From Demon Hunter to Lord of the Empire

Chapter 73: The Water Ghost of the Valley of Nine

As mentioned earlier, this time Lane is exploring Thomas Moru’s laboratory.

Around 1087, Thomas Moru was rescued by a demon hunter. He is grateful for this, but the demon hunter proposes the “law of accident” as a reward, and eventually the professor has to give his son to the demon hunter. Thomas vows to study how to reverse the mutation process of the demon hunter, and he is worried about not being able to be an important person in his son’s life, and hopes that one day his son will understand his good intentions as a father.

In 1102, Thomas established a secret laboratory in the Valley of Nine in Touscent, where he spent all his efforts studying mutations, conducting numerous experiments and experiencing many failures. Subjects included a variety of organisms (such as giant centipedes) and living humans.

It wasn’t until 1121, when Thomas was confident enough in his experiments to decide to perform a mutation reversal on his son, that he lured his son the Demon Hunter to his laboratory with a lucrative bounty. Thomas uses a spell to temporarily paralyze his son and begins to carry out his own experiments on his son.

Unfortunately, in the end, the potion and healing process developed by Thomas Moru not only did not reverse the mutation, but enhanced its effect, making the son of the demon hunter stronger and more agile. Eventually he gave it all up and was forced to accept the fact that his son had become a demon hunter. He returned to his wife, Lydia, and died shortly after.

Thomas Lumo’s son, named Geron Lumo, was a demon hunter of the Gryphon school who was proficient in French and Indian soil. And yes, Thomas Lymo was a mage and he had a son.

Most of the warlocks use chaotic energy to cause their bodies to be affected by magical energy, causing defects in the reproductive organs and eventually infertility. But there are always exceptions, such as this Professor Moru, which is why he has such crazy love for his only son.

There are actually quite a few exceptions to this kind of warlock. Geralt’s mother was a sorceress and a veteran druid and physician. She had passed on the talent of the Source Warlock to Geralt, but Geralt eventually gave up the possibility of becoming a Warlock and concentrated on witch hunting.

The principle that demon hunters cannot give birth is more complicated. Because the mutation of the demon hunter involves changes at the genetic level, it is an uncontrollable species evolution, and fundamentally the demon hunter is actually not a species with humans, and there is reproductive isolation.

Theoretically, if there are male and female witchers with exactly the same mutations, they can actually raise offspring. Unfortunately, due to the immaturity and uncontrollability of mutations, the mutation direction and degree of mutation of each demon hunter are different, and it is an exaggeration to say that each demon hunter is an independent human subspecies, which has led to the result that “demon hunters cannot give birth” now. In the end, it is all the pot that Alzu experimented with picking halfway.

Professor Lu Mo, who failed to “save” his only son, eventually died in Bowland. And this year, it is 1263 years in the human calendar, and nearly two hundred years have passed.

Lane looked out at the verdant valley in front of him, and in the middle of the valley flowed a river, the surface of which was crystal clear, and the jagged and dilapidated buildings were faintly visible.

From time to time, groups of young figures come up to play and play on the river, but when you look closely, you can find that they have fine scales and webbing on their bodies, and they are of different colors. They are most blue and green, with the occasional concentration of one or two tall black figures.

From a distance, they seem to be happy, singing and dancing around the food in groups. It’s just that the type of food they eat makes humans shudder at the sight.

“Most of them are water ghosts, and those few black ones are drowning ghosts. Geralt explains, “They’re all necromancers and very good at turning people into corpses. ”

Lan led the expedition to the top of the valley and looked out, holding the crystal bird skull in his left hand and looking down through the gap in the skull’s eye. I didn’t notice any magic fluctuations.

Beside him, a young man dressed as a druid said, “This is it, Mr. Lannister.” Our exploration ends here, and we can’t do anything until we solve these water ghosts. ”

The young druid nodded to Lan, and after explaining the matter, he was quite conscious of being a tool man, and he was neither close nor distant to Lan.

The demon hunter handed Rann a bottle of grease-like things in an alchemical glass bottle, and said:

“This is the sword oil concocted by the demon hunter specifically for monsters, and this bottle is the ghoul sword oil. Applying it to your sword can greatly increase the damage to those water ghosts. ”

The demon hunter didn’t reply, “I guess you’ll be the first to rush up, so I won’t stop you.” ”

Schild was suddenly startled, nervously looked at the dense water ghosts below, and then glanced at Lan, cold sweat.

Lan took the bottle of sword oil and threw it, and said angrily: “I’m not so reckless. ”

Geralt didn’t reply, he didn’t use Lann’s crystal bird skull, and with the naked eye alone, the cat-like amber pupils contracted slightly, taking in the scene below.

After leaning less, he turned around and said, “There are no less than twenty water ghosts outside, and there are more in the water, and they are estimated to be nesting below.” If you want to dive into the portal underwater, you must not only solve these outside, but also find a way to lead the lower ones out. ”

Asking the professional about professional things, Lane asked Geralt: “What do you usually do when you encounter this situation?” ”

The demon hunter replied, “With such a large amount, I usually turn around and run.” These water ghosts are enough to destroy large villages. ”

Very professional and practical answer.

Schild seemed a little puzzled, in his eyes the demon hunter who could not defeat Lann should not say such words: “Are they strong? ”

Geralt explains: “No, the boldness and strength of water ghosts are the same as their size, far less than adults. But they bounce fast, and many inexperienced soldiers are often caught off guard and killed by their surprise attacks; And once they taste blood, they are not afraid of death, and strong soldiers are easy to die by them. ”

“Lan, I don’t recommend that you use soldiers to eliminate these water ghosts, there will be a lot of casualties. ”

Lane thought for a moment and asked, “I remember that water ghosts are afraid of fire, right?” ”

Jellote nodded: “It’s like your attendant is afraid of Caranther.” ”

“What about their IQ? ”

Geralt shook his head: “Stupid as shoes, so stupid that Axifa is ineffective against them.” ”

“That’s simple, we can use bait. Lane said, “Do you think you can catch these stupid shoe monsters out of the water with food?” Like cattle, sheep and the like? ”

“I usually don’t do this, because even if I cut down all these guys, the bounty I will receive may not be enough for a cow.”

But I think you don’t care about this kind of detail, I think it’s very feasible. According to the druids, these monsters came out of the portal, so they should not have seen much human society, so they can be lured to try. ”

Lane clapped, “Then it’s so decided!” ”

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