Wizard: This witcher is not doing his job

Chapter 188

The next morning, when Wayne came out of his high-end hotel room in Sintra, it was almost noon.

In the dining room on the first floor, Geralt and Dandelion were eating breakfast at a table by the window.

No matter what time it is, the poet classmates always seem to be so energetic and full of energy. When Wayne walked towards them, he happened to see him talking endlessly to the stern-faced Geralt.

Master Wayne yawned, sat across from the two of them, and waved over to call the liquor girl in the store. She was a tall, scantily clad, sexy-looking sister Yu.

Facing a wealthy boss like Wayne, the liquor girl immediately abandoned the other guests and greeted them with a wink and a smile on her face.

"Have some bottles of the best fruit mead, and go to the kitchen and get some baked honey bread, fresh from the oven."

After the beautiful liquor girl left, Wayne smacked his lips and asked Dandelion:
"What are you discussing?"

Before Dandelion answered, Geralt said with a bored expression:

"I don't know where he got the news. He said that important personnel in the Sintra Palace were missing. A large number of guards came from outside the city this morning. Now the entire palace and city gates are under martial law."

As he spoke, Geralt looked at Wayne's bandaged right hand, and asked with concern in his tone:
"What happened to your right hand? Did you hurt any bones? Thanks to you for this entrustment, I was able to stop Princess Pavetta so quickly."

Wayne stretched out his right hand indifferently, and after showing it to Geralt, he said:

"Small, don't worry, it's just a flesh wound. There's nothing polite between us. Just like what we said at the beginning, when we execute the entrustment together, the bounty will be half and half, haha."

Geralt also showed a smile. He seldom teamed up with others for missions, but he felt a little lucky that Wayne was invited to help this time.

Soon, the tavern girl brought mead and steaming toasted honey bread. Wayne took out two gold coins and patted her plump buttocks, in exchange for a few coquettish smiles.

Dandelion reached out for a bottle of honey wine, uncorked the bottle skillfully, took a sip for himself, and said solemnly:
"I'm not talking nonsense. Do you still remember the Baron of Gigota? The one who confronted Queen Calanthe in public. I got the news from him. He is a friend of the royal family and knows a lot of inside information."

Geralt didn't care much about this. He ate a piece of honey bread in a few bites, then took a sip of mead, and said to Wayne and Dandelion:

"I'm going to leave Cintra soon. Yennefer is still waiting for me in Novigrad, and it's going to be winter soon. I won't be able to stay in Novigrad for long before I have to return to Kaer Morhen. "

Wayne raised his eyebrows, touched Geralt with a wine glass, and asked:

"Leave so soon? Don't you care about your possible accidental son?"

Geralt drank the wine in the glass, looked at Wayne with meaningful eyes and said:

"Fate will arrange everything. I will come back in six years and see if fate has mercy on me."

"And, according to Dandelion, this place will soon become a place full of troubles. I advise you to leave early, Wayne."

"This kind of political place is not suitable for us demon hunters."

After the three of them had a hearty breakfast, Geralt left Sintra on his steed Carrot. Dandelion felt that there was still something exciting to watch, so he didn't know where he was going.

However, Wayne can't leave yet. As a person who knows the future development of the plot, whether it is out of good intentions or to add obstacles to future enemies, he has something to talk to Princess Pavita who wears the ancient blood .

After all, after leaving this time, when he comes to Sintra next time, he doesn’t know what year it will be.

And he didn't need to wait for a long time, and he didn't have to take the initiative to come to the door. It would not take long before someone would come here to look for him.

Sure enough, as he expected, in the afternoon, when Wayne was sitting in the lobby molesting the liquor girl, molesting the mature royal lady a little, a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes found the hotel.

The middle-aged man looked anxious. When he saw Wayne sitting in the restaurant on the first floor, his eyes lit up immediately. He walked quickly to Wayne's side, lowered his head, and said respectfully:
"Master Wayne, I don't know if Master Geralt is with you. Our respected Queen Calanthe hopes to invite the two masters to the palace now to discuss important matters."

Wayne looked up at the middle-aged man, and found that he was the one who led him and Janot to the palace last time, the palace supervisor Haxo.

At such a tense moment, Queen Calanthe sent someone like the palace supervisor to invite him and Geralt, which was obviously very important and nervous.

Faced with the tense expression of Director Haxel, Wayne shook his head with some regret, and said:
"I'm sorry, Director Haxo, my companion Geralt, left the city of Sintra before noon. It's been half a day now, and you probably can't find him anymore."

Haxo was very disappointed when he heard the words, but as the director of the palace, he did not express his disappointment, but politely saluted Wayne and said:

"Since this is the case, can you ask Master Wayne to go to the palace with me now? This matter is really urgent. Please forgive me."

Of course Wayne knew what was going on, but he still put on a puzzled expression, thought about it for a few seconds, then nodded and said:
"Since the queen invited me, I certainly won't refuse it. It just so happens that there is nothing else going on right now, so let's go now."

After receiving Wayne's response, Director Haxel immediately nodded happily, leading Wayne anxiously and eagerly.

At the previous banquet, he had already seen how powerful this demon hunter, who looked like a young man, was. At this moment, he still felt a deep awe of Wayne in his heart.

About ten minutes later, the two of them, escorted by several guards, rode through the streets and entered the huge palace.

But this time, they didn't stop at the royal hall. Haxo took Wayne into the backyard of the palace and came to the living room of Queen Calanthe. Before he arrived, several people were already waiting in the living room.

King East, Kratz the Boar of the Sea, Grand Druid Mossak, and Princess Pavita, who sat on the other side with reddish eye circles, was weeping silently.

After seeing Wayne come in, except for some princesses who were in a daze, everyone nodded slightly to him, which was regarded as an initiative to say hello.

After all, at the last banquet, all those who survived had to accept a favor from Wayne.

After Wayne responded politely to them, he sat down between Kratz and Mossak. He asked the Sea Boar in a low voice:
"What happened, Kratz?"

"Why did the queen call us all here?"

The two had drank wine at a banquet before, played Gwent cards, and bragged together. .

The red-haired Kratz first peeked at his uncle, and then at Princess Pavetta on the opposite side, then smiled softly, and said to Wayne:
"Dony the hedgehog disappeared last night."

"This morning, the royal guards searched the entire palace, searched all corners, and found no clues."

"No one knows where that guy went or how he disappeared."

Kratz said his eyebrows happily, with a look of gloating. When he was about to say something more, he was glared at by King East and immediately shut up, but there was still a smile between his eyebrows and eyes. Obviously this matter It made him quite happy.

Wayne had a surprised expression on his face, as if he was hearing about this for the first time, and then looked at the expressions of other people, then he didn't speak any more, but sat quietly in his seat and waited.After dozens of seconds, Mossak sitting on his right suddenly asked:

"Wayne, where's Geralt? Didn't he come with you?"

Wayne shook his head and said:

"Geralt has left Cintra."

"You know, he always runs fast when he sees some trouble."

Mossack nodded regretfully, then closed his eyes, as if he was in meditation.

A few minutes later, Queen Calanthe walked in from outside the house tiredly, wearing a gorgeous light armor.

The glamorous queen greeted everyone briefly, then sat on the chair of the chair, raised her head and drank a cup of tea. After scanning the crowd, she found that Geralt hadn't arrived, so she also asked Wayne once.

After getting the result that Geralt had left, the queen was slightly disappointed, but quickly adjusted her mood, and said bluntly:

"Everyone, Pavita's fiancé, Doni, disappeared mysteriously last night. Those incompetent guards found nothing, and there was no clue at all."

"So I invited you all over here, and I want to hear your thoughts."

After finishing speaking, Queen Calanthe looked at her daughter Pavetta and motioned her to recount the situation of last night to everyone present.

After hearing her mother's voice, Princess Pavetta wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked up at the crowd, and told everything she knew last night.

It's a pity that the princess went to bed early last night, and everything described was just trivial things.

After hearing this, everyone didn't have any clues. They only knew that the princess' fiancé, Doni, probably disappeared in the study, because on the table in the study, there was still some wine he hadn't finished drinking, and half-read books.

The scene was silent for a while, and no one had a reasonable inference. Queen Calanthe's expression became more and more irritable. She suddenly patted the table and asked directly to Grand Druid Mossak:
"Mossac, I think it's impossible for ordinary people to disappear from the heavily guarded palace, whether Doni volunteered or was kidnapped."

"As the only spellcaster among us, what do you think?"

Hearing this, the old Druid raised his head and looked at the queen. After staring at the queen for more than ten seconds, he shook his head and said:

"I'm sorry, Calanthe, I've already looked in that study, and I didn't find any clues. There's no trace at all. It seems like it disappeared out of thin air."

"And I also predicted it with the prophecy spell, and the result was not ideal. Doni's fate is like a swamp, full of variables, and I can't see anything."

"However, as you said, it is basically impossible for ordinary people to do this kind of thing."

Queen Calanthe was very disappointed, and then looked at her fiancé King East and his nephew Kratz.

Well, these two are reckless, it's okay to let them participate in the battle, it is definitely useless for this kind of disappearance case.

Finally, Queen Calanthe looked at Wayne, and said expectantly in her tone:
"Wayne the Witcher, what do you think about this matter?"

Wayne pretended to think about it for a dozen seconds, then shook his head regretfully, and said:

"Sorry, Your Majesty, you may not be clear. I have just become a demon hunter for less than three years. It is okay for me to hunt monsters, but it may be quite difficult for me to handle such a complicated case."

When everyone present heard Wayne's words, they all looked at him in surprise. They didn't expect that the young demon hunter who showed such a strong performance at the banquet yesterday had only been a demon hunter for less than three years. For a 50-year-old witcher, it's really quite rare.

And just when Calanthe looked back with some disappointment, and wanted to find other ways.

Princess Pavita, who was sitting across from them, suddenly raised her head, and said to Wayne with tears in her eyes:
"Mr. Wayne, you must know something. When we were at the banquet yesterday, you said some strange things to me and said that you would tell me the truth later. Can you please tell me now?"

As soon as the princess said this, everyone's eyes turned to Wayne again. This was the first time they had heard about it, and they really wanted to know what the truth was about Wayne.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Wayne was not at all disturbed. He shook his head pretending to be distressed on the surface, and said:
"Your Highness, actually, regarding this matter, I originally wanted to confront Mr. Dhoni and expose his lies face to face. But later, Mr. Dhoni became your fiancé, and I felt that I should not meddle in your own business and destroy you. feelings between."

"But now, Mr. Doni is missing now. If I tell the truth again, it will become a one-sided statement, which will misunderstand you, so I don't plan to tell you anymore!"

Wayne's refusal to welcome, playing hard to get, made Queen Calanthe very annoyed. She patted the table vigorously, looked at Wayne and said:

"Wayne, don't be a mother-in-law, act like a woman."

"It's such a time now. No matter what intelligence or news, you can speak it out boldly. Whether we believe it or not, it can provide us with some ideas anyway."

Listening to Queen Calanthe's rather bold speech, Wayne put on a wry smile on his face, then considered his words and said:

"Very well, Your Majesty."

"Actually, before I came to Sintra, I met a fellow demon hunter from the south on the road, and he told me a piece of news."

"More than ten years ago, a coup occurred in the southern Kingdom of Nilfgaard. The emperor at that time was killed by a usurper, and Prince Emhyr was cursed by a warlock and turned into a monster that looked like a hedgehog. .”

"hedgehog!"

Everyone exclaimed and had some guesses about the truth that Wayne said.

Wayne nodded, his expression unchanged, and continued:
"My colleague was entrusted by the emperor of Nilfgaard to find information about the former prince of Nilfgaard. According to the information he provided, the former prince of Nilfgaard used to live in Ihrenwald."

"And he also told me a special news. He said that Prince Emhyr also has an evil warlock who cooperated with him. They planned a coincidence, an accident, and wanted to use King Rogner's accidental son. , to lift his curse."

"That's why, when I saw Urchion who claimed to be from Ullenwald, I thought that Princess Pavetta was a poor deceived person."

Saying that, Wayne looked at the crowd with different expressions, and said with some hesitation:

"But now, my fellow demon hunter has returned to Nilfgaard, and Duny has also disappeared. I don't know who the so-called evil warlock is."

"So I think it's better not to tell you about such uncertain news."

(End of this chapter)