Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf

The stream is crystal clear and sparkling.

Both sides of the bank are green, with new leaves on the trees, blocking the clear sunlight and swaying in the wind.

The scenery is beautiful, but it's a pity...

"Quaa la - quaa la -"

Noisy and terrifying roars sounded randomly.

A group of disgustingly blue monsters were playing in the shade of the trees on the river bank.

It's like the dye that was mixed with stinky sludge and smeared wantonly on a fresh and precious oil painting.

The harmony and beauty of this scenery were completely destroyed.

until……

"rustle--"

The bushes and grass shook violently.

A hidden figure, wrapped in a silver lightning bolt, suddenly rushed out from the cover of the trees on the shore.

"Quaa?"

The monster heard the noise, stopped playing for an instant, and looked towards where the sound came from.

It's a pity that I didn't have time to see anything clearly.

The silver electric light was already close at hand.

The protruding dead fish eyes covered with bloodshot eyes suddenly widened in response to the sudden approaching murderous aura.

Suddenly.

"Pfft~"

"Pfft~"

The sound of steel cutting flesh sounded in my ears.

Almost all the blue monsters by the creek saw the world turning upside down at this moment, and their vision began to rotate.

Immediately afterwards, with the continuous "plop" sound of falling to the ground, the deathly darkness descended.

"Qiang~"

The silver sword returns to its sheath.

The blue color that was stained black by blood and could not move looked much better than before.

"Gulu~"

The sound of swallowing echoed in the bushes on the shore.

A demon hunter apprentice standing on the high ground in the bush opened his eyes wide with clear astonishment.

He looked at the young demon hunter beside him who was obviously much more mature, and asked in surprise:

"Eh...Brother Erni, didn't Master Aristo say, 'If the monsters are really weak, gathering in groups will make them happy?"

"Under the captain's sword, ten...two, four, six...eighteen water ghosts, can't they be happy?"

"I feel like they died without even seeing anyone." Another apprentice added in equal astonishment.

"I think too..."

"Me too……"

"Don't talk about water ghosts. I opened my eyes wide and saw only a black shadow and a silver light. In the blink of an eye. Whoosh! Just a sound, and then they were all dead, all dead..."

In the second row of the crowd, an apprentice with dark and slightly cloudy pupils danced and opened and closed his mouth in imitation sounds, like a naughty little monkey.

"What's so surprising? That's the leader!" Erni raised his head and glanced sideways at the young junior behind him, "And last week, the leader even defeated Master Aristo."

"More than a dozen water ghosts, isn't it trivial? What's so surprising?"

Ernie's tone was disdainful, but the emotion conveyed by his shining round cat eyes was obviously not as natural as what he said.

"Can it be the same?" an apprentice muttered, "I didn't see anything at all last week. The speed was so fast and there were all kinds of smoke. It didn't take long before Master Aristor and Master Vesemir hugged each other. , fell against the wall..."

"Yes! Yes!"

"At least I can see sword light and blood this time..."

"I saw the captain draw his sword!"

"I also drew my sword last week..."

"It's different...it's different..."

The apprentices around him also echoed, obviously very dissatisfied with the boring duel the day before yesterday.

In fact, the battle just now was also instigated by these apprentices.

Otherwise, Aylin, a master demon hunter, would come here to bully the water ghost?

The noisy denials of the apprentices seemed to put Ernie in a difficult position.

He turned back and glared:

"What is the leader of the group? Is this a title you can call me now?"

"After watching the fun, go back and practice your swordsmanship and seals. Even Master Aristo said that you are the worst class of demon hunter apprentices he has ever taught!"

The apprentices were not afraid of him when they heard this. After looking at each other, they all stuck out their tongues and made faces.

Then he happily ran away to the bloody creek to help collect materials, making Erni so angry that he stamped his feet on the spot.

If Aylin hadn't been walking over, he would have cursed loudly by now.

Krall and others, who were also members of the first batch of demon-hunting corps, had their arms crossed and were leaning on the tree trunks in an awkward position, smiling and watching the fun.

Obviously.

This is not the first time this scene has happened.

"bite."

【Destroy the monster group "Water Ghost"! 】

[Reward settlement:...]

As soon as the thought came to his mind, Aylin blocked out the tinkling mechanical sound in his mind, smiled and encouraged the apprentice who was processing the water ghost materials, walked to the shore and asked:

"What are you talking about so happily?"

"We were talking about Ernie getting along with the apprentices, leader." Krall said with a smile.

"Yes, yes." The other demon hunters also laughed.

Erni frowned, ignored them, and came up to them: "Captain, your strength is really getting stronger and stronger. Before we went down the mountain, we could at least see your sword style."

"It's only been half a year, and it's difficult for me to even see your steps clearly."

"Captain, how do you practice? Is it so useful just to go down the mountain?"

As he spoke, Ernie's face was full of yearning.

The other members of the demon-hunting legion also pricked up their ears and gradually stood up straight.

"The rapid improvement in strength is indeed related to going down the mountain," Aylin smiled and nodded, "After all, I encountered so many difficult monsters."

Seeing everyone's eager eyes, Aylin paused and said:

"Don't worry, we will go down the mountain after these apprentices pass the mountain test."

"Really?" The members were immediately excited.

They were tired of staying in Kaer Morhen. Every day, they practiced swordsmanship and magic signs, and took care of the children... Oh... By the way, the guards were so boring that they were rusty.

If it weren't for the grumpy Aristo watching, he would have dislocated several legs.

There would have been no one in the Ancient Sea Fortress.

"Of course..." Aylin nodded seriously.

Now even the young demon hunters who boasted of their maturity in front of the apprentices couldn't help cheering, causing the apprentices who were dealing with the brain, tongue and heart in the pool of blood to stop their actions and look at them sideways.

"Focus, don't be distracted!" Erni shouted, "After we go back, Master Aristo will check... Fiat, I'm talking about you, you want to wash the rag and wipe the long sword again?"

The apprentices immediately made a face and started to deal with it again.

The closest apprentice with golden hair even stuck out his tongue at Erni.

"Smelly boy!" Erni cursed in a low voice.

At this time, Kral laughed twice again, and then frowned slightly, and was discovered by Erni who happened to turn around.

"What's wrong?" Erni asked.

"Nothing..." Kral shook his head helplessly, hesitated for two seconds, glanced at Aylin quietly and obviously, sighed, and said:

"It's just that if we have to wait for all these apprentices to pass the mountain trial... No... Even if they are allowed to participate in the trial by Master Aristo, it may not be easy..."

"It's already the blooming month, and maybe we can't catch up even in the autumnal equinox month..."

Aylin was silent.

In the week since returning to Kaer Morhen, in addition to practicing the way of roar, he has spent almost all his time on the Demon Hunting Corps.

[Legion name: Wolves' Alliance]

[Level: Level 3]

[Members: 10/15]

[Loyalty: Hughes 100 (die-hard), Bonte 100 (die-hard), Fred 100 (die-hard), Elni 100 (die-hard), Kral 98...]

[Skills: Loot Lock LV1, Teaching LV1, Resonance LV2]

The results of these seven days of hard work are also remarkable.

The members' loyalty has not only been completely consolidated because of Vesemir's legendary experience in the castle hall and the glorious victory in the duel with Aristo.

There is also another die-hard member with full loyalty - Elni.

The loyalty of the other six members is generally above 95.

It is estimated that as long as they are taken down the mountain and experience a few battles and fights together, they should be able to improve soon.

Retract the panel.

The demon hunters looked at Aylin with almost explicit eyes, and naturally knew what Kral meant.

The mortality rate of the herbal decoction has dropped to zero, and the large number of apprentices who passed the trial did not bring all benefits.

Although the mortality rate of the batch of Aylin, Hughes, Bont, and Fred Fred was very high, they were all very proficient in the two-handed sword of the Wolf School.

The proficiency of the batch of Erni and Klar was slightly lower, but they also reached the qualified standard. To express it in the way of the Demon Hunting Notes, the two-handed sword of the Wolf School has reached LV1, or just a little bit short.

But the next two or three batches were very average.

Although Aylin did not include them in the members, he could not see their skill proficiency.

But when practicing every day, he could tell the level at a glance...

They are still far away.

Some of them with poor talents may not even be qualified by this time next year.

This is also the reason why Aylin is not in a hurry to recruit new members to the Demon Hunting Corps and maintain the standard of ten people despite the crises that come one after another and are more dangerous than one.

He can use the Demon Hunting Points to improve the skill level of the members, but the premise is that the skill must be displayed on the member's panel.

And no matter how the Alpine Trial changes, the masters of the Wolf School will not allow an apprentice who cannot even pass the most basic two-handed sword to participate in the trial.

So what Kral said is actually right. If we wait until all the apprentices can pass the Alpine Trial, I am afraid that all the demon hunters who spent the winter this year will come back, and it may be too late.

But...

Doesn't Ailin know?

Of course he knows, he did it on purpose.

Otherwise, there are still so many days, how can he urge them to seriously coach the apprentices in swordsmanship.

Swordsmanship is different from spells and basic potion refining. It is important to fight with people and get corrections and improvements from fierce battles.

These days, when practicing with the apprentices every morning, they are all perfunctory.

Therefore.

Under the gaze of everyone, Ailin lowered his head calmly, as if he thought seriously and "considered" it.

"At least half..." He raised his head and looked at the mainstays of the Demon Hunting Corps, "As long as half of them are recognized by Master Aristo and pass the Alpine Trial, we will set off."

Sure enough.

As soon as Ailin finished speaking, the demon hunters looked at each other, nodded vigorously with full fighting spirit, and immediately looked at the apprentices by the stream with different eyes.

"Okay, captain, just wait and see, we can go down the mountain in three months, no, two months!"

Ailin nodded slightly.

Not long after, a group of apprentices packed up the bloody monster materials, carrying bulging material bags, and trotted over happily.

Aylin looked at what he had just seen, and after praising his skill a few times, he said to Ernie and the others:

"That's it for today. You can take the apprentice back to the castle."

Just as Erni nodded, he suddenly realized something was wrong:

"Won't the leader come with us?"

"No," Aylin shook his head, "I want to go to the Ring of Elements."

The demon hunters understood, and after nodding goodbye, they left with the curious and chattering apprentices.

soon.

The hustle and bustle by the stream ceased and calm returned.

However, Aylin did not leave immediately. Instead, he frowned and looked at the corpses that had formed a small pool of blood for a long time.

"These water ghosts...are they a little stronger than the Germinating Moon..." He murmured.

Although he had just killed nearly twenty water ghosts with overwhelming force, it seemed effortless, and there were no unique changes from Wolf Emblem's perspective.

But the demon hunter who once killed hundreds of water ghosts at once after the Apprentice Fighting Competition in Ban Ade could sense...

These water ghosts in Kaer Morhen seem to have become different from the past in the past few months.

"Could it be because of that foreign fusion?"

Thinking of Meritelli's argument about the intersection of the heavenly spheres activating magic power in the Kingdom of God, Aylin speculated.

"If this is the case, even the water ghosts in Kaer Morhen have been affected, and I don't know how many changes have occurred in the monsters near Ben Ad..."

Because there is still too little information, the changes in the water ghost are not obvious yet and have little impact.

The witcher just thought about it for a while, keeping this change in mind for the time being.

Taking one last look at the streamside stained brown by the smelly monster blood, he turned and walked towards the Ring of Elements.

It's been so long since I came back, and Na Xin, who has been busy practicing the Way of Beast Roar and the Demon Hunting Corps, hasn't seen the big rocks, broken rocks, or small rocks yet.

"Shan Shitou has also been brought by Ms. Vera for two or three months. I don't know how they get along."

"in addition……"

With a thought, Aylin called up the Demon Hunting Notes.

【bite! Mission: Summoning I (Collect Rock Troll Blood 18/20)]

Checked the reagent bag again.

The crystal bottle hidden deepest contains a shallow layer of scarlet blood.

"I don't know what kind of monsters will be sent to the summoning mission, which is different from the hunting mission. The reward is the intersection of the celestial spheres - the troll."

"It would be great if we could teleport a large number of rock trolls who can communicate easily with big rocks, broken rocks, and small rocks."

"The demon-hunting corps is gradually getting on the right track, coupled with a large number of rock trolls with high defense and strong attack..."

"Tsk tsk~"

"Whoever dares to attack Kaer Morhen will die!"

Looking forward to the new celestial sphere meeting, the demon hunter thought for a while and decided to go to the rock troll camp under the Ring of Elements first to say hello to Big Stone and the others.

The movement of the celestial sphere meeting is not small, so don't cause any misunderstandings when the time comes.