So in the next second, Xavier lowered his body and approached the ghoul slightly.

The ghoul didn't seem to be aware of his presence, still devouring the food in front of him, a pile of rotting flesh, and he didn't know what kind of animal it was.

Enduring the suffocating stench, Xavier added a 'Quinn' sigil (upgraded) to himself, and a cloud of yellow bubbles immediately wrapped around him, in order to avoid being attacked by ghouls after his failed sneak attack.

He then raised the sword of Caroline, the silver sword that Sika Matheson had made for him, and made a 'sword dance' gesture and swung it at the ghoul.

The moment the ghoul was hit, the monster that was bleeding from decaying bodily fluids let out a scream and tried to leap forward to escape the attack of the evil human, but how could Xavier's speed of thirty revolutions in one second allow him to escape?

What's more, he also has auxiliary skills such as poisonous stingers, and the ghoul naturally died instantly, leaving only those few pieces of flesh.

Faced with the results of his apprentice, Viscount Wallace was very satisfied, originally he thought about whether he needed to give Xavier some ghoul sword oil, a grease that can increase the attack power of the monster, but now it seems that even without sword oil, Xavier's attack power is high enough.

Of course, satisfaction is satisfaction, and Viscount Wallace still did not show this satisfied thought on his face, and reminded a few words at the right time

"You've just done a good job, but I have to warn you that ghouls tend to attack more aggressively at night, so you'd better use a sneak attack, like you just did. ”

"What if I'm met with a bunch of ghouls?" Xavier asked rhetorically.

"This is actually the general norm, ghouls are in groups. "Viscount Wallace showed his many years of experience as a witcher" Generally speaking, we will divide this situation into two types, if it is a large group of ordinary ghouls, such as more than ten, you can deal with it in the following ways-

"First, put on an upgraded version of Quinn and coat the silver sword with ghoul sword oil. ”

"Then, use the sneak attack to deal with some of the ghouls first, and if you can't sneak attack, use the seal of 'Alder' to repel some of the ghouls, try to split the battle into multiple one-on-one, and then use the 'Sword Dance' to solve the opponent. ”

"Finally, if you really want to face a siege, use fire magic, or repeat Alder's Seal, or even use bombs, to achieve the kind of one-on-one effect above. ”

"In other words, we can't do more than a dozen at a time, but use various means to divide it into multiple heads-ups," Xavier concluded simply.

"Yes. Viscount Wallace bowed his head, and then boasted to himself, "But that's just for you, for me, if you go down with a 'sword dance', they will all die, so naturally you don't have to be so troublesome." ”

Then you said so much just to show your strength Xavier complained silently, subjectively ignoring his boasting, "Master, you are really good, but then again, you just said that there are other situations, what do you mean?"

"Refers to the fact that in the previous case, there is an extra giant ghoul. Viscount Wallace suddenly changed back to a serious expression, "Let's talk about how to distinguish giant ghouls first, since they are called 'giant', then their size will naturally be larger than ordinary ghouls." ”

"At the same time, they tend to be black in color instead of the blood-red of ordinary ghouls, and they have a lot of spikes on their backs, and they have a stronger intelligence and a stronger bite force"

"Or you can understand it this way, it's just a fully upgraded ghoul. ”

"And what are we going to do with it?" Xavier asked.

"The best way to deal with this is--"

Viscount Wallace pulled a long note.

"Don't fight. ”

"The reason is very simple, the giant ghoul has a certain intelligence, it can command the ghouls to attack, the previous method of splitting and attacking will be completely ineffective, even if you have a sword dance, you may still be bitten alive by the ghouls. ”

"And what if you have to fight?" Xavier was not satisfied with this answer, and in his mind, it was impossible for the witcher, who had lived for more than a hundred years, not to have the means to deal with such a monster.

"Find a helper. The witcher shrugged, "It's not that I can't deal with so many opponents alone, but it's that we may risk our lives in this way, and we will always use the safest means to do things." ”

"As for what to do after that, we'll talk about that later. Viscount Wallace did not continue, but began to think.

From his past experience, ghouls were usually social creatures, but the one he encountered today was here to roam like a poor single dog, which made the witcher a little suspicious.

In his mind, a conjecture suddenly appeared that maybe there might be other ghouls nearby, and this ghoul was driven out of that group.

In order to test this idea, he observed the corpse of the ghoul that had been chopped to pieces by Xavier with 'Sword Dance', ignored the sword marks on it, pointed to several of the wounds, and said to Xavier, "Apprentice, you look here first, what are such scars?"

"Like claw marks?" Xavier wasn't sure.

"It's a claw mark, and it's fresh, which means that in the last few hours, this ghoul has clashed with other ghouls, resulting in these wounds on its body. ”

"But master, why do ghouls kill each other?"

"Why not? Even humans with higher intelligence will kill each other, perhaps because they disobey the orders of their leader, the giant ghoul, and thus be punished, or because they are fighting each other for food, in either case, it means that there may be a community of ghouls nearby. Viscount Wallace said leisurely.

"So, we're going to annihilate them?" Xavier asked a question that didn't quite look like a question.

"Of course, it's more about 'me' than 'we', you're the one who wants to destroy the monster, but before that, we'll do one thing. ”

He had Xavier and him dig a big hole, move the ghoul body inside, and bury it deep so that the stench wouldn't lure the other monsters in.

And the loot on it, the viscount said that it was not worth at all, maybe some could be used as alchemy materials, but for him, he had long since left the era when low-level materials were needed.

After disposing of the corpse, Viscount Wallace taught Xavier some tracking methods, which were probably two, tracking the ghoul's footprints, or the scent it left behind - but the latter seemed to be felt only by the witcher's senses, at least Xavier couldn't smell it at all.

Therefore, Xavier still chose to track the footprints, which is a relatively easy method, after all, as a four-limbed animal, the footprints left by ghouls are still relatively easy to distinguish, unless they happen to run to the river, then they must use scent tracking, and in this case, the use of footprint tracking is more than enough.

With the help of moonlight and fire magic, Xavier was able to find a large footprint with the help of those rays, and at the same time he smelled a trace of it.

It was an extremely strong smell of decay, like some of the dark cuisines of the Far North in the past life, which put rotting seabirds into the stomach of seals, and now, Xavier believed it was the smell of ghouls, after all, he had just smelled one, and naturally had the ability to distinguish it.

However, unlike before, this time the taste is much stronger, and it seems that there is really a group of ghouls lurking in the nearby mountains, as Viscount Wallace said.

Xavier carefully extinguished the fireball in his hand, added the Quinn Seal to himself, shielded himself from the scent, and then used the moonlight to find the community and found them near a small mound in the distance.

At the head of the group was an extremely large ghoul, which could be seen to be a giant ghoul, it seemed to be resting, surrounded by dozens of ghouls, as if to protect the leader, most of them were asleep, and only a few were supposed to be following orders to carry out the vigil.

And the most shocking thing for Xavier was that he found several human children lying near the giant ghoul, and he didn't know whether they were alive or dead, so Xavier almost wanted to draw his sword and rush forward, but he put away this impulse, he knew that he had to calm down, otherwise he would not be able to save them.

In this case, he hurriedly asked the demon hunter in the rear and asked what the master had to do, and then saw Viscount Wallace frowning and showing a contemplative expression.

If there are no children, he will most likely choose to directly blow up a fireball and bomb, and then use the piercing 'Alder's Seal' to mend the knife, but these methods will undoubtedly hurt those few human children, so they have become unfeasible methods.

Eventually, after some contemplation, Viscount Wallace handed over its answer "That giant ghoul must be killed first!"

The reason is very simple, as long as it lives for a day, it can constantly command other ghouls, just a few ordinary ghouls, in fact, are not too feared by the witchers, but if it is organized, even the army has to be careful, so the giant ghouls must die in order to make the ghouls fall into the group without a leader, and now, while it sleeps, it is Xavier's best time for them to sneak attack!

So in the next moment, I saw Viscount Wallace explain his plan to Xavier.

He needs a little test.

The ghouls who were keeping vigil first saw a great fire coming from a distance, although their eyesight was not very good, but they could see clearly, and they were a little panicked for a while, not knowing whether to report their boss, the giant ghoul.

However, according to the orders of the giant ghouls, the ghouls must see the enemy before they can wake up the giant ghoul, because there have been some accidents in the past, and the ghouls who keep vigil see small animals running around, so they hastily wake up the giant ghoul so that it cannot sleep properly.

In a fit of rage, it set a rule, it must see the enemy in order to wake it up directly, of course, Xavier They obviously don't know this order, they are just testing, the stimulation in the distance, will not make the giant ghoul wake up.

And if not, there will naturally be a lot of articles in the middle.

After a few seconds, the ghouls saw the distant firelight begin to fade away, and their stupid minds didn't allow them to think too much about what kind of critter it was, and immediately put down their nervous thoughts, as the previous experience had taught them.

But after a while, the fires reappeared, this time a little closer, which made them a little wary, but like the last time, the fires only appeared for a few seconds, and then quickly disappeared, causing their vigilant thoughts to relax again.

However, their relaxation seems to have come too quickly, because it has not been long before the fire reappears, and with their previous experience, they think that this is the same situation as the last time, so they don't pay much attention to it.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the flames to disappear again.

Then there was the fourth, fifth, and sixth, and the ghouls were so used to this presence that they didn't even want to move a little more.

But on the seventh occasion, a figure suddenly jumped out of the firelight, it was a black-haired human, which startled the ghouls who were almost asleep, and tried to wake up the giant ghoul.

However, due to the slackness, their movements were apparently not as fast as they had been at first, and even when they came to their senses, they saw the black-haired swordsman rushing towards them, trying to attack their leader, and the panicked night watch ghouls had to rush to attack the human to try to protect their leader.

But Xavier must have added the 'Quinn' magic seal to himself, so he naturally repelled all the monsters that wanted to attack, and took advantage of this moment to add the effect of 'hot blood' to himself, and the sword was shot down with a heavy blow, and the giant ghoul who was still sleeping was directly killed.

Maybe it didn't think about why someone would attack it when it was still asleep, and it had already thought about it, but it turned out that its stupid subordinates were never worth trusting, and the giant ghoul died on the spot before it could wake up.

As for the remaining ghouls, although there were relatively many of them, with the help of Viscount Wallace, the 'Sword Dance' quickly chopped them all into minced flesh and became nutrients for the grass on the ground.

Xavier kicked the corpses away and observed the human children.

Unfortunately, three of the four children have already died, bleeding to death from the ghoul's minions.

And the rest of the one is now also on the verge of death, but fortunately, Viscount Wallace has a little basic healing magic to pull this little girl back from the ghost gate.

Xavier bandaged her wounds and waited for her to wake up while cleaning up the corpses of the ghouls nearby.

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