The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 48 You can cheat your brothers, but don’t cheat yourself
That night, Mahakam held a grand banquet.

All dwarves can participate.

At this moment, everyone is here regardless of class or position.

Everyone is equal.

There was plenty of beer and barbecue at the party.

This is both a thank you and a farewell.

The noisy banquet lasted until late at night before it finally died down.

Geralt was forced to drink a lot of wine and was already drunk and unconscious when he was sent back to the guest room.

Fortunately, Lynn quietly slipped away halfway.

I didn't get forced to drink much.

Lynn sat on the bed and began to check the spoils from this trip down the mine.

First is the pile of ashes that the Red Plague Ghost turned into after his death.

Lynn and Geralt wrapped the ashes in felt and brought them back.

This is certainly not because the two of them have any bad taste.

But these are not ordinary ashes.

But it is ghost dust.

Basically, any evil spirit will drop this material.

Ghost dust is a type of alchemical material.

Just add buckthorn and fleabane to make Patrice's magic elixir.

That is the potion that can enhance the power of the witcher's sign.

Warlocks can also use it together with other alchemical materials to prepare potions suitable for warlock use.

Therefore, the price of ghost dust is often not cheap.

It’s still sold by gram.

Looking at the full bag of ghost dust, Lin En happily put it away.

Then you can sell it to the warlock and make another profit.

Then, Lynn took out a glass dish with a lid.

Inside is a red fleshy ball that looks like the corpus callosum.

This thing is also a trophy dropped from the Red Plague Ghost. It is called a mutation inducer.

Mutagen is a very important trophy for demon hunters.

Unfortunately, not all monsters will ship this thing.

Mutagens have three main effects.

First, it is used to boil herbs to make medicine.

That’s right, it’s the decoction necessary to trigger the Green Grass Trial that mutates ordinary people into demon hunters.

Each school has its own characteristics because each school uses different herbal decoction materials.

But the common point is that mutagenizers must be used to prepare herbal decoctions.

Secondly, mutagens can also be used to boil special decoctions.

This special decoction is more toxic than the ordinary potions commonly used by demon hunters, and of course it is more effective.

For example, decoctions made from demon spirits during the day can shorten the duration of a demon hunter's hypnosis, coma, and blindness.

For example, the Blood Demon Decoction can absorb the enemy's blood to heal its own injuries, etc...

Finally, mutagens have another very important role.

That is to help the demon hunter undergo a secondary mutation.

Mutation is the biggest difference between demon hunters and humans.

Although the survival rate of the Green Grass Trial is low...

Even though so much effort was put into it and such a huge price was paid... the demon hunter that was created was still a billion miles away from the super soldier that people knew.

but!

Note that I have to say but here.

The Demon Hunter's mutation isn't entirely useless.

Although demon hunters are not invulnerable to swords and guns, they have much higher resistance to poison than ordinary people and can take potions with various magical effects.

The mutation gave them the ability to use signs.

Don’t be superficial and think that the Witcher’s Sign is nothing special just because the Warlock calls it a cantrip.

Warlocks can have such thoughts because warlocks are noble spellcasters.

But it is not right for ordinary people to have the same idea.

You can lie to your brothers, but don’t lie to yourself.

Any demon hunter who has reached the level of a formal apprentice has a seal ability that is definitely not what some rural villagers think.

After all, the sigil is the only magic weapon for the demon hunter to fight against monsters.

It is easy to imagine that the means to deal with monsters would not be as bad as some people who deliberately spread rumors and slander the witcher say.

Finally, the mutation also enhances the demon hunter's physical functions.

It further enhances strength, agility, reaction speed, body coordination, endurance, body recovery ability, immune system, resistance to poisons, sensory abilities and other aspects.

All of the above are the changes that the Trial of Green Grass brings to the Demon Hunter.

The secondary mutation further enhances the demon hunter's abilities based on the Trial of Grass.

The direction of enhancement varies depending on the mutagen injected during the secondary mutation.

Mutagens are functionally divided into red, blue, and green.

Red enhances strength, blue enhances seals, and green enhances vitality.

Each mutagen is divided into weak, common and strong types.

What Lin En is holding in his hand now is a powerful red mutation inducer.

"A secondary mutation?"

As a person from another world who traveled from Earth, he certainly knew where the formula for the secondary mutation was.

In the fairy-tale-like Principality of Toussaint.

Of course, Toussaint has more than just secondary mutations, there are also master-level equipment blueprints from several schools, as well as some side quests that have an impact on the "future".

It seems that I have to find an opportunity to visit the Duchy of Toussaint in the future.

……

Two days later, Lynn, who had recovered from the battle in the abandoned mines, and Geralt followed Istrad's caravan down the mountain and left Mahakam.

They met up with Yarpan and his group who had been waiting in the village at the foot of the Mahakam Mountains until their hopes went cold, and headed together to the floating harbor north of the Mahakam Mountains.

The floating port is located in the Pontar Valley, along the upper reaches of the Pontar River, surrounded by impenetrable bush and forest.

At the floating harbor, Istrada hired a boat that allowed them to sail down the Pontar River to Novigrad.

The Pontar River is also known as the Ponta River.

The Elves called it Avion y Pont ar Gwenneron (River of the Alabaster Bridges), and it was one of the greatest rivers in the North.

Like the Yaruga River to the south, the Ponta River rises in the Blue Mountains and flows from east to west, emptying into the sea near Oxenburg and Novigrad.

The Pontar River flows through four countries, serving as the northern border of the southern two countries, Temeria and Aedirn, and the southern border of the two countries, Redania and Kaedwen.

The area where these four countries meet is called the Pontar Valley, or simply "Pontar".

From ancient times to the present, the Pontar River has always been an important trade waterway in the north.

Therefore, in history, these countries around the Pontar River have suffered many casualties due to the competition for the Pontar River.

There is a saying among the people: whoever controls the Pontar River can control the entire North.

However, despite this, the Pontar River has never been occupied by any country alone, and therefore the north has been in a divided situation until now.

(End of this chapter)