Chapter 292: The Goddesses' Blessing

The specific process of the blessing will not be detailed; in any case, the scent and mana of the four goddesses, each with their own distinct style, left Geralt somewhat reluctant to leave.

If it weren't for the urgent quest involving Yennefer, he certainly would have stayed with these goddesses for a while longer—not because he had any bad intentions, but mainly because he wanted to make friends.

To cope with this crisis, the powers bestowed by the several goddesses were very strong.

The Bird Goddess bestowed upon him the power of wind, greater speed, and vision that could see through the fog.

The Field Goddess bestowed upon him the protection of the wilderness, allowing him to be immune to the effects of various diseases, curses, and evil spells, and possessing stronger mana reinforcement.

The Forest Goddess bestowed upon him the protection of the forest, granting him extremely powerful self-healing abilities, with noticeable improvements to his strength and physique.

And the Lady of the Lake, Lilith, added her own power to the Oath of Victory Sword, making it a nemesis of dark magic, capable of dealing double damage to those evil monsters.

After receiving these power enhancements, Geralt felt that although his strength hadn't increased significantly, his resistance to various exotic energies had greatly improved, giving him the feeling that he could even physically withstand magic.

However, these blessings were not permanent. These goddesses of the Wizard World were less like deities and more like magical creatures called Nymphs.

The accumulation of long ages and the reinforcement of the world's will indeed gave them some magical powers, but in terms of combat power alone, they were not considered strong and could even be killed by evil individuals with malicious intent.

Besides these power enhancements, the goddesses also very thoughtfully used some magical means to directly open a fast-track channel that could lead directly to the unknown mountain range near Ban Ard.

Under the guidance of the Forest Goddess, he passed through a dark tree hollow, crossing dozens of kilometers in the blink of an eye, and appeared in a strange forest.

At the same time, the voice of the Goddess Lilith reached his ears.

"Apologies, my warrior, the evil power from another world in this forest is too thick; I and the other ladies cannot reach here."

"The following battle can only be fought by you alone."

"The one manipulating the entire event should also be an evil god possessing the laws of another world."

"Find it, defeat it, and banish it from our world."

"As long as you defeat this evil god from another world, the subsequent matters will be much simpler."

After hearing the goddess's words, Geralt felt a hint of trepidation for the first time.

Looking back at his several years since debuting, having killed countless enemies, he hadn't actually encountered any truly powerful foes.

He hadn't expected that what was originally meant to be a flaw left behind to disgust the detestable kingdom of Kaedwen would end up harming both himself and others, forcing him to personally face a deity—and an exceptionally terrifying deity from the Dark World at that.

Although Geralt knew clearly that it couldn't be a true god descending, it was highly likely, as in the games, that it had found a mortal as a substitute.

But even so, that was still an immensely powerful deity, not to be compared with weaklings like the Witch-king of Angmar or the dragon Smaug from Middle-earth.

However, now that things had come to this, he wasn't truly a weak person. Whether to save Yennefer or to prevent this disaster from worsening, he had to give it a try.

Of course, as someone who valued his own life, if the opponent were truly far stronger than him, he wouldn't go to his death in vain; if things looked bad, he would still have to run.

Having thus prepared himself mentally, Geralt's mood eased from the shock of meeting the four goddesses and facing the evil god from another world. He took a light breath, donned his Invisibility Cloak, and began to recall the place where he had originally found the space rift.

If the enemy wanted to expand this space rift, their core power must be around the rift; finding that would be equivalent to finding the target.

Although the entire mountain range had become extremely desolate and eerie due to the earthquake and the erosion of hellish power, differing greatly from before.

But if searched carefully, one could still find some past reference points among the clues to lock onto his position.

Moving forward, avoiding the dense monsters that had gathered here from all over the fog, Geralt felt once again moved by the Invisibility Cloak, this magical item from the Harry Potter world.

It had to be said, although the magic in the Harry Potter world wasn't considered very powerful in terms of raw force, their application of magic far exceeded many fantasy worlds.

Floo Network, Undetectable Extension Charm, Transfiguration, Felix Felicis, etc. —even as an ordinary wizard, they mastered many high-end powers that were considered quite advanced in other worlds.

If there were a chance in the future, he must go to the Harry Potter world to study the magic of that world.

With the vision bestowed by the Wind Goddess to see through the fog, Geralt's actions finally weren't as restricted. With his excellent eyesight, it was easy to observe the distribution of various monsters and the routes that were safe to walk.

About an hour later, he finally found the vicinity of the canyon where the rift had once been.

However, at this time, due to the earthquake a few months ago, this place had changed from a lush canyon into a chaotic area filled with cracks and corrosive power.

And as the place with the most abundant hellish power, the number of monsters here was extremely high, and the quality was quite high; looking around, there were probably thousands of monsters.

Even if Geralt's power could wreak havoc among this group of monsters, doing so would surely alert the enemy and invite attention and ambushes.

There was no other way; Geralt could only don his Invisibility Cloak and use stealth to slowly search for his target in this area.

In any case, the place where the most monsters gathered must be the most important place.

About another half hour passed, which was about four hours after Yennefer was taken away, and Geralt finally found the space rift he had originally opened.

Due to the changes in terrain, the area around this rift had almost formed a huge deep pit, surrounded by towering sharp stone pillars, making its location quite secretive; it was basically hard to see the situation inside from the outside.

If it weren't for Geralt's Source talent being able to sense the intense fluctuations of chaos magic, it would have been hard for him to find this place in such a short time.

And when he quietly climbed to the top of a stone pillar and saw the situation around the rift clearly, he couldn't help but gasp.

The space rift, which had been only about half a meter long, had now been expanded to two meters due to some unknown means, and this rift was no longer in a closed state; instead, due to the influx of powerful force, it had become an oval-shaped, pitch-black light gate.

At the same time, around this rift, twelve streams of chaos magic flashing with various magical lights were continuously pouring into the rift, using a method of operation Geralt couldn't understand, utilizing powerful chaos magic to slowly continue expanding the rift, making it even larger.

And the masters of these twelve magical lights were exactly twelve sorcerers who had been eroded by hellish power, with various blue-black inscriptions appearing on their faces.

Among them, quite a few were Geralt's acquaintances.

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