The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 299 The dust has settled
There are no hidden stairs extending downwards.

This narrow passage couldn't be a trick.

Lynn turned his gaze back to the outer wall of the main castle.

Excluding the possibility that it is a dead end, the problem can only occur on the outer wall of the main fort.

A design like this would most likely involve a hidden door somewhere on the outer wall of the main castle, behind which would be the castle's secret room.

of course.

In order to confuse others, the secret room does not necessarily have to be designed at the end of a narrow corridor.

It could also be in the middle of the aisle or somewhere else.

Since there is a hidden door, there must be a mark on the outer wall.

So Lynn began to walk along the narrow aisle and observe the outer wall carefully.

When he was about two-thirds of the way down the aisle, he suddenly smelled a faint, unique odor.

He couldn't say what was strange about the smell, but he didn't smell it in any other floors or rooms of the castle.

Only here...

Lynn looked at the outer wall in front of him, and then activated his witcher senses.

A chaotic array of pheromones appeared in the witcher's sight, among which there was a thorn flower pattern somewhere on the outer wall, which was very conspicuous.

But when he turned off his witcher senses, the thorn flower pattern would disappear without a trace, just like the other pheromones.

“It turns out to be invisible ink.”

Lynn suddenly realized.

As the name suggests, invisible ink is a type of ink that will automatically become invisible after a period of time after it is written.

This ink will emit a faint unique smell. Of course, this smell is actually very light and ordinary people can hardly smell it.

Only a demon hunter can detect it.

Lynn activated his witcher senses again and carefully and repeatedly touched the wall where the thorn flower pattern was painted with invisible ink. Sure enough, he found that this wall was different from other places.

Then he pressed it.

Rumbling--

A stone door slid open in the wall in front of me.

Lynn added another Quinn shield to himself before walking in.

Inside is a bedroom.

But unlike an ordinary bedroom, there is not even a window except for small holes and gaps for ventilation.

There was no other exit, so he could only go out through the hidden stone door he had just come in through.

A skeleton wearing a rotten long dress lies on a "bed" full of gold coins.

Even though the dress had rotted, Lynn could still tell that it was the same dress worn by the evil lady.

In the corner of the room, there was a thick hardcover book covered in dust, and next to it was a skeleton sitting against the wall, holding a quill.

Lynn first took out the skeleton wearing a rotten dress and the skeleton holding a feather pen and burned them with the Igni Sign.

The evil spirit of the lady appears again.

But without the Zombie Knight as its Gundam, a mere Gundam pilot is no match for Lin En.

After destroying the evil spirit of the lady for the last time, Lin En returned to the secret room. Instead of touching the gold coins, he picked up the thick hardcover book covered in dust and began to read.

After reading this book, Lin En finally understood what had happened in the castle before, or should I say its history:
The ancestors of the Thornflower family who ruled this castle were not from the Isles, but from Toussaints. They had ruled here for many generations long before the Drummond family came to the south of Great Skellige.

Although the Thornflower family occupied the southeastern part of Great Skellige, they were not affiliated with the Quet family in the northern part of Great Skellige. And unlike the Drummond family, there were rarely any conflicts between the two families.

By the time of the last head of the family, he, like all previous generations of the Thornflower family, also believed in the Lady of the Lake (when the Thornflower family left Toussaint and came to Great Skellige Island, they still did not change their beliefs to adapt to local customs).

But his faith was put to a great test not long after he succeeded to the position of head of the family.

His beloved wife passed away due to illness.

From then on, the last patriarch of the family locked himself in the chapel all day, praying to the Lady of the Lake, asking her to resurrect his wife.

And this is of course impossible.

The vassal officials were anxious and worried that their lord was unable to get over his grief, but they had no better solution.

They had no choice but to try their best to handle the affairs of the territory and avoid unrest in the Thorn Flower Family.

Just like that, I don’t know how long passed.

Until one day, the last head of the family finally left the chapel.

The vassals were delighted.

I thought the Lord had finally recovered.

But what I didn't expect was that this was the beginning of a nightmare.

Because the last head of the family announced that from now on, the Thorn Flower family would give up their belief in the Lady of the Lake.

Instead, they offered worship and sacrifices to the local evil god Svalblom.

Such an approach naturally caused dissatisfaction among the family's vassals.

Who would have thought that the last head of the family would actually execute the vassal who voiced the most opposition.

The remaining retainers dared not say anything more.

Then, in the following years, due to the perverse actions of the last head of the family, the once prosperous territory was severely damaged.

Finally, the subjects, unable to bear it any longer, marched towards the Castle of Thornflower under the instigation and instigation of those with ulterior motives.

The captain of the guard who was directly under the head of the Thorn Flower family had already been bribed by other vassals.

Faced with the angry subjects, instead of resisting, he opened the castle gates, allowing them to easily break into the castle.

The last head of the family put on his ancestral armor and charged into the crowd, killing many people easily. However, he was ultimately outnumbered and was stabbed into a hedgehog by countless pitchforks.

Next, the subjects plundered the castle.

They desperately stuffed their hands and bodies with treasures, and some even fought for the throne of the lord, until their heads were broken and bloody.

Then, the evil spirit appeared.

No one knows why the evil spirits appear.

In short, when the evil spirit appears, the people who have not left the castle will never be able to leave.

The only survivor is the person who recorded this book.

He was originally the intelligence chief of a vassal of the Thorn Flower Family. The siege of the Thorn Flower Castle was caused by him and his men deliberately stirring up trouble and emotions.

It was also his credit that he bribed the captain of the guard of the Thorn Flower Family with a large sum of money and made him rebel.

He deliberately mixed in with the rebels in order to obtain first-hand information and record it so that he could provide a righteous reputation in the future when his lord came to power and inherited the Thorn Flower Family.

Who knew that the opposite would happen.

Although he managed to escape into the secret room and survived, he was unable to leave.

Eventually died in despair.

(End of this chapter)