The Witcher: Darkness Falls

The baby's cry was subtle, but it was there.

Leon pushed the door open.

The room was pitch dark, but it did not pose any obstacle to him.

The baby's crying came from the stroller to his right.

Not far from the crib, there was an iron dissecting table with a pile of pale bones scattered underneath it.

There was also a pitch-black cooking pot next to it, and the pot was emitting a magical aura.

Three steps away from the edge of the pot, there is a simple three-layer bookshelf.

There are three books on the top shelf, two of which are very thick and old, and the other one is thinner.

The middle shelf is filled with various bottles and jars, and the bottom shelf is piled with a lot of herbs.

The whole room was like an operating room, or a laboratory, and it was filled with a strange smell.

Lyon couldn't quite describe the smell; it had a hint of blood, some bitterness, and the smell of tree roots mixed in.

Leon walked forward and first checked the baby's condition.

To his surprise, the baby's crying stopped as he approached.

Leon looked at the baby in the crib. The little guy was already asleep.

"He's still alive. I don't know whose child he is." Lyon said.

He was not sure if this was Hilt's child because his child had been missing for several days and it was very likely that this was someone else's child.

However, having a living child is always good news for him.

Otherwise, the monster would have been burned to ashes by him, and one of the goals of his mission, the lost children, would have all died. Those villagers probably wouldn't pay him for the mission.

After making sure the baby was still alive, Leon turned and looked at the large cooking pot behind him.

There was a wooden spoon with its handle sticking out of it in the pot, and inside was a sticky liquid with a strong magical scent.

Leon stirred it with a spoon, and a strong smell of blood was released, and there seemed to be meat paste in it.

His brow furrowed, he already had an answer to what was in the pot.

Human flesh, and other herbs.

Leon put down the spoon and walked to the bookshelf. He took down a thick book with the words "Deconstruction of Soul and Body" written on the cover in the common language.

He looked at another book, which read "Matter, Chaos Force, and Ether". It seemed to be a popular science book.

However, Leon knew that this should not be just a popular science book, otherwise the old witch would not have placed it here and read it so often.

He flipped through both books, but there was no table of contents, so he just glanced at them and put them down.

There is no table of contents or introduction in these two thick books. If you want to find out what the books are about, you have to read them all.

It would take a lot of time to read all these hundreds of pages, but Lyon doesn't have that time now.

He picked up the last book, which was only half the thickness of the other two.

Leon flipped through it casually and found that it was actually a notebook, or something like an experimental record.

……

"On August 1293, 8, the soul call failed. No one knows where the two sisters' souls went. Or maybe the record of the souls' destination in the book is wrong..."

"September 1321, 9. Still failed. Joining the lantern grass was a mistake! But I seem to have sensed something else..."

"1368... Damn witcher! Damn it! My mother is saved, but she's still chasing me! Ahhhh! I don't want to die..."

"1387... The Life Necklace is finally completed. We can proceed to the next step..."

"1401...successfully, finally successfully. The next step is to revive their bodies. However, I seem to have brought back something strange. But with that little bitch dealing with her, she will die..."

……

Leon quickly flipped through the book that looked like a diary and also like a lab notebook.

After reading it, he roughly understood why these three old witches came here.

The three old witches were sisters who once lived in Temeria, one of the northern kingdoms, in a region called Velen.

However, about two hundred years ago, a demon hunter appeared where they lived and killed two of the three sisters, while the younger sister survived by chance.

The sister left Velen and went south to hide in other areas of Temeria.

When the witcher attacked the three sisters, he seemed to have let something else go, which was recorded in the notes as "Mom".

Leon was not sure whether the "mother" recorded in the notes was the mother he understood.

If so, there was one thing that confused him. It seemed that the mother mentioned by the old witch was chasing them.

“Could it be that the three old witches have a grudge against my mother?” Leon didn’t understand, because there was very little record about this “mother” in the notes, only that it chased after him.

Not only this mother, but also a female witcher is tracking them and seems to want to kill them, or rather, kill the old witch.

It took the old witch nearly two hundred years to escape from Velen to the present-day town of Tegamo.

During this period, it kept trying to resurrect its two sisters so that they could fight together against its "mother" and the female witcher who were hunting it.

During this time, it encountered its "mother" or witcher, and survived a fierce battle and continued to escape.

It took it nearly one hundred and fifty years to successfully retrieve the souls of its two sisters from somewhere and store them in its own body.

But this is not a long-term solution, as everyone's body is repelled by foreign souls.

It is no use for the souls of its two sisters to stay in its body forever; they will disappear one day.

Therefore, it had to find a way to truly resurrect its sisters as soon as possible.

Through continuous attempts during this period, it not only recovered the souls of its two sisters, but also brought some strange creatures from other worlds into this world.

As for what it summoned through the summoning circle, it itself didn't know. It only said that it was very strange and dangerous.

Finally, it took the old witch more than thirty years to find a way to recreate her sister's body, and she has been putting it into practice.

Ten years ago, the old witch successfully developed a magic potion that could make flesh and blood grow, and managed to merge her two sisters into it.

But it will take time to fully revive the sisters.

The old witch summoned back the souls of her two sisters using her own soul as a bridge, so the souls of the three of them still needed to be divided.

Therefore, most of the time, its two sisters still share the same body with it.

Just half a year ago, the old witch was still active in the province of Medina, and was found by the female witcher and her mother at the same time.

It escaped while the witcher was fighting with her mother, and fled to Tegamo without stopping.

It plans to reshape the bodies of its two sisters here first, and then complete the soul division.

One of the raw materials needed to reshape the body is a large amount of flesh and blood from young children, which is also the reason why children are missing in nearby villages.

Before this, in order to test the magic potion that could make flesh and blood grow, the old witch had killed no less than ten thousand children!

"Is there such a way to bring the dead back to life?" Lyon was amazed.

He had heard that black magic could be used to temporarily summon the souls of the dead, and even make those who had recently died speak.

However, the dead, even if they have turned into ghosts or evil spirits, are still dead and there is no possibility of resurrection.

He is not a high-level vampire, and it is impossible for a high-level vampire to be resurrected if he is killed by a vampire of the same level.

Other means of killing vampires do not actually kill them.

Leon looked at the pot of potion in front of him. The stuff inside was made from the flesh and blood of more than a hundred children!