The Journey of the Demon Hunter

Frette ran, but stopped suddenly. He looked at the road ahead in horror, then took a few steps back. I don't know when, Resso appeared in front, the demon hunter of the Viper School was holding a dagger in one hand, and approaching him step by step. The knight leader took two steps back, just about to turn around to find another escape route, before he completely turned around, he received a fierce punch on the head.

He threw himself to the ground, the tip of his nose was broken by the silver nails inlaid on the gloves of the demon hunter, and the blood couldn't stop flowing out.

"This is treason..."

Frette couldn't speak, Zelin took the ebony blade back to his waist, lifted the knight in front of him with both hands, and threw it to the metal fence aside. He hit the fence, bounced back, and sat down on the ground.

"It's still treason, and will go to the dungeon." Zelin added, "Go to the gallows."

The knight received another punch in the left cheek.

"Use the roughest twine to choke off your neck."

Then came the right face.

"Hanging on the wall and being pecked by crows until it turns into bones."

Frette's eyes rolled in his sockets, his collar became messy, and the pendant of eternal fire jumped out of it. Zelin didn’t know how many elves were killed, how many dwarves’ shops were destroyed by this pendant, and how many girls who became crazy due to the war were accused of dealing with the devil and burned to death on the torture rack, but it must be quite a lot. .

"Or the punishment of car cracking."

Zelin tore off his pendant, then hit his eye fiercely. In an instant, there was a large bruise on his face, "I was poked by hot tongs..."

Fred knelt on the ground, Zelin kicked him in the ribs, making him fall at his feet like a slaughtered elk, "tied to the torture rack and lit the wood."

He squatted down, Frette was breathing heavily, his head buzzing, and his head was raised, and there was another symmetrical fist mark on his right eye. The pendant of eternal fire won't protect him.

"I guess this is what you do best, Commander of the Knights."

Fred curled up like a shrimp and fell to the ground, the blood on the corners of his nose, mouth and eyes almost dyed his cold and terrifying face red. Zelin held his right wrist with his left hand and turned his fist.

"How does it feel? When these things come to you?"

"Don't, don't kill me, I know where the money is hidden here. There are tens of thousands of coins here, all yours! All yours!" Frette covered his face and begged for mercy. "And the best weapon." , Armor. And the estate of the Knights in Novigrad and the manor of Ridania, you can take them, and I will show you to them. They are hidden in the castle, only I know!"

"Well... I'm not you, so I will give you a chance." Zelin crouched down. "Tell me, what will you do when someone who is about to be executed by you and your knight begs you for mercy?" The hunter raised his eyebrows, "If you let go of one of them, even if there is only one person, I will let you go, how about it?"

A blast of cold wind blew, and the winter wind was icy.

Frette bent over, panting, and seemed to be meditating in his mind, trying to find any example he had let go. Zelin looked at him, the golden beast pupils seemed to be shining in the morning light.

Suddenly, Frette stretched out his hand to stab Zelin in the neck, and the dagger hidden in the cuff flashed with a cold light.

It's a pity that when he stopped less than a finger's length from the demon hunter, Zelin's left hand grabbed his wrist as if it were clamped by a pair of irons, making Frette unable to move. Afterwards, he slammed his side and hit Fred's elbow with his right hand. He only heard a click, his arm was broken. There was a scream from the knight, and the power on his arm was instantly released. Zelin took the opportunity to drew out the dagger from the opponent's sleeve, and a backhand pierced Frette's neck directly, turning the knight's subsequent scream into a burst of screams. The murmur of dying.

Then he let go. The knight's body collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"You are lucky."

Resso came over, "If he chose to attack me, I would have killed him long ago."

"Of course, I think Goddess of Luck has always looked after me." Zelin fumbled on the armor of Frette's corpse. After a while, he found a key near the breastplate. "Well, this guy is not a lie. "The key has been around for some years, and now there is no such kind of key. People think that such a key is not only inconvenient to carry, but also easy to break. "Did you see some locked doors on the way here?"

"There is a locked door at the end of the exhibition corridor. It is not a door, but a small door." Reso threw a card to Zelin casually. It’s dawn, and the dense smoke rising here will make people in nearby cities and villages see clearly.” There is no shelter on the plains near Island, and the rising smoke is like a signal, let alone today. It was during the war with Nilfgard that the garrison of Tamoria would come to check and investigate, whether it was an Ailand soldier or not.

"Let's go."

Zelin did not go to see the dead Fret again, "see if there is anything of value, and then we will return to Mahakam."

Chapter 659 "Knight"

The small door that Resso said was engraved with the special logo of the White Rose Knights. Things that belong to the chief of the knights, and even ordinary knights are not eligible to enter. Considering the possibility of their hidden treasures, such a level of confidentiality naturally seems reasonable.

However, Zelin has not forgotten to pack the anti-magical metal blocks in the corridor into the bag. The price of these metal blocks had already been seen when he built the master-class griffon armor. If it weren't for the four-finger Philip and Sudden The gliding lizard that appeared to provide him with materials would definitely cost him all of his belongings, and it might not be enough, let alone the price of friendship given to him by Falakwai.

"If we visited this castle with you before we built the armor, we could save a lot of money." Resso said buzzingly, looking at the light brown anti-magic metal in his hand. There is very little emotion in his voice, but Zelin can still hear his pity. After all, it is not a small amount of money. The whole viper school doesn't know how many years it took to frugal and drink to make up the money.

"We will get better and better, Reso, I promise." Zelin threw the sword and shield made of anti-magical metal down the castle. He didn't worry about breaking it, but dragging these two things down was more straightforward. It’s more troublesome to throw it down. "We can’t bring too many things. It will slow down and bring the most important thing. Then let’s take a look at what Frette is hiding."

They walked to the end of the corridor, and the key could just be inserted into the keyhole. With a click, the lock snapped open, and the wooden door was pushed open with a creak.

First, Zelin asked about an unpleasant smell. To be honest, he is not unfamiliar with this smell. He often smells this smell in the simple brothels of those remote towns, and most of the time it mixes with the smell of smoke. There was no torch behind the door. It was backlit here, and it was dark inside. So Zelin took a torch and took the fire from the brazier outside the door.

Then he walked in, and Reso followed, looked around, and followed in.

"This is where they store their goods."

Reso looked at the place illuminated by the fire, and said in a low voice. The fire is not strong, and the secret room is large, but it is enough for the demon hunter to see the situation inside.

The room was filled with metal cages, and most of the cages were stuffed with the goods of the White Rose Knights-one after another non-human races, basically all elves, and a female night demon, and there were also humans. There were men and women inside. They all looked listless and malnourished. They had more or less whipped scars on their bodies, ragged clothes and even no food or drinking water. Some people fainted on the ground, only a few people looked ill. Not bad.

"They sell slaves..."

This trade was banned very early in the North. It was banned in the Novigrad Treaty hundreds of years ago, at the same time as the ban on necromantic magic. Nowadays, the only places where there is slave trade are the Serekania Empire and the Nilfgaard Empire in the south, but even in the empire, the scope of slaves allowed by their laws is only prisoners of war or deserters, and they will definitely not be any free people. Of course, it is not ruled out that some people will like the profits, especially when the mine needs manpower.

Reso narrowed his eyes slightly, then walked out again.

"Hurry up, we don't have much time."

"I know." Zelin nodded, and he hung the torch on the side wall. "You are outside and get your horses ready, and I will go over."

The demon hunter walked in. Someone inside raised his head slightly, but after seeing that it was not a merchant or a member of the knights who walked in, someone inside struggled to get up.

"Humanity, save us!"

"Don't leave us!"

There are only a few people who can make a sound. Most people just sit in the cage slumpingly.

Zelin made a quiet gesture. He walked over and tried. Frette's key couldn't open the cage, so he threw the key away, drew out the ebony blade, and waved at the chain that bound the cage. The metal collided with sparks, and the chain broke.

Most of the people detained here can still struggle to stand up after opening the cage.

"You can help them up." Zelin said to a few people who still had enough strength. "Hurry up, I can help you leave." Maybe he can still find a few horses near the castle, and they haven't been burned down. Carriage. Zelin thought he would look for the gold and silver hidden by the Knights in the secret room, but now it seems that the White Rose Knights is obviously not just as simple as they seem to be.

Among these people, the female night demon had the most serious injury. One of her horns was broken and her legs were also discounted. When Zelin opened her cage, he was almost dead. However, the vitality of the Night Demon race made her not dead in the cage and turned into a corpse. There are the most elves in it, and most of them were captured at the beginning of the war with the Nilfgaard Empire. The White Rose Knights captured them in the name of colluding with the Squirrel Party. Originally, they were just ordinary residents living in the villages of Ailand, no different from those humans.

"Are you here to save us, are you the king? This is the headquarters of the Knights. How did you get in?"

A human who seemed to have been captured not long ago asked the demon hunter, "I heard that the king recognizes your legal status, and the king ordered you to come, right?"

"You'll know after you go out, we don't have time to explain now."

The few humans here are basically individual merchants, originally they just brought goods to sell everywhere to make a difference, but unfortunately, when they passed by here, they happened to meet the soldiers of the Knights patrolling outside, so they just He was arrested as a businessman who had colluded with the Squirrel Party.

"Yes, yes, we must leave as soon as possible. I can't wait to meet my wife and children." The thin businessman scratched his head. "When is it now?"

"Winter." Zelin cut the chain of the last cage with a sword. Inside was a young black-haired girl. She was indifferent to the appearance of the demon hunter, but just sat on the ground, smiling silly from time to time. She had no clothes on her body, and her skin was blue and purple. Zelin tore a sack from nearby, wrapped the sackcloth on the girl, and then shouted to the businessman who was still here, "Since I still have the strength to speak, come and help and carry her."