Game: I'm a Hunter in the Blood Curse World

It was still nearly an hour and a half away from Maple Leaf Castle, so Vann waited patiently for Lauda to gradually recover from her grief.

They also had Katya feed the survivor and even gave him some cheap wine to help him regain his spirits.

Ten minutes later, Lauda, ​​having recovered, curled up in the sofa chair and began to answer Vane's questions:

"You just said that Sir Francis's butler led a group to Sweetwell Village. How many people were there?"

Lauda glanced apologetically at Van En, then bowed her head respectfully and replied:

"Hunter, I can't count."

Vann gasped, glanced at Katya, and asked:

"What does Lauda do?"

"Carpenter! Lauda's craftsmanship is superb!"

Can someone who can't count be a carpenter?

Van En felt that his common sense had been overturned by the Blood Mist World, but considering that the style of this world was very similar to the Middle Ages, it made sense.

Since it was uncertain whether the butler had brought 15 people, Vann could not be sure whether the strange man with the green torch was related to Sir Francis.

After a moment of silence, he didn't immediately ask any more questions, but instead glanced at the instructions for the mission to expel the blood mist:

You have completed the first stage. The second stage will begin after you travel to Maple Leaf Castle.

"It seems something must have happened at Maple Leaf Castle, otherwise Lauda would never have run into the blood mist."

"But overall, the blood mist near Sweet Well Village is definitely related to Maple Leaf Castle, and may even include that mine."

After clearing his mind, Van En continued to ask Lauda:

"What are you going to Maple Leaf Castle for?"

"The watchtower has been repaired, Hunter. It was used to observe the blood mist eruptions and is not far from the castle."

"After the blood mist erupted, you ran into the castle?"

"Is that so, Your Excellency?"

Looking at Lauda, ​​who was answering questions one by one, Vann remained silent for a moment before saying:

"...You can tell me the specifics, what happened from the time you arrived at Maple Leaf Castle until you met me."

Lauda nodded, then looked confused again.

Damn it! I can't communicate with this carpenter at all!

Fan En felt a headache coming on and pinched the bridge of his nose.

At this moment, Katya volunteered:

"Sir Van En, your wording is a bit complicated. Lauda doesn't quite understand. Let me ask!"

"OK!"

After thinking for a moment, Van told Katya everything he wanted to know, and then saw Katya begin to communicate with Lauda in dialect and slang.

The two of them talked very quickly, and occasionally they would cry and laugh, clap their hands and stomp their feet.

Fan En felt that the two were speaking Fujianese or Cantonese, and he couldn't understand much of what they were saying, so he simply opened his laptop to check some information:

[Unique Job Advancement Quest: Slay 22/50 beasts, including at least one high-level beast (the strength of a vengeful beast is approximately equivalent to a mid-level beast), and use 12 Blood Gathering Needles]

"Almost halfway there, I'll definitely reach level 3 in Maple Leaf Castle!"

Fan En closed his notebook, remembering that he still had 5 free attribute points, and began to think about how to allocate them.

He glanced at his attributes:

[Vitality: 9]

[Endurance: 10]

【Strength: 7】

[Agility: 6]

Blood quality: 12

[Secret: 7]

He then pondered:

"As for the last two... I still don't understand what the blood essence is for. It's said to be for certain special items and weapons, but we haven't found them yet, so we'll leave it for now."

"Mysteries affect arcane abilities, but I'll focus on understanding this one arcane spell for now and leave it for later."

"Vitality affects health... I currently have 4 and a half bottles of inferior blood essence. I'll replace them with 2 bottles of regular purified blood and pump them into the blood pump box later."

"One bottle restores 40 health points, and two bottles will fully restore your health. For now, investing in vitality isn't very beneficial; wait until you reach level 3 and invest 5 health points directly!"

"Then I'll allocate some points to Strength and Agility, as these two attributes have the greatest impact on my current combat effectiveness!"

"That'll be it from now on. If we don't get any special weapons or items, we'll allocate points to Strength and Agility, and maybe put some points into Vitality if necessary!"

After thinking it over, Van En increased his Strength to 10 points and Agility to 8 points.

Adding this little bit has a very significant effect.

Van En noticed that his muscles had swelled up a bit. He clenched his fist and felt that he could now kill even the lowest-level beast with just a few punches.

He then used the blood purification potion to obtain two bottles of purified blood, which he then injected into the blood pump box.

Looking at the blood pump on his left arm, Vann suddenly realized that the health points on his panel were fake, and the ones in the pump were real.

Lauda, ​​who was chatting with Katya nearby, saw Vann's behavior and a slight look of envy flashed in her eyes, which then turned to melancholy. She turned to Katya and said:

"Girl, if I had become a hunter back then, wouldn't more people in the village be alive?"

Katya sighed, then waved her hand:

"Brother Lauda, ​​stop making me laugh."

Lauda's lips twitched, and she muttered:

"With that mouth of yours, you'll probably get beaten by your husband every day when you get married... Oh! Sorry, I forgot, you're already a prospective nun at church."

Katya remained unfazed, glanced furtively at Van En, then crossed her arms and said smugly:

"Getting married is so boring. It's much more fun to go hunting with hunters and kill all those nasty wild beasts."

Lauda said:

"That's right! When you were ten, you went with your father to repair a watchtower and got lost in the mountains. When we found you, you were riding a coyote and hammering away!"

"Stop talking!"

"Hahaha!"

Fan En turned his head and glanced at the two fellow villagers who were engrossed in their laughter. Although he didn't understand what they meant, he vaguely heard words like "wolf," "dog," and "hammer."

Then he remembered that the people of Tianjing Village seemed to love eating dog meat, so he asked them about it.

Unexpectedly, this question made Katya immediately become serious, and she explained:

"Eating dogs is a must, because in the blood mist, the bloodthirsty beasts that dogs transform into are the most powerful. My ancestor Maria was almost beaten to death by three dogs!"

Fan En instantly recalled the comments he saw in his dream about "3 dogs slaying a tiger, 6 dogs slaying a god," and wholeheartedly agreed.

About five minutes later, Katya finally finished talking with Lauda.

The girl closed her eyes, took out some scraps of paper from her pocket, looked at something, and then, counting on her fingers, began to tell Vann about Lauda and the others' experiences in Maple Leaf Castle:

"Judging from the current situation, a total of 37 people from the village, including 6 women and my brother, have gone to Maple Leaf Castle."

"After they arrived, they went straight to work at the watchtower, but before long, blood mist began to rise from the foot of the mountain."

"Sir Francis sent them all to the castle for refuge, and at the same time organized... 10 villagers and at least 7 soldiers to go down the mountain to rescue the villagers."

"But they had been gone for less than four hours, and before any news came back, a large number of wild beasts suddenly rushed into Maple Leaf Castle from who-knows-where."

"The castle was thrown into chaos. Laudago ran down the mountain with the Silver Blood Lamp and ran into us."

"Laudago couldn't calculate how long he had been running in the blood mist, but judging from the amount of fuel left in his Silver Blood Lamp, it had been at least 5 hours."

Van En's brow furrowed more and more as he listened, and he asked Katya for confirmation:

"37 villagers, are you sure?"

Katya paused for a moment, then glanced at Lauda:

"That should be 36. Lauda is already here. I can confirm that because I counted them by asking their names or nicknames one by one."

Van En did a quick calculation and was suddenly jolted.