Chapter 197: The First Epic Task

Healing potions, mana potions, enchanted shirts that can effectively keep warm in all four seasons after being enchanted, several large bags of mellow pipe-weed and exquisite pipes, wine and food from Middle-earth and Azeroth, and several magic scrolls picked out from the space bracelet of the legendary lightning mage Tesla.

And besides these scattered little things, the things that occupied the most space on the table were the large number of books Geralt bought back from Aretuza.

Looking at the dazzling array of gifts piled up like a small mountain, and listening to Geralt's introduction one by one, Geralt, Eskel, and Lambert were all stunned. Even Vesemir could not maintain his composure as a teacher, opening his mouth and looking at Geralt, not knowing what to say.

Lambert suddenly blurted out a curse and asked, "Damn, tell me quickly, Geralt, did you rob the treasury of which kingdom?"

"Don't these things add up to tens of thousands of gold coins?"

Geralt, upon hearing this, looked at Lambert with a look that said you are a hick who doesn't know the goods at all, pointed to the books, and said, "Just these books, each one costs dozens of Orens. These thousand books cost tens of thousands of gold coins."

"Many of the knowledge inside are copies that we witchers lack and cannot be bought on the market. Even if you can buy them, you have to spend several times the price."

"Plus these magic props, Hearthstones, magic waist bags, and these potions that can save lives at critical moments, the total value is probably over one hundred thousand gold coins!"

Hearing the words one hundred thousand gold coins, the Wolf School witchers present were all stunned, looking at Geralt with an expression of seeing a god, as if they saw a super rich man who spent money like water.

Not only for the Wolf School witchers, but for any witcher still alive in the world, let alone one hundred thousand gold coins, even fifty thousand gold coins was an astronomical figure they could never save in a lifetime.

One hundred thousand gold coins, in terms of purchasing power in this world, could even directly buy a small town of hundreds of people and buy everything in it.

This was a huge sum of money that many kings had to prepare for a long time to come up with. Hundreds of years ago, the Kingdom of Kovir gathered tens of thousands of mercenaries to help them defeat the army of the Kingdom of Redania, and it only cost about one million gold coins. This was already the wealth to gather an army.

Vesemir quickly restrained the surprised expression on his face. He put his hand on Geralt's shoulder, patted it hard, and said, "Child, we accept your heart, but one hundred thousand gold coins, my god, can you tell me where you got so much money?"

"Don't put yourself in a dangerous and difficult situation because of buying these things. This is not what I expected."

Geralt reached out and patted Vesemir's arm on his shoulder, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry about my financial situation, teacher."

"Although buying these things made me owe a little bit of money, the other party is my good friend, and I have also found a new way to make money, and I will be able to solve this debt next year."

As he spoke, he took out the top few books from the pile of books and handed them to Vesemir, saying:

"Teacher, this is the collection of Aretuza, the method and data about our witcher gene mutation experiment, and it is the research notes of the earliest legendary sorcerers who studied witchers, Alzur and Cosimo."

"With these things, when I find some trustworthy sorcerers to work for me, release stabilization spells, replace more advanced equipment, and research more stable formulas, the mortality rate of our Grass Trial will no longer be nine deaths and one life as it was in the past."

"Those children who join the school will no longer sacrifice in vain as they did in the past."

Looking at the precious materials Geralt stuffed to him, and listening to Geralt's vision, Vesemir asked subconsciously:

"Geralt, why do you want to do this? This is clearly something that has nothing to do with you."

Geralt, upon hearing this, restrained his smile, looked at Vesemir with a serious expression, and said:

"Teacher, I know you have always wanted to continue the profession of witcher and don't want the inheritance of witchers to be interrupted."

"But you have to take into account the mortality rate of the Grass Trial and don't want more children to die in vain."

"And my idea is to go one step further. We protect the public and collect remuneration. This was originally a profession that should be respected, but because of various slanders, smears, and hatred, witchers have become rats crossing the street, receiving unreasonable accusations and scolding."

"I hope that witchers can get the respect and status they deserve, and I hope that every one of my witcher brothers can live a happy life."

"To achieve this, we must first make ourselves strong, united, and master more power."

"My purpose is not to create more witchers, but to unite the existing witchers, let us get what originally belongs to us, and let everyone live a better life."

After listening to Geralt's words, the old witchers present looked at Geralt with complicated expressions.

They found that Geralt, this young witcher, was indeed different from them. Most ordinary witchers, after completing the trial and becoming witchers, mostly held a pessimistic attitude toward their identity and future life, all living a life of drunkenness and dreaming, living one day at a time.

Few people could be like Geralt, holding hope for the future, and even thinking about changing the world's prejudice against witchers.

Vesemir flipped through the books in his hand with a complicated expression, and the other witchers also looked at Geralt with different expressions. After a few dozen seconds, the old witcher asked Geralt in a serious tone: "Geralt, have you thought it through?"

"This is a very arduous road. The decline of witchers is not only because of the reduction in the number of monsters, but it also has various complex reasons."

"If you want to unite witchers from other schools and integrate our power together, you need to face many enemies, and the difficulties in the future are countless."

"Although I don't want the inheritance of witchers to be cut off, I don't want to entrust this responsibility to you young people."

"Back then, I experienced the most prosperous period of witchers, and I also watched how it declined step by step to this day."

"But if you have the will to take on this responsibility, I will not stop you, Geralt."

"You are still young now. You can wait a few years, wait until you have enough experience, and then tell me your decision."

As the old man's voice fell, a segment of unusual melody sounded in Geralt's mind.

After the melody, there was another light ding sound.

Task triggered, Epic Task.

【Rebuild Witcher Order】

Ding! Epic tasks are phased reward tasks. According to the difficulty of the task, it is divided into different numbers of stages. Each stage completed will receive a reward.

The final stage of the task will be decided by the host when to complete. According to the completion of the task, 30% to 300% of the final task reward will be obtained. Current task progress: 0/10.

Next stage reward: 300 experience, Master-level Treasure Chest * 1.

Hearing the completely different task completion mode in his mind, Geralt was slightly stunned, and then after a slight calculation, he discovered how rich the reward of this Epic Task was.

If he could complete this task according to the highest standard of 300%, then he would likely obtain more than 10,000 experience points and nine Master-level Treasure Chests, as well as three Epic-level Treasure Chests. Not to mention how precious the items in the treasure chests were, just the task experience was enough for him to level up by about eight or nine levels.

Moreover, rebuilding the Witcher Order was indeed something Geralt wanted to accomplish, not just because he wanted Vesemir and the brothers of the Wolf School to live better.

At the same time, he also knew that when he went to some more dangerous and broader worlds, if he wanted to complete some high-difficulty tasks, it was not something that could be easily accomplished by one person. For example, dealing with a force, dealing with a kingdom, or even resisting an entire race, he must have more helpers and more subordinates to complete these tasks more easily.

Geralt calmed down the slightly excited mood in his heart, looked at Vesemir, and did not refute the old witcher's suggestion to let him spend more time thinking. Anyway, the task had already been received, and what he said had no effect. He said with a sincere expression: "Teacher, don't worry, I will not act recklessly. I know very well that even if I want to revitalize the witcher profession, it is not a matter of one or two days or one or two years."

"Perhaps, I will have to spend a few years, decades, or even a lifetime to complete this matter."

"I have already made this psychological preparation. No matter how I choose in the end, I will start from small things and improve our lives bit by bit."

As he spoke, Geralt looked at the pile of books on the table and said to Vesemir:

"Taking back these books is just the first step. When next year or the year after, I will hire a group of trustworthy workers to help us renovate Kaer Morhen Castle and strengthen its defenses."

"And in the future, I will try my best to help witcher compatriots of other schools, persuade them, and let them see the hope of the schools gathering together again."

"As for the consumption of money, everyone doesn't need to care. I have already found a stable income of money. Hmph, to say something presumptuous, even if I support all witchers alone, it is not a problem."

"At that time, teacher, you can just stay in the castle and supervise them to complete this work."

As he spoke, Geralt turned his head to look at Geralt, Lambert, and Eskel, and said with a smile:

"Everyone has endured this broken castle for many years, haven't they?"

The others also came back to their senses upon hearing this and looked at each other. They actually had various different views on the plan Geralt said, but they didn't express it. For what this junior wanted to do, they, as seniors, wouldn't really stop him.

That night, Geralt prepared a lot of delicious food, not only delicious food in the Wizard World, but also the specialties he brought back from other worlds.

A group of witchers drank fine wine, ate delicious food, and chatted for a long time, until late at night, before they dispersed. But in their hearts, they were still calm for a long time about what Geralt mentioned.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, Geralt stayed in Kaer Morhen for a week. Besides combat practice such as swordplay and Signs, he would also often go to the study in Kaer Morhen to read the books he brought back. Although everyone had been living in a small castle, every day was very busy.

One afternoon, he found the old witcher who was sitting by the fireplace studying Alzur's notes, took out a bottle soaked with unknown blue meat from his arms, and made a request to the old witcher.

After listening to Geralt's request, the old witcher asked somewhat hesitantly:

"Geralt, you have only completed the witcher mutation for less than four years. Do you really want to perform this large blue mutagen transplantation surgery now?"

"Although Eskel completed the red mutagen transplantation last year, that was because the gene mutation in his body had long been stable and he could adapt to the new mutation."

"But I still feel that transplanting mutagens is too early for you! You'd better consider it more."

Vesemir did not lower his volume, and his words quickly attracted the attention of several other witchers in the hall.

Lambert, who had already lost all his coins and could only watch Geralt and Eskel play Gwent, immediately became interested. He walked to the side of the two in a few steps, picked up the bottle containing the large blue mutagen on the table, and smacked his lips, saying: "Another large mutagen, and it's a rare blue one. Kid Geralt, your luck is really too good. I have executed so many commissions and killed so many monsters, and I have seen at most medium-sized mutagens. I have never seen a large one."

"What kind of monster did you dig this out of?"

Geralt had no proud expression on his face, just smiled and said:

"An ancient Leshen, a task Triss entrusted to me just before we went to crusade against the evil god Dagon."

And when the two were talking, Geralt and Eskel also stopped playing cards and gathered around. Eskel looked at Vesemir's expression, patted Geralt on the shoulder, and said:

"Geralt, don't be in a hurry, wait a few more years. Vesemir is also worried about your safety."

"When I transplanted that large red mutagen, I also felt very difficult, and the burden on my body was very heavy."

"Every mutation is a possible death adventure for us witchers."

"We must act carefully and minimize the danger."

Looking at the concerned expressions of several people, knowing that they were simply concerned about his own safety.

So, after thinking about it, Geralt decided to reveal some trump cards to dispel everyone's doubts, and said to Vesemir with a firm expression:

"Teacher, don't worry about the safety of the dangerous transplantation surgery."

"Actually, I have never told you that I have received the divine blessing of the Lady of the Lake."

"That is a very powerful purification ritual. She repaired the dark injuries and genetic disharmony in my body. I have become a knight of the Lady of the Lake, and my body has been greatly enhanced compared to ordinary people."

As he spoke, Geralt looked at several witcher companions, his eyes scanned Lambert, and said:

"It's not that I'm bragging, my current physical fitness is definitely the most powerful among witchers. Whether it is strength or speed, whether it is reaction ability, or the degree of mastery of Chaos Magic, it has far exceeded your expectations."

"If you still have doubts, I can compare with Lambert, let everyone see my growth over the past year."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 198 =====