From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

Because of drinking the water of Brokiron and overdrawing the battle, Geralt is in a very bad state, and may even fall off while riding a horse.

So Lan invited him, Ciri and Mossack to live in his house first.

The demon hunter is withdrawn by nature and doesn't seem to like heights, so his room is at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

When Lan walked to the door of the room, he heard two people arguing.

"Geralt, she is your destiny. Your paths have crossed three times, and you don't think it's mere coincidence? You asked Calanthe, Pavetta, and her husband to make a vow that was' The law of accident', is the force of fate. They kept their word. Ciri was the child of accident. Fate demanded..."

"Ask me to take her and turn her into a witcher? She's a girl! Look at me, Mossack! Can you imagine a pretty little girl like me?"

"To hell with the witcher's rules! Since Ciri was born, your wishes and plans are no longer important. For the sake of plague and cholera, even you are not worth mentioning! Do you understand? ?Fate is a double-edged sword, and it is dangerous to play with it. Stop playing, Geralt, and establish a guardian-ward relationship with Ciri.

Otherwise... the bond might take other forms, more dire ones. I want to protect you! If you take her, I will not object, and I will risk explaining everything to Calanthe. "

Then Lan heard Geralt's loud voice of denial, and then a more intense argument.

These two old fellows, who are estimated to be more than three hundred years old together, have really loud voices.

After a while, Mossak angrily pushed open the door and saw Lan standing at the door.

"Uncle Mossack...good evening?"

The druid sighed, and smiled awkwardly at Lann.

"You may have heard something just now, we'll talk about that later."

Lane nodded. In fact, he already knew the content of the quarrel between the two in the room.

Stepping forward and knocking on the door out of politeness, Geralt, who was digesting his emotions, looked up.

Speaking of which, Geralt once said a famous saying: I am a witcher, and a witcher has no feelings.

And now, inside the room, he was breathing heavily with his chest rising and falling, obviously agitated by the quarrel with Mossack just now.

"Your Excellency Lannister." Geralt nodded towards Lann, "Please come in, I haven't thanked you for taking me in yet."

"Please, just call me Lan." Lan walked in with a smile. "Anyway, you also saved Ciri, and you also contradicted Ms. Eisner for me. You also saved me many times when fighting the Griffin , I thought we were already friends."

"There is no 'rescue' in battle, just fight against the enemy together."

Lan noticed a slight sense of alienation in Geralt's words, and his attitude towards himself seemed to be no different from that of other nobles.

If you want to establish a "friendship" with Geralt, this is not a good start.

Lan thought for a while and said, "I don't know if Uncle Mossack told you, but I've always been curious about the witcher."

"It can be seen that you used a silver sword when hunting griffins, right?"

Geralt's tone was cold, and now Lan knew what the problem was.

A witcher cannot lose his sword any more than a falcon can lose its talons or a lion its tusks.

And the silver sword is in the hands of a non-demon hunter, which means that this person's hands are stained with the blood of a demon hunter. Geralt obviously misunderstood.

Lann took out the cat's head badge in his arms and explained: "When I was suppressing bandits some time ago, I ran into a bandit group, and their leader was also a demon hunter. He attacked and killed many passing caravans, slaughtered over our village, so I made him pay the price."

Geralt glanced at the cat head: "What's his name?"

"Judd Carradine."

Geralt shook his head. "I've never heard of that name, but it's always a black sheep."

Because Lan was an outsider, Geralt didn't go into details. After all, the cat school can be said to be the family scandal of witchers: the cat school is not only rich in lunatics, but also the only school that can accept murder commissions, and even they accept murder commissions more than Accept the hunting demon commission.

Some people think that Cat Pie is so deviated from tradition that he is hardly a "witcher" anymore.

And there are other grudges between the Wolf School and the Cat School: In the background story Lane knows, King Kaedwin was once bewitched by a warlock that the witcher would shake his regime, so he hired the Cat School to deceive the Wolf School The backbone of the organization organized a so-called "academic exchange" tournament.

During the meeting, the Cat School stabbed the Wolf School in the back and slaughtered the backbone of the Wolf School. Geralt, who was still an apprentice at the time, was also on the scene, and was finally rescued by Mossack passing by, which was the beginning of their friendship.

This incident directly led to the weakness of the Wolf faction, and they were no longer able to recruit and train newcomers. When Ciri grows up, even if she is included as half of the witcher, the total members of the Wolf School can be counted on one hand.

By the way, the cat witchers who backstabbed the wolf school ended up being backstabbed by the king who hired them.

As a witness to the massacre, even if Geralt had no hatred for Cat Pie, he lacked affection.

Not to mention that Lan En killed a villain who knew his own way of death. In Geralt's morality, Judd Carradine may also be a kind of "monster".

Of course, in the future, Geralt also helped the Cat Pie Witcher, and other Wolf Pie Witchers also had Cat Pie friends. The wolf hunter can rationally distinguish between "good" and "evil" instead of blaming an entire group. This is the incomprehensible but admirable morality held by them who abide by "absolute neutrality".

Let's not talk about the future, at least for now, when Geralt understands the whole story, the estrangement between him and Lann that he deliberately created will disappear.

Favorability: Indifference → Normal +.

After lamenting Judd's actions, Geralt asked again: "So, Lane, what's the matter with coming to see me so late?"

"About your reward, Geralt." Lane said, "You saved Ciri and protected her along the way. I heard Ciri promised you a lot of wealth? And you killed two griffins for my territory , I am obliged to thank you for my people."

Geralt shook his head: "Don't worry about Ciri's affairs. I saved her for nothing else. As for the griffins, I only participated in the hunting of one of them. Just give me a hundred crowns."

Lane said with a smile: "But I am willing to make you as a friend, I don't want our relationship to be limited to such a simple money transaction, Geralt.

Your superb skills in battle are admirable. I wonder if you would like to accept some other commissions, such as private swordsmanship lessons, monster knowledge teachers, etc.? "