The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"Don't go to Novigrad, Margarita." Zelin shook his head. "It's becoming very dangerous now. The eternal fire is agitating the villagers, and even witch hunters have been formed. Several alchemists' villas outside of Novigrad were burned down. Although there have been no casualties for the time being, you have to lead With so many students, I don’t recommend you to go to that place. Considering the safety of these students, Novigrad may be the worst place. It takes twenty years to develop a smart brain, and it only takes one second for the mob to cut it down. ."

"Except for Novigrad, where else can we find the boat?" Margarita smiled bitterly: "We only carry food for a few days. It is impossible to stay in the wild for long. This is not a camping activity."

"None of you brought any money?"

"All the funds have been transferred to Lomugne to rebuild the city. In the past few years, the Warlock Order has no extra funds at all and can only take away the treasures left over from the past." Margarita rubbed her eyes. The apprentices of the sorcerer are all hiding on the edge of the forest, wearing cloaks, sitting on the ground to regain their strength. Margarita glanced to prevent anyone from eavesdropping. "The situation is very bad. We can't go to Lomune. The imperial warlock blocked the teleportation. It is very likely that the portal will not appear at the destination, but in the prison of the Nilfgaards."

"You take these first." Zelin took out a bag of heavy gold coins and handed it to Margarita. "I know a place, it's in Willen. To be precise, in the swamp below the Balga Mountain. There are several villages there, and a friend of mine is there. The local villagers respect him. If he declares shelter for you, the local People will not trouble you. You can buy some supplies with the money. The war drove away the local barons. The villagers must have a lot of food in their hands, and the war prevented them from taking it to the city to sell it. So I don’t think they will reject you."

Margarita weighed the gold coin.

"This is a lot of money, and there are almost the same weight of crowns... It must be enough to buy food, maybe you can rent a big boat."

She raised her head and frowned. "I have never heard that the demon hunter is so rich... Is this Enid's money, or all your savings?"

"Don't ask, you guys take a break and leave as soon as possible. Take out your map and I will mark the location for you."

Margarita took out a roll of parchment, which described the terrain near Willen and Novigrad.

"The specific location is here. After waiting, go to Mrs. Linzhong. The local villagers should know. After you arrive, you will go to see Mrs. Linzhong alone." Zelin stretched out a finger: "Just say that I let you Go. As for other things, you don’t need to let extra people know. This is also a protection for your students."

"I see." Margarita laughed. "It's amazing. I never thought I would get such help one day. I owe you a favor, Demon Hunter. When I settle down the students, if you need my help on anything, I I must do my best."

"Let's talk about these things later, and solve the immediate problems first." Zelin looked at Sinide Island.

On the coast outside the island, after the bombardment of the Melga Fire ended, the camp of Nilfgaard was in a mess. The horse-riding messenger rushed to other nearby Nilfgaard barracks, asking for assistance and reporting to the local supreme commander.

Tisaya sat on the throne of the Louschaft Palace, looking down at the forum below. This was the place where the Warlock Council was convened. The leader of the Order sat on the top and the round table below. Every time a warlock congressman would come here to discuss the most important issues in the past few years. Motion. This is her position, since she became one of the five leaders of the Warlock Order, she has often sat in this position. Whether it is to hold small meetings, or to receive messengers and guests.

This palace has witnessed the centuries of history of the Order of Warlocks. Even if someone proposed to establish a new headquarters of the Order in Lomugne, Tisaya did not agree to abandon the island of Sinide.

Hearing the footsteps outside the door, she raised her head with some doubts. She didn't hear the explosion outside. She set a magic trap on the stone bridge. When anyone who walked forward triggered it, the flame would immediately kill all the creatures on the bridge and destroy the stone bridge. However, this is not beyond her expectations. There are warlocks in the imperial army. Some of them have been named warlocks and thrown on the battlefield after only learning simple killing skills. It is not surprising that some of them have discovered the magic traps she set.

The door slowly opened to both sides, and the moonlight sprinkled a silver-white silk thread into the parliament hall through the gap of the stone door. No army was seen in droves, only one figure was standing in front of the gate.

"It's not a good choice to spend the winter in the Louvre Palace, Tishaya." Zelin walked into the parliament hall. Tisaya stood up directly from the agate throne in surprise.

"Zelin?!"

"Why are you so surprised?" Zelin walked to Tisaya. It’s very deserted here. The last time he came here was during the Warlock Conference, his appearance has not changed, but the people are no longer there: "The Warlock Order wrote me a letter saying that you were having trouble on Sinide Island, so I came here as soon as possible."

"Did they ask you for help?"

"It's a letter from Philippa." Zelin took out the envelope: "She said that she hoped I could come here. The letter said that they lost contact with Sinide Island a few days ago."

"She would actually think of looking for you to deal with this matter." Tisaya waved her hand and sat back again: "How did you get through the blockade of the Nilfgaards?"

Zelin stretched out a finger and pointed at the sky: "From the sky."

"Teleportation? Or did someone help you use flying?"

"Neither, it's a long story." Zelin walked around the long table and walked to Tisaya: "The Nilfgaards outside are reorganizing, why are you staying here?"

"I want to hold here."

"Don't be kidding, I know you know many powerful spells, but sooner or later your magic power will run out, there is no point for you to stay here."

Tisaya gently supported the decorations on the top of her hair: "So many years have passed, Zelin. Do you remember the first time you walked on this land? You are a demon hunter, in order to rebuild the school Running around, three days before attending the banquet of the Warlock Convention, you were still at Skelliger, hunting down giants with another Demon Hunter of the Bear School. At that time, the Warlock Order was still thriving, and I was in charge of it. One. Now, your Demon Hunter Academy is well-known in the mainland. Everyone knows your existence. You are the guest of the king and the object of the nobles. It is said that the emperor of Nilfgaard announced the abolition of the imperial capital. The nearby city forbids the order of the demon hunters to approach. As for me, there is only one ruined order left, lingering in the chaos of war."

"We can remember the past when we are in a safe place, Tisaya."

"Some people approach me when I can benefit them, and alienate me when I might cause them trouble. I have seen too many such people in my life." Tisha Ya took out a mirror and looked at the elegant and beautiful face in the mirror. The lingering seriousness between her eyebrows made her mature. "Thank you for being the first to rush over when I was in trouble. You have helped me several times in the past, and I really have nothing to return you now. But I'm sorry, I can't give up on Sinide Island."

Her gaze swept across the vault of the palace, the magic crystal in the chandelier on the vault exuded faint fluorescence, and her eyes were solemn and apologetic: "When I took over this position, I swear, I will The cults co-exist and die. I must persist here until the portal opens and transport all the secrets and essence of the cult hidden in Sinide Island. Otherwise, after losing the ancient tradition of warlocks, what else can we have What?"

"In this case..." Zelin was silent for a while.

The sea breeze blew the ring on the vault and made a clinking sound.

"Let’s go, Zelin. I heard about you and Enid. Ah, if she was in front of me, I would definitely ask her if the treasures around me are endless and inexhaustible, otherwise how could it be? Don't cherish a good person like you." Tisaya shook her head, she held up the water glass, but there was nothing in it.

"Is there no way to transport it away by other means?"

"Some things are very... huge and fragile, in other words, cannot touch the air, they must be handled and maintained by special magic rituals. This is not gold, and the significance they record is as important as the existence of the entire order. ."

Zelin sighed: "In this case, let us find a way and try to prevent the Nilfgaard army from stepping into Sinide Island."

"I should appreciate your joke and laugh out loud. But I'm sorry, my mood does not allow me to do this."

"This is not a joke, Tishaya." Zelin walked to the window sill and through the window, he saw the regrouped Nilfgaard army just across the stone bridge, waiting for the order to attack, his eyes flashed. Chill. "I mean it."

Chapter 2250 The Strange Palace

Uzecaru listened in disbelief to the unscathed soldiers in front of them narrating their encounters in Sinide.

"Praise the sun, Leander, you must be mad! This is not a good way to escape military service. All people who pretend to be mad will be sent to Vikvaro’s lunatic asylum. After a year of treatment, even those who are not mad , Don’t even think about walking out of the fence of the lunatic asylum. What exactly did you encounter inside? Tell me the truth, the sun **** is on top, don’t use lies that even a ten-year-old child would not believe!"

Last night, a group of witches broke through their defenses and escaped into their forest. These witches must have laboratories and strongholds in dense forests. Maybe they live in caves, relying on nondescript monsters in the wilderness to protect their evil secrets. This is very much in line with the style of the northern barbarians. The legion commander ordered the blockade of the witchcraft-shrouded island to prevent these witches from continuing to help the so-called kings in the north.

As a result, they failed. Thousands of heavily armed imperial soldiers could not stop a few witches from breaking through.

As the commander here, he thought that since the witch in the island had escaped from the siege, the palace on the island must be empty. So he sent a reconnaissance team to the palace, preparing to search for the treasures inside, and tried to find if the witches had missed any important information in the panic, such as documents and letters that could reveal their hiding place.

As a result, after the four reconnaissance teams entered the palace with the magic gold equipment, only one escaped.

"I remember that each of you has equipment that can invalidate witchcraft. What's the matter? There are many wizards in it? They use magic to ambush you in it?"

Outside the camp, the guards holding huge shields were divided into three rows, standing at the entrance of the long bridge, staring nervously at the slab bridge in front of them, as if a poisonous snake might spurt out of every stone brick. The shield is depicted with a golden sun on a black background, and the edges painted in black dye can still be seen with some polished edges and corners revealing a bright copper color.

"No, no, sir, inside, there are corpses and ghosts everywhere! The rain of fire last night must be the demons summoned by those **** witches who sacrificed with living people!" The soldier's eyes were filled with fear. This is by no means what it looks like just by seeing a corpse. The war has lasted for more than six months, and any soldier serving on the front line has seen more than one broken body of the enemy. "You, you absolutely can't imagine what's in that island palace! The palace is not as gorgeous as it seems on the surface. When we entered, there was no light in the palace..."

"Turn off all the lights, then release the illusion on the skylight, so that it looks like the palace is still brightly lit outside?"

"That's right. Let the Nilfgaards who have stepped through this door think that they have entered another world." Zelin pointed to the arch of the Loushall Palace and said to Tisaya: "They will definitely carry a counter Magic metal weapons, but it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to fly to the skylight several meters high to check for illusions."

"What then?" Tishaya asked blankly. "It doesn't make much sense."

"What people fear most is always the unknown. If the unknown and it seems to fit the evil in the past impression, this effect will be better." Zelin retracted his gaze and looked at the parliament table. "Mind if I do some damage here?"

"Decorations are available everywhere." Tisaya's fingers touched the round table top, and her eyes only stayed for a few seconds: "But what is the point of destroying the hall? I don't understand. Those Nilfgaards burned all the way. The number of villages in China is comparable to the total number of furniture here."

"Of course it is impossible for me to destroy this place, making the Nilfgaards think there is nothing worth searching inside." Zelin shook his head. "I'm going to give it here, another layout."

"...What if there is a corpse inside? The corpse won't get up and attack you!" Uzekalu waved his hand angrily: "What about the others? They took half of the camp. Anti-magic metal equipment!"

"Those, those corpses will take the initiative to attack, sir, when we walked in, the door was closed and it couldn't be opened anyway. All of us pushed up, and it didn’t work at all, it was like being sealed from the outside. The same!" The soldier recalled what happened before, breathing heavily and the weather was cold, but the cold sweat on his forehead never stopped: "Just, just what we want to use, find a table or ladder, and smash open the skylight. As a result, at that moment, those damned corpses suddenly got up and attacked us!"