Chapter 240 Skellige’s main plot is not over yet.
Many old-fashioned old men believe that the Night Stalker is a monster from hell, the cause of the corruption of young people, and the source of national unrest.
The "old men" mentioned here not only include farmers and herdsmen with little education, but even druids who are like old scholars.
This statement, which is full of ignorance, is certainly not correct. Most people are just ashamed to face the truth of depravity. Losers need to find an excuse for their incompetence. It just so happens that the image of the Night Stalker is a little too inaccurate, so it becomes a good target for verbal criticism.
In fact, most female night demons will not rashly choose the path of killing and destruction unless it is for self-defense. After all, that is contrary to their way of survival, and it is fishing for the best.
But even though the non-human races in the game are very pitiful, the female night demons are often persecuted. But just like there are real ogres among the silly trolls, even though there is a female bodhisattva-like existence among the female night demons with a contrasting sense of kindness, sometimes there are real soul-sucking and marrow-sucking demons.
It is these real demons that give the conservative-minded older generation an excuse to teach young people to stay away from the Night Stalker.
But now Lann can at least be sure that the female night demon in front of him is not from the evil camp, but at most chaotic neutral.
So he began to seriously weigh the pros and cons of joining Sintra.
Emotional and hormonal factors aside, would there be any benefit to having Night Stalker join Cintra?
It seems there is.
The Night Stalker's racial identity doesn't always bring unrest. Toussaint and Novigrad are good examples: in this era, any prosperous city needs a place like the "Rose Garden", which can drive the city's economy, increase people's happiness index, and at the same time, be able to A place that enhances the stability of public security to a certain extent - mercenaries who have completed their missions, soldiers who have been paid, and businessmen who pass by always need a place to spend their money and relax their tense nerves, and fights are too easy to occur in taverns.
Lann had also specifically asked Kyaane from the Cat Faction to find the Night Demon of Novigrad and other non-human races including her.
In addition, the Night Demon itself is also a very powerful creature - after all, it is a creature that has existed in the world since the celestial spheres converged. Their bodies are comparable to steel, and they also possess impressive spellcasting abilities.
It just so happens that the female night devil has power, but there is also an upper limit to her ability: although the thousand-year-old female night devil is knowledgeable, she is still at a level that can be hunted by experienced demon hunters, and is also an immortal species. High-level vampires are much weaker in comparison.
Just like just now, the female night devil was crushed in Alice's hands.
In other words, this is an existence that can drive the city economy and has considerable power, but it is not out of control.
Lann was quite happy to subdue the female night demon named "Nanomi".
If it doesn't work, just treat it as a benefit for Eskar, who "likes women with horns." The wolf faction's win over is also very necessary, which is related to the internal harmony of the Demon Hunter Order in the future.
But suddenly encountering a monster who wants to surrender in the wilderness, I still feel uneasy no matter how I look at it.
Lan still needs to continue to understand the other party in depth.
...
"Come on." The Night Demon didn't take it seriously to Lan's question. "Those elderly human men always advise young people to stay away from me, but they always sneak over. There was a village near where I lived before. He refuses to listen no matter how he tries to persuade him, and he can't drive him away no matter how much magic he uses. He even threatens to unite with nearby villages to attack me if I refuse him again." The female night demon shrugged: "I can't help it, it's not true
. I was afraid of him. But since he wanted to play so much, I had to let him see it - but he exhausted himself to death." "I felt lost for a long time because of this,
so I made a grave for him. . But in the end, many people nearby used this as an excuse to attack me... Annoying! I don't want to stay in Skellige anymore!" "
For you, Cintra will not be better than Skellige. Lan still did not put down the rune sword, pointing the blade directly at the opponent, "I can't think of a reason for you to come to Cintra."
Faced with Lan's defensive posture, the Night Demon was confident. Even though Alice was watching eagerly not far away, the Night Stalker forgot about the pain even before her scar healed.
She walked towards Lann step by step under the candlelight, lightly tapped the tip of the sword with her fingertips, and said,
"Isn't it obvious? Because Cintra has you~"
"Huh?" Lann's The tip of the sword moved slightly because of the sudden confession.
Emerald flames ignited behind Lan, and Alice's plain black skirt appeared in the darkness. Her face was covered with black gauze, and her expression could not be seen, but she seemed to have a sharp gaze looking at the Night Stalker from a distance through Lann.
She raised the black magic scimitar in her hand high, held the sword down, pressed it against Lan's back and sheathed it again. The blade rubbed against the steel and made a crisp sound:
"Clang-Clang!"
The female night demon's expression changed.
She quickly laughed: "Because Lei Anlun, you are the blood of the ancients." "
I came from the time when the heaven and earth met. It was not an accident, but a planned escape. My world was destroyed by hoarfrost. Now, I have no choice but to come to a place I am not familiar with."
The female night devil's voice became heavy, with a slightly sad hoarse sound, which made people want to rub their throats with their fingertips.
"Not long ago, the prelude to the convergence of the heaven and earth appeared again on this continent, and another crisis is about to come." "
Maybe not so soon, it may be decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years later, but choose earlier There will definitely be no wrong way out in the future."
As she spoke, the Night Demon began to act subconsciously again. She placed her palm gently on the spine of the rune sword, caressing the runes on it inch by inch, and got closer to Lann step by step.
"And Lei Anlun, your 'Ancient Blood' is the key to saving the world - and even if you fail to save the world in the end, it will be easy to leave this world with this power, so I will follow you, just to be able to save the world in the future. To protect ourselves in the crisis of world destruction. Is this a suitable reason? Young bloodline heir~" The
ancient blood has the mission of saving the world in this world. It is reasonable to follow such a person for self-protection.
But Lann was no longer distracted by the Night Demon's actions. His attention was focused on another piece of news at this moment:
"You said... now the prelude to the convergence of the celestial sphere has begun again?!"
...
from the mainland History cannot escape the term "celestial sphere convergence". This is an astronomical phenomenon that can be called a catastrophic level. It is a collision between worlds in different dimensions. In the intersection of the celestial sphere, different worlds are directly connected and interpenetrated.
The most recent convergence of the heaven and earth was about 1,500 years ago. That convergence not only brought about several mainstream civilized races today, but also brought a large number of monsters. It can be said that it completely changed the structure of the continent.
Among the study materials Mossack gave Lan was a textbook called "The Convergence of the Celestial Sphere", which used vivid metaphors to explain this rare astronomical phenomenon——
[Please imagine our world as a ship, sailing on the vast ocean. Standing on the deck, we can see other distant ships - that is, other stars. These ships, each carrying cargo and crew, usually pass us at a distance that is difficult to see even with a telescope.
[However, every few thousand years, a huge storm will occur on this cosmic sea, so violent that it will blow ships towards each other and sail close to each other. At this time, part of the crew on one ship can be moved to another ship, and the cargo can be spilled onto the adjacent ship. When the weather eases, the ships will separate again and go their separate ways, never to see each other again. 】
【The so-called "rendezvous creatures", that is, monsters such as ghouls and basilisks, are passengers from other ships. We humans are shipwreck victims, thrown into a world originally inhabited by an ancient race. After we arrived, we learned mysterious ancient magic that we had never seen before. ]
[Will different worlds collide again? possible. Is there any way we can avoid this disaster, or speed it up? Some scholars believe that certain creatures are proficient in this skill and have rare genes in their bodies that can control the direction of our ship and lead us to safe seas or to the end of the world. 】
Although the end of the original game also hints that a new round of celestial convergence is about to begin, but that is still many years later. It shouldn’t be now, right?
After being surprised, Lan quickly calmed down.
Fragments of memories from his past began to piece together in his mind.
If the information that "the convergence of the celestial sphere is about to begin" is true, then some of the things that have happened in the past have become traceable: the sudden increase in the number of monsters while attending the Northern Conference, the sudden awakening of previously secluded monsters in the forest, and even The ice giants in Skellige suddenly began to become restless...
Is all this a prelude to a catastrophe?
But why does the conjunction of the celestial sphere occur so many years in advance?
Lann is not a slow person. After having clues, everything seems to be easy to unravel.
The timing of the appearance of each vision was coincidentally coincident. If you think about the strange natural disaster phenomenon of the collision of different worlds, such as the intersection of the heaven and the earth... Lann
covered
his forehead. In the end, all this seemed to be his ancient destiny. The cause of Xue Quan’s awakening?
Thinking back to the scene when he first activated [Travel], various different worlds reached out to him hungrily, and it even took the help of the Mirror Master to pull them away, Lan En's judgment became more certain.
As for that, I am just a small piece of ancient blood, and now I can’t even form an army with one person. Saving the world hasn't even begun yet, so why has it indirectly triggered a prelude to a natural disaster...
Or is this all part of your plan? Even after leaving this world, you still ordered the last act for yourself in the first-class audience - Mirror Master?
...
Lan En's thoughts turned around a thousand times here.
After seeing Lan's reaction, the Night Demon smiled.
"Don't you know that the celestial spheres meet? That's great."
When she said this, the Night Demon looked at Alice with fear. Even though she was a thousand years old, this was the first time she saw the soul in the painting. Such a magical existence.
"I have brought you such crucial information. In the words of you humans, it is...'a certificate of surrender'?" "
Can I join Cintra?"
"And I'm not just seeking asylum. I know many friends of the same race, and even a few high-level vampires. The ancient blood will definitely form its own force, right? If you need it in the future, I can help you contact them!" Seeing Alice's eyes wet
, While Lan was still weighing the pros and cons, Nightmare continued to throw out chips.
Lann looked at his [Follower] panel and his three extra skill points, then looked at the female night devil in front of him who smiled like a small white flower in mud, and sighed.
...
[Follower: Nanomi Vera Love Timitin
Gender: Female
Race: Female Night Demon
Level: 1
Talent: Enigma
Experience value: 0/1000
Health value: 1756/2000
Mana value: 1824/2000
Item slot: Cotton and linen floral apron
Skill slot: Steel and Iron Bone, Advanced Botany, Advanced Occultism, Advanced General Knowledge, Intermediate Night Demon System Spell
Task: None]
[Shared follower talent: Mystery Charm]
[Mystery Charm: Give talent In addition to appearance, it also enhances the power of hypnotic spells by 50%.]
In order to contract with the female night demon, Lan finally managed to accumulate experience by relying on his attendants and demon hunters to complete tasks, and the experience dropped by half. Obviously, the female night demon The devil said he was willing to follow him, but in fact he still had his own little thoughts in his heart. To put it simply, it's all business and no emotion.
Fortunately, the other party did not know the power of the system and did not resist violently during the contract. Otherwise, Lann estimated that his experience points would be completely exhausted.
Lan was silent for a while as he felt the eyes of the Night Demon Naomi and Alice changing at him at the same time.
"I still have a lot of things to do in Skellig, so it's not convenient for me to take you with me right now. I'll come back to you when I return to Cintra later."
In response to Lan's explanation, the Night Demon nodded inexplicably. . Then she realized with a start that she completely trusted the heir of the ancient blood in front of her, and had no worries that the other party would leave her here and not return.
why is that?
Lann naturally would not answer Nanomi's doubts. He then turned towards Alice and continued: "The Druid apprentice has been found, and I am ready to return to the Oak Ring. Do you want to possess me and go back now? ?"
As he spoke, he patted the black magic scimitar behind his back.
Alice looked Lan up and down. She felt that she should be angry after accepting the female night devil. But for some reason, the eyes behind the veil began to become more intense.
Obviously, I have been following this blond knight almost all day long, but why did I suddenly feel that he had become more... handsome?
"Lan... let's ride on horseback and let Black Wind play for a while. I will possess him when we get to a populated place."
Lann would naturally not object to such a small request.
...
The journey back was uneventful, and there was nothing that needs to be described in detail.
One person, one horse and one soul quickly returned to the Oak Ring and brought the unconscious Druid apprentice back to where he should be.
Fetov rushed over immediately after getting the news.
"Lan, thank you so much. I really didn't expect you to be able to find him so quickly!" Tian Zongzhe hugged Lan with force and expressed his inner excitement loudly, "I didn't even expect that he could still find him. Alive!"
Although he looks like an old man in his sixties, his actual age may be several times higher, but Fetov's hand holding Lan is particularly strong: "Why don't you stay with us for a while? I'll take my I'll teach you all my knowledge and abilities! Do you want to be a manipulator of the sky? Even Mossack can't match me in controlling the weather!" Lann laughed dryly and pointed at the
unconscious druid apprentice. "How about we wake him up first?"
Fetov finally realized what he was doing, as if he was waking up from a dream. He frowned and looked at his apprentice: "Did he encounter any danger in the forest? I can't see any external injuries, but he is unconscious... is it magic?" Fetov immediately became vigilant: "He was injured
. Attacked by other spellcasters? Is it the traitor we are tracking?"
Lann shook his head, wondering whether he should tell the other party about the psychedelic adventure in the forest, or whether it would be better to wait until the apprentice wakes up.
In the end, he suggested tactfully: "He was not attacked. It's just that you may have to have a good talk with him after you wake him up, otherwise I'm worried that he will still return to the forest from time to time." Fetov
said Stunned, I didn't understand the meaning of Lan En's words for a moment.
But he soon understood.
Lan took two steps back and gently closed the door of the cabin. Soon there was the sound of the druid casting spells and the murmur of the apprentice waking up, followed by the panicked call for someone but ending suddenly, the teacher's majestic inquiry, and the young man's hesitant explanation.
Later, there was a flurry of magical energy in the house. Lan was familiar with this spell. Mossack often used it - it was a spell that made the oak cane grow into a close-range long stick weapon.
Then the noise in the room continued for another quarter of an hour before it finally became quiet. During this period, druids passed by the door of the wooden house from time to time and came to check the situation because of the screams inside. They all received "everything is okay" eyes in return from Lan.
After another long moment of silence, Fetov opened the door and walked out of the room.
Compared with the old druid that Lan met not long ago who was melancholy and blamed himself because his apprentice was lost, Fetov now can be described as "refreshed".
"Anyway, I still want to thank you, Lan." Fetov said thoughtfully, "Did you properly deal with the female night demon who bewitched him?"
Lan was silent for a while, even in the open-minded Skelly. Ge is a druid who advocates protecting nature, and the stereotype of the night devil is still very strong.
"I can guarantee that she will no longer be Skellige's problem."
Fetov let out a sigh of relief.
When the apprentice found it, the stone in his heart dropped completely. Just in time to share with Lan the information he currently holds.
In the past few days, Fetov went to Udvik Island to find the mentor of Druiatis who had disappeared and learned a lot about the situation.
"Although I hate to say this - the more I get to know Artis, the more certain I am that he may be the traitor who joined the Wilka people." Fetov shook his head.
"He said some very inappropriate words and did some very inappropriate things. If it weren't for his outstanding talent and the protection of his mentor, we might have driven him out of the Oak Ring long ago."
Lan caught the key words in Fetov's words: "His talent is very outstanding?"
Fetov nodded: "Yes, so even if Artis is not a traitor, there is another fallen druid - that one The traitor who subdued Artis must also be surprisingly powerful. Lan, you must be careful when dealing with him."
Lan thought for a while, hoping to know more details: "Why is Artis so talented? ?"
Fetov took a deep breath: "First of all - he is a demon source."
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On the vast sea, a small ship broke through the waves and was heading towards the small Skellig Island.
There were only about fifteen people on board, and one of the leaders was dressed as a knight. The coat of arms on his body is divided into red and blue on the left and right, and in the middle is a hybrid monster with an eagle on its upper body and a fish on its lower body.
At this moment, the knight was loudly encouraging his men: "We have obtained accurate information: the evil demon hunter Gerd is currently in the Little Skellige Islands. He has taken refuge with a pirate lord named Torgil, and now It's a great time for us to go punish him!"
The knight was extremely emotional, but there were only a few responders. They are all depressed and demoralized.
"Chastek, our leader is Knight Charimir, he is dead...and I have long wanted to say that with the current situation in the north, even Redania has to be on good terms with Skellige. We are here to attack because of the personal grudge of the Duchess, are we..."
The knight named Chastek yelled and kicked the disobedient soldier off the boat, causing a burst of confusion among the remaining people. .
"Fuck the North and Redania, we in the Principality of Akosi don't care! That demon hunter named Gede, that disgusting mutant, actually dared to refuse the solicitation of the Baroness and go to serve that despicable person. The usurper. Even if he runs to the golden tower city of Nilfgaard, I will hunt him down to the end!" "
Charimir died for the Baroness and gained his glory." The knight said righteously Shouted, "And I, Chastek of Blavikan, will defend my glory with my life!"
Chastek made an impassioned declaration. Because of his just kicking people off the boat, others People no longer dare to ignore him and can only respond reluctantly.
They rowed hard and headed for Little Skellig. And the knight tirelessly continued his tirade, continuing to "boost morale."
Suddenly, a sailor exclaimed, "Chastek, there is a storm on the sea! And... there is a small boat in the storm!"
Chastek's talk came to an abrupt end.
After taking a look at the bow of the ship, he turned back confidently:
"Don't worry about it! Nothing can stop us from going to Little Skellig Island!"
"You don't understand! You idiot who is pampered in the palace, a storm of this level is enough to overthrow Warship! Only Skellige's dragon ship can be safe and sound!"
Chastek shouted, kicked the man into the sea again, and then drew his sword and pointed at the small figure shaking in the storm.
"Don't try to deceive me, you cowardly fool! Even a small sailboat can stay safe in the sea. How can this kind of storm capsize our ship?"
The sailor who was kicked off the ship did not come up again, leaving only a string of bubbles floating on the water. Out of the water.
However, not even a few breaths later, another sailor screamed:
"Chastek!"
The knight turned back with a ferocious face and looked at the sailor who made the noise.
The other party swallowed, adjusted his tone, and said, "The storm and the boat seem to be coming towards us..."
As the sailor spoke, the deck under their feet began to shake violently.
(End of chapter)