Wizard: This witcher is not doing his job

Chapter 10 The Water Ghost
"Teacher, I won."

Wayne put away the steel sword and looked at his mentor.

Although the two consecutive battles were not particularly intense, Wayne consumed a lot of Chaos magic power, and his body was still a little tired.

The next opponent, Geralt, should be the most difficult to deal with among the three senior demon hunters. He must think of a countermeasure.

However, old witcher Vesemir sighed and said to everyone:
"Okay, let's end the competition here."

"Wayne, you have proved your strength, and you are already qualified to be a teacher. There is no need for a third competition."

He scanned the faces of Geralt, Lambert and Eskel.

"However, you have no experience dealing with monsters yet."

"In the next few years, you and Geralt will form a team and carry out missions together."

"He will teach you how to become a real witcher."

As the old witcher's voice fell, the system prompt sounded in Wayne's mind.

Expert-level task: [Teacher] has been completed.

Get 30 experience points and an expert-level treasure chest.

Originally, Wayne wanted to fight for it again, but after hearing the prompt that the task was completed, he kept silent.

The reason why this test is so hard, in addition to striving for the qualifications to become a teacher, is also one of the important reasons for completing this first expert-level task received.

Now it seems that the rewards are not bad. Thirty points of experience are equivalent to ten normal-level tasks. Although the expert-level treasure chest has not been opened, according to the system's instructions, in addition to a lot of coins, there is a chance to find a rare-level item.

Speaking of this, in his system column, all the ordinary treasure chests obtained in the past year and a half are stored, one every day, and there are more than 500 in total.

Each ordinary treasure chest can get a small amount of currency or some ordinary-level random items. With so many treasure chests added up, a lot of good things can definitely be opened.

Of course, in Kaer Morhen's castle, he didn't open these treasure chests, lest the items he obtained out of thin air arouse the suspicion of the old demon hunter Vesemir.

Wayne (16 years old)
Occupation: Witcher
Level: Level 5 (263/500)

Ability value: 2 points

Attributes: Strength 17, Dexterity 22, Constitution 19, Spirit 22.

Skills: Swordsmanship LV5, Fayin LV8, Gene Mutation LV1.

Special bloodline: Ancient blood (weak, unawakened) requires ten ability points to activate.

Subsidiary skills: Archery LV1, Cooking LV5, Planting LV3.

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Half a month later, heavy snow once again blocked the passage between Kaer Morhen and the outside world.

After obtaining Vesemir's permission to join the army, Wayne's biggest task, in addition to his daily combat training, was to gather herbs, search for monsters, and find materials for refining witcher potions in the forests, mountains, and rivers near Kaer Morhen with the white wolf Geralt.

The truth came out of practice, which also allowed Wayne to apply the knowledge in the book to reality, and learned a lot of knowledge about herbalism and monstrosity that was not in the book.

The only pity is that there are forests and valleys near Kermohan, and it is still in the cold winter.

The monsters and herbs they could find were few, among which water ghosts and evil ghosts accounted for the vast majority, and there were not many materials that could be collected.

A small lake a few kilometers away from Kaer Morhen.

Geralt the White Wolf held a silver sword in his hand, and looked with interest at Wayne, who was surrounded by five water ghosts not far away.

Seeing the figure running left and right among these monsters, the sword light swept across, like a dexterous cheetah, easily dodging the monster's attack and beheading the monster wantonly.

He couldn't help but be amazed at the talent of this young witcher.

Perhaps, this little guy will really become the strongest demon hunter of the wolf school in the past few hundred years, as Vesemir said.

After just a few demonstrations, this young man overcame the human instinctive fear of monsters. Facing the blue-skinned, foul-smelling, ferocious-looking water ghost, he could calmly pick up the silver sword and display his superb swordsmanship.

Thinking about his performance when he faced the monster for the first time, Geralt shook his head helplessly, feeling like the waves behind the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead.

Following the last slash, the sharp silver sword cut through flesh and blood, and the water ghost's head flew high and hit the ground with a bang.

It took less than 2 minutes, and under Wayne's swift and dexterous swordsmanship, the five water ghosts turned into scattered corpses on the ground.

However, after killing all the water ghosts, Wayne didn't know what to think, and didn't make any other movements, but stood in the middle of the corpse in a daze, as if in a daze.

"What are you doing in a daze, quickly take out the water ghost's brain?"

"Today's lesson is to refine swallow potion."

Seeing Wayne holding the silver sword in a daze after killing the water ghost, Geralt took the potion brewing tool, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and asked with a smile:
"What's wrong? Are you scared when you see these monster corpses?"

Hearing this, Wayne let out a breath and shook his head slightly, not because he was afraid, but because he felt a little sick.

When I was fighting among the water ghosts just now, I didn't have such a strong feeling.

But when he cut these five monsters, which were highly similar to human body structure, into pieces of corpses all over the ground, seeing the scene of limbs flying and blood splattering on the ground, he, a traveler who came to this world from a civilized society, suddenly felt a little nauseous.

This was not the first time he had killed a monster, but the evil ghost he had killed before was different from Qiqimo. The appearance of the water ghost was too similar to that of a human. It was no wonder that many civilians mistakenly believed that the water ghost was a monster transformed from the corpses of drowned people.

Geralt didn't take it seriously, and took out a small knife from his waist. In front of Wayne, he knelt down and pinched the head of a water ghost. He neatly cut off the water ghost's scalp, and then pried open the water ghost's skull along a thin slit between the bones, and took out a white water ghost brain that was shaped like a walnut.

He deliberately patted his palm covered with foul-smelling mucus on Wayne's chest, and said with a smile:

"Boy Wayne, as a demon hunter, fighting and killing is only a small part of our life."

"Dealing with all kinds of corpses is the main theme of our lives."

"From now on, you have to get used to living with rotting corpses, mud, and shit."

As he spoke, he put the water ghost brain that he had taken out into a basin-like container, then waved at Wayne, and said:

"I heard from Vesemir that you really like being assigned tasks for you."

"Come on, our task today is to dissect the corpses of twenty water ghosts and refine ten swallow potions."

As soon as Geralt finished speaking, a system prompt sounded in Wayne's mind.

Trigger task: [Dispose of water ghost corpses, brew swallow potion] Normal level.

Do you accept the task?

Yes, confirm to accept the task.

Smelling the sour smell on the corpse, Wayne only felt a nausea. He suppressed the stench and nausea from the water ghost, squatted down, took out the skinning knife, imitated Geralt's movements, and began to dissect another water ghost's corpse.

Indeed, Geralt was right.

No matter how disgusting it was, since he chose to become a demon hunter, he had to adapt to such a life dealing with corpses.

Anyway, when he acts alone in the future, what kind of tasks he accepts is his own freedom.

(End of this chapter)