Chapter 324: Reunion of the Six Witcher Schools

The conversation with Ned went quite smoothly. The wealthy Master Wayne easily persuaded the Bear School witcher to work for him.

Of course, Ned clearly stated that he could only represent his own personal thoughts for the time being, but he would notify other Bear School witchers about this matter later.

And if he were to execute commissions for the Witcher Order for a long time in the future, he would only execute commissions for hunting monsters and would not become a killer or mercenary. This was probably one of the principles that Bear School witchers had insisted on since the Order period.

Just like the stories recorded in the books of Kaer Morhen, as the first batch of members to leave the Order, Bear School witchers were mostly witchers with relatively lonely personalities and missing most of their emotions due to mutation experiments.

After the Witcher Order lost its leader Alzur, the witchers led by Elan advocated the spirit of chivalry, believing that witchers should unswervingly help humans fight against monsters, taking helping the weak as their responsibility, and were quite dedicated.

While another batch of witchers scoffed at this, they knew very well that they were all aliens, modified humans, and had great differences from humans.

Before becoming witchers, they were all orphans, homeless children, or even goods sold to the Witcher Order by their biological parents. Many of them were not willing to become witchers at all.

The survival rate of the Trial of the Grasses of less than 30%, and the life-worse-than-death experience during the mutation experiment, were definitely one of the biggest nightmares in the hearts of all witchers.

And after losing the deterrence of the former leader Alzur, wanting these witchers who had experienced nine deaths and one life to use their lives to protect humans was simply a joke.

So, two completely different concepts collided fiercely, leading to a tragic civil strife with heavy casualties.

After a tragic mutual slaughter, that part of witchers with lonely personalities left the Order, and because of several quarrels on the way, they split into other teams.

They were the predecessors of the Bear School, Viper School, and Cat School witchers.

And the witchers remaining in the Order split into the Griffin School, Wolf School, and the Manticore School that drifted to the Zerrikania Kingdom.

The huge Witcher Order fell apart in a very short time, and in the time that followed, because of various targeting, it gradually declined and became what it was now.

However, under Wayne's efforts, today in 1254, in the new witcher castle of Kaer Morhen, witchers from the six major witcher schools finally gathered together again and ushered in their first meeting with each other.

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In the magnificent and huge castle hall of Kaer Morhen, a special welcome banquet was being held.

All members of the new Witcher Order were present. Under the organization of Master Wayne, the members of the Order participated in this banquet with different expressions.

Three from the Bear School, four from the Viper School, four from the Cat School, two from the Griffin School, five from the Wolf School, and one member of the Manticore School with a somewhat exotic style.

Besides that, there were more than a hundred half-grown children in the entire hall, sitting obediently on both sides of several rows of huge long tables, staring with round eyes, secretly looking at the adult witchers on the stage.

And on the periphery of these children, there were many staff members serving the Order, as well as the Order sorcerers who sat at a table alone, chatting casually, their eyes involuntarily looking at the many witchers on the high platform.

Although the number of formal adult witchers was less than twenty, the total number of members of the Witcher Order, even excluding those peripheral members, had already exceeded two hundred at this time, far exceeding the expectations of many people present.

This was something that the Witcher Order in its most prosperous period two hundred years ago could not compare with.

On the high platform, Wayne had a smile on his face, looking at the scene in the hall, and suddenly felt a familiar feeling. As a picture flashed through his mind, he couldn't help but laugh.

So many children, teachers from various schools on the stage, and the huge Kaer Morhen castle.

Such a scene was a bit similar to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the movie Harry Potter he had seen before, and in about a year, the first batch of witcher apprentices would be assigned to schools according to their talents and their own intentions.

Wasn't it just like the scene of students being assigned to colleges in Hogwarts every year?

However, this was one of the conditions he promised to other witcher schools.

Not only was Vesemir wanting to pass on the school, in fact, all witcher schools faced the problem of having no successors.

They were willing to join the Order and contribute the data, mutation formulas, and various documents they had preserved. Besides the fact that the new Order was powerful and could provide a place for various schools to settle, a large part of the reason was that the new Order could provide young apprentices for various schools, allowing their sects to continue.

In this regard, the Wayne Chamber of Commerce managed by Syanna did quite well.

With such a powerful chamber of commerce spread throughout the North, witchers who wanted to find apprentices no longer needed to do it themselves, using those inhumane methods to snatch children from the hands of other people's parents.

In this medieval world with low productivity, no matter how rich the country was, there must be a large number of orphans and homeless children. If no kind-hearted people took them in, the fate of these children would be nothing more than starving to death on the street, or being abducted by human traffickers and living a more miserable life.

However, under the instruction of Master Wayne, a complete orphan adoption system had been arranged in every city in the North.

Every orphan adopted by the chamber of commerce would be examined, trained, and tested. Like those children who had no combat talent and average physical talent, even if they wanted to become witchers, they would not have this opportunity.

Only those children who were qualified in personality, talent, and character would have the opportunity to become witcher apprentices.

Witchers would no longer be a low-class profession that people hated and dogs disliked like in the past. In the near future, the threshold of this profession would become higher and higher, and its status and power would become greater and greater. Only trustworthy elites would become members of the Witcher Order.

As for the other children who were eliminated, they would grow up in orphanages provided by the chamber of commerce, receive education from the chamber of commerce, and sign a ten-year work contract after becoming adults, which could be considered as supplementing trustworthy fresh blood for the chamber of commerce and the Order.

Wayne was holding a wine glass, discussing with Letho of the Viper School and Ned of the Bear School about how to assign apprentices in the future, when a somewhat crisp female voice inserted into the conversation of several people.

"Why are there no girls among the apprentices?"

"I think we can recruit some female apprentices in the future. The formula of our Cat School can also allow women to complete mutations."

"And women have advantages over some men after using the Cat School's formula."

The person speaking had a brown-red ponytail, pointed ears, a petite figure, gorgeous appearance, emerald green pupils, and a scar on one cheek.

It was Karia, a female witcher who joined the Order with the Cat School's Grand Master Karakatt.

This lady was currently the only female witcher in the Witcher Order, and it was said that she was also the only female witcher in the Cat School.

She came from the Kingdom of Aedirn in the South and was once a slave sold to a brothel, and also a half-elf.

However, in an accidental opportunity, the current Cat School Grand Master Karakatt saved this girl. Because the Cat School had a precedent for female witchers, Karia was allowed to undergo the mutation trial. Unexpectedly, she was lucky enough to succeed.

For the entire witcher profession, this could be considered a quite unique experience. After all, in the cognition of other schools, women could not become witchers.

Wayne turned to look at her upon hearing this, looked at Karia's emerald green vertical pupils, then nodded to her quite gracefully, and said with a smile:

"This idea of yours is very good, Karia."

"I will issue this order, and there will be a batch of excellent female children becoming new apprentices next year."

"At that time, you will be their mentor."

Seeming not to expect Wayne to be so easy to talk to, Karia was stunned for a moment, pursed her lips, and then looked back at her teacher.

The Cat School Grand Master Karakatt nodded to Wayne and said in a cold voice: "Karia's strength is not enough to become a mentor, Master Wayne."

"However, if there are female apprentices, our Cat School can be responsible for training them."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 325 =====