The Divine Hunter

  Chapter 23 The Secret of the Wine Cellar

  The two walked through the corridor paved with bearskin carpets, and under the shining candles, the gloriously decorated hall was unobstructed.

   Just within their reach, a well-maintained bust exuded a seductive light in the showcase, and every few steps decorated a soft-colored vase of porcelain.

There are more than ten precious oil paintings hanging on the four walls, most of which are portraits of people. Roy curiously identified one of them and found that one of them actually painted the removal of the usurper a few years ago and regained control of the Nilfgaard Empire. Emperor Enhill Enris.

  Roy exclaimed, “Dare to collect portraits of enemy emperors in Aden, Seville is a good flatterer.”

  "With the power of the dwarf, as long as he does not rebel, the local army can't take him. It is normal for the dwarf to have a good opinion of Enhill, at least that guy does not discriminate against inhuman races."

  "I don't think so." Roy shook his head, his voice was inaudible, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Southern Empire just wants to use non-human races." Both the Demon Hunter and the Squirrel Party will become victims of Enhill's Northern Expedition.

   But since Roy is here, he will no longer let the Viper School be used foolishly.

  The topic ended, and the two continued to move forward.

  The hall leads to the corridor on the second floor. The two maids are watering the flowers in the vases, and Roy can't help but widen his eyes when he sees them.

  These are two dwarf maids.

  Wearing a skirt, a short stature, but with a thick beard that is not inferior to an adult man...a woman.

  "Respect the customs of all races."

Resso said in a low voice, took out a bag of white powder from the alchemy potion bag, and began to splatter it all over the room. While spreading him, he explained to Roy, "This is dried black veratrum flower powder. , It can stimulate certain naughty guys and make them appear automatically."

   Roy poked his nose curiously, sniffing around, "The faint fragrance...for humans, it smells tangy, but it smells intolerable for some creatures."

   "You already have a clue? What is causing Seville to mess up?"

  Resso did not answer, and led him through the lobby on the first floor, followed by the guest rooms on the second floor, and the master bedroom where Seville was sleeping on the third floor, and searched it all over.

   "What did the two lords have discovered?" The awakened dwarf rubbed his darkened eye circles, yawned, and smelled the faint scent of veratrum in the air. He felt refreshed, and his irritability disappeared.

  "I haven't found it yet. By the way, are there any secret rooms in your house except for the rooms on the third floor."

  Sevier frowned and was silent.

  Reso said harshly, and said unceremoniously, "This matter is related to whether you can find the culprit, you must tell me!"

  "Otherwise, no monsters will be caught and no refund will be made!"

  The dwarf rubbed his whip tightly with his right hand, and sighed after a long time, "Finally, I believe in the credibility of the Snake Demon Hunter. It's not that I didn't want to say it just now, it really matters a lot."

   "Just next to the kitchen shelf on the first floor, there is a hidden door leading to... to the wine cellar."

  The wine merchant’s wine cellar is his culprit.

  "You must be careful when searching, and don't break my wine barrel."

  His eyes flickered, and when he came out of the room he held a key in his arms, "I decided to accompany you to the wine cellar to check."

   "No need, give me the key, you just remember that the witcher is still searching downstairs, go back to sleep for an hour and forget about the present."

With a bewildered tone, Resso drew a seal with his right hand in front of the dwarf's eyes. The latter lost focus in an instant, and sluggishly handed the key to the big man. He went back to the bedroom and closed the door with a pop, and the sky-shaking snoring sounded. .

  A trace of surprise flashed across Roy’s face, "Did you hypnotize this guy?"

  Resso said lightly, "He lied in front of the demon hunter. Sometimes in order to discover the truth, he has to learn to adapt."

  The two of them had Seville's handwriting and keys, and they came to the kitchen unobstructed and entered the cellar smoothly.

  This is an extremely spacious cellar, with an area much larger than the house upstairs. Roy estimates that its scope covers all the courtyards of the dwarf mansion underground.

The torches arranged in sequence on the wall on one side illuminate every corner of the cellar in detail. In such a large basement, all the wine is stored. The round wooden wine barrels are placed twice, four in a group. The conspicuous signs clearly indicate the year and variety of each group.

  Roy gulped, his eyes gazed around randomly.

   "1259, wine."

   "1258, honey wine."

   "In 1257, nut wine."

  The ones placed at the top are those with lighter vintages, and the farther inside, the higher the vintage.

   "1200, mandala wine."

  ……

   "In 1158, Everose Wine."

  "Sevier, he won’t move the entire dwarf clan’s fine wines to this basement. He even has a hundred years of fine wine."

   "Unfortunately, I don't like drinking."

  Reso slapped Roy's shoulder like a fan with a slap, and the latter grinned, and he said earnestly, "When you truly become a man, you will understand the taste of wine."

   "I don't want to be an alcoholic."

  The huge wine cellar, two people can't walk for half an hour, but less than ten minutes later, when Reso walked to a row of 1198 dwarf spirits, he suddenly stopped.

  His nose twitched flexibly like a hound, then he stopped, and his thick palm touched the barrel and tapped lightly.

   "Bang, bang, bang." Roy didn't hear anything about it, but he found something on his nose.

   "There is a smell..."

  Roy suddenly spoke, and his perception of more than 7 made his sense of smell also far beyond ordinary people. Near these barrels of wine, a very slight smell of rotten lingers.

  Resso gave him a surprised look, "Ordinary people can't smell it at all."

  But what he smelled was more accurate, "This is the smell of corpses, human corpses, soaked in 50 years of dwarf spirits, the strong smell of alcohol has masked most of the odor. It's a pity that you can't deceive the demon hunter."

   Roy's heart beat, pointing to the wine barrel, "You mean there are corpses hidden in the barrel?"

  Reso nodded, his bushy eyebrows twitched like a knife, "No wonder this Seville Hogg wants to come to the cellar with us because he is afraid that we will discover the secret in the barrel."

   "Just when I entered the house, I thought it was Xiao Diling who was pranking him, but now things don’t seem to be that simple."

  (End of this chapter)