The Witcher: Darkness Falls

"Is this magic or something else?" Leon thought as he looked at the flock of crows in the sky.

The target he was waiting for appeared.

A monster that kidnapped children from nearby villages.

Earlier, when he was in the tavern, the drunkard Sidam told him the second strange thing.

His neighbor, hunter Marcy, and Marcy's accomplices.

They went into the forest to hunt and should have returned with a full load, but in order to take a shortcut, they returned through the cemetery and ran into zombies who were foraging for food.

They lost all their prey and escaped from the cemetery safely.

But before leaving the forest, I heard a group of crows cawing overhead.

The hunters had just encountered the zombies and were on edge when suddenly they heard crows cawing overhead, scaring them so much that they almost had a cardiac arrest.

Everyone looked up and became alert, fearing that a monster might appear in the sky.

Then they saw a scene they would never forget.

A flock of crows flew across the sky, and among the crows, they saw a human baby!

The crows didn't fly very high and the hunters had good eyesight, so they remembered clearly that there were indeed babies among the crows!

At this moment, Leon was certain that the monster he was looking for was this group of "crows"!

Whether it was the clues given by Chris's wife or by others, one of them was about the sound of crows.

Leon felt a little strange at the time, but crows were everywhere, so he didn't think much about it.

It wasn't until Sidam said that Masi and his friends saw a flock of crows carrying a baby flying across the sky that he was sure that the child's loss was closely related to the crows.

The baby that Masi and the others saw among the flock of crows was probably Hilt's child, as both the time of loss and the reason for loss matched.

At this moment, Leon connected all the information in his mind together, and he also roughly outlined the activity range of this group of monsters.

Both Gran Village and several other villages are located in the south of the town of Tegamo.

The cemetery is also in the south, and the group of crows that Marcy and his friends saw are also in the south.

Leon had already outlined the monster's activity range in his mind, the area south of Tegamo.

However, at this moment, he was not sure where the monster's lair was.

Therefore, he planned to investigate near the cemetery. After all, this group of monsters had recently appeared near the cemetery.

Moreover, his first suspect was vampires, creatures of this kind also like to appear in places like cemeteries and castles where few people usually visit.

Taking on the job of drugstore owner was purely a coincidence.

When he arrived at the cemetery, he saw some residual magical substances on the ground and some children's bones.

Leon already had some guesses in his mind, he even associated this group of crows with the zombies as being in the same group.

But in fact, the encounter between the crow and the ghoul was just a coincidence.

Those magical substances and children's bones were thrown by crows. Perhaps they also discovered the traces of the ghouls and threw those things just to destroy the evidence.

Or maybe the crows originally used the cemetery, where few people visited, as a place to dump garbage, and the things they threw away just happened to attract the zombies.

Whatever the reason, judging from the fact that ghouls often appear near the cemetery, Leon is certain that this group of crows will come here again.

The cemetery was left over from the Nilfgaard War two hundred years ago. The corpses inside had long since rotted away to the point that only bones were left, which would not attract ghouls.

The reason why ghouls frequently appear here is definitely because they are attracted by the bloody smell of magical substances.

All Lyon needs to do is wait and see if the crow can appear again.

It didn't matter even if he couldn't wait. After leaving the tavern, he went to find the hunter Masi and got the information he wanted at the cost of one florin.

The crow flew to the town of Tegamo, which means that the monster is most likely hiding in the town of Tegamo.

If he couldn't wait for the crow in the cemetery, he could simply return to the town of Tegamo to investigate.

As long as the monster is still in there, he will always find clues.

However, he was lucky, because when he finally got there, the crow flew back.

Wow--

Wow--

A group of crows were circling in the sky, not flying very high, and dropping something down.

Some of them fell directly in front of Leon and were caught by him.

This is a very clean bone.

"That's the smell. It should be the residue left over from refining the medicine. It smells like blood, and something else."

Leon held the bone in front of his eyes and confirmed that it was very similar to the one he found in the cemetery a few days ago.

He looked up at the flock of crows circling in the sky and estimated there were as many as thirty of them.

There is a strong smell of magic. These things that look like crows may be something else.

Lyon did not hesitate. He lit the Foehn bomb, watched the fuse almost burn out, and then threw it hard towards the center of the crow flock.

boom--

The bomb exploded and terrible cries were heard from the crows.

Leon saw that some crows turned into black smoke and disappeared, while the rest gathered together and converged on the ground.

Leon came out from his hiding place, applying sword oil to his silver-plated steel sword while running towards the place where the crows gathered and fell.

"Ah!!! Damn it!"

A furious roar sounded, like a woman screaming.

The next moment, a magical storm arose in front of him.

Caught off guard, Leon was thrown over and fell into the bushes behind him.

"Damn it! Who is it!" Leon heard an angry voice sounded and quickly approached him.

He had just climbed out of the bushes, and the next moment he felt something hit his body. He flew out again and fell heavily to the ground.

"Demon hunter! Damn demon hunter! Another demon hunter! Ah!!!" The sharp scream made Leon feel like his eardrums were about to burst.

He got up from the ground and looked at the monster that attacked him.

woman!

A tall woman in a knitted hat!

"Damn it! All the witchers deserve to die!" the woman screamed and turned into a black wind and rushed over again.

Lyon pushed his left hand forward and cast the Alder Seal!

boom--

The black wind was dispersed, and the woman screamed and flew backwards, falling far away to the ground.

Leon gasped and looked at the woman who fell to the ground. Could this be a vampire?

"Low-level vampire?" Leon was a little uncertain.

According to Sicori's notes, the language abilities of low-level vampires do not seem to be so rich, and they are more like beast-like monsters.

However, he can't care so much now.

Leon rushed forward, swinging his silver-plated steel sword and slashing fiercely at the woman's body.

"Ah!!!! Damn Demon Hunter! You all deserve to die!"

The silver-plated steel sword hit, and a piercing scream was heard.

The next moment, the woman suddenly exploded and turned into a group of crows that surrounded Leon.

Leon immediately made a Quinn Seal, and the protective shield quickly wrapped around his body.

Wow--

Wow--

The flock of crows attacked his protective shield fiercely, but Leon now had the blessing of magic, so he could withstand such attacks for at least five minutes!

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, the crows flew away and regrouped to form the shape of a woman.

"Damn witcher! I'm going to kill you!" the woman screamed, she raised her hand and shot a magic arrow at Leon.

Leon rolled on the ground repeatedly to dodge and easily avoided the woman's magical attack.

"Ah!!!" the angry woman roared, and suddenly a huge fireball gathered in her palm.

Leon's pupils shrank. He had seen this fireball before. It was the same kind that the old wizard had used before.

However, the fireball cast by the woman was obviously much smaller than that of the old wizard.

"Die! I'm going to blow you to ashes!" the woman screamed and threw the fireball over.

The fireball flew towards Leon at a high speed.

Faced with this magic with incredible explosive power, Leon did not choose to dodge. He had to temporarily drop the silver-plated steel sword and quickly draw a relatively complex seal with his hands in front of him.

The Siliutop Sigil is the most complex sigil used by demon hunters and the only one that can resist both magical and physical attacks.

boom--

A transparent magic barrier opened up in front of him and a fireball exploded.

At this moment, the fire wave produced by the explosion was successfully blocked by his seal, but the shock wave produced by the explosion still partially penetrated the barrier and hit his ribs.

Leon staggered back and half-knelt down.

The woman wanted to use magic to attack him, but he gritted his teeth and threw a Foehn bomb directly at the woman, while raising his hand to cast the Igni Sign.

A raging tongue of flame spurted out, igniting the fuse of the foehn bomb at the same time.

boom--

The Foehn bomb exploded not far from the woman. The gust of wind knocked the woman out again and shattered one of her arms.

"Ah!!!!" the woman screamed, and after landing, she suddenly turned into a flock of crows.

But this time she did not attack Leon, but flew away towards the town of Tegamo.