From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 226 A Trial Conforming to Simple Morality
The Vildkaarls are a group separated from the seven families of the Skellige Islands.

The Wilkas are more warlike than any archipelago, and even the stereotypes of the archipelagos of the early mainlanders are mostly derived from the Wilkas: barbaric, violent, and bloody.

They lived in the service of battle, and belonged to no blood or family in the islands, nor were they without wives, children, or heirs; and the only way to perpetuate the group was for those islanders who wished to devote their lives entirely to fighting to separate from their families. , take the initiative to join as a member of the Vilka people.

Therefore, it is not so much an ethnic group as it is a group or even a sect.

They were born disciples of Svalblo.There are even rumors that Swablo himself is actually the totem god of the Vilka people. Later, the style of the Vilka people was carried forward, so the Swablo sect was formed around them.

Mokvag continued after exposing his identity as a Vilka: "After the sect was targeted and cleared by the Skelliges, we kept the remaining fire and the way of cultivating berserkers, and hid them, waiting for me to Time for a revival of divine doctrine."

It's hard to imagine that such a vicious pirate still has faith.But when you think of the teachings of the Svalblo sect, it all makes sense again.

Lan En asked: "Where are you hiding?"

"On the top of the hills of Great Skellige, there is a village called Fulhalla."

Ged's eyes widened in surprise: "I also learned about the history of the Svalblo sect and the Vilka people before I set off. If I remember correctly, the place you mentioned is near the original headquarters of the Svalblo sect. Are you still hiding there now?"

The werewolf Mokvarg murmured unconsciously: "There is a 'ring of bears' there, which is a necessary place to train berserkers. And the Skelliges didn't expect us to go back again..."

Lan En rubbed the center of his brows with a headache, it turned out that it was dark under the lamp.

It's just that Mokwag has been stuck here for a while, and I don't know if the current Vilkas are still there, and they may have moved.

But since we got the clues, it's right to take someone to have a look, maybe we can find some clues.

To be on the safe side, Lan continued to ask, "Is there anything else we need to know, or do you want to say?"

"Help me lift the curse..."

Lan cut off the magic supply of the sign.

Mokvarg's expression was confused for a moment, and it took three breaths to react:

"You, what did you do to me? Blonde freak, damn plague bastard, I'm going to..."

Lan rubbed his ears, turned his head and handed out his Lake Lady's sword to Ged: "Would you like to try and see what kind of 'immortal body' it is?"

Gerd took the long sword very happily, and looked at the golden light shining on the rune long sword in amazement for a while.

With a loud "woo", the long sword was swung like an ax by the bear demon hunter.This is not Lan En's general blessing of the system, but purely relying on tyrannical physical strength.

Blood was spilled in the dark cave, dousing several candles.

The werewolf completely lost its vitality.

However, in the next second, its body started to ignite spontaneously like a demon spirit that had been chopped into pieces, and it was wrapped in dark green flames in an instant.

When the flames burned out, Mokvarg had disappeared in place, as if he had never existed.

Gerd looked solemnly at the opponent's body that didn't even leave ashes: "I thought I could make a bottle of [Werewolf decoction], but I didn't expect it to be such an 'immortal body'."

The bear sent the demon hunter to forcefully pull out the bear-headed silver sword that he had used to pin the werewolf before. After comparing it with the golden sword of the lake girl in his hand for a while, he sighed heavily and reluctantly took the lake girl The sword was returned to Rann.

"I have another question...why can you even hypnotize magical creatures like werewolves?"

The system is difficult to explain, and Gerd is not yet a member of the Demon Hunter Cult, and Rann has not told the other party the secret of the ancient blood.

So after thinking for a long time, Lann gave a relatively reasonable answer: "I am from the Griffin School, and it is normal for the seal to be special."

Gerd thought of Lann's super-wide-range [Yarden Seal] like the fully automatic turret before, and looked thoughtful.

Lan obviously didn't want to talk about this issue, so he waved his hands to change the subject.

"If you don't want to cause trouble, let's get out of here quickly. After a while, maybe there will be another delirious werewolf who has just been resurrected and rushed towards us."

"Although he is not very strong, the characteristic of being unable to kill him is quite troublesome."

Gerd nodded approvingly: "It's better to hurry up. It's so troublesome for us to deal with it. It will be even more dangerous if normal people encounter it."

The two demon hunters turned their heads, and the long swords in their hands had not been put away: "Are you going to come with us? Mr. Unknown hiding in the dark?"

……

The cave was quiet for two breaths.

Among the several corpses lying on the ground beside the shattered skeleton straightened up by the werewolf Mokvarg, one suddenly trembled.

There is a person hidden here, a living person.He lay under the corpse of his companion, and because Morkvarg was insane and his senses were blinded by hunger, he had not seen him.

He got up tremblingly, slipped and fell several times because of the sticky blood on the ground and the injuries on his body.

"Praise Freya, thank you two... master demon hunters for your help." The man was trembling all over, "Please don't point your sword at me, as you two have seen... I am just an ordinary person. "

"Ordinary people won't appear here." Ged was expressionless.

"Two masters, my name is Aina." The man glanced at the corpse wearing similar armor with him, showing a sad expression, "I am a believer of the Holy Mother, and I came here to eliminate the filth for the Holy Mother..."

"Unexpectedly, the power of the blasphemer is too strong, and all my companions have fallen under its claws. Now I am the only one left... It must be the Supreme Virgin who is watching me in the sky and protecting me."

While they were talking, there was a long howling of a wolf faintly outside the cave, which was mixed with a particularly rough roar.

It seems that after Mokvarg died in flames, he woke up somewhere.

The man who claimed to be Aina became obviously anxious when he heard this: "Masters, let's go quickly, the blasphemer has an immortal body, and it has been resurrected now..."

Lan En suddenly interrupted Aina's words: "Didn't you just come to kill him? Why do you want to escape now? You should know that werewolves pose no threat to us when you were lying on the ground just now. Is it possible to achieve your original intention of coming here?"

Aina was stunned for a moment, apparently he didn't expect Lan En and the others to stay here, and his body trembled even more.

The howling of wolves outside the cave grew louder, indicating that the beast was approaching them.

Lane and Gerd looked at each other, thinking about it.

They stopped trying to find the answer: "Aina, right? You lead the way, let's get out of here."

The man was overjoyed when he heard that, and suddenly raised his head, but what he saw was a left hand that was pinching a strange gesture.

White light enveloped his eyes, eroding his sanity without hindrance.

【Axie Sign · Charm】

Lan En asked blankly: "Who are you, why are you here, and how much do you know about Mokvarg?"

"I'm Aina, son of Torda. But when I'm outside, my name is Raymond." The man denied the name he had just reported to the witcher.

He continued: "I used to be Morkvarg's subordinate."

"I robbed houses and killed women and children with him. This is commonplace for me."

"But one day Mokwag suddenly took us to attack Freya's temple, killing a large number of priestesses... Priestess, even for me, this is too much."

The perennial pirates felt guilty for killing the priestess?

Gerd sneered: "You still have a bottom line?"

The person hypnotized by Fayin did not respond to Gerd, but continued to answer Lann's question.

"I've been tired of Mokvarg's style for a long time. So I took out the treasure my father gave me when he celebrated. It was a necklace of wolf teeth. It is said that anyone who is cut by it will be cursed— —and sure enough, the Morkvarg turned into a monster afterwards."

Gerd showed a surprised expression: "So you cursed him from a human to a werewolf, not Freya's priest?"

Raymond ignored Gerd's question.

Lan En thought for a while and asked, "Why did you return here?"

Raymond knew everything: "Morkvarg locked all the plundered harvest in the temple room, and I hid the key after cursing him. But I didn't expect that he was so powerful that he was cursed." , so I fled in a hurry and failed to take those treasures with me."

"So you're looking for an opportunity to take them away this time." Gerd concluded.After thinking about it, he suddenly asked, "How to lift Mokvarg's curse?"

Reynald has no Rigold.

Lane raised his chin slightly: "Answer his question."

"It would be nice to let the cursed have access to the Wolf Fang Necklace again, and I'm wearing it now."

The howling of wolves outside the cave was getting closer, and the howling that looked like a human but not a wolf was particularly noticeable.

Gerd patted Lane on the shoulder and took a step back.

Lan En understood the meaning of his companion and stopped the seal in his hand.

As a human being, Aina—or "Reynard"—did not recover his sanity as quickly as a werewolf. When he woke up, the breathing of the wolves could already be heard in the cave.

The man looked at himself in a daze before realizing what happened just now and what was about to happen at the scene.

He collapsed to the ground suddenly, and begged for mercy loudly to the two:

"Two masters, please show mercy! I lied, but I punished Mokwag. I was the one who dealt with this thug and made him stop harming others!"

"I am now a faithful believer of Our Lady of Freya, a faithful believer! I pray every day, and I preach every week."

"I donate every month..."

A mouth full of blood suddenly disappeared from the candlelight in the cave, interrupting the man's words of begging for mercy.

The dagger-like fangs can even reflect light.

The noisy man let out a short scream, and was dragged into the darkness by the wolf kiss.

The demon hunter's eyes were shining, and where the light couldn't find them, they could see that the body was quickly reduced to fly ash in the werewolf's mouth, and it was not qualified to be turned into food to fill the monster's stomach.

"Let's not talk about faith for the time being, let alone deal with the thugs." Gerd said coldly that he could no longer hear, "Your current fate is the result of your actions."

The food in front of him turned into fly ash, and the face of the hungry werewolf became even more ferocious.

It cast its eyes on the two demon hunters, and its green eyes were more dazzling than those of the demon hunters in the dark.

However, the next second, the werewolf's body suddenly began to tremble. It seemed that it had indeed swallowed something just now, and that thing was not meat.

It began to moan frantically, and its body began to twist, swell and deform.A surge of intense energy rose from its body, slowly transforming into light.

As the light became brighter, the werewolf's body began to deform gradually.The sharp claws retracted, the body hair gradually disappeared, the ears began to retract on the top of the head, and then, the wildness in the eyes gradually disappeared.

A man with a ferocious face was lying on the ground, panting violently, looking at his body in disbelief.

"I...free? Ah! I'm free!"

A huge amount of surprises hit his brain, making him forget where he was and what happened just now.

"Where's the tavern? I'm hungry enough to eat a pig...and half a cow, and a whole keg of beer."

"Hahaha! I'm going to sea, and people outside must have forgotten my name! I want them to remember it, and I want everyone to know—Morkvarg is back!"

The man got up and shouted at Lan and Ged: "Good job, witcher! I will pay you a handsome bounty, I want... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Morkvarg's excitement came to an abrupt end.

Several large bloody mouths were illuminated by candlelight. Their teeth could not reflect light, but they were sharp enough to dig into the flesh.

Those were the wolves who had just come to the cave with Mokvarg.

The powerful werewolf Morkvarg has the ability to command wolves, but the human Morkvarg does not.

Gerd looked at Mokvarg who was torn into pieces motionlessly, and said in a cold voice: "This is the bounty I want, and only this kind of end--it conforms to my simple values."

[Task - Clothes in wolf skin - Completed]

Lan looked at Raymond and Mokwag who were tried in similar ways one after another, and was silent for a while: "Ged."

"how?"

"You really don't look like a bear pie."

"Ok?"

"But I can understand now why the Skelligs like you so much."

Lan smiled at Ged, and then strode forward to drive away the wolves that had swallowed up Mokvarg with the [Igni Sign].

In the pool of blood, a wolf tooth necklace is particularly eye-catching.

Gerd leaned forward, looked at it and commented: "There are many runes on it, which seem to be ancient languages, but there are also many other words. It is hard to imagine that this kind of treasure will appear in the hands of a pirate."

Lane reached for the necklace.

The system beeps timely:

【Discover the source of magic power】

But Lan thought for a while, but didn't absorb the necklace.

A werewolf with an immortal body can be created by scratching. It is too wasteful to just absorb such a magic item.

Take it back to Mossak and Geron to study it, maybe there will be unexpected gains.

In other words, how many magic experiment projects do they have backlogged now?

While thinking about it, Ged suddenly patted his head, and started to shout angrily:
"Oh, that Raymond seems to have some kind of key, and all the treasures looted by Mokvag are inside!"

"Look quickly, besides the wolf tooth necklace, are there any keys on the ground, hurry up! Lane, you also have a share of the bounty here!"

……

Afterwards, Lann and Gerd returned to the Temple of Freya and met the High Priest and Donna who were still there.After learning of Morkvarg's fate, the High Priest was relieved.

And Lan En and the others also got the information they wanted during this trip, knowing the hiding place of the Svalblo Sect, and had a clear direction for the next step.

Although the information given by Mokwag was a long time ago, and the current Swablo sect does not know if it is still there-but it is necessary to go.

Even if the enemy had moved their base camp, with the keen senses of several demon hunters, they could still detect clues no matter what, which was definitely much better than the current situation of headless flies.

But having said that, Lan and the others cannot rule out the fact that the enemy is still in place, so this action must not be hasty.

The manpower that Lane brought to Indalsfair this time alone is definitely not enough, so Lane turned back to Little Skellige Island the same way.

Here, East was assembling troops and sorting out equipment. After hearing the news that Lann had brought back, East immediately made a decision and prepared to set off together with the family's guards.

And Lane also urgently recalled Geralt, Cohen, Colgrim, and his attendants who were away, and led everyone to their destination.

……

"The fact that the Svalblos and the Vilkas are still on Great Skellige, and I never found out, is... a shame!"

Kratz tightly clenched the ax in his hand, his face was full of shame, and his eyes were full of anger.

After learning of the arrival of Lane, East and others, Kratz immediately greeted them.And after learning that the enemy he and his party had been searching for was in his territory, he immediately assembled his troops.

The entire Skellige enemy has been hiding in his own territory for so many years, which makes Kratz extremely gloomy.

Lan patted his cousin on the shoulder to express his comfort, then looked thoughtfully at the spread map:
"Vulhala village... is on the top of the mountains, very remote. And if I remember correctly, this place is located in the southern peninsula, and it is the territory of the madman Lugo?"

Kratz was indignant: "According to that lunatic, the entire Great Skellige is about to become his territory!"

The archipelago will not be immersed in frustration for a long time, and the vigorous Kratz can't wait to wash away the shame of his dereliction of duty. The positive appearance along the way is more urgent than Lann and East.

A group of people soon arrived near their destination.

In front of him was a stretch of endless mountains.Not high, but endless.

The top of the peak is as sharp as a knife blade, and the gap between the peaks is bottomless, with cliffs on one side and mountains on the other.

Looking up at the top of the mountain, the trembling cliffs hang obliquely, as if every gravel will fall.On the edge of the cliff, a few falcon-like wild birds can be seen circling around the stone peak.

"The harpy is on the cliff next to the inner island, and the sea monster should be on the side near the sea." Kratz introduced, "These flying monsters are the most difficult to deal with."

The demon hunters looked at each other tacitly.

The Bear Pie’s equipment is specially equipped with a crossbow, and Gerd said that he has no problem with it; the blueprint of the Cat Pie’s equipment Lane obtained through Keyan before also has a crossbow design, which he has already used to upgrade his own equipment , and even configured one for the demon hunters under his command.

They even looked forward to encountering these flying monsters.For example, Rann, the harpy has already been seen in Kaer Morhen, and it is a bit off-putting; but the female siren is different, you must know that their posture during non-combat times can attract sailors to throw themselves into the net— —That is the most primitive and natural posture.

East's voice brought back everyone's thinking: "Lan's information was obtained through the Vilka people who had been away for a long time. The real Vilka people may have moved now. But we can't ignore the fact that there are still people around. The possibility of a large number of enemies, so be fully prepared."

"Kratz, you are more familiar with the surrounding area. I need your people as a guide to explore the mountains and look for the Vilka people who may be hiding in the mountains."

"Lan, your soldiers are all cavalry. I need them to block all the roads along the way to prevent Kratz and the others from fighting after they find the target, causing the enemy to flee."

"The remaining people are on standby, and if they see the signal, they will support at any time."

Everyone had no objection to Easter's order.

The people of Sintra stood behind Lan. They looked at Queen Calanthe's former husband, and even felt unspeakable emotion for a while.

"I have a suggestion." Lann added to East after thinking for a while, "I want to take the demon hunters to the village of Fulhala, after all, it was the former stronghold of the Vilka people , will definitely leave some clues about them, and what demon hunters are best at is to find these clues that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and there may be unexpected gains."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to House, "It is enough for the Sintra cavalry to be under his command."

East looked at House, thoughtful: "I have a little impression of him... He was one of your three servants before, right? It turns out that it is a good thing to have the ability to command troops..."

Facing East's scrutinizing gaze, House's chest suddenly stood up.

"I believe in your judgment, and I also believe in the warriors of Cintra." East nodded, "Lan, but I still think you should invite a few more people to join you, although I know that your current strength has reached me. Incomprehensible layers, but still be careful in everything."

Lan smiled and shook his head, then turned to look at Geralt, Colgrim, Kern, Ged, and himself, five demon hunters behind him.

"It's enough to have us."

(End of this chapter)