After Soral joined, the group grew from four to five, and no one wanted to stay in a place full of dead and mutilated limbs, so the group decided to put aside their doubts and continue their journey south to track down their unknown target.

It was evening, and there was not a single human being on the barren plains, and there were occasional mounds and woods passing by in the distance, which made people feel even more sad under the light of the remnant sun.

Lyria was a girl after all, and she couldn't help but sigh when she was infected by this emotion, "This was originally Cumberland's territory, how powerful it used to be, but now it has become like this. ”

Solal glanced at Lyria. "Among the girls I know, no more than one-third can recognize the road and direction, and only one-third can know where they are. ”

Lyria snorted. "Do you look down on women?"

Barney came up again, unbelievably alive or dead. "Don't pretend to be Lyria, you've had to turn back in the Black Swamp several times on the way to the Westwood Forest, and if we hadn't led the way, you'd probably have gone back to Duluth haha!"

Seeing that Lyria's foot had kicked Barney's waist, he deftly dodged it, and Geoff stood between the two. "At least Canrito remains, and Wallis's knightly realm doesn't disappear completely. ”

"But they're not much different from disappearing completely, aren't they?" Barney said, wary of Lyria.

Geoff looked sorry and sighed incessantly. "Sigmund, the High Lord of Cumberland, was killed in the War of the Dark Tide, and the pillar that had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of Cumberland collapsed, and the knights of Cumberland lost all their way in the war to stop the Dark Tide, and the kingdom may never return to its former prosperity. ”

"If you can't go back to the prosperity of the past, what kingdom isn't?" said Solal pouting disdainfully. "Almost every kingdom has been eroded by the Dark Tide, and even today, when the Dark Tide has been wiped out, those lands are still unrestored, all of them are overgrown and uninhabited. ”

Lyria nodded in agreement. "Even worse, monsters are everywhere, and now they are spreading to places where humans live. ”

"That's why witchers are needed. Solal had a proud look on his face.

Lyria was furious again. "It's as if the monsters are all solved by you witchers, the number of witchers is so small, there is no time to deal with the monsters all over Wallis, and most of them are not solved by us mercenaries risking their lives?"

"Oh, this ......," Solal was choked on by Lyria, unable to speak.

Fraser was tired of listening, and just as it was getting dark, he pointed to a small forest not far ahead. "Let's go over there tonight, I can feel the other party stop, they are slower than us, don't be in a hurry. ”

Everyone had no opinion, so they walked towards the grove, and when they entered the woods, the last blue of the sky was gone, and it was pitch black all around, and nothing could be seen.

Solal was looking for some branches to light a torch, when suddenly there was a light in front of him, and a ball of light floated in front of him. "There's a mage! Get ready for battle!"

"Don't be nervous, it was Fraser's doing. Barney had long been accustomed to the ball of light, and said nonchalantly.

"What?" Solal looked at Fraser with a puzzled expression. "Who are you?"

Fraser led the way, the ball of light floating in front of him to show him the way. "A swordsman who knows a little magic. ”

"Are you a demon swordsman?"

"That's right. ”

Soral bowed his head and followed. "No wonder someone in the union has been spreading demons recently, and the swordsman has appeared, and it turns out that you are talking about it. ”

The group found a small clearing and spread the rest of the food on the floor, and Geoff frowned at the food on the ground. "Fraser, our food lasts two more days at most, and the further south we go, the less populated it becomes, and it's hard to find supplies. ”

Fraser lit the fire. "I understand that I can catch up with them tomorrow night, so I need to conserve my strength today, which is why I proposed to rest so early. ”

"Really? Finally found them. Solal wrenched his knuckles, eager to try.

Fraser turned to him slowly. "Alright, now you can tell us why you're here. ”

Solal shrugged. "Originally, this shouldn't have been told to anyone outside the Demon Hunter Guild, but since you have a relationship with Amos, it doesn't hurt to tell you, in fact, the Demon Hunter Guild has been paying attention to these mages for a long time, not only in the Westwood Forest, but also in various places. ”

"What are they doing? If it's just resurrecting the dead, it's not a threat at all. Lyria boiled water and was slowly sipping hot tea.

"That's what we're going to look into. Solal looked at Lyria. "At first, we just thought that these people were mages who survived the Darktide War, maybe they had no source of livelihood or had a hatred for Wallis, so they did something we couldn't understand, after all, you all know that the mage tower in Shavana was completely destroyed in the Darktide War, and almost all the mages there were dead, only the mages scattered around Wallis still a few. ”

"Aren't they the mages of the Mage Tower?" asked Lyria.

"No, if they were, their number should be small, it is simply impossible to have them almost everywhere in Wallis. Solal shook his head. "And according to the investigation reports of other demon hunters in the guild, these mages can only do evil magic, and no other magic can do anything, which is simply impossible in the former mage tower, because evil magic is a spell that is explicitly forbidden by the mage tower, and mages who learn evil magic will be wanted by the mage tower. ”

"You know a lot. Fraser smiled.

Solal picked up a loaf of bread. "That's what the other witchers told me, and the witchers always know a little more about the world than the average person. ”

Geoff also picked up a loaf of bread and nibbled on it. "What did you find next about those mages?"

As soon as Solal put the bread to his lips, he stopped. "Upon discovering that this was unusual, the Witchers' Guild organized a search involving ten seasoned witchers, targeting a village in eastern Alesia near the Pilatus Mountains, which had escaped the ravages of the Dark Tide due to its remote location, but had since been slaughtered by the mage. ”

Lyria frowned. "Is it also a dead man resurrected by evil magic?"

"I don't know, when the ten witchers arrived, there were only a few broken limbs left. Solal stared at the fire. "According to the surviving witchers, it was a large village, and it is estimated that the people of western Alesia fled there, so the number of people killed was very high. ”

No one spoke, and Solar continued. "The witchers followed the trails and found a cave at the foot of Mount Pilatus, and believing that the murderer was there, they went in......"

Solal stopped, everyone else looked at him, and only after taking a big sip of water did he speak again. "The cave was full of monsters, the smell of blood and the stench of blood everywhere, and the corpses that had been pieced together were attacking them, they were witchers after all, and they were experienced witchers, but when they rushed all the way to the deepest depths, they were still full of wounds. ”

"I have a bad premonition. Lyria swallowed and hugged her knees.

Solal nodded. "There were several mages in the depths of the cave, and one of them was clearly different from the others, he was completely sure of killing the witchers, so he did not hide what he had done, and even answered them when confronted by the witchers. ”

But he didn't expect that a demon hunter would be able to escape and spread what he had said. Geoff said.

"That's right, it's not just him, even the demon hunter who escaped back himself said that he didn't expect to come back alive, that mage is too powerful, it is not a battle at all, it is a slaughter. ”

"So how many witchers came back alive, how did they escape?" Barney was curious, his neck almost reaching Solal's face.

Soral stepped back. "Someone secretly hindered the mage, but even so, only three witchers escaped, and they were also wounded, one of them died of injuries not long after returning to the witchers' union, this matter is a huge loss for the witchers' union, because those ten witchers are all among the best seniors, since then we have been much more conservative in the investigation of this matter, no longer acting on a large scale, but trying to hide as much as possible, so I also wanted to hide it at first. ”

"Who saved those three witchers?" Frazier seemed more interested in the matter.

"I don't know, they didn't see anyone, but according to them, they were in the cave one second, and then they flickered and dizzy, and when they came to their senses, they were already on the southern border of Tampe, far from Alesia. ”

Fraser nodded thoughtfully. "Then it seems that the one who saved them was also a mage. ”

Geoff finished his bread and looked at Solar. "And what exactly do those mages want to do as a result of that time survey?"

Solal paused for a moment and said slowly, "They want to use the resentment of the killed to kill more people, so as to collect more negative emotions of human beings, when these negative emotions reach a certain limit, something catastrophic will happen, but what is it, we still haven't been able to investigate, but no matter what it is, we must stop these evil mages." ”