Chapter 34 What is Gwent? Period(1/2)
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Silver Sword Out of Body.
The witch hunter held his breath and stared at the monster in the air.
The monster was four or five meters long, like a "chime" mixed with several different animals.
It has the head of an eagle and a sharp bird's beak. Its black feathers wrap around its neck and shoulders like a lion's mane, and its huge wings connect the torso and limbs of a cat.
A griffin beast.
The huge shadow flew across the golden wheat fields, and the monster hovered in the air, then swooped down towards the witch hunter.
"Qunn!" The witch hunter formed a magic seal with one hand, and the light yellow light wrapped around his body.
Just as Geralt was ready to hit the griffin head-on, the monster seemed to hit an invisible stone wall and was bounced open in front of him, and countless fallen feathers scattered like black snowflakes.
The following scene is even more incredible.
The monster, who was dizzy after being knocked, did not fall to the ground, but was "trapped" in the air.
The huge wings kept flapping, and the strong wind blew out circles of ripples on the wheat fields on the ground, but the body could not move a minute or a slight in the air.
Immediately afterwards, its wings were pressed back to the side by an invisible force, but it lost its power but still hovered in the air without moving.
The griffin twisted its huge body, but no matter how hard it struggled, it could not get rid of the huge force that controlled it.
Like a little sparrow held in the hand.
A miserable cry of sorrow resounded throughout the field, and the monster stopped struggling with the creaking of bones.
Blood seeped out from under the thick feathers, but did not spill on the ground. Instead, it floated in the air as if it had lost its gravity, wrapping up the twisted and deformed corpse, forming a translucent bright red blood cell.
The invisible power suddenly disappeared, and the griffin that was originally looking could no longer be seen falling to the ground, blood splashed around, dyeing the wheat fields several meters in radius red.
Geralt inserted the silver sword back in disappointment, frowned and looked at Zach next to him.
"Can you let me do it myself?"
The black-haired mage shrugged, pushed away the wheat field in front of him and walked over: "I thought you just wanted to earn a few gold coins."
"I have to practice my skills." The witch hunter frowned.
This is the third demon hunting mission today, and his silver sword is still bleeding and smooth.
And he also gained a new understanding of the combat power of the black-haired mage.
His cognition that almost broke his views.
His magic is indeed not like a trick of warlocks. It does not require lengthy spells and almost no gestures.
Although there is no momentum to destroy the world, it is accurate and efficient, without a single waste.
"When we encountered the Fent Monster before, why didn't you see you using these spells?"
"Everyone has times of embarrassment, don't you also times when you can't release the seal?" Zach's fingers drew a circle in the air. The griffin's head seemed to have been cut off by an invisible sharp blade, and then slowly floated in front of the white wolf.
"Next time, you'd better watch from the side." The witch hunter stuffed the small bottle in his hand back into his arms. It was the decoction he had no chance to take.
Although he complained, his heart became more and more relaxed.
The more Zach showed his shocking strength, the more he confirmed his identity as a "magister".
Then the more credible his promise to find Xiri, the clearer his hopes will be.
He has already begun looking forward to the party in two weeks.
The last sorcerer gathering was very successful. The old witches who appeared to be fighting continuously and made countless small moves in private rarely reached a consensus and agreed on the next plan.
The Nifgad Empire will hold a secret meeting as the host to conduct formal negotiations with Zach, and several important figures and warlocks of the Empire will attend the meeting.
Not only the sorcerers in the assembly hall, but also those sorcerers who had a somewhat awkward position after the disbandment of the Warlock Brotherhood.
The meeting will be held in two weeks and the location will be set in the reconstructed island of Sinide.
With a clear goal, Geralt's heart rekindled hope.
In order to pass the time, he received several rewards for demon hunting, and, instead of the gloomy past, he took the initiative to invite Zach to join the mission.
As Tosent's only demon hunter, Geralt occasionally takes on local demon hunting missions. On the one hand, it eliminates the itchyness of his hands, and on the other hand, some tasks are privately commissioned by his old acquaintance - Dame Anna, the ruler of Tosent - and the reward is generous and there is no discount, and it can be considered as subsidizing for some household expenses.
After all, although the White Grape Manor brought considerable income to Geralt, it was only a drop in the face of Yennefa's consumption power.
For sorcerers who are accustomed to court life, Tosent's petty bourgeois life is not much different from that of remote areas.
Thinking of this, Geralt was not polite. He inserted an iron hook into the head of the griffin floating in front of him, "pulled" the spoil from the air, and hung it to his waist.
Zach smiled and pointed to a lonely tree not far away: "Let's go there and have a rest."
"You will be tired, too?"
"After all, I killed the monsters today."
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The two sat under the tree.
Geralt was holding a few bottles and jars to make potions.
Zach leaned against the tree with his hands, looking at the wheat fields in the distance with nothing, as if he was wandering outside the sky.
"Gelart, are you playing the Gent card?" asked the black-haired mage suddenly.
“What is the Gunde?”
Zach was stunned. He sat up and turned his head to look at Bailang: "You don't know the Gund card?"
"I haven't heard of it." Geralt said without raising his head.
"But as far as I know, haven't you participated in a competition in Novigri before? And he won the competition with Kasia, who was a pseudonym "Sasha". And he also had a night with her..."
"Why do you know this?" Bai Lang raised his head and showed an embarrassing expression. He leaned closer and said, "Don't tell Ye Naifa about this!"
The black-haired mage's focus was elsewhere, and he asked: "Aren't you playing the Gent card?"
“What Gunde?”
Zach thought for a while and began to gesture with his hands: "It's such a big card with exquisite portraits of characters."
"Oh, you're talking about the bucket card, yes, that competition is indeed playing the bucket card."
Zach suddenly realized.
The bucket card is a game similar to the rules of the witch hunter's worldview. Although it also uses well-made character cards, the number and complexity of characters are far less than that of the Gent.
The reason why Zach suddenly asked about Gunte was because there was always a knot in his heart.
A formal wizard can explore his subconscious through meditation, which is why he can easily recall the details he saw decades ago.
What gradually awakens with the memories of "The Demon Hunter" are also the memories of his "previous life" eighty years ago.
The more realistic the scene before him, the more it can evoke his memories, and instead makes him fall into doubt about his own existence.
Therefore, in his subconscious mind, he couldn't help but try to find loopholes in this world, hoping to prove or falsify himself and everything around him.
Zach believes that Quinte is a loophole.
Gent is a trading card game. Players collect character cards from different camps to compete with their opponents on the board.
But this card includes all the famous and surnamed characters in this world, and there are too many characters that shouldn't appear:
It is hard for him to imagine that the elves in another world, like Avarak, were imprinted on cards circulated by public.
And those spy cards, what other spy cards are used to print the name openly?
And do all the continents know that Regis is a vampire?
What does it mean to even print wild hunting on cards?
Moreover, with these cards, Geralt didn't have to talk much when looking for people. He just took the characters of Cialis and Yennefa and asked people everywhere and followed the map to follow the map.
And even if these characters only belong to the "Witch Hunter" game itself and do not exist in the real world, why did this entertainment activity that should have a long history never appeared before 1273, but suddenly appeared on the timeline in 1273, and it also became related to some important plots.
But now everything is explained, there is only the "bucket card".
A game with similar rules completely replaces the "Gunt Card" that has never existed in this time and space.
Zach did not give up, and he continued, "Where is Queen Miwei now?"
Mivi is the queen of Leria and Livia.
Livia is geographically more south than Temolia, and was the first to be invaded by Nifgad six years ago.
Nifgad also briefly occupied Leriya and Livia, but soon Mivi led the guerrillas to regain his country.
Geralt, who happened to be passing by at that time, was also involved in the war and gave the queen a handful of help.
After the battle, Miwei enthroned Geralt by the knights, which gave him the title of "Geralt of Livia".
Zach now knows that Livia has been conquered by Nifgaard again, which is also in line with his memory of "The Demon Hunter".
However, in the Knights Competition held in Toustente, Queen Miwei's second son Anseth appeared at the competition, and she was named "Prince of Livia".
This has always been widely regarded as a serious loophole in the plot.
To be continued...