Chapter 208: New Ability Points and the Viper School

Through Gwent and Pipe-weed, Wayne became a well-known and popular figure in Beauclair in a very short time, making quite a few influential connections.

And under his intentional probing, he soon obtained some interesting intelligence from these estate owners, nobles, merchants, and socialites.

First, the Duke's two daughters, Anna Henrietta and Syanna, were both about to come of age and were still living in the palace in Beauclair, currently unmarried.

However, because of the Curse of the Black Sun, the noble class now generally holds a disgusted, even fearful, attitude toward Syanna and does not support this eldest daughter of the Duke inheriting the rights of the lord.

And even worse, as Syanna's parents, the current Duke and Duchess of Beauclair believe in the Curse of the Black Sun more than others and are firm supporters of this prophecy. They believe that Syanna, who bears the Curse of the Black Sun, will bring disaster to the entire kingdom.

Rumors have even spread in the palace that after Syanna comes of age, she will be expelled and exiled by the Duke, and the Duke's younger daughter, Anna Henrietta, will inherit the title.

Regarding this plot, those who have played The Witcher 3 game all know that the final result is that Syanna is expelled and suffers a lot of torture during the expulsion, joins a bandit group, returns to Toussaint twenty years later, uses a Higher Vampire to take revenge, and tries to use the bandit group to stir up chaos.

Mentioning this, one has to mention the Curse of the Black Sun, also known as the Curse of the Dark Sun, the Curse of the Black Sun. The Black Sun refers to a solar eclipse, which is a prophecy by the mage Eltibald, predicting that human civilization will eventually be destroyed by sixty girls born during or after a specific solar eclipse.

This prophecy from a witch, which seemed like a joke, led to dozens of girls from wealthy families or even noble families being killed or imprisoned in high towers, because people believed they were possessed by the devil, cursed, or defiled by the Black Sun.

Among them were several quite famous figures, such as Syanna, Renfri, the princess who had a brief affair with Geralt, and Deidre Ademeyn, the Child of Destiny of Eskel.

These daughters of noble families were all disgusted and tortured by their parents and those around them because they bore the Curse of the Black Sun from childhood, resulting in quite tragic fates.

And the second piece of news is that an estate owner who owns a large vineyard in the suburbs of Beauclair told Wayne an interesting piece of news: yesterday at dusk, one of the barrel washers in his estate, while washing barrels by the river, saw a dragon that was gray-green all over and flying in the sky, flying into the Karoberta Forest.

This huge beast figure flying in the sky scared the barrel washer so much that he fell into the river, even losing two oak wine barrels. Some people think he is lying, while others say they saw it too.

This estate owner treated this matter as a talking point and had told it to many people. Wayne also happened to hear this intelligence.

This made him involuntarily think of the witcher mentioned by Francesca who was chasing a huge Wyvern.

After obtaining this news, he immediately rode a newly bought horse and headed to the Karoberta Forest told by the estate owner.

After entering the forest, he quickly hid the newly bought horse in a cave. After killing some Nekkers in the cave, he didn't forget to sprinkle some dragon feces at the entrance of the cave to drive away any beasts that might exist.

Fortunately, his taming ability is very useful. Even the newly bought mount is very obedient and has a natural affinity for him. If it weren't for the fact that what lived in this cave were Nekkers, not animals like bears or wolves, he might have been able to persuade the horse to get along with them friendly.

After settling this mount worth two hundred Crowns, Wayne immediately changed to the Magic Flying Carpet and flew toward the high ground of the Karoberta Forest.

Similar to the habits of most flying monsters like Griffins and dragons, Wyverns also like to live in high-altitude places. After all, they are large in size, and if they live in places crowded with trees, it will affect their landing and takeoff, which is very inconvenient.

Unfortunately, the Karoberta Forest is too big. Wayne flew over the forest for half an hour and even used Beast Language to ask some birds he met on the road, but he didn't find the trace of that Wyvern.

But unexpectedly, he obtained an unexpected piece of intelligence from the mouth of a sika deer.

This little deer told Wayne that by the small pond where it had just drunk water, there was a blue-purple ball of light that looked very good, floating in the air.

And around this ball of light, many beautiful flowers and plants were also growing.

After obtaining this news, Wayne immediately felt a jolt of spirit, piloted the Magic Flying Carpet, and flew rapidly toward the small pond mentioned by this little deer.

Sure enough, not long after, he also discovered this place with beautiful scenery, and above that pond was a Magic Node that was flashing with magical light.

This is a brand new Magic Node that was not recorded in the Sorcerers Brotherhood, or rather, most of the Magic Nodes in the Southern Kingdoms were not recorded in the Sorcerers Brotherhood.

Facing such an unexpected joy, Wayne of course had no reason to refuse, and immediately came to the side of this Magic Node and began to absorb the magic power inside.

Ding! Magic Node detected, absorb? Ding! Magic absorption complete, obtained 3 ability points, current total ability points: 6 points. Six ability points, four-fifths away from unsealing the next step of the Elder Blood lineage.

And this time, when Wayne sensed the world on the other side through the newly formed rift, he discovered that the opposite side was a world quite lacking in magic power. The aura coming through had very little magic content, almost only one-tenth or one-twentieth of the Wizard World.

Moreover, this magic power is quite neutral, neither having an evil aura nor a bright aura, and its activity is also very low, which made Wayne breathe a sigh of relief.

Based on the quality of this magic power, Wayne could judge that the opposite side should be a world with quite low magic, there are no overly powerful enemies, and it has quite high exploration value.

However, he is currently busy looking for the witcher chasing the Wyvern and has no time to explore in this world.

So he just recorded this coordinate on his map and then used a seal magic array that he was not proficient in to seal this space rift.

The Space Seal Sign can be said to be the first sorcerer spell he learned. If the technique is not enough, materials make up for it. Although his technique is not mature, when the quality of the spellcasting materials is high enough, it can conversely make up for the lack of technique.

And perhaps it was good luck coming in pairs. When Wayne handled the space rift and piloted the Magic Flying Carpet to continue searching for the Wyvern's trace, he was suddenly attracted by the sound of a bomb explosion.

After hearing this unique sound of gunpowder explosion, his heart felt joy. In this era, there are not many people who can skillfully use bombs. Except for some professional blasting personnel who need to carry out mining work, only witchers and alchemists have such ability.

Immediately, without much hesitation, Wayne piloted the flying carpet and flew rapidly toward the direction where the explosion sound came from.

Sure enough, before he flew for long, he immediately heard a huge beast roar. A huge beast with bronze-colored scales all over its body, a huge lizard head, and a total length of nearly ten meters rushed out of the forest.

Its chest was probably hit by an alchemical bomb, some scales had fallen off, oozing blood, and the surrounding scales were full of charred traces.

However, compared to its size, this injury was not particularly serious, and this beast seemed used to being a king and hegemon. Facing its own injury, it was very angry and didn't think about running away, but began to attack the ground.

Seeing this, Wayne immediately manipulated the Magic Flying Carpet, flew above their battle, and from top to bottom, clearly saw the situation below.

Fighting this huge Wyvern were two witchers wearing black light armor. One was a very strong, bald, round-faced man with a murderous look on his face, and the other was a slender, short-haired little man in black.

At this time, the battle had only been going on for less than four or five minutes. The Wyvern's wings had already been slashed several times by the bald, round-faced witcher, the fleshy wings were broken and bleeding, causing it to lose the ability to fly. And the short witcher was quite agile, constantly waving his steel sword, using sneak attacks to attract the Wyvern's attention, creating opportunities for his companion to attack.

The two cooperated quite tacitly. Looking at the state of their faces, it seemed they had already drunk witcher potions, their physical functions were all in a peak state, and the battle with this Wyvern was also in the upper hand.

Seeing this situation, Wayne didn't go out of his way to intervene in their battle, to avoid causing unnecessary misunderstandings, just controlled the Magic Flying Carpet, suspended in mid-air, waiting quietly.

Soon, the great battle between the witchers and the Wyvern lasted for five minutes. These two witchers, through joint cooperation, successfully consumed most of the Wyvern's physical strength, caused a lot of damage to its body, and made it lose control of its body.

Finally, it was the strong, bald, round-faced witcher who took advantage of a flaw, climbed onto the Wyvern's back, aimed at the back of its head, and launched a fatal blow.

After the dust settled, the strong, bald, round-faced witcher didn't go to collect his spoils, but together with his companion, holding a steel sword, looked at Wayne standing on the Magic Flying Carpet with a cautious expression, and said in a low voice: "Friend in the sky, who are you? Why wait there?"

Because he had guessed in advance that he would meet witchers, Wayne had already shed his disguise. What he was wearing was Green Dragon Leather Armor, and that Wolf School medallion was intentionally placed outside the armor. The amber cat pupils were very conspicuous. It is estimated that they also saw these features, so the witchers on the ground would call him a friend.

Hearing his question, Wayne wore a gentle smile on his face, while lowering the flight altitude of the Magic Flying Carpet, letting it land at a place about seven or eight meters away from the two witchers, while saying: "Two friends, I am Wayne, a witcher from the Wolf School."

"I heard that there were witchers tracking a huge Wyvern, so I specifically came to find you."

The strong, bald, round-faced witcher was stunned upon hearing this and asked with vigilance in his tone: "I am Letho of the Viper School."

"Wayne of the Wolf School, what is your purpose in finding us?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 209 =====