The Divine Hunter Chapter 8: Investigation and speculation
The next morning, Roy got up refreshed after meditating all night.
After completely replacing sleep with meditation, he only needs five hours of rest and wakes up energetic every morning. Such days were completely unimaginable for him who had suffered from insomnia and even suffered from neurasthenia in his previous life.
Although this young body is thin, its physique is not bad, and is even better than in the previous life.
Leso in the other room left the door earlier than him, drinking wine and eating pie on the first floor of the tavern, still wearing a poker face, showing no signs of the affair last night.
"Why don't you sleep a little longer?"
"Relax, relax. Demon hunters cannot lose their basic self-discipline."
The two were chatting while eating, and Roy mentioned the dwarves incidentally. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, the real owner arrived.
Compared with yesterday, Sewell's bags under his eyes seemed heavier and he looked extremely tired, but he still kept his spirits up. He told the two of them his troubles.
Naturally, the demon hunter would not mind entrusting too much, so Leisuo listened patiently.
"Starting three months ago, nightmares suddenly haunted me. From early morning to dawn, I was like a devil who never gave me a chance to relax."
"I sleep very poorly every night. Sometimes I wake up suddenly in the middle of the night. After a period of time, my health is greatly affected."
“Can you imagine? Mahakam’s little squirrel, Sevier Hogg, who used to be so energetic for three days and three nights without sleep, now dozes off when he loses concentration. I feel like I’m no longer He was a strong dwarf, but he became a goblin in the Tir Tosha Mountains."
“I’ve searched all over Edsberg. The doctors can’t see anything wrong and there’s nothing they can do.”
"I turned the whole house upside down, and I couldn't find any signs of weirdness. But I had a hunch that there must be something dirty hidden in my home, cursing me, corrupting me, and making me restless. ."
"Ordinary people can't solve my problem at all, so Master Leisuo, please help me."
The dwarf had a sincere look on his face, and the way he looked at the witcher showed no discrimination that was common in human eyes.
After listening to his statement, Leisuo lowered his head and thought, tapping his carrot-like fingers lightly on the table. Roy was trying to connect this incident with the monsters he knew in his mind.
"Two hundred crowns."
Reso quoted the final price, which was directly double the price of hunting the tomb witch in Kaye. The dwarf in front of him seemed to be a guy who was not short of money at first glance. Because his employers were rich or poor, witchers also had to be "flexible in pricing."
As expected, Sevier Hogg didn’t make any counteroffer at all and readily agreed.
"Now take us to your home to see what's going on."
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As the general agent of Edsberg's liquor, Sevier Hogg has strong financial resources. His mansion is located in the wealthy area in the west of the city and is surrounded by four towers.
The wealthy area occupies a large area and is home to the most prominent people in Edsbo, such as Baron Tarwick, weapons ore merchants, and wine merchants. The density of patrol guards and green facilities in this area are far beyond the Civilian area.
Behind the high wall to the west of the wealthy district is the vast Mahakam Mountain. Some bards jokingly said that this mountain was the noble who stationed Edsberg a long time ago. In order to prevent his troops from attacking, Built to escape.
Inside and outside the high green tiled walls of Sevier Mansion, there are many dwarf guards wearing whips and carrying giant axes and heavy hammers patrolling everywhere, and they are heavily guarded.
When the guards saw Sewell, they all bowed and saluted, with sincere respect in their eyes.
"It seems that this guy has a high reputation among the dwarves."
Roy also noticed that in addition to totem-like patterns with no meaning, there were also lifelike images of the prophet Lebiuda carved in some places on the outer walls.
The two entered the gate, and Sewell waved away the other men, leaving the two of them with a quiet atmosphere without being disturbed, and then yawned.
"After you two have investigated the courtyard, tell the guards that you can go inside the house to check. I am very sleepy, I'm afraid I have to catch up on some sleep first." The nightmare made Sevier's sleep quality extremely poor, and he had to take a nap whenever he could. .
After Sewell left, the two quickly launched an investigation.
Leso took a general look at the structure of the courtyard. There was a small fountain in the center of the courtyard, and neatly decorated ornamental plants were planted on three sides.
There are also a large number of green potted plants as tall as a person connected end to end, forming a maze-like fork in the city.
A strange light flashed in his pupils, and then he began to search slowly in one direction.
Roy knew that the big man had quietly turned on the demon hunter's senses, which was almost like a radar that continuously radiated microwaves. He stepped forward and asked curiously, "I've always been curious about how demon hunters search for traces of monsters."
Leso showed great patience in the professional skills of witchers, and explained carefully, "Witchers have undergone mutations, and their perception methods are different from ordinary people. To be precise, we can combine vision, smell, and hearing. All the clues collected in the film are re-presented through sensory reconstruction."
"Shaped into a vague ribbon of gas before my eyes...circles of invisible sound waves...a set of shallow footprints..."
"These can all point the way."
Lesso paused, "The demon hunter's perception is very keen, he can see farther and hear more clearly ~IndoMTL.com~ and smell smells that ordinary people cannot detect."
"For example, the smell of blood left behind a few months ago, the body odor of monsters, the smell of pungent perfume..."
"There is also the smell of fine wine gathering dust in the cellar." Roy couldn't help but interject.
"Yes, based on these clues, if you follow the clues, you can naturally find the culprit." After speaking, Lei Suo suddenly looked serious and said to Roy solemnly, "But before you find suspicious traces and start following the clues, you It’s best to be able to judge what kind of enemy you are facing.”
"Is it something you can deal with, or can you only look up to... If you make a wrong judgment, you may face a terrifying existence and lose your life."
A trace of melancholy flashed across Lei Suo's eyes, as if he had recalled something.
"To judge whether the target is accurate, you have to look at the experience of the demon hunter. For example, the body odor of water ghosts has a fishy smell of water plants and fish, the place where ghouls haunt will leave the rotting smell of corpses, and the white widow will destroy The ground is intact and green slime is left at the entrance of the tunnel. Griffin beasts will only appear on high mountains..."
The demon hunter patiently guided with practical operations and patient explanations, while Roy tried his best to listen, understand, and remember.
"Having said so much, kid, can you give me a judgment and a guess based on my words and the clues in the courtyard." Leisuo put forward the test to Roy expressionlessly.
Roy rubbed his chin, reviewed the new knowledge in his mind, and said hesitantly, "My remarks are only about the courtyard. The search just now did not find any strange footprints, so we can first rule out... Kata Kahn is suspected of being a vampire who is good at invisibility and hypnosis."
"My memory is good." Leisuo said a rare compliment, "Excluding Katakane, now go to the house to look for other possibilities."