The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 196: Should good people be held at gunpoint?

Kaer Morhen, along with Kaer Sirens, Heinkaveh, Gorsveld, Behelt Naar, and Biasuf Alzarea, is the headquarters of a witcher academy.

Twenty-three witchers and forty apprentices once lived in this castle. Every winter, they would gather together to recount their adventures of the year and complain about the unruly people who worked for them without pay.

Although they do not have the blood ties that are thicker than water, they are better than a family.

When the winter snow melts, most of the witchers will leave the castle and head to the northern countries to help the troubled farmers and help them eliminate monsters.

However, the actions of the demon hunters are not welcomed by a certain group.

They saw the witchers' actions of eliminating harm to the people, but they resented it.

So they spread books and publications full of lies and false information, such as "Narratives of the Monster Hunter" and "Monsters, Portraits of Witchers (Volume 1)", in order to incite the ignorant nobles and common people.

They succeeded.

They instigated a massacre against the witchers.

The Siege of Kaer Morhen, also known as the Massacre of Kaer Morhen.

Including the previous Grand Master, the vast majority of demon hunters, apprentices and resident warlocks were brutally murdered in this massacre.

"Wait, I think I know this. My uncle once mentioned it to me. Isn't that..."

Fringilla suddenly stopped talking.

Her eyes looked over.

Noticing her gaze, Lynn waved a hand.

"I'm fine, Fringilla, let's go."

The Kaer Morhen Massacre is a thing of the past.

There's nothing to hide.

Moreover, he had a vague premonition.

If this is the nightmare world that was created, then the depths of the nightmare they are going to should be inside Kaer Morhen Castle.

The two entered the camp.

Just as Fringilla said, everything in this world is an illusion.

The soldiers standing guard and patrolling in the camp seemed not to see the two men, and did not stop them, but let them go straight in.

In this way they came to the center of the camp, in front of the most magnificent tent.

Then, both of them saw that a military meeting was taking place inside.

Sitting at the head of the long table was a tall and burly man wearing heavy armor, with a two-handed sword placed next to his chair.

Lynn knew who he was.

He is the culprit who captured Kaer Morhen, King Władysław of Kaedwen.

After he ascended the throne, he implemented a brutal reign of terror in Kaedwen for eight years.

During his eight-year reign, his hands were stained with blood, and it was impossible to count how many innocent people died because of his orders.

He killed these people for no reason. Sometimes he might just think that "someone should be killed" and order his guards to randomly select a "lucky person" and drag him out for execution.

Because of the countless murders he had committed, he even invented a whole new machine called the guillotine.

This was a machine for rapid beheading, quicker than the gallows and taking up less space.

Just one guillotine could execute a large number of "prisoners" in a short period of time.

The Kaedweni endured his brutal rule for eight years, and then, unable to bear it any longer, they launched a vigorous revolution. Even the army that had once assisted Władysław switched sides and joined the people.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Władysław tried to escape, but because he was too fat, he could not even ride a warhorse.

He could only let his trusted associates carry the sedan chair.

Then as expected, an accident happened. He was caught before he could escape far from the palace.

Ironically, it was the guillotine he himself invented that was used to execute Władysław.

Now, the noble man's head and his body were still well connected, and he roared like a porcupine.

"Lady Tissaia, what did you just mean by that? Did you come all the way from Temeria just to humiliate me?! To humiliate a king with noble blood flowing in his veins?!"

Opposite Władysław, sitting on the left side of the long table, was a black-haired woman in a robe.

Tissaia de Vris, the central figure in the Brotherhood of Warlocks and one of the five core members of the Society of Gifts and Crafts.

By the time of Lynn's death in 1251, she had already abdicated in favor of a more capable person.

During the past illusion that took place in the world of the book, she was the dean of Aretuza Academy.

Faced with the king's anger, Tishaya was not afraid at all, but spoke calmly.

"Your Majesty Władysław, I certainly do not mean to humiliate you, but rather to stop you and avoid bloodshed and conflict."

"Ha!" Władysław said, as if he had just heard the funniest joke. "I have thousands of soldiers under my command, and there are only a few dozen mutant freaks in that castle. A single spit from each of them would drown them alive."

Tishaya was not as optimistic as the king, she said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, I certainly don't doubt it, but have you ever considered that it is the Witchers who are able to eliminate the monsters wreaking havoc in the fields, allowing your farmers to farm in peace, and allowing your army to fight neighboring countries without worrying about the consequences?"

"If you wipe out all the demon hunters, what will you do when the monsters appear again? Send an army to destroy them?"

At this moment, on the other side of the long table, a thin, bald sorcerer sneered.

"Ms. Tissaia's remarks are a bit too alarmist. Times have changed. The number of monsters in this world has plummeted. Demon hunters are monster killers, but if there were no monsters, what would monster killers be for?"

"The Blue Mountains are Kaedwen's sphere of influence. Those filthy mutants have built their nest in the royal territory without your permission, without swearing allegiance to your majesty, and without paying any military obligations or taxes..."

"If a commoner had dared to be so disrespectful, he would have been hanged from a tree with his family, his hut would have been burned, and the smoke rising into the sky would have been a warning to others not to try to challenge the king's authority."

Tisha frowned and looked at the bald sorcerer who was talking nonsense.

Haiya·Puli.

The dean of Ban Ade Academy, the core of the Warlock Brotherhood, and another core member of the Association of Talents and Arts.

It was precisely because of Baya's persistent attempts to persuade King Władysław that the witcher would pose a threat to his rule that the current situation has arisen.

Only a fool would believe that the Witcher was trying to seize power.

The code of conduct for demon hunters requires them to remain politically neutral and not get involved in any political struggles.

Although the schools of witchers are diverse and their personalities are different, they have miraculously not participated in any political struggles.

what?
You mean the cat school?
Even the Cat School, they kill people on orders, they do it for money, not for any political purpose.

Therefore, Haiya Puli's words are completely untenable.

He simply couldn't stand the existence of forces that were not under his control.

Plus, he covets the vast collection of books in Kaer Morhen Castle.

Unfortunately, King Władysław seemed to believe Baiya's conspiracy theory.

(End of this chapter)