The Divine Hunter

At night, the cold wind whistled across the wilderness.

After enjoying a steaming meal of roasted rabbit around the warm bonfire, Lesuo sighed and suddenly said, "I remember you said yesterday that you wanted to learn the technique of shooting crossbow, just now I'm free. tell you."

As an amateur shooter with no one at all, Roy wanted to get professional shooting guidance for a long time.

Since following the witcher on the road, he has become more and more aware of the limitations of the pocket-sized crossbow Gabriel. It's okay to deal with ordinary wild animals, but it's not enough to deal with monsters. He can only hope that the progress in archery can alleviate this dilemma.

The bald man asked him to take out the hand crossbow and explained it in real terms.

"I won't mention the crossbow shooting technique of the Viper School. This time I will focus on the experience shared with me by a friend of the Cat School."

"Master Leto, do you know the cat pie guy?" Roy asked curiously. In his impression, because of the unique herbal trial potion formula, the mutated cat pie witcher has more or less personality. Defects can easily go to extremes. The witcher's profession sees all the ugliness in the world, and disguisedly promotes their extreme character, until they go crazy.

Among the six known schools of witchers: bear, wolf, griffin, cat, viper, and flying lion, only the cat school would accept the commission of assassinating humans on the bright side. For some other reasons, the cat school was finally spurned by the five schools and the secular world, and the situation was almost like a mouse crossing the street.

In addition, the cat school is inextricably related to the wolf school, and is the only school that accepts female apprentices.

"Although all the 'cats' people say are lunatics," Lesso rubbed an old wound on his right forearm, a flash of reminiscence flashed in his amber eyes, "but this is obviously nonsense, and there are There are a lot of cat school witchers who can communicate peacefully and reason. Okay, let's stop this topic, let's get to the point."

"Let's talk about your thoughts first. When you use Gabriel, what do you think is the most important part?"

Roy casually held the crossbow and made an aiming gesture, "Aim...shoot? Yes, the most important moment is the moment when the index finger pulls the trigger. It's called firing, right? This determines whether it can hit the target. "

"Little devil, you are a little savvy. As you said, all the preparations and steps of the crossbow shooting technique are for the purpose of pulling the trigger and shooting the arrow." Lesuo circled around the bonfire, and the dull voice paused. , "To be specific, the steps are complicated. The technique of crossbow shooting mainly includes five parts: holding the crossbow, shooting the crossbow posture, pulling the string and placing the arrow, aiming and firing..."

Roy's face was calm. He had already prepared himself mentally. Any seemingly simple technique, when placed in the professional field, often had more complicated details than imagined.

"There's still time. Let's take it slow. Let's start with the simplest holding a crossbow... You first pick it up according to your accustomed posture."

Although Gabriel is smaller than the genuine crossbow, Roy is used to holding it with one hand, but it is no problem to hold it with both hands. He followed his words, stood up straight, supported the middle and lower part of the crossbow body with his left hand, and held the handle of the crossbow with his right hand.

Lexop's fan-like palm began to press on him, and while pressing, he said the key point in his mouth,

"You really are a wild way, and your movements are full of mistakes, but it's not too late to correct them now... Remember to keep your body in a straight line, relax, you are flat? Your shoulders should be kept level, except for these two hands, no part of the body should be allowed. Support the crossbow. Since you're right-handed, the left elbow droops inward... If you're wondering why, what's the point of re-correcting this action? You'll start to understand when you've shot more than 10,000 times."

"Because the person who summed up the experience has shot at least a million times."

The essentials of the movement sound simple, and it is not difficult to do it according to the requirements. The difficulty is that it has to be maintained for a long time. It is necessary to practice this movement continuously.

become instinctive.

The process seemed extremely tedious.

Roy can only keep encouraging himself from the bottom of his heart, persevering and persevering, this is just a small step to gain strength, and even the situation in front of him can't bear it. What qualifications are there to survive the more difficult trial of green grass?

After more than an hour, Roy, who was sweating profusely, finally had a somewhat standard posture of holding a crossbow, and Leto continued to explain the main points of pulling the string and placing the arrow.

According to him, to learn to shoot, first learn how to prepare, how to hold a crossbow and how to shoot an arrow.

After learning these two steps, three hours have passed. The moon is in the middle of the sky, and Roy's eyes are faint from exhaustion. The method of drawing a bow and placing arrows taught by Lesso actually requires pedals, but don't say, It is safer and more efficient than using hands, but it consumes more energy.

The witcher didn't hear a single complaint during the whole process, even though the kid was soaked in sweat from head to toe, he still kept his attention. I couldn't help being a little more satisfied with him, and with a little bit of confidence, this guy might be able to get through it.

That's it for tonight's training.

When Roy washed his sweat and dried his clothes by the campfire, Leto asked a question, "It's almost time to rest, since you made a request this morning. Then I'll let you know now that you have two choices, one is to let I use Axifa to hypnotize, enter a deep sleep, quickly restore physical strength, eliminate muscle fatigue, maybe there are other benefits waiting for you? The other is to rely on your own sleep quality."

Thinking of the extremely comfortable sleep last night, Roy hesitated, "Master Leto, are you trying to instill some knowledge into my brain again?"

"I didn't say that unless you want your brain to explode." Lesso squeezed his fingers, "If you agree with the first, then relax your body and try not to resist my next actions, otherwise the effect will be greatly reduced."

Roy thought for two seconds. If Lesso's strength wanted to harm him, would resistance be useful? The other party can give advance notice, it has been regarded as respect.

He was relieved immediately, and soon fell into a black and sweet sleep as he wished.

...

The next week was peaceful and no monsters were encountered.

While on the road, in the daytime, the witcher taught herbal knowledge on the herbs that were readily available on the roadside. In the evening, Roy used the newly learned crossbow shooting technique to hunt wild animals, gain some experience, and prepare dinner by the way.

It was completely dark, and the two continued their crossbow shooting training around the bonfire. After sweating countless times, Roy gradually learned an important part, the way of breathing.

He can clearly feel the improvement of his archery, but he still lacks actual combat experience and cannot form relevant abilities.

Before finally going to bed, he will fall into a deep sleep under the influence of the witcher Axifa, enjoying the feeling of being resurrected when he opens his eyes in the morning.

After a week like this, Roy's experience value came to LV2 (280/1000), his constitution attribute increased by 0.1 to 4.4 under the action of herbs, and his strength also increased by 0.1 to 4.3. There are more than 50 kinds of herbs that he can firmly remember the appearance characteristics, growth environment, medicinal properties, and treatment methods, and 5 more animals can be affected by "Slaughter".

Roy began to enjoy the fulfilling, slow growth process.

That night, the two finally left the uninhabited area, and clearly saw a towering city wall on the endless field, several towering buildings inside the wall, mixed with sporadic lights, and white smoke rising.

"That is the last line of defense in the southwest of Aedirn, adjacent to the city of Edsberg in the Mahakan Mountains. It is estimated that it will arrive tomorrow."

Roy heard the sound and looked into the distance, but behind the city, a towering, boundless mountain range lay in front of them. He looked like a sleeping ancient behemoth. The endless snow on the mountain and the looming green are just it decoration on the skin.

This is the Mahakam Mountains, the behemoth that separates Temeria from Aedirn, the home of the dwarves and where the goblins are said to live.

To get to Sintra, the two had to cross the city of Edsberg and then cross the mountain, but it was late and they settled down.

After a sufficient barbecue dinner, Leto sat quietly on the ground facing the direction of the mountains in the distance. The silence and urgency along the way dissipated, and a peaceful and peaceful force appeared on his face.

Roy stared at Leto's broad back, the back was filled with magic to make him relax, and a voice sounded in his ear.

"Meditation, created by the original source warlock, is a method of communicating and manipulating the forces of chaos, that is, the power of the elements. Later, it was left as a legacy by the creator of the witcher, Cosimo Malaspina. To the witcher."

"For witchers and ordinary people, meditation allows them to adjust their minds and bodies, clean up negative emotions, quickly repair physical damage, restore physical fitness, improve physical fitness, and get deep sleep."

"But for those who are naturally sensitive to magic power, they can perceive the power of elements through meditation, and extract magic power from the air, water, earth, and flame. When the sensitive person awakens, if they are not sent to the Warlock Academy in time to accept the warlock Train, tame the elemental powers, and they'll go mad with the magic out of control, and their sanity will collapse. Or even worse, their bodies will be tortured into ugly deformities by magic."

"So kid, I need you to meditate actively and tell me whether you are an ordinary person or someone who is sensitive to magic."

Roy's heart skipped a beat, is it finally here, this moment? Then he looked confused, "What should I do, how do I enter meditation?"

He confirmed that Leto had never said a word about meditation to himself before.

In fact, if possible, he certainly hopes that he is magic sensitive, after all, witchers themselves are created by warlocks, and their power level is undoubtedly lower than that of warlocks.

However, there are no talents or skills related to magic, elements, or chaotic energy in the personal template. He couldn't even turn on the mana.

I already had a hunch in my heart.

Facing his doubts, Leto said calmly, "I will hypnotize you with the Seal of Axe every night before going to sleep."

"Isn't that for deep sleep?"

"I didn't say it when I gave you the choice, maybe there are other benefits... and you chose to accept it." Leto emphasized, "Accurately, you have done six meditations, and your body is ready. Basic, thoroughly adapted to the process of meditation. However, it is passive and cannot retain memory. Today you must try to meditate actively and tell me what you feel from meditation.”

"Other benefits... This bald head is half-talking, is it a reward for trust?"

Roy began to rejoice at the choice he made, but he really had no memory of the so-called meditation. He only remembered that he slept very darkly and sweetly every night.

"No doubt, sit down in my posture."

Roy obediently learned his posture, forming a strange seal with his ten fingers, everything went smoothly, and sure enough, it was like repeated many times.

His body naturally entered a state of warmth, as if returning to the mother's body. Every cell was roaring, absorbing nutrients hungry and entering the process of self-healing and strengthening.

The sound of the wind whistling around and the crackling sparks of the bonfire all moved away from the side. His eyes crossed Edsberg and stared at the Mahakan Mountains. The majestic clouds and smoke on the top of the mountain were unpredictable and gradually sucked him in like a vortex.