Chapter 22: Midnight

Probably because of the energetic potion last night, Leon could clearly sense that his exhausted physical strength was rapidly recovering.

But with it comes intense hunger.

Although I ate a lot of meat in the morning, I had already exhausted it after a morning of travel.

Fortunately, food was soon brought by a young waiter who claimed to be a squire of Bob Knight.

The food was terrible, just brown bread and cured meats.

But considering that Bob Knight's shabby chain mail and smock shirt couldn't even match the equipment of some of Tbelley's guards, it is estimated that he himself can only eat this level of food.

He suspected that the Bob Knight would even withhold the money of his squires to maintain the most unseemly of decency at the moment.

After all, the only way for many commoners to become nobles was to give a knight a large sum of money and then become his squire.

As for whether the iris can be cut off by the lord to whom the knight is loyal in the future, it is another matter.

After the two finished eating, Leon asked, "Mr. Dante, when am I going to look for the werewolf?"

Dante slowly wiped the grease off his hands and said, "Where are you going to find it?"

Li Ang pondered for a moment and frowned, "If werewolves are hidden, it will be too difficult for me to find them in the rugged hills outside. ”

Dante nodded, "Yes, so you might as well wait for them in the town." ”

"Just waiting here?"

Leon was a little puzzled, they had made an appointment with Lady Angelina to meet in front of Dante's cottage tomorrow night, which meant that the time for this demon hunt was only a day and a half.

How can you ensure that werewolves run into the town to cause chaos in this short day and a half?

Dante said, "You shouldn't know, if the news of our arrival is not unexpected, the werewolf should already know." ”

"Ordinary people infected by wolf venom can hide perfectly in Swinnia, but if this wolf has a little brain, he will not miss the opportunity to place spies in the town. ”

"And the head wolf knows that a witcher is coming, and will definitely attack us while we are still on our feet, I guess it will be tonight. ”

Leon asked, "I'm curious, wouldn't those civilians who were infected by the werewolf leader, or what you call the head wolf, hate the head wolf, and why would they go along with the head wolf?"

Dante shook his head: "Once you become a werewolf, your will will be eroded by the abyss, and you are no longer the person you were when you were alive - this is common sense." ”

Speaking of which, Dante was thoughtful.

"You know too little about demons, it seems that the course of demon studies is going to be put on the agenda as soon as possible, and hunters who don't know their prey are seriously unqualified. ”

At this moment, in front of Leon, the demon hunter suddenly appeared, and turned to the page of the Demon Illustrated Book, and under the dwarf demon, a new image automatically appeared.

It was a werewolf standing upright, with unusually strong limbs, and howling in front of the moon.

No, it's not so much a werewolf as a human wolf.

Werewolf (Boss): Humans signed a contract with Fenrir, the abyssal demon wolf, and sold their souls to Fenrir, and in exchange for the power of the demon wolf, their sharp teeth contain venom that can turn humans into evil wolves, both in speed and strength, it is quite good, although it is only a monster converted by humans, but it is stronger than many low-level troops in the abyss.

Werewolf (Normal): An ordinary person infected by the venom of the werewolf leader, they have lost the infection ability of the head wolf and cannot transform permanently, but their will has completely fallen into the abyss and is controlled by the head wolf.

Warning: On the night of a full moon, werewolves will gain a massive all-stat bonus.

"Dante told me about it and updated it?"

Leon was stunned for a moment, and became interested in demonology.

But Dante was heard to say to himself: "This afternoon, I will give you a period of free investigation in the town, and the rest of the time I will teach you the knowledge of demons." ”

"Okay. ”

Leon nodded.

He took out the equipment he had brought with him, counted it, prepared his sword, crossbow, and arrows, and put on his clothes to dry.

Fully armed, he said goodbye to Dante and left his temporary residence.

Swinnia was more than a step worse than the Barony of Tebeli, which had the appearance of a town despite the Black Death, and the titular town was more like a village, or simply a settlement of outcasts.

In the early afternoon, there was not a single person in the whole town.

When Leon walked on the road, he could clearly feel the prying eyes in all directions.

It was as if all the townspeople were hiding in their homes.

Some of the houses seem to be completely uninhabited, and the doors are wide open.

Leon searched for one, knocked on the door, and when no one answered, he walked in.

The whole house was empty, there was not even a bed, but there was no dust, and it did not look like an empty house.

There was a big hole in the roof, and Leon stood on tiptoe to probe the hole, twisting a strand of gray hair.

The hair is coarse, and the tips are even a little prickly.

This image automatically appeared in his mind: on a full moon night, the family was sleeping soundly, and suddenly a hideous werewolf descended from the sky and killed all the owners of the house.

"No, there was no smell of blood in the air, and there was no blood in the house, so it was not so much that the werewolf had broken in, but that the werewolf had run out of here. ”

He carefully observed the direction of the stubble under the hole, and sure enough, it was facing upwards.

In other words, the owner of the house has become a werewolf, but since the owner of the house ran out of the roof, it means that the door of the house should be blocked by the enemy. ”

"The enemies should be the townspeople. ”

"So his identity must have been revealed, and even if you know who he is, there is no point in it. ”

But there must be other werewolves hiding in the town now, how can you identify them?

He felt like his head was a little underwhelmed.

He even felt brain-burning even reading suspense novels, let alone actually investigating the case.

He tried to knock on the door of the rest of the townspeople, but found that they had rejected him so badly that no matter how much he called the door, no one would open it.

The reputation of the witcher doesn't seem to be good.

So he found the townsfolk guarding the gate at the entrance of the town, asked him to lead the way, and found the "mansion" of Bob Knight.

It's said to be a mansion, but it's just a slightly better ordinary house, with a few more pieces of furniture in it, and it's shabby.

Leon got straight to the point and asked, "Bob Knight, I am Mr. Dante's assistant, and I have come to you to find out what information you know." ”

Bob Knight looked arrogant and said impatiently: "I've only been in Swinnia for three days, and I don't know much about the specifics. I only hope that you will kill the werewolves as soon as possible, this place has been chosen as a place of vacation by the adults of Caltanissetta, and if you do not complete the commission before the adults arrive, the Bishop will surely blame you. ”

This thing obviously looks at people's dishes, and can barely maintain politeness to Dante, and he Leon is immediately revealed again.

Leon frowned and said, "Bob Knight, it is precisely because of the limited time that I hope you can provide the necessary help. ”

Bob said impatiently: "I said I don't understand, giving you food and drink is already the greatest help I can provide, if you have to ask me everything, then I still need to hire you to serve me?"

Leon didn't want to waste time with him anymore and turned to leave.

He didn't continue the investigation, and went straight back to his residence to learn demonology with Dante.

Anyway, the werewolf should come to the door automatically at night, and he doesn't need to investigate anything.

Afternoons are spent studying.

But things didn't seem to be as Dante expected, and until midnight, the werewolf still didn't arrive.

Li Ang, who was originally nervous, gradually felt tired.

On the other hand, Dante was lying on the bed, not even breathing, as if he was really asleep, which made Leon, who was already a little nervous, even more uncomfortable.

In the dark room, Leon's voice sounded suddenly.

"You have a lot on your mind, Mr. Dante. ”

The man over there replied in an indifferent tone, "Why do you ask that?"

"Intuition. ”

"Well, your instincts are good. ”

"Can you talk about it?"

"No, you can't. ”

He rolled over and faced the wall.

Looking at Dante's back, which obviously didn't want to talk more, Li Ang was a little helpless, so he could only silently stroke the crossbow on his chest and count the crossbow arrows in the quiver over and over again.

He didn't know that Dante was far from being as "calm" as he appeared at this time.

He repeatedly emphasized the horror of Nasrezm and the importance of will to the witcher, because he had personally experienced the "test" started by Titodios, the king of Nasrezm, and it became his lifelong nightmare.

The cunning demon turned into all kinds of people and attacked him, whether it was passers-by, friends, relatives, they could no longer be trusted.

Because they were smiling and smiling one moment, they would turn into terrifying monsters at any time in the next second and launch a deadly surprise attack on him.

As a result, he killed many people by mistake, including his beloved wife.

These had become obsessions that had plagued him all his life, and he could not sleep until he had tormented the head and soul of Titodios.

The feeling of revenge is not necessarily sweet, on the contrary, it is sometimes extraordinarily bitter.