From Witcher to Lord of the Empire

As I said before, what Lane wants to explore this time is Thomas Molu's laboratory.

Around 1087, Thomas Molu was rescued by a witcher. He was grateful for that, but the witcher offered "the law of accidents" in return, and in the end the professor had to give his son to the witcher. Thomas vowed to study how to reverse the mutation process of the witcher. He was bitter about not being able to become an important person in his son's life, and hoped that one day his son would understand his good intentions as a father.

In 1102, Thomas established a secret laboratory in the Valley of the Nine in Toussaint, where he devoted all his efforts to research mutations, did a lot of experiments and experienced many failures. Experiment subjects include various creatures (such as giant centipedes) and living humans.

It wasn't until 1121 that Thomas decided to reverse the mutation of his son after he had enough confidence in his experiment. He lured the witcher's son to his laboratory with a commission with a generous bounty. Thomas temporarily paralyzed his son with a spell, and at the same time began to carry out his own experiments on the son.

It is a pity that the potion and treatment process developed by Thomas Molu in the end not only failed to reverse the mutation, but enhanced its effect, making the witcher's son stronger and more agile. In the end he gave up all of this and was forced to accept the fact that his son became a witcher. He returned to his wife Lydia and died shortly thereafter.

The son of Thomas Rimmer is called Geron Rimmer, a demon hunter of the Griffin school who is proficient in magic seals. And yes, Thomas Lymer was a mage, and he had a son.

Most warlocks use chaotic energy to cause their bodies to be affected by magical energy, resulting in reproductive organ defects and ultimately infertility. But there are always exceptions, such as this Professor Molu, that's why he has such crazy love for his only son.

There are actually many special cases of this kind of warlock. Geralt's mother was a sorceress, and also a senior druid and physician. She had passed on the talent of a source warlock to Geralt, but Geralt finally gave up the possibility of becoming a warlock and concentrated on being a demon hunter.

The reason why witchers are infertile is more complicated. Because the mutation of the demon hunter involves a change at the genetic level, it is an uncontrollable evolution of the species. Fundamentally, the demon hunter is no longer a species with humans, and there is reproductive isolation.

Theoretically speaking, if there are male and female witchers with identical mutations, they can actually raise offspring. It's a pity that due to the immaturity and uncontrollability of mutations, each witcher's mutation direction and degree are different. It is an exaggeration to say that each witcher is an independent human subspecies, which has led to the current "hunter" Demons can't reproduce". In the final analysis, it was the fault of Alzu who left half of the experiment.

Professor Lu Mo, who failed to "save" his only son, finally died in Bauclair. And this year is the 1263 year of the human calendar, nearly two hundred years have passed.

Lan looked at the verdant valley in front of him. There was a river flowing in the middle of the valley.

From time to time by the river, four or four groups of children-like figures come ashore to play and play, but when you look closely, you can find that they have tiny scales and webs on their bodies, and they are of different colors. They are mostly blue and green, occasionally one or two tall black figures interspersed and concentrated.

From a distance, they seem to be very happy, singing and dancing around the food in groups. It's just that the types of their food make humans shudder when they see them.

"Most of them are water ghosts, and those black ones are drowned ghosts." Geralt explained, "They are all corpse-eating creatures, and they are very good at turning people into corpses."

Lan led the exploration team to stand at the top of the valley and looked out. He held the crystal bird skull in his left hand and looked down through the gap in the skull's eyes. No magical fluctuations were found.

Beside him, a young man dressed as a druid said: "It's here, Mr. Lannister. Our exploration ends here. We can't do anything until we solve these water ghosts."

The young druid nodded to Lann, and after explaining the matter, he stood aside consciously as a tool man, neither close nor distant from Lann.

The witcher handed Lann a bottle of grease-like stuff in an alchemy glass bottle, and said:

"This is the sword oil specially prepared by demon hunters to target monsters. This bottle is sword oil for corpse-eating creatures. Applying it to your sword can greatly increase the damage against those water ghosts."

The demon hunter didn't turn his head back and said, "I guess you will be the first to charge up, so I won't stop you."

Sward was startled suddenly, and looked nervously at the densely packed water ghosts below, and then at Lann, sweating profusely.

Lan En took the bottle of sword oil and threw it away, and said angrily, "I'm not that reckless."

Geralt didn't reply. He didn't rely on Lann's crystal bird skull. He just looked out with his naked eyes. His cat-like amber pupils shrank slightly, and he had a panoramic view of the scene below.

After a while, he turned around and said: "There are no less than twenty water ghosts outside, and there are more in the water. They probably built their nests below. If you want to dive into the underwater portal, you must not only solve the problem outside." For these, we have to find a way to bring out the following as well.”

Ask professionals about professional matters, and Lan asked Geralt: "What do you usually do when you encounter this situation?"

The witcher replied: "With so many of them, I usually turn around and run away. These water ghosts are enough to destroy a large village."

Very professional and practical answer.

Sward seemed a little puzzled. In his eyes, a demon hunter who was as brave as Lann shouldn't have said such things: "Are they very strong?"

Geralt explained: "No, the water ghost's courage and strength are consistent with their size, far less than adults. But their jumping speed is very fast, and many inexperienced soldiers are often caught off guard and killed by them. ; and once they taste blood, they are not afraid of death, and strong soldiers are easily killed by them."

"Lan, I don't suggest you use soldiers to destroy these water ghosts, there will be a lot of casualties."

Lan En thought for a while and asked, "I remember that water ghosts are afraid of fire, right?"

Geralt nodded, "It's like your squire is afraid of Calanthe."

"What about their intelligence?"

Geralt shook his head. "As stupid as shoes, so stupid that the sign of Axii has no effect on them."

"That's easy, we can use bait." Lane said, "Do you think these monsters as stupid as shoes can be fished out of the water with food? Such as cows, sheep and the like?"

"I usually don't do this, because even if all the guys below are cut down, the bounty you get may not be enough for a cow.

But I think you are someone who doesn't care about such details, I think it is very feasible. According to what Druid said, these monsters all came out of the portal, so they probably haven't seen human society much, so they can try to lure them. "

Lan En said, "Then it's decided!"

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