From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 242 Ciri once again hopes to grow up quickly
Little Skellige, castle of the Tursek family.

In the rest hall prepared by East for Lann and the others, Lann took off his armor at this moment, put on a white robe, and put on a red waist and bearskin waistcoat—this is a banquet It is also a dress for ceremonial occasions such as celebrations.

After a while, it will be the most important celebration in this period of time - Easter's coronation ceremony.

After completing the task of supporting East, he had a rare free time.What was Lan planning to do during the short time since the celebration began?

——He sat down and spread out the [Griffon School Contact Notes]

"Dear teacher, see the words as the face:
Long time no see, I miss you very much.After leaving the Kyle Sirens, I went to Kaer Morhen, the base camp of the Wolf Sect, and met the school's predecessor, Coen.He and I hit it off right away, and talked a lot about the future of the school, only to feel that there is a huge responsibility on our shoulders.At the same time, I have also reached a consensus with Vesemir, the current mentor of the wolf faction, that the entire wolf faction will move to Sintra in the near future. "

Human translation: I talked about the future with Ke En, but the future is not the future without a teacher!And the whole wolf faction is coming. I am a newcomer of the Griffon School and revived the Demon Hunter Sect. In the end, the wolf faction is the most numerous. Is this plausible?outrageous!So come quickly, teacher, it's best to bring Kelda with you!
"Now I am in Skellige, and I was very pleasantly surprised to meet a companion of the Bear School. His name is Gerd, and he is also an outsider in the school like the cat Pai Keyan I mentioned to you before: he has a wealth of knowledge. Emotions also have great strength, and like our predecessor George, he also has the strength to hunt a real dragon alone—although it is a green dragon."

Human translation: Even the Bear faction has appeared now, and it is so powerful, comparable to George, the proud dragon slayer of our school!Counting Lei Suo from the snake faction and Vesemir from the wolf faction, these are seniors!But the Griffin School has only two newcomers, Ke En and me, how can it be enough?So come quickly, teacher, it's best to bring Kelda with you!
"At the same time, I found in Skellige a female Night Demon who descended on the mainland at the beginning of the convergence of the celestial spheres. She revealed a piece of news to me - the convergence of the celestial spheres that appeared 500 years ago is about to reappear. I I mentioned to you in the letter that many monsters that had been dormant in the past suddenly woke up and became active—such as Skellige’s ice giant, and now I have found the reason. And there will be brand new monsters appearing in the near future. It is a disaster more terrible than war, I only hope that I can let Sintra survive this coming crisis safely, so that the newly born Demon Hunter Order can protect the civilians on the mainland as much as possible..."

Human translation: The celestial sphere is coming!The populace needs the witcher again!This is the job of the Demon Hunter Order, and now is the best time to revive the Order.In this troubled world, no one can survive alone. Have you heard the cries of civilians in the distance?Can you hold on to the Kyle Sirens?So come quickly, teacher, it's best to bring Kelda with you!
……

Although Geron had previously promised to help Lann through the crisis in a critical moment, Lann still hopes that Geron can stay in Sintra permanently.It is too wasteful for such a master demon hunter with both magic and martial arts to live in seclusion on the edge of the world.

As for the Kell Siren Castle, naturally it cannot be abandoned. This base camp transformed from an elven castle is built on a rare magical place, and it is the so-called "Cave Heaven and Paradise" in Xiuxian novels.Although it is not as good as Kaer Morhen's Ring of Elements, which can give a demon hunter a radical change in a short period of time, but the improvement it brings to spellcasting professions subtly is more than even worse.

In Lane's plan, the Kyle Siren could become the base camp for spellcaster training, and a base camp for spellcasters no less than the Ring of Oak or the Altusa Academy of Magic could definitely be established there.

Of course, all of this has a premise - the mentor goes down the mountain.

……

After writing the letter, Lan gently closed the note and took it back into the [item] with a clap of his left hand.

Look up and look into the hall.Others are also making preparations before the ceremony, waiting for the notification from the castle master.

Shirley was naturally there, and at this moment, she changed into the white-robed ritual armor that she had been thinking about, and ran wildly in the living room.She seemed to mind the embarrassment of being restricted by the outfit she wore when she was fighting the giant bear, and now she is trying to adapt her body to the suit.

Yes, some people are very annoyed by Ciri's "sensible" behavior.

"Our princess is really lively. I believe that Mr. Cintra's butler will be very pleased to see this scene." Ye Naifa leaned against the wall with his chest folded, shaking a glass of wine with his left hand, "But Shirley, you If you mess up your clothes again, you will tidy up in front of the mirror in a while!"

At this time, the sorceress put on a long black off-the-shoulder dress, with a feather-like decoration on the edge of the shoulder straps. The obsidian star necklace was pasted under her distinct collarbone, which reflected the skin and the raised makeup underneath. It's like spring snow.

Yennefer was obviously going to the banquet too.And since she was present, Geralt was naturally indispensable.

The wolf witcher also changed into a slightly tight black dress, with an embarrassed expression on his face, always feeling that the sorceress was teasing him.

"It's better to wear a robe or a cloak over it." Seeing Geralt's uncomfortable appearance, Lane commented with a chuckle.

Yennefer is very persistent in wanting to wear the dress of the mainland aristocrat banquet with Geralt, which really doesn't match Skellige's style, and makes White Wolf very uncomfortable.

Geralt immediately gave Lane a grateful look when he heard Lane's words.

Also sitting in the room were Colgrim and Cohen, still in armor, obviously not planning to attend the banquet.They were all looking at Geralt now with schadenfreude.

Alice no longer attached herself to Lan's back, but concentrated on smearing colors on the canvas in the corner of the hall, obviously inspired.Ciri would run past her from time to time, looking curiously at the painting of the soul in the painting.

"Boom boom boom——"

There was a knock on the door.

Obviously, the moment Lane was looking forward to had come.

After obtaining the consent, the head of the Tursek family opened the door and came in, his face was full of joy.

"Duke Lannister, Your Highness Sirella, our... His Majesty calls you two to come over. People from other families are coming, and His Majesty wants to accept their greetings with you two."

At this time, the "Your Majesty" in the steward's words was no longer King Bran.

Lan nodded, straightened his clothes a little, and then turned his questioning gaze to Ciri.

The little princess looked at the messy skirt on her body just now because of the jumping, and looked at Yennefer with a look of help, in exchange for the sorceress's disdainful eyes.

"Lan, you go first, I'll tidy up..."

Lan En shook his head with a chuckle, greeted everyone in the room, and followed the manager out of the hall.

Ciri watched Lan's back as he left, saw the door of the hall being closed by the attendants, and waited for the sound of their footsteps to gradually disappear in the corridor.

Her eyeballs rolled slyly, no longer the distressed look before.

Under Yennefer's increasingly fierce eyes, Ciri quickly jumped a few times to Alice's side.

"Alice... Teacher." Ciri whispered softly.

Alice was originally brought out by Lane as a painting teacher, and she had already started art lessons for the princess some time ago.

"I heard you mention before that Lane will bring a female night devil back to Sintra... Is this true?"

After Shirley's words came out, the hall was suddenly quiet.

Visible to the naked eye, everyone's ears were pricked up.

Even Yennefer turned slightly sideways and looked at Ciri.After thinking briefly, she smiled appreciatively.

During Lan's return, everyone has heard some rumors about the female night devil.After all, Feitov's apprentice was really unworthy, even after being severely beaten, he wanted to go back to the forest to find Nanomi several times, but the result was that the celestial master would start teaching the apprentice before the original plan to travel to the mainland. The actual combat course has been advanced.

The apprentice's screams continued for several days.

And all the druids in the Ring of Oak also had a negative teaching material when teaching their disciples.

And although Lane said that "the female night devil will no longer be Skellige's problem", Geralt and the others knew that Lane was not the kind of person who would kill intelligent races at will, and Gerd had no intention of killing them. It revealed that although the female night devil acted "free and easy", she had a "pure" nature.

Then Lane's handling method is easy to guess.

But when they came up on the subject, Lane always looked around and talked about other things.

Apart from Lane, the only one who knew about the Night Demon was Alice.But the temperament of the soul in the painting is too deserted. Even if everyone hears something, no matter how curious they are, they are really embarrassed to talk to her-it is still this kind of topic.

Ciri had to ask this question.

……

The crowd who had long been stung by curiosity secretly applauded.

After hearing the little princess's question, Alice turned her head and chuckled lightly: "Yes, female night devil, her name is 'Nanomi', and we will go back to Sintra together later."

At the moment when the words of the soul in the painting fell, there was a sound of air-conditioning in the hall.

"hiss--"

With a satisfied smile, Colgrim praised sincerely: "As expected of Lan, he did such a thing so easily."

Cohen also nodded in admiration and echoed, "I've heard that night witches spend the night with humans and even witchers, but this is the first time I've heard that night witches can bring home night witches."

Geralt wanted to say something, but Yennefer forcefully pressed it back with his eyes.

Ciri's expression became serious.

The little princess turned around in the room, picked up a bearskin cloak and put it on Geralt's shoulders: "Geralt, you can use your witcher senses to see if there is anything extra or not on Lann's body." Are there any traces of Night Demons?"

The white wolf was stunned, and shook his head quite amusingly: "Then I have to record the pheromones on the female night devil before I can make a comparison. But don't worry, I think there are new pheromones on Lann, but Not too strong. He and these new pheromone carriers are not as close as I am, let alone you."

Ciri narrowed her eyes in satisfaction.Then, under the stunned eyes of the white wolf, he took off the cloak and threw it aside.

She turned to Yennefer: "Is there any magic that can make the body grow faster? I want to learn."

Ye Naifer's face turned dark when he saw Geralt's shoulders with a cloak that didn't match his clothes, and after seeing the cloak, his face turned pale, and he replied gently: "You are dreaming, ugly girl. "
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Lan followed the manager to the banquet hall, which was already full of people.

East was different from the last time we met. He had already worn a dark crown on his head, without any gemstones or other precious metal carvings on it.It is said that the blacksmith of the Tursek family melted Easter's first steel sword and cast this crown.

Iron Crown, very distinct islander style.

At this moment, he was sitting in the most prominent position in the hall like a mascot, sipping fine wine one after another, and returning greetings when vassals and lords came forward to pay their respects.Apparently he was so bored that his eyes lit up when he saw Lan coming over.

"In my previous career as a king, this is the thing I don't want to look back on. I really didn't expect that I would have to go through it again now."

East smiled wryly at Lann, and then looked behind the young man twice: "Where's Ciri? Why didn't you come here with you?"

Lan En scratched his left cheek: "She is not ready yet, it will take more time..."

East shook his head, sighed "this little guy", and then pulled Lan to his side.

Just at this time, a lord came up to ask East, and he happened to be an acquaintance.

"Uncle Thorgil." East smiled and opened his arms to hug the middle-aged man in front of him.He has white beard and hair, but a strong figure.The two ropes tied his long beard at the end, so as not to interfere with his slashing and fighting movements.

"Your Majesty." Thorgil first bowed to East, then opened his arms and embraced East, patted each other's back vigorously, and laughed, "I really didn't expect that in my lifetime I can call you that for the second time."

East laughed and said, "I hope you can help me coordinate more about the dispatch of troops in the future."

"Of course, I couldn't wait a long time ago." Thorgil clinked his glass with Easter vigorously, "The city of the golden tower was whining under my axe, and I took you, Bran, and Kratz They went together, there is nothing to fear in Nilfgaard!"

Thorgill laughed out loud. He is the elder of the Tursek family, so he talked to East without fear, "Bran...it's just a pity for Bran. Speaking of which, what about others?"

East's face froze for a moment, and he whispered: "Berna has a problem, and Bran is dealing with family affairs. He will come back to apologize to other family members in a while, and I hope you can help take care of it... "

East didn't say what it was, but Thorgil obviously guessed something, and he cursed: "I said that woman is not suitable to marry back home as a wife, but Bran was fascinated by her at that time! Kid, this kid!!"

The movement made by the elder attracted the attention of many people around him, but fortunately, he soon realized this and adjusted his emotions back.After briefly clinking glasses with East and giving Lann a slight greeting, he moved away again: "I want to introduce you to a warrior, but I think you've seen him before."

It was Gerd, this bear demon hunter also wore a rather neat leather armor robe, and was grinning at East and Lannister.

On this occasion, the lord introduced him to the king, which showed that Thorgil regarded Ged as a member of the Tursek family.If Torgil has any female descendants of the family, they may have to arrange a marriage with Ged.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Torgil took Gerd away, and East whispered to Lann: "I heard that you recruited Gerd before, but he didn't want to go back to Sintra with you?"

Lan En nodded regretfully: "He is tired of the life of licking blood with the tip of a knife, and seems to want to retire."

East sighed: "I know Geralt very well, and I know that the life of a regular witcher is always full of sorrow. Gerd is a true warrior, and this ending seems good to him... But if If you are really obsessed with him, I can find a way to get him to participate in the battle later."

As a king, he ordered Torgil to send troops. As a confidant and comrade-in-arms, can Ged not follow?
But Lane considered the tempting idea and shook his head.

"Let me think about it again..."

East nodded, and then pointed to several corners in the hall.

"People from the other families are basically here, and they will also come to say hello to me in a while. You stand behind me. After I say hello to them, you also have a chat with them."

Lan En complied without hesitation, and then asked curiously: "Have you talked to them about sending troops?"

Talking about this topic, East finally showed a satisfied smile on his face: "The extermination of the Svalblo sect is an achievement enough to be recorded in the history books. The major families have no reason to shirk this time, and they all agreed to send troops."

Lan can't help being infected by East's smile: "That's great!"

The soon-to-be-crowned King Skellige patted the Duke of Sintra on the shoulder, and said, "However, I still plan to appease the two neutral families—Udarek of the Brokval family, and Todaloch. Harold of the family. There is still a gap between obeying me and sending troops because of my reputation, and supporting me to send troops from the bottom of my heart."

Lane nodded, and searched for the lords of two neutral families in the crowd below.

Lann quickly caught the face of the patriarch Udarek, who seemed to have been overdosed with anesthetic powder.If Lan En's past life memory is not wrong, the reason why Udarek's face that seems to be overindulgent and took the wrong medicine will show the appearance it is today is not because of any bad habits in life, but because of him. Haunted by evil spirits.

But Udarek didn't ask for help, because it involved some bloody secrets of the big family.

Lan showed a pensive expression, and then said to East: "Leave Udarek to me. I probably know how to make him owe us a favor and get his [-]% support."

Easter showed interest when he heard the words: "You know the patriarch of Skellige better than I, King Skellige? Is this also the ability brought by your ancient blood?"

Lan smiled without saying a word, raised his glass and touched East slightly.

"But I don't seem to have seen Lord Harold of the Todaloch family, hasn't he come yet?"

Lan's eyes scanned the field, and he never saw the bearded man who had met once at the previous banquet. The Todaloch family came from a family of blacksmiths and shipbuilders, and they were far stronger than the average Skellige. It should be very noticeable.

Instead he spotted Juta Ann Diemen among the crowd.The Iron Lady had already put on an elegant gown, and was followed by guards. It was obvious that she had succeeded in inheriting the position of patriarch.

After seeing Lan En's gaze, an expression suddenly appeared on her unsmiling face towards other men, and her eyes blinked a few times quickly, projecting unspeakable emotions.

Lann hurriedly pulled out a socially polite smile, nodded slightly, and immediately turned his eyes away to look around—fortunately, Shirley hadn't followed, otherwise it would take him a long time to explain.

Hearing Lane's doubts about Lord Harold's absence, East explained: "The island he is on is not close to us, and he may still be on the way now. He has never paid much attention to the collective affairs of the archipelago. His family has never participated in the king's election, and his friendship can only be obtained through personal friendship."

Lane nodded thoughtfully.

……

One after another, the lords and vassals came towards Easter and extended their sincere greetings to the new king.Some old ministers who had followed East to become the last king were particularly sad, poured out their thoughts to East, and said that they would do their best to follow him against Nilfgaard in the future.

And East thanked them sincerely, and then pulled Lann behind him forward, introduced him to his followers as if introducing his own son, and let them greet each other.

The atmosphere of harmony between the monarch and his subjects ended with the arrival of Bran.

It was "Bran", not "King Bran".

This standard archipelago hunk is dressed in the same way as before-except that there is no crown on his head.

His mental outlook was not good, his brows were furrowed, and he seemed to have all kinds of worries in his heart. This was unreasonable for a father whose son had just recovered from a serious illness. He should be happy.

Not just Bran, even Svan Rij who was following him had the same ugly expression, and even had a better sense of despair.

This scene made everyone whisper: Could it be that "King" Bran regrets abdicating again now, and doesn't want to hand over power to his brother?

Seeing this, East just sighed, strode forward under the gaze of everyone, and gave his brother a substantial hug.

After the two whispered, Bran shook his head slightly at East, and East sighed again.

Then Bran walked to the center of the banquet and looked around.Obviously he had something to say, so the discussion of the people around him immediately subsided, looking at the king who was once highly respected and cohesively trusted by everyone.

"What is the purpose of gathering everyone here today, I don't think I need to say much." Bran spread his palms in East's direction, "For my brother to regain the throne, the former 'Knight of the Sea', the future' King of the Isles'."

Immediately, someone around shouted loudly: "East! The flames on the sea!"

"Long live! Suppress the leader of the evil god!"

"The absolute warrior who tamed the berserker!"

He was boasting about his brother, which brought a fleeting smile to Bran's face.

He looked at the crowd and found that among the cheering people were Kratz, Dona from the Hewen family, and Juta from the Dimen family.Although Lugo, the lunatic of the Drummond family, tried his best to tense his cheeks, he could also see the excitement from his clenched hands.

Bran was used to the half-dead look of Udavik of the Brokvar family.

But he didn't see Harold of the Todaloch family, which made Bran frowned, because if the people were not present, what he would say later might have to be compromised.

　In order not to disturb the reading experience by issuing a single chapter, hereby declare:

　　I will take a day off tomorrow.

　　Recently grades have started to drop again.It just so happens that the Skellige chapter is about to end, so let's tidy it up.

　　that's all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)