Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf

"Why the rock trolls?"

The sorceress asked after hearing Aylin's question.

"Ah?"

He was stunned.

"I asked why you were concerned about the rock trolls?"

"I thought you should ask if I could take another woman or..."

The sorceress glanced at the night color on Aylin's face again, paused, and smiled playfully:

"... or take another female elf away?"

Aylin was silent for a long time before sighing helplessly and saying:

"Ms. Vera, don't joke with me."

"Fran... that female elf has left with my commission target. I will go find them after leaving this place."

"This magic prop was lent to me by her..."

Aylin found that the expression on the sorceress's face was becoming more and more ambiguous, and he couldn't help but pause.

He knew that the more he tried to explain this, the more he couldn't explain it, so he simply changed the subject:

"But none of this matters."

"Ms. Vera, you haven't answered my question yet. What will happen to these rock trolls if we leave?"

The sorceress looked at the rock trolls around her coldly:

"They will probably all die."

"Since the last struggle of the King's Guards for honor and office failed because of your intervention."

"The next ones to come in will definitely be wizards and demon hunters."

Alin's heart sank.

"Are the demon hunters... those from the Cat School?"

The sorceress shook her head:

"Didn't I tell you just now that Soi accepted the King's demon hunting commission, and the target is these rock trolls, so..."

Alin was silent after hearing this, and completed the words omitted by the sorceress in his heart.

So these rock trolls are definitely dead.

In fact.

He didn't have much affection for these rock trolls. After all, the experience of being almost killed by them happened three days ago. It is definitely impossible to say that Alin has no grudges in his heart.

It's just that these trolls have some relationship with the big stone and are the fighting force that the Wolf School can fight for.

It would be a pity if they died under the sword of the school's chief.

So after thinking for a while, Ailin asked:

"Ms. Vera, is there a way to send these rock trolls out?"

"These trolls are the power we can fight for."

"I can try..." The sorceress seemed to have never refused this option to Ailin's request.

"But the premise is that you must convince these trolls to leave here, and... quickly."

She looked up at the sky:

"Those Ban Ade wizards are setting up the ritual site for imprisonment and teleportation up there at this time."

"You don't have much time left."

Imprisonment and teleportation!

As expected, the wizards would block this place as soon as they arrived.

Unfortunately, they were one step late after all.

Ailin was glad that he was one step ahead of the wizards and moved all the mission targets away.

Then he nodded seriously to the sorceress and walked to the mountain stone who was distributing victory rotten meat:

"Mountain stone, this place will soon attract many enemies, quickly arrange for your people to leave with us!"

As soon as the voice fell.

Mountain stone hadn't spoken yet.

Several rock trolls had already started to make a fuss.

"...Trolls...are not afraid of...humans..."

"...Humans...come...humans...die..."

"...Monster hunters...destroy...home...monster hunters...drive...trolls...away..."

...

Okay.

Some rock trolls who were unwilling to leave began to bring up Vesemir's old accounts.

And they connected Ailin with Vesemir.

However, the demon hunter had expected this.

He pointed to the pile of rotten meat next to Mountain Stone and said:

"Leave, there is meat, every day...weekly, there is meat."

As soon as Ailin's rotten meat offensive, the noisy rock room was instantly quiet.

More than a dozen pairs of bean-sized eyes glanced at the rotten meat, and crystal saliva flowed from their mouths almost at the same time.

Aylin didn't know why the rock trolls liked to eat carrion so much.

As far as Aylin knew.

Rock trolls actually have the habit of cooking with flames and stew pots.

This is obviously different from the habits of carrion monsters.

However, not knowing this did not prevent Aylin from using it.

"...Meat... every week..." A troll wiped his saliva and asked.

"Every week," Aylin nodded, then looked up and said, "And Big Stone and the others are also in Kaer Morhen..."

Mountain Stone is the real owner of this place.

It is certainly useful to persuade other rock trolls, but it is more important to persuade Mountain Stone.

Big Stone, Broken Stone and Small Stone, which are suspected to be related to it, are a good breakthrough point.

And with the intelligence shown by Mountain Stone.

There is no reason for it not to see the dangerous situation that these dozen rock trolls will face if they stay here.

Sure enough.

Mountain Stone was silent for a few seconds, then nodded in agreement.

"...The demon hunter did not harm the trolls...The demon hunter is a friend of the big stone...The demon hunter helped the trolls to stop the humans...The demon hunter deserves the trust of the big stone!"

The sorceress saw that the demon hunter had convinced the rock trolls, and warned:

"Behind the portal is an abandoned elven ruins in the Blue Mountains. Let your troll friends wait for me there."

"Once things are over here, I will send them back to Kaer Morhen."

Aylin also conveyed all this information to Shan Shitou.

Then.

"Bang~"

The familiar orange portal appeared in the cave.

But it's different from the past.

The portal that appeared now was twenty meters high, almost touching the top of the cave.

"Aelin."

the sorceress shouted.

It was obviously a bit difficult for her to maintain such a huge portal, and her face even turned a little pale.

Upon seeing this, Aylin quickly teamed up with Shan Shitou to line up the rock trolls and quickly entered the portal one by one.

"Dong~dong~dong~"

The sound of heavy footsteps was accompanied by the vibration of the ground.

Even with the temptation of carrion.

It is not easy to let an intelligent creature leave a place where it has lived for a long time.

When they walked to the portal, many trolls turned around and looked hesitantly at the place where they once lived.

Only under the threat of Shan Shitou from time to time "...the troll won't leave...Shan Shitou's fist..." did he walk into the portal.

This greatly affects the speed of migration.

Aelin has been trembling with fear, fearing that at some point, Ben Ad's wizard will suddenly complete the confinement ritual.

The portal was forced to close.

fortunately.

Until Shan Shitou walked into the portal.

No such bloody scenes happened.

After Shan Shitou watched the last troll walk into the portal, he shook his head gratefully to Aylin in a naive voice.

"...Witcher...Friends of Mountain Stone...Friends of Trolls..."

Then walked into the orange portal.

"Bang~"

The portal is closed.

Only Aylin and the sorceress were left in the entire cave.

…

Plans never keep up with changes.

Aylin's original goal was to successfully leave this abandoned mine.

If you can't get out, use the illusion of rock trolls and dead mirages to cause a big disaster for Kaedwen's army.

Unexpectedly, the carrion he accidentally left behind in the morning actually improved his relationship with the rock troll.

At that time, his goals naturally changed.

He felt that he could use his relationship with the mountain stone and the illusion to cause more damage to Kaedwen's army.

If we find an opportunity, we can naturally reveal the information that Shadia and Hod have left to Kaedwen's army.

Maybe it's not just him.

At that time,

Even the rock trolls have a chance to survive.

After all, they lost what the king wanted, and there was no reason for Kaedwen's army to confront such a tough opponent as the rock troll.

There is no benefit, and it will also cause a lot of damage.

At that time, Aelin can look for opportunities to fool around, and maybe a few rock trolls will choose to join Kaer Morhen.

And now.

Aylin, who was walking in the dark mine, glanced at the sorceress.

The arrival of Ms. Vera directly made the illusion that played an important role in the two plans useless.

but.

Compared to being able to leave smoothly and safely, having only one day in the illusion is not that important.

not to mention.

He also rescued twelve rock trolls.

As long as they successfully reach Kaer Morhen, the mountain stone alone, which is at least twenty meters tall, is enough to protect a city wall on the most intense battlefield.

As for whether these trolls can be conquered?

Aelin, who has a lot of rotten meat in his hands, would he be worried about this?

"The confinement ritual is completed."

A cold female voice suddenly came from beside Aylin, interrupting his thoughts.

I haven't had time to ask carefully yet.

The next second.

"Buzz~"

The wolf emblem on his chest trembled.

Ailin also suddenly felt his body sink, and his shoulders seemed to be carrying a heavy weight.

But if you feel it carefully, there is no change in your body.

"The 'imprisonment' of the ritual will inert the elements within the scope of the ritual, making the opening and closing of the portal very troublesome."

The sorceress explained.

Very troublesome?

Aylin was thoughtful and asked curiously:

"So even if the ritual has been successfully carried out, is there still a way to teleport it?"

The sorceress nodded, then shook her head:

"Theoretically it's possible, but in practice it's not."

"Why?" Aylin asked.

"Because of the teleportation within the passivated element range, all the data required by the teleportation gate will be disrupted."

"So even if the portal can be opened, the caster cannot know what is on the other side of the door..."

"Perhaps in rocks, on the sea, or even directly teleported in magma..."

The sorceress was happy to share this magical knowledge with Arryn.

Even this knowledge seems to be of no use to a witcher.

Because he neither knows how to teleport nor how to arrange the ritual: confinement.

But speaking of portals...

"Ms. Vera, I'm sorry, I damaged the amulet of the goddess Meriteri."

Aylin took out the amulet.

The two black marks on the silver jewelry are very obvious.

The sorceress immediately stopped, took the amulet with a solemn expression, and looked at it carefully for a few seconds.

at the same time.

Aylin also told the sorceress how the amulet was damaged, which concealed some of Francesca's negative effects.

After listening to Aylin's story, the sorceress's face became even paler.

She took a deep breath and said worriedly:

"Ai Lin, otherwise you'd better not participate in this fighting competition."

"Come with me to Elland and remove the curse at Meliteli's temple first."

Of course, Ailin couldn't agree.

There were only a few days left before the apprentice fighting competition.

Elland was far away from Ban Ade, and even if he rode fast, it would not take enough time to go back and forth.

What's more.

He remembered that the sorceress said that in order to remove the curse of the evil god, he must stay in the church of the righteous god for seven days.

In this way, Ailin would definitely not be able to catch up with the apprentice fighting competition.

Now that the cat school and the king have shown hostility at the same time, it is unknown what tricks will be played in the fighting competition.

Ailin couldn't ignore the interests of the school and the life and death of Hughes and others because of the possible risks to himself.

So.

Ailin hurriedly comforted:

"It's okay, Ms. Vera."

"Everything is over. I will participate in the competition with peace of mind next time. There will definitely be no need for a portal again."

"But..." The sorceress wanted to persuade again.

"Dong~Dong~Dong~"

The sound of footsteps suddenly came from the abandoned mine, interrupting the sorceress.

Ailin was relieved immediately.

The sorceress's concern made him, an orphan of two lives, feel as warm as soaking in a hot spring.

However.

It is definitely impossible to give up the fighting competition and go to Elland to remove the curse.

Fortunately, someone came.

He had to think of a way to convince the sorceress.

Ailin was about to rack his brains to think of a way to speak.

The next second.

The sorceress ignored the footsteps getting closer and closer, and continued to persuade her.

"But according to what you said, the evil god is about to touch your soul..."

"If you don't pay attention..."

"..."

Ailin listened to the sorceress's nagging.

He looked at the surrounding soundproof shields helplessly.

Obviously.

Powerful mages have privileges at all times.

Even when the enemy is approaching, there is plenty of time to chat about daily life.

Ailin listened to the sorceress's persuasion, feeling somewhat helpless, the pure kindness and care from others.

Until a huge shadow was reflected by the fire in the passage ahead.

The sorceress closed her lips.

"Pah~"

A snap of fingers.

The moment the soundproof magic shield disappeared, a thick shadow surrounded the two.

The next moment.

Ailin felt like he had suddenly dived into the water.

Not only was there only a layer of shadow like the surface of water between the abandoned cave in sight and reality.

Even the footsteps he heard were as hazy as if separated by a layer of liquid medium.

"Dong~Dong~Dong~"

The blurred footsteps approached.

At the corner of the passage, rows of soldiers holding "unbreakable shields" walked out.

"How many unbreakable shields does Kaedwen have?"

Ailin couldn't help but be curious.

But as the Kaedwen army approached, even though he knew that the sorceress had excellent spellcasting ability, he couldn't help holding his breath.

"Clang~Clang~Clang~"

Rows of soldiers passed by him in an orderly manner.

First, they held indestructible shields, then spears, bows and arrows...

Finally, they followed...

Lazy, robed wizards who were totally inconsistent with the temperament of the army.

"Ritual: After the imprisonment, did Ban Ade's wizards follow the army down?"

"Fortunately..."

"The rock trolls have been sent away."

Alin was thankful.

But the next moment, he suddenly met the eyes of a strange wizard wearing a long pointed hat.

Oops!

I was discovered? ! ! !