in his right hand all the way to the bottom.

Jeroen Moreau was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Ailin with surprise in his eyes.

He didn't even know that secondary mutations were divided into stages, which was very different from Thomas Moreau's experimental process.

Of course, although he was nominally the deputy, he only helped to fetch materials and clean the containers in the morning. Ailin was already more familiar with the secondary mutation process than he was.

But this is completely different from the water ghost’s experiment this morning!

The process changes are so drastic that they are almost two different secondary mutations.

However, the arrow was on the string, and Jeroen Moreau could only restrain his expression and close the valves behind the "Iron Maiden" at the signal from Alin's eyes.

Ayling explained:
"The first stage is to use the mutant protein of the White Widow and materials such as the White Croton Flower and the Cypress Stem to forcibly heal Soi's body and perform a small-intensity mutation to reach the intensity required for the second mutation."

"very smooth!"

"But the next step is when the second mutation is most dangerous..."

Everyone felt nervous when they heard this.

"What do you need us to do?" Vera interrupted directly.

Ailin didn't care and said, "If everything is normal, then everything will be fine. But if I say to leave, you must teleport Soi out immediately!"

"Let me do it," said Ada Emin.

Vera nodded to Aelin, "She can, but what does it mean to break away? Can it stop the second mutation? Can it try again if it fails?"

"The secondary mutation cannot be stopped," Ailin shook his head and paused, "but if there is an accident, if you get out of it in time, you may be able to live longer."

As soon as the words fell, everyone had no time to react.

"His-"

The iron pipe trembled as it absorbed the solvent, and during the pressurized rune conversion, it turned into a gushing dark green gas that gushed out at a speed ten times faster than before.

Just at the moment when the dark green gas gushed out.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a roar of a dragon was heard from the "Iron Maiden".

Do not!
It was not a sound, but a mental shock.

In a flash, a tremendous pressure exploded, and the entire castle seemed to shake and tremble because of it.

A trance.

A giant red dragon as big as the main keep of Kaer Morhen suddenly appeared, staring at them with its ferocious scarlet vertical pupils.

Amidst the furious and unwilling roar, a scorching red light lit up in the red dragon's throat, and flames burned between each of its metallic scales.

It was gathering energy, intending to burn them all to ashes with its fiery breath.

But next second...

"Roar!"

Another roar came from behind.

Before he could look back, a giant swung his fist as big as a mountain and smashed it hard on the dragon's head.

The dragon wailed, and its breath was smashed into sparks.

"chief?!!"

The giant had Soi's face.

Ailin was stunned for just a moment, and the giant passed him and kicked the red dragon over with a kick that shook the mountains. The giant pinched the red dragon's neck and punched it like rain.

"Roar--"

The two giant beasts were right in front of him, engaging in the most primitive, brutal and bloody fight.
The dragon did not fail to resist. It tore at the giant's flesh and blood, causing wounds so deep that the bones could be seen.

However, the giant kept growing bigger, and his strength seemed to increase along with his size, until he gradually gained the upper hand.

When the giant's height exceeds that of the red dragon...

"Roar!"

Amid the red dragon's screams, the giant grabbed the dragon's wing, opened his bloody mouth, and bit the dragon's neck.

Dragon blood spurted out.

After another trance, the primitive and wild battle in front of me suddenly disappeared, and in front of me was the "Iron Maiden" that kept emitting dark green gas.

He returned to Kaer Morhen, to the witcher's laboratory on the first basement floor.

"This... this... this should be a good sign, right?" Dante's confused voice suddenly broke the silence of the laboratory.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Ailin's face.

"Should... should be, right?" Ailin was stunned, his tone a little uncertain.

The voice just fell.

The dragon's pressure, which had briefly disappeared, suddenly reappeared, but quickly weakened before anyone could react.

At the same time, another kind of pressure, a more friendly pressure, slowly increased.

When the dragon's might completely disappeared, another kind of pressure reached its peak.

"Whoo~"

With a slight sound, green gas spurted out from the hole in front of the Iron Maiden.

"Click."

After the slight sound of the lock being unlocked, the Iron Maiden opened her arms.

The hazy dark green mist spread, and a burly figure slipped out of the arms of the "Iron Maiden".

The world's second second mutant demon hunter, the Grandmaster of the Wolf School, Soi...

Out of seclusion!
(End of this chapter)