Chapter 137: Triss is injured (Please collect, please subscribe, please reward)

Since they decided to take a small risk, after a short rest, Wayne and Triss temporarily left their mounts with Allen.

It wasn't far from the place marked by Triss, and having two horses would be a distraction.

Soon, seeing that the villagers' injuries had been temporarily treated and there was no life-threatening danger, the two walked toward the center of the forest.

Although Triss had graduated from the academy for nearly ten years, as a sorceress, they spent most of their time in the city, rarely had the opportunity to enter such an uninhabited wilderness, and rarely dealt with such tangled choices.

Just after the two left the villagers' location, she couldn't help but ask:

"Wayne, if the Leshen threatens us with the children later, what should we do?"

Wayne was silent for a moment, swung his sword to cut off a poisonous snake that wanted to pounce from a tree branch, and said:

"We can only say we try our best to save the children, but this Leshen must be eradicated. Otherwise, it will only cause more tragedies."

Upon hearing this, Triss was also silent for a few seconds, as if thinking about something, then raised her head and said:

"Okay, we can only try our best to save those children, but Wayne, please try your best to delay time for me. I will cast spells with the goal of saving the children first."

Wayne nodded and didn't say anything more.

The two traveled through the dense forest for about ten minutes. Until they were less than a few hundred meters away from the location where Triss marked Link, the trees in front of them suddenly cleared, and a rocky area with jagged rocks appeared.

Looking from afar, a huge totem was standing in the center of a pile of rocks.

Before the two could see the appearance of the totem clearly, a sound of something approaching came to Wayne's ears.

"There are enemies approaching. It should be wild wolves and trolls."

"Let's retreat a bit first. The terrain here is not suitable for us to fight."

Sure enough, the witcher's keen hearing allowed Wayne to always anticipate the enemy's moves. By the time the two retreated to an open terrain suitable for fighting, a dozen wild wolves and two trolls appeared in front of them.

Without any hesitation, Wayne took out three Honeycomb Bombs from his waist pouch and threw them toward the direction of the monsters, followed by Dragon's Dream.

The monsters that had just crawled out of the rocky area hadn't had time to launch their offensive before they were hit head-on. Dragon's Dream, combined with the Honeycomb Bombs, directly ignited the area in front of Wayne into a sea of fire.

Although these flames didn't last long, they still caused a lot of fire damage to the wild wolves, and almost half of the wolf pack lost their combat effectiveness.

Only the two trolls wrapped in stones rushed out of the flames without fear. Looking at their blood-red eyes, Wayne knew that any communication was meaningless.

He drew the Statikk Shiv from his waist, rushed up to fight them, and mainly used evasion to keep them away from Triss.

The combat effectiveness of a witcher combined with a sorceress was astonishing. Wayne only went up to obstruct the trolls' actions for less than two minutes, and Triss had already used a fire magic with particularly strong penetration, similar to a fire spear spell, directly burning two bloody holes in the chests of the two trolls.

And the remaining wild wolves were soon chopped into broken corpses on the ground under Wayne's sharp electric blade.

From being attacked to annihilating all enemies, it took less than five minutes in total. This obviously greatly exceeded the Leshen's expectations. Wayne could even faintly hear a dull roar coming from the direction of the totem.

Wayne wiped the blood off the electric blade, counted the alchemy bombs in his waist pouch, put a Quen shield on himself again, and said to Triss:

"It seems this Leshen is forced into a corner by us."

"Quick, we must also speed up. We cannot give this monster time to react."

Triss nodded upon hearing this, took out a purple potion from her waist pouch, and drank it down with a wrinkled face.

Although Wayne was a bit curious about what functions the potions used by sorcerers had, he planned to ask after the battle.

Soon, with the witcher leading and the sorceress bringing up the rear, the two traveled through the rocky area for another ten minutes, killed two waves of monsters that wanted to sneak attack them, and soon approached the location of the huge totem.

And just as they stepped into the range of the huge totem, Wayne immediately felt his body become weak. An invisible force seemed to be pulling at his soul, making his senses a bit blurred.

Regarding magic, Triss was obviously more proficient than Wayne. Just as this feeling appeared on her body, the sorceress said:

"It's black magic, Wayne. It should be a black magic area established by the totem. We'd better destroy that totem quickly. Otherwise, our state will get worse and worse."

Wayne nodded and looked toward the huge totem, but the scene there made him feel tricky.

I saw that at the bottom of the totem, which was built with a huge tree as the main body, various animal bones, air-dried corpses, and oddly shaped things, five children with their eyes closed, seemingly in a coma, were being tightly tied to the totem by green vines, circle by circle.

It looked like if the totem were destroyed, there was a high probability that the children would be crushed to death by the collapsing totem, or ignited together by the burning totem.

And not far from those children, a young man with disheveled hair holding a sharp knife was staring at the two who walked out of the rocky area with a pair of blood-red eyes, muttering something, but because the distance was too far, no one could hear clearly.

Wayne vigilantly observed the surroundings of the totem. He didn't see the figures of other monsters, nor did he see the Leshen, which should be very huge. So he whispered to the sorceress:

"Be careful, Triss. The Leshen should have hidden. It is estimated that it wants to sneak attack us."

Triss nodded, holding the red orb emitting fluorescent light, and also began to vigilantly observe the situation around, guarding against possible sneak attacks.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, seeing that there was nothing unusual around, the two knew that they could not delay any longer. They could only carefully approach the totem to see if they could save the children first and then destroy the totem.

Under the influence of black magic, Wayne felt his stamina disappearing rapidly. Although as a witcher with top-tier physical fitness, this bit of stamina didn't count for much to him.

But Triss beside him was only slightly stronger than ordinary women in terms of physical fitness, obviously unable to withstand more losses.

After they approached the totem, the young man with disheveled hair holding a sharp knife suddenly blocked in front of them and said in a hoarse voice:

"Don't come any closer, witcher and sorceress. You shouldn't have come here, and you shouldn't have managed this matter."

Wayne quietly reached out and took a short-handled flying axe from his belt, and asked without any expression on his face:

"Are you Link?"

"You have already avenged your parents, why do you still want to hurt these children?"

Link's expression was crazy, he looked up and laughed, just wanting to say something, who knew that Wayne had already thrown the flying axe in his hand with force, *splat*, hitting his forehead squarely.

Bones shattered, blood overflowed, and the young man had an incredible look in his eyes. He didn't understand why the witcher on the opposite side didn't listen to him finish speaking before sneak attacking. It was simply not following the rules of martial arts.

However, he was just a flesh-and-blood body. No matter what he thought, being chopped into his skull by an axe, in less than a few seconds, he had already lost his life.

Wayne looked at Triss, who was also a bit stunned, and didn't explain. Anyway, no matter whether this Link was a human marked by the Leshen, judging by his crimes, killing him was the best choice at present.

As for what he wanted to say, it was a matter of no importance. Even if he suddenly realized and wanted to repent, so what? Should he forgive him?

Black magic was still continuing, and time must be seized. Wayne said to Triss:

"Be careful, I'll go save those children."

Then, holding a vigilant mentality, he rushed to the bottom of the huge totem and began to use the sharp blade in his hand to cut the vines tied to the children.

And just when he cut off most of the vines, Triss, who was guarding not far away, suddenly let out an exclamation.

I saw that under the ground only a few meters away from her, a huge monster suddenly jumped out. Before the two could see its shape clearly, a whip made of vines whipped on Triss's body, knocking her body flying.

Wayne didn't have time to think too much, immediately gave up the children beside him, rushed to Triss's front, formed a sign with both hands, and formed a two-handed Quen shield toward the vines that continued to whip over, resisting the subsequent attacks.

*Bang! Bang! Bang! *

The power of the vines was not small, shaking Wayne's Quen shield, but his mana was amazing, and maintaining such a shield was more than enough.

And at this time, he also saw the figure of the monster that crawled out of the ground.

Nearly four meters tall, long arms and legs, slender figure, the skin of the limbs and body was constructed of tissue like dead tree bark, and on the head was a huge beast skull. At both ends of the skull, there were two huge antlers. Sure enough, it was a huge Leshen.

It seemed quite cautious, and didn't dare to approach when facing Wayne, just constantly manipulating the vines around its body, whipping like a whip toward the shield in Wayne's hand.

And it was quite cunning, actually hiding in the mud so close to the totem, and hiding quite naturally, so that neither of them found it.

Wayne still maintained the two-handed Quen shield, constantly changing positions, blocking all the Leshen's attacks. Although there was no time to look back, he still couldn't help but ask with concern:

"Are you okay, Triss?"

After more than ten seconds, the sorceress's painful voice reached his ears.

"Don't worry, Wayne. My chest is a bit injured, but I can still hold on."

Wayne felt relieved in his heart, his thoughts turned, and he immediately said:

"Hold on, Triss. You go save those children, and then take them away. I'll hold the Leshen."

"Don't argue. You are injured now, staying here will only distract me."

After another few seconds, Triss said:

"Okay, Wayne, you also be careful."

"After I send the children out of the Leshen's control range, I will come to find you."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 138 =====