Chapter 198: Mutation Experiment and Sign LV10

I don't know if Lambert had already suffered a few losses, but facing Geralt's somewhat provocative tone, Lambert first took the initiative to admit defeat, and then provoked:

"Last year, we couldn't beat you anymore, Geralt. Fighting me again won't reflect your strength."

His eyes turned, he looked at Geralt and Eskel, and said with a smile:

"Why don't the three of us fight you alone, without using weapons, without using Signs, just relying on fists, until only one person is left on the field, how about it?"

Facing Lambert's request, Geralt laughed, and after looking at Geralt and Eskel, he didn't push it and agreed immediately.

He took off the dragon-skin armor and membrane-coated shirt on his upper body, took off the adamantine arm crossbow on his left hand, took a bandage from his belt, wrapped his hands a few times, came to a spacious open space in the hall, and said to the other three companions with a smile:

"Come on, Geralt, Eskel, Lambert. Actually, I haven't really boxed, and I haven't learned the skills of close-quarters unarmed combat."

"Just this time, you can teach me."

The others didn't refuse, also learned from Geralt to take off their upper clothes, revealing the lean muscles on their upper bodies, found some bandages, wrapped their hands a few times, and then attacked Geralt without even saying hello.

Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! The witchers' movements were swift and powerful, and the three of them cooperated quite tacitly. When Geralt's attention was attracted by Lambert, Geralt and Eskel instantly hit his stomach and chest, and the sound of fists hitting flesh came from the field immediately.

Geralt was caught off guard and was hit hard by a few punches. Although it couldn't be said to be very painful, he was a bit confused. He had clearly exchanged eyes with Geralt and Eskel just now. He thought the two were already on his side and was thinking about how to prank Lambert later. He didn't expect to be besieged by the three of them as soon as he came up.

After successfully hitting Geralt in the stomach with a punch, Lambert laughed and said triumphantly: "Hey, didn't expect it!"

"We had already discussed giving you a lesson. You must have never experienced a bitter battle since you finished your training, and you have never truly experienced the limit of battle."

"This time, you should feel it well, what it feels like when your strength is not enough to turn the tables."

"Teaching you the darkness of society is also one of the responsibilities of us seniors."

After speaking, the three witcher seniors who succeeded in the sneak attack all showed smiles, and then attacked Geralt with all their strength.

Just at the moment of the fight, Geralt knew he had miscalculated. He overestimated his strength. As the saying goes, chaotic punches can beat a master, not to mention three experienced witchers.

Geralt himself didn't have much experience in close-quarters combat with people. Although his strength and speed were several times stronger than Geralt and the others individually, the three of them were experienced and cooperated quite tacitly, rarely revealing flaws.

Whenever he wanted to counterattack and focused on attacking one person, that person would immediately adopt a defensive and evasive posture, dodging with all his strength, without any frontal resistance, while the other two would immediately strengthen the offensive, and sandbag-sized fists hit Geralt's body mercilessly.

Geralt's movements were the most flexible. He, who had not broken his leg yet, was worthy of the title of White Wolf. Every attack was a must-save for the enemy, often able to find his weakness, hitting him until he bared his teeth and grinned. Eskel was a firm muscle man. Although his strength was no longer comparable to Geralt, his endurance was extraordinary. Sometimes even if he carried Geralt's attack hard, he would create opportunities for the other two. Geralt hit him hard, and he would only grit his teeth and endure, without any retreat.

And the most shameless one was Lambert. Clearly, everyone agreed to box, but this guy used grappling techniques, joint locks, choke attacks, and even sweep kicks from time to time. Fighting was simply like a rascal, insidious and effective.

The three of them joined forces this time, which really made Geralt suffer a big loss. They went back and forth in the hall and fought for half an hour. Geralt's body was covered with skin injuries, which was simply painful. If his will was not firm enough and his physique was strong enough, he would definitely not be able to persist for so long, and would have fallen down under the various means of these three old oil sticks long ago.

Moreover, as Lambert said, because of the blessing of the system, Geralt had been too smooth in the past few years. The injuries he received in the past few years might not add up to as much as this time when he was fighting with them, and he had even forgotten the taste of being injured.

Although getting injured less is a good thing, it is not really a good thing. As a warrior, if you don't receive enough torture from pain, you cannot temper a firm will.

In the end, after persisting for more than ten minutes under the siege of the three, until his physical strength was completely exhausted, Geralt stopped the boxing training.

As far as the result is concerned, although Geralt was the one with the most injuries and the most serious skin injuries, Geralt and the others were not feeling well either.

Especially Eskel, because he always carried Geralt's attacks hard, but Geralt's strength was several times higher than his. As a result, Geralt was exhausted and lay down, and he couldn't persist either. He sat on the ground with his butt, covering the wounds on his body, baring his teeth and grinning, and then laughed out loud.

Geralt and Lambert were no better. Although they didn't have many places where they were injured, Geralt didn't want them to feel better, so the target of the attack was on their faces. Lambert was directly beaten into a pig's head, his cheeks on both sides were swollen high, and he spoke with a severe nasal sound, while Geralt was beaten into a panda eye, which looked quite funny with his somewhat paralyzed expression.

Until all four were exhausted and paralyzed on the ground, Vesemir walked over with a somewhat annoyed expression. He first commented on the boxing of the four one by one, expressed his own views, and then looked at Geralt and said:

"Okay, child, you have proven your strength and determination. Your physical fitness is indeed stronger than ours."

"Since you insist on performing the transplantation surgery, then be prepared. Three days later, I will help you perform this surgery."

Having obtained Vesemir's consent, Geralt grinned at the old witcher, and then bared his teeth because of the injury, and said with pain:

"No problem, teacher, don't worry. The special potion I brought back this time can save even people who have suffered fatal injuries. You can rest assured and perform the surgery for me."

After speaking, Geralt untied the magic wine pot at his waist, changed it to the intermediate healing potion grid, and poured a mouthful into his mouth.

After the skin injuries on his body began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye, he shook the wine pot at Geralt and the three, threw it over, and said:

"Lambert, brothers!"

"It was so cool to fight today. In the future, after every meal, we must have a fight, just as our after-meal training, hahaha." Geralt took the water pot, looked at Geralt, who was covered in injuries but was enjoying it, and also learned from Geralt to pour a big mouthful into his mouth, and then looked at Lambert and Eskel a few times, and had a bad premonition in his heart.

And in the days that followed, Geralt did what he said. After every dinner, he forced the old witchers to conduct unarmed boxing training with him.

Then he dragged his injured body and drank healing potions full of herbal bitterness with Geralt and others.

This was not because Geralt had a masochistic tendency and liked to be beaten, but because he sincerely felt that the sense of urgency and crisis when facing the siege of three witchers was very beneficial to the improvement of his strength.

Except for Kaer Morhen and the brothers of the Wolf School, there were basically few places where he could find such a few trustworthy masters to conduct this kind of training with him.

Either the strength was not enough, or the trust was not enough.

Geralt felt that after he adapted to the rhythm of being besieged by Geralt and the three, he would not be caught off guard when he encountered a few masters besieging him in the future, and might even be able to counter-kill.

So for this training, he was also quite hardworking, and soon developed other ways to play. Several people gradually upgraded from unarmed fighting to using wooden swords, using tactics, changing venues, and even using some non-lethal Signs.

Not only did Geralt get practical combat improvement, but the others also improved their strength under Geralt's strong pressure.

At the very least, they all knew how to face an enemy whose strength and speed crushed them, how to cooperate with companions, and how to use advantages in other aspects to smooth out the gap between the two sides.

In such training, Vesemir soon prepared everything needed for the mutation experiment. For the old witcher, Geralt was very trustworthy. When he lay on the experimental table, was injected with anesthetic, and woke up again, that large blue mutagen had been successfully transplanted into his body.

A strange feeling slowly spread from the place where he was transplanted to his whole body. It seemed that in a place he couldn't see, the blood, cells, muscles, and even genes in his body were undergoing earth-shaking changes.

And what made Geralt feel quite surprised was that after being implanted with the large blue mutagenic substance, when he felt some deep-level genetic changes in his body, the Sign level and mutation level of the witcher's exclusive skills given by the system also began to grow rapidly at an unusual speed.

In less than a month, his Sign level grew continuously from the proficiency of nine levels and one percent, all the way to ten levels, and was even about to approach the level of eleven levels, an increase of about two levels.

And his mutation level also received a huge improvement, directly rising from about eight or nine percent of the seventh level to ninety percent of the ninth level, only the last ten percent away from breaking through to the tenth level and opening new skill specialties.

Besides this change in system data, Geralt could also clearly feel that his spellcasting ability had been further strengthened, the storage of Chaos Magic in his body had increased by about a quarter, and although the spell intensity could not show an accurate number, it had increased by at least one-fifth.

This made Geralt have to sigh that the large mutagen was really very compatible with the witcher's mutation. And according to Vesemir, a witcher could generally accept the strengthening of three different mutagens.

Take Geralt as an example, he had already completed the strengthening of two mutagens, green and blue, and they were all large ones.

So don't look at Geralt's usual slacker appearance, but when he really took out all his strength, he was still very powerful. As far as the present is concerned, except for Geralt, an unpredictable character, Geralt should be one of the strongest among all witchers.

And besides the improvement of the blue mutagen to Geralt, after the Sign level reached level ten, the skill specialty given by the system also appeared in front of him.

It was still a choice of two, but the two specialties that appeared also made Geralt fall into a somewhat tangled choice.

Sign Master: As an experienced witcher, you have fully mastered the power of Signs. The use of these Signs is no longer confined to form, and you can use more flexible and changeable ways to apply the power of these Signs. Effect: Can flexibly use Signs through different channels. The deeper the understanding, the more ways to apply.

Magic Conversion: Long-term use of Signs has given you a deep understanding of magic. For the use of Signs, you will no longer be confined to converting Chaos Magic. Even if it is magic from other worlds, you can absorb and use it. Effect: Sense magic from other worlds, increase the conversion rate of other alien magic, the deeper the understanding of other magic, the higher the conversion efficiency.

The two skill specialties that appeared at level ten of Signs did not have specific data performance. Rather than saying it was an enhancement of skills, it was better to say that it directly gave two paths about Signs.

The former is to deepen the application method of Signs. According to Geralt's understanding, after choosing this skill specialty, the application range of each Sign will definitely become broader.

The Igni Sign is no longer just spraying fire alone. Perhaps it can also make fire traps, and even perform fire enchantment on weapons.

And the Yrden Sign is no longer just slowing down the enemy. Perhaps it can directly immobilize the enemy, and even other more magical operations.

But the second skill specialty is also very important, and it can even be said to trace the source.

The prerequisite for using Signs is Chaos Magic. Only Chaos Magic can drive the use of Signs.

Take the Azeroth world and Middle-earth world he has been to so far. In the former, he could barely restore his Chaos Magic slowly by converting arcane magic, while in the Middle-earth world, Geralt could only rely on eating and drinking potions to restore his magic.

If it is a world of low-concentration combat, it is fine, but if he encounters a world of high-concentration combat, such a slow magic recovery speed will make his strength greatly reduced, making him only an ordinary swordsman.

It is very likely that he will lose his life in battle because his strength is weakened.

Of course, as far as the present is concerned, if he encounters that kind of high-concentration combat world, Geralt will definitely not stay in that world for a long time, nor will he put himself in danger.

But choice is choice. If he can sense the magic of other worlds, and even use the magic of other worlds, perhaps Geralt can learn the spells of other worlds because of this.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 199 =====