From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 248 Ready to start Skellige's real boss battle
This corridor was narrow and gloomy, Lan En and the others felt a sour and rancid smell blowing over them as soon as they entered.In the process of marching, they would step on some indescribable things from time to time.

There were piles of bones strewn around the corners, elk, snow hares, wolves, bears, and even human skulls, leg bones, and other bones.This corridor was not connected to the outside world, and the air inside was extremely turbid. Obviously, the ice trolls regarded it as a warehouse-like existence, and these bones were used by them as collections or decorations.

At this time, there was only one living person in this "warehouse".

"Harold!" East called out the living man's name in surprise.

The patriarch Harold, whom everyone had worked so hard to find, fell on a pile of bones, like a random sack.He has gray hair and a big beard, tattoos of family totems and beasts on his arms and back, and he has an unusually strong figure, especially those forged iron arms that look like forged iron.

It's just that at this moment, his hair has been condensed into strands by mud and ice, and large blood scabs have almost covered all of his tattoos, making him look extremely miserable.

Immediately, Tursek's guards strode forward to help the kidnapped lord of the Todaloch family, and began to carefully check his situation.After a while, they nodded slightly towards East.

"Alive." The guard judged.

East breathed a sigh of relief.

Another guard who knew first aid on the battlefield continued to give Harold a simple physical examination to determine whether the other party had any serious injuries, and deal with it in time to avoid secondary injuries when he was transported back.

But as long as the person is still alive and will not die for a while, he can bring back the Oak Ring for treatment, if not, there is Lane.

East was relieved. The task of entering the mountain was completed this time, and the patriarch of the big family who was kidnapped by the monster was rescued. Fortunately, he did not encounter the ice giant, and not even a single soldier was injured or injured. Everything went smoothly. Incredible.

Just as the soldiers were checking the situation, Harold's eyelids suddenly trembled a few times and he moaned.

"Who is... Esther?"

"It's me, you're saved." East knelt down, looked at the middle-aged man who still had fear on his face, and comforted him.

Harold looked around with confusion and shrinking eyes, not relaxing at all because of Easter's words.

"Esther?" he repeated the question again.

"It's me." East continued very patiently, and at the same time signaled the surrounding guards with his eyes to help Harold up, ready to leave.

"No, Esther, you shouldn't be here!" Harold suddenly screamed, "You don't understand, that monster, the ice giant, you don't understand what it looks like now!"

"It's okay, Harold." East said softly, "We haven't encountered ice giants. Afterwards, the seven major families will jointly send troops to destroy each other. No matter what kind of monster it is, there is no way to fight against the entire Skellige." enemy."

They carried Harold back.The dark corridor was narrow and long, and the soldiers at the front held their torches high, but they still couldn't dispel the cold and haze of the tarsal body in the snow-capped mountains.

Harold was delirious, and was half asleep and half awake during the carrying process.But suddenly, he seemed to be shrouded in a nightmare:

"No, it will come back, East, you have to hurry up!"

Harold screamed in horror. Before he could finish speaking, there was a sudden explosion in front of him.

Everyone's eyes froze suddenly, something happened to the troops stationed in the rear?

Lane and East looked at each other, and suddenly quickened their pace. Soon, flames appeared from the front, and the messy shouts of killing immediately spread into everyone's ears.

……

It is not known when, a steady stream of monsters rushed towards the guards of the Tursek family from the corridors in all directions.

Surrounded by only one kind of monster, they look like water ghosts, but they are more disgusting than water ghosts.The head is covered with bloated folds like a Shar-Pei dog forming a fleshy hood, the thick and sparse hair like intestines on the back of the head swaying wildly, and the tendons and fascia directly exposed to the air are connected to form a shell of flesh and blood. Sharp teeth, ferocious appearance makes the heart chill.

Carrion demon.

The Tursek soldiers had encountered such monsters when supporting the Todaloch family before, but there were very few of them at that time.

It seems that the ice giant's attack on the Tordaloch family was a temporary idea, and it didn't take much time to gather a group of monsters that he could command, so only the highly mobile sea monsters followed them all - as a result, Lane cooperated with soldiers and Drew Yi was wiped out.

However, due to their short hands and feet, it was inconvenient for them to cross mountains and mountains, so not many participated in the previous battles.But at this moment, they obviously have their lairs nearby, so they gathered a large number and moved towards the Tursek soldiers here to encircle and suppress them.

"The front shield guards form a formation, don't melee, use bows and arrows!" East was away, and his adjutant took over the command.He has had the experience of fighting with rotting demons before, and he has already mastered certain tricks.

Lan En's speed was the fastest, and he had already reached the entrance of the cave. After hearing the order from the adjutant, he couldn't help but panic.

"You can't shoot arrows! This is a mine!" Lann shouted, "The carrion demons are too dense, as long as one of them is detonated, it will immediately trigger a chain explosion, and this place will collapse!"

"Lord Lannister..." The soldiers who were raising their bows and arrows hesitated suddenly, and fell into a dilemma.

Fortunately, Lann painted himself a layer of [Quen's Seal] at the first time, and then appeared in the forefront of the team in a flash of golden light, and opened his left palm to pinch out the handprint of [Alder's Seal·Bone Biting].

"We have found Harold, everyone retreats in the direction they came from!" East also ran out of the tunnel at this time, commanding his troops loudly, "Leave this to Lan!"

The corridor where everyone came was the most spacious one, and it was also the only one where no carrion demons appeared.They have done detailed investigations along the way to prevent the escape route from being blocked, and they are sure that they can evacuate safely.

None of the soldiers who received the king's order objected, and immediately began to exit the mine in an orderly manner.

……

Lane took a deep breath.

Although he took the lead, in fact, he didn't know what to do. He didn't know whether to freeze these carrion demons into ice with a [biting] blizzard could prevent them from exploding.

But it doesn't matter even if it doesn't work, Lann didn't intend to kill these carrion demons, but planned to control the continuous and steady jet storm with his own magic power, and the size of these carrion demons was enough to knock them into the air and delay their pace.

After all, carrion demons are too deadly in this terrain.

The other demon hunters obviously also noticed Lann's plan. They blocked a passage and made gestures at the same time, preparing to delay the withdrawal of the army.

[Aldefa...]

"boom!"

——The rotting demon closest to Ran exploded without warning.

The shock wave and the lifted stones hit the [Quen Seal] of Lan En's body, causing waves of waves.

And behind the exploding rotting demon, several monsters were knocked to the ground by the shock wave of the explosion of their companions, and then their hands and feet began to twitch uncontrollably, and their disgusting and bloated bodies began to explode like a poor-quality balloon. The ground twisted and began to expand irregularly, as if several gas streams were rampaging in their bodies.

Lan En's heart was cold.

He was sure that he hadn't made any aggressive actions against the rotting demon just now, but the rotting demon just exploded.

And there are more carrion demons in front of them to follow.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

At the same time, the sound of explosions was heard one after another from the other corridors.

"Go at full speed!" East didn't know what happened here, but he knew that there must be an accident, and after he quickly ordered the soldiers to take Harold out of the mine at full speed, he personally led the guards to break the rear.

……

What went wrong?
Lan kept retreating, and the violent explosion had broken several supporting beams and pine columns.The other four demon hunters have also exited the tunnels they were guarding, and rocks kept falling down inside.

"There's something wrong with these carrion ghouls!" Kolgrim yelled, "I didn't get a sign at all, and I didn't touch them at all, but they just exploded in my face, and I guess you will too Condition!"

Ke En listened solemnly to the rumbling noises around him, and looked at the rock dust and stones that kept falling down: "Could it be that these carrion demons were seriously injured before, and they forced themselves to come to us before detonating?"

They were not worried about themselves, knowing that Lann could use the unique "Ancient Blood" to leave the mine at any time and summon them out.

"No, I didn't see any scars on these monsters. Even if there were, they weren't deadly to this extent." Gerd denied the conjecture of the two companions, "It's more like they detonated themselves, launching a suicide attack — just to cause the mine to collapse.”

Gerd looked up at the increasingly trembling mine, and motioned for everyone to gather together, ready to open the protective shield of the [Quen Seal].

The Tursek guards who left first had already taken Harold out of the mine, and they blew their horns to report the situation at the moment, which made East's face pale.

"Why do these carrion demons do this? This is not in line with the instinct of biological survival."

Geralt took a deep breath, and a guess came to his mind.He replied solemnly: "Unless there is an undeniable existence ordering them to do so..."

Everyone's complexion changed at the same time, who else has this ability in the mountains?
There is only one answer - the ice giant.

Then, why did the ice giant order so many rotting demons to come to the mine at this time and launch a suicide attack?
Lan En's pupils shrank suddenly, and he yelled at East: "Quickly ask the soldiers outside to be alert, a battle may happen at any time!"

East's adjutant picked up the horn, but before he could blow it, a desperate scream came in from outside.

The long and narrow corridor trapped the voice inside, forming a response, which lasted for a long time, causing cold sweat to drip from the sword-holding hands of the soldiers still in the cave.

The vibration inside became more and more intense, but this time the vibration did not come from the mine tunnels that were unstable due to the explosion, but from the ground.

It seemed that the ground under their feet began to be violently and regularly hit, and the muffled sound was continuously transmitted from the bottom of everyone's greaves to their various senses. They knew that this was the pace of giants.

There was a bright emerald light in Lan En's eyes, and he was ready to activate [Teleportation] to transfer everyone out.

However, in the next second, there was a loud noise like a landslide above their heads, and a skylight was forcibly cut open from the rock wall.The outside world is not sunny, there is no light, only cold air and fist-sized boulders pouring in from that hole.

A rough, ugly, savage head appeared in the hollow with a face.The head was huge and hard, covered with crevices-like crevices, with an icy color on it, and a strand of brown-red hair grew out of the crevices, like dead wood on the top of a mountain.

The facial features of the face on the top of the skull were distorted, the distance between the eyes was extremely large, the nose was short and thick, and the teeth in the bloody mouth were staggered.Ferocity and ferocity are the messages conveyed by this face.

But at this moment, on the face of all the oil paintings and illustrations that could scare a child into tears, a pair of eyes revealed an extremely uncoordinated expression—that was confusion.

This confused look looked into the cave hall, and spit out a word:
"god?"

……

"Esther..." Geralt swallowed, his voice trembling, "Is your Skellige giant... so big?"

Normally, monsters with the word "giant" in their scientific names, such as Cyclops, are actually no more than five or six meters tall.

But judging from the effect of the ice giant's appearance, the height of this monster is definitely more than ten meters. It belongs to the level where a big man can stand on his shoulders, and ordinary people can only jump up to hit the opponent's knees.

"No, I've seen descriptions about it in poetry. It shouldn't be this tall..." East muttered, "It's... grown bigger again."

Looking at the giant face that suddenly appeared, the emerald light on Lan En's body gradually went out.

Because in the hands of the ice giant, there was a person——Harold.

East's face suddenly darkened, and he could guess what happened to the troops he had just evacuated.

Just when everyone was in doubt because of the appearance of the ice giant, the ice giant was also massaging towards the inside of the cave through the skylight that he opened.Its confused sight touched East, and then condensed on the iron crown.

It looked at Harold who had passed out in his hand, then at Easter, and spit out the word again:

"god?"

In the next second, under Easter's horrified eyes, a bunch of oak wood appeared from nowhere and wrapped Harold tightly, growing and deforming continuously, and finally formed a wooden coffin.Immediately afterwards, the ice giant took a big mouth, and swallowed Harold and the entire oak coffin.

It slammed its neck and chest hard, and coughed twice—as if it was choking.The huge sound of it hammering its own body was heard far away, and everyone who heard it doubted that the force was enough to shatter rocks.

After doing all this, there seemed to be some momentum around the ice giant, and it just stretched its hand in through the hole, and the target was—Ester!

The guards all gathered in front of their king, even if they were facing palms bigger than their own, even if their hands holding the weapons were trembling, they still swore to defend their king to the death.

Fortunately, the next second, the familiar golden light flashed, and Lan appeared in midair.Relying on the strong core strength of the waist and abdomen to stay in the air for a short time, Lan raised the Lake Lady's sword in his hand above his head, and after a brief breath of energy, he slashed at the ice giant's wrist.

"Clang-clang!"

It was as if the sound of gold and iron colliding sounded in the cave.

With a "bang", something fell to the ground, and everyone looked intently, and it turned out to be a pair of wrist guards made of animal bones.It's just that the size of this wrist guard is really beyond the standard, it is enough for ordinary people to use it as armor.

This is the wristband of the ice giant. This giant has amazing intelligence, and has begun to learn how to use tools and even make simple armor—although the defense of this armor may not be as tough as the ice giant's own skin.

Lann chopped off the ice giant's wrist guard, which was a matter of course.A long sword charged with 【Burst of Rage】 is enough to crack rocks and iron, and a pair of bone wristbands is no big deal.

The question is, did Lann hurt the ice giant?

No.

The lion-eyed demon hunter flew upside down in mid-air, and a huge reaction force was transmitted from the giant's wrist to his body along the long sword.At this moment, Lan En didn't feel that he was a systematic demon hunter. Instead, he felt as if he had smashed the city gate with a standard long sword when he just crossed. His hands were slightly numb.

Another black magic scimitar on the back lit up with flames at this moment, and the soul in the painting of the gothic dress appeared for a moment, catching Lann who flew upside down before hitting the rock wall, making him land safely.

"god!!"

A deep wound was left on the ice giant's wrist, but before the blood could overflow from it, the skin around the wound began to tighten rapidly, leaving only a scratch-like mark.

"Deep wounds" are for humans.And the wound was probably just broken for the size of the ice giant.

But even if no blood was seen, Lann's attack made the ice giant who hadn't been injured for many years furious.It roared angrily, and the aura that had been condensed around it suddenly reached a peak, and then poured out.

Today, Lann has the ability to tell that what surrounds the ice giant is thick natural energy.

The badges on the chests of all the witchers trembled violently.

The ground under their feet began to tremble, the strong wind between the cliffs began to roar, the snow on the top of the mountain was no longer suppressed and turned into waves, and the cave where Lann and the others were in began to collapse completely.

"Run!" Lane yelled.

(End of this chapter)