Demon Hunter: School of the Wolf

"Aelin...five..."

A hazy white light wavered in the darkness.

The vague voices of indistinct men and women came from it.

Five what?

Who is calling me?

The witcher shouted subconsciously.

But no sound came out.

"Aelin...five...five..."

The hazy light is getting darker and darker, and the undulating sound is getting smaller and smaller.

As if about to be swallowed up by boundless darkness.

To this.

The inexplicable and extreme fear made the witcher desperately want to get closer and hear clearly.

But the next moment.

However, he found that not only was he unable to speak, but his whole body seemed to be trapped and he could not move.

wrong!

It's not that I can't move...

It's that he doesn't have a body at all.

When he realized this, the witcher suddenly woke up from a dream.

At this time.

The hazy voice suddenly became clear.

She is saying:

"Aelin...May Day...Aelin...May Day..."

Just these two words keep circulating.

Or maybe there was something in between, but he couldn't hear it.

Immediately afterwards.

Before the demon hunter could think clearly about the current situation.

The hazy light went out, and then the perspective suddenly zoomed out very quickly.

At this moment he also saw his own form clearly.

He is also a ball of light, a ball of light as blue as the ocean.

But this light is not as pure as white light.

Earthy brown and windy green color blocks are interspersed among them, and silvery white light spots float on the surface...

A small but extremely evil bloody red dot is located in the center of the scattered silver dots.

When the witcher "looked" carefully, he seemed to see something in a trance...

The red dot is flashing strangely...

Blinking...

"Ha-his-ha-his-"

Aelin sat up suddenly, opened his eyes, and gasped loudly.

After a while, he finally regained his breath in shock.

He looked up.

It was still dark, just the gray-blue color of dawn.

A cool breeze came from the horizon, passing through the lush green oak trees and blowing into the somewhat old carved wooden windows.

It also blew away the heat from the demon hunter's body.

"It's still early..." he thought to himself.

Then he, the witcher, began to think about the dream.

"Blue, earthy brown, wind blue and silver dots. Looking at the proportions of the color blocks, it should be that the elements of water, earth, wind and space are undoubtedly in harmony..."

"But the red dot..."

Aelin shivered involuntarily as he recalled the feeling of being watched by a small red dot.

"The previous suspicion was not wrong. The evil god's gaze has only been dormant and has not been completely eliminated."

"So that dyed orb is my soul?"

After thinking for a long time, I couldn't figure out the answer.

"Da da da~"

He stood up and walked to the three statues of the goddess.

The girl is charming and naive, the pregnant woman is gentle, the old woman is kind...

Cracks and gaps are all over the gray and white stone body.

He was as usual, broken but holy and close.

Looking at the goddess Meriteri, the demon hunter was silent for a long time before murmuring and sighing:

"Gifts are really not that easy to get..."

"But Cinco de Mayo..."

"What did you want to tell me in your dream?"

The demon hunter shook his head helplessly:

"May Day means that the evil god's gaze needs to be eliminated on May Day, or..."

"You predicted something big will happen on May Day. Do you need me to do anything?"

"But if something unexpected happened to Elland on May Day, why didn't Ianna be notified, and why did I have to trust the unbelievers in my dreams?"

"And where is that dark space?"

…

Questions came out one after another.

The witcher is hungry for answers.

But the stone statue just smiled holyly and remained silent.

It seems that it was like this a thousand years ago, and it will be like this a thousand years later...

Gods never existed.

What is standing there is just a large stone statue.

The witcher was silent for a long time as he looked at the icon. Many thoughts surged through his mind like a sea in a storm.

He remembered that Ianna had said just yesterday that May Day was the day of the year when the goddess Meriteri was the most powerful.

The May Day carnival is also a powerful ritual to use people's positive emotions to attract the power of the goddess and put the demons and ghosts to rest.

so.

The goddess reminded him that by participating in the ceremony on that day, it would be possible to eliminate the gaze.

And in this way, this matter is only relevant to him.

Ms. Meritelli could be forgiven for not notifying Ianna.

but……

Is it really that simple?

If it was really just a reminder to him, why did you give him so many gifts yesterday?

The witcher frowned.

He had a premonition of what would happen on Cinco de Mayo.

But if this was really a possibility, it was impossible for the high priest not to know about it in advance.

unless……

The high priest had no ability to know, or the goddess had no way to deliver the oracle to the high priest...

No matter which possibility, it seems not good...

"I don't want to," Aylin shook his head, "Let's wait until Yianna comes over and ask her. Maybe she already knew, but didn't tell me?"

"and……"

"It's still the first possibility, which is more likely..."

…

After finishing the sumptuous breakfast brought by Lysa, Ianna arrived as promised.

"Ai Lin, how was your chat with Margarita yesterday..."

As soon as he entered the icon room and passed by Lesa, the high priest laughed cheerfully: "Why did you just leave immediately? We are still waiting to say goodbye to you..."

Waiting to be teased by you?

The witcher rolled his eyes inwardly and made no excuse.

Not to mention Vera.

After so many days, he has become very familiar with Yianna.

It was nothing to say goodbye last night.

What's more, he asked Mary to carry the message for him.

certainly.

None of that matters now.

"Wait, Sister Ianna," seeing what Ianna was going to say, the demon hunter quickly interrupted, "Before you learn the ritual, I have something to tell you?"

Seeing Aylin's serious expression, Ianna also put away her smile, took two steps closer and asked:

"What's wrong? What did you dream about last night?"

The witcher nodded and recounted the scene in his dream.

The priests of the goddess Meriteri, or in other words, the priests of all the gods, can interpret dreams.

This is a common skill used by priests of all races since ancient times.

Although he didn't feel like he was really dreaming last night.

"Dark space, white light, red dots like eyes, and May Day..." Ianna lowered her head and frowned, murmuring.

After a few seconds, she reached out and squeezed Aylin's palm.

Heat spread throughout the witcher's body.

"I still can't feel any evil god's breath hiding in your body," Ianna shook her head. "According to usual practice, you should have been 'cured' by this time, but..."

She paused, looked at Aylin's face gently, and said comfortingly:

"I originally wanted to keep you until the end of the month to experience the May carnival of Elland, the most famous place in the northern continent."

"So it's nothing..."

The witcher could hear some suspicion in Ianna's voice.

This is not to suspect him of lying.

Rather, I feel that this is just a normal phenomenon of thinking about something during the day and dreaming about it at night.

During the day, Aylin suspected that the curse had not been completely removed, and at night he dreamed that it really had not been removed. This was normal.

Even if Aelin has been meditating instead of sleeping.

At least this is more believable than the fact that the high priest of the Meriteri Cult, the religion with the largest number of believers in the northern continent, cannot detect the remnants of the evil god.

Aylin can also understand this.

Even if he was not familiar with Yianna, he would just nod and stop trying to convince her of the existence of another possibility.

But not Ianna.

So the witcher organized his words and looked at Ianna:

"Aunt Ianna, is there a possibility..."

"Goddess... uh... the May Day that the white light refers to may not refer to my possible curse..."

"But something bad might happen on May Day..."

When Yianna heard this, she did not speak immediately, but looked at Aylin's face carefully.

After watching for a long time, she stood up straight and asked seriously:

"Is this a prophecy?"

"Just like the dream you predicted the destruction of the Ancient Sea Fortress?"

Ailin was stunned for a few seconds, and then thought that Vera might have told her the news about the precognitive dream.

"I'm not sure..." The demon hunter told the truth, and then asked tentatively, "You...have no way to contact the goddess?"

Yianna shook her head:

"As I told you a few days ago, we haven't listened to the goddess's oracle in decades."

After pausing for a second, she continued softly:

"Actually, the day after you arrived, when I heard the voice calling you in my dream, I had already prayed with magic..."

"Divine spells can be used normally, but oracles..."

Ianna shook her head slightly.

The demon hunter was stunned when he saw this.

The high priest of Meriteli's religion cannot hear Meriteli's oracle...

If this were known to outside believers, it would probably cause a chaos as big as the Falga Rebellion...

Is this something I can listen to?

Aelin shrank his head.

"Haha..." Ianna guessed what the demon hunter was thinking, smiled softly, and said, "Didn't I tell you before? We are a family."

We've only known each other for a few days and we're already a family?

Aylin wisely did not refute and changed the subject:

"What about dream interpretation?"

"I heard that the priests all have..."

Before she finished speaking, Ianna waved her hand and interrupted:

"The kind of dream interpretation you mentioned is fake and is used to defraud nobles out of their money."

ah?

The witcher was a little confused when he heard this.

Dream interpretation is fake...

But in the original work, Meriteri taught the future high priest Nennik, but didn't she always insist on letting the talented priestess Aurora interpret Geralt's dreams?

Is it that talents like Aurora are harder to find, or is this also the difference between the two worlds?

"Do you really think there will be problems on May Day?" Ianna asked suddenly after being silent for a few seconds.

"I'm not sure..." Aylin said truthfully.

"But you feel uneasy?" Ianna asked.

Aylin thought for a while and nodded.

Although I don’t know what Goddess Meriteri will have to pay for last night’s good luck.

But it's really not worth it to pay so much just to remind him to attend the Cinco de Mayo carnival.

"I understand." Yianna let out a sigh of relief, "I will inform Mason and ask him to make more preparations."

Although I don’t know how much more preparation is needed.

But it is obvious that the cost is definitely not small, and if nothing happens, it will inevitably cause the Elland nobles to be dissatisfied with the temple.

"Do you believe my feeling?" the witcher asked doubtfully.

"Don't underestimate yourself..." Yianna said meaningfully, "You are the child of miracles. As long as I know this, it is enough."

"And it doesn't matter if Mason spends more money..."

“As long as May Day can start and end safely, it will all be worth it.”

"Okay, don't rush into preparation now. Let's learn today's ritual first..."

…

[Name: Magic Ritual]

[Type: Magic Ritual]

[Requirement: Ritual Science LV4]

[Materials: Chalk*2, Glass*2, Sulfur*2, Magic Dust*1]

[Function: Create a magic circle that can increase the magic capacity. It will increase the magic power limit for the first target who enters the magic circle, has magic ability and focuses on the magic circle. It lasts for five hours.

The caster can also drain the power of the magic circle and obtain an equal proportion of the fifth element from it]

[Note: Every warlock who arranges a magic ritual is a glazed cannon! 】

The magic ceremony is the same as the life ceremony learned the day before yesterday. It is a large-scale ceremony that requires almost a whole day.

And there is no danger in failing.

So after teaching Aylin the basic construction methods in the morning, Ianna left the icon room with confidence and informed the old Duke about the changes to the May Festival.

As for Aylin.

After successfully arranging the magic ceremony and experiencing it for a while.

Discovered that this magic ritual is not just equivalent to a battery that automatically absorbs the magic power floating in the air.

Under the enriched magic power, the Ice Spear Curse, which is most similar to ordinary spells, not only became thicker and longer, it almost caught up with the size of the Ice King's release.

The speed of chanting spells is also reduced by half.

The release speed of an ice spear in two seconds gave Aylin a rare experience of the master's happiness.

Less than five minutes after the ceremony was completed, the open space in front of the sanctuary was filled with fluorescent blue icicles.

The surrounding temperature dropped by at least ten degrees.

Moreover, with the strengthening of the ritual formation, although the enhancement of the seal is not much greater than that of the Ice Spear Curse, it has also increased by at least 30%.

"Chalk, glass, sulfur, and magic dust. The materials are not expensive, and..."

The demon hunter had a thought.

The circular ritual array suddenly flashed with a white light. At the same time that the connection with the ritual array disappeared, a thumb-sized emerald green dust appeared in the center of the circle.

"Well, is this a little bit of the fifth element?" The demon hunter filled the dust with an empty glass bottle and shook it. "If you don't count the time for setting up the ritual and absorbing magic power, you still lost a little bit."

"But it's rare to see a ceremony where not only is there no gold swallowing, but you can actually see the money coming back..."

After packing up the remains of the ritual, the demon hunter no longer planned to enter the sanctuary and went straight to Vera's residence.

It's still early.

It's time to refine all the recipes obtained last night.

He has been enduring it for most of the day in order to learn how to arrange magic rituals.

Now I can't wait to refine "Blizzard" and try bullet time in real life to see if it is as powerful as in the game.

and……

The demon hunter touched the prickly beard on his chin:

"After all, it is related to the curse of the evil god. Since the May Day carnival may cause big problems..."

"I can't just rely on the 'preparations' of Ianna and the old Duke..."