The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"Skelliger." Avalak said lightly: "Have you heard of the legend of ouroboros?"

"When I was in church school, I read a similar story." Xili spread his hands: "A dangerous snake was hungry. It threw on its prey and bit its tail. Hunger made it reluctant to let go. The tail in the mouth, and the tail could never swallow to satisfy its hunger, so it finally starved to death."

"There is a mysterious island near Skellig. Time is very strange on that island....Xiri, according to Hoarfrost, my colleagues and I thought of a possibility." Avalak raised his hand. , Put your hands flat. "It's like a poisonous snake chasing prey, devouring many planets in the universe, and there is never a time for satisfaction. The best way is to change its direction, twist it in space, and make it bite its own tail."

"Ling Baishuang bit his tail, how is this possible?" Xili shook his head in disbelief: "It's not really a snake, how can you turn a storm?"

"Space is a plane, and the distance from one point to another is very long. But if you put a heavy iron ball on this net woven by countless invisible threads, the net will sink, and the surrounding Everything is attracted to you. So, suppose Hoarfrost is a poisonous snake with its head at the left end of the spatial plane and its tail at the right end. How do you think the poisonous snake can bite the tail without changing its direction?"

Xili stared at Avalak's hands. After a few seconds, the sage closed his hands.

"Fold the paper and its head and tail will be at the same point. This is exactly what you are going to do, Hiri. I can send you to the center, and all you have to do is to fold it together and make It bit its tail."

"...How can I do it?"

"You are too young, Swift. But you can do it." Avalak pursed his mouth: "This is the only way to stimulate your physical strength."

They talked while walking in the forest. She was in a good mood to return to the familiar land.

"Can I visit my friends on Big Skellig Island?" She suggested: "The castle is nearby, and I will soon..."

"Catch her!!!"

Suddenly, several dark figures jumped out from behind the forest tree. Avalak jerked his staff, parrying a heavy sword that had been smashed. Another black knight crossed the sword towards the sage’s waist. Avalak stretched out his free left hand, a white light flashed, and the heavily armored wild hunter flew out, leaving a deep trail on the ground. The deep ravine finally hit a tree before it stopped. The tree was broken by the waist and fell backwards to the ground.

A knight grabbed Hiri's shoulder, but then his wrist was cut off. Xili turned her wrist flexibly, and while avoiding the two epees, hit the waist of the second enemy.

"Xiri, teleport away, hurry up!"

Avalak broke away from the blade pressing on the wand, and the top of the wand swept away. The three knights were hit by an invisible force. They flew back. A cloud of white mist suddenly burst out of the gap in the armor, waiting to fall. Only clinking armor remained on the ground.

"You can't go, Avalak!" A figure holding a staff appeared in the forest. "Keep Swift, block transmission!"

Four Red Knights surrounded Hiri in the middle. They did not attack and blocked every retreat. The figure holding the staff raised his hand at Xiri, and a series of low and jerky spells sounded under the skeleton armor.

"Va-fail, elaine-caed\'mil, folie! Glaeddyv-dome-aep..."

Avalak noticed the spell, he raised his hand, and a barrier blocked the hunting wild hunt. He turned around and pointed his staff at the location where Xili was.

Unseen energy burst out suddenly, and the Red Knights were caught off guard and blown out.

"Leave, I will meet you under the rock!"

"...T\'enaid,bunn\'droh-ithne-i\'yachus!"

A dazzling orange light radiated from Avalak’s wand. The moment the portal appeared, the navigator’s hand sprayed a hot red light. The blood-red lightning hit Xili, but it was transferred to Avalak under the energy of the portal. . The sage stepped back two steps. A wild hunting knight attacked from behind. Avalak stabbed his wand backwards. Before wild hunting had time to chop off the long sword, he disappeared in the white smoke.

"He is cursed, catch him! Then keep Swift!"

"Avalak!"

As soon as Xili took a step forward, the portal immediately sucked her in.

"I will clean up this place." Avalak raised his wand, and the sky was clouded with clouds for an instant.

The navigator seemed to have thought of something. The moment the other wild hunters rushed towards Avalak, she took a step back and drew an arc in mid-air with her hands and raised them above her head.

Before the light of the portal completely engulfed Xili's sight, she saw the dazzling lightning covering the entire forest like a cage.

Chapter 224—Wellen’s New Church

Willen, the land of no owner——

The war has long caused this land to lose its owner. The baron in charge abandoned the castle, fled into the swamp to escape the war, and asked for refuge from the lady in the forest, whom the villagers admired.

"What the **** are you thinking, my daughter?" Baron Wieserard was dissatisfied with his daughter's absent-mindedness. "The benevolent Mrs. Lin Zhong is willing to provide us with shelter, so don't think about leaving anymore. When the war is over and I get back my territory and property, I have to find you a better husband who can protect you. With your knighthood, not a little-known fisherman. Graham is a good man, but he can’t even protect him. Only two strong boys can put him down. Remember to be there two years ago. Is the master demon hunter in our castle? I have no doubt that that master can defeat ten Grahams in a few seconds!"

When Vizima fell, Willen's resistance immediately collapsed. The capital was occupied, and they were divided and surrounded by the Nilfgadians on this desolate land. So Baron Wieselard disbanded his men, because the Nilfgaards never left prisoners of war and alive, everyone still remembers the Sintra massacre ten years ago and the Vangerburg massacre six years ago.

But he regrets it very much. It is said that a deserter officer now has occupied Crow Fort and proclaimed himself a baron. As a result, some time ago, the Nifogadians were severely taught by Ladovide’s Redanian army in Willen. They had no strength to maintain the occupation of the local area. As a result, they chose to recognize the self-styled baron. Appoint him as the local chief.

If he hadn't escaped, he might be staying in the crow fort now and continue to be a baron. Who knows whether he can claim this piece of land back by his blood and jurisprudence when the war is over.

Annabe didn't say a word, she just turned her head away, not wanting to face her father's question again.

"Oh, hurry up and send this sacrifice over. Graham will be fine, unless he unfortunately appears in front of Nilfgard's hoof, or the people in black suddenly discover that their supplies may not be as expected. Many." The baron held a tray in his hand. On the tray were five ears of various kinds, including wolves, bears, and even three evil spirits. "Mrs. Lin Zhong allowed us to stay so close to her altar. There is no safer place than here. We should be more respectful. Hurry up and give the sacrifice to the kind lady."

"Oh." Annabe took the tray, her **** ears made her pursing her mouth, her face turned pale. No one knows why Mrs. Lin Zhong wants ears. In the past, Mrs. Lin Zhong also wanted ears, but that belonged to the local villagers. Now, Mrs. Lin Zhong asked the villagers to pay tribute to the ears of the defeated enemy after encountering danger.

No one dared to ask Mrs. why. But it’s better to ask for the ears of other creatures than for your own ears. In the past, villagers would hold a celebration in Balga Mountain and ask for gifts from the lady, but now, the celebration has been cancelled. People's only obligation is to elect several healthy men and women in each village and obey the orders from the altar.

At first, everyone thought it was a sacrifice. However, it was later discovered that it was more like military service. And after realizing that working for the wife is better than farming and hunting in the village, within two years, this has become a job that all the young people in the nearby villages want to get.

"There are so many young girls in the nearby villages wanting to get the position of submitting tribute to Mrs. Lin Zhong. After hearing our experience, the lady agreed to stay and do this. Can't you be a little happy? Zhu? God, don’t show this sad expression when presenting the tribute."

"I see, father."

Annabe held the tray and walked to the wooden temple inside the swamp.

The sky was gloomy, and striped flags depicting the sun and the moon hung on the bare branches. Annabe didn't understand what these flags represented. As the heir to the nobility, she had studied heraldry and understood what each pattern represented in heraldry. But in this swamp, there were things she had never seen before.

Going along the path where the planks are laid, the oil lamps hanging from the branches provide a faint light. In the past, no one dared to walk in the swamp on such a night, and the monster hidden in it would never have pity for the food delivered to the door. However, after Annabe arrived, she knew that there had been no other monsters here for a year. The male and female knights working for the lady cleaned up the monsters here, even if someone was injured in the battle and sent to the temple, it would be restored the next day.

The villagers said this was a miracle, but Annabe believed that it was some kind of magic.

Maybe a wizard is hiding here, pretending to be a god. But her strength must be very strong.

There are three Mrs. Lin Zhong, and Annabe has seen their portraits. One wears a sun mask, covering half of his cheek, but the exposed chin can undoubtedly make people guess what kind of pretty face it is. The second one is like a young noble lady, but very stable, but she is not Understand why a tail is exposed under the skirt. What kind of painter is it that makes Mrs. Lin Zhong's portrait not like a human being? As for the third place, she has gray curly hair that can be dragged to the ground. She looks the most gentle and amiable. She is dressed in white, most like the lady of the gods.

I wonder if she can go to the third lady and allow her to take Grahan to take refuge here?

Suddenly, she felt black in front of her eyes and a sharp pain in her body. When she came back to her senses, Annabe realized that she was lying on the ground, her clothes were covered with marsh soil, and a white figure was on her body. The tribute tray fell aside, and her ears were spilled all over the place. The soil was dyed black.

After a few seconds, there was a scream in the swamp.

A quarter of an hour later, in the hall of the temple, Annabe knelt on the ground, her hands tightly grasping the bottom of the skirt, her body trembling uncontrollably. Xili lay down beside her in a coma.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. I was about to deliver the sacrifice." She nervously explained to the portraits of the three Lin Zhong ladies in front of her, her teeth trembled: "Knot, as a result, this girl suddenly fell on me. , Knocked me down. I tried to wipe the tribute as clean as possible...but, but..."

"It's not your fault, why should you blame yourself?" A deep voice echoed in the temple: "Leave the sacrifice, leave this person, and withdraw."

The way Mrs. Lin Zhong speaks is obviously different from that of human beings, but Annabe can barely understand this kind of words.

"Thank you, ma'am, thank you, benevolent lady!"

Annabe stood up and slowly withdrew from the temple. After the gate was closed, with the rustle of swimming across the ground, the figure wearing a golden sun mask appeared in front of the portrait, bowed his head and looked at Xili who was lying on the ground.

Chapter 2245: A Little Thought