Chapter 73 The Water Ghost in the Valley of Nine
As mentioned before, what Lan wants to explore this time is Thomas Moreu's laboratory.
Around 1087, Thomas Moreu was rescued by a witcher. He was grateful for this, but the witcher proposed the "Law of Accident" in return, and in the end the professor had to give his son to the witcher. Thomas vowed to study how to reverse the mutation process of the witcher. He felt resentful about being unable to be an important person in his son's life, and hoped that one day his son would understand his good intentions as a father.
In 1102, Thomas established a secret laboratory in the Valley of the Nine in Toussaint, where he spent all his efforts studying mutations, conducted a large number of experiments, and experienced many failures. Experimental subjects include various creatures (such as giant centipedes) and living humans.
It wasn't until 1121 that Thomas became confident enough in his experiment that he decided to reverse his son's mutation. He lured the witcher's son to his laboratory with a lucrative bounty. Thomas used a spell to temporarily paralyze his son, and at the same time began to implement his own experiments on his son.
Unfortunately, in the end, the potion and treatment process developed by Thomas Maurue not only failed to reverse the mutation, but instead enhanced its effects, making the witcher's son stronger and more agile. Eventually he gave it all up and was forced to accept that his son would become a witcher. He returned to his wife Lydia and died shortly afterwards.
Thomas Moreu's son is Geron Moreu, a gryphon school demon hunter who is proficient in sigils. And yes, Thomas Moreu was a mage and he had a son.
Most of the warlocks' use of chaotic energy causes their bodies to be affected by magical energy, causing defects in their reproductive organs and ultimately leading to infertility. But there are always exceptions, such as Professor Moru, which is why he has such crazy love for his only son.
There are actually many special cases of this kind of warlock. Geralt's mother was a sorceress, as well as a senior druid and physician. She had inherited the talent of a warlock to Geralt, but Geralt eventually gave up the possibility of becoming a warlock and concentrated on being a demon hunter.
The reason why witchers are sterile is even more complicated. Because the mutation of witchers involves changes at the genetic level, it is an uncontrollable species evolution. Fundamentally, witchers are no longer the same species as humans, and there is reproductive isolation.
Theoretically, if there were a male witcher and a female witcher with identical mutations, they could actually raise offspring. Unfortunately, due to the immaturity and uncontrollability of mutation, the direction and degree of mutation of each demon hunter are different. To exaggerate, it is said that each demon hunter is an independent human subspecies. This has led to the current "hunter" The result is that demons cannot have children.” In the final analysis, it was Arzu's fault that he gave up the idea halfway through the experiment.
Professor Molu, who failed to "save" his only son, eventually died in Beauclair. This year is 1263 in the human calendar, and nearly two hundred years have passed.
Lan En looked at the green valley in front of him. A river flowed in the middle of the valley. The surface of the river was crystal clear, and jagged and dilapidated buildings were faintly visible.
From time to time, there are groups of four or five children-like figures coming ashore to play and play, but if you look closely, you can see that their bodies are covered with fine scales and webs of different colors. They are mostly blue and green, with one or two tall black figures occasionally interspersed among them.
From a distance, they seem very happy, singing and dancing around the food in groups. It’s just the type of food they eat that makes humans shudder when they see them.
"Most of them are water ghosts, and the few black ones are drowned ghosts." Geralt explained, "They are all corpse-eating creatures and are very good at turning people into corpses." Lann led the exploration team to stand at the top of the valley and look out
. , he held the crystal bird skull in his left hand and looked down from the slit of the skull's eyes. No magic fluctuations were found.
Next to him, a young man dressed as a druid said: "It's from here, Mr. Lannister. Our exploration ends here. We can't do anything until we deal with these water ghosts." The young druid said to
Lann He nodded, and after explaining the matter, he stood aside as if he were a tool, neither close nor distant from Lan En.
The witcher handed Lan a bottle of grease-like substance in an alchemical glass bottle and said, "
This is a sword oil prepared by the witcher specifically for monsters. This bottle is a sword oil for corpse-eating creatures. Apply it on Adding it to your sword can greatly increase the damage to those water ghosts."
The demon hunter said without looking back: "I guess you will be the first to rush forward, so I won't stop you."
Swade suddenly said Shocked, he glanced nervously at the dense crowd of water ghosts below, and then glanced at Lan, sweating profusely.
Lann took the bottle of sword oil and threw it away, and said angrily: "I'm not that reckless."
Geralt didn't reply. He didn't use Lann's crystal bird skull and looked with his naked eyes. The cat-like amber color The pupils shrank slightly, taking in the entire scene below.
After a while, he turned back and said: "There are no less than twenty water ghosts outside, and there are more in the water. They are probably building a nest below. If you want to sneak into the underwater portal, you must not only solve the problem outside Of these, we have to find a way to bring out the following."
Asking professionals about professional matters, Lann asked Geralt: "What would you usually do when encountering this kind of situation?"
The witcher replied: "So In large numbers, I usually turn around and run away. These water ghosts are enough to destroy a large village."
Very professional and practical answer.
Sward seemed a little confused. In his eyes, a demon hunter who was not as brave as Lann should not say this: "Are they strong?"
Geralt explained: "No, the courage and strength of the water ghosts Consistent with their size, far smaller than adults. However, they bounce very quickly, and many inexperienced soldiers are often caught off guard and killed by them; and once they taste blood, they are not afraid of death and are strong soldiers. It's easy to be killed by them."
"Lan, I don't recommend that you use soldiers to exterminate these water ghosts. There will be a lot of casualties."
Lan thought for a while and asked: "I remember that water ghosts are afraid of fire. Right?"
Geralt nodded: "Just like your squire is afraid of Calanthe."
"What about their IQ?"
Geralt shook his head: "As stupid as shoes, as stupid as the Axi Sigil. It's ineffective against them."
"That's easy, we can use bait." Lann said, "Do you think you can use food to fish these monsters as stupid as shoes out of the water? For example, cows, sheep, etc.?"
"I usually don't do this, because even if I kill all these guys, the bounty I receive may not be enough for a cow.
But I guess you are not someone who cares about such details. I think it is very feasible. According to The druid said that these monsters came out of the portal, so they probably haven't seen much of human society, so they can try to seduce them."
Lann said, "Then it's decided!"
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