The Witcher: Darkness Falls

It is very difficult to walk in the castle ruins, especially at this time.

The sun was high in the sky and the ice and snow had begun to melt. The ruins were very slippery and one could easily sprain one's ankle if one was not careful. One could even step on loose rocks and fall.

Leon followed behind Visena. From Visena's words, he roughly understood what he might encounter in the ruins.

No one knows what kind of experiments were being conducted in Styga Castle before its destruction, and wizards' experiments are often related to magic.

Therefore, the laboratories in the castle must store a large amount of materials used for magic.

Each of these materials may seem insignificant when taken alone, such as bat wings, mouse tails, lizard claws, etc.

These materials may look insignificant, but once mixed with other materials, they often produce unexpected effects.

Even wizards cannot predict these magical effects.

In the ruins that had been silent for a hundred years, due to certain reasons, such as the jars storing these materials rotting or being eaten by rats, the materials fell out, and then under the infiltration of rainwater, they fermented and gradually produced a strange reaction.

This is how magical pollution came about.

These magical contaminations may cause unexpected mutations in the small animals living here.

Worse still, it may cause the plants here to mutate and develop the characteristics of predatory animals.

Of course, there is also a very low probability that the souls of wizards buried under the ruins of the castle will turn into evil spirits.

In short, without seeing it with her own eyes, even Visenna could not know the consequences of magical pollution.

Because of this, the above situations are likely to occur.

Originally, Visenna planned to solve this mutation slowly on her own.

Moreover, when she went south to Nilfgaard, in addition to avoiding the persecution of wizards, there was a mysterious will that ultimately led her here.

Perhaps, this was a revelation from nature to her, asking her to get rid of the magical pollution here.

She is not only a druid, but also a wizard.

The magical pollution here was caused by wizards. In order not to affect the surrounding environment, she needed to clean up the mess.

When she learned that Leon was also planning to come to the ruins of Styga Castle, she thought for a moment and decided to go with Leon.

In combat, Leon was better than her, but in magic, Leon was not as good as her.

She didn't dare come here directly to deal with the magical pollution here, for fear of encountering some difficult mutant monsters.

Now that there is a ready-made demon hunter by her side, she naturally has to make good use of it.

Visenna was sure that there shouldn't be any monsters too powerful here, otherwise they would have escaped long ago.

So, after a little preparation, she brought Leon to the ruins.

"Right here!" Visenna stopped, closed her eyes, and stretched out her hand to grab something in the wind.

Leon roughly knew what she was doing, capturing the magical energy in the air.

At the same time, as a druid, she can even communicate with the surrounding environment in a very mysterious way.

Lyon turned around. This location was already the central area of ​​the ruins. Going further up was the part where the castle was still standing.

"Do you need my help?" Leon asked.

There was still a pile of ruins in front of me, and it was entangled by some dry vines. There was no entrance at all.

"Can you lift it?" Visenna looked at Leon with a smile.

Leon looked at the stones in front of him. Some were big, some were small, and some looked to weigh one or two tons.

"Well... I can't move it, but we can see if I can pry it open," Leon said.

Visenna shook her head and said, “No need, I will clear the way, and nature will tell me that the source of the pollution is deeper.

If you pry these stones away directly, the vibration caused by the falling rocks may cause the ruins to collapse again."

Leon shrugged and stood aside waiting.

Visenna took out a bottle of liquid full of magical power from her pocket. This was a magic potion she had prepared for a long time.

Leon saw her pour the potions onto the dry vines in front of her, and then began to chant some obscure spells.

"Guluguli..."

As Visenna chanted the spell, the witcher medal on Leon's chest beat more and more strongly, and he himself clearly felt the power of magic gathering.

After a moment's hesitation, he drew out his steel sword, an ordinary steel sword.

His special steel sword is now stored in a rough wooden box. This is a scabbard specially made by Visenna to block the power of demon metal.

And now, he couldn't use the special steel sword, even if he might encounter magical creatures next.

He didn't know what level of wizard Visenna was, and if he interfered with her magic, it would backfire.

As Visenna chanted the spell, a miracle happened.

The withered vines actually began to sprout and started to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Moreover, those vines seemed to have consciousness and began to grow according to Visenna's ideas.

They arched up, slowly wrapping around some large rocks, and then their branches grew to the other side and penetrated deeply.

Immediately afterwards, the vines grew as thick as forearms and began to build a bridge, directly lifting up the large rock blocking their way!

squeak-

Just as Visenna was concentrating on casting magic, a sharp cry was heard.

And when the first boulder was lifted up to create a gap, a mouse bigger than a cat suddenly rushed out.

Its blood-red eyes were filled with violence, and it bit towards Visenna's neck!

Visenna shuddered.

But soon, she felt a chill on her neck, and a sword blade flashing with cold light pierced out from the side of her neck, accurately piercing the mouth of the mutant rat that was rushing towards her!

Leon shook his hand and threw away the mutant mouse's body, then bent forward and stood in front of Visenna.

The next moment, several more mutant rats of the same size rushed out and attacked Leon.

Leon killed these mutant rats easily.

He concentrated his mind and relied on his hearing to determine what was happening behind the boulder.

He could hear that there were still mutant rats inside, but they did not launch an attack, and the sound was getting farther and farther away, obviously they were running deeper into the ruins.

Although there were no mutant rat attacks for the time being, Leon still didn't dare to let his guard down. He stood beside Visenna with a sword in his hand, ready to take action at any time.

"The fluctuation of magic..." he thought to himself as he glanced at the dead rat on the ground.

There is actually some magical power remaining in the bodies of these dead mice!

"It looks like the mutation started not long ago, otherwise the magic power wouldn't still exist in their bodies."

For non-magical creatures, magic is difficult to store, and only wizards and druids can do this.

Because they were close, the magical power in the dead rat's body was rapidly dissipating. That was why Leon was able to feel it and make a judgment.

Time passed bit by bit, and after about an hour, after Visenna took three magic potions in a row, a passage leading to the interior of the castle ruins was built by vines!