The Witcher: Darkness Falls

Leon swung his sword and slashed at the nearest ghoul.

These monsters look like skinned humans, but they have long limbs, sharp teeth and claws, and protruding spines on their backs.

Not only that, they have a very thick layer of cuticle on the outside of their arms and legs, as well as on their backs, which cannot be cut by ordinary steel swords.

Even after applying the corpse-eating sword oil, the cutting effect was not very good.

Therefore, the best way to deal with them is to use a steel sword to cut their necks hard or poke their eyes.

However, Lyon's strength is no longer what it used to be. Both his strength and speed have increased several times.

Even if he didn't cut its neck, as long as he used all his strength, even if the steel sword was not coated with zombie-eating creature sword oil, he would probably be able to cut off the zombie's limbs with his powerful force.

However, just as he had this idea and was about to put it into practice, he suddenly felt his legs becoming heavy.

It was as if the stones under his feet had turned into a sticky liquid, making it difficult for him to lift his feet!

Even the air became sticky, causing his movement speed to drop sharply!

"This magic circle! My speed has been reduced by half! And my strength!" Leon was shocked.

He looked at the glowing magic circle under his feet. This magic circle was far more powerful than the one set up by Lucius!

Not only will it block people who enter, but it will also directly weaken their strength and speed by half!

"Even the magic power is suppressed!" Lyon's field of vision quickly narrowed, and at the same time, he felt that it became difficult to call upon the magic power in his body.

The impact on vision was not significant, because the magic circle itself was luminous, and the entire cave was illuminated. It didn't matter even if he didn't use magic to enhance his night vision.

However, the magic power in his body being suppressed in this way will greatly reduce the power of his seal!

However, Lyon had no time to think about this.

The light of this magic circle is emitted through the stones under the feet, which means that the entire magic circle is buried under the stones.

He wanted to destroy this magic circle like he destroyed the last time in Styga Castle, but it was definitely impossible.

His steel sword will first break due to the continuous chopping!

With the power of the seal weakened, it was simply unrealistic for him to fight the seven zombies in front of him with his bare hands!

This is tantamount to seeking death!

The sudden change interrupted Lyon's attack rhythm. He had to take a deep breath and adjust his state to adapt to the current situation.

And at this moment, all the zombies climbed up and rushed towards him.

"Ow—!"

The ghoul closest to him stood up and swung its sharp claws towards Leon's face.

Leon turned around and brushed past the smelly claw.

He gripped the sword with both hands, turned around, and slashed at the back of the ghoul's neck.

brush--

Leon felt like he was chopping a bundle of straw wrapped in a rag. Although it was not that smooth, he still cut off the zombie's head.

"Fortunately, I can still handle it, it's a bit strenuous." Leon stepped back, thinking.

If his strength had not been enhanced, he was sure that his head would have been exploded by the zombie just now.

This magic circle suppresses him, but has no effect on the zombies.

This magic circle even seems to make the zombies more violent, indirectly increasing their strength!

While dodging the zombie's attack, Leon cast the Aden Seal at his feet.

Fortunately, although the magic circle will suppress the magic power of the wizard who enters it, it will not hinder the wizard from using his own methods.

However, the diameter of the Aden Seal, which originally had a diameter of more than five meters, was now less than three meters.

The coverage has been severely affected!

Leon was also helpless. Apart from the Witcher Sign, he had no other means available.

A ghoul rushed over and entered the range of the Aden Seal. Its body staggered and pounced on Leon because of the sudden suppression.

Leon took the opportunity to step forward and cut off its neck with a sword, then quickly turned around to avoid the attack of the zombie next to him.

Two of the seven zombies have been dealt with, so the remaining five are easy to deal with.

He circled around the Yerden Sign, dodging the ghouls' attacks while looking for opportunities to attack.

When Leon regained his attack rhythm, his attacks became more and more fierce, and soon the remaining five zombies were dealt with by Leon without any danger.

However, although the zombies were eliminated, the magic circle set up by the wizard was not lifted, and the magic continued to suppress Leon.

And when he was dealing with the last two zombies, he noticed another thing.

The cells of the zombies are accelerating the hatching of new zombies!

As monsters from another world, ghouls are very different from the creatures in the native world.

The birth of new ghouls is not the result of mating between male and female ghouls, because there is no distinction between male and female.

They emerge from a matrix that looks like a tumor but is covered with holes like those of a swallow.

Some people think that the birth of a ghoul is like a mushroom spraying spores, so the mother body of the ghoul is also called the cell body.

The hole that looks like a leather swallow is called the production mouth.

And right in front of us, there is a huge cell with a diameter of nearly 20 meters, firmly covering the stone wall and the ground, just like a tumor growing in the cave.

Lyon counted ten production ports on this cell body.

Moreover, some of these production openings were contracting violently as the cell body agitated, which made Leon feel like he was constipated.

Or maybe a goose is trying hard to lay an egg, but the egg is so big that it requires a lot of force and repeated contractions to push it out.

Among these ten production openings, only one has spit out half a zombie, and this half of the zombie is struggling hard, trying to bite Leon.

Leon naturally would not give it a chance to come out, and he went straight forward and chopped off the half-ghoul's head.

Of the remaining nine production outlets, four are working hard to shrink, while the other five are not moving at all.

When Lyon looked closer, he discovered that the cells near the other five production ports had shrunk, and the ends of the cells also showed gray-brown pathological characteristics.

These parts have obviously become necrotic and calcified, and are as hard as stone!

"It seems that it has been locked in here for too long and lacks food sources, so it has withered like a flower?" Lyon pondered.

Perhaps until the outer seal here is broken, the magic locked inside can continue to provide basic energy to the dormant cells, keeping them alive.

However, the outer seal was broken, and the dormant cells were forced to revive and produce ghouls to collect food for themselves.

However, no one knows how long the cell here has been sealed by the wizard who placed it, a hundred years, two hundred years, or even longer?

The wizard disappeared and was unable to replenish the magical power in the seal. The cell body began to weaken during the dormant period, and some organs gradually necrotized.

Otherwise, with such a huge cell in front of us, the zombies that would be born would definitely be more than seven!

"Haha, the time of awakening is wrong. It's winter when food is scarce, and these zombies haven't collected enough food..." Leon thought as he watched the cells slowly shrinking in front of him.

If we give it another year or two, there might be an outbreak of zombie disaster here!

Lyon read the description of the ghoul cells in Sikori's notes. Most of them were less than five meters in diameter and had only one production opening. Those over five meters could be called large ghoul nests.

The cell in front of us has a diameter of nearly 20 meters and has ten production openings. It is definitely an extra-large nest.

Once this cell has enough food sources, the number of zombies here will definitely reach hundreds within a few months, forming a zombie disaster!

At that time, the only way to destroy this nest is to send out troops to encircle and suppress it.