Chapter 285

On the afternoon of the second day of entering the mist, Geralt and others went deep into the hinterland of the mist area, and on the past Kaedwen map, chose a small village that had been destroyed as a resting point.

Along the way, the number of monsters they cleared has exceeded thousands. Although it was only intermittent monster groups, the witchers' physical strength could still hold up, but the continuous release of magic spells still made the two sorceresses exhausted.

It just so happened that the buildings in this village could be used as defensive facilities. After clearing the monsters in the village, they simply decided to stay here for one night to relieve the fatigue of the battle.

Among this group of people, Geralt became the most popular chef without hesitation, the two sorceresses were responsible for the work of helping, and Letho and the three were responsible for guarding against possible monster attacks on the periphery of the village.

After the delicious dinner was ready, their group rarely had time to sit together and discuss the next action.

"The number of monsters here is too many. I bet that the monsters encountered in these two days are more than those I encountered in the past year."

"And compared to the zombies resurrected by humans, nekkers and drowners are even more difficult to deal with after being resurrected."

"Most of the weaknesses on their bodies have disappeared. Although the flexibility has decreased, the lethality has increased. When I was besieged last time, I was almost injured."

The speaker was Auckes of the Viper School. Compared to Letho's silence, Auckes and another Serrit were relatively young, and their personalities were also more active.

Serrit, upon hearing this, said with a worried face:

"It seems that the worries of those sorcerers were not wrong. If this kind of monster that can resurrect corpses runs rampant in the whole world."

"No human kingdom can resist these undead creatures. After those kingdoms perish, it will even form an army of hundreds of thousands or millions of undead monsters."

"The number of humans is too large, much more than the number of monsters."

Letho, upon hearing this, was also somewhat silent, seemingly thinking about the possibility of this kind of thing.

Geralt sat on the side, listening to their discussion, and said somewhat speechlessly: "You are worrying too much. When that time really comes, everyone will be cremated after death, and the corpses will be burned, which can greatly alleviate it."

"And you shouldn't underestimate the spellcasters too much. For this kind of monster that moves slowly and can only form lethality when in groups, as long as you let go of your hands and feet and find the weaknesses, sorcerers can easily solve them."

Margarita, who was sitting next to Geralt, smiled slightly upon hearing this and said with quite confidence: "Yes, Mr. Letho, you don't need to worry about this."

"Our Sorcerers Brotherhood is actively researching the weaknesses of these monsters, and I believe it won't be long before we can develop magic to deal with them."

"Just like these few days, we found that low temperature is particularly effective for these zombies."

"If there is a need later, we only need to unite three sorcerers, and we have the ability to launch a large-scale blizzard covering several kilometers."

"At that time, even ten thousand such zombies will all be frozen in place and lose their combat effectiveness."

"Like large-scale dispelling spells, magic spells that forcibly change the terrain, as long as we have time to prepare, our Sorcerers Brotherhood can use them in a targeted manner."

"Actually, for this bounty competition, every participating sorcerer also has an invisible task, which is to collect information about the monsters they have encountered."

"I believe that after this commission ends, with the battle data experienced by so many sorcerers, we will definitely be able to have more understanding of these monsters from another world and formulate more effective strategies."

"As long as we can find a way to seal the gap torn by the power of another world, solving the monsters in the mist is not a difficult problem."

Keira also expressed agreement with this. The power of most sorcerers is restricted because of the Sorcerers Brotherhood and cannot be fully exerted.

If there is a need, outstanding sorcerers like her who can become royal advisors, as long as they prepare spell materials and spell time, even magic that can destroy a city can be used.

Just as a few people were discussing tomorrow's itinerary, Geralt's keen hearing suddenly vaguely heard a group of noisy cries for help, curses, and desperate shouts.

He was slightly stunned, and immediately understood that other sorcerers were attacked. The thought of not saving them flashed in his mind. After all, it is a competition task now. Although internal fighting is not allowed, there is no rule that one must save people in trouble.

However, soon, he changed his mind, because Geralt thought that those who could participate in this bounty competition were all young sorcerers in the North, and some of them were acquaintances who appeared in the original work.

Regardless of whether to save people or not, it is best to go over and figure out who was attacked? At that time, whether it is not saving them or doing a favor, it is a good choice.

Thinking this way, Geralt said to the others: "I heard the enemy's voice. You stay vigilant, I'll go take a look."

Letho and others nodded and did not object, but Keira opened her mouth, wanting to go with Geralt.

"I'll go with you, Geralt, two people can take care of each other." Geralt looked back at Keira, seeing that her expression was not fake, and couldn't help but feel a little more affection for this petite sorceress in his heart.

Sure enough, just as Margarita said, only from young sorceresses like Yennefer and Keira can one still see some precious qualities.

However, he still refused Keira's kindness and comforted her by saying:

"Don't worry, it's more suitable for me to act alone to hide, and a battle may not necessarily happen."

"You also don't act rashly, so as not to get involved in meaningless battles."

After leaving the resting point, Geralt immediately put on his invisibility cloak. Although he was not afraid of any battle, more is better than less. If the other party is not worth saving, he will only watch coldly.

Soon, after passing a distance of about two hundred meters, he saw a massacre in progress on a slope outside the village.

About twenty archers wearing leather armor, with black-green skin all over, and demon tattoos on their faces and bodies, were using the bows and arrows in their hands from all directions to hunt down a group of mercenaries.

These archers moved very fast, and the accuracy of their shooting was quite good. Even when those hunted mercenaries were forced to a dead end and wanted to turn around and attack them, they couldn't catch up with those archers at all.

Instead, because the movements were too large and they couldn't do protection, they were shot in the eye sockets and necks by a few arrows and died miserably.

The original thirty or forty mercenaries only resisted for about seven or eight minutes before more than half were killed by those archers.

However, the sacrifice of these mercenaries was not in vain. They successfully dragged down those archers, giving a middle-aged man dressed as a sorcerer who was running at the front a chance to escape.

This middle-aged sorcerer was thin, and his appearance could even be called wretched. He had two handlebar mustaches under his nose. At this time, his face was full of fear and sweat, but he gritted his teeth and ran towards the village.

Geralt stared at him for a few seconds, suddenly thought of something, and recognized this person's identity.

This guy's name is Kalkstein, a Master-level alchemist, chemist, inventor, scientist, fortune teller, writer, runecrafter, and sorcerer from Wyzima, the capital of Temeria.

Once cooperated with Geralt in the game of Witcher 1, he is a very talented researcher.

The reason why Geralt knows him, besides the fact that this guy is quite famous in Wyzima, is also because he once wanted to recruit this guy with very research talent to join his witcher order.

However, during that time, Kalkstein went out to conduct other research, and the two sides had no chance to meet at all, so this matter was temporarily shelved.

Didn't expect to meet this guy here, and the other party was in danger of losing his life.

Since this is the case, then saving the other party is also a good choice.

Geralt's mind only considered for a moment, and his body immediately made a reaction.

When he was a hundred meters away from those demon archers, he took out his Dragon-Slaying Bow from the bracelet, first put a strengthened version of the Quen Sign on himself, and then relied on his exquisite archery to shoot at each other.

The powerful arm strength made the arrows he shot extremely fast. The distance of one hundred meters whistled past, instantly piercing the head of the demon archer and killing him on the spot.

Not only that, Geralt's archery speed was also very fast. Even counting the aiming time, it could basically reach a speed of one arrow every three or four seconds.

Soon, before those demon archers reacted, he had already shot and killed three or four.

And those mercenaries who were struggling on the verge of death saw this, immediately realized that they had strong reinforcements, desperately gathered together, and did not charge, just wanting to save a dog's life in the gap between the two sides' divine archers.

When those fallen archers realized Geralt, this strong enemy, they also gathered around, trying to use the advantage of numbers to suppress Geralt's long-range attacks.

However, Geralt's Quen shield at this time was already extremely hard. Even if he didn't dodge or evade, he could withstand more than a dozen arrows and remain motionless, directly fighting those archers and quickly taking away a few lives.

And once this shield was broken, the cunning witcher would immediately flash into the cover on the side. In just a few seconds, he would immediately put another hard shield on his body, not giving these archers a chance to fight back at all.

Plus the containment of those mercenaries between the two sides, in just a few minutes, these twenty or thirty fallen archers were shot and killed by Geralt by more than half.

The remaining ones all saw that it was not good and soon disappeared into the mist.

(End of chapter)