The Witcher: Darkness Falls

After arriving at the ball, Leon finally understood why Mrs. Evertson didn't care whether he would be discovered by Duke Evertson.

Because no one cares about this.

This was a private ball for noble ladies. The protagonists of the ball were all women, and the men were just supporting roles.

Not every woman has a male dance partner, only half of them do.

Mrs. Evertson brought Leon with her mainly to show off.

After all, apart from his special eyes, Lyon is definitely outstanding in other aspects.

A height of 1.8 meters is considered quite good in the Nilfgaard Empire.

He has a sturdy figure, but his muscles are not exaggeratedly big, and his fair face has three-dimensional features.

Throughout the entire ball, many young noble women flirted with him, and some even directly expressed their desire to go with him to a deserted place to discuss the physiological differences between men and women alone.

However, these people were driven away by Mrs. Evertson. After all, she brought Leon here just to show off, not to share.

After the ball, they returned to Gloy Castle and had a crazy night.

Another day passed, and Lyon changed into his clothes again and rode back to Grampian.

On the one hand, he had already exchanged conditions with Irene Jila Vigo, so there was no need for him to see Retak being cured.

After all, the Earl of Grampian didn't give him much time. Half of it had passed, and he still needed to rush back in the remaining time, which would waste a few days.

Another point is that Retak's treatment is carried out in stages. He is too deeply infected and too weak, so he needs to soak in the potion for a day first.

Only then will the magic potion be prepared in a targeted manner to ensure that there are no sequelae after the cure.

In that case, he could just leave first, since the dwarf Zival was watching over him.

On the way back, Lyon even met Ganmier and others who were heading south.

He gave a few brief instructions and said goodbye to the team.

Regarding his penalty for breach of contract, Earl Grampian has paid the full amount to Denzel, which is equivalent to invalidating their previous contractual agreement.

However, the other party still stated that if Leon could return to Nilfgaard before the end of the storm season, he would still be willing to hire Leon at the same price, and he was even willing to increase the money.

They will wait in Nilfgaard for the storm season to pass, and the storm will spread to the entire coast. During this period, any ship going out to sea is likely to be seeking death.

Choosing to take the land route again would be a waste of time and very dangerous.

So, Denzel would rather waste some time waiting for the storm to pass.

On the Alba River, only Leon dared to jump into the river to save him. If it weren't for Leon, he would be dead now.

In his eyes, Lyon is much more reliable than the entire Iron Forest mercenary team.

Lyon agreed, then said goodbye to the team and headed north.

When he returned to Grampian Castle, there were still two days left before the Earl of Grampian granted him the grace period.

During this period, he had plenty of time to make some sword oil to fight against the goblins, and also to prepare some effective potions.

Of course, he also made some other preparations to deal with the upcoming goblin army.

According to the information provided by Zival, the goblins reproduce very quickly, and their number may now be as high as thousands.

These monsters are also poisonous. Although a single individual one is not very dangerous, if a group of them swarms over him, he will not be able to handle it.

Therefore, we still need to prepare what we need to prepare, and even prepare more.

He even expressed his idea, and the Earl of Grampian immediately asked Lyon to submit a list and let Madison purchase the necessary items in bulk.

This matter was of great importance, so Earl Granby did not hesitate to pay. Granby reimbursed all the expenses during this period, which saved Lyon a lot of money.

While Lyon was away, the bounty mission issued by Earl Grampian had some effect.

Before that, Madison's men transported the bodies of the goblins killed by Lyon and his men back to the city.

Afterwards, the herald declared the dwarfs not guilty in public and released them all.

The dwarfs vented their anger on the goblin's corpse, and at the same time further confirmed to the residents of the city that the previous series of brutal cases were not committed by the dwarfs.

Doing so not only appeased the dwarfs' dissatisfaction, but also warned some people who wanted to take advantage of the situation not to bring trouble upon themselves.

The Nilfgaard Empire has a lenient policy toward humanoid races, but that doesn't mean everyone accepts them.

There are always some frustrated people who blame their failures on the humanoid race, and then take advantage of the situation to cause racial conflicts.

Racial conflicts will inevitably cause unrest in the Grampian region, which will in turn lead to Earl Grampian being impeached by officials in the city of Nilfgaard, and he may even lose his title because of these things.

This was something the Earl of Grampian could not tolerate.

So, when the goblin's body was taken out, the herald announced in public that the dwarf would be released.

This is to show that anyone who takes the opportunity to cause trouble to the dwarfs in the future will bear the consequences at his own risk.

The herald then announced a high reward for the goblins in public.

This further attracted people's attention. They no longer worried about the differences between dwarves and goblins, but instead thought about whether they could kill more goblins in exchange for silver coins.

Those who are interested must have already started to form teams to go into the forest to look for the shadows of the goblins, preparing to hunt the goblins in exchange for the bounty.

Moreover, less than half a month after the bounty was issued, a team had successfully hunted down several goblins and brought their heads back to Grampian, receiving the bounty.

Seeing someone succeed and that the difficulty does not seem to be high, it naturally stimulates more people to do these things.

But Lyon was not in a hurry. He completed all the preparations he could think of before setting off with Madison and thirty Grampian city guards.

He didn't take Madison to hunt goblins for bounty; that wasn't his job.

The most urgent task is to find the laboratory where the goblins were bred, which is the source.

If the source is not resolved, more goblins will appear sooner or later.

Moreover, under the current circumstances, it is destined that the goblins will never be killed.

Lyon and his team first came to the town of Ryan to investigate, but found nothing.

The mayor stated that no trace of the goblins had been found, and even said that during this period of time, apart from a few drunkards who fell into the river and drowned, no other deaths had occurred.

They also asked the owners of surrounding farms, but found no trace of the goblins.

In order to ensure that nothing was missed, Lyon used tracking methods, but found no trace of the goblins.

Afterwards, they left the town of Ryan and went to investigate the village that was attacked by goblins.

From the village of Ike that was attacked first, to the village of Mengkelu that was massacred later, and the village of Kalman and so on.

They stayed in these villages for nearly fifteen days, and Lyon finally had some clues.