From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 228 About love, race is not the limit

This roar seemed to take a lot of Lugo's strength. After venting his emotions, he began to pant heavily.

And after listening to Lugo the lunatic's complaint, East was also speechless.

The first half of his life is legendary and worthy of praise, and the story with Calanthe has intoxicated many people.

But for the islanders, for those who once supported themselves as king, East really owed it.That's why he was so persistent in seeking an honor that would allow everyone to find no faults, so that he could regain the throne - such as the previous plan to crusade against the ice giant.

In the eyes of Lane, King Bran, and Kratz, this kind of plan is almost death, for East, it is more like an explanation to the former old guys.

Lugo took a few breaths, finally calmed down, and readjusted back to the face that was called "crazy":
"Too much nonsense has been said. East, since you have chosen the queen of Cintra, then Skellige has no place for you."

"Kratz, even if East is here today, I will..."

A voice suddenly interrupted the madman Lugo.

That voice is not in the team that Lugo the Crazy and the others are confronting at the moment—

"Hey, what do you think of my aunt?"

……

After being interrupted, Lu Ge choked on his breath, his face flushed red, and his expression became more ferocious.

He turned around angrily and was about to jump, but saw the blond knight wearing the cloak of the great griffin at the place where the sound had just been made.

The dark golden lion pupils were shining, and at the same time, the knight was also moving his fists and feet secretly, as if preparing for a boxing match.

In the air, the miserable howl of the bear echoed faintly.

……

"Kratz, East is here today, so I don't care about you! But the matter between us Drummond and Claret will never end!"

After throwing down the harsh words, the current lord of the Drummond family left with his subordinates.

Looking at Lu Ge, the lunatic who was going away, the expressions of the group were inexplicable.

East's own family knew their own affairs, that is, when he was king in Skellige, Lugo the lunatic was able to give himself the so-called "face".

And now that he is present, maybe it will intensify the conflict between Lugo and Kratz.

As a result, East's gaze slowly shifted to Lann.

……

Then it was Kratz who looked at Lann——for so many years, he didn't know how many times he had defeated Lugo on various occasions, but he had never defeated this lunatic.Every time we meet, the other party will crawl towards me like a mad dog.

It is really rare in the history of the two families to get along with each other now that this kind of situation is just talking harshly without real fighting.

……

And Lan looked at the direction in which the madman Lugo was leaving with an unhappy expression. When he turned around, he happened to see Li's cousin and uncle's eyes.

He showed a sunny smile: "I found some clues."

The matter was important, Lane immediately attracted the attention of East and Kratz, and began to analyze the harvest of the group in the ruins of the temple in the village of Vulhala.

However, Lan didn't tell the two about Alice's situation. He just said that he and others discovered the traces of the giant bear attacking people, and then found the sane demon spirit transformed by the attacked person, and then obtained relevant information. intelligence.

"Aiglo Village?" Kratz clapped his hands, "As long as it's within the boundary of Great Skellige Island, it's fine."

Lane nodded: "This is the clue I got, so I should be responsible for continuing to pursue it. It's just that I need a guide, and I need you, Kratz, to help me."

For everyone, the clues obtained this time can be regarded as a breakthrough.

The only question is whether there were any survivors in the giant bear attack, and whether the survivors returned to their village in the end.

East nodded and arranged: "Then we will continue to split into two groups, Lane, you go to track down the clues you have obtained, and we will continue to search the nearby mountains. Since there are giant bears infested, then the Vilka must have a tribe here It exists, and it will definitely leave traces that allow us to search in depth."

Lane also said: "I leave my people for you to help. You need manpower here. My attendants and soldiers are all people who know and respect you, and are willing to obey your orders. I only use Just take the witchers with you."

House stood behind Lan, and immediately saluted East after hearing this.

East was worried about Yu Lan's safety, and seemed to want to add something.But he looked at the four pairs of amber eyes behind Lan En, and thought of Lan En's current combat effectiveness, and finally chose to give Lan En his trust.

Seeing that the plan had been made, Kratz reached out and called out to one of the people in the team.

This man had a typical islander appearance, with a beard and a strong body, but his demeanor was not rough, but rather rigorous, which made Lann think of his old housekeeper Erns for a moment.

Sure enough, Kratz then introduced to Lann: "His name is Guslav, and he used to be my adjutant. After he was injured in a battle, he learned some management matters from the chief steward of my castle and became a member of the butler team." and soon even second only to my steward. But he can't forget his life with a shield and an axe. So I'll bring him out now and then, and he'll take you to the village of Aiglo."

The Guslav steward performed standard northern court etiquette towards Lann: "It is an honor to be your guide, Duke Lannister."

This serious look made Lan, who had been in Skellige for a while, even a little uncomfortable.

The Duke of Lannister took a deep breath: "I am also very honored, and I will leave it to you - Mr. Guslav."

……

Backed by mountains and facing the sea, Aigeluo Village has very little connection with the outside world.

If you want to reach this village, you have to climb over the mountain and pass through a narrow mountain road that even has water ghosts passing by from time to time.

Or use a more islander way, which is the way Guslav took Lann and the others to choose at the moment-by boat.

A small boat carrying five demon hunters and the housekeeper sent by Kratz came to this little-visited village. Before they landed, some villagers saw them from afar.

Lan En and the others saw that these villagers suddenly became very excited, yelling something from a distance, and waving their hands constantly.

"What are they talking about?" Gerd asked suspiciously.

The crowd shook their heads.

Only Colgrim narrowed his eyes and stared at the mouth shapes of those people from a distance:
"He's telling us to get to the shore quickly." The Snake Demon Hunter, who has experience as an assassin, can read his lips. "He's still warning us: be careful, there are... sea monsters in the sea?"

After hearing Colgrim's translation, the expressions of the demon hunters suddenly changed.

They knew too well what would happen to a small boat encountering a sea monster on the sea.

The IQ of sea monsters is not low. Compared with humans, they prefer to attack ships, and they can easily tear the vehicles under everyone's feet into pieces.

Especially the demon hunters are still habitually armed at this moment, with a lot of armor and steel on their bodies.Except for Lan, who can take the armor back into the [item] at any time, the others will sink directly to the bottom as soon as they fall into the water.

The ancient Slavic housekeeper who was born and raised on the Great Skellige quickly comforted the demon hunters who had changed their faces: "Don't worry, the sea monsters usually only appear in places far away from human settlements. This is near the sea and will not be attacked."

In theory, but Lan and the others looked at the panicked villagers and felt that the anxiety on their faces could not be faked.

Fortunately, in the end, things were as expected by the Guslav housekeeper, the sea monster did not appear after all, and the group of people set up the boat and docked without any risk.

The villagers who were originally on the shore immediately gathered around, as if eager to check on the situation of these strangers who came to the village rashly.Not far away, a few villagers ran over here, but they all held harpoons in their hands.

It's one thing for the Islanders to be warm-hearted, but their defensiveness is also top notch.The islanders belong to the kind of people who will hold an ax and ask you if you are all right on the ground. If you say that you are all right, then they will give you a hand; if you take the opportunity to think of something bad, then the ax will fall.

After seeing the five pairs of strange eyes coming down from the boat, they tightened their grip on the harpoon.

But then they saw Guslav wearing the coat of arms of the three ships, so they put down the harpoon easily.

The crowd discussed in low voices, and soon an old but strong elder came forward and asked: "Mr. Guslav, I didn't expect you to come here in person, but there is still some time before the day of tax collection, right? "

It was the head of the village who spoke, and he was obviously familiar with the ancient Slavs, so he saved a lot of communication time and cost.

"I'm here with Lord Kratz's order this time, and I need to ask you some things." As he spoke, Guslav stepped aside, "This is Lord Lane Lannister Ray Allen, Sintra Duke."

The village chief saluted Lann very politely, but his eyes were still on Guslav.

Steward Guslav frowned, and added, "He is Lord Kratz's cousin."

This time, the village chief showed an expression as if he had just woken up from a dream, and saluted Lan En again, as if waiting for orders.

For the old man, Lann first showed an amiable smile: "I came to visit my cousin from the north of the mainland, and I was visiting Great Skellige Island during this time. Some time ago, I heard that there is a memorable historic site in the village of Fulhalla , so I went to pay my respects..."

Regarding the matter of Svalblo and Velka Berserker, Lane did not say clearly, these are not things that can be told by just asking someone to come over.

But Lan En keenly observed that the old village chief's expression changed suddenly after hearing the name "Fulhala".

something wrong.

Lan continued calmly: "We found a seriously injured young man there. He told me that he was from Aiglo Village. At the same time, he told me that there were several companions who were traveling with him at the time, and they might have escaped."

Speaking of this, Lan En shook his head: "It's a pity that he was seriously injured, and he passed away after a while, but until the end, he still couldn't forget his companions, and he didn't know if they would return to the village safely."

Hearing Lann's words, the village chief didn't answer immediately, but instead showed a very embarrassed look and began to look at him from side to side: "I don't know why Lord Lannister is interested in what happened in a small village like ours... ..."

Guslav took Lann's words very smoothly: "This is what happened on the Great Skellige Island. Lord Kratz was very concerned about it, so he sent me to find out the details. Lord Lannister has a kind heart and hopes to complete it." A warrior's last wish."

"So did any of you young people go to Fulhala Village some time ago, and did anyone come back afterward?"

The village head's face suddenly changed a few times, and he began to falter.

Guslav glanced at Lann's direction with some concern, frowned, and reprimanded the village chief no longer politely: "If there is, there is, if there is no, there is no, tell me!"

……

"Have."

The affirmative answer came, but it wasn't from the village chief, but from Ran standing behind Guslav's steward.

His lion pupils lighted up slightly, and everything in the village turned into distorted gray in his eyes.

But in this dim world, there are wisps of red pheromone floating, which is exactly the pheromone recorded by the demon hunters in the village of Vulhala.

This shows that someone did return to the village after being attacked by a giant bear.

Apart from Lann, the other demon hunters also accurately captured this information.They passed the village chief and the villagers directly, and headed in the direction guided by the red mist.

But Lan and the others didn't expect that the direction that the red mist would eventually guide was not inside the village.They passed through the village of Aigro all the way, and arrived at a small wooden house about 100 meters away from the village.

This wooden house stood here alone as if it had been rejected by the whole village.Next to the cabin was a small pier with a dilapidated boat tied to it.

Lan knocked heavily on the door twice, and after waiting for a dozen breaths, there was still no response.

Impatient, he broke through the door directly.

……

What appeared in front of me was a typical fisherman's hut, with no furniture, only an old bed, a fishing net, a homemade fishing rod, simple tableware, and a few shells that were pried open and cleaned up. .

There was no one, and there were messy clothes on the ground. It seemed that the owner of the house was not very good at tidying up.

Lane also noticed that the house, while dilapidated, seemed to have been lightly renovated not long ago.

Geralt looked around with glowing eyes. "That's where the smell ends. Apparently he's cleaned himself up in the house, getting rid of blood and other smells."

"There is no wine, no blood, no spices or other strong-smelling things. The only thing with a strong smell is seafood, but seafood is everywhere in this village, and we have no way to track him with our senses alone."

"No, that's enough. It's enough to confirm that someone has indeed returned, and then someone else will answer it for us," Lan said.

He turned his head and looked at the village chief who was forcibly brought over, and Guslav who was behind the village chief with an ugly face.

"The ones following Lord Lannister are master witchers, they know everything! Do you think it's useful to keep quiet?" Guslav reprimanded the village chief loudly, "Who is living here? Why did you hide it from Lord Lannister? he!"

"Say it!"

The village chief's face turned green and white, and changed several times, before he finally let out a long sigh and opened his mouth.

……

The owner of the house is called Bill.

Like most villages on the island near the sea, Aigro Village relies on fishing for a living.But unlike those villages, Aeglo Village is often infested by monsters because of its remote location.

There are water ghosts and drowning ghosts. These small monsters are okay. The villagers go out to sea in groups of three or five, and they can barely deal with it with a harpoon.

But what really troubled the fishermen was another kind of monster—the sea monster, also known as [Hekna].

This kind of monster is considered to be a close relative of the harpy. In addition to the ability to soar in the air, it can also dive underwater, which is a deadly threat to any ship.

It is also because of this that the fishermen in Aigro Village live in extreme poverty.

Or, they have to risk their lives to fish near the village, but if there is any trouble, they will return to the voyage, and the harvest will be very little in one day;
Or, they have to trek to a less crowded place, where there are fewer monsters - but not to mention the time spent on the road, there are also many fishermen in the bustling place, who would want people from other villages to come and grab their catch?
Every generation of village chiefs has a headache for the life of the villagers and the development of the village. If it is not for objective reasons, the village chief even has the idea of ​​moving the village.

until someone shows up.

This person is the owner of the house Lane and the others are in - Bill.

……

"Every time Bill goes to sea, he can gain many times more than others. Sometimes he alone can be worth a village." The old village chief said hesitantly.

"Later, a fisherman came to him for advice, but he didn't say anything, he just invited others to go out to sea with him." The old village chief was clearly talking about happy things, but he still sighed, "So, everyone who followed Bill Those who go to sea together can return with a rewarding experience.”

Lan En looked at the expression of the village chief: "The poor villagers have improved their lives, and there are capable young people in the village. Shouldn't this be something to be happy about? But why can't you tell from your tone that you Are you happy with the improvement of the village?"

Cohen looked at the dilapidated house: "Why do young people who have improved the village by themselves live in this kind of place? Not only is it far away from the crowd, but the house is so dilapidated that it doesn't look like they have too much property."

Colgrim looked at the tattered clothes that had been taken off on the ground: "And why did he climb to the top of the mountain with someone? Why did you hide his existence from us after you ran back to the village with your life?"

The village chief was silent again.

Seeing this, Guslav was furious, and felt that the people of Greater Skellige had lost too much face in front of Lan today, and it was not honorable at all.

"Didn't you hear the questions from Lord Lannister and the master witchers? Say it!"

The village chief squirmed his lips a few times, and finally hugged his head like an appointment, and sighed.

"Although Bill has been taking his companions out to sea, he has never told us the secret of his ability to avoid monsters. We are curious, but we don't want to push him too much, so we arrange people to watch him in turn..."

The demon hunters except Lann chuckled neatly, as if they were not surprised by this situation at all.

And Guslav's complexion became even worse.

The village chief took a peek at Lan and the others, and continued: "Until we waited until one night, we saw Bill slipping out quietly, and saw him slaughtering the fish caught during the day by the moonlight at the beach."

"He let out blood like no one else was there, threw food into the sea, and sang some weird ballad-like things."

The faces of Lan En and his group suddenly became serious. Thinking of the information they had collected before, combined with Bill's behavior, a thought emerged from their minds.

"This Bill, is he doing a blood sacrifice with sea harvest? Is he a believer in Svalblo?" Gerd exclaimed.

But the village chief knelt down towards Guslav with a plop. He knew too well what it meant to sacrifice Svalblo in Skellige.

"No, no, even if the whole village is run-down, we won't be able to do sacrifices to the evil god!" The village head quickly explained to the steward of the Clayt family, worried that the other party might misunderstand.

Guslav was about to pull out the axe, so he suppressed it forcefully, but his hand was still on the handle of the axe.

"Then tell me, why does your capable Bill throw his hard-earned catch into the sea at night."

The village chief got up from the ground tremblingly. After learning of Bill's secret actions that night, he also went to the beach with him.

Until now, when he recalled that scene, he still couldn't tell...it was weird.

"I saw something swim out of the sea after Bill sang that strange song."

"That's a mermaid."

The village chief covered his head: "I originally thought that Bill had mastered some method of taming monsters. But then I saw their cuddling, hugging, kissing, and even more intimate movements, which were far from what we imagined. kind of relationship..."

"hiss--"

Lann suddenly heard a sound of gasping behind him.

Looking back, I saw Colgrim and Cohen both showing incredible expressions, and even a little bit of envy.

Even the well-informed Geralt and Gerd were full of amazement at the moment.

　It’s not easy to post pictures of mermaids. I’m worried that even this chapter will be reviewed.

　　Let's all help ourselves.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)