George smiled awkwardly and didn't speak, he was a decent person who didn't like to say bad things about others to his face, at most he just complained a few words when he was depressed.

Wayne had no scruples about this, and in a joking tone, he said to Borch:

"Human beings are classified, Borch, like a powerful person, has been educated since childhood, has enough connections, and has many ways to deal with things, so he will appear polite, even if he is an enemy, when he meets each other, he will not lose his courtesy."

"But the lives of the people at the bottom are very hard, not to mention reading and literacy, many people can't even eat their stomachs, in order to survive, they don't have any principles to adhere to, principles, ideals, kindness, justice, are not things they can hope for."

"The poorer the place, the more dependent on barbarism and violence, I have heard a saying, it is called poor mountains and bad waters out of the people, which is almost the meaning."

Borch nodded thoughtfully, he was born with a golden key, he was worshipped by the Zerikan tribe during the young dragon period, he has always been clothed and fed, and there are a lot of servants and maids, and he doesn't know much about the lives of the people at the bottom, and he can't imagine their lives.

The three of them chatted a few more words about this matter before turning the topic back to the green dragon.

George's alcohol consumption didn't seem to be very good, maybe he was a little depressed, so he drank two bottles of honey wine, and his eyes were already a little wandering.

He burped, with some frustration in his tone, and said:

"I've traveled half of Willen, visited six or seven villages, and now I only know one piece of news."

"That dragon really exists, and it's a gray-skinned green dragon, and just the morning before yesterday, he ate a farmer's cow, and now it must have flown away in the direction of the swamp of Lower Valen."

"But in order to join you, I did not immediately chase it, but returned to the crow's nest."

Lower Valen?

At the mention of this name, the first thing that came to Wayne's mind was the Lady of the Forest and the soul trapped in the heart of the tree.

It's just that I don't know if this dragon flew to Downvalen, whether it was unintentional or intentional.

But in any case, it was too late now, and they were unfamiliar with the place, and it was impossible for them to pursue the green dragon at night.

So, after accompanying the two friends to drink and eat to their heart's content, Wayne called Lisa, settled the wine and meal money first, and then asked:

"Lisa, is there a room here? Open me three rooms? ”

When the little widow heard this, she immediately said with some embarrassment:

"Sorry, guest, we don't have many travelers here, so we only have two single rooms with two beds."

Wayne was not angry when he heard this, he looked at George, who seemed to be drunk and drunk, and then at Borch, who was fat and also drunk.

After thinking about it, anyway, with the physical strength of a demon hunter, even if you don't sleep for a few nights, it doesn't matter.

So he nodded and said:

"Then rent us both rooms, and I'll send my friend back to his room first."

He stood up, and was about to pick George up, when Lisa tugged at his wrist and whispered:

"But if you don't mind, I have two beds in my bedroom, and you can come to me for one night."

When Wayne heard this, he glanced at Lisa in some surprise, and then at her son, who was only five or six years old and was sitting on a chair playing with blocks, and nodded thoughtfully.

………………

The next morning, it was just dawn.

They deposited George's mount at Lisa's tavern, and George went to meet with the baron to report on the progress of the dragon hunt.

The three of them took their weapons and equipment and left the crow's nest.

Leaving the trail until the wooden-walled village could no longer be seen, Borch recovered the golden dragon's true form in a hidden place.

Without delay, the two witchers immediately mounted on the back of the golden dragon and, under the guidance of George, flew to the village of Lower Valen, which was located in the marshy area of Wilen.

It's a slightly eccentric village, and according to George's information, the village of Lower Valen is famous for its lace manufacturing and processing skills.

Unlike other villages, which have been ravaged by the beasts and monsters that plague Willen, this village seems to be protected by some kind of force, and although it is located in the swampy area with the largest number of monsters, it is more peaceful than the others.

Although George didn't know the specific truth, Wayne, who had played the game, knew that this village was actually a believer in Lady Woods to some extent.

And the old monsters of the Lady of the Forest have many secrets hidden in them, and they came to this world even earlier than humans, more than thousands of years.

It is theorized that the Lady of the Woods was the de facto ruler of Willen, ruling the region for longer than the nobles of the Kingdom of Temeria.

If the nobles ruled the region by soldiers and the law, then the Lady of the Forest ruled by fear and faith.

This desolate region has ears everywhere, and many monsters and beasts are driven by them, and they are so ingrained in this area that they are considered to be the strongest land snakes in Wilen.

All the villages that live in Willen have to make sacrifices to the Lady of the Woods, and the Lady of the Woods will indeed help the villages to live better in the difficult years, of course, this help comes at a price, and it is very costly.

The only thing that is certain is that the ladies in the forest are all man-eating monsters, and there are probably tens of thousands of humans who have been eaten by them for thousands of years.

Thinking about the information he had gotten from the game, Wayne didn't say it, and he couldn't explain where his message came from.

Borch was very fast, and it probably took just over an hour to fly to the vicinity of the village of Nizhny Valen.

However, the scene that came into front of them let the three of them know that they were still too late.

From a distance, a small village was burning, and the flames lit up the nearby fields and wilderness.

About a third of the houses have been engulfed in flames, and the wooden houses are like burning torches, so that the whole village of Nizhnevarun is emitting heat and flames.

Unfortunately, although it was speculated that the green dragon was probably responsible for this incident, they did not see the flying figure of the green dragon in the air, and they didn't know if they had already left, or if they were chasing the residents of the village.

"Let's go to the village first and see if anyone else needs help."

Borchi did not answer, but let out a clear dragon roar, then adjusted the angle of flight, descended to a place dozens of meters above the ground, and flew over from the sky above the lower Valen.

Wayne squinted his eyes and quickly observed the situation in the village, and the result surprised him a little, neither good nor bad.

There were no cries or screams of humans being burned or put out of fires, no noise of fighting, not even corpses in sight.

It seems that the entire village has already been evacuated.

He patted Borch on the back and said loudly:

"Then let's go down, there are no living people here, we have to follow the clues on the ground to find the whereabouts of those villagers."

"Maybe we can still know from their mouths where the green dragon has gone."

Borch didn't say much, and immediately found a clearing that was not affected by the flames and landed on the ground.

When he turned back into human form, Wayne noticed that George's expression was a little ugly, and immediately guessed what he was thinking, so he patted him on the shoulder and said:

"Don't think so much, George, even if you arrived here on horseback yesterday, you may not have flown faster than we have now, but you may have suffered more accidents because you got lost."

Hearing Wayne's persuasion, George quickly figured it out, nodded and asked him:

"What now? Wayne, you're the employer, you decide. ”

Wayne carefully distinguished the voices in the village, and after indeed not hearing any human calls, he thought about it and said to George:

"There are no bodies in sight here, and no voices are heard, so the villagers should have evacuated in advance."

"There are so many of them, we should easily find their footprints if we look for them."

"We'll just follow the trail to find them."

George nodded, and then separated from Wayne to find footprints on the ground, and as expected, he soon made a discovery.

Indeed, as Wayne said, the number of people evacuated is not small, there are old people and children, and such clues are quite obvious to the witchers.

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