The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Recommended background music for this chapter: "Witch Hunters" Source: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Soundtrack.)

After returning to Beauclair, Marvin checked in a room at the tavern and immediately found a herbalist with a good reputation to treat his injuries.

After the doctor's examination, the upper arm bone of his left arm was fractured, 2 ribs were broken, and 3 ribs were cracked...

In addition, the herbalist is a beautiful woman with a good personality, which is actually very important.

After recovering from his injuries for a few days, Marvin got his new knife.

The shape of the knife has not changed, it is still the style of the Ming Dynasty Yanling knife, and the blade has been lengthened to 0.4cm at the thickest point. The oval swallow mouth, the metal handle integrated with the blade, is wrapped with woven sea monster skin. Note ①

The whole knife is 127cm long and weighs 4.1 pounds (1.86kg). The center of gravity of the whole knife is 14cm in front of the handle.

After suffering a loss once, Marvin asked to hold the knife, that is, the tip of the four-sided pyramid at the end of the handle was rounded a little, which slightly affected the center of gravity, but it didn't matter.

The improved magic runes are etched on both sides of the blade, 7 on each side, a total of 14. The enchantment still has only two effects: one, attaching ice elements to provide magic damage; two, providing magic solidification effect to enhance the strength of the blade.

The difference is that Marvin actively inputs magic power to activate it. The more magic power input, the better the enchantment effect, and there is an upper limit lock to prevent excessive magic energy from damaging the runes and the blade.

Marvin tried it with one hand, and the knife was very smooth. He also did some simple slashing and stabbing tests, and the effect was very good, especially after turning on the maximum output enchantment, the damage was much stronger than before. When the enchantment is turned on, it can easily cut through plate armor with one hand.

Another short knife is also ready. Except for the lack of magic runes, the two knives, one long and one short, are completely a set in terms of shape, material, color and handle.

Byron Bender also equipped the two knives with scabbards. The purple birch scabbard, covered with black sea monster scales, is a perfect match for the ice enchantment of the long knife, low-key and luxurious.

Of course, the price was also scary. Marvin paid a total of 1,500 crowns worth of gold coins and gems for the two knives. The money in the inventory was reduced by half.

The long knife was still called Guswen, but it was 2.0, and the short knife was called Woodpecker (which can be translated as Woodpecker).

By the way, Marvin asked Byron Bender to repair his boots. It was a convenient thing, and Byron generously refused to charge.

Marvin, who had just suffered a loss, did not wander around with his injuries.

After packing up his things and buying a lot of supplies, he teleported to Maribo and hid in Alzu's laboratory.

No one else knew about this place, and the entrance mechanism was hidden and worked well. The passage was narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, secret and safe, and it was the best hiding place.

For more than a month, Marvin stayed here to recover from his injuries, except for purchasing food, water and herbs in Maribo. He had no idea whether the Wild Hunt would come to the mainland to find him again.

In fact, after 20 days, his injuries were basically healed. For a period of time afterwards, I was just used to staying at home. I read books, studied, practiced swords, practiced magic, and modified Alzu's laboratory every day. It was very fulfilling, so I never thought about going out.

This secret laboratory of Alzu has a huge activity space, a bedroom with good air, and the temperature and humidity are well controlled.

The fact that Alzu's collection of books and the bedding on the wooden bed have been well preserved for so many years is proof of this.

Marvin also found another exit to the woods outside the false tomb above, leading to Maribo.

After analyzing the coordinates of the top of the mountain not far from this exit, he no longer had to go to Maribo before entering the safe house every time. The secrecy was improved a little bit. In the end, he decided to make this his safe house.

As for teleporting directly underground, it was too dangerous, and Marvin didn't dare to try it yet.

During this period, Marvin returned to Vizima twice. In addition to reporting his safety to his father, the king, his mother, and his two sisters, he brought some books from home, weapons and armor that he had worn and used to collect.

In this way, Alzu's collection of books returned here, and there were many more of Marvin's own books.

Marvin returned to the safe house and stayed there until he finished studying the basic principles of space magic for the fifth grade of the academy...

At the end of February every year, it is the annual Velen Spring Festival. The Lady of the Woods will hold a grand Spring Festival gathering at the foot of Bald Mountain and bestow precious magic oil.

The oil is made by pressing oil from magic oak seeds, which can bring a good harvest and eliminate illness. Therefore, the Spring Festival is the most important festival of Velen every year, at least the most important festival of the Hunchback Swamp.

Half a year ago, Marvin learned from the navigator's diary that the commander of the Wild Hunt, Ileris, would participate in this Spring Festival.

In order to have a good time for himself, he would not bring anyone else to participate in the entertainment activities of the old witch, only him.

There are 4 people in Marvin's little notebook who will appear here, of course they will not be missed.

At the end of February 1173, Velen Territory, Lower Velen Village.

After Marvin crossed a swamp, he was going uphill, and on the slope was Lower Velen Village.

This is a relatively large village in Velen, and Baron Vetherad's words are basically useless here. The villagers only see the lord's soldiers once a year, let alone the lord himself.

Marvin found the village chief.

"I came from Vizima and want to attend your Spring Festival gathering. How can I get there?"

The village chief is a middle-aged man with a mole on his nose. He was just arranging for the villagers to pack their things. It seems that the whole village will go to the gathering.

"Aha, strangers, welcome, welcome, we welcome strangers to attend the Spring Festival. They will be very happy."

"But the villagers don't seem to welcome me as you said. And, they?"

"Don't mind, young man. They just rarely see outsiders and are a little nervous." The village chief rubbed his nose, "Did I say 'them'? No... You can just go there with our boat in the afternoon." Remember, don’t bring weapons!”

Marvin deliberately took off his armor today and changed into more ordinary casual clothes, like a college student.

"Do you see any place on my body where I can hide a weapon?"

The village chief shook his head.

"That's no problem. Is there anything else I should pay attention to?"

"No, come on board the boat with us in the afternoon, young man."

There is no tavern in Lower Willen, and it is a bit far from other villages.

Marvin found a dry place on the hillside to read in a daze.

…

As the sun set, Marvin went down the mountain with the villagers and was placed on one of the many fishing boats.

Fishing boats lined up in a row heading south from the swamp. Who knows how these villagers could tell where the river was in a large swamp...

When it got dark, the boat docked at an island in the middle of a shallow lake.

Marvin followed the flow of people towards the island. A stone mountain stood on the island in the middle of the lake. The villagers lit torches one after another and walked in through the huge stone door at the bottom of the stone mountain.

Looking up, you can see the remaining white symbols on the lintel of the cave, which is more than 4 meters high, a bit like a Druid totem.

After entering the cave, there are stone steps one after another, and everyone climbs up.

In front, there were villagers armed with sticks and crossbows searching every foreigner's package, while the local villagers went straight up the mountain talking and laughing.

How to identify foreigners?

It's so simple. Marvin can easily tell who is a Wilanian and who is a foreigner by their dress, complexion, accent, and behavior. All I can say is that Wellen is truly a magical place.

He didn't have the package and passed inspection quickly.

After the stone steps end, there is an uphill dirt road. You can see some dilapidated and damaged wooden houses on the roadside. I didn't know what they were used for before.

Marvin guessed that the druids built it here a long time ago.

Velen at that time may be different from now, or maybe it is the same, after all, druids are not all good people... who knows.

After turning a few corners, the villagers landed on a huge flat land, where there were dilapidated but repaired wooden houses, tents of various sizes, and several huge bonfires.

People sat on the ground or on wooden piles around the campfire, talking and laughing with people they knew well, but there was no wine.

There are not-so-pretty civilian girls dancing, there are traveling merchants selling their goods but their business seems to be average, and there are bards playing the lute and singing. I wonder how much money he can make here?

Marvin didn't find the village chief of Xia Wellen. He randomly chose a circle with many people and sat down to listen to people chatting and laughing.

Most of the topics focus on whether there will be more oak seeds this year, which village can get more, whose mother-in-law was blessed by the ladies last year, and the crops in our village did not grow well last year. This time we will try to get some magic oil... …

A young girl with a round face asked the old man next to her how to win the favor of the ladies...

The old man with a white beard said: "Girl, ladies are not easy to see. I have only seen them once in my life."

"I heard that ladies come down from the sky? Is it true?"

"I don't know. I only saw him by chance. I wasn't summoned by the ladies."

"Ah?" The round-faced girl looked disappointed, and then asked: "Then how can I meet the ladies? I want to give it a try."

"Haha... people want to see the ladies every year, but only boys and girls can apply, and only three people can meet the ladies at most every year."

"Then what do you think of me?" The round-faced girl turned around in the coarse cloth skirt she wore for the first time, "I think I can try it."

"Okay. Go up there and find Marika...Oh, you don't know her. Mark, you have been there, take her there."

A man said a few words to his mother-in-law, and then walked behind the crowd with the round-faced girl.

Marvin waited for the people around him to change the topic, then stood up and walked around, following the two people from a distance.

The two of them came out of the flat land and walked up the mountain road for a few minutes. After that, Marvin came to a small flat land higher up.

Some villagers were queuing up in festive clothes. Judging from their words, they were receiving free food distributed by Mrs. Lin Zhong.

Marvin could only sigh that the three old witches finally understood the belief in the earth god.

Perhaps what the Lady in the Forest brought to the Willen people was not all fear and danger, but also gifts and good harvests. Although not many, at least some people could enjoy them.

The prerequisite is their unconditional obedience.

These have little to do with Marvin, they must die.

After passing through the queue of people, Marvin continued to follow the two men forward.

On the way he saw wild deer, wolves and even tree elves and small earth spirits.

The two finally stopped in front of a large white tent, said something to a woman holding a broom, and then entered the tent.

Two minutes later, they came out again. The round-faced girl had a disappointed look on her face.

After the two people walked away, Marvin walked to the big tent. The woman sweeping the floor looked up at him, tilted her head and said, "Go in."

Marvin glanced at the woman and walked into the tent.

Although the tent was big, there wasn't much stuff inside. There were some broken boxes, a simple bed covered with straw and blankets, and a wooden shelf on the other side. A row of candles were lit on the shelf, and a thick layer of wax had accumulated...

An old woman was sitting cross-legged on the bench in front of the shelf. She was very old, with sparse white hair, a wrinkled face, and a few age spots. She was wearing a shabby but clean gray robe.

The most striking thing was the old woman's eyes. There were no pupils, only whites. She should be blind, but her expression showed strange confidence and arrogance.

"Come here, young stranger." She raised her voice again, "What does he look like?"

The woman sweeping the floor at the door put down her broom, walked over and said, "He is handsome, strong, and a confident young man."

"Very good."

The old woman looked at Marvin with eyes that had only whites but no pupils: "Have you slept with a woman?" After saying that, she stretched her head and sniffed again, "Ah, I already know. He is fertile, very good. Marika, send him over."

Marvin felt like a gigolo chosen by the guests in the club. But in order to find the three old witches, he endured it.

From getting off the boat to here, he didn't say a word, and his goal was about to be achieved, which was not bad.

Marvin followed the woman named Marika and bypassed two bonfires, walked onto a mountain road with no one else, passed stone stairs, cliffs, and simple suspension bridges, and walked around for more than ten minutes, and finally stopped in front of a collapsed wall. Behind the wall was a large stone cave 3 meters high, but now it was blocked by a thick wooden door.

The wooden door couldn't stop Marvin, but there were many forks along the way, and it was really not easy to find without someone to lead.

Marika opened the wooden door with the key hanging around her neck and said to Marvin, "Go in, just keep going. Remember to be polite to the gatekeeper."

Marvin didn't know who the gatekeeper was, and he didn't bother to ask. He couldn't help wanting to do it, but fortunately he was almost there.

Bang! The wooden door was closed behind him. From the sound, the woman outside the door locked it.

He took a long breath, took off his casual clothes and changed into armor.

The road in the stone cave was not complicated, and the front gradually became brighter.

After a few stone steps, there was a large cave, about seven or eight meters in radius. There were many lit candles scattered on the stone walls of the cave.

There was a stone platform more than one meter high on the right, and there were also a few candles on the vertical wooden candlesticks on both sides of the stone platform, which had a bit of the flavor of a shrine.

Marvin walked to the front of the shrine and found that there was a deep cave behind the stone platform.

The broken stone platform, the crooked candles, and a lot of scattered gravel made this "shrine" not so "sacred" all of a sudden.

……

Note ①: The Ming-made Yanling Knife is actually the well-known Xiuchun Knife. The Xiuchun Knife is not a knife shape, but refers to the Yanling Knife used by the Jinyiwei. It has a more luxurious shape, more exquisite materials, and better forging.

I saw some book friends mentioned that I used several side quests of the game plot in the first volume, which would feel out of place. I admit that this is the fact. I am sorry, this is the first time I write a book, and I have never been good at liberal arts since I was a child. When I first started writing, I would panic and be a little overwhelmed when I wrote the detailed plot. I had no choice but to use this method. When I wrote the second volume, it was much better. Although there were similar situations, it was no longer so stiff. The update was late these days because I was thinking about these issues.

Maybe I will go back and modify these parts later, but I don’t seem to have time at the moment. Let these scars stay for a while, thank you so many book friends for your support. Thank you.