God-level Demon Hunter

Old Huck closed his eyes and was silent for a moment, his whole body relaxed.

"I see, I'm really grateful...Since the murderer is dead, Bashir must be able to rest in peace, and I have no regrets in my heart." Old Huck stared at Roy with cloudy eyes, and suddenly pleaded, "It was decided before." I paid 200 crowns, but I only borrowed 150 crowns, which is still 50. Can you allow a few days to wait until the house is sold..."

"Don't worry, old Huck will never renege on his debt!"

The demon hunter crossed his arms, looked around, and suddenly asked,

"You have lived in this house for 30 to [-] years, are you really willing to sell it?"

Old Huck was stopped by the question, and glanced wistfully at the stove, the mottled floor and the walls.

"Bashir's bones are still in Elland, where will you go after you sell the house?" Roy glanced at his gray hair at the temples, his thin face covered with wrinkles, and his aging body, " According to me, don’t sell the house!”

"Master Roy, thank you for your understanding," old Huck shook his head stubbornly, "but the old man can't take advantage of you! You have helped me a lot."

"I never said that the fifty crowns would be waived!" The boy suddenly smiled heartily at him, "I've wanted to try your handicraft for a long time."

"When the bakery reopens, I will use the baked bread to pay the bill——I will come to Ireland in the future, and you will let me open my belly and eat for free."

"This……"

"We've made a deal, just don't think I'm eating too much!"

……

"Oh, I'm so generous that I lost a quarter of the reward!" The young witcher shook his head with a self-deprecating face, and stepped out of the bakery's door with 150 crowns in his pocket.

If the client is a group of bad-mouthed thugs, he will not lose a penny.

But old Huck is just a lonely father who has lost his child. Roy has gone through the whole process of giving for his son, and he really can't bear to take away his last hope.

"Only this time, the next time will not be an example!"

……

Pot Belly Tavern.

"We never imagined..." The bearded coolie took a full sip of ale, spit on his cheeks, and said, "The murderer is a 'noble' White Rose Knight."

The thin monkey-like companion sitting across from him narrowed his eyes, "On weekdays, he pretends to be the patron saint of Errand, but secretly engages in such illegal activities of killing people. He really is a scum who eats inside and outside!"

"No, you made a mistake in one sentence. The murderers are two people. It's just because of the uneven distribution of the spoils that they fought among themselves. It would be a miserable death."

The thin monkey shook his head, "I heard that they killed people to complete some vicious ritual. Otherwise, why would the Salvatore knights be burned to death at the stake. In the past, this kind of cruel punishment was only used to deal with Those old witches who have practiced evil witchcraft!"

……

"Gollum...gollum..."

The young witcher took a sip of slightly sweet fruit wine, wiped the wine stains from the corner of his mouth,

"Sure enough, the truth has almost been completely confused. What kind of murderous and vicious rituals..."

"Isn't that obvious?" Another bald man with a bandage on his chest and a bruised nose said, "Seward is a dignified prince and grand duke, and he certainly doesn't want to let his scandal be known to everyone."

"It's a pity that I didn't get to see Queen Emelia next to Seward," Roy shook his head and said, "What kind of country and city can fascinate Simon Knight!"

Two days have passed since he found the demon hunter and solved the mystery. The bald man's injury has improved, but he will have to rest for at least a week before he fully recovers.

In fact, Lei Suo was not beaten severely by the two knights when he was locked in the secret room. Instead, due to lack of water and food, his body was slightly dehydrated and weak.

Only the horrible wound between the chest and abdomen was more serious, and it was left by Francis before.

"We'd better not provoke that high-ranking vampire again. Although he behaves weirdly," Roy had mixed feelings about that guy, "but he is not a villain, and the fight with you was also because you Mistakenly identified as the murderer, set up an ambush first."

The young man remembered the short poem that the high-ranking vampire chanted when he was parting, and vaguely felt that the other party seemed to have seen through everything long ago, and even made a reminder.

"I have my own measure," the demon hunter took a sip of the dwarf spirits, and didn't know if he listened, "Let's get to the point, you finally lived up to the expectations of me, Serrit, and Oakes, and passed the grass trial—— "

A gleam of hope flashed in the big man's eyes, "Being the only fresh blood of the Snake School in the past 20 years is the will of fate, the first step in the rise of the Viper School!"

Hearing this, Roy pinched the exquisite snake school pendant on his neck - it was given to him by Lei Suo yesterday, and it is the official proof of identity of the Viper school of demon hunters.

Never before has he felt such a sense of belonging to the Snake Sect as he does now.

"After the grass trial, I can feel the weak magic power, can I learn the seal?" The young man looked expectantly at the bald man.

"You can't chew too much," the demon hunter shook, "You have completed the courses of other apprentices for several years in less than a year, it's time to settle down and polish it for a while...not to mention half dead on the operating table After more than two months, your sword and crossbow shooting skills have not deteriorated?"

"It's a bit of a step backward..." The young man's dark golden eyes swept over the demon hunter, and he joked, "But I will not be captured by two white rose knights..."

The bald man's cheek twitched, and his complexion instantly sank.

Just as he was about to speak, a strange noise suddenly came from outside the window of the tavern. A group of people poured out from the direction of the palace like a tide, including servants in light robes and heavily armed guards.There was also a fat middle-aged man wearing a white cloak with a crown on his head surrounded by guards.

They yelled and looked terrified, as if they were driven out by something terrifying.

"What happened to the palace early in the morning?"

The questions of the two were quickly answered.

The dwarf Dennis Kramer came to the door again with a few of his men.

"Master Lei Suo, Roy, I'm sorry to disturb your recovery." The dwarf smiled respectfully and wryly. "The situation is extremely urgent now. I don't think anyone else in Elland City can solve this big trouble except for these two!"

"Big trouble?" An uncontrollable smile appeared on the corner of Roy's mouth,

This prince in green hat is really a troublemaker.

He glanced at the big man asking for instructions, and he nodded.

"Tell me about it."

The dwarf sent the two men to watch the door outside the room, then restrained his voice and stated,

"The thing is like this, just this morning, the maid who took care of Queen Emelia heard a strange cry."

The dwarf recalled the maid's description,

"The cry is full of sadness, resentment, anger and various negative emotions, like the cry of a ghost, which is creepy."

"She opened the queen's bedroom door to check, and found...a person stood motionless in front of the queen's bed with his back to the open door, head hanging down."

The dwarf's voice paused, and a strange look appeared on his face.

"That ghost thing is floating on the ground!"

"No feet, wearing a navy blue, rumpled, translucent dress."

"Two thin and long arms covered with corpse spots, and her face, I also saw that face later - there is no trace of a living person at all, with black nostrils and eye sockets, and her face is full of bruises. Gray dried meat."

"I think it's a ghost! It screamed and scared the maid away, and then chased after it! But after chasing to the door, it stopped and lingered."

"As if it couldn't leave the room!"

Hearing this, Roy had a guess in his heart.

"Everyone in the palace was alarmed, and the brothers went to check together, only to find that there was not one ghost in the queen's room but—eight ghosts!"

The eyes of the two demon hunters were fixed, and they were also taken aback.

Eight-headed demon spirits are in the same room, the danger is no less than that of vampires, right?

"I swear I've never seen such a formation in my life. Even when I faced thousands of fully armed soldiers on the battlefield, I didn't bat an eye." The dwarf lowered his head, as if he was ashamed of his timidity.

"But these two ghosts screamed in unison, and everyone was terrified! I still can't figure out why I was so frightened at that time. I didn't even fight and turned around and fled like an evil spirit. I can only force it Take His Majesty the Prince and escape the palace with everyone."

"To be precise, these things are not ghosts, they should be called demon spirits... Their screams are equivalent to a kind of mental attack, which can destroy the courage of most people in an instant. You don't have to pay too much attention to it."

Roy gave the dwarf a calm look to calm his restless mood.

"But whether it is an ordinary demon spirit, a day demon spirit, a plague banshee, or a repentant spirit is still unclear."

"One thing I can't figure out. How could there be a few demon spirits mixed into Queen Emelia's room for no reason? This kind of thing is unheard of." The boy paused, "Is the queen okay? She won't be missing, right? "

The dwarf's face was gloomy and he was speechless.

The bald demon hunter's face was extremely serious, "Demon spirits usually don't appear in places where humans live. What's more, there must be some special reason for so many appearing at once."

"Kramer, is there anything you want to explain to us?"

The dwarf was silent for a moment, and was so tangled that he almost tore off his beard, "This is the end of the matter, and I will not hide it from you two. In addition to the group of demon spirits, there is Queen Emelia's... Queen's corpse in the room." ..."

"Queen Emelia, hanged herself in her room! The body is still hanging there."

The dwarf's bushy beard quivered, and his tone was heavy and sad.

"You solved the last serial murder case by yourself, and you also understand the case. Ever since His Royal Highness Seward found out about the Queen's affair with Simon, he was so angry that he ordered her to be placed under house arrest. It has only been two days. Expect the queen to suddenly commit suicide."

"What happened last time is not completely over..." Roy realized something. Obviously, these demon spirits who suddenly appeared were inseparable from the hidden rituals of the Sun Cult.

Although Simon died, the seven crimes had been terminated and the ceremony was completed...

And his last death condition - two wings of flesh and blood behind him, could it contain some kind of deep meaning?

"I'm sure that one of the demon spirits was transformed by Queen Emelia."

"There are another seven, you didn't find it? It's exactly the same number as the number of victims in the previous murder."

No.16 Goodbye, My Rose

Before you die, you must deal with your own affairs, say goodbye to your loved ones, write a will, and apologize to those who have hurt you, otherwise you will never be able to leave this world.

— Advice to a Dying Man

"Then what should we do?" asked the dwarf, if the two demon spirits were allowed to mourn day and night in the palace, the whole palace would never be peaceful.

"First of all, you have to figure out the nature of the demon spirit." Lei Suo said, "The demon spirit is a kind of sad and terrifying creature. They have been entangled in endless pain. Because they felt that they were mistreated and framed during their lifetime, they were always full of anger. He hates and envies the living; because he had unfulfilled wishes during his lifetime, he was very unwilling to leave, and he was reluctant to leave."

"And these strong emotions are the bond that drives them to stay in the world. We only need to destroy this bond to destroy them completely."

"The fetters?" The dwarf said, "Their fetters? Is it possible that I have to go to their former families one by one to end their wishes? Can't use force to solve them all?"

Lei Suo shook his head, "Even if I'm not injured, it's hard to deal with the eight-headed demon spirit in the narrow house at once... This thing is not afraid of flames and poisons, and it's quite tricky."

"It's hard and unrealistic, and we can only adopt other methods-the bond should be in the room, so the demon spirits cannot leave the door for half a step from the day they are born."

"We have to find the bond."

The dwarf was silent.

He leads by saying,

"Imagine that you were living a good life, but you were killed for no reason, and you were even tortured before you died. You were in such agony. Then you became a demon spirit. What would be the greatest wish in your heart?"

"Hate... blood for blood!" said the dwarf coldly, "I will make the murderer get retribution, and let him be wiped out!"

"Then if the murderer also dies and becomes a demon spirit."

"I will always be entangled with her, so that he cannot rest in peace."

"So—" Roy patted the dwarf on the shoulder, "Salvatore has been burned to death on the stake, and the murderer still has Simon who turned into a demon spirit."

"Then we only need to get rid of Simon Knight... the six dead will be free." A flash of understanding flashed in the dwarf's eyes,

"Furthermore, Queen Emelia is the sustenance of Simon's love and the fetter of Simon. It is also the center of the ceremony of the Seven Deadly Sins."

"So Emelia is the root of everything. She hanged in the room, unable to escape, and was haunted by a group of demon spirits. Get rid of her, and all this will dissipate."

The dwarf's face changed when he heard the words, "Destroy the queen's ghost?"

"Cleansing, rather. Freeing them from their obscuring husks."

said the witcher,

"The demon spirit does not have the perfect emotions of human beings, but it has the last obsession in life. Let's find out the obsession, and then purify the queen's demon spirit."

……

The dwarf stroked his long dark brown beard covering his chin, and brought the two witchers to the palace again.

Along the way, he kept talking about the difficult situation of the queen in the palace.

On the one hand, it is due to the queen's humble origins.Compared with Seward, the king of a country, Emelia is only the daughter of a baron in the territory of Ireland.

Seward has always enjoyed this sense of superiority over her status as a woman, and her attitude towards Emelia is extremely indifferent, and she usually doesn't care about it.

To him, the queen is just a tool for giving birth to a child, a puppet without feelings, not to mention that she has not yet given birth to a son and a half, so she is even more unpopular.

"If there is no prince, Miss Emelia and Knight Simon are really golden boys and girls, and they are incomparably right."

An absurd thought flashed through the dwarf's mind, and then he drove it out of his mind in an instant.

"The Grand Duke undoubtedly owes the queen an apology. This is where the obsession lies."

The bald witcher made a guess.