The Witcher: Elemental Lords

"The number of wolves will also affect other populations, such as bears, tigers, and leopards, who also prey on each other." Dorlay thought for a moment and said, "There's no way to stop the wolves from multiplying. Our strength doesn't allow us to go into the jungle and eliminate them. We can only try our best to defend and improve our individual strength."

As a wizard, he has many ways to deal with these pack animals, but that doesn't mean he should expose his wizarding abilities. It would quickly spread to the city and reach the ears of the Ability Association, exposing him.

Victor frowned and sighed, saying, "Alright, I'll clean up the training ground when I get back and try my best to train them. Also, I'm about to reach the next rank." He looked at Dorlay with a bright gaze.

Dorlay shrugged. "Then congratulations in advance. If you feel you're ready, you can come find me."

Victor's spirits immediately lifted. He knew what Dorlay meant, then stopped talking, retreated into the crowd, and began communicating with the others.

After wasting nearly two hours, it was already dark when they were close to the village. Many people were craning their necks in anticipation on the bridge by the river.

When they saw them return, everyone cheered.

After the things were unloaded and distributed, everyone returned to their homes.

Back home, Dorlay began to think.

Recently, he had been studying writing and learning magic runes. Magic runes encompass a vast amount of content, peculiar wizarding arrays, which are what ordinary people call magic circles, and then enchanting, scrolls, and the like.

Magic runes are the most difficult part of being a wizard. Potions and materials are much easier to learn.

The last time Dorlay traded, he realized that some people are generally good at materials and magic runes, but very few people understand potions. It wasn't just strict knowledge control, but there seemed to be other restrictions. But he himself could easily concoct potions, which felt incredible.

In the room, Baal lay sprawled on the soft wolf skin, lazily like a cat.

"Do you have the scent of blood on you?"

Dorlay shook his head. "No, it's the aura of other people's blood." He recounted the story of the forest wolf attack on Erdao Town.

Baal's ears drooped. "The habits of wolves are like that. They consume their own population in this way. It seems that this winter will be difficult."

Dorlay nodded. He had seen similar records in a book.

Baal continued, "Hurry up and cultivate, strive to reach the next rank. After reaching the next rank, you will find that there is another world."

Dorlay sighed, "I want to, but even with medicine, it will take some time."

Baal snorted. "We hellhounds are born at rank three. You humans are really fragile."

Dorlay was speechless by this sentence. Then he immediately retorted, "Hellhounds are only rank eight at most, but we humans have rank nine powerhouses."

Now it was Baal's turn to be silent. After a long while, he cursed, "You human race is really strange. The lower limit is terribly low, and the upper limit is equally high. Heaven is really too fair."

Dorlay smiled and didn't speak. He sat in the living room, closed his eyes, and directly began to meditate.

Many things happened today, which made people very annoyed. He needed to calm down.

...

Merkel returned to his long-lost home, and his father and mother were overjoyed.

The village has a blacksmith, how could that not excite people.

After eating and drinking, Merkel casually asked about Lin Rui.

Merkel's parents' expressions immediately changed, and his father even slapped him on the back.

"In the future, no matter who asks, don't reveal a single word. Lin Rui is a good kid, he saved the lives of several of your uncles."

The village also knew that Dorlay's background was unusual, but he could freely enter and exit the city, so he shouldn't be a bad person, but they also had to guard against others' suspicions.

Dorlay has been here for a few months, but he has helped a lot.

Merkel was startled by his parents' attitude and felt wronged. If they didn't want him to ask, then he wouldn't ask. What did they hit him for?

...

The night passed quickly.

Just as the sky was dawning, Dorlay keenly heard a series of soft shouts outside. He slowly stood up and looked outside, only to see Victor already holding a cattle whip, starting to drive people to the river, telling them to take swords, hammers, axes, and bows and arrows to train. There was still snow on the ground, and those underage children were taking tools to clear the snow from the ground.

Moving so early in the morning, this Victor is really an action-oriented person.

Dorlay didn't go out, but waited a while, and when the sky brightened, he practiced writing at home.

Practicing writing is very helpful for magic runes. A lot of practice, coupled with strong mental power and precise control, has continuously improved his attainments in magic runes. Now, drawing energy isolation runes is already easy for him.

But he is no longer satisfied with this kind of magic rune and is contacting the next stage.

As a wizard, reconnaissance ability is a must, and anti-reconnaissance ability is also a must. This involves several very important detection runes and feedback runes, as well as the warning magic arrays that these runes are combined into.

Large magic arrays are all composed of various magic runes with various functions. Without exception, for the basic application of magic runes, divine sense is more important than witchcraft.

There are also several types of detection magic runes, such as those that detect vibrations, those that detect colors, and those that detect energy fluctuations.

In addition to these array magic runes, there are also connection magic runes and feedback runes.

Connection magic runes can connect different magic runes together to unify their functions, while feedback runes can be used as receivers to receive information.

However, magic runes are not fun. He studied the vibration detection rune for several days, and he also studied the basic feedback rune for many days.

After these two things were researched, he connected the vibration detection and feedback runes together to form the most basic warning array.

This basic vibration detection rune can detect all vibrations within three meters of the range and can also feedback the intensity of the vibrations, which is very useful.

Taking this thing and laying it on the road at the door, as long as someone comes, he will know. After testing the function with Baal, Dorlay was quite satisfied, but this is only limited to situations where Baal wants him to know. With its ability, it can come in without anyone noticing.

The validity period of these magic runes is only one month, which is surprisingly short. Dorlay has no way to solve it. Magic runes that can spontaneously gather energy must wait until he has condensed more than 170 silver coins and his mental power is strong enough to withstand the backlash of the power of heaven and earth before he dares to draw them. Doing those things now, in Baal's words, is courting death.

However, Dorlay is already very satisfied with getting these things out. He still has the talent to play with magic runes.

It's just that it takes a lot of time. Naryue's biography wrote that Naryue studied this thing, each low-level magic rune only took up to one day to study, while Dorlay needed to spend several days. This is really incomparable.

After all, people are ultimate bosses.

However, Dorlay can be the same as Naryue in one thing, and that is in potions.