The Witcher: Darkness Falls

"Danger!"

Seeing Leon approaching the magic potion, he was immediately stopped by Visenna.

Leon turned his head and Visenna walked towards him and said, "Be careful, these are all sources of pollution, and yourself, take off your clothes."

"What?" Leon asked.

Visenna looked at Leon, her eyes fell on the wounds on his body and said, "Do you want to lose your sense of pain?"

Leon was startled, then reacted immediately.

Yes, there were several holes in his body pierced by the mutant vines. Although the vines did not pierce him, he did not feel any pain at all now!

The incident happened suddenly just now and he didn't realize it at all. His attention was all on the rapidly withering mutant vines and the inheritance stele.

Now, after Visenna's reminder, he realized that the wounds on his body didn't hurt at all!

He has a very strong endurance, and unless the injury is fatal, his habit will make him subconsciously ignore the feeling of pain.

Because sometimes, the more you focus on the wound, the more intense the pain.

But this is obviously not the case now. He can hardly feel the pain from the wound!

"The magic potion is working!" He soon realized what was going on.

Looking back now, it seemed that his loss of pain occurred after the vine withered and fell into the potion pool.

Then, it must be the magic potion inside that is working!

He remembered the abnormality of the group of mutant rats here. It seemed that these rats had no sense of pain.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have wanted to attack him even after his body was broken into two pieces!

"What are these?" Leon took off his clothes.

There was no need for pants. When the vines attacked him, they did not choose his lower body, but focused on his upper body.

The fireflies gathered around him, and Leon looked down and counted them, and found that there were eight holes on his body!

Especially the one on the stomach, it pierced right through!

Fortunately, not much blood flowed out, and he felt that no internal organs were injured.

After all, it took less than a minute from the time he threw the magic potion given by Visenna into the potion pool to the time the vines withered.

Moreover, his own physical fitness was strong enough, and he consciously tensed his muscles, so the vines had no time to penetrate into his body.

“I don’t know, maybe there are some magic potions that can paralyze the nerves mixed in here.” Visenna reached out and touched the wound on Leon’s body and said, “Give me your dagger.”

Leon pulled out a dagger from his boots and handed it to the other party.

Visenna used a dagger to cut open Leon's skin and pry out the remaining vines inside, and said, "Those mutant rats have permanently lost their sense of pain. I can feel it.

These magic potions have also been injected into your wounds. If they are not treated in time, your sense of pain may be lost permanently.

But it is more convenient now, I don't have to give you anesthesia separately."

Leon watched Visenna cleaning his wound. He felt it carefully and still felt a slight pain, but it was very weak.

Apart from the pain, other senses are still there and there is not much impact.

Theoretically, losing his sense of pain could double his combat effectiveness.

Just like when he faced McLaren before, no matter how much he could endure the pain, he could not avoid his body's self-protection unless he drank some kind of magic potion.

But at the same time, with such a serious injury, if he lost his sense of pain, he probably wouldn't be able to immediately judge the severity of his injuries.

This is also very fatal in battle. If you don't know the extent of your injuries, you will not be able to adjust the battle strategy and rhythm in time.

In the end, it is possible that you might suddenly faint during the fight.

Pain is a protective mechanism of the human body, and he doesn't want it to disappear.

"What's going on with that plant? Can a normal plant mutate to be so aggressive?" Leon asked, "It shouldn't be a magical creation, right? I can't sense any magical fluctuations from it."

If that mutant vine was a magical creation, there must be some magical aura remaining in it, and he must have felt it at the castle's outer gate.

But the fact is, I didn’t feel it.

The magical fluctuations around the castle are released by the magic pool inside.

There were also small amounts of magical fluctuations in the rats' bodies, which showed that they had only just drank the potion and had not had time to digest it.

“Of course not, this vine is called Glade’s Vine, and it was cultivated by a druid named Glade.

These things are supposed to stay near the Druid Ring. They are usually no different from ordinary plants.

However, Glade Vine is tougher than ordinary vines, and is more fire-resistant and corrosion-resistant.

We use it to guard the Druidic Circle, where we druids gather.

If we encounter an attack, we will use growth potions and use specific spells to drive them to protect the Druid Circle.

In addition, during this period, the Glade Vine will also emit a seed. Once the seed occupies your brain, you will be controlled.

Those mutant mice were controlled, but it seemed that they were not controlled for very long, probably less than a year.

The Glade Vine cannot move, and these mice are its hounds, collecting enough food for it.

When the growth potion is exhausted, the Glade Vine will stop growing and moving, becoming no different from an ordinary plant." Visenna introduced.

She cleaned the sawdust from Leon's wound, then took off the bottles and jars she had with her and began to prepare magic potions on the spot.

At the same time, she continued: "The wizards here must have collected the seeds of Glade's vine before, and perhaps for some reason, the seeds took root and sprouted here.

This is something I have known for a long time, and I also plan to use the Glade Vine to open a passage to solve the magical pollution here.

However, I didn’t expect that the Glade Vine would mutate into this state and even have self-awareness, albeit at a very low level.”

"Self-awareness!" Leon raised his eyebrows.

He thought about it. In Sicori's notes, there were very few plant-type monsters, and even fewer with self-awareness.

The only one he seemed to know was the Thorn Demon Tree.

This is a kind of monster brought by the intersection of the celestial spheres. It is no less powerful than the knocking monster. It is both a plant and has the terrible aggressiveness of a predatory animal.

He had never encountered it before, and only saw it in Sikori's notes. It looked like a tree, but was covered with thorns.

They can shoot their spikes like arrows to attack their prey, then spread their roots to wrap around the prey's body, absorbing it until only a pile of bones is left.

"Yes, it is self-awareness. That's why I said before that we are in trouble. This kind of self-aware and extremely aggressive plant is difficult to control even for a druid.

Come on, drink this, I hope it works." Visenna prepared a potion that looked like snot.

Leon drank it while suppressing his discomfort.

The potion took effect quickly. In less than three minutes, he felt dizzy, followed by severe pain that made him groan.

Visenna smiled with satisfaction and said, “Yes, it’s working, you have to bear with it.

"Okay, demon hunter, tell me, what's inside that inheritance stele? Why did you risk your life to get close to this unknown magic potion?"