God-level Demon Hunter

"I ran all over Edsburgh, and the doctors couldn't see anything wrong, and there was nothing they could do."

"I turned the whole house upside down, and I couldn't find any weird signs. But I have a hunch that there must be something dirty hiding in my house, cursing me, corrupting me, and making me restless."

"Ordinary people can't solve my problem at all, so Master Lei Suo, please help me."

The dwarf looked sincere, and he looked at the witcher without the slightest discrimination that is common in human eyes.

After listening to his statement, Lei Suo lowered his head and thought, tapping the table with his carrot-like fingers.Roy was on the sidelines, trying to see if he could connect this incident with the known monsters in his mind.

"Two hundred crowns."

Lei Suo quoted the final price, which was twice as much as hunting the tomb witch in Kaye.The dwarf in front of him seemed to be a guy with no shortage of money, because the employer was rich or poor, and the witcher had to "flexibly set prices".

Sure enough, Sewell Hogg didn't make a counter-offer at all, and readily agreed.

"Now take us to your house to see the situation."

……

Sewell Hogg, as the general agent of Aldersberg wines, has strong financial resources. His mansion is located in the wealthy area in the west of the city, surrounded by four towers.

The wealthy area occupies a large area, and there are prominent people from all over Edsibo, such as Baron Tavik, weapons ore merchants, and liquor merchants. The density of patrolling guards and green facilities in this area are far beyond the civilian area.

Behind the high wall in the west of the wealthy area is the vast Mahakam Mountain. Some bards jokingly said that this mountain was built by the nobles stationed in Edsberg a long time ago to prevent their troops from fleeing. .

Inside and outside the high walls and green tiles of Sewell's mansion, many dwarf guards with whips, giant axes and heavy hammers patrolled everywhere and were heavily guarded.

The guards saw Sewell all bowing and saluting, with respect from the heart in their eyes.

"It seems that this guy has a high reputation among the dwarves."

Roy also noticed that apart from the totem-like, meaningless patterns on the outer wall, there were also lifelike statues of the Prophet Lebioda engraved in some places.

The two entered the gate, and Sewell waved his hands away to dismiss the other men, leaving an undisturbed quiet atmosphere for the two, and then yawned.

"After the two survey the courtyard, tell the guard that you can enter the house to check. I'm very sleepy, I'm afraid I need to catch up on sleep first." The nightmare made Sewell's sleep quality extremely poor, and he had to take a nap when he had time.

After Sewell left, the two quickly launched an investigation.

Lei Suo roughly observed the structure of the courtyard. There was a small fountain in the center of the courtyard, and neatly repaired ornamental plants were planted on three sides.

There are also a large number of green potted plants taller than a person connected end to end, besieging the city with a maze of side roads.

A strange light flashed in his pupils, and then he began to search slowly in one direction.

Roy knew that the big man had quietly activated the witcher's senses, and at this moment it was almost a radar that continuously radiated microwaves.He leaned forward and asked curiously, "I've always been curious about how demon hunters search for traces of monsters."

Lesso was very patient in terms of the demon hunter's professional skills, and explained carefully, "The way demon hunters undergo mutations is different from ordinary people. To be precise, we can collect information from vision, smell, and hearing. All the cues of it are redisplayed through sensory reshaping."

"Shaped into a fuzzy ribbon of gas in front of my eyes... circles of invisible sound waves... a group of shallow footprints..."

"These can lead the way."

Lesso paused, "A demon hunter's perception is very keen, he can see farther, he can hear more clearly, and he can smell things that ordinary people can't detect."

"For example, the smell of blood left a few months ago, the body odor of monsters, the pungent perfume smell..."

"There is also the smell of fine wine in the cellar." Roy couldn't help but interjected.

"That's right, according to these clues, if you follow the clues, you will naturally find the culprit." After finishing speaking, Lei Suo suddenly looked solemn, and said to Roy solemnly, "But before you find suspicious traces and start tracking clues, you'd better be able to find the culprit." Determine what kind of enemy you are facing."

"Is it something you can deal with, or you can only look up... If you make a wrong judgment, maybe you will face a terrifying existence and lose your life."

A trace of melancholy flashed across Lei Suo's eyes, as if recalling something.

"To judge whether the target is accurate, you have to look at the experience of the demon hunter. For example, the body odor of water ghosts has a fishy smell of aquatic plants and fish, and places where ghouls haunt will leave rotting corpses, and white widows will destroy the integrity of the ground and Leaving green slime at the mouth of the tunnel, griffins only appear on high mountains..."

The demon hunter patiently guided with field operations and patient explanations, while Roy desperately listened, experienced, and memorized.

"Having said so much, kid, can you give me a judgment and a guess based on my words and the clues in the courtyard." Lei Suo put forward a test to Roy expressionlessly.

Roy rubbed his chin, went through the new knowledge in his mind, and said hesitantly, "My remarks are only aimed at the courtyard. The search just now didn't find any strange footprints, so we can first rule out... A suspected blood-sucking creature that is good at invisibility and hypnosis."

"Good memory." Lei Suo rarely said a word of praise, "Exclude Kata Kahn, now go to the house to find other possibilities."

Chapter 9 Cellar Secrets

The two walked through the corridor paved with bearskin carpets, and under the light of candles, they could see the magnificently decorated hall at a glance.

Just within their reach, a well-maintained bust exudes a seductive light in the display case, and a vase of pastel-colored porcelain is decorated every few steps.

There are more than a dozen expensive oil paintings hanging on the four walls, most of which are portraits of people. Roy identified it curiously, and found that one of them was actually a painting that got rid of the usurper a few years ago and regained control of the Nilfgaard Empire. Emperor Emhyr Enress.

Roy exclaimed, "Dare to collect the portrait of the enemy emperor in Aden, Sewell is a good flatterer."

"With the power of the dwarves, as long as he doesn't rebel, the local army can't do anything to him. It's normal for the dwarves to have a good impression of Emhyr. At least that guy doesn't discriminate against non-human races."

"I don't think so." Roy shook his head, his voice was undetectable, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Southern Empire just wants to use the non-human race." Both the Demon Hunter and the Scoia'tael will become victims of Emhyr's Northern Expedition.

But since Roy is here, he won't let the Viper School be foolishly used again.

The topic ended there, and the two continued to move forward.

The hall leads to the entrance of the corridor on the second floor. Two maids are watering the flowers in the vase, and Roy couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw their appearance, and he wanted to laugh but forced himself to hold back.

These are two dwarf maids.

Wearing a skirt, she was short and fat, but had a bushy beard no less than that of an adult male... a woman.

"Respect the customs of all races."

Leto whispered something, took out a bag of white powder from the alchemy potion bag, and began to scatter it all over the room, explaining to Roy as he sprinkled it, "This is the dried black veratrum flower powder , can stimulate some mischievous guys and make them appear automatically."

Roy poked his nose curiously and sniffed around, "A faint fragrance... It is fragrant to humans, but it is unbearably stinky to some creatures."

"Have you got a clue? What is messing with Sewell?"

Lei Suo didn't answer, and led him to walk through the hall on the first floor, then the guest room on the second floor, and the master bedroom on the third floor where Sewell was catching up on sleep, and searched it all.

"What did your Excellencies find?" The awakened dwarf rubbed his darkened eye circles and yawned. He smelled the faint fragrance of goatsweed flowers in the air, and felt refreshed, and his irritability all along disappeared.

"I haven't found it yet. By the way, besides the room on the third floor, is there any secret room in your house?"

Sewell frowned silently.

Lei Suo spoke harshly, and said unceremoniously, "This matter is related to whether the culprit can be found out, you must tell me!"

"Otherwise, if the monster cannot be caught, the money will not be refunded!"

The dwarf rubbed his whip tightly with his right hand, and sighed after a long time, "Forget it, I believe in the reputation of the Snake Demon Hunters. It's not that I didn't want to say it just now, it really matters a lot."

"Just next to the kitchen shelves on the first floor, there is a secret door leading to... leading to the wine cellar."

The wine cellar of the fine wine merchant is his deathbed.

"Be careful when you search, and don't break my wine barrel."

His eyes flickered a little, and when he came out of the room, he held a key in his arms, "I decided to accompany you to the wine cellar for inspection."

"No, give me the key, you just remember that the witcher is still searching downstairs, go back to sleep for an hour and forget about what's going on now."

With a bewitching tone, Lei Suo drew a seal with his right hand in front of the dwarf's eyes. The latter's eyes lost focus for a moment, and he handed the key to the big man in a daze. .

Surprise flashed across Roy's face, "Did you hypnotize this guy?"

Lei Suo said lightly, "He lied in front of the demon hunter. Sometimes in order to discover the truth, you have to learn to adapt."

The two had Sewell's handwriting and key, and they came to the kitchen unimpeded and entered the cellar smoothly.

This is an incomparably spacious cellar, even much larger than the upstairs house. Roy estimates that its scope includes the ground floor of the courtyard of the dwarf mansion.

The torches arranged in sequence on one side of the wall illuminate every corner of the cellar. In such a large basement, all the storage is wine. The round wooden wine barrels are placed in groups of four. The conspicuous signboard clearly shows the year and variety of each group.

Roy clicked his tongue in amazement, his eyes wandering around.

"1259, wine."

"1258, mead."

"1257, nut wine."

The ones placed at the front are all of a shallower age, and the further you go in, the older they are.

"1200, Datura wine."

……

"1158, Everus wine."

"This guy, Sewell, wouldn't move all the fine wine brewed by the entire dwarf clan to this basement. There are even fine wines that are hundreds of years old."

"Unfortunately, I don't like drinking."

Lei Suopu slapped Roy hard on the shoulder like a fan, making the latter grin his teeth, and he said earnestly, "You won't understand the taste of fine wine until you become a real man."

"I don't want to be an alcoholic."

Two people could walk through the huge wine cellar for half an hour, but after less than ten minutes, when Lei Suo came to a row of 1198 dwarven spirits, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

His nose twitched sensitively like a hound, then stopped, and touched the wine barrel with his thick palm and tapped it lightly a few times.

"Bang, bang, bang." Roy didn't hear anything, but his nose found it.

"It smells..."

Roy suddenly said, with a perception of over 7, his sense of smell is also far superior to that of ordinary people.Just near these barrels of wine, a very faint rotten smell lingers.

Lei Suo glanced at him in surprise, "Ordinary people can't smell this smell at all."

But what he smelled was more accurate. "This is the smell of a corpse. A human corpse, soaked in 50 years of dwarf spirits. The strong smell of alcohol has covered most of the smell. It's a pity that it can't deceive the witcher."

Roy's heart skipped a beat, and he pointed to the wine barrel, "You mean there are corpses hidden in the barrel?"

Lesso nodded, his bushy eyebrows twitching like a knife, "No wonder this Xavier Hogg wanted to come to the cellar with us, because he was afraid that we would discover the secrets in the barrel."

"When I first entered the house, I thought it was Little Earth Spirit who was playing a prank on him, but now it seems that things are not that simple."

Chapter 10 Phrases and Announcements

"Who's hiding in the barrel?"

Roy stroked the slightly cool wine barrel in confusion, as if he wanted to open it and have a look.

"Hiding the corpse in the wine cellar is equivalent to hiding a time bomb. With Sewell Hogg's status, if you want to make an ordinary person disappear completely, you don't need to use this method."

Lesso was silent for a moment, "Maybe the corpse in the wine barrel is related to the nightmare that plagued Sewell. Of course, it may also be another completely unrelated secret, a secret that he absolutely does not want anyone to know."

"Then let's get it out of the way." Roy squeezed his fist, looking ready to move.

"Acting without authorization will definitely anger Sewell. Even using the Axii Seal cannot completely erase the memory of him and his servants. For a commission of two hundred crowns, it is not worthwhile to do so."

"Control your curiosity! Let's pretend we've never been to the cellar."

"I'll use other methods to test Sewell later, you have to do as I said..."

……

After leaving the cellar, Lesso went back to the master bedroom on the third floor to re-hypnotize Sewell to hide the key.Roy has seen the miraculous effects of Axi's seal many times, and he is extremely envious.

If the target has no psychological defense, he will be caught by surprise.

"The Axii seal has a wider range of application than other seals and is more convenient. It is really a must-have skill for traveling at home and killing people."

When the dwarf woke up from the bed, he had no memory of what happened before, but the tiredness on his face faded a lot, with the refreshment of a good night's sleep.

He glanced at the wall clock, "I actually slept for an hour? I haven't slept so soundly for a long time." He opened his eyes like copper bells and waved his fists excitedly, "There must be a witcher around me. That dirty thing doesn't dare to come out to make trouble again."

"Then you two definitely have something to gain today!"

Facing the dwarf's expectation, Lesso said calmly, "That thing is very cunning and hidden very deep. I hope Mr. Sewell can provide some more clues. Can you tell us about your nightmare."

Sewell's face suddenly turned pale, as if he had thought of something terrible.The dwarf, who has always been free and easy, showed a twist on his face. He hesitated and resisted, and stammered, "My nightmare is terrifying and weird, and it is indescribable."

"If you can't cooperate openly and honestly, the witcher can't save you."

"I'm sorry... I really... really don't want to mention this. Capturing monsters has nothing to do with my nightmare."

Lei Suo gave Roy a look, and the latter understood immediately, and according to the words he had prepared, "Of course it matters! Mr. Sewell, I wonder if you have heard of a monster called Sim."

The dwarf shook his head blankly.

Roy began to describe vividly, "Sim is the product of the intersection of the heaven and the sphere. He does not have a real body and can only survive in a living organism."

"Parasite in the human body?" The dwarf's face gradually turned pale, and his fists were tightly clenched.