The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"What is this, Kenna?"

A man in simple black clothes asked the psionicist. This man had a neatly trimmed mustache. The dark black studded leather jacket had a breastplate painted with a golden sun on a light brown background. He wore Wearing a hat decorated with feathers, like other Nilfgard people, he always likes to wrap himself in black.

"He is a...demon hunter." The psychic known as Kenna covered her eyes with one hand, pinched her waist with the other, bent over and panted slightly, her escape and physical work obviously did not belong to her. One of the training you have received. In the dark, Zelin noticed that there were a few crossbows aiming at him in the dark. If there were no people hiding in ambush elsewhere, then this team should have seven members. "It should be my psychic energy that has offended him, I , I don’t know that psionics will irritate the demon hunters, I should be more careful. Demon hunters have no emotions, sir Skellen, but they still have reason. We can avoid unnecessary conflicts. Be careful, they will attack magic. Control the victim's spirit."

The last sentence caused a sudden stop for the movement of the surrounding people, and then they took a few steps back quietly.

"Ms. Joanna Cerbery."

The Nilfgard man, known as Chief Skellen, asked the psionicist who was leaning against a nearby wall to rest on the wall that was being chased by Zelin all the way to their assembly place, "You are an expert in magic in our team. We don’t need extra trouble, and we don’t need to bleed in Clement." He uses standard Nifoga German. Zelin doesn’t know much about this language, and is not even as good as Ayn Hindi. , He could only hear roughly what Skellen meant, "Can this mutant calm down?"

"I, I'll give it a try. We'd better put down the weapon first." The psionicist touched the sweat dripping into the corner of his eyes. , There is no difference between day and night in their eyes."

"It's just a mutant." The demon hunter heard a half-elf with a crossbow on the side whispering.

"Let the experts handle it, Ms. Tyre Ered." Skellen, who was obviously the commander of the other people, slowly raised his hand, as if worried about whether Zelin would use his actions as a signal to attack. The movement was very slow, and then Zelin heard the sound of the sword being scabbed. The psionicist shook off the hair that was in front of her eyes, and Kenna slowly walked to Zelin, raising her hands to indicate that she was not malicious.

"I'm sorry, Demon Hunter, we..." After saying a few words, the psionicist remembered that she was speaking Nifoga German, and she quickly changed to the lingua franca "I am sorry for the previous behavior, we are The action team of the Royal Coroner Stephen Skellen."

"You have a wise officer, Ms. Cerberney." Zelin's words shocked the female psychic.

"You... sound more sensible than I thought." The psionicist relaxed a little. "Great, if you can be more sensible, the conversation between us will become easier."

"But you're touching the brain and thinking." Zelin stared into the other person's eyes. "And you have something to do with the person I'm looking for. Berhart." The demon hunter's eyes calmly looked around, this It is a normal alert, but it also allows him to see clearly the reactions of people around him. Hearing this name, the team members seemed to have heard the trail of the prey they were looking for, but it was Skellen. His expression did not change, as if Berhart had nothing to do with him. "You have a good ability to explore thinking. Ms. Albertine, but you should learn how to defend."

This is a search team led by the Royal Coroner Stephen Skellen, and Zelin is still negotiating with the psionicist, the expert in their team dealing with magical matters. The search team was also looking for the bounty hunter Berhart, and, like Zelin, followed Berhart's whereabouts to Clement City. Joanna Cerbery went to the neighborhood to gather information and search for valuable clues, and as a result, she ran into a demon hunter in the tavern.

"Why are you tracking Berhart?"

"Is this an interrogation?" Zelin watched back to their squad camp and put on a psychic in tight-fitting military uniform when performing official duties. "Mission or profession?"

Zelin heard the conversation between Skellen and Joanna. They believed that the psionicist could safely come into contact with the demon hunter because they knew nothing about spirit and magic except for the psionicist. And they obviously thought that the demon hunters could not understand Nifoga German at all, and that being the case, Zelin had no need to correct their mistakes.

"No, neither." The psionicist shook his head. "We are doing everything possible to search for Berhart. We need to know why you are looking for Berhart to determine whether we can cooperate in intelligence and operations. I have Responsible for investigating the case of the sinking of the Southern Pearl, some intelligence exchanges during the investigation helped investigators get out of blind spots."

"What do you think is a reason for tracking a killer." Zelin didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

"He killed the wrong person?" The psionicist gave one of the most common possibilities. Her eyes rolled around, her head tilted slightly forward, her eyes rolled up to look at the demon hunter across the table.

"Very smart." Zelin intertwined his fingers. "But you guessed it wrong."

He won't be caught in such obvious traps. For a person who wants to conceal his purpose, eager to affirm the options given by the other party is undoubtedly a sign that he has a problem.

"What personal grievances do you have with him?"

"Nor." Zelin shook his head again "You can think of it as business competition."

"Mutants understand business?" The psionicist raised his eyebrows. "Unexpectedly, the books in the college library are very wrong with your records."

"And you should know that mutants are not a good name for demon hunters."

"I'm sorry about that again."

Zelin also wanted to know how much this group of people knew about Berhart, the best, he could get valuable information from this group of people, and then find the bounty hunter before everyone else.

"Let's be straightforward, Kenna." Zelin opened his hands. "I need to find Berhart, and you also need it. I want to find this bounty hunter, and then determine some things. Then, how to deal with him is your business. , Has nothing to do with me. Tell me the answer tonight, I will leave after daybreak to track Berhart."

Chapter 822: An Extraordinary Land

When the new morning light crossed the hillside and spread on the plains of Clement City, Zelin got the reply he wanted.

"Commander Skellen hopes to recruit you."

At the entrance of the hotel room, Joanna Cerberi, who was already dressed, put her legs together and offered him a military salute. "The sir thinks you can help us find the bounty hunter as soon as possible, and he will pay you enough."

Zelin lowered his eyes and looked at the psionicist in the civilian uniform of the man in black. "I never work for any army or government department."

"Temporary commission, in Clement." The psionicist puts on deerskin gloves. "May be in trouble. We should cooperate to find Berhart, I... I don't understand the variant, how does the demon hunter understand cooperation? , Hiring should be easier for you to understand."

The Royal Coroner Stephen Skellen, nicknamed Night Owl, is an official of the special operations department of the Imperial Intelligence Service. He was responsible for one thing after the coup in Sinide, looking for the imperial wanted criminal in the Ebin area. Now, Skellen is performing a very important secret mission. As an adventurer hired by the Imperial Intelligence Agency, Kenna doesn't know much. She is responsible for collecting intelligence, and there is not much she can tell Zelin.

"I thought you were officials of the empire, all of them."

"We are employees, not officials." Kenna clapped her hands, her eyes kept looking left and right, experiencing to avoid direct contact with the demon hunter. "I will tell you what to do next, they... they don't want anyone Control their spirit and thinking."

"But you can also read their thoughts."

"I have a record in the empire, do you have it?" Kenna lifted the right sideburns behind her ears, revealing the pearl earrings on the earlobes

Zelin shrugged.

These people all put on a military uniform, and Kenna said that they had obtained definite evidence that Berhart had entered the castle of Hövennagel. This is the last place that the clues they have at hand point to. They are trying to enter the castle to search for the whereabouts of the bounty hunters.

However, this group of people was blocked by the mercenaries of the trade union at the gate of the merchant union's castle. Skellen negotiated with the mercenaries as the commander, but judging from their fierce arguments and expressions, the negotiations did not go well at all. Ye Xiao waited at the door for a while, a servant walked out of the castle, said something to him, and then turned back to the castle. Ye Xiao showed an angry expression. He turned to the other team members and said something to them. After that, the members of the Royal Coroner immediately scattered around the castle.

Afterwards, Skellen beckoned to Kenna, and the psionicist walked over to accept his task. Obviously, the royal coroner didn't want to stand in a range that could theoretically be controlled by mutants. Demon hunters have disappeared in the south for a long time. There are only a few people in the Viper School, and only those researchers will go to the library to learn about the introduction of demon hunters recorded in books.

When the psionicist returned, she shook her head at Zelin.

"Hovennagel refused our request to enter the castle, and was unwilling to accept inquiries or tell the whereabouts of Berhart. We need to find a way."

"You are the Imperial Intelligence Agency. You still don't have the right to search the castle?"

"This is Aibin, the territory of the merchant union. The empire has no jurisdiction here." Kenna raised her eyes and looked at the mercenary archer standing on the castle. "He has a private army. We can't risk fighting with the merchant union. Risk."

"Is Ebin still part of the empire?" Zelin snorted softly, surrendering judicial power, judicial power, land ownership, and private army to the merchants' union. Hövennagel is like a city earl, except that there is no succession to the title. File only.

"They can hire immigrants and defraud the land development rights in the hands of the empire, and then they will give all the land contracts to the merchants' union, so that these **** merchants can get a large piece of land." Kenna rubbed her temples. Her eyes looked at the people coming and going nearby, as well as the soldiers patrolling near the castle, a white light flashed in the black pupils, and she was using her psychic energy to read the thoughts of these people.

"You know this process well? Your entrepreneurial spirit?"

"Don't mock me, Demon Hunter. I said that I investigated the sinking of the Southern Pearl." Joanna Cerbery continued to stare around. She turned to look at a nearby archer on guard on the wall." Those who were hired by merchant unions to defraud the imperial land deeds, many people were unwilling to hand over the deeds after obtaining the land, but the imperial policy stipulated that if the owner of the land deeds died within the ten-year tax exemption period, the land deeds would be taken back to the empire. So merchants The union planned a shipwreck and killed 30 creditors who tried to return to the imperial capital to expose the conspiracy of the merchant union."

"Plus a boat of passengers and sailors?"

"A total of one hundred and fifty-eight people."

"It seems that your investigation was very successful. What is the result?"

Zelin raised his head and looked at the castle, carefully examining the city wall and the route and interval of training soldiers, as well as the location of the guard post.

"A front desk employee of the Empire Land Bureau was fired, and a businessman was fined five hundred fronds." Kenna sighed lightly. "When I hear the results, I am very happy that my skills are valuable to the Intelligence Bureau. ."

"It seems that the judicial power of the merchant union is not limited to the Aibin province."

A cold wind blew, and the dust on the ground was rolled up, Kenna covered her mouth and turned her head, facing the blowing sand. Zelin raised his hand, and the arc-shaped Kunen's Faprint appeared, and the sand was crackling on it. There are logging yards, quarries and mines everywhere, and every gust of wind can lift up the invisible dust.

"A place outside the law, when it ends." Kenna recites the verse, her bright eyes look around, and the crowd hides under the eaves or turned their backs to avoid letting the sand hit the face and fascinate the eyes. "Imperial General Fallen, bandits are crowded. Selfishness, the beginning of destruction."