From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

The mirror clings to each other, the demon appears, and the seal shatters, all of which happen within one breath.

By the time everyone reacted, the black cat-like demon had disappeared.

Triss was the first to come back to her senses, she stepped forward hesitantly and asked, "Lan... have you expelled the demon?"

Lan looked at the direction where the black mist finally disappeared: "It seems to have been expelled."

He flipped his wrist and put the mirror back into the 【Inventory】.

Triss trotted forward to check the skinned man who fell on the ground. As a sorceress, she also had the basic knowledge of medicine.

But the result is that the more you check, the more frightened you become.

"His muscles are completely stiff and inflexible, and his nerves are basically dead. The reflex system of the whole body seems to be paralyzed, unable to respond to any external stimuli."

Triss frowned, this was the first time she saw such a person: "This is simply a living corpse, if it is not breathing, it is really exactly the same as a dead person."

The snake-sect demon hunters gathered around hesitated to speak, and they had never seen such an existence.

In the end, Lei Suo said: "If it really doesn't work, let's give this guy a break. In this state... life is worse than death."

Lan En shook his head, and said firmly, "He can still be saved."

He raised his head and met everyone's gaze: "Do you still remember the power of the ancient blood that I told you about? This is one of them."

The last skill point stored in the system was consumed by Lane, and there was a new vacancy in the [Follower] panel.

Entourage, contract.

During this period of time, Lane has accumulated a lot of experience points after going through several side missions and demon hunting missions, plus not knowing what Ace has done.

At this moment, these experiences seem to be falling like an avalanche, almost bottoming out.

This is the first time Lann has contracted a "follower" who has no loyalty to him, and the power consumed is far beyond his imagination.

But fortunately, the decline in experience points finally stopped before the values ​​were completely cleared, and then a new follower system panel appeared in front of Lane's eyes.

[Follower: Kayan

Sex: Male

Race: Demon Hunter

Grade 1

Talent: Psychic

Experience Points: 0/1000

HP: 1200/1200

Mana: 500/500

inventory: none

Skill column: Cat School Skills, Cat School Swordsmanship Advanced, Cat School Seal Intermediate, Alchemy Elementary, Riding Advanced, Accurate Shooting, Combat Intuition, Pain Tolerance, Nightmare Enhancement

Mission: None]

[Shared Follower Talent: Psychic]

[Psychic medium: Improved resistance to mind control skills, improved perception of demons, ghosts, ghosts, and supernatural phenomena]

Lan En raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that the other party had talent. It's just that I don't know whether the other party is a talent from birth, or a "talent" left over after being possessed by a demon.

In the eyes of Triss and the four snake demon hunters, the demon hunter who fell on the ground suddenly began to tremble violently after Lann's palm touched him.

In just a blink of an eye, everyone didn't even realize what happened. The skinned man in front of them suddenly disappeared, replaced by a slender and strong man.

His breathing is steady and powerful, his muscles are well-defined but not swollen, and he looks like a well-trained warrior. But his skin is very delicate, and there is no scar at the same time, this is like a person who has never been exposed to combat.

In other words, this is a newborn person.

Lei Suo's eyes widened: "It's unbelievable. The blood of the ancients...is this the kind of power Wild Hunt is after?"

"Lan!" Colgrim yelled excitedly, "Is there any limit to your treatment? This is a means of bringing the dead back to life. If Chapelle is still here, he will kneel down and shout a miracle!"

Hearing this, the man who fell on the ground seemed to have become unimportant at this moment, and everyone's eyes were on Lan En.

Just like what Colgrim said, this is the power to bring the dead back to life, surpassing all known healing methods on the mainland!

"I'm still figuring out this power, and its limits and limitations are not very clear to me yet." Lan En said with a smile, "I can only say: If you are injured, try to hold your last breath, and then give me some Time to prepare. I can bring each of you back like this at least once."

There was a look of amazement in everyone's eyes again. This is simply a second life, and they, who have been through battle, understand what it means.

Maybe it was because everyone's voices were too loud. The man who fell on the ground twitched his fingers a few times and slowly opened his eyes.

Those eyes were still red in color, but the whites of the eyes were already clear, only the pupils still glowed with blood.

Fortunately, there is no more madness and killing in it, only confusion. He looked around aimlessly, and finally his eyes stopped on Lane.

For some reason, he felt that the blond young man with strange eyes in front of him exuded an amiable aura, which made him feel at ease, and he couldn't help but want to trust him.

"Dude, are you still awake? Do you remember your name?"

"Name?" The man's eyes were dull for a while, and he muttered to himself, but a word blurted out before he thought, "Kiyaen."

"Yes, Kyyan." His eyes lit up, "My name is Kyyan!"

Lan laughed, the cat sent the witcher, he saved it.

…………

It's a meme, but it's also true.

Lane sometimes wondered whether he should pull the cat faction into his plan for the revival of the demon hunters. If he planted a time bomb in his own forces just to gather the faction like a "collection card", then Too much loss outweighs the gain.

But after much consideration, Lan finally decided to accept the cat pie.

For one thing, in the original book, there are still rational people in Cat Pie. Lambert of Wolf Pie has a close friend of Cat Pie. According to Lambert himself, this Cat Pie treats him more than Geralt appetite.

Second, each school has its foundation, and the cat school's swordsmanship does have merits. It can be used as a reference when training new demon hunters or even elite soldiers among mortals.

Three things, Lane thinks that Cat Pie's madness is not incurable.

Before understanding why the cats are so crazy, you need to understand the history of cats:

At the end of the Demon Hunter Order, Alzu's departure made the Order lose its direction. Gradually, some Demon Hunters began to go against the grain, and even confronted their comrades with swords in order to compete for commissions. In the end, a large-scale conflict broke out among the Demon Hunters, resulting in The order was disbanded.

It was at this time that a group of demon hunters wearing cat head pendants quietly left the demon hunter order. They hoped to save the weakening WeChat of the demon hunters and regain a good reputation for the demon hunters.

That's right, the school of cats that led to the Witcher's notoriety was originally intended to restore the Witcher's good name!

This group of demon hunters secretly took away a batch of mutation materials and experimental equipment, but was recovered by the demon hunter order. They refused the order's retention, and they were no longer willing to get along with the demon hunters who had changed their taste. But they also lost the complete mutation formula, and had to ask new warlocks for help.

Fate played a trick on these ambitious young witchers.

They traveled all the way south and finally settled in Stygia Castle. According to the formula provided by these demon hunters, the mages of Stiga began to transform mutations, with the purpose of blunting emotions and making demon hunters more rational; but the result was just the opposite, they created a group of cruel, sensitive, and irritable lunatics .

The mages put the failed products of these experiments into cages, trying to analyze the reasons for the failures. After all, biological weapons like demon hunters are really rare in history, and they are too tempting for every mage.

At this time, a half-elf demon hunter named Gizlas climbed up from the corpse of his companion. He liberated his companion with extraordinary courage and skill, and at the same time led his comrades to join the camp of elves, seeking asylum by attacking humans. And remuneration, grow yourself.

After the full-fledged, Gizlas led his companions back to Stiga Castle on a cloudy night, one by one to settle accounts with the mage who created them, and took their lives in their sleep.

After the sanity faded, when the madness shrouded, and the blood was surging, the cat school was established.

The demon hunters of the cat school no longer have a stronghold, and they use the constantly flowing caravan as their shelter. Crazy, they continue to follow the crazy mutation formula, and even created a female witcher by accident.

And because of this, they also discovered that: the neutrality of the religious order has long been trampled under their feet, and killing people is far easier and more profitable than killing monsters; out of hatred for their parents who sold themselves cheaply, mages who experimented cruelly, and thugs who turned back , Maopai is more often willing to accept the elves' entrustment.

Fate likes to play tricks so much. The pioneers who first dreamed of revitalizing the school and left the order ended up doing unacceptable deeds. Every other witcher was reviled and spurned in the countryside. Their contribution is indispensable.

The madness of Maopai comes from the defects of mutations, and it also comes from the experience of the first generation of Maopai people, and it is these first generation of Maopai people who have passed on the madness.

Lane believes that finding a real master of bioalchemy to re-study the mutation of the demon hunter, and then giving the new cat school a more cohesive and more secure training environment, all of these can cultivate new and more stable cat hunters .

Moreover, even in today's environment, there are occasionally lucky cat hunters who can gain normal sanity. In the original book, Kayan is one of them. He is a "relatively sensible" kind of cat-like witcher.

Based on the above reasons, coupled with the experiment on his [follower] panel, Lan finally decided to recruit Kayan. Similarly, Lambert's best friend, the sanity cat that the player has encountered in the game, if Lane has the opportunity in the future, he will also be included in it.

Lann flipped his hand and took out the cat pie badge necklace from the [item bar].

Handing the badge to Kaiyan, he smiled lightly and said, "It's returned to its original owner, Kaiyan, don't lose it again in the future."

Kaiyan's consciousness has just recovered, and he can still respond to Lane's words.

He stared blankly at the badge, and then, a frenzy of memories swept towards his brain.

His eyes began to flash red, and his smooth face began to tremble like a cramp.

Cargo ships, warlocks, seas, storms...

Experimentation, anger, pain, numbness...

Countless pictures began to flash back, each picture seemed to be stained with blood, and some scenes even had only transparent lines, but Kayan could still perceive majestic emotions from them.

Until these memory fragments are connected into a string, they start to be pieced together, combined, and logical.

He remembered it all.

As a Cat Pie witcher, he grew up hating his identity. After entering the life of a lone ranger, he also quickly got tired of the precarious entrustment, and he didn't want to work for anyone anymore. He even rejected the appointment of a prince's personal bodyguard and became a bodyguard of a smuggling ship. After a few years, he was stable. day.

Until one day, the captain arranged a warlock into his room on the grounds of "crowded cabin".

At that time, he had already restrained his explosive temperament to fight with others, and unless he fought, he often compromised in his daily life.

That is a warlock, full of wisdom, and it makes people feel refreshed when talking with people. Although he has an extraordinary enthusiasm for himself, Kayan didn't care at first.

Later, while he was meditating, the other party paralyzed him with magic and potion.

In a hazy state of consciousness, he vaguely heard surging waves and raging storms outside the cabin, and the familiar voice stopped laughing, but wailed; he couldn't help himself, and was taken back to the laboratory, and a period began Bloody days of darkness.

He didn't want to think about the memories after that, he only remembered the last moment of consciousness, what he saw was a cat statue with red eyes.

I remembered it, I remembered it all.

Kaiyan raised his head, his eyes were blood red, his face was cold, but his tone was soft.

Looking at Lann, who gave him an inexplicable sense of affinity, Kayan asked, "You saved me?"

The griffin badge hanging on the other party's neck made him feel even more kind, even more kind than a cat.

"I'm Lann from Sintra, Lannister Leanlun, a demon hunter of the Griffin School, welcome back to the normal world." Lane asked, "How do you feel now?"

After hearing the question, Kyan closed his eyes and clenched his fists. He felt a power surge in his body that far exceeded his previous strength.

He twisted his neck, moved his limbs, and made a crackling sound of fried beans. Not only that, the hidden injuries from previous training and the inconvenience caused by some old diseases all disappeared without a trace at this moment.

The vitality contained in his body shocked even himself.

"I've never felt better than I do right now."

Kayan looked around and looked at the four Snake Demon Hunters and a sorceress around him, as if he had just discovered them: "You also saved me?"

Reso shook his head on behalf of the Snake Demon Hunter: "We were only involved in part of the process of changing you back from that... appearance. It is Lan and Triss who brought you out of the underground laboratory."

Kaiyan automatically ignored the "Triss" in the words, and turned to look at Lann, his eyes were more intimate and hot.

Lan En deliberately asked: "Then, Kaiyan, what are your plans in the future? Do you have any companions sent by cats to look for, or do you have other friends you can rely on?"

Kaiyan glanced at Lane, lowered his head and pondered: "I would like to ask, what year is this year?"

"1264."

Kayan had been mentally prepared, but he couldn't help sighing after hearing this: "Thirty years have passed."

The sadness and loss in those words made the listeners sigh.

"Then, the people you knew before must have changed a lot, so you should go find them slowly?" Lan En persuaded very understandingly, "Why don't you help me by my side now? Just treat it as a My commission to you. To be honest, I am the Earl of Cintra. Cintra is planning to rebuild the Demon Hunter Order recently. We already have griffins, wolves and snakes. The goal is further, but I have encountered a little trouble recently..."

"Okay!" Kaiyan's reason seemed to snap again suddenly, and his enthusiasm when he promised far exceeded the level of gratitude he should have for his savior.

It seemed as if he just waited for Lann to invite him, and then agreed with the trend.

Lan En was interrupted, but showed a satisfied smile.

…………

Will Ran have empathy for Kayan? Because the other party suffered a cruel experiment, are you also filled with righteous indignation as a demon hunter?

not.

Don't forget who was the first demon hunter Lan encountered since his rebirth, and what happened between them.

Although Lann has been a witcher for a long time, his emotions are not so universal. He might risk his life for Ciri, for Mossak, for Geron and others, as for others——

Even for the good brother Snake Pai of the player in the previous life, Lan En is only friendly, not friendly. In the final analysis, the relationship has not yet reached this point.

So not to mention Kayan, although his experience is very pitiful, but after all he is not a good person. Kayan once accepted the prince's employment to massacre a scientific expedition team, killing people and seizing treasures, and later became the bodyguard of a slave smuggling ship.

Under the worldview of this era, he is also a ruthless person.

In Lane's vision, the most ideal member of the Demon Hunter Order should be a cat pie like Lambert's best friend.

But the existence of the [Follower] panel made him want to try to subdue Kayan.

Keyan may not be considered a good person, but it happens that there are too many first-class "good guys" and "knights" around Lann.

Even the Snake School, which specializes in assassination missions, is actually a group of people with a solid moral bottom line.

A qualified leader, the people around him can't be too homogeneous, right?

Fortunately, Lann's [Follower] panel did not disappoint him.

And according to the talents and skills displayed on the [Followers] panel, even if Kayan is not as good as a mentor-level task like Vesemir in the school, he must be far superior to the average demon hunter.

Lan couldn't be more satisfied with the harvest of this exploration under the Temple Island.

Since then, Lann has officially gained the support of four snake demon hunters, gained the "entourage" of a cat demon hunter, and gained the friendship of "Chapelle". Can get the support of Novigrad, the "capital of the North".

Far exceeded expectations.

For a moment, he even felt that the task of Master Mirror was not so important anymore, and what he gained from coming to Novigrad was enough!

Okay, just kidding, that's a little too far-fetched to say that.

There are still tasks to be done, but before that, the hands in the dark must be chopped off one by one to avoid unnecessary complications.

Lan thought for a while, and his mind turned back to the original purpose.

"Lesso, what do you plan to do in the future, continue to go back to Reins to lurk?"

Lesso shook his head: "We basically don't meet with Reins, and we only meet when we make an appointment in advance, usually to discuss tasks."

Very loose team structure.

Lan asked again: "Then stay with us first, when did you originally plan to launch an attack against Chapelle and me?"

Lesso replied, "Seven days later."

Lan nodded, there was still plenty of time, enough to implement his plan little by little.

"Kyan, I want you to do me a favor too."

The new Cat Pie witcher straightened up and pricked up his ears.

…………

Chapelle's shapeshifter is pure in nature, and he doesn't want his affairs to implicate the citizens of Novigrad, so he wants to get rid of the three leaders of the gang in advance to prevent them from launching a riot.

Oakes, Serrit, and Colgrim went to assassinate the Beggar King, Hawthorne, and Machete respectively.

Because they were worried about scaring the enemy, the three of them did not attack immediately. Instead, they hibernated in Lann's residence and waited until there was only one day left before the planned riot. Then they spread out in the night and showed their fangs.

Among them, the action of Oaks is the fastest.

In the original game, the Snake Sect team was once rescued by the player played by Geralt. Since then, he has devoted his heart and soul to the player, not only helping the player fight against the wild hunting, taking care of the amnesiac Yennefer, but also being killed by Emperor Nilfgaard. Arrested and embarked on the road to regicide.

Oakes' original ending was very embarrassing. He planned to assassinate the king of Kaedwen in the game, but he ran into the player head-on. At that time, Geralt, played by the player, lost his memory and didn't remember his brother who lived and died with him at all, and finally killed Oakes by accident.

Of course, Oakes' fortunes have changed now.

At this moment, he is tracking a homeless man.

According to his observations, the man was going to "pay his taxes."

The Beggar King is a very peculiar existence in Novigrad. He is different from the gang-style machete and family-style Hawthorne.

He proclaimed himself the Beggar King, intending to ridicule the red tape of the court, but he himself took part of the essence and actually established a set of operational order in the underground of Novigrad.

"Paying taxes" is the most important part of the order he established to maintain his decent life and class authority.

Following this vagabond, Oakes arrived at the territory of the beggar king known as "Rotten Forest". The sealed gate and sporadic guards couldn't help the experienced snake witcher.

In the night, a black shadow shuttled across the shadows at every corner and above the eaves.

Soon, Oakes discovered his assassination target.