The Witcher: Darkness Falls

Lyon stared at the north gate. He followed the other party all the way up to the Blue Mountains.

But in the end, he went around in a big circle and turned back, and finally entered the city of Dan Rowan from the north gate.

"It seems that the other party has realized something and has a strong sense of anti-detection.

Fortunately, they met me, otherwise most people would not be able to track them. Even if they did catch up with them in the end, they would probably give up because their route was heading towards the Blue Mountains. "

Lyon rode on his horse and turned his head to look back at the towering mountains.

At dusk, the entire Blue Mountains were shrouded in haze.

The entire Blue Mountain Range connects to the Feilong Mountain Range to the north, runs through the north and south continents, and reaches the ocean at the end of the southern continent.

It is like the backbone of the entire continent.

Such mountains are difficult to cross and can only be reached through several passes.

As for what was on the other side, Lyon had no idea and had never paid much attention to it.

He withdrew his gaze and rode into the city.

The trace he was following disappeared completely after entering the pipe.

Because there are more people on the official road, after all, who doesn’t want to take the main road?

There were so many hoof prints and a lot of auras that his tracking abilities failed.

After all, he was a demon hunter, not a real dog, and he could not distinguish the scent of a werewolf among hundreds of scents.

What's more, the werewolves have now returned to their human form. Who knows whether they have already swaggered into the city while he was still struggling to find the traces, and are now drinking in a pub, or have gone home.

"Trouble..." Leon thought to himself.

His only clue now was that one of the werewolves was blind in his left eye.

After entering the city, Lyon went straight to Jeraka's blacksmith shop.

Fortunately, they were just about to close up shop.

"Leon, haha, how come you have time to come to see me today? Aren't you going to prepare for tomorrow night?" Jeraka greeted enthusiastically, "We are going to have a drink, how about joining us?"

Leon smiled and said, "There's no need for my help with Sisilia's curse. I followed the werewolf all the way here."

Jeraka was stunned and immediately looked around.

"Werewolf? Where is the werewolf?" his cousin Dis asked excitedly.

Jeraka had already shared what happened the night before with the two dwarf brothers and the midget.

Except for the dwarf, the two young dwarves showed excitement.

Leon looked at the expressions of Diss and Jimmy, then at Jeraka's somewhat embarrassed look, and probably knew that this guy must have exaggerated something.

Leon did not expose Jeraka. He smiled and said, "Come on, I'll treat you tonight. I'll tell you about Jeraka's heroic performance!"

A proud smile appeared on Jeraka's face, although it was a little weak.

The group returned to the tavern they had been to last time, still at the same location, and ordered almost the same dishes.

Soon, everyone's faces turned red from drinking. The two young dwarves listened to Leon and Jeraka's singing in unison with great interest, and they were very excited.

"Call me next time! Call me!" Jimmy shouted excitedly.

Dwarves all have an adventurous spirit, which comes from their genes.

Dis also quickly agreed and wanted to join the adventure.

bang bang bang-

The dwarf banged the table and said, "No! If you all go, what will happen to the twenty sets of equipment?

I can’t build 20 sets in a month by myself. If I breach the contract, the penalty will be enough to bankrupt us!”

The two young dwarves immediately wailed, causing Jeraka to chuckle.

After the food was finished, Jelaka asked the half-elf girl Daya to clean the table.

"bring it on!"

Then the dwarf took the box on his back and put it on the table.

The dwarf had been carrying this thing on his back since they left the blacksmith shop.

The dwarf opened the box and removed the folded blue cloth, revealing a box filled with beautiful cards.

Gwent, a card game invented by dwarves.

After the end of Nilfgaard's Northern Expedition, the ancient continent ushered in long-awaited peace.

Some dwarf got bored and made a card game out of this war, which immediately became popular all over the world.

Compared to the dwarven traditional card game of cards, or the similar human poker, Gwent is undoubtedly more complicated.

Gwent uses the best-of-three game rules, with a total of 5 decks to choose from.

Each deck contains various battle points, that is, combat power, and the size of the cards.

In addition, there are various card types, including soldiers, armies, heroes, weather and other cards.

At the beginning of the game, both sides randomly draw a fixed number of cards from the deck, and the cards cannot be shuffled after each round.

After three rounds, if one party voluntarily admits defeat or all the cards in hand are played, the game ends and the player with the higher points is the winner.

Due to the complexity of the game, the exquisiteness of the cards, and its powerful social attributes, it quickly became popular among human nobles and then spread to the common people.

And Gwent is very popular even among elves.

It is quite rare that things made by dwarves are popular among elves.

The dwarf spread a blue cloth on the table with six rectangular grids drawn on it.

The patterns in the grid, from the middle to the sides, are swords representing close combat, bows and arrows representing long-range attacks, and catapults representing siege weapons.

There is also an area for counting points on the left, as well as a place to store leader cards.

As the "battlefield" was laid out, the dwarf asked excitedly, "Who goes first?"

"Me!"

"I!"

"I'm coming!"

……

Leon and the dwarves shouted excitedly.

Finally, Leon and Jeraka came first.

The two sat opposite each other, began to shuffle the cards, and then each chose a leader card.

As the Gwent cards were spread out, more and more people gathered around.

Everyone was talking at once and split into two groups, each acting as a military advisor to give advice to Leon and Jeraka.

Sometimes, before the two people fighting each other have even said anything, the military advisors on both sides start fighting first.

In the end, the game ended with Lyon leading by two points.

"Haha, I told you not to do that. Jelaka, please move aside and let me meet him!" Dis sat down rubbing his hands.

Thus, a new game begins.

The dog-headed military advisors on both sides once again chose their camps and began to make plans...

The card game lasted until midnight, and everyone ended it reluctantly.

Lyon rode his horse, dragged his tired body back to the room and fell asleep.

The next morning, just after daybreak and with still an hour before the city gates were to be opened, Lyon went straight to the count and explained his purpose.

"You mean to tell me to close the three gates and leave only one, keep an eye out for people with a blind left eye, and catch them?" The count stared at Leon with a serious expression, "Why don't I just close the city gates and catch them in the trap?"

Leon shook his head and said, "It's not feasible to catch a turtle in a jar, Count. Tonight is the night of the full moon. A werewolf that loses self-control will transform uncontrollably.

You don't want a werewolf to go on a killing spree in the center of your territory, Dan Rowan, do you? "