Shadow Covenant

Chapter 4 "The Demon Hunt"

The basic profession of "Demon Hunter" comes from the plane "Grandy", which is far away from the shroud of divine grace and out of the sight of the gods, just like Ashlend.

This is a very peaceful and peaceful plane.

When I first arrived at Grandi.

Many players are still trembling when they go out to take risks, for fear that those unknown monsters will sneak attack from some corner.

After getting familiar with it, I realized that this plane is really safe.

Devils, demons, and gods seem to have forgotten this world.

Only a small number of spirits and monsters in the entire continent are still alive.

Most of them have disappeared with history.

The number of giant dragons can be counted with fingers in the entire plane.

It has become a living animal that is cherished and protected.

Most types of monsters fear humans.

Because that is the fear engraved in DNA, as long as they dare to harm human beings.

It didn't take long before their fellow humans, just like humans, except that they glowed yellow in the dark, would come to avenge them.

The final result is often that a tribe is destroyed, and the heads of the same tribe are taken away as trophies.

Therefore, many players regard this place as a paradise for rest after the war.

Life players and casual players regard this as the main world.

Planting, gathering herbs, mining and fishing.

Things that can only be done around the city on the main material plane.

In Grandi, as long as you want, you can even go up the snow mountain and go down the swamp alone.

Almost no monsters will come out to bother you.

Many players think that this world is just like this.

But as the first batch of players who came to Grandi, he knew it deeply in his heart.

These are all thanks to what the aborigines call "mutants", "monsters" or "freaks".

And their profession is demon hunters—a profession born of destiny.

The former Grandi was the same as the current Asenland, monsters spread all over the continent.

From low-level kobolds, jackals, and hags that overwhelmed people, to giant dragons, mountain giants, and hydras that destroyed cities and countries.

It is also when the human territory is at stake that the witcher comes into being.

Every demon hunter will be taught by his mentor at the beginning of his birth, telling them that they shoulder the responsibility of protecting people from monsters.

From then on, the demon hunters who have entered the road began to wander around the mainland, earning their living by accepting demon hunting commissions from ordinary people.

In the beginning, ordinary humans would respect demon hunters as much as officials.

But as the number of monsters on the mainland decreased, and the people behind them fanned the flames.

At some point, demon hunters gradually turned to the opposite of ordinary people.

They cursed these aliens with vicious slang, wishing that these aliens would leave this world like those monsters.

In the tide of history, demon hunters are inevitably put on the road of killing donkeys.

Woody had a hard time understanding at first why a group of paladin-like professionals protecting mortals ended up like this in the end.

But when I saw some mortals who had the courage to abuse and even beat up the demon hunters, they bowed their knees in front of city officials and forced a smile on their faces.

You probably get it, there are stupid people in every race.

As Nig Boot, the only remaining witcher mentor at the time, said.

"Intolerance and superstition have always been among the common follies of the common ignorant people, and I suppose they can never be completely eradicated, because they are as immortal as stupidity itself. The mountains of today may be the oceans of the future; the mountains of today Wang Yang may be the desert of the future. But stupidity is always stupid."

The demon hunter forgave them, and began to avoid entanglements with mundane affairs outside the commission as much as possible.

Accept the commission, complete the commission, and leave.

But even so, it still failed to reassure these guys who claimed to be normal people, not the product of vicious witchcraft and demons like demon hunters.

Not long after the day when the monsters were completely far away from human society, the liquidation plan for cleaning up another monster "demon hunter" began.

With the help of warlocks and wizards, a conspiracy was launched against the demon hunters who "came unprepared" and "accepted entrustment".

Demon hunters seldom act in groups, and only the "castle gathering" once every few years will have information flow.

The conspiracy unfolded smoothly.

When the "castle gathering" of demon hunters in various regions started again, it was found that the number of demon hunters was reduced more than in the past ten years.

But by then it was too late.

Surrounded by the human army, the castle where the demon hunters generally existed as a "home" also fell to death.

After the last battle of extermination, only a few lucky witchers survived.

What Woody came into contact with was a demon hunter mentor who survived the conspiracy.

In fact, according to his words, when there are no monsters in this world.

The mission of the demon hunters has actually been completed, and the demon hunters will cut off their roots without the need for ordinary people to do it themselves.

You know, decades ago, the "Green Grass Trial" for cultivating demon hunters had stopped.

The purpose is to stop letting human children step into this vicious circle cursed by the world.

"Children like them shouldn't have to worry about dying at the hands of the people they saved one day in the future, and they don't need to hear their vicious slang words. Let us old bones bear it!"

After hearing this at the time, Woody, who was a plane traveler, asked a question to the elderly demon hunter mentor.

"Master Nigger, if time is reversed, are you still willing to help them and kill monsters?"

The memory of the demon hunter flashed through Woody's mind like a fleeting moment.

Some details have long been unclear.

But he still remembers the two horses grazing leisurely under the shade of the mottled afternoon that day.

With the help of the breeze, the large golden wheat waves in the distance shook their heads slightly.

Farther away, the chimneys of small houses with white walls and red tiles are already emitting smoke.

And the old man who looked into the distance, his face full of vicissitudes and wrinkles, smiled without hesitation.

"Yes, why not, we are paid."

Woody didn't stop for a moment, and continued to ask without giving up.

"But... why? They treated you like that!"

The old man just shook his head, his gaze remained firm as before, and his words were loud and loud.

"Although hundreds of years have caused human beings to forget the hardships of the past, where their nursery rhymes came from, and why they closed their doors at night. But no matter in the past or in the future, demon hunters are only for one The reason exists: to solve the monsters that humans cannot face."

……

Woody couldn't remember when his conversation with the old man ended.

He only knew that when he brought this old demon hunter mentor to another material plane.

After completing the task and getting the due reward, I still feel empty in my heart.

At that time, he hesitated for a while, and his friends laughed at him for being so affected by a virtual game.

It wasn't until later that the character of the plane traveler died on a trip to the astral world and he created a character of a demon hunter that he gradually understood the mentality of the demon hunter mentor at that time.

How humans are is not important, the death and fear of monsters are important.

When monsters are already far away from human society and dare not take half a step.

Those fellow demon hunters who sacrificed their lives for this...deserved death.

Of course, he himself is definitely unable to achieve this level, or that all players cannot empathize with the natives.

Repay for kindness, repay for revenge, and retaliate with an eye is their way of doing things.

……

Thinking, Woody has already walked through the corridor full of oil paintings, and came to the revolving "herringbone" staircase leading to the hall on the first floor of the manor.

But before he came down the stairs.

On the second floor of the hall, a middle-aged man wearing a butler's costume stopped him from the opposite staircase, walking quickly.

Apparently they ran over immediately after receiving the news of Woody's waking up.

"Master Woody, Madam told you that you don't need to go to school today, she has asked you for leave over there."

Obviously, the manor housekeeper in front of him thought that Woody woke up and hurried out to go to school.

After all, today is not a holiday.

After hearing this, Woody understood that it seemed to be his aunt Susan, who was worried that he would have to go to class after waking up.

She directly made a decision for him, wanting him to rest well.

But he could only live up to his aunt's kindness.

Woody's eyes remained unchanged, and he nodded to the butler in front of him.

"Well, I see. Thank you, aunt, for me."

After finishing speaking, the second half of Woody's words stopped the middle-aged butler who had just moved.

"Also, Cromwell, you will prepare a carriage later, and I will go to Green Pine Lane."

"I know...you know, Master Woody."

But this time, there was a little surprise in Cromwell's voice.

(End of this chapter)