The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Recommended background music for this chapter: "Rattay Feasts" singers: Jan Valta and Adam Sporka.)

It was noon when Marvin rode back to Dorndale. He simply ordered lunch and waited in the tavern. The deer head was right next to the stool.

Halfway through lunch, the halfling Brian Horse arrived.

"How's it going? Marvin, is it solved?"

Marvin moved the dinner plate and placed the white branch-horned skull on the table.

"The deer-headed spirit, the place where you cut wood is in its territory. My work is done."

The short Brian Horx was startled, jumped back, and shouted: "Oh, Meritelli!" He didn't dare to make a move, and looked around the table.

"There really are demons."

Marven didn't bother to explain to him that this thing was not a demon but a deer-headed spirit...

The tavern owner was also attracted to watch the fun. Seeing such a rare thing, he came over and asked, "Young man, are you selling this?"

Marvin said calmly: "What? Are you planning to hang it in the tavern to attract customers? This thing is a source of trouble. It might attract other monsters."

The halfling jumped up when he heard it: "Fake, then show it to me!"

"I'm just giving you a look to show you that I'm done with my work. I'll take it and burn it when I'm done. Also, halfling, be careful what you say."

"Ahem...that, sorry."

The tavern owner had already run back to the counter to clean the glasses, without daring to take another look.

"I received the apology." Marvin pointed his finger on the table and said, "Reward."

The halfling wanted to bargain as a habit, but when he saw the white skull, he swallowed again, took out his money bag, stuffed a few more orens into it, and then put it on the table.

This operation made Marvin speechless for a while. He poured the gold coins on the table and counted them.

Although he is not short of money, he doesn't want to be cheated. That would be stupid. Fortunately, 40 orens is correct.

"Thank you for your business, I hope you won't need me in the future. Goodbye."

"bite!"

[Tip: The mission "Devil in the Forest" has been completed. Are there any rewards for the bonus book "Conjectures on the Origin of Elemental Creatures"? 】【whether】

Select Yes.

Open the learning machine and read the introduction. This is a study and conjecture about the birth, development, and social forms of various elemental creatures.

It is of great use to mages who like to study the summoning of elemental creatures, but this purely theoretical thing is of no use to Marvin and can only be used to pass boring time. At least you don't need to light candles or use lighting to read the books in the learning machine.

Are the learning machine rewards actively matched or randomly drawn? Why do the 5 rewards seem so low-end every time? Is it because I am still very naive, or is it because the learning machine only has this low-end knowledge?

Marvin tried to communicate with the learning machine countless times without any response, and then gave up.

No matter what kind of knowledge it is, as long as it is conducive to survival, it is a good thing. Too much art is not a burden. The current environment is not suitable, please check again later.

Turn off the learning machine, drink up the apple juice, pack up and go out to mount the horse.

I was just passing through Dorndale, and there was no mention in the document that there was a magical place here. It was an unexpected surprise to get an ability point. Now it's time to move on to the next stop, Bardolph.

Far away from Dorndale, when no one was around, Marvin removed the head of the deer-headed elf beside the saddle.

[Tip: If you find the remains of a magical creature, do you want to submit it? 】【whether】

Select Yes.

[Tip: Successful submission will reward physical attributes +1, perception attributes +1, and mental attributes +1. 】

Take a look at the learning machine properties interface.

[Name: Amavet]

[Race: Mixed-race human]

[Gender: Male]

[Status: normal]

[Energy (Chaos Magic Energy): 729/729]

[Strength: 15 View introduction]

[Agility: 18 View Introduction]

[Physique: 17 View profile]

[Perception: 14 View Introduction]

[Spirit: 27 View Introduction]

Marvin has also made many attempts since he learned that you can obtain attribute point rewards by submitting corpses and living creatures.

He also issued a bounty in Gos Velen and used his power to do some experiments.

Gradually I figured out the rules.

First of all, it must be a corpse of a creature that he killed with his own hands, or a living creature that he defeated with his own hands. It doesn't matter whether he uses a knife or magic.

If there are other people involved in the kill, their DPS must account for a certain proportion. The specific proportion has not been tested yet.

Secondly, at least one physical attribute of the killed creature must be higher than a certain value, otherwise Marvin will not receive any reward. The higher the attribute, the higher the reward given to Marvin.

If the monster's attributes are too low, the learning machine will not even have feedback, such as water ghosts and evil ghosts.

He didn't try out the specific attribute requirements, mainly because he didn't have enough time and monsters for him to try.

Finally, you must touch the body of the killed creature, any part will do, even fragments will do.

Only in this way will there be a prompt, and the learning opportunity will automatically collect all body parts of the creature.

Marvin has never tried whether a decomposed corpse would work, and there is no need to try.

…

The sun had set by the time Marvin reached Bardolph. Fortunately, Bardolf was just a larger village with no walls or guards, so no one stopped him from entering.

We found a tavern and had a tasteless dinner. Via Oren, a night spent in one of the publican's vacant utility rooms.

The next morning, Marvin wore only his pants and his upper body and practiced knife practice for half an hour in the backyard of the tavern. After sweating all over, the sleepiness caused by not sleeping well was finally dispelled, and I regained my energy.

After having some breakfast and asking for directions, Marvin took Ned and walked eastward.

Bardorf is divided into east and west parts. West Village is mainly engaged in logging. It is convenient for the wood to be transported down the river, but because it is close to the border and the Mahakam Mountains, not many people come. Overall, it is much worse than Dorndale. Dongcun relies on the mountains to eat mountains and engages in quarrying.

Marvin and Ned walked across the stone bridge connecting the East and West Villages. On the opposite side of the bridge squatted a black monster.

Ouch, rock trolls, how rare they are.

Legend has it that there are rock trolls who like to build bridges and then charge fees to get by, and they really do exist.

This thing is about the same height as Marvin when squatting. There is an irregular round shell on its back like a turtle shell, covered with various stone crystals.

When the rock troll saw Marvin coming from the bridge, he didn't get up. He just stared at Marvin with his small eyes sunk deep in his round head.

"Hey, stranger, bridge money."

The rock troll rubbed his rotten teeth, and his voice sounded like stone.

"You still have to pay to cross the bridge? You don't need to pay to cross other bridges?"

Blackmanid was a little scared and hid behind Marvin and watched.

"The bridge was built by Locke. You cross the bridge and Locke collects the money."

"Your name is Locke?"

The troll patted its round head with its three-thick-fingered hand and said, "Locklock."

"Okay, Locklock. What can I use to pay for the bridge?"

"Silver metal, stranger."

The troll was supposed to be talking about Oren's lower-level silver coins, but Marvin didn't have any of them, and he didn't want to give them to Oren.

Marvin scratched his head and took out an apple.

"Is this okay?"

Marvin felt Ned nudge him from behind and reached out to hand over another apple. Dark Horse ate happily and looked at the troll curiously from Marvin's shoulder.

The troll threw the whole apple into his mouth, chewed it loudly, and then said: "Bah, bah, Guoguo doesn't taste good. Locke doesn't want Guoguo."

Marvin took out a few more pieces of dried meat: "What about this one?"

The troll seemed to have never seen dried meat before. He picked up one, smelled it, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it, and grabbed the remaining dried meat: "This is delicious, you can go over, stranger." Note ①

…

The East Village is a bit dirty, with a layer of gray dust covering the roads, roofs, and walls everywhere.

It was still morning at this time, and if it were later it would probably be filled with ashes. The tinkling sound of quarrying can still be heard faintly at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

Unlike other villages, Badov has two village chiefs.

Find the mayor of the East Village and follow him, who seems to have a muddy face that cannot be wiped off, up the mountain.

Ned pulled Marvin's armor with his mouth and refused to leave.

Marvin noticed that Ned snorted and shook his head from time to time. Obviously he doesn't like the environment here. He patted the black horse on the head and pointed at Nishimura: "Go and play by yourself, be careful and don't run too far."

Ned spread his wings and ran away. He didn't know if the troll wanted to collect money again, but the dark horse passed by in a flash.

…

"Sir, your horse is very smart." said the village chief.

"Yes, he also kicked someone to death and paid me a lot of money..."

The village chief led Marvin up the quarrying mountain road.

"Actually, it wasn't me who discovered it, it was the trolls."

"Oh, the one guarding the bridge?"

"No, it's another one, Locke's, um, spouse. His name is Mad Mad."

"Are there a lot of trolls around Bardorf?"

"No, there are only three of them. Madmad and the others have a child. They were on this mountain before there was Bardolf. After the village was established, they came down to build bridges with the villagers in exchange for food, and slowly they Get familiar with it. That’s what the older generation said.”

"That's really strange."

"No. Madmad was hired by me to quarry rocks. They are very good at mining rocks."

Rock Trolls love to eat all kinds of ores and are naturally earth-friendly, so they are not very good at mining rocks.

"You can communicate with it yourself later. I won't go in the hole. My eyesight is not good as I get older."

"OK."

Maybe my eyes are really bad, maybe there are other problems, who knows. The monk could run away, but he couldn't run away from the temple, and Marvin didn't care. Just be careful. He is not afraid of a few trolls.

Trolls, whether rock trolls, ice trolls or forest trolls, live in family units, and there will never be a large number of trolls gathering.

At the entrance of a cave, the village chief stopped and shouted into the cave: "Mad Mad Mad! Come out."

After a while, a bang bang bang sound came from the cave, the ground shook, and a troll came out of it.

This troll appears to be slightly larger than Rocklock. Because it is standing, you can see that its exposed chest and abdomen are red, wrinkled and rough skin.

Other than that, it seems to be no different from Locke and Locke, and I don’t know which of the two is a male and which is a female.

"Aiden, what's going on? Mad Mad is cooking."

"We'll do it later. You have to take him to find the pointed stone. Remember?" The village chief pointed at Marvin and raised his head and said to the troll. This big guy stands nearly 2.5 meters tall.

"Remember to remember."

"Okay, then you take him in, and I'm leaving." The village chief nodded to Marvin, turned around and left.

"You, come in with Madame."

The troll went bang bang bang towards the cave. Marvin followed. Note②

After passing through a short cave, the cave became spacious. There was a bonfire in the cave, and a large jar was placed on top. Something was bubbling inside, and it didn't smell bad.

The firelight reflected the figure of a small troll, who was chewing stones piece by piece. Judging from the sound, he should be eating stones.

The cave was very dark, and there was no other light source except the bonfire under the large jar in the distance.

Marvin gave himself a dim vision. The vision became clear, but everything became dim. It was like the monitor lowered the saturation and increased the brightness at the same time.

Following the troll to the other end of the cave, there was a cave entrance leading to the depths. The troll pointed at the cave entrance and said, "The pointed stone is inside. Go in. Madmad still needs to cook." After that, it went to the bonfire with a bang.

Marvin looked at the cave entrance. It was pitch black inside, and the dim vision couldn't see far. He looked at the troll who was going to cook. It felt a bit weird.

Carefully entering the cave entrance, after no longer seeing the troll, Marvin placed his hand on the cave wall, and the ice layer spread from his hand to the surrounding area, gradually covering a large area.

Through magic feedback, there was no crack in this part of the cave wall.

Marvin surveyed the stone walls on both sides and above his head step by step, and did not find any problems until he was dozens of meters away. He did not hear the familiar buzzing sound.

Finally, Marvin saw the magic place at the end of the stone cave, but it was a magic place without a light ball after it was extinguished. Feeling the magic fluctuations around him without any ripples, this magic node had dissipated, leaving only a stalagmite.

He touched the stalagmite with his right hand, but there was no prompt. A little disappointed.

Not all magic places can be used. He was mentally prepared for this when he set out from Vizima. The Elf Empire has been defeated for more than a thousand years, and anything can happen. It is incredible that so many magic places remain.

But the village chief is probably just a bonus, and he may not have come in to take a look.

Back at the troll's home, Madmad was standing by the campfire watching the bubbling soup in the big jar. The meal it made shouldn't be complicated.

"Madmad, has that sharp stone always been like this?"

"Ah? What do you mean?"

"That is, has that sharp stone ever been bright? Glowing?"

"Glowing? Why does the stone glow?"

"…………How long have you lived here?"

"A long, long time."

"…………Okay, thank you, Madmad."

Marvin handed the troll a bag of dried meat. He looked at it and found that there was no strange meat cooked in the big jar.

…

Went down the mountain and returned to the East Village, found the village chief's house and knocked on the door.

The village chief opened the door and said with a smile: "Ah, you are back. How is it?"

"I found it."

The village chief smiled even deeper, and the dirt on his face broke. He rubbed his fingers and said: "Then the promised reward..."

Marvin took out the official document and held it in his face.

"The order clearly states that the glowing stalagmites! The one in the cave won't glow. You can't read? If you can't read, how can you be the village chief? I think you're just thinking about the reward, and you haven't even been in to see it, right?" Marvin hated being fooled and was unusually angry.

"Stranger, there are no soldiers here to help you fight. Be careful with your words."

Marvin ignored his threats and left two Orens: "That's all." After saying that, he turned and left. Since there is indeed a magical place, he has to give it, but he can't give it all.

The village chief reached out to pull, but Marvin dodged and stared at him with a frown.

The village chief was frightened by Marvin's eyes, and then waved his arms and shouted: "Everyone come quickly~! The stranger is defaulting!..."

The villagers came out from all directions and gradually approached, there were only a dozen people.

Whether in the Witcher 3 game or in this life, Marvin has always known that the people in the demon hunter world are simple and honest, and ruffians are everywhere. But when the time comes, he is still so angry that he wants to laugh.

Marvin pulled out the Gus pattern from the void, and the magic rune was lit up. The blade with cold air was placed on the neck of the village chief, and he said sympathetically: "Old man, you are really looking for death."

The village chief was frightened by Marvin's two moves and took two steps back. His left foot tripped over his right foot and fell on his back. Marvin pointed at the village chief with the tip of the knife and turned away.

When Marvin walked a little further away, the village chief felt a little embarrassed, got up and shouted again: "You ****, everyone stop him!"

Seeing that the villagers were surrounding him, Marvin was really angry and laughed.

He turned around and raised his hand, and the dark red fireball brushed the village chief and hit the door behind him. Boom, the door, door frame and surrounding walls were shattered by the flame explosion. The wind wave rolled the village chief several times.

Ma Wen shouted at the villagers who surrounded him: "Get lost!"

Ignoring the villagers who were stunned by the shock, Ma Wen walked out of the village with a knife, glanced at the troll who was still squatting at the bridge head, and walked across the stone bridge. There was no secondary charge, which was quite reasonable.

Ma Wen really wanted to kill the old bastard directly, but it was not worth it to escape or expose his identity for such a thing. In the end, he suppressed his anger...

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