The Witcher: Darkness Falls

Before the goblin could react, Leon rushed forward.

He swung his sword and killed the leading goblin leader, then rushed into the group of goblins and killed them with his sword.

There were not many goblins in this group, about forty or fifty of them. Led by the goblin leader, they snatched two women from somewhere.

And now, Leon unexpectedly beheaded the goblin leader, and in an instant, the ordinary goblins immediately fell into chaos.

Some of the goblins, perhaps seeing that Leon was alone, immediately rushed towards him with bared fangs and claws.

But unfortunately, these goblins had never seen a demon hunter before and underestimated Leon's strength. They rushed forward and had their necks chopped off by his steel sword.

The foul-smelling blood gushed out, making the surrounding air polluted.

Ahhhhh——

Seeing their companions being killed so easily, the remaining goblins panicked and abandoned the women and fled into the woods.

After Leon chased after them and killed a few of them, he stopped chasing.

They scattered and fled, and it was night, so it was a waste of time to chase them.

Leon put away his steel sword, turned around and looked at the two frightened women and said, "Okay, you are safe."

The two women hugged each other tremblingly. Leon saw that they were wearing aprons, coarse linen clothes, and their palms were rough. They were obviously peasant women.

"Monster...creature! Don't come over here! Please!" A peasant woman screamed for mercy.

Leon stood there. He wanted to explain, but the two women were trembling with fear. If he got any closer, the two women would probably have a mental breakdown.

"Quiet! You are safe!" Leon cast the Axis seal, and invisible ripples spread out from the palm of his left hand.

Gradually, the two frightened women calmed down. Although they were still afraid, they were no longer afraid of Leon.

At this moment, Leon was at least three meters away from the two women. At this distance, using the Axis Sign to comfort the overly frightened people was something Leon couldn't even think of.

But now, he can do it easily.

After becoming an official wizard, the power of Leon's Demon Hunter Sign was greatly enhanced.

The Demon Hunter's Sigil is a combat skill that wizards teach to demon hunters after streamlining some magic.

This skill does not require magic, only sufficient mental and physical strength, plus specific hand seals and gestures to activate it.

But no matter what, the witcher's sigil is essentially a magic that is simplified to the extreme.

As long as it is magic, it can be activated by relying on magic power.

Leon now understood why wizards looked down on the Demon Hunter's Signet. The main reason was that it was too weak.

But there is another reason: it consumes too much mental energy.

Or it's a waste of mental energy.

He estimated that with his current mental strength, he could perform the Axis Seal five or six times in succession.

But if you use magic to cast the Axis Sign, you can cast it ten times or even more.

Not only that, its power has also increased three or four times!

This discovery made Lyon very happy. He now understood how much he had wasted in the past.

After all, magic is a spell developed based on magical power, not mental power.

The process of using mental power to drive magic will naturally produce a lot of consumption, and this consumption may even be more than the part used to stimulate the magic.

This is why wizards don't use their mental power directly to activate magic; it's a waste.

Magic power can be replenished at any time with magic potions, but excessive consumption of mental power requires rest or more expensive magic potions to recover bit by bit.

"Listen to me, I'm a demon hunter. Have you heard of demon hunters? You are saved now." Leon said cautiously, fearing to hurt their fragile hearts again.

After all, they had just been kidnapped by a group of naked monsters, and then they ran into him, the demon hunter with glowing yellow eyes.

“Monster Hunter? I… I seem to have heard my grandma talk about it…” Finally, there was a woman who could communicate. She wiped her tears and looked at Leon in shock. “Is it… a strange… human who makes a living by hunting monsters?”

"Yes, that's it." Lyon said.

He glanced around and found that there was no trace of Graf.

Graf should have left.

"What a smart wolf." Leon thought to himself. If Graf stayed and was seen by the two women, they would probably scream again.

"My sir, I'll make a fire for you to warm up. It's still quite cold now. But before that, you'd better follow me and leave here. It's too stinky." Leon said.

Soon, a fire started burning not far from the battle area.

The two women leaned against the fire and roasted together. Leon took out a piece of venison from the Ether Ring, divided it into two portions and handed them to them, saying, "Eat some, and then tell me what happened and which village you are from."

"Thank you!" The woman who spoke just now hesitated for a moment, but still took the roasted venison.

The two women ate venison and roasted it by the fire. Their bodies gradually recovered and their emotions finally stabilized.

Gradually, the two of them used Lyon as an outlet to vent their grievances after surviving the disaster.

During this period, Leon also learned about the origins of the two.

The woman who communicated with Leon for the first time was called Lisa, and the other woman was called Sophia.

Both of them are villagers from Niujiao Village near the town of Tegamo, and make a living by farming.

Yesterday afternoon, they had finished plowing the fields and were about to go home when they were attacked by a group of goblins.

There were not many people around, and Lisa's husband was bitten to death by the goblins on the spot, while Sovia's husband escaped.

The two women were captured by the goblins, and then they were carried by the goblins for more than two hours. Then they met Leon and were rescued.

"I thought we were dead. Thank you for saving us witchers. We...we will definitely avenge you!" Lisa said gratefully, but at the same time she was afraid that Leon would abandon them and leave.

Leon glanced at them and thought that these goblins would not eat you, but would use you as reproductive tools to quickly reproduce their offspring.

But he did not say this out loud, so as not to cause them greater fear.

"Is this the first time you encounter these monsters?" Leon asked.

Lisa nodded and said, "Yes, these dwarves are crazy, God! I knew that the Empire should not accept non-human races, they will eat humans sooner or later!"

"That's not a dwarf. Hasn't Nilfgaard's decree been sent here yet? For example, telling you to be careful of some monsters that look like dwarfs, and to arrest missionaries?" Leon asked.

Lisa looked at Sophia who was standing beside her. Sophia raised her head and said with red eyes, "It seems there is. It's posted on the notice board at the entrance of the village, but we can't read it."

Lisa immediately remembered something and said, "Yes! I remember it. I think there is this.

But if there are monsters, it should be the soldiers' job to protect the village, but the empire did not send soldiers to our village! We have to pay so much tax every year, and when we are attacked by monsters, no one protects us!"

She laid her head on Sophia's shoulder and cried, grieving for her dead husband.

Leon did not ask any more questions. After a few simple words of comfort, he leaned against a tree and closed his eyes to rest.