The Witcher: Darkness Falls

"Leon!"

On the boat, Leon was preparing to practice the Knight's Breathing Technique when he suddenly heard a loud voice calling him from outside the door.

He opened the door and saw the dwarf Zival standing at the door.

"What's wrong? Do you want to come in and sit down?" Leon was a little confused as to why the other party came to see him.

Zivar was a little hesitant, but still said, "Thank you, I won't go in. I came to see you because I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter? If you have much to say, come in and sit down and talk. I bought some beer." Lyon once again invited the other party to come in and sit down.

When he heard about beer, a hint of joy flashed in Zival's eyes, and he rubbed his hands and grinned, "Hahaha, how can I be so embarrassed! Then I won't be polite!"

Leon smiled slightly and turned to go into the house.

The cabin on the ship is so cramped that there is not even enough space for a table besides a bed.

However, the captain also thought of a solution, which was to put a low wooden table inside, which could be placed directly on the bed when needed, and the bed could also be used as a chair, but the posture would not be very comfortable.

Zival put the axe on his back on the edge of the bed, and Leon had already brought the wine over.

"Come and try it, I think it tastes pretty good." Lyon invited.

"Oh, thank you!" The dwarf picked up the cup and drank carefully, so as not to let the wine spill due to the shaking of the boat.

"Oh, by the way, I have something to tell you. Let me tell you first, so that you won't forget it later." The dwarf wiped his mouth and said.

"Go ahead." Leon took a sip of wine and listened carefully.

The dwarf thought for a moment, then said, "Although it is rude to say this, but... well, I still have to remind you to be careful of your friend with blond hair and gold beads."

Lyon immediately thought of Borch, his new friend. Although they had met for a short time, they had formed a deep friendship.

"You're not angry, are you?" Zival asked.

Leon said calmly: "Of course, but why? Did you know each other before?"

Zivar shook his head and said, "I don't know him, but Camilla asked me to tell you."

Leon was a little surprised. That knocking monster?

Zivar said solemnly: "When we first docked the ship, Camilla seemed a little anxious and uneasy. It smelled danger.

And then, yesterday morning, when I took Camilla to the woods to take a shit and came back, I happened to see you and your friend saying goodbye at the city gate, and it was so scared that it ran away. Do you remember this incident?"

Leon thought about it and had some impression.

When he was sending Borch out of the city gate, he saw Zivar running into the woods in a rage.

At that time, he thought the other party was in a hurry, but it turned out that he was going to chase Camilla.

Zivar said with a serious expression: "Camilla has always been very brave. I had to comfort her for a long time before she was willing to come back with me.

Even when we came back, we went around the city gate from afar and made a big detour.

You know what? Camilla was never so panicked even when she was facing ten zombies. She was so scared that she peed herself."

Leon raised his eyebrows: “Just because of my friend?”

"Yes!" Zival said affirmatively, "That guy is very dangerous, you'd better be careful. Sorry, I don't hate your friend, I don't know him at all, but Camilla said he is very scary, so I came to remind you.

By the way, I didn't look carefully at that time, is your friend a noble knight? "

Leon smiled and said, “Yes, but he calls himself a dragon rider and says he can tame dragons!”

"What a joke! That's not the way to brag!" Zivar screamed after hearing this, but immediately apologized, "Sorry, I was rude. But the reason Camilla ran away must be because of his powerful aura.

You know, Camilla is a knocker, their noses are more sensitive than dogs, they may smell something we can't smell."

Then Zivar left, and before leaving, Leon gave him a large glass of beer as a gift to Camilla.

"Hmm... could it be that Borch is really a dragon knight? He can make the knocking monsters flee at the news. He has really ridden a dragon and has the breath of a dragon on him?" Leon pondered.

But he quickly rejected this idea.

That's a giant dragon, how can a human tame it?

Leon shook off the distracting thoughts in his mind and took out the swallow strengthening potion.

Before leaving Yamulak, he found a decent hotel and prepared some swallow-strengthening potions.

Yamulak is rich in all kinds of herbs, and he quickly found all the ingredients for Swallow.

However, the key material, water ghost brain, is hard to find, and normal people would not collect it.

But fortunately, Leon knows how to collect them, because this is what he usually hunts the most.

It was a corpse that had been mutated by magic pollution, a corpse-eating monster.

Not only humans, but other animals as well, may become water ghosts.

A large part of Lyon's income usually comes from them.

The main ingredients of many of his commonly used potions and sword oils are water ghost brains, or the magical substances stored in their brains.

Therefore, he would intentionally prepare some of them. He would open the top of the water ghost's head, dig out the disgusting tofu-like stuff inside, slice it and air-dry it, so that it would be easy to store.

Leon glanced at the enhanced swallow potion beside him, took a deep breath, and began to breathe in and out according to the knight's breathing method.

Ever since he knew the effectiveness of the Knight's Breathing Method, Leon has been practicing it.

Unfortunately, although the subsequent practice was also effective, the results were much worse than the first time.

“Perhaps my body has gradually begun to adapt to the Knight’s Breathing Technique, so the effect is not as obvious as the first time I used it.

However, being able to improve little by little is something to be thankful for. "Leon thought to himself.

He had only been practicing the Knight's Breathing Technique for about half a month, and even then it was intermittent.

But the increase in his physical strength was terrifying, and it even made his strength and speed 1.5 times higher than before he practiced the Knight's Breathing Technique!

In other words, in just half a month, his strength and speed increased by 50%!

Of course, this is not entirely due to the Knight's Breathing Technique. It may also be due to the green magical energy he came into contact with in the cave.

Magic is always mysterious. Maybe the magic he absorbed at that time was hidden in his body, and it was just gradually taking effect with the knight's breathing method.

"Or in other words, through the Knight's Breathing Technique, I can directly obtain power from the origin of the world, just like those wizards..." Leon thought.

In any case, this is a good thing for him, as long as he persists in practicing, even if his strength and speed increase slowly.

But if he persists, the final accumulation will always surprise him.

“If I can eventually increase my strength and speed to four times... no, three times what they are now, I’ll be satisfied,” Leon thought happily.

His strength is now three times as much, which is unbelievable. I'm afraid that most monsters can't compare to him.

Except for dragons, of course.

The larger the size, the greater the power. This is a fact, and even wizards cannot change this fact.

His physical foundation is human, and the ultimate limit of his strength will definitely not exceed the maximum capacity of human volume.

For the next two days, there was nothing to do on the ship. Lyon would occasionally go to the deck to look at the river, and spent most of the rest of his time practicing the Knight's Breathing Method and arguing with Stein.

Rather than calling it a theory, it would be more accurate to say that the guy has been instilling in Leon some strange ideas such as protecting endangered monsters, maintaining species diversity, and that monsters also have the right to survive.

Leon was very annoyed, but every time this guy finished talking, he would give him a ten-dollar florin, which was different.

This made him patient and ready to listen to the other party's great thoughts.

He just took on a few tasks temporarily while carrying out missions. It didn't require him to do anything anyway, and it would just be a waste of some time, so why not do it?

However, such good things only lasted until the afternoon of the second day, when something happened that made this scholar and zoologist calm down.