The Journey of the Demon Hunter

One, two, three...

Seeing that the howling of the wolf that he imitated had no effect on Zelin, the strange people in ambush emerged from the nearby grass. Just like their voices, they are dressed in wolf skin, their hair is scattered, and their eyes are bloodshot. In the night, they seem to be really werewolves at first glance. If they are less than two meters tall and their arms are less than one meter, The words of a werewolf without any fangs.

He looked around. There were about twelve of these people, each with hideous appearances. Coupled with their outfits, it was easy for ordinary people who didn't understand the real monsters to think of monsters. Zelin speculated that they wanted to make their prey fearful. Fear is the most effective weapon. When Zelin was trained as a demon hunter, the first lesson he heard was that you must not let fear catch you. Otherwise you can't even deal with an ordinary ghoul.

Howling wolf, weird face, weird costume. Perhaps they are not ordinary robbers, but believers who are called the God of Evil Omens in the world where Zelin lives. This organization was founded in 1161 by the businessman Ambrorio and was designated as a cult by most kings and nobles. Members will wear clothes that mimic octopuses and worship strange statues.

Just like the cultists whom the demon hunters have seen, they have no such virtue of patience. Perhaps the twelve-to-one advantage makes them think they have a chance to win. These guys quickly attacked the demon hunters.

The'werewolves' showed their sharp claws one after another, maybe put on wolf skins, they really regarded themselves as werewolves, and even their weapons stupidly used iron hooks imitating wolf claws, and these hooks were fixed on their wrists. It's like fighting with two more daggers. Zelin hadn't seen such a way of fighting. The fighting method of the demon hunter viper school is to use two short swords. The swordsmanship inherited by this school is like its name, like the two fangs of a viper. It's just that these cultists obviously don't have the combat level of the snake school demon hunter.

The enemies rushed forward and wanted to solve the demon hunter in one go. However, the demon hunter’s fierce swordsmanship prevented them from getting close to each other. The wolf skin on their body could not provide any protection, which indeed made them feel a sense of fear. , But it makes it impossible to wear any armor. The steel sword can easily tear the wolf skin and sever the muscles. Unfortunately, the only thing they make demon hunters unpleasant is the disgusting smell on their bodies, and only in this point they are almost the same as the werewolves.

Of course, in the face of these enemies in the dark, Zelin can use his seal without any hesitation. The seal of Yaxie can easily create chaos, the seal of Alderfa can disrupt their positions, and the seal of Igni can still be applied to Yanan’s law of dealing with veterinary patients. The hairy wolf skin is An excellent combustible, when these humans dressed as monsters saw the flames from Zelin's hands, fear appeared on their faces. As for the Kunen's seal, Zelin didn't need it at all, because the hook couldn't touch him, let alone hurt him.

The fighting lasted for a short period of time, and several more corpses appeared on this rubble soon. Blood flowed into the weeds, and several mice rushed out of it, screaming and fled into the nearby sewer. Zelin swung his sword fast and fiercely, cutting one or two throats, or piercing a few chests. In just one minute, eight out of twelve enemies became a corpse, moisturized with his own blood. Weeds around. Their faith and clothing could not protect them, Zelin quickly taught them this, and it didn't take long for the demon hunter to cut off the head of the last enemy facing him, and the surroundings fell silent for a moment.

A pool of blood on the ground stained the white ground red. The demon hunter shook the sword to prevent the body from rusting, and then took the steel sword back into the scabbard. It's a pity that such a strong smell of blood and the surrounding sticky blood made this place no longer as a place to rest overnight, Zelin shook his head regretfully. He is looking for another place.

Going to the hotel must not work, you know, Zelin is now covered with blood, not like a lodging traveler, but like a murderer. In addition, he has no money and only a gold ring and necklace, just like stolen goods. But the demon hunter can be sure that there must be a place that doesn't care about the blood on his body, such as those cultists' lairs.

Maybe their lair has what Zelin needs most at the moment-gold coins. Just like when he stumbled across a bandit camp in the wild, every time the demon hunter had to use a steel sword to protect himself, then he could make an extra money. Of course, the probability of this kind of encounter is very few, his world is full of monsters in the wild, how could there be so many bandits and bandits.

After sighing, Zelin squatted down and distinguished the footprints of the cultists when they escaped from the pool of blood. Among the four who fled, some of them had blood on their boots. Although not many, it was enough for the demon hunter to be on the slate. Tracking on the road, coupled with the tracking skills he noticed from Yanan, after about a few minutes, he found a hidden door hidden in the grass at the bottom of the bath, under a collapsed arch.

There is a **** handprint on the secret door. The blood is very fresh. Someone left when passing through the secret door. It should be the few people who fled just now. The weeds have already changed the place strictly. The demon hunter pushed open the secret door and looked down. Under the secret door, there was a tunnel with a steep **** leading to the underground. The stench of bat dung and decay came from the corridor. Zelin was a little unimaginable. Why would anyone want to live in such a place? Even the believers of the evil **** would clean the house.

After hesitating for about half a moment, the Demon Hunter was still forming the Kunen's Seal, and after covering his body with the bright orange protection, he slid down the corridor into the ground.

He really needs money. If he can earn enough gold coins before he leaves this world, he doesn't need to run all day long to build the academy. He can go to Kyle Morhan and look for instruments for the trial of the grass. I have to say that sometimes the academy is harder to satisfy than the sorcerer.

PS: To be reasonable, if I combine these two more into one, no one will say that it is shorter=_=

Chapter 165-Romulus

This place is very deep. Zelin slides for about five seconds before falling to the ground. According to the time of sliding, it can be estimated that it is about ten meters away from the ground. The smell of animal dung is everywhere, and insects are rushing from time to time. Run away. This is a narrow corridor, and any small sound will be infinitely amplified. Zelin has to be careful. If someone is ambushing him, his footsteps will easily reveal his position.

The goddess of luck seemed to smile at the demon hunter once again, and no one seemed to have thought that the prey from a few minutes ago would be traced directly to their lair. Zelin moved, and there were many hard things on the ground, like many rocks. But the light here was extremely dim, and he had to take out a short wooden stick from his waist. This was when he was asleep when he picked him up from the surroundings. It happened to be ignited with the Ignatius Seal, and temporarily used as a torch for a few minutes.

When the torch was lit, Zelin subconsciously thought that he had come to the grave witch's lair.

The ground on the ground is not a stone, but a whole tunnel covered with bones. The crevices of these bones are covered with soil, dark and yellow, and the bones in different parts are messy and shattered in the ground, and some bones are even half buried in the soil. It is obvious that they are old. There are regular grooves on the surrounding walls. Some grooves lie in complete human bones, and some grooves are empty. The bones inside are likely to be on the ground. It is speculated from the current situation that this is probably an ancient tomb, which was then discovered by those cultists wearing wolf skins and took it as their own.

The tomb here is like a labyrinth, thanks to the age, there is no rancid smell of corpses. Zelin kept his steps to the lightest level, only the mouse who didn't know what he was eating noticed the uninvited guest. There is no sign on the ground in this tomb, otherwise the demon hunter would not fail to notice such a huge cemetery, which further confirmed his conjecture. Today's Rome was built on the ruins of a giant city that was once a giant city, just like the Osenforte underground, which was built on the ruins of the elves, is a huge ruin.

Rome, when he closed his eyes, he thought of where he heard the name of the city. Nero, in the tavern outside Camelot, the girl who bought some Gwent cards and called herself an artist, said she was an artist from Rome.

It may be an interesting coincidence, but all this is of little significance. When I see Altria again next time, Zelin can get a good understanding of what is going on in Rome in that world.

The demon hunter walked forward along the tunnel. There were no road signs or words indicating the direction, but Zelin could judge from the air in the tunnel whether he was in the right direction. Even a cultist, it is estimated that it is impossible to sleep in corpses and bones like a real grave witch, otherwise Zelin would really have to re-evaluate their types.

Walking to the depths of the tunnel, after not knowing how many corners he walked, a beam of fire appeared in front of the demon hunter. It's not an attack, but just two torches hanging on both sides of the tunnel. These monsters that move in the dark need to use torches to illuminate it, which is really amazing. It seems that they can only pretend to be monsters in front of ordinary people. When facing the darkness, they are no different from ordinary people.

The surrounding air has gradually become fresher. The places where they gather must have vents connected to the outside world. Not many creatures can stay in a closed and polluted place for a long time without any problems. The air is getting fresher and fresher, which can prove Zelin Find the right direction, and the direction of air flow can point him to the location of the vent. This is the conclusion drawn by the demon hunter in the underground monster lair all the year round, otherwise he would not have any distinguishing ability, and he would have been lost in the more complex elf ruins.

"Damn it, what kind of monster is that?"

"He has a flame in his hand, just like a demon!"

After turning a few turns, the sound of controversy suddenly faintly passed into the ears of the demon hunter. It was a human voice, although they were still imitating wolf calls before.

"Go tell the captain? He must have a way!"

"Romulus, why is there such a monster."

Listen to the voice, there are four people in total, the four who fled from Zelin not long ago. Not only a faint smell of blood floated in the air, but also the smell of aged wine and toast. It sounds like they believe in a **** named Romulus, and this is one of their strongholds.

After eavesdropping for a few minutes, Zelin didn’t have much useful information. Apart from knowing that there was a belief in Rome called Romulus, he found nothing. The remaining conversations in dialects that looked like slang, the demon hunters from another world. Don't understand. So he took the steel sword and walked out of the hiding place.

This is a dome dug out manually. The torches hanging around are all extinguished, only the bonfire in the middle provides lighting, and there are a few holes in the top that have been chipped out, allowing the stars outside to reveal a little, at least let the people inside know whether it is daytime or not at the moment. Dark night, but also can achieve the effect of ventilation. Thanks to the blessing of these holes, the sour smell here is a lot lighter. One thing is certain, the followers of Romulus do not like cleaning.

"He's here!" Four believers in wolf skins gathered together, and the man facing Zelin saw the intruding demon hunter at a glance. His scream immediately aroused the alertness of the other three accomplices. "The three of you stop him! I'll tell the captain." The man with two more pendants on the wolf skin fled to a wall without looking back, and then used a command. People are extremely surprised and quick to climb up the scaffolding in front of the wall. It is almost as unthinkable as a person would tell Zelin that the assassin does not use a dagger, but instead rushes on the battlefield with an axe.

Obviously the movements are so slow in the battle, and as a result, people who come to chase after him will suddenly become so agile. Zelin can only attribute all this to the characteristics of humans here. But running around on the wall is high and dangerous. Demon hunters are unwilling to do so without a last resort.

The remaining three people seemed to have suffered a lot in the battle with the demon hunters. One of them grabbed a clay pot. It was not known whether it was filled with water or other liquids, and then poured out the bonfire in the dome. The darkness went down in an instant. Zelin drew his long sword, guarding against attacks from any direction, but the enemies did not attack when the light was dimming.

The physique of these three people is considered strong among ordinary people. Zelin carefully retreated to a darker corner. He didn't know if there were other members of the other party preparing to hide in the dark and stab a deadly dagger. After he stopped, opened his eyes, and scanned the surroundings with the sensitive senses of the demon hunter, he realized that he somewhat overestimated the fighting skills of the three.

The three of them don't even know how important it is to cover up the sound of the action in the dark environment. The demon hunter accurately circumvented behind them based on only hearing judgments, and after using the seal of Aksi to make the ‘werewolf’ farthest away from him lose consciousness, he took care of the remaining enemies as quickly as possible.

The battle is very simple, they don't even know that they are together, although even if they are together, they are not the opponent of the demon hunter. In just a few rounds, these weird people fell to the ground one after another

But when he pierced the long sword into the chest of the last ‘wolfman’ from behind, the emblem on the chest of the demon hunter suddenly shook a few times.

Chapter 166 The sky is dry and everything is dry, beware of fire candles

The badge really shook. Very weak, only a few seconds. If it weren’t for the badge to accurately remind the demon hunter to save him from a ruin of a corpse during a demon attack, I’m afraid he would really think that the shock just now was just an illusion. , Or accidentally scratched the badge. But every time the badge shook, Zelin would not ignore its prompts and warnings, and the facts proved that the badge did not live up to his expectations.

Zelin took off a torch on the wall, snapped his fingers, and the flame instantly covered the tip of the torch soaked in pine oil. Although this artificially hewn dome does not occupy a large area, although the sparrow is small and has five internal organs, it has everything for daily necessities and furniture. Wooden boxes and suitcases of various sizes and shapes are carefully placed in the surrounding corners. One of the suitcases was kicked over during the battle, and dozens of gold ducats and a diamond bracelet were scattered on the ground, shining brightly under the reflection of torches.

He squatted down and weighed a coin with his hand. The weight of the coin was almost the same as the Oren coin. The gold content was not high, but it was a genuine gold coin. In the legend of the Skellig Islands, there have been cursed gold coins, and those who get the gold coins will be cursed by the demon spirit.

In fact, the demon hunter can responsibly say that these legends are not without basis, and gold coins can indeed be used as a vehicle for curses, or a parasite of a resentful spirit. It's just that he can be more certain that these ducats have nothing to do with the necklace and badge vibration.

Zelin searched the vault carefully. Except for the various boxes and clay pots in the room, it is a wooden table and two chairs, which are very rough. There were many documents scattered on the desktop, and Zelin glanced at it roughly. There were many unrecognized text symbols, and he couldn't understand the meaning of them. However, according to the experience of the demon hunter, this is just ordinary parchment, but in the world where the demon hunter is full of papyrus, such expensive things as parchment are really uncommon.

Since the badge sounded slightly, there has been no movement. Zelin picked up the coins and diamonds on the ground and threw them into his pocket. I don’t know what the value of diamonds is here. If the diamonds here are equivalent to Yanan’s gold coins and can be thrown on the ground as a mark, Zelin can take a good look and see if he can bring some light diamonds back. Go in the world he is in.

As for the other boxes, none of them were locked. Zelin opened them one by one, and they were filled with gold coins or precious items such as emeralds. The value of these things made him have to reassess whether this Romulus religion was just a robber under the guise of the church, or whether it was really an organized underground church.

The church on the bright side is absolutely impossible. On the way to follow Ezio, he has seen churches in Rome. They are full of monks in red clothes, or nuns in black dresses and white capes. They are not all dirty. A weird man in wolf skin with a sour smell.

Count all the gold coins. Excluding crafts made of emerald diamonds, there are about one hundred ducats. These gold coins are very small. The demon hunter can find three small leather bags from the Romulus cultists. Put them all down, then tie them together with a string, hang them behind the potion bag, and finally block them with the hem of the cloak. Based on his experience in Novigrad, if you let others notice that you have a bulging wallet, then be prepared to say goodbye to your wallet the next day.

In the end, he rummaged through the entire dome, but didn't find anything that could make the badge vibrate again. Maybe that thing was not in the vault, but the strange stone found in a suitcase aroused great interest from the demon hunter. This is not a complete stone. It has a weird look with strange patterns on it. The reason why it can attract Zelin’s attention is precisely because the pattern on it is from another world compared to the artwork in other boxes. .

Packed up, Zelin was about to leave. Now there is not only the sourness of old wine and rotting food in the dome, but also a strong smell of blood, plus the dense white bones on the outside, this place is getting closer and closer to its original function --- it has become a new place again. The grave, but the cultivator was buried.

It was no longer possible to return to the original path. He followed the path that the believer had just escaped and found an iron fence gate connected to the low wall. Behind the gate was a dark passage with a little water on the ground. Hunters think of the drainage system in the elven ruins, which is called the sewer. Although the cities built with the elven ruins are considering abandoning the useless things like sewers, because now, those places are full of water ghosts and mice. Ours is a cozy nest decorated with the bones of the intellectual race.

There are even more rumors that the sewer is actually one of the evil plans of the elves, and it is full of monsters they breed to kill humans. Of course, Zelin knew it was fake, and Francesca knew it was fake, but many people believed it was real.

It seems that the believers escaped from here, which can prove that there are no amphibious monsters in the world of Zelin, otherwise the stupid cultists will not build their strongholds near the monster lair, just like the believers of the evil god, although They claimed that their gods ruled the ocean, but they still would not establish secret strongholds near the nests of aquatic amphibious monsters like Hekna and Siren. There was no other way besides. Assessing the fighting power of the Romulus, Zelin returned to the vault, took off a new torch, and walked out along the sewer after it was lit.

The journey went smoothly, no monsters, no resentful spirits, no corpses, and no humans. After walking for more than one hundred meters, the demon hunter stopped in front of a shaft. There was a wooden ladder beside the shaft, which just allowed the people below to climb up the ladder. There are faint blood footprints around the wooden ladder. It seems that the Romulus believers are already empty in this stronghold, otherwise Zelin should see the enemy coming with reinforcements instead of the traces of the enemy escaping.

In the end, he pushed the stone cover on the top of the opening and drilled out the narrow shaft. The demon hunter found himself standing on the street in Rome. This is like a market, but most of the stalls have not yet started a new day of business, only scattered pedestrians bracing the rising sun to the east, preparing to start another round of work, their brows are frowned and their expressions are in a hurry. , Then a strangely dressed man suddenly appeared in the middle of the street would not attract their attention.