The next morning, when Wayne came out of his fancy hotel room in Sintra, it was nearly noon.

Arriving at the dining room on the first floor, Geralt and Dandrion were eating breakfast around a table by the window.

At all times, the poet always seemed to be so energetic and energetic, and when Wayne approached them, he happened to see him babbling something to a grim-faced Geralt.

Master Wayne yawned, sat down across from the two, and waved to the wine girl in the shop, who was a tall, scantily clad and good-looking royal sister.

In the face of a boss like Wayne, the wine girl immediately abandoned the other guests and greeted him with a smile on her face.

"Get a couple of the best bottles of fruit nec, and go to the kitchen to get some toasted honey bread, freshly baked."

After the beautiful wine girl left, Wayne smacked his lips and asked Dandrien:

"What are you discussing?"

Before Dandrion could answer, Geralt said with a bored expression:

"I don't know where he got the news, he said that important people in the palace of Sintra were missing, and a large number of guards came from outside the city this morning, and now the whole palace and the city gates are under martial law."

As he spoke, Geralt looked at Wayne's bandaged right hand and asked with concern:

"How is your right hand, it hurts to the bone, thanks to you this commission, you can stop Princess Paveta so quickly."

Wayne stretched out his right hand absentmindedly, showed it to Geralt, and said:

"Meaningless, don't worry, it's just a flesh injury, what is there to be polite between us, just like we said at the beginning, when we execute the commission together, the bounty will be divided in half, haha."

Geralt also smiled, he rarely teamed up with people on missions, but he was a little glad that he had asked Wayne to help this time.

Soon, the tavern girl brought me mead and steaming toasted honey bread, and Wayne pulled out two gold coins and patted her plump buttocks in exchange for a few coquettish laughs.

Dandrion reached out and took a bottle of honey wine, skillfully uncorked it, and after pouring himself a sip, he swore and said:

"I'm not talking nonsense, remember the baron of the Gurgle? The one who confronted Queen Caranthor in public, I got the news from him, he was a friend of the royal family, and he knew a lot of the inside story. ”

Geralt didn't care much about this, he ate a honey loaf in a few bites, then poured a sip of honey wine, and said to Wayne and Dandrien:

"I'm going to leave Sintra in a moment, Yennefer is still waiting for me in Novigre, and it's almost winter, and I won't be long in Novigre, and I'll be back to Kermohan."

Wayne raised an eyebrow, touched Geralt with his wine glass, and asked:

"Leaving so soon? Don't you care about your possible accident child? ”

Geralt drank the wine from his glass, looked at Wayne with meaningful eyes, and said:

"Fate will arrange everything, and I'll come back in six years to see if fate has mercy on me."

"And, according to Dandrien, this will soon become a place of trouble, and I advise you to leave sooner as well, Wayne."

"This kind of place full of political flavor is not suitable for us witchers."

After a hearty breakfast, Geralt rode out of Sintra on his mount, the turnip, and Dandrien felt that there was still a lot to see, and he didn't know where to go.

However, Wayne can't leave yet, as someone who knows the future of the plot, whether it is out of kindness or to add obstacles to future enemies, he has something to talk to Princess Paveta, who has the blood of the ancients.

After all, after leaving this time, he doesn't know what year it will be when he comes to Sintra next time.

And he doesn't have to wait long, and he doesn't have to take the initiative to come to the door, I think it won't be long before someone comes here to look for him.

Sure enough, as he expected, in the afternoon, Wayne was sitting in the hall teasing the wine girl, and when he was flirting with the mature royal sister, a gorgeously dressed middle-aged man found the hotel.

The middle-aged man's expression was a little anxious, and when he saw Wayne sitting in the restaurant on the first floor, his eyes immediately lit up, and he walked quickly to Wayne's side, lowered his head, and said respectfully:

"Master Wayne, I don't know if Master Geralt is also with you, our esteemed Queen Caranthor, I would like to invite the two masters to go to the palace now, there is something important to discuss."

Wayne looked up at the middle-aged man and realized that he was the same one who had led him and Jenott to the palace last time, and the palace director, Haxel.

And Queen Caranther, at such a tense moment, sent a figure like the palace director to invite him and Geralt, obviously very important and nervous.

Facing Director Hacksol's nervous expression, Wayne shook his head with some regret and said:

"I'm sorry, Director Hackso, my companion Geralt, left Sintra before noon, and now it's been half a day, and I guess you can't find him anymore."

Haxel was very disappointed when he heard this, but as the head of the palace, he did not show his disappointment, but very politely saluted Wayne and said:

"Since that's the case, can you ask Master Wayne to go to the palace with me now, this matter is really very urgent, please forgive me."

Of course, Wayne knew what was going on in his heart, but he still pretended to be puzzled, thought about it for a few seconds, and then nodded and said:

"Since the queen invited, of course I won't refuse, and it just so happens that there is nothing to do now, so let's go now."

Receiving Wayne's response, Director Hackel immediately nodded happily, anxiously and eagerly leading Wayne's way.

At the previous banquet, he had already seen how powerful this demon hunter who looked like a teenager was, and at this time, there was still a strong awe of Wayne in his heart.

About ten minutes later, the two of them, escorted by several guards, rode through the streets and entered the huge palace.

This time, however, they did not stop at the palace hall, and Haxel led Wayne into the backyard of the palace and into Queen Carantor's drawing-room, where several people were already waiting before he arrived.

King East, Klatz, the boar of the sea, Grand Druid Mosssac, and Princess Pavita, who was sitting on the other side with reddish eyes, was silently crying.

After seeing Wayne come in, except for the princess who was a little dazed, everyone else bowed slightly to him, which was regarded as taking the initiative to say hello.

After all, at the last banquet, all those who survived had to accept Wayne's favor.

After politely returning the salute with them, Wayne sat down between Kratz and Mosssack, and asked in a low voice to the boar of the sea:

"What's going on, Cratz?"

"Why did the queen call us all here?"

The two had drunk at banquets before, played the Quint card, and bragged together, and their relationship was not far away, and Skellig had a rough personality, and it was easy to make friends with a powerful person like Wayne.

The red-haired Kratz first peeked at his uncle, and then at Princess Pavita opposite, before he smiled quietly and said to Wayne:

"Last night, the hedgehog man Doni disappeared."

"This morning, the royal guards searched the entire palace, rummaged through all the corners, and there was no clue at all."

"No one knows where that guy went or how he disappeared."

Kratz's eyebrows fluttered, and he looked gloating, and when he was about to say something more, he was glared at by King East, and immediately shut up, but there was still a smile between his eyebrows, and it was obvious that this matter made him quite happy.

Wayne had a surprised look on his face, as if he had heard about it for the first time, then looked at the other people's expressions, and did not speak again, but sat quietly in his seat and waited.

After dozens of seconds, Mossak, who was sitting on his right, suddenly asked:

"Wayne, where did Geralt go, didn't he come with you?"

Wayne shook his head and said:

"Geralt has left Sintra."

"You know, when he sees something in trouble, he's always fast."

Mossack nodded with some regret, then closed his eyes, as if in meditation.

After a few minutes, Queen Caranther, dressed in a splendid light armor, walked in from outside the house, somewhat tired.

The glamorous queen simply greeted everyone a few times, then sat down in the chair of the main seat, raised her head and drank a cup of tea, and after scanning the crowd, she found that Geralt had not arrived, so she also asked Wayne once.

After getting the result that Geralt had left, the queen was slightly disappointed, but quickly adjusted her mood and said straightforwardly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, last night, Pavita's fiancé Doni, mysteriously disappeared, and those incompetent guards found nothing, no clues."

"So I'm inviting you here to hear what you think."

With that, Queen Caranther looked at her daughter Paveta and motioned for her to repeat the previous night's situation to everyone present.

After hearing her mother's voice, Princess Pavita wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked up at the crowd, and told everything she knew last night.

It's a pity that the princess went to bed early last night, and everything described is a trifle of insignificance.

After hearing this, everyone had no clues, only that the princess's fiancé Doni was probably missing in the study, because on the table in the study, there was still wine he had not finished drinking, and half of the books he had seen.

There was silence for a while, and there was no reasonable inference from everyone, and Queen Caranther's expression became more and more irritated, and she suddenly slapped the table and asked directly to the Grand Druid Mossake:

"Mossak, I think it's not something ordinary people can do to make people disappear from the heavily guarded palace, whether it's Doni's will, or if he's kidnapped."

"As the only spellcaster among us, do you have any opinions?"

When the old druid heard this, he looked up at the queen, and after looking at her for more than ten seconds, he shook his head and said:

"I'm sorry, Caranther, I've been to that study and found no clues, no traces, as if they had disappeared into thin air."

"And I also used prophecy spells to prophesy, and the result is very unsatisfactory, Dhoni's fate is like a quagmire, full of variables, and I can't see anything."

"But as you said, it's basically impossible for ordinary people to do this kind of thing."

Queen Caranther was disappointed, and then looked at her fiancé, King East, and his nephew, Cratz.

Well, both of these are reckless men, it's okay to let them go into battle, for this kind of case of disappearance, it will definitely be useless.

Finally, Queen Caranthor looked at Wayne and said expectantly:

"Wayne the Witcher, do you have any thoughts on this?"

Wayne pretended to think about it for more than ten seconds, and then shook his head regretfully and said:

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, you may not know, I've just been a witcher for less than three years, and it's okay for me to hunt monsters, but I'm afraid it's quite difficult for me to deal with such a complicated case."

When everyone present heard Wayne's words, they all looked at him with some surprise, they didn't expect that the young witcher who behaved so strongly at the banquet yesterday had only been a witch for less than three years, which was really quite rare for a demon hunter who was generally more than fifty years old.

And just as Caranther retracted his gaze with some disappointment, he wanted to find another way.

Princess Pavita, who was sitting across from several people, suddenly raised her head and said to Wayne with teary eyes:

"Mr. Wayne, you must know something, you said something strange to me yesterday when we were at the banquet, and said that you would tell me the truth later, could you please tell me now?"

As soon as the princess said this, everyone's eyes were focused on Wayne, they had heard of this for the first time, and they also wanted to know what the truth was about Wayne.

In the face of everyone's gaze, Wayne was not confused at all, and shook his head pretending to be a little distressed on the surface, and said:

"Your Royal Highness Princess, in fact, I originally wanted to confront Mr. Doni face to face and expose his lies face to face, but later, Mr. Doni became your fiancé, and I felt that I should not meddle in things and destroy the relationship between you."

"But now, Mr. Doni is missing, and if I tell the truth, it will be a one-sided statement, and it will mislead you, so I don't plan to tell you anymore!"

Wayne's explanation of wanting to refuse and welcome and indulge made Queen Carantor very annoyed, she slapped the table hard, looked at Wayne and said:

"Wayne, don't be a mother-in-law, like a woman."

"It's time now, no matter what kind of intelligence or news, you can boldly say it, whether we believe it or not, it can provide us with some ideas anyway."

Listening to Queen Carranthor's rather bold speech, Wayne pretended to have a wry smile on his face, then considered his words for a moment and said:

"Alright then, Your Majesty."

"Actually, before I came to Sintra, I met a fellow demon hunter from the south on the way, and he told me a piece of news."

"More than a decade ago, there was a coup d'état in the kingdom of Nilfgard in the south, when the emperor was killed by a usurper, and Prince Enhil was cursed by a warlock and turned into a monster that resembles a hedgehog."

"Hedgehog!"

Everyone exclaimed, and there was a certain guess about the truth that Wayne said.

Wayne nodded, his expression unchanged, and continued:

"That colleague of mine was commissioned by the Emperor of Niffergaard to seek information on the former prince of Nilfgaard, who, according to his information, used to live in Irenwald."

"And he also told me something special, he said that the prince of Nhil also had an evil sorcerer who cooperated with him, and together they plotted a coincidence, an accident, and wanted to use King Rogner's unexpected son to lift his curse."

"That's why, when I met the Uchion who claimed to be from Urenwald, I thought that Princess Paveta was a poor deceived."

As he spoke, Wayne looked at the people whose expressions had become different, and said as if hesitating:

"But now, my fellow witcher has returned to Nilfgaard, and Doni is missing, and I don't know who the so-called evil warlock is."

"So I think it's better not to tell you about news like this, which is not certain of anything."

(End of chapter)