Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf

This is a small river.

Clear, blue, gentle...

Wrinkled by the warm spring breeze, illuminated by the warm sunlight, carried by the fertile riverbed...

After a brief observation, Francesca came to the conclusion:

"This is just an ordinary river, the kind that every human settlement has."

Undoubtedly, this is not the answer she wants.

So.

Francesca looked at the calm river and asked in surprise:

"Where are we?"

"This is the exit." The demon hunter answered, and then walked into the river first.

Looking at the demon hunter's suicidal behavior, Francesca frowned slightly and stared at the demon hunter's back.

After a while, she followed hesitantly.

In early spring, the sun is warm, but the river still retains the afterglow of winter and is icy cold.

"Huahua~"

The sound of water flow rang in my ears.

Her clothes were soaked by the cold river water, a faint fishy smell surged into her nose, and her feet sank deeper and deeper into the mud...

Even though the figure in front of her was tall, confident, and unstoppable.

She couldn't suppress the panic in her heart of wanting to escape and return to solid ground.

"Hunter...Hunter, are you sure this is the exit?" she asked in a panic.

"Trust me! Francesca!"

The hunter turned around and nodded firmly.

Then he seemed to notice something, took her hand, and said:

"Close your eyes if you're scared, I'll take you away."

The hot temperature was transmitted from the skin-to-skin connection, not only removing the coldness of the river water, but also seemed to burn away all the anxiety and panic.

Thinking of three days ago, he also protected her in this way, leaving her unharmed.

The last trace of worry in Francesca's heart also disappeared.

So.

She took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

Following the temperature in her hand, she staggered in the mud.

The cold water surged...

Takes away body temperature, flows over the chest, blocks breathing, and finally...

Floods the whole world.

The next moment.

Her figure suddenly sank, and the last ray of light in her eyes suddenly disappeared, as if she had fallen into a dark abyss.

"We're here!"

The clear and penetrating voice of the demon hunter sounded.

Francesca suddenly found that the suffocating feeling of being submerged in the river had disappeared at some point.

Dry clothes, dry hair, dry skin...

"Huh?"

Francesca opened her eyes in confusion, and it was pitch black in front of her.

Only the demon hunter was illuminated, as if he was the only light source in the world.

"We're here!"

Looking at the elf standing there like a fool, Ailin repeated helplessly.

"Ah?"

"Oh."

"Huh!?"

Francesca came back to her senses stupidly.

Only then did she realize that the place she was in was no longer the "Hundred Fruit Garden", but a cave full of familiar stale smells and terrible memories.

"Are we there?"

Francesca instinctively turned her head to see if the quiet, beautiful and friendly village was behind her.

The pull from her left wrist prevented her from turning back.

Francesca's pretty face turned red, and she was about to speak when she pulled her hand out.

The temperature on her slender wrist suddenly disappeared at this moment.

Looking at the apologetic smile on the face of the demon hunter opposite, Francesca smiled politely with a feeling of emptiness that she herself did not understand.

Then she turned and looked at the light source that illuminated the demon hunter.

It was a white light film with a colorful glow.

It closed a stone door that only allowed two people to pass through at the same time, as if it closed a colorful fairy tale world.

Behind this light film is the river in the orchard?

Francesca looked at the demon hunter in disbelief.

He actually did it!

Just like he always does...

But...

How did he find the exit?

In addition...

Isn't it usually the wizard who is responsible for solving this kind of magic puzzle in knight novels?

Thinking of this, Francesca was a little frustrated.

Not to mention the light film in front of her.

Francesca Findaby, the daughter of Ion Savini, who was destined to lead the Ion Sidi clan to take back the land from humans...

All along the way, she was actually doing more harm than good.

If it weren't for the demon hunter in front of her, she couldn't even imagine what would happen when she explored the cave alone.

"Alin, how did you find the exit? And this light film... This is an illusion, right?"

Francesca suppressed her shame and asked the demon hunter who was said to have only a little knowledge of magic.

"These are some tricks of the demon hunter." Alin smiled, "But you are right, this is indeed an illusion."

The little tricks of the demon hunter?

Doesn't the book say that the magic that the demon hunter can use is only the magic trick-like seal, and the magic knowledge they know is also related to monsters?

Francesca looked at the young demon hunter with a childish face and was a little confused.

Is there something wrong with the book?

Witchers are better than warlocks at illusions?

After a pause, Aylin continued apologetically:

"I'm sorry, Francesca, in order to avoid alerting the owner of the illusion, I have been hiding it..."

"No need to apologize, I still know this common sense."

Thinking of what happened in the illusion, Francesca's face flushed again, and she interrupted quickly.

Under Ailin's "reminder", she suddenly remembered what she did under the influence of the illusion...

Ah!!!

How could she come up with such an excuse that she and Ailin were siblings?

And the characteristics of the demon hunter and the elf are so obvious, but Aunt Asha and other villagers did not react...

Why didn't she, an elf mage, find such an obvious loophole!

Thinking about it, Francesca's cheeks became hot, and it was almost red.

She could only be thankful that the light here was dim, and the demon hunter should not be able to see the expression on her face...

"Ai... Ailin, where should we go now?" Francesca didn't care about the demon hunter's tricks anymore, and quickly changed the subject.

Ailin heard it and bowed his head in thought.

After half a minute, he looked up and said:

"Let's go to the cave where the rock trolls are and see the situation first..."

"Three days have passed, and the guards in the camp should have had a conflict with the rock trolls. I just don't know how many casualties there are on both sides..."

"Then come back to search for our target... The people we are looking for should all be in the illusion... What do you think?"

Francesca pondered for a moment and nodded slightly in agreement.

These things proved that Ailin's decision was correct, and she had no reason to refuse.

Then the demon hunter drank the cat's eye potion, and the elf covered his face with a black mask and headscarf, and walked in the opposite direction of the light film.

"By the way, Ailin."

Before he took a few steps, the voice of a girl like a spring dripping from the valley suddenly came from behind.

"What's wrong?" The demon hunter slowed down.

"Since that place just now was an illusion...then those people in the Hundred Fruit Garden, Aunt Asha and Uncle Will who saved us...are they also fake?"

The demon hunter couldn't hear the elf's tone.

He also didn't know if there was any story between Francesca and the residents in the illusion during the three days when he was unconscious.

After a moment of silence, he whispered:

"Yeah."

"They are all fake, part of the illusion."

"Oh~" The elf sighed faintly, seeming a little disappointed, "Is that so!"

"It's okay, let's keep going."

The demon hunter nodded and continued to move forward.

Although Francesca once said that her short-distance teleportation was only about 100 meters.

But in the illusion, the sense of space affected by the illusion, the walking distance is far from the actual distance.

After leaving the illusion, the passages in the mine turned around and there were many forks.

The demon hunter and the elf walked for nearly three minutes and still hadn't found their destination.

"Da Da Da~"

The deliberately suppressed footsteps echoed in the narrow passage.

"Alin, this is already the third fork, are you sure this road is right?"

"Don't you need to make a mark on the fork?"

Francesca asked softly with concern.

"Trust me, Francesca." Ailin did not look back and continued to move forward.

In the field of vision of the combined effect of the cat's eye potion and the wolf emblem, the moving black magic points were like migratory birds flying in the sky, non-stop, guiding him in the direction.

"But if you are worried, you can also make a mark at the fork."

Francesca was silent for a moment, leaned over to pick up a stone, and was about to make a mark.

Ailin's nose suddenly twitched twice unconsciously.

He seemed to smell a smell of rust.

He walked quickly to the center of the fork in the road ahead, and in an instant, the cold cave wind blew a faint smell of blood.

"Hush!"

Ailin hurriedly stopped Francesca from carving the mark and whispered:

"Be careful, the rock trolls are just ahead!"

Francesca's body froze when she heard the words, and she clenched the stone in her hand, fearing that she would wake up those terrible trolls.

"Hiss~hiss~hiss~"

For a moment, the only sound in the empty cave was the rustling of clothes, like silkworms chewing leaves in the dark.

After walking for a while, even Francesca lifted the black mask on her face and covered her mouth and nose.

The strong smell of blood made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

How many people died in front?

This is the common doubt in the hearts of demon hunters and elves.

"... Wooo... small stones... woooo... small iron pots... woooo... small gems..."

"... human beings... enemies... rocks... rush out..."

"... rocks... human beings... kill..."

"... hungry... meat... hungry... meat... meat..."

Intermittent sounds came from the end of the passage.

Alin and Francesca looked at each other, took a deep breath, and moved forward at a slower pace, fearing that they would alarm the monsters.

"Boom boom boom~"

The closer they got to the end, the more intense their heartbeats became.

No doubt.

Three days ago, the experience of almost coming face to face with death was very unforgettable for both of them.

"Gurgle~"

When they were only one step away from the destination, the demon hunter and the elf stopped almost at the same time, swallowed their throats, and then looked out of the passage nervously.

After just one look, Francesca instantly shrank back, her body spasmed, and she covered her mouth tightly.

Ailin looked at the scene in the huge cave room and couldn't help holding his breath.

This... How many people died here?

The demon hunter was terrified.

He had also seen big scenes, but he had never seen such a big one.

The uneven ground was littered with corpses, each of which was a bloody mess.

And unlike the scars of swords, no matter whether they were wearing leather armor or tin cans, they all looked like they had been crushed by a huge force, and were completely a pool of flesh.

There were also several bodies that were like chalk, most of which were smeared on the ground.

The blood flowed into the depression and condensed into blocks, making the ground gray and black.

The strong smell of blood that seemed to have condensed into blocks, mixed with the smell of decay and some unspeakable stench, came to the face.

The picture of hell was just like this.

If the vision provided by the cat's eye potion was not black and white, Ailin's performance would probably be not much different from Francesca.

Resisting the nausea, the demon hunter crouched and leaned out of the passage to check the situation in other places blocked by the rock wall.

"Roar!"

A roar suddenly exploded from his ears and echoed through the cave.

"... The enemy is coming again... Trolls, kill them all!!!"

It was a mountain stone!

Aylin froze for a moment, and his heart skipped a beat.

His forward body suddenly retracted, and when he was about to flee back to the illusion with Francesca, who was also terrified...

"Kill!"

The sound of fighting suddenly rang out at the other end of the rock troll cave.

At the same time, several torches were thrown in, and the moment they came into contact with the oily liquid that was splashed on the ground at some point.

"Wow!"

A raging fire ignited, illuminating the entire cave.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

In astonishment, all the rock trolls in sight rushed to the cave entrance, and the ground trembled as if thousands of troops were marching.

Even the rocks that were very close to the cave entrance where Aylin and his team were, dragged their heavy steps towards the door.

The treatment of the soldiers at the cave entrance by the rock trolls was completely different from that of Aylin and his team at the beginning.

According to the big stone, this represents a hatred that will never end!

Hey!

The huge rock mountain-like rock left, revealing several small mounds of earth.

The demon hunter looked at them carefully in the light of the fire, and found that these small mounds were all rock trolls, but they were all motionless.

Seven!

Or rather, seven rock troll corpses. One or two of them had pools of blood under their bodies, which had not yet solidified. They should not have been dead for long.

"No wonder these rock trolls went crazy for a while." The demon hunter thought.

Wait!

Blood...

Alin's mind turned, and he opened the demon hunting notes.

[Task: Summoning I (Collecting Rock Troll Blood 3/20)]

[Task Reward: Celestial Intersection - Troll]

Yes, he still has the task of collecting rock troll blood to complete.

As for the others...

[Hunting Quest: Water Ghost II (Kill Water Ghost 463/500)]

[Hunting Quest: Little Mist Demon I (Kill Little Mist Demon 2/100)]

[Hunting Quest: Ghoul I (Kill Ghoul 14/200)]

[Hunting Quest: Spirit I (Kill Spirit 12/50)]

The only hunting quest that was about to be completed was Water Ghost II, after all, this kind of monster is everywhere.

On the way out of Kaer Morhen, Aylin and Hughes killed a lot of them.

Originally, he thought this quest would be completed first, but now...

The demon hunter glanced at the body of the rock troll not far away, and then glanced at the rock troll rushing towards the door, gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

"Francesca, wait for me here, I'll go check the situation and come back soon!"

"Ah?"

Before Francesca could react, she suddenly found that the demon hunter...

disappeared!