Chapter 211: Cat School Assassin (Thanks to Rain Mirror for the reward)

After listening to some news about the Viper School, Wayne also talked to Letho and others about some of the current situations of the Wolf School.

When they learned that the former Wolf School academy, Kaer Morhen, had also suffered attacks from mobs and sorcerers, and now talent was withered, with only less than ten Wolf School witchers left, everyone looked at each other speechless, and a feeling of sympathy for each other arose in their hearts.

Not only that, Wayne also told Letho about the Griffin School. When these three Viper School witchers heard that the Griffin School, which once had the best reputation, had also been broken by sorcerers and now only had two or three witchers left, they couldn't help but clench their fists, their expressions gloomy, not knowing what they were thinking of.

Afterward, everyone drank and chatted about the indignation in their hearts, talked about the strange people and weird things encountered in their respective adventure lives, which could be considered a pleasant conversation.

After more than a dozen bottles of good wine, everyone was a bit flushed, their blood was surging, and the words they spoke were all sincere, very refreshing.

Except for generous people like Wayne, there were few opportunities for them to drink so much good wine at once.

And after three rounds of wine, it was time to talk about business. Letho held a wine bottle in his hand, his amber vertical pupils looking at Wayne, and asked with a bit of drunkenness:

"Wayne, tell me about your contract. You said this is a contract from you. Is there anything you need our help with?"

Wayne heard this, also put down the wine glass, looked at the few people of the Viper School, thought for a while and said:

"Originally, I was going to invite you to act as bodyguards for a special team of mine. However, yesterday, I found some special intelligence, the locations of the Grandmaster blueprints for each school of our witchers, so I changed my mind."

"Let's complete a few contracts in Toussaint first, and then talk about the contract afterward."

"Grandmaster equipment blueprints?"

Letho was stunned upon hearing this, and then asked with some excitement:

"Are there Grandmaster equipment blueprints for the Viper School?"

The Grandmaster equipment blueprints of the Viper School had already been lost under the siege of the Usurper's soldiers. If the blueprints could be found, for Letho, who had a strong sense of responsibility, it would be a very meaningful thing. No wonder he was a bit excited.

Wayne smiled and nodded, saying:

"Except for the Cat School, there is news about the blueprints for several other schools."

"You should have heard of the Elf Armor Master Teynser. He is a famous armor forging master in your South. These equipment blueprints were lost when our former witcher predecessors came to this master to make equipment."

Letho nodded somewhat suddenly, and then he requested seriously:

"Wayne, if there are Grandmaster equipment blueprints for the Viper School among these targets, I hope to copy a set and let me bring it back to our school. This is the responsibility of our Viper School witchers."

For this request, Wayne didn't have any hesitation, immediately smiled and nodded in agreement. In fact, when he was talking to Teynser, he had already obtained a Grandmaster-level task from this master, which was to find the Grandmaster equipment blueprints of these five schools. And now, he was prepared to entrust this task to Letho and his two subordinates. The money spent would definitely be less than the system's reward, and he would get experience and treasure chests for nothing. It was simply wooling the system's wool.

And later, if he had these few witcher experts joining his camp, when encountering other high-level contracts that required a lot of time to complete high-difficulty tasks, he could also entrust them to others to complete in this way, get the rewards for nothing, and continue to wool the system's wool.

Immediately, he told Letho and others the locations of the Viper School equipment blueprints without reservation, and in the form of a contract, let them bring back the spoils there.

For the credibility of Letho and others, Wayne still trusted very much.

In the original story, Geralt and Letho and others met by chance and saved Letho's life under a dragon lizard.

Afterward, Geralt was taken away by the Wild Hunt, and Letho and others directly protected Yennefer for nearly a year. Finally, the Nilfgaard Emperor captured Yennefer, forcing Letho and others to assassinate the Northern King.

Facing such a dangerous task, Letho and others did not refuse, risked sneaking into the North, assassinated the King of Aedirn, and didn't expect that finally, in the process of assassinating Foltest, they were killed by the amnesiac Geralt.

It can really be said that they did their best and were extremely unlucky.

And in the final stage of everyone eating, drinking, and chatting, Letho also revealed a very interesting piece of news to Wayne.

Because the Viper School, like the Cat School, sometimes accepted some assassination missions when surviving in the South in the past, they had dealings and connections with local thieves' guilds and assassin guilds, and were considered the top assassination experts. This was also the main reason why the Usurper wanted to recruit Viper School witchers for his own use.

When Letho came to Toussaint to hunt the Wyvern this time, he inadvertently learned a piece of news from the assassin guild in the South: someone wanted to assassinate the palace illusion master of Beauclair, Artorius Vigo, which was the uncle of the Sorceress Fringilla Vigo.

And Letho also learned from a special channel that a Cat School witcher had accepted this mission and had probably already arrived in Toussaint, ready to act at any time.

This news made Wayne both surprised and puzzled. What is going on? Is he the same as the protagonist in the story? Wherever he goes, there are more things happening.

This was his first time coming to Toussaint, and he encountered people from the Viper School and the Cat School. It was really a coincidence!

However, following that, Wayne also became interested in the Cat School.

There has always been a saying in the Witcher World that the reason why the social status of witchers is so excluded by rulers and ordinary people, the responsibility of taking away children accounts for a part, and the assassins of the Cat School also account for a large part.

It is precisely because this group of highly skilled assassins who specialize in assassinating various dignitaries that the ruling class has developed serious fear of witchers, believing that the existence of witchers poses a serious threat to rulers.

Therefore, they began to spread various rumors unfavorable to witchers, ruined the reputation of witchers, and even fueled the flames, accelerating the decline and extinction of the profession of witchers.

In fact, this statement is not unreasonable. Because when the Witcher Order split in the past, the mutation formulas and equipment of the Cat School went wrong, plus some human-made accidents, it led to the personality of every Cat School witcher being very extreme, fickle, irritable, and bloodthirsty.

Coupled with the fact that most of them are engaged in the work of assassination, specializing in killing, and will not leave hands regardless of men, women, old, or young, this is why the witchers of this school are feared while being hated by everyone.

However, similar to witchers of other schools, although Cat School witchers do not have their own fixed academy, but live in large caravans similar to Gypsies.

But in a certain year in the past, their headquarters was also besieged by the human army, suffering heavy casualties. Although the number of survivors of the Cat School might be the most among all schools, it is basically completely withered and it is difficult to rise again.

Wayne kept this news in his heart. He hadn't decided whether to tell Fringilla or Francesca this news. On one hand, this matter involved Cat School witchers, and on the other hand, this was just a piece of news Letho obtained, and it could not be confirmed whether it was true.

However, since he knew this news, he couldn't waste it. He prepared to find time to meet this possible Cat School witcher, maybe he could obtain something from him.

After eating and drinking, Wayne didn't break his promise. Upholding the mentality of eating, drinking, and playing, he took the three witchers of the Viper School, found the highest-end brothel in Beauclair, ordered three young and beautiful girls for Letho and his companions each, and ordered four for himself, and everyone had a good indulgence.

It is said that there are four great irons in life: having carried guns together, having been classmates together, having been in prison together, and having whored together.

Although this statement is just a joke, it is still very useful for bringing everyone closer.

By the afternoon of the next day, when everyone gathered and talked again, the relationship between them indeed became much closer, as if they had become good friends.

Wayne was not stingy either. He distributed a few bottles of intermediate healing potions and intermediate mana potions that he had stored for almost a thousand bottles to each of them, and then prepaid them two hundred Crowns as mission remuneration, letting Letho and his companions make full combat preparations before going to complete the task of finding Grandmaster equipment blueprints.

After Letho and others left, Wayne returned to the room he rented at the Red Moon Inn and rested for an afternoon.

After dusk, he changed into light clothing, put on an Invisibility Cloak, and walked toward the location of the Beauclair Palace.

To catch that Cat School witcher, he also had to find the residence of the palace illusionist Artorius in advance and had to collect intelligence in advance.

According to the current inference, maybe this Cat School witcher is also stepping on the mission target. If he is lucky, this little cat might fall directly into his hands.

Toussaint does not have its own established army, but relies on several groups of wandering knights to maintain border and road safety. The security of the capital Beauclair and the palace is the responsibility of the Duke's guard.

Although nominally a vassal of Nilfgaard, Toussaint enjoys a high degree of autonomy. The empire generally does not interfere with or participate in their internal affairs, nor does it violate their borders.

Wayne, wearing an invisibility cloak, came to the Beauclair Palace and found that the security here was indeed quite lax. Perhaps because it had been peaceful for a long time, although the guard soldiers here were dressed in gorgeous clothes, their armor was bright, and the weapons and equipment in their hands appeared quite sophisticated, their expressions and temperament lacked a spirit truly tempered by blood and fire, as if they were young master soldiers who would collapse at the first touch.

Wayne basically didn't spend much effort to bypass all the guards and enter the interior of the palace.

It must be said that the Beauclair Palace is more beautiful than the Beauclair city. The overall structure is both luxurious and full of artistic sense. Everywhere are various artworks and statues, and the ladies and servants coming and going are also dressed quite exquisitely, as if it were a royal palace in a fairy tale.

Wayne was a bumpkin in his previous life and had never traveled to foreign lands. He liked this kind of scenery quite a bit. So, he kept this invisible state, scouting while wandering around the palace, and soon walked to a place full of various flowers and beautiful scenery in the backyard garden.

And in the center of this garden, a girl wearing a black dress, beautiful appearance, long black hair, convex front and warped back, revealing a piece of snow-white and bottomless cleavage on her chest, was sitting by the fountain with a worried look, holding a flower she had picked, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Seeing such scenery, Wayne suddenly felt that the surrounding flowers and green leaves were dimmed a bit. He brought a trace of bad smile at the corner of his mouth, walked silently to the girl's side, and unscrupulously appreciated the scenery that only he could see at close range.

A few minutes later, Wayne, who had feasted his eyes, sat in a pavilion not far from the girl, blowing the evening breeze while falling into thought.

And just as he was thinking about how to find the palace mage Artorius in this huge palace without alarming others.

Another girl with golden hair, also with an exaggerated figure, wearing a gorgeous blue dress, walked over from the other side of the garden.

When she saw the black-haired girl sitting by the fountain, the corners of her eyes suddenly became moist, and she shouted in her mouth:

"Syanna, I heard a rumor. They said you were going to be expelled."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 212 =====