Chapter 134 Do you think Kolgrim is going to give it away for free again?
Lan En smiled: "Keep your head up, children don't want to imitate adults. I just arrived at Baiguoyuan today and you came to me. It seems that you have been waiting for me." Leo listened to
Lan After En's words, he raised his head, glanced at the dark golden lion eyes curiously, and lowered his head in panic.
"Lord Earl... I take the liberty of interrupting you to ask you: Are you a demon hunter?"
Lann nodded and said, "It's true."
Leo took a deep breath and said, "I, once I heard a poet, his name is Dan, he sang the story of a demon hunter called 'White Wolf'. He said that demon hunters are all knights who fight for justice, punish rape and eliminate evil. I would like to ask, Lord Count. ...Are you also that kind of demon hunter?"
The amount of information in this sentence is a bit too much.
The boy didn't dare to look up, but even if Lann didn't see his eyes, he could still see the fantasy that the boy was holding carefully.
As a qualified adult, what you should do at this moment seems to be to expose the boy's fantasy and let him recognize the reality. After all, what reality likes to devour most is children with fantasies, especially in this medieval fantasy land where human life is nothing.
But through the boy's narration, Lann was basically able to determine the child's identity: Leo, the wolf sect's witcher apprentice who died in the future.
Technically speaking, he did not become a witcher until his death. He had only passed part of the Demon Hunter's trial, briefly gaining certain physical enhancements, acquiring sword skills, and half-bakingly mastering certain magic seals.
This is already rare. Every stage of a demon hunter has a high fatality rate. Even if "choice" is only the first stage of physical sword training, because of the long time span, it can make the unsteady-willed Drive any apprentice of any sect crazy into the cat sect, and then let them die in the subsequent trials.
If you use Gwent cards to measure Leo's strength, it is equivalent to purple cards, SR level.
He may be a little weak compared to someone like Milva who is at the top of his profession, but he is still a talent.
These are Lan En's more realistic considerations for the child in front of him. And even if these factors are eliminated, Lann's tolerance for children is particularly good - unless they are the kind of naughty children who force themselves to die to push the plot.
"Child, it may be difficult for you to understand at your age: there are good and bad people in any group, including demon hunters. So if you meet someone with similar eyes to me in the future, please don't rashly stick to them. "Yeah."
Lann chuckled: "But you and I are both lucky, at least I'm not a bad person now. What, do you have any 'entrustment' for me?"
If an adult is here, hear The word "entrustment" must have caused him to kneel down and say "dare not" in fear, but Leo's eyes lit up and he finally had the courage to raise his head.
Then, Lan heard a story:
not long ago, before Kolgrim left the White Orchard, the young Leo approached him and wanted to hire a snake sect witcher for an almost ridiculous so-called reward.
Facing Leo, who admired the witcher, the snake sect witcher originally wanted to scare him away with more vicious words, but in the end it seemed that he briefly indulged in his own emotional kindness and accepted Leo's commission— —The search for York Joan, the missing beekeeper’s son.
It all started when Kolgrim arrived at White Orchard and wanted to buy honey to make some mead to drink, but ended up getting himself into trouble.
Afterwards, Kolgrim explained to Leo what happened before he was arrested:
"When I got there, the beekeeper's house was abuzz, and his wife and children were all injured by him. I didn't want to mess with him. Trouble, I just want to buy some honey; who knew that the guy who deserved cholera thought that I was a foreigner and wanted to sell me for three times the price. Do you think I'm stupid?" "After I left, that
kid actually came back. He came to me once, and he ridiculously wanted to ask me for three times the amount of honey for his father. I didn't beat him, which is considered a good temper, I just scolded him away." After receiving Leo
's After the commission, Kolgrim returned to the place where he met York Joan, the son of a beekeeper, and turned on his witcher senses, easily following the scent of honey.
The smell passed over the beekeeper's house and seemed to linger at the door for a while, then turned out of the village and headed north to the edge of the Ismina River.
Kolgrim didn't think about why the beekeeper's son came to this place alone, but he found groups of water ghosts here.
The snake sect demon hunter may not be able to fight against the small groups of demon spirits in the encounter, but the water ghost is a piece of cake for him. He turned the water ghost into a dead ghost without even using poison.
Later, he found the body of York Joan in the gathering place of these water ghosts.
The truth comes out.
He told Leo the truth and brought Leo here. The boy cried out after seeing his friend's body. He asked the witcher to take Joan of York's body back to the beekeeper for burial, but he was refused.
Kolgrim had no favorable impression of White Orchard and was not even interested in proving his innocence. Finding the missing beekeeper's son was an answer to Leo's "commission", and he immediately left.
In order to prevent Leo from doing something stupid after he left, he also brought the boy to his parents and scared the peasant couple as a "witcher who might abduct children." Then Leo was attacked Beaten, then grounded.
The snake sect demon hunters left, and Leo had no one else to turn to for help. It wasn't until today when he heard his parents talking about the return of Lan and his group that he regained hope.
He climbed out of the window and mustered up the courage to find Lan, hoping to see the real witcher he imagined.
[Discovery Mission - Sweet Home:
The snake sect demon hunter found the beekeeper's son, or "part" of the beekeeper's son, based on the aroma of honey; at this moment, the person who cared about him the most turned out to be his playmate who was also a child. . The kind-hearted child did not want to watch the remaining body of his companion disappear into the belly of the beast, so he had no choice but to come to the Earl of Demon Hunter for help. Witcher, it's not a bad thing to show kindness once in a while, even if it doesn't end well. 】
But the system, isn't it because the demon hunter became "emotionless" because he was kind too many times when he was young?
Looking at the boy Leo in front of him who started crying because of telling the story, Lan sighed and regarded it as a mission this time. After all, he had experience, and mosquito legs were still meat no matter how small they were.
Lan chewed carefully what Leo just said and asked: "Kolgrim said that the beekeeper's son once went to him to ask for three times the price of honey, and then he was scolded and ran away, right?
Leo nodded: "His father is very fierce, bitter and mean. He always bullies outsiders to set prices at will. Everyone in the village knows it. It must be him who forced York Joan to find Mr. Snake Eyes. He is the one who harmed others. " Die York Joan!"
The little boy gritted his teeth. Looking at his appearance, Lan asked:
"But even so, do you want to send York Joan home?"
Leo hesitated for a moment, then nodded: " He has nowhere else to go, and his mother loves him very much and is very good to us, and I think she needs to know this..."
Lann nodded: "Okay, I'll take your 'commission'. But what do you do to hire me? Since you are so familiar with witchers, you should know that we need to be paid, even if I am a count." , the tradition cannot be changed."
Lann's original intention was just to tease the crying boy, but Leo actually started to think in serious distress.
"But I have given all my property to Mr. Snake Eyes." Leo said hesitantly, "How about I give you something that I already own but I don't know about yet? The poet also said... ...It's called the 'Law of Accident', okay?"
Looking at Leo's probing eyes, Lan smiled. He thought for a while and said: "You are a little smarter than I thought, but by chance I really know something. It's something you have without knowing it: your talent. You have talents that you don't know about, Leo."
He looked at the confused boy and said, "If you really want to use the 'accidental law' to pay, then You have to give your 'talent', or 'you who have this talent'. I want to accept you as a squire."
Even a country boy like Leo can know how much it is to become a squire of the earl. A rare thing. What's more, "sacrifice yourself for your friends" is so cool to boys, and in an instant Leo even felt a surge of "pride" in his chest.
Seeing the boy's hasty agreement, Lan also summoned his attendants with the intention of adjusting his life. There was no need to summon the cavalry for such a small scene. The three attendants, the child and Lan, and the five of them headed toward Lei. Ou pointed the way and ran near the Ismina River.
The Ismina River runs through the White Orchard area. It can be said to be the river of life in the White Orchard, and has been nurturing the nearby villagers.
Only this time it gave birth to a life that was less able to coexist harmoniously with humans. When Lan arrived here, he found that five more water ghosts had appeared, tearing apart the bodies of their dead companions.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves, they all raised their heads, and all sorts of uncomfortable things were dripping from the faces of the bloody Hula.
Lann frowned in disgust. Devouring the same kind is always the most disgusting topic.
"Disgusting monster." Milva acted as Lann's mouth for a time and said what he wanted to say.
Lann looked at the configuration of his team: a House who followed him in all the battles, a gold-card marksman, and a tree spirit friend who had fought against the Great Griffin.
"I won't take action anymore. Get rid of them."
Lann said. The three attendants had already taken out their weapons. When Lann gave the order, they couldn't wait to pounce on them.
There is nothing to say about the battle scene. Two of the three attendants have follower templates, and the remaining one is also brave and good at fighting.
If they couldn't even deal with a few water ghosts, Lan was going to let them farm on the spot in the White Orchard.
Milva, who had already begun to master the art of archery, took the lead in starting the group. He opened the mahogany longbow and fired two consecutive arrows, accurately burying them into the heads of the two water ghosts.
House, who was charging, couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw this. Although Ace was gone, his feeling was still there. The feeling of an arrow accurately passing through his neck and hitting the enemy was not too familiar. Milva's archery skills were even better than Ace's.
(End of chapter)