The Divine Hunter Chapter 19: Number 22
Early morning on January 1, 1263.
After spending a happy New Year’s Eve at Gawain’s House, Korn and Geron Moru from the Gryphon faction, Roy and Letho from the Snake faction, Geralt from the Wolf faction, and the Cat faction’s Lambert and Aiden arrived at Mount Amel through the portal.
Before this, everyone had made sufficient preparations: food, drinking water, one-time teleportation props for each person, magic potions and bombs to deal with all possible crises.
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The wind blew away the rime, and the sun penetrated the clouds, making the snow-covered mountaintops shine.
Wearing thick cloaks, they were in the tall, jagged, snow-covered Amer Mountains. They were walking swiftly along the steep and winding Kramat Pass between the ridges and cliffs. A brown-yellow gryphon was in the sky in front of them. Standing guard, his sharp eyes have a panoramic view of every corner of the mountains.
To find the rumored Hainkawih Castle.
In terms of vast territory, Amer Mountain is far inferior to Feilong Mountain Range or Blue Mountain. It will not make people trek for ten days and a half, and it will feel like being in a maze.
However, the temperature in this land of ice and snow is breathtakingly low. There are very few wild animals covered in thick velvet in the snow. Even the witchers can only relieve the bone-chilling cold through constant exercise.
They rested for several nights in the woods between the canyons.
On the fifth day, we followed Gorfen's guidance to the most prominent highest point in this ruthless mountain range - the majestic and steep peak "Gorgon". It sits like an angular obelisk on the jagged contours of the Amer Mountains.
In the middle of this obelisk, there stands a zigzag-shaped city wall from top to bottom. Four high towers and some beautifully decorated small turrets are integrated with the city wall. The wall is covered with white frost. flower.
The griffin beast flapped its wings and descended to the top of the central tower, crawling on the ground like a buffalo, looking around with alert eyes, serving as a sentinel for everyone.
The demon hunters stepped on a **** and came to the lifted iron gate. From a distance, they saw that the door and the city wall had been frozen together by ice edges.
"Hainkawih, the castle of the Bear School." Cohen said with emotion, "The scale is not inferior to Caer Siren in its heyday, but it is a pity that it is now in ruins."
There should have been a spacious and flat training ground between this castle, but now it is buried under snow.
"Our golden age has become a thing of the past." Jie Long shook his head,
"Don't say such depressing words." Lambert shook his head, looking excited, "Think about Gawain's house, our era has clearly not begun yet!"
"Stop the chicken blood." Aiden made a silent gesture, took out a bottle of "cat" and swallowed it,
"Gulu gulu."
After a series of swallowing sounds, seven pairs of eyes flickered.
A hollow was left on the snow that was ankle deep, and everyone waded through the snow through the walls, gates, corridors and stairs.
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The dark, dead hall strictly inherits the rough and simple style inherited from the witchers. Apart from a few wolf, grizzly bear and elk head specimens hanging on the walls, it does not have any gorgeous decorations.
Several dark and towering stone pillars supported the ceiling, and the cold wind passed through them without any hindrance.
The six people quickly searched the area. The few tables, chairs, sofas and candlesticks were all covered with thick dust. There was nothing in the fireplace. There was even a layer of solid ice because of the cold air from the chimney. .
Obviously this castle has been uninhabited for a long time, and it seems to be different from Jeron's dream.
Everyone was disappointed and relieved, and quickly divided into three teams to continue exploring the castle.
Roy followed Geralt up from the corridor on the west side of the hall.
"Man, according to your hunch, will this trip be fruitful?" White Wolf suddenly asked in a hoarse voice, "Elan, or even Aiga?"
He came here this time to shoulder the heavy responsibility assigned by Mr. Vesemir.
Founders are vital to all schools of thought.
"There should be." Roy said, his dimly lit pupils of different colors scanning the empty and dim corridor, "Every time you walk through, you will leave traces. Jaylon's dreams will never come true."
As verification, the witcher suddenly tensed up near a room on the second floor of the castle.
A light green ribbon appeared in front of his eyes, filled with the scent left by some kind of living creature. The demon hunter moved his nose and faintly smelled a faint fragrance from it.
"Insect pheromones?"
Roy and Geralt exchanged a look.
"Shuashua——"
The five fingers were outlined, golden and dark light surged, and the two people's bodies were covered with double shields.
Holding the silver sword, he bent his waist and propped his toes, landing silently like a cat, quietly approaching the open door of the bedroom.
Then he glanced into the room out of the corner of his eye.
Unlike the corridors and halls, the walls of the room are covered with layers of insulation moss that looks like flesh walls.
On the innermost wall, there is a ghost-like silent monster lying - two huge, phosphorescent eyes, and slender legs, with a long and narrow dragonfly-like shape in the center. The body is like a lighted candelabra, it seems to have emerged directly from the broken slate wall.
Koschei
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Life: 250
Properties
Strength:22
Agility:28
Physique: 25
Perception:10
Will:6
Charm:3
Spirit:8
Skills:
Carapace (passive solidification): The hard carapace covering most of the body is invulnerable and immune to considerable physical damage.
Corrosion lv6: The minions carry corrosive venom that can corrode skin, flesh and bones.
Regeneration level 5: Koschei has extremely tenacious vitality. Most of the organs and tissues in his body are no longer vital and can be regenerated after being damaged.
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The two stood quietly for a moment.
Geralt touched his neck with his left palm.
Roy stretched out his hand and waved, the long sword disappeared, and a pair of exquisite hand crossbows appeared on his right hand, exuding cold murderous aura.
At the same time, the five fingers of the left hand outline the blue charm.
"Whoosh—"
"This is—"
The sound of breaking through the air and the sound of surging electricity broke out one after another.
An arrow hit the eye of the candelabra. The enhanced wrath of the giant gave the arrow unimaginable penetration and impact. Its eyeball did not have a hard carapace covering its body, and it exploded like a watermelon in an instant.
Green slurry spread all over the body, emitting strange fluorescence.
With hissing sounds of pain and anger, eighteen pairs of slender legs stretched out simultaneously!
Before it could react, a purple electric light flashed through the air and hit the candelabra in the middle.
Bright yellow arcs of electricity jumped between the slender limbs. Its roar turned into a howl, and it froze in place, shaking convulsively.
And Geralt stepped forward with his silver sword, twisted his body, and struck the tentacles on its head with the tip of the sword.
However, it quickly recovered from the stiffness, deflected the sword blade with one claw, jumped off the wall, and jumped in front of the white wolf, its slender feet spinning like windmills.
The air screams under the claws!
Geralt leaned over and fell under the insect. The timing was just right, and the insect's feet shattered Quen's shield, but that was all.
As Geralt rolled to his feet, the long sword pulled a thin and deep sword mark on the soft belly beneath him.
Green blood fell to the ground.
The ground was corroded to the point where smoke was rising.
The insect suddenly tightened its legs, wailed and jumped to the ground. It instantly changed its direction and pounced on Geralt with its sharp claws like octopus tentacles. ~IndoMTL.com~ But its back was exposed to Roy.
"Whoosh—"
"Bang!"
A ray of silver light and a blazing fireball erupted at its tail.
The shock wave of the fireball explosion and the thrust of the crossbow knocked its body away, and it staggered into the wall, screaming miserably!
The smell of barbecue fills the air.
Geralt took the opportunity to stab its fully exposed left eye with a sword!
It became completely blind.
The demon hunter with different colored pupils attacks with a sword.
Five seconds later, Koschei's wailing disappeared completely as he was attacked from behind by two demon hunters.
"Shua——" The silver light is like a shuttle.
A multi-legged insect corpse with intertwined fangs and blood-spurting mouthparts fell at Roy's feet.
Kill Koschei, experience value +280, Demon Hunter lv10 (1000/8500)
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"Have you seen this thing?" Roy squatted down and tried to cut its body, thinking that there should be a large mutant inside it. "There doesn't seem to be such a thing in the witcher books."
Geralt shook his head, "A witcher is just an experienced monster killer, not a professor of rare biology."
"But this thing feels very strange to me...it's different from the angelegger bug or the crab spider. It's a bit...unnatural."
The two worked together to cut Koschei into pieces. In addition to a large green mutant, they also took out a long metal plate from its body.
It is deeply embedded between the carapace and flesh of the polypod, with a line of unknown text engraved on the surface - ULExIX0022.
"No. 22...could there be numbers 18 and 19?" Roy raised his eyebrows, with an ominous premonition rising in his heart, "Did it come from some unlucky ghost, or did it swallow it accidentally?" ”
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