Chapter 201: Long-term Commission and Magic Node Underwater

After receiving Francesca's reminder, Geralt also gave up the idea of shouting, and with the cover of the thin mist on his body, he pretended to be a puppet knight who obeyed orders.

And this beautiful sorceress is indeed very capable. Even if she covered her appearance with a cloak, she could still use the pleasant elven language to quickly appease the painful hearts of all the non-human race survivors present.

In less than a few minutes, those dwarves and elves who were still trapped in fear and struggle, under the encouragement of the sorceress, quickly cheered up, followed Francesca, and walked along a road leading to the forest outside the town.

Geralt stood quietly among the broken limbs and arms, until all the non-human race survivors left the center of the town, before he took a step and followed.

Half an hour later, all the non-human race survivors disappeared into the forest under the leadership of Francesca.

Geralt guessed that they were all teleported to other safe places by the sorceress's portal. As for the remaining property and real estate, I think for the rich elven sorceress, these are just small problems.

Until there was no movement in the forest, Francesca restored her beautiful and graceful purple-black dress and appeared in front of Geralt.

She first performed a beautiful and ladylike etiquette to Geralt, and then said in a sincere tone:

"Thank you, Geralt, you did me a big favor. I will write down this favor. When you need my help, please tell me immediately."

Geralt waved his hand and said: "Don't say that, Ms. Francesca, I think any person with a sense of justice, seeing such evil deeds, will take action to do so."

"Moreover, I am also an elf. Doing so will also make me feel better."

After hearing Geralt's answer, Francesca looked at Geralt with soft eyes, suddenly noticed the blood and filth on his body, frowned, and said softly:

"No matter what, Geralt, I will keep this matter in my heart. Being able to know such a brave fellow clan member like you is the happiest thing I have encountered recently."

"You are very dirty now, let me use magic to help you clean it up, okay?"

Hearing this, Geralt looked at the dirty blood and visceral fragments on his body, and couldn't help but frown. He hadn't noticed it while he was in the excitement of slaughter, but now after the sorceress reminded him, the sensitive sense of smell of the witcher was immediately smoked by this fishy and rich smell.

He nodded to Francesca, and the sorceress just moved her fingers, and a clear stream of water appeared out of thin air, wrapping his body, as if someone was wiping hard on his body. The dirty blood and broken meat mixed in the gaps of the armor were soon taken away by this stream of water.

Until the armor on Geralt's whole body was brand new, and all the dirty blood and broken meat were cleaned up, Francesca walked a few steps toward Geralt, walked to his side, looked at all the equipment on Geralt carefully, and couldn't help covering her mouth, laughing with some surprise:

"Your strength makes me feel very surprised, Geralt, especially these magic equipment on your body, each of which emits strong magic light, and I have never heard of the rumors of these equipment."

"I still remember when I met you last year, you were still quite green. It seems that you have experienced many things this year."

Geralt looked directly into Francesca's charming eyes and beautiful face, and said casually: "I have indeed experienced many adventures and obtained many spoils. However, the life of a witcher is like this. We are always on the way to the next battlefield, and we never know which battle we will die in."

"Danger and battle always force us to grow rapidly, because losers have often entered the grave."

"Alright, beautiful lady, it's very late. If there is nothing else, please allow me to say goodbye."

"Uh, wait a minute."

Seeing Geralt wanted to leave, Francesca immediately stopped him. Facing the young witcher's puzzled eyes, the sorceress showed a slightly apologetic smile and asked: "Geralt, did Toruviel mention to you that I want to invite you to execute a commission?"

Geralt, upon hearing this, was stunned for a second, and suddenly remembered that Toruviel did say this, but he thought about dealing with this matter after the beginning of the year. When he saw the sorceress, he was a bit surprised and forgot about this.

So, he was silent for one or two seconds, and then looked at Francesca and said: "You should understand our principles, lady. There are some tasks we don't take. However, you can tell me what the task is first, and then I will answer you."

The sorceress bit her lower lip, showed a pitiful expression, and said: "I got news that the King of Kaedwen, Henselt, is preparing to carry out a large-scale expulsion of non-human races in their capital Ban Ard and even other cities."

"However, many people are clear that what that wild boar wants to do is definitely not just expulsion. He is an extreme racist, perhaps to occupy the wealth of those non-human races, or perhaps just to satisfy his perverted desire for slaughter."

"Although the Sorcerers Brotherhood has pressured Henselt several times, explicitly warning him not to allow large-scale slaughter events."

"But this guy is a shameless bastard, and no one knows what he will do in the end."

Geralt, upon hearing this, couldn't help but frown. Listening to the sorceress's meaning, it seemed that she wanted him to fight against the King of Kaedwen. Although he didn't mind doing so in his heart, and even didn't mind killing this stupid king, the identity of a witcher did not allow them to openly oppose a king.

So, Geralt asked in a somewhat low voice: "So, lady, what kind of task do you want to commission me?"

It seemed that she heard the warning in Geralt's tone. A flash of sadness flashed in Francesca's clear eyes. She reached out and held Geralt's right hand without iron gloves, and said gently:

"I want to give you a long-term commission, Geralt."

"Just like today's matter, as long as you can save any elf from the butcher's knife of humans, bring them to a safe place, and then notify me."

"You can get a reward of ten Crowns. Of course, if there are any difficulties, you can discuss with me, and I will also give you the intelligence I know."

"Please help me, Geralt, I just want more clansmen to survive."

Following Francesca's voice, the system's voice also sounded in Geralt's ears.

Ding! Trigger special commission 【Save Elves】.

This task is a long-term commission. Saving one elf can get one point, and the host can end the task at any time.

Every ten points can be exchanged for one ordinary-level treasure chest and three experience points, every one hundred points can be exchanged for one expert-level treasure chest and thirty experience points, every one thousand points can be exchanged for one master-level treasure chest and three hundred experience points, and every ten thousand points can be exchanged for one epic-level treasure chest and three thousand experience points.

This point can be exchanged at any time until the host ends the task.

After listening to this task introduction, Geralt didn't even think about it and immediately chose to accept the task. For him, the reward of this task was too generous, simply like a gift from God, not doing it for nothing.

Think about it, the elves in the entire Northern Kingdoms today add up to about tens of thousands, perhaps barely enough to make up one hundred thousand. If he could exchange all these people for points, it would be equivalent to completing ten Epic-level tasks, thirty thousand experience points, enough for him to get a bunch of artifacts and level up more than ten levels.

Unfortunately, the task given by the system is not to kill the villains who slaughter non-human races, but to save people, which is more troublesome. Otherwise, maybe he would turn into a Shura ghost and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

And what surprised him a bit was whether this beautiful elven sorceress was too generous. Not to mention saving one hundred thousand elves, even if ten thousand elves were saved, it would require paying him one hundred thousand Crowns. This is not a small amount. Some small countries' kings don't have so much money.

However, it is also possible that Francesca doesn't know enough about his ability, or doesn't have enough expectations, thinking that he can save at most a few hundred people. It seems that he must give this elven girl a good lesson, let her know the power of Master Geralt, and after she owes money, let her use her body to repay it.

After accepting the task, Geralt pretended to be lost in thought for more than ten seconds, and then, with a reluctant expression, nodded to Francesca and said:

"Ms. Francesca, I can accept this commission, but I will only do it secretly, will not expose my current identity, and I don't hope that any bad news will be leaked from your side."

"Otherwise, it is impossible for us to become friends again, and we may even become enemies."

Facing the threat in Geralt's tone, Francesca didn't mind at all, but smiled beautifully and said: "Great, Geralt, thank you for being able to help me. Keep the communicator in your hand first. I will manufacture a magic device that can achieve longer-distance communication as soon as possible. At that time, we can communicate with each other and execute this matter better."

"And don't worry, I can see that you care about the identity of a witcher. In the future, I will help you collect some intelligence that is helpful to witchers. If you need the help of sorcerers, you can also ask me for help."

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After the commission ended, Geralt received a reward of thirty-five experience points and an expert-level treasure chest.

But the real harvest was not these, not to mention that he truly had a little secret with the elven sorceress Francesca, deepened their mutual trust, and reached a more in-depth cooperation.

Just the special task of the long-term commission was enough to make Geralt very excited.

Moreover, after leaving Kaer Morhen, he also had to try whether the acquisition of this point must be saved by himself, or whether it can be obtained by using other various methods to save people.

If it is the latter, then the difficulty of this task will be greatly reduced, and it can even become his point-brushing task, allowing him to quickly improve his level and strength.

Thinking this way, after parting with Francesca, Geralt did not forget the purpose of his trip, but continued to drive the magic flying carpet and flew toward the location of the magic node in the coordinates.

Fortunately, there were no unexpected events on the road this time. After Geralt flew for about two hours, according to the instructions of the map, he came to a valley twenty kilometers outside Ban Ard.

When he arrived at the actual location, he discovered that the location of this magic node was actually in a pool under a waterfall.

If it weren't for this map, I'm afraid it would be really difficult for anyone to find this place, just like the space rift in the bear cave back then.

I really don't know who discovered these magic nodes and rifts located in the corners.

After discovering the target, Geralt didn't delay any longer, went straight to the shore under the waterfall, took off his clothes, and put his armor and other items into the space bracelet in his hand.

And with the Hag's Amulet, he could dive for a long time, and his speed in swimming in the water was also strengthened.

It only took a few minutes to dive to the bottom of the pool under the waterfall and find the magic node at the bottom of the pool.

And what surprised him a bit was that perhaps because of the abundant Chaos Magic near the magic node, a group of drowners actually lived at the bottom of the pool. When they discovered Geralt, this delicious prey, they were simply like students who arrived at the meal time in school, swarming and surrounding him.

Fortunately, Geralt's strength had long been different from the past. Even in the water, his Axii Sign was not restricted.

His current ability, controlling three or four drowners at the same time, was not a problem, plus he could take out the crossbow from the space bracelet at any time, and soon solved this underwater trouble.

When he solved the drowner group and successfully approached the magic node that was slightly flashing with blue light, the system's voice entered his ears as he wished.

Ding! Magic node contacted, whether to absorb?

After hearing this voice, Geralt only hesitated for one or two seconds, and chose the option of agreeing.

As his choice fell, with the help of the system's great power, the huge magic of this magic node was like being absorbed by some black hole, and it quickly merged into Geralt's body at a speed that even a spellcaster could not imagine. To be precise, it was absorbed by something unknown in his body.

In less than two minutes, the magic node that was still flashing with faint fluorescence cracked a visible crack. All the magic that maintained this node was absorbed, and a trace of energy from other worlds slowly permeated from the rift between the two worlds.

And perhaps because he lit up Magic Conversion, the skill specialty that can absorb energy from other worlds, Geralt had a more acute and clearer sensing of energy from other worlds.

He could actually feel from this rift that the power coming from the opposite world actually had a familiar feeling.

Ding! Magic node absorbed, obtained 3 ability points, current remaining ability points: 4 points.

Without bothering with the system's prompt sound, Geralt calmed his mind, discarded his extra senses, and put all his energy into magic sensing, carefully experiencing the magic coming from the rift on the opposite side.

Well, the breath of evil is more intense than the breath of light, with the breath of death, sulfur, curse, and corruption.

It seems that the opposite side is not a very peaceful world. The evil power has overwhelmed justice, and the world on the opposite side is in disaster.

After a few minutes, Geralt opened his eyes, thoughtfully took out a bottle of mana potion from the space bracelet. This was a potion from Diablo that he drew from an ordinary treasure chest, and there were four bottles left in total.

He closed his eyes, poured the mana potion into his mouth, and then tasted it carefully.

It also carried some breath of death, sulfur, corruption, and curse, which was extremely similar to the breath coming from this space rift.

This gave Geralt an 80% or 90% certainty that the world on the opposite side of this rift should be the world of Diablo. It's just that I don't know which step the plot of the world on the opposite side has developed to? And what place does this space rift connect to? But this time, he didn't have the courage to enter the world comparable to the end of the world like entering the Middle-earth and Azeroth worlds.

Moreover, after considering for a while, he simply didn't prepare to use his immature space rift sealing ritual to seal this rift.

Anyway, this rift is very small, which can be said to be negligible. Even if the demon on the opposite side discovers this rift, it will not be able to tear this rift to a degree that allows them to enter in a few years.

And according to Geralt's understanding, things like demon lords look very powerful, but their restrictions are also extremely strict. When they are in their native plane, they may be boundless in magic and do whatever they want.

But if they want to enter other worlds and other planes, they will be strongly suppressed by the plane itself and lose the support of the native plane and lose most of their power.

This is also one of the main reasons why many demon lords are eliminated by warriors after leaving their planes.

(The next chapter will be posted at night, so as not to let you wait anxiously, mwah!) (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 202 =====