The Divine Hunter Chapter 8: The whole story

The night falls and the cold wind blows from the mountainside.

In the dim light outside the mine, two scarlet dots floated like will-o'-the-wisps, and a giant bear over three meters long walked out of the wooden house.

The information Roy observed from it was different from before.

Ferocious Brown Bear

Age: 48

Gender: Male

Identity: Follower of Svablo (Svablo is the dual incarnation of a bear and a human, symbolizing the never-ending struggle.)

Health: 220

Attributes:

Strength: 22

Agility: 14

Physique: 22

Perception: 10

Will: 10

Charm: 4

Spirit: 6

Skills:

Bloodthirsty (Passive): The dire bear is tireless, unafraid of pain, thirsts for blood, and loses part of its sanity. It cannot return to its human form until it has caused enough killings, tasted flesh and blood, or exhausted its physical strength. It devours the flesh and blood of its enemies. , it can quickly restore injuries and physical fitness.

Crazy (Passive): The injury will stimulate the potential of the dire bear. The more serious the injury, the lower the health value and the more terrifying the combat effectiveness.

Corruption Brand (Passive): Believers who accept the evil **** Svablo's brand will receive gifts of Strength +5 and Constitution +5.

……

Drinking the medicine turns the human body into a giant bear, a Vilka.

Roy suddenly realized.

So there is no such thing as Iber from the Great Skellige Island, or the fifth warrior, Farric himself is the bear!

But his previous performance seemed to be that he didn't know that there was an abnormal power hidden in his body, and Yaksi Dharma Seal didn't ask for the truth.

Is this guy schizophrenic? Is Svablo's ritual so evil?

Roy's heterochromatic pupils flashed with a look of thought.

According to the attributes of this ferocious bear, it is not difficult to kill it, but if you do so, you will not be able to deal with the blacksmith in Todaloqu.

Then let me change you back!

"Roar!"

The giant bear's body of more than three meters stood upright, casting a towering shadow like a hill towards the ground. It waved its sharp claws in the air and roared.

In response, Roy quietly took out his crossbow.

"Whoosh—"

The sound breaks through the air.

A crossbow arrow hit the snow at the bear's feet, and snowflakes splashed on its thick, black mane.

The witcher hooked his fingers with a sarcastic smile on his lips.

Chi Guoguo’s provocation!

The giant bear was instantly furious, its huge body swept across the snow, charging like a heavy tank!

"Pfft, pfft!"

The ground trembled, a series of deep footprints appeared, and large amounts of snow fell off the hillside cliffs.

"Whoosh—"

The bowstring hums.

As the giant bear approached, Roy flashed his arrow, and the arrow grazed the plush body, and instantly appeared in front of the damaged cabin ten meters behind it.

"Huh...huh..."

The giant bear braked suddenly, dragging its limbs on the snow to leave a row of scratches. It breathed out pale mist from its big mouth, turned around, and stared at the intact Witcher not far away with its scarlet pupils, becoming even more angry.

"Roar!"

It charges again.

The witcher repeated his old tricks, still relying on his flash to stay away from its collision. The giant bear that passed by directly knocked a big hole out of the wooden wall of the house.

Broken sawdust, dust mist, and broken ice were flying in the air.

In the mist, the giant bear sounded like a war drum, standing opposite the demon hunter.

Roy originally thought it would have a longer memory and change its strategy, but the transformation deprived it of its sanity more deeply than he expected. The giant bear lost its basic judgment and stubbornly and in vain launched continuous collisions with him.

And the witcher took advantage of the opportunity to tease this "big dog" and became a man flying a kite.

Amidst the sound of crossbow arrows piercing the air, Roy's figure rose and fell, changing its position ghostly.

Sometimes he appeared in front of the wooden house that was about to be knocked apart and waved to it. Sometimes he blew a loud whistle beside the mine. Sometimes he applauded among the cliffs ten meters above the ground. There was also a tree beside the stone staircase. From the top of the snowy pine tree, he shot an arrow at the giant bear.

Keep provoking and irritating!

A bright moon quietly hung in the sky.

Under the moonlight, heavy footsteps could be heard on the platform and stone stairwell outside the mine. A beast on all fours charged back and forth tirelessly and irregularly, braking, turning, and charging again.

Huge footprints traced circles on the smooth snow. The water vapor exhaled from the **** mouth was frozen by the cold air, and a circle of black hair around the lips and ice shards appeared on the fangs.

This mountainous clearing seems to have become a circus. The giant bear is the hard-working animal actor, and the witcher is the skilled animal trainer.

Hooking, calling, clapping, and shooting arrows are just a few actions that make the giant bear run for its life.

……

A full half hour.

The witcher used "activation" and several bottles of magic potion, and relied on the flicker to remain unscathed.

The giant bear was covered in sweat, and its black fur was covered with a layer of ice. It was panting so loudly that it almost vomited out its lungs, and glanced at the proud figure standing in the distance.

But he was so tired that he could no longer make a sound. He squatted on his back like a big dog and stuck out his tongue.

"Man, you can't stand it for a while? Are Svablo's followers so capable?" The demon hunter smiled and sat comfortably on the beams of the tattered wooden house with only the skeleton left. "Continue to capture Me! Catch me and I’ll let you take a bite!"

"Breathe...breathe...breathe...breathe..."

This time, despite his provocation, the Dire Bear ignored him.

Instead, he lowered his big head in frustration and his body trembled.

The fighting spirit is completely gone, and everything becomes boring.

Under the moonlight, the body of the terrifying beast quickly shrank and withered. Two seconds later, a man appeared on the snow that was trampled messily by the bear's paws, with his bare back exposed, skinny and fell into a coma.

The witcher wiped his contaminated eyes and quickly confirmed that the blacksmith just fell asleep due to excessive physical exertion.

No one but me can bring down a ferocious bear alive!

Roy took out a clean fur coat and put it on his body.

"Be content, man, even the corals didn't enjoy my 'personal' service!"

With the blacksmith on his back, the demon hunter's figure rose and fell several times before disappearing on the way he came.

……

The scene at three or four in the morning.

Cod Town.

There are few people in the town, and the townspeople who got up early went out to sea to fish with fishing nets and equipment.

The blacksmith shop is brightly lit.

After the clanging sound of hammering, blacksmith Clough picked up an iron embryo with an iron clamp and put it into the furnace for calcining.

The little blond girl stepped on the blower in cooperation.

"Do you think Mr. Oakes can bring back Uncle Farik and Uncle Oraka?"

"Don't worry, Yuna, he doesn't give me the impression of a blindly confident person." The blacksmith sat on the edge of the felt, wiping his sweat with a towel, "I just hope that the goddess will bless you, and the trouble in the mine... is not because of your inability to Uncle Rick."

"What's the problem, uncle?"

"It's a long story. You weren't even born at that time, and you've been living happily together for more than 20 years. It shouldn't be his problem."

"Then if Mr. Oakes completes the commission." The little girl pursed her lips, "Will you leave with him? You have lived in Udvik for more than decades, are you willing to do so? Why don't we help him build a house? piece of equipment as reward?"

"Little girl, have you forgotten the rules of the family? Integrity and honor! Once you make a promise, you can't break it." The blacksmith suddenly straightened his face and scolded his daughter. "If he saves people, it will be the will of the goddess Freya. Farik and Okara who survived will stay at home and take responsibility on my behalf."

"But, I...I don't want to be separated from you. My forging skills are not up to par, and I still need your guidance! Uncle Camille is impatient, and he and his aunt are trying to find me a husband all day long!"

"My precious daughter, no one on Udvik Island is worthy of you." Clough Todalorqu smiled and glanced at his daughter's young and beautiful face, "I have thought about it carefully."

"If you are willing, come with us to Novigrad and see the world outside the islands. As a girl, the burden of inheriting the family legacy should not be on your shoulders."

"Family reputation is both an honor and a curse."

When Yuna heard this, her face was filled with anticipation.

……

"Tap-tat-tat..."

A rush of footsteps broke the silence of the town. The eyes of the two father and daughter coincidentally passed by the blacksmith shop door curtain, looking into the distance. Under the lavender sky, a figure in a black cloak ran towards them.

Oaks?

He was carrying a thin figure, with dry blond hair and a broad square chin that were quite familiar.

The two father and daughter couldn't help but look shocked.

"Clough, Yuna, come and help,"

"Farik? Freya bless me, my brother is still alive!" Clough was surprised and happy, and cooperated with the demon hunter to carry his brother back to the bed in the bedroom.

And Yuna called out the sleeping blacksmith Chamil's family with excitement on her face.

"God, just come back!" Everyone in the Todaloqu family - two blacksmiths, a girl, a plump woman wearing a big cloak, and a five or six-year-old boy surrounded the bed sleeping man.

"Master Oaks, I don't know how to thank you! You saved an important member of Todalorqu!" Camir excitedly grabbed the witcher's hand, his voice trembling.

"Is Uncle Farik sick?" the blond boy said cautiously, "Why can't I wake up? Shall I call the doctor?"

"Don't worry," Roy stretched. He had been running for six or seven hours carrying a man weighing hundreds of pounds, and his back was aching. "He just passed out due to excessive physical exertion. If you don't believe me, just check him."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Clough asked urgently, "Is it just Farik? Where is Okara? Are there any warriors who went to save them?"

Roy shook his head, with a hint of mourning in his expression, which made people panic.

"Unfortunately, everyone, he is the only living person in the mine, and the rest are corpses, a total of more than a dozen. All the rescued warriors have encountered misfortune."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a pile of sparkling "mementos of the dead" suddenly appeared on the round table next to the bed.

Clough immediately recognized the badge of a forging hammer and iron felt,

"Ocala's badge?!"

"I found it on a frozen corpse."

Everyone present suddenly turned red with sadness. The woman hugged the tearful boy into her arms, and Yuna held on to her father's sleeve.

"Uncle Okara is gone? What happened?"

"As you guessed before, something attacked the mine." The demon hunter crossed his arms and looked at the five people's faces slowly, with a sense of scrutiny, "The next topic is quite heavy. Women and children are best avoided."

"I won't avoid it! In terms of courage, the women of the Todaloqu family are by no means inferior to any men!" Yuna raised her head and stared at the demon hunter, and said loudly, "I can bear it!"

Camir glanced at his wife, who hugged the child and entered the inner room and closed the door.

The demon hunter nodded and kept the story short, "I sneaked into the forging furnace in the deepest part of the mine and found two ice trolls stewing meat there, and the ingredients used were... um... the remains of the warriors who went to rescue."

"Ugh..." Yuna covered her mouth.

Clough and Chamiel turned blue.

"Ice troll? A monster with a green face and fangs, and a body as hard as stone?"

"Have you ever seen it? In short, they are very dangerous. They can beat people into pulp with one punch, and they can break bones by throwing a stone at random."

"I heard from the elders... that in the deepest part of the Udvik Mountains live humanoid monsters covered with ice... and frost giants that are bigger than houses." Clough looked heavy and clenched his fists, "We I have always followed the instructions of my ancestors and never strayed far from the mining areas and forges. I went deep into the mountains, but I didn’t expect that I would still get into trouble.”

“It’s unreasonable!” Chamir questioned, “Although the two ice trolls are strong, but if more than a dozen of us go to rescue, we won’t be able to get back even a single message! How can you escape from under the eyes of the trolls? , rescue my brother?"

"You don't know something, I don't need to run away..." The demon hunter smiled happily and pointed to the ground of the room, and a **** troll corpse appeared in front of everyone. "I have avenged you."

Yuna's face turned white for a moment, but she forced herself to stare straight at the corpse.

The two blacksmiths swallowed their saliva and glanced at the ice troll, who was over two and a half meters tall and whose arms were thicker than an ordinary person's waist. In comparison, the demon hunter was "weak".

How can human flesh and blood kill such a terrifying monster? They are much more powerful than killing Hekena!

The demon hunter's back became taller than ever before.

"You are right, the two ice trolls will not kill all the rescue team members." The demon hunter changed the subject, "They also have accomplices - I found traces of dire bears in the mine. ."

Dire bear?

At this moment, Yuna's face was blank, while the expressions of the two blacksmiths changed drastically for a moment, and then returned to normal.

"What did you say?"

"I think you guys must know something inside..." Roy made a judgment in his mind, and casually placed a bottle of wine on the round table - mead mixed with human blood and Martor mushrooms.

He took off the bottle cap.

When Clough and Chamier smelled the sweet aroma of wine and the slightly stinky smell of mushrooms, their faces immediately tightened and their breathing stopped.

"I spent a lot of time trying to find that giant bear. Until I accidentally found this bottle of wine..." The demon hunter stared at the faces of the two people, applying pressure word by word, "I gave the wine to Fariq..."

"Stop talking! Master Oaks!" Clough suddenly let out a weird cry, lowered his head and said slumped, "It seems you know everything! If you have any questions, just ask, we will tell you everything we know."

"But I promise, it was not Farric's original intention to turn into a giant bear, and all the killings had nothing to do with him. It was another cruel guy who was causing trouble in his body!" Camir looked into the eyes of the witcher, He said sincerely, "There has been no accident in more than 20 years. We originally thought that thing had disappeared, but we didn't expect that he would accidentally drink medicinal wine. He would also be involved with a troll."

Maybe it’s because they all like to eat people, have simple minds, and like to get together to exchange food experiences.

Roy complained.

"Didn't we just talk about trolls? What wine and giant bears are you talking about?" Yuna's simple eyes slowly swept across the faces of her relatives and the demon hunter.

"Quiet! Yuna, don't ask if you shouldn't ask! Go in and accompany your aunt!"

"No! I am already fifteen years old, and I have the right to know everything. What are you hiding from me?!" Yuna blushed and shook her head, her ponytail rippling, and she actually got behind her father and got into the demon hunter Hiding behind.

Roy felt the breath of the girl behind him and shrank his neck. Why do you trust me so much?

If you don’t leave quickly, you won’t be able to leave again.

"Stop arguing! So, this Farik is a Wilka and believes in Svablo?" Roy asked, while a lot of memories flashed through his mind.

There are seven most powerful families in the Skellige Islands, including Deadly Krait, Mondra, Tursek...

Most of the islanders depend on the seven major families for their survival.

But in addition to the seven families, there is also a group that is outside the seven major families, called the Wilka people.

The Wilka people are more warlike than any islanders. They live by serving in battles and do not belong to any bloodline or family on the islands. They secretly worship the evil **** Svablo, who has long been banned from the islands. Through cruel Ritual adds members.

And Svablo likes to let believers perform **** and barbaric sacrifices with living people.

The Wilkas were gifted by it and mastered the ability to transform into a giant bear, but they had to first drink a special hallucinogen composed of human blood, mead, and mador mushrooms.

In Roy's memory, about nine years later, King Skelligebrain passed away.

At the banquet for the selection of the new king, a group of Wilkas entered the banquet. Under the conspiracy of Queen Bierna, they drank a special hallucinogen, transformed into a giant bear and started killing, destroying the entire banquet.

And Geralt followed the clues to find out the truth, let Bilna be punished, and the new king successfully ascended the throne!

……

"He was forced!"

"How do you say this?"

Clough said bitterly and helplessly, "Farric became the master of forging at the age of twenty. His reputation spread throughout the Skellige Islands, and he got into trouble because of it. A group of Wilka kidnapped him and took him to the Great Skellige. Island, forcing him to participate in the **** ritual of worshiping 'Svablo'."

"In order to survive, he killed his opponent in a ceremony and allowed himself to be devoured by a giant bear, transforming into a Wilka with dual identities of a human and a ferocious bear."

Roy remembered the general steps of this **** ritual, which required two participants to fight to the death with bare hands in the "Ring of the Bear."

Those who survived covered their bodies with attractant potions and ate the Mateo mushrooms, and then lured ferocious bears into the shadow caves, allowing the giant bears to tear them apart and eat them piece by piece.

Then the bear's shape began to change, its hair fell off rapidly, and it transformed into human limbs, gradually turning into the Wilka people they devoured.

The Vilka have another more famous name - the "berserkers" of the Skellige Islands.

Their leader is a fallen druid who rebelled against the Druid Circle of Skellige.

Proficient in the art of beast transformation.

"After passing the ritual, Farik was forced to have the power to transform into a giant bear, but he had to do so under extreme anger or drink special wine."

Clough shook his head,

"He felt that there was an evil presence in his body, and he was extremely disgusted with it. He had always been disgusted with senseless and **** killings. He hated Svablo, the Vilka **** who always provoked fights! So on a certain day One day, when the Wilka people were not paying attention, he escaped from the 'Bear Ring' and returned to his hometown of Udvik by boat. He had already told me everything!"

"In the company of his family and during the busy forging work, Farik has always been in good control. He even gradually forgot that there was such a ferocious bear hidden in his body - later, he completely lost the Wilka people. Relevant memories! We believe this is Svablo's punishment for the believers who betrayed him, and he took back the power of the bear."

Roy frowned and forgot his past experience?

This is really a schizophrenic patient.

Clough took a deep breath and raised his voice,

"Believe it or not, in twenty years, we have never seen Farric transform into a dire bear! He has never thought that he has anything to do with the Vilka people."

Roy nodded.

If they saw a giant bear, the blacksmith's family would have long been in despair.

The heterochromatic pupils turned to Farik, who had a calm face and was sleeping.

This guy is under the control of the Yakxi seal, but he is telling lies. There is only one possibility. He regards the lies as truth. He has dual personalities-the normal blacksmith Farik, and the ferocious bear Farik. .

The witcher can imagine that the ice troll broke into the mine and went on a killing spree with Farric, who accidentally drank potion and turned into a ferocious bear.

Farik subconsciously knew that there was a monster locked inside him, but he was unwilling to admit it, so he made up a warrior named Iber from the Great Skellige Islands. He firmly believed that the giant bear incarnated by Bayer had killed several people. companion.

He locked himself in an iron cage ~IndoMTL.com~ and was unwilling to leave. It should be some kind of crisis defense mechanism of a normal personality. He was afraid of hurting his family after turning into a bear.

But the monster is coming out, and he can't stop it!

The little girl behind the witcher was stunned and her mouth grew bigger.

"Master Demon Hunter, please spare his life..." Camir glanced at the **** troll, "I swear on the honor of the Todaloqu family! I will keep an eye on Farik day and night. , stop him from transforming and hurting people’s lives!”

Clough pulled the sluggish little girl Yuna from behind the demon hunter to his side. "You rescued Farik, killed the troll, and avenged so many brothers. I should also fulfill my promise and become your full-time blacksmith! How about we pack up our things and set off immediately. How about returning to Nuo City?"

"It's a blessing, but don't worry, I still have things to do in Skellige." Roy shook his head, "Don't worry, I'm going to take action. I sent him to see the goddess Freya a few hours ago."

"I have a suggestion." The demon hunter paused, his eyes flashing with eagerness, "I can try to get him completely free from Svablo's control and influence! Erase the mark of the evil **** in his body!"

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