The Witcher: Darkness Falls

"Come in, Leon." Stregobor's voice sounded, and Leon pushed the door and walked in.

The inside and outside of the house are still two different things. It has gotten dark outside, but the inside of the house is still a fairy-tale world.

Leon went straight to the seat he sat in last time and sat down.

He looked at Stregobor, who seemed to be in a good mood.

"Tell me, what do you want to ask?" Stregobor spoke first, smiling. "You should know that if someone else came to me, I would charge at least one thousand florins for consulting."

"It's really an honor. By the way, did you get the werewolf's corpse?" Leon asked.

Stregobor nodded and said with a smile, "Give me both."

Leon nodded and got straight to the point.

He first told Stregobor exactly what he had seen in the cave, and then told him about the abnormality in his body.

As he spoke, he noticed that the smile on Stregobor's face gradually disappeared, and turned into a solemn look, followed by doubt and surprise.

"Wait, wait!" Stregobor said hurriedly after hearing this. He opened the portal and stuck half of his body inside, as if looking for something.

"Found it! Hahaha, this is it!" Stregobor came out holding a thick book with a black cover.

He placed the book on the table, and Leon felt the vibration of the tabletop. The weight of the book was much heavier than it appeared.

Stregobor opened the book and kept searching.

As he turned the pages, Leon saw strange runes flying out and swirling around Stregobor.

"Haha, found it!" After Lyon waited for five minutes, Stregobor shouted excitedly.

"What?" He moved closer, looking at the page Stregobor had opened.

In an instant, he felt dizzy, the whole world was spinning, and there were inexplicable runes in front of his eyes.

"Momaha, Flintlow..."

Leon heard Stregobor's voice, but he didn't know what he was saying.

But soon the dizzy feeling disappeared, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on the ground.

"What's wrong with me? Why is the world spinning so dizzy?" Leon said as he stood up, holding his head.

"Don't read a wizard's magic book before you are fully prepared, especially since your magic resistance is extremely low." Stregobor handed over a glass of water and said, "The wizard will cast a spell on the magic book to prevent others from peeking at the contents.

Fortunately, you are strong enough. If it were an ordinary person, even with my sobering spell, it would take half an hour for him to wake up. "

Leon took a sip of water and calmed down a little.

Stregobor said, "Leon, where did you see that stone tablet? Do you remember the inscription on it?"

Leon shook his head and said, “Go out from the north gate of the city and go all the way to the top of the Blue Mountain. There is a cave inside.

Inscriptions? I only saw runes, just like that one."

He pointed at the magic book in Stregobor's hand, but did not dare to look away.

The feeling just now was really uncomfortable, and he didn't want to experience it again.

“That’s the inscription. Runes are compressed text. One rune may contain hundreds or even thousands of words.

Look at this book, it is much heavier than it looks and that's why, this is the power of words.

Wizards need to chant when casting spells. This is just an introduction, the first sentence of the corresponding magic rune group.

Basically, we need to chant mantras to stimulate the rune sets that we analyze and engrave.

A simple water condensation spell consists of seven runes. If chanted in plain words, it would take an hour!

The same is true of the simple sigils you demon hunters use.

Since your sigils are simple and have few runes, you can engrave them on a small demon hunter medal.

Your intro is the Demon Hunter Medal, which does not require chanting." Stregobor explained.

Leon frowned. No wonder being a wizard requires talent. Just this rune is not something that ordinary people can understand.

He shook his head and said, "Of course I don't remember. Are you saying that I've been bewitched?"

Stregobor nodded.

Leon became nervous: "Is there any effect? ​​Is there any way to get rid of it?"

Stregobor smiled and said, "Leon, you are very lucky. The magic that hit you has no negative effects. It is even very helpful to you."

Lyon expressed his incomprehension.

Stregobor calmed him down.

He explained: "The magic you were infected with is called brand inheritance, which is an extremely ancient way of inheritance.

It is to directly embed the things that need to be passed on into the consciousness of the inheritor, so that he can use it directly without having to understand what it is.

But this way of inheritance is only suitable for simple things, and those who have a little talent called wizard, but it is very low, do you understand what I mean?"

Leon thought about it and probably understood.

To put it bluntly, if you can't learn it, you can only force it in, but you can only force it in with little information, not with a lot of information.

"So, I was forced to inherit a simple magic?" Leon asked.

Stregobor nodded, but held up two fingers and said, "Yes, but two."

Leon raised his eyebrows. Two?

"One is the Knight's Breathing Technique, and the other is the Wizard's Meditation Technique." Stregobor said.

Leon frowned, took a sip of water and thought.

But unfortunately, he had never heard of either one, but he was sure that the latter one had something to do with wizards.

Stregobor took a sip of wine to moisten his throat before continuing, "Let's talk about the first one first, the Knight's Breathing Technique. This has been lost for at least ten thousand years."

"Ten thousand years!" Lyon was surprised. Human history is less than three thousand years.

Did humans exist on this continent 10,000 years ago?

Or does the knights here not refer to humans, but other races?

"Not human, right?" Leon asked.

Stregobor shook his head and said, "It is human, but not the human of today."

Lyon expressed his incomprehension.

Stregobor explained: "According to existing data, the first humans to arrive on this continent were the Dok and the Wozg.

Although their civilization has become extinct, we can still find their traces on their tombstones.

However, both human wizards and elven wizards have discovered the magic stele you mentioned.

The runes on it were obscure and difficult to understand. After analysis, they did not look like elven or goblin writing.

On the contrary, it is very similar to the writing of the Doc and Wozig people.

Someone analyzed these and found some clues.

At the same time, combining the legends of elves and dwarves, as well as the historical records of goblins, we have roughly restored a more ancient world.

That was a time period far earlier than the ancient times when dwarves and goblins landed.

We call it the ancient times!

The Knight's Breathing Technique is a product of that period!"