Led by Brownie, the group marched towards the mountain peak in front of them. The controlled goblin golems are like undead spirits, lifeless guarding them. But the ranks of the human race are equally lifeless.

Griffith noticed that several of the young witchers were all nervous, while their leader, Kalius, was holding the feather fencing at his waist.

"With all due respect, Professor, do you know what happened to Miss Lamor and Galadia?" asked Griffith. In his capacity, he has the right to know.

"The two young ladies have joined the rescue team, and you are the only one missing," replied Professor Kalius for Lordes, "and when we get back, the university will conduct a full examination of you." Until then, don't give me a crooked brain. ”

Griffith breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news that the two girls were safe and sound.

"Hey, you're a midshipman at Count Lamour's court?" asked Pera, the witcher who was in charge of keeping an eye on Griffith.

"Yes. Griffith nodded.

"So, is the girl named Galadia your girlfriend? I can understand the daughter of the king, why do you care so much about the other one?"

Griffith looked at Pera, "Guess. ”

“......”

The witchers who walked beside Griffith were stunned for a moment. Pera couldn't help but laugh, "Surely, does she know you like her?"

"If you answer one of my questions first, I'll tell you," Griffith smiled as he looked at the witchers, "why are you here?"

"It's a coincidence that there's a mission~" Pera replied with a big grin, not caring at all about the eyes of the other companions, "Then the captain received a call from the wizard lord, and we came to meet." ”

Pera's cloak was clasped with a dark gold emblem that looked like the shape of a star. Not only her, but all the witchers present had similar insignia on their waists or cuffs.

Griffith heard about the emblem and immediately understood who they were: "You are the apprentice witchers of the Beacon Academy?"

"The four of us are, the captain is our instructor," Pera nodded, "We're here for the winter apprenticeship." ”

"Pera, be quiet," Captain Kalius scolded, "this is a high-threat area, stay vigilant. ”

"Yes~!" Pera pouted, honestly quiet.

The team climbed along a gentle mountain path to the top. Gothra honestly walked in front of the group, and the quiet along the way was palpable.

As they approached the top of the mountain, the road beneath them suddenly became much smoother and easier to walk.

"Attention," said Kalius suddenly, "this path is made by wild beasts, and the beasts in such a place are only mutated monsters, be vigilant. Raven, from now on you move in the trees, keep an eye on your surroundings. Hakan, call out the demons. ”

After receiving the order, the witcher Raven took out a powerful crossbow and leaped nimbly to the treetops.

Pale flames flickered around Hakan, forming a circular circle. He took out the pouches from the packages he was carrying and threw them in, whispering the summoning incantation:

"Examine, silver, brimstone, mercury, and the blood of the demon wolf; ”

Griffith was taken aback, for the first time he had seen someone other than the professor summoned. This means that Hakan has an extraordinary property that is rare and powerful.

"Raven is the Ranger Pathway Sequence 9 'Ranger', and Hakan is already the Collector's Path Sequence 8 'Summoner', and they're a grade above me," Pera explained to him, "Awesome!"

Beacon is a comprehensive college of higher learning dedicated to the development of professional witchers and related talents. Unlike the Academy of Magic and the Military Academy, the cadets of the Beacon have learned both spellcasting and combat, and have a deeper specialization in the dark arts, and have a wider range of mission adaptability. In contrast to the witchers trained in other ways, Beacon graduates have historically been prime candidates for the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Kingdom's intelligence agencies.

After a succession of orders, a giant wolf wrapped in pale flames appeared in the circle. It silently surveyed nearby creatures, as if picking out a target to devour.

"Captain, can you give a goblin?"

"Take it," Kalius beckoned, and a goblin awoke from the shackles of the shadows. Before it could let out a strange cry, the pale wolf pounced like lightning.

"Click. ”

The wolf bit the goblin's head in one bite, then tore its limbs apart, devouring it with a rapid dash. The chilling sound of tearing and chewing bones echoed through the forest.

Loraldes snorted softly and said to Gothra, who was leading the way, "How far is it?"

"Just ahead, great listener, the entrance to the ruins is ahead," Gothra said humbly, pointing not far ahead, without looking at the shredded goblins.

There is a deep tunnel there, and weathering and corrosion have erased all traces.

"Please wait a minute, Professor Lordus," Griffith hastily stopped, "this brownie is not to be trusted, there may be traps and ambushes set up in the ruins. Let's retreat for the time being, and gather more forces to explore again. ”

This is an unknown ruin!

I didn't have a choice when I first met Gothra, why would I go to the ruins now that there are so many of my kind?

Griffith had heard of such terrible ancient ruins in the battlefields of the far east. Without adequate preparation and cleanup, the ruins are littered with traps, traps, and mutated creatures that inhabit them with great resources and sacrifices.

With the current amount of manpower to enter the mysterious ruins and explore, a few lives are not enough.

"Hah! what a cautious puppy," Captain Kalius of the Witcher chuckled, "Lord Lorald's rank, strength, and wisdom are beyond your imagination. ”

"Let the goblins lead the way," the icy Professor Loalds was indifferent to Griffith's warning and Kalius's compliment, like two flies circling in his ears, "forward." ”

"Professor, I am a midshipman of the Lamor family, and I have the right to refuse to cooperate in the current situation," Griffith gritted his teeth and said again, "I am shallow, please allow me to withdraw." ”

Loald glanced at Griffith with a blank face, raised his wand in his right hand, and chanted an unrecognizable spell.

Griffith didn't have time to react, and immediately realized that he was no longer able to make a sound. It turned out to be under a spell like banning.

To make matters worse, his body began to move mechanically, following the goblin towards the ruins of the Black Hole. It's a double effect of the gag spell and the suggestion!

"It's good that you don't speak, that's a terrifying high-level mage!" Pera quickly followed, poking her elbow at the apprentice knight who couldn't control herself, "I can't help it now! ”

Led by the goblins, the team progresses deeper into the ruins. Heavy marble frames the passage to the entrance. From the moment he stepped in, a distant and illegible whisper echoed in Griffith's ears, as if some evil spirit was calling.

I've been in this forest for more than 3 hours, and I've been fighting mutated creatures all the time, so I'm sure I've accumulated a lot of Corruption...... Griffith was terrified, worried that he would suddenly begin to fester.

At this moment, the Pale Devil Wolf suddenly stopped, and its owner, Hakan, hurriedly shouted, "A creature is approaching us. ”

"It's the mutant creature that has taken over this ruin, the great Lord Lordus," Browngothra said humbly, "and we've been identified as invaders. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, several huge shadows appeared in the passage ahead.

"Corrupt tarantulas," Kalius lifted his cloak and drew the two swords at his waist, "their venom is paralyzing, and it can be lethal in some amounts, but the poison sacs are good things." ”

The tarantula moved extremely fast, and instantly pounced on the front goblin, opened its fangs and bit down. Other tarantulas swarmed from the floors, walls, and roofs of the passages.

Griffith watched as the goblin's bitten neck continued to bulge and dent, apparently being injected with venom for the first time. Soon, the goblin shriveled down like a hole in a leather bag.

The Witcher squad skillfully unfolds battle formations. Hank held up a round shield with three sharp ramming horns, and Pella dragged Griffith back behind the round shield quickly, while Raven opened his crossbow and shot an arrow at the tarantula that bit the goblin.

"Boom!"

The moment the crossbow bolt hit the tarantula, the arrow suddenly brightened up and exploded into a fireball inside the tarantula.

The dark space was immediately filled with light, and even Griffith was startled and took two steps back. The swarms of tarantulas were repelled by the firelight for a few seconds, but when the light faded, a swarm of hideous shadows came in the darkness.

"Keep shooting, the fire and the light work!" Calius shouted at his cadets.

Hakan immediately began to chant the incantation, and the demon wolf he summoned burst into pale flames all over his body, attacking the tarantula that came at him like a huge fireball.

Professor Lourdes, who had been silent, suddenly raised his wand and whispered a spell to the hordes of tarantulas.

He speaks extremely fast, his voice is unrecognizable, and unlike the others, he does not make people hear the process of the spell configuration at all, and even feels intense vertigo and trance when Griffith looks at the shape of his mouth.

It is rumored that only high-level mages can master high-speed divine words, which are fundamentally different from Sonya's chanting.

The fan-shaped area at the front of the exploration team was enveloped in shadowy waves, and the besieging tarantulas seemed to hit an invisible barrier, and the gravitational stance was deflected by Lourdes' magic, becoming a cage for the tarantulas.

Immediately afterward, the High Archmage waved his wand again. This time, the ground in the area where the tarantulas were bound burst into flames, engulfing the swarms of corrupted tarantulas along with a few goblins.

It's also a double spell. At least it seems.

The demon hunters who were still fighting desperately were all looked at stupidly, and the combat power of their team cooperation was not worth mentioning in front of high-ranking mages.

"Clean up and move on," Professor Lourdes stretched his arm and nonchalantly withdrew his wand, "Hurry up." ”

The Witcher team immediately stepped forward and stabbed the tarantula that had been charred but not yet dead. Captain Kalius quickly sliced open the tarantula corpse with green eyes, pulling out a red mass of organ tissue from it.

"These are tarantulas' sacs, and their effect becomes even more amazing when they are corrupted," Calius sighed excitedly, collecting the sacs from several tarantulas.

"How much is it? Captain. Hakan asked casually.

"Normally, five golden florins can buy one, but the price of the mutated one triples," Kalius skillfully put the poison sac into his pocket, "and there is no market. ”

Griffith noticed that the eyes of several of the young witcher cadets present were blazing, and they were all staring at Kalius's pocket, unable to take their eyes off it.

"Captain," Hakan and Raven exchanged glances and said, "Let's get one of the corrupted poison sacs here." ”

The tone of the two men was unfazed, but Griffith was vaguely aware that Hakan's giant wolf was swimming towards him, and Ravan casually took a half-step back, just in time to be covered by the ruins, and still in a state where he could shoot with a crossbow at any time. The demon wolf stared silently at Kalius' movements, gray-white liquid dripping from its mouth.

Pera and Hank watched the trio's actions indifferently. In terms of age, the two are younger, perhaps because of their less seniority, they have no right to speak.

Kalius's movements stalled for a few seconds. He slowly turned his head and looked deeply at the two witchers, "Yes, when we get out of here, I'll divide it fairly." ”

Something is wrong!, Griffith saw all of this and panicked in his heart.

The Witchers are a rather mysterious group. The cooperation between them relies on large and small witcher guilds or official organizations. Ordinary witchers receive quests from the guild and live off bounties and loot. Even the interior of a prestigious institution like Beacon is inevitably tainted with the nature of the industry.

Veteran witchers who have been able to survive several missions tend to have eerie and powerful abilities or weapons. After years of battling the Dark Arts and the cultists, many of them still have a wealth of unstructured occult knowledge that they don't know where they came from, and they have a strong individual combat power.

The five people in the squad in front of him were faintly divided into three small groups. Captain Kalius is in a league of its own, with the older summoner Hakan and the shooter Lavin teaming up to balance Kalius, and the younger and weaker shield guard Hank and the hunter Pera have a better relationship and are also a small group.

Squads of witchers tend to be like this, free and flexible, and well-configured. However, the disadvantage is that the degree of organization is low, and it is common to disintegrate in the face of danger and conflicts of interest.

Griffith felt a strong sense of powerlessness. This is a mysterious ruin in the Whispering Forest, and it is unknown what dangers and traps lie within.