Chapter 187: Completion of the Law of Surprise and the Disappearance of Duny

Facing these surging guards, Wayne didn't want to take their lives either. He looked left and right, simply used both hands to lift a banquet table weighing over a hundred kilograms, and used it as a weapon to smash into the guards, swatting several guards in iron armor back like ping-pong balls.

This scene left the guards stunned. Although they hadn't seen people with great strength, being able to use something weighing over a hundred kilograms like an ordinary wooden stick was indeed beyond their expectations.

Unfortunately, Wayne, as a bodyguard, wasn't very conscientious. He only blocked the guards carrying weapons and the few knights holding weapons, while some unarmed noble guests were intentionally or unintentionally let through.

After these people bypassed Wayne, they didn't dare to turn back to cause him trouble, immediately surrounding Urcheon and kicking and punching him, beating the hedgehog-man until he was dizzy and his face was a mess, letting him experience what "the anger of the masses" meant.

Geralt also leaped down from the throne seat, holding the weapon the Queen had prepared for him to kill the hedgehog-man, and ran toward Urcheon, who was surrounded by nobles.

Regarding the Law of Surprise, his attitude was much firmer than Wayne's. He picked up the sharp sword in his hand, hacking and killing all the way, and after finishing off several guards rushing at him, he successfully reached the hedgehog-man's side.

Although Geralt didn't dare to kill indiscriminately when facing those nobles, he still rescued the hedgehog-man, who was covered in wounds, from the pile of people.

And just then, facing the situation where everyone was besieging the hedgehog-man, Princess Pavetta, who had been enduring for a long time, finally couldn't endure any longer. Accompanied by her shrill cry of "Duny!", the chaos magic surrounding her also entered a state of runaway.

Like an ultra-large-scale Aard sweep, under the impact of the violent magic, with Princess Pavetta as the center, whether it was the Skellige delegation, Queen Calanthe, the nobles surrounding the hedgehog-man, the guards rushing into the banquet hall, or the hedgehog-man himself, all were like being hit by an invisible storm, their bodies lifted into the air, blown away for several meters, crashing into a pile of tables and chairs, or directly crashing into the wall.

This power was too strong, even directly causing the entire banquet hall, and even the entire castle, to hum.

Only Wayne, Geralt, and Mousesack could still stand on the field, while everyone else was struggling in the chaos magic like rolling gourds.

Even Pavetta's mother, Queen Calanthe, was directly blown away by this magic, crashing heavily into the wall of the banquet hall along with the throne.

However, King Eist, who had always admired Calanthe, saw this and, disregarding his own danger, immediately rushed to the Queen's side, held her in his arms, and used his back to block the falling debris and tableware that followed, avoiding more serious injuries to Queen Calanthe.

The eldest Mousesack struggled to prop his wooden staff on the ground, his beard and the green robe on his body fluttering wildly under the effect of the powerful magic, and he was even almost unable to hold on, about to be torn into pieces.

However, the old druid couldn't care about this. He shouted to Geralt and Wayne:

"This is primal magic! Pavetta cannot control it at all! Hurry, we must stop the princess, otherwise, we will all be torn into pieces by the primal magic."

At this time, Pavetta, under the protection of the primal magic, had slowly risen into mid-air. A large amount of magic gathered around her, forming a powerful green magic shield. This shield not only isolated the surrounding airflow but had even formed a sturdy defense comparable to armor.

However, unlike Mousesack and Geralt, who were severely affected by the primal magic, Wayne, who also possessed the Elder Blood and was also a Source, although he was also pressed by this powerful primal magic until his chest felt uncomfortable and he couldn't breathe,

he was able to rely on his own manipulation of magic, using chaos magic to protect his own magic barrier, and still had the ability to resist the primal magic.

Wayne turned back to look at Geralt and shouted:

"Leave the princess to me, you go protect the others."

Then, he gathered magic in both hands, formed a cone-shaped Quen shield in front of him, and, hard-pressed by the primal magic, walked step by step toward Princess Pavetta's location.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Suspended in mid-air, Princess Pavetta, who had already lost subjective consciousness, seemed to sense the approach of danger. Even more powerful primal magic erupted from around her body, directly causing the mortals in the entire banquet hall to let out painful wails. For these ordinary people caught in the magic storm, every second was a torment.

Unfortunately, there were too many people on the scene. If it were just Wayne and Princess Pavetta, he could directly use the Elder Blood's Blink ability to teleport directly to the princess's side.

However, there wasn't much difference. Although the distance of just over ten meters took Wayne about two minutes, he still walked in front of Princess Pavetta under the powerful pressure.

At this time, after a few minutes of torment, among the people present, except for the three powerful individuals including Wayne, everyone else had been tortured by the magic storm until they were almost delirious, as if they were about to die at any moment.

Seeing this situation, Wayne didn't delay any longer. He used his left hand to maintain the Quen shield to resist the intrusion of magic, while his right hand began to slowly accumulate power, and a large amount of chaos magic in his body continuously gathered.

However, because he was afraid of hurting Princess Pavetta, he gathered about one-tenth of his chaos magic in his hand and, using the output method of the Aard Sign, struck a heavy blow on the magic shield beside Princess Pavetta.

With a loud boom, the entire council hall shook again. Some debris fell from the ceiling, and the guests who had been pushed to the corner covered their ears and let out another wail.

Unfortunately, although Wayne's blow was powerful, it only caused cracks to appear on the magic shield beside Princess Pavetta, which soon returned to its original state under the repair of the primal magic.

And the magic shock caused by the collision between the two powerful magics even directly forced the old druid and Geralt back a dozen steps.

The old druid coughed hard a few times and shouted loudly to Wayne:

"Don't have any more scruples, Wayne! Hurry and stop the princess, otherwise, everyone in the hall will lose their lives."

Hearing the old druid's statement, Wayne couldn't care about anything else. His right hand began to desperately gather chaos magic. After gathering about one-third of the magic in his body, he struck the magic shield of Princess Pavetta with a determined will.

Accompanied by a loud crack, the magic shield around Princess Pavetta shattered upon impact. Wayne's palm was also torn by the violent chaos magic, and blood overflowed.

And after shattering the magic shield, the residual power of the Aard Sign directly hit the unconscious Princess Pavetta, causing this beautiful princess to let out a scream, and then her whole body flew backward.

Seeing this, so that the future Ciri wouldn't die prematurely, Wayne couldn't care about his own injuries and immediately rushed toward Princess Pavetta at the fastest speed. Before she hit a hard object, he held the princess in his arms and used his own body to bear all the damage.

And with Princess Pavetta's fall, the entire banquet hall finally slowly returned to calm. Without the destruction of the magic storm, those guests who had suffered the disaster of innocent bystanders also slowly climbed up from the ground with pain all over their bodies.

Looking at everything around them in a daze, as ordinary people, they didn't even know why such a change had occurred, why they had been attacked by magic, and could only cover their injured bodies and curse loudly.

And the subsequent story returned to its original track. Urcheon changed back to his human form, changed back to the knight Duny, and people learned that Princess Pavetta was no longer a virgin and had been secretly dating Duny for a long time.

And having tasted Pavetta's magic runaway this time, after everyone had strolled on the edge of death, even Queen Calanthe realized the powerful force of fate and no longer stopped her daughter from being with Duny.

However, the Queen firmly disagreed with passing the throne to Duny, and she didn't give up the idea of forming an alliance with Skellige. In the crisis just now, King Eist's saving her regardless of his own danger also made the beautiful Queen realize Eist's deep affection, and she decided to marry Eist herself, letting Eist of Skellige serve as the King of Cintra.

Two weddings would be held in the Cintra palace one week later.

When receiving the reward, Wayne didn't participate. However, according to Geralt, when he went to receive the reward, facing the hedgehog-man Duny's request for remuneration, he had a sudden whim, and in a moment of heat, he also used the Law of Surprise to seek his own Child of Surprise from Duny.

As everyone knows, women cannot become witchers. As for whether the child in Princess Pavetta's belly was a boy or a girl, Geralt didn't know either.

This time, Geralt also wanted to see if fate would show him mercy and give him a successor who could inherit his witcher identity.

Regarding this situation, Wayne just shook his head, lamenting the repair ability of fate. It seemed to always be able to slowly pull fate back to its original track without letting the fate of the entire world undergo major changes.

After receiving the reward, the two witchers and the bard Dandelion, who had been playing a supporting role the whole time, also left the Cintra palace. However, they didn't leave Cintra city, but were invited to attend the two weddings a week later. Geralt expressed his refusal, while Wayne readily agreed.

But just when everyone thought it was a happy ending and were looking forward to the upcoming wedding,

someone who was a single dog decided firmly not to let a certain hedgehog-man taste the sweetness, and by the way, he also wanted to see if future fate could be changed.

Lord Wayne took advantage of the dead of night, secretly drove the magic flying carpet, and arrived at Cintra Castle silently.

He used the power of the Invisibility Cloak to hide himself, and under the cover of night, successfully touched the floor where Princess Pavetta was.

After the commotion at the banquet the day before, everyone slept very tiredly that night, and Princess Pavetta was even slightly injured by Wayne's Aard Sign, so she drank the potion early and entered sleep.

Searching all the way, when Wayne thought he could only find Duny in Princess Pavetta's bed,

unexpectedly, when passing by the study, he saw this guy lighting a candle, holding a bottle of strong liquor, and flipping through a book while drinking.

Perhaps it was the habit of only being able to shed the curse and transform into a normal person at midnight for many years, every night, Duny was always complicated and couldn't sleep.

Seeing this main character, Wayne chuckled in his heart, didn't delay any longer, and immediately, with the cover of the Invisibility Cloak, silently touched behind Duny.

This future Emperor Emhyr, although he might hold great power in the future, was just an ordinary person who hadn't mastered any extraordinary power at this time.

He couldn't even detect the witcher standing behind him, within arm's reach.

After arriving at the predetermined position, Wayne silently stretched out two arms from the Invisibility Cloak, and before Duny could react, he covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and with the other hand, controlling his strength, instantly struck the back of his neck, directly knocking him unconscious.

And as a professional, this set of his actions was smooth and flowing, without making any sound, and without alarming any guards.

Supporting the fainted Duny, Wayne slightly pulled open the Invisibility Cloak on his body, directly wrapped Duny in it, then gently pushed open the window in the study, directly took out the magic flying carpet, carried him and Duny, and with the cover of night, disappeared into the castle silently.

Until many years later, countless versions of the news about the disappearance of the hedgehog knight Duny spread, but no one ever knew why this man who was about to become Princess Pavetta's husband disappeared before the wedding.

No one knew where he disappeared to, and no one knew how he disappeared. Until many years later, no one ever saw this legendary hedgehog knight again.