The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Note: The recommended background music for this chapter is "On the Champs-Désolés" from The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Soundtrack.)

Marvin did not awaken the Ancient Blood immediately. First, he did not want to awaken in a crowded place. Who knows what strange phenomena would happen; second, he was worried that he would be seen by someone with ulterior motives, which would cause unnecessary trouble; finally, because the location was not suitable, he had to find a place where it was easy to escape to avoid being blocked by the Wild Hunt.

Ham Town is far enough away from Vizima. It is located in the southwest corner of Temeria, close to Cintra in the south, and the Brokilon Forest in the northeast. There are roads to the south and north of Ham Town. If it doesn't work, you can run into the forest. It is very suitable.

Marvin finally chose this place on the coast 5 kilometers northwest of Ham Town.

This place is far enough from Ham Town, far enough from the road to the north, and far enough from the forest.

There will be no passers-by, no tree spirits, and nosy elves.

In addition, there is a flat wasteland between this place and the road to the east, which is very convenient for escape.

After purchasing enough supplies for 5 days in Ham Town, Marvin made the final preparations before blood awakening alone.

Killed a nearby sea monster, and scouted the surrounding 2 kilometers to make sure there were no more creatures around that could cause trouble.

Drink the last sip of hot water and add some more firewood to the campfire.

He sat cross-legged by the campfire and meditated...

The moon had risen high in the sky, reflecting the sparkling sea surface, cloudless, and breeze...

Marvin finished meditation on time, called the black horse who was dazed on the side, patted Ned's head and said: "Run over there, wait for me by the woods."

Ned rubbed his master's hand, snorted and ran away...

He extinguished the campfire, sat cross-legged on a huge reef by the sea, and Marvin opened the learning machine ability interface.

[Ancient Blood: Bloodline ability, hidden (unawakened), derived from the alien elves Ain El tribe, with the ability to control time and space. + (Awakening requires 20 ability points)]

Press the plus sign.

[Hint: Awakening the blood of the ancients will consume 20 ability points. Are you sure? 】【Yes】【No】

Choose Yes.

The body cannot move, and the blood seems to be frozen...

He heard the blood in his body begin to flow slowly, rush, and boil...

The heart began to beat, from slow to rapid, faster and faster... as if it was about to explode...

The body gradually approached the critical point of death...

The heart made a dull "bang~"

Marvin lost consciousness...

...

I don't know how long it took, when he woke up, the moon in the sky was already falling.

The surrounding sand and shrubs were covered with a layer of ice crystals, and the waves carried broken ice and hit the reefs again and again.

Marvin still maintained a cross-legged posture.

The surrounding magic fluctuations were clearer, and the elements were more active. The magic source talent seemed to have changed.

Stand up and move around, there is no difference in the body, but the spirit is better.

Turn on the learning machine.

[Attributes]

[Name: Amavet]

[Race: Mixed Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Status: Normal]

[Energy (Chaos Magic): 1188/1188]

[Strength: 19 View Profile]

[Agility: 23 View Profile]

[Constitution: 21 View Profile]

[Perception: 18 View Profile]

[Spirit: 33 View Profile]

[Ability]

[Ability Points: 4]

[Ancient Blood: Bloodline Ability, One Awakening (Initially has the ability to control space. Ability points cannot be used to awaken again, and need to awaken independently.)]

[Magic Source: Second Awakening (Chaos Magic Upper Limit Increased by 100%, Chaos Magic Recovery Speed ​​Increased by 100%)]

[Embodiment Magic: 5 + (Embodiment Magic Casting Cost -15%, Spell Strength +15%)]

[Elemental Magic: 6 + (Elemental Magic Casting Cost -18%, Spell Strength +18%)]

[Protection Magic: 3 + (Protection magic casting cost -9%, spell strength +9%)]

[Prophecy magic: 3 + (Prophecy magic casting cost -9%, spell duration +9%)]

[Psychic magic: 2 + (Psychic magic casting cost -6%, spell duration +6%)]

[Illusion magic: 1 + (Illusion magic casting cost -3%, spell duration +3%)]

[Swordsmanship (fusion): 7 + (When using sword weapons, physical consumption -7%, easier to attack the enemy's vital points)]

[Meditation: 2 + (After entering the meditation state, physical consumption is reduced by 20%, energy recovery speed is increased by 10%, mental attributes and perception attributes are slowly improved, and mental trauma and mental trauma are slowly healed)]

[Ice arrow: 3 + (Consumption when casting ice arrow -9%, casting speed +9%, ice arrow strength +9%, ice arrow initial speed +9%)]

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This time awakening, the spirit increased by 2 points and the perception increased by 1 point.

The Ancient Blood was successfully awakened, and like the Magic Source, it should be able to awaken a second time.

But he had no idea how to awaken a second time. What does "preliminary ability to control time and space" mean? There is no plus sign.

The Magic Source awakened a second time, and the magic power increased significantly, but it did not bring about a qualitative change. It was the same as the first awakening, and it could not be upgraded.

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He found the black horse, fed some bean cakes and apples, and let Ned go to sleep by himself.

Marvin was not sleepy and was very energetic. The environment here was very comfortable. He began to ponder the blood of the ancients.

Slowly, he discovered the difference in his body and seemed to have found how to use the blood power in his body.

Marvin can now sense the space around him and can also use the basic knowledge of space magic to calculate space nodes.

It took an hour or two for Marvin to figure out short-distance teleportation.

Maybe because he is not proficient enough, the current teleportation is not "whoosh" to the other side, but also requires a very short reading time, ranging from 0.5 to 1 second.

The maximum distance of a short-distance teleportation is about 8 meters. Within 8 meters, the distance and direction are arbitrary.

After each teleportation, a short breath recovery of about 1 second is required.

Regardless of the distance, you must rest for a while after 3 consecutive teleportations because it will be very tiring.

Just like after a full-scale sprint of 100 meters, you will be panting and your basic combat ability will be weakened.

Unless you have no choice, he can only teleport twice in a row in a battle.

In the future, you need to calculate the distribution of physical strength in battle.

I hope that the increase in physical attributes will improve the situation in the future.

The next day, Marvin mastered long-distance fixed-point teleportation.

He used his knowledge of space to make a temporary space beacon with stone and placed it in a place that he could not see but could sense, about 1 kilometer away. He activated the power of blood to move to this location and succeeded.

Unlike short-distance teleportation, the teleportation reading time is longer, requiring more than 5 seconds.

He took out the record book and analyzed the spatial coordinates of several familiar places such as Vizima, Gos Velen, and Aretuza. He knew clearly that he could teleport there.

In addition, his hair turned white.

It seems that all ancient bloods have white hair, such as the elf prophet Laura Dolan, such as Marvin's mother Queen Lei Anlun, and Ciri.

After careful inspection, Marvin determined that he had silver hair, which was a little brighter.

In fact, he didn't care what color his hair was, as long as it was not green.

Whether it was short-distance teleportation or long-distance fixed-point teleportation, all personal belongings could be taken away, including weapons in his hands or other things, as long as he could carry them. But he couldn't take anyone with him, since Ned couldn't take anyone with him anyway.

He was actually waiting these days to see if the Wild Hunt would chase him.

He originally planned to hide in other worlds after his bloodline awakened, and then come back to deal with the Wild Hunt and the Ain El Elves after he fully developed.

But now he has no idea how to travel to another world, so he's a bit at a loss.

After immature thinking, Marvin decided that if the Wild Hunt really chased him, he would use teleportation to play hide-and-seek on the continent.

He has the spatial coordinates of many cities on this continent.

If there are few people coming from the Wild Hunt, then fight them, and if there are many people, then run away. See if there is a chance to learn world travel while running away.

In the next few days, Marvin stayed in this remote place, practicing teleportation, teleportation, ice arrows, swords, and reading books.

"Ice Magic - A variant of water magic?" This book is very powerful, the kind of power that you don't know how to use.

Before eating all the food in the inventory, he returned to Ham Town.

The Wild Hunt didn't catch up, so let's go around...

...

Starting from Ham town early in the morning, heading north along the west coast, the famous Brokilon Forest is on the east side of the road.

Although the tree elves are all very beautiful and wear very little, Marvin has no intention of going in to take a look.

The tree elves are very unfriendly to humans, and they will shoot you with an arrow if you say something wrong.

They are stubborn, unreasonable and extremely xenophobic...

The next day, Marvin heard a rumor in the tavern in the village of Garak.

In the past few months, bodies have been stolen from the cemetery outside the village.

Originally, the villagers didn't care about it. Who would care about dead bodies? But children started to disappear in the next few days, and this couldn't be ignored.

Last night, a little boy was taken away in the village, and many people heard the child's screams.

What Marvin heard in the tavern was the discussion and speculation of the villagers. Many villagers swore that it was done by the witcher...

The witcher would take the employer's children and train new people on the grounds of "accident rate".

Therefore, there have always been rumors among the people that demon hunters would kidnap children.

In addition, the demon hunters' beast-like pupils and inhuman physiques frightened the civilians.

Some demon hunters really did not do their job, such as most cat factions and most bear factions.

Finally, some bastard employers refused to pay after the commission was completed, and spread rumors after being punished.

All of this ultimately led to the demon hunters having a bad reputation among the people.

Marvin found the village chief.

"Tell me more about the cemetery and the child."

"Who are you? Can you help?"

"I can't help, you have to pay."

"Are you a demon hunter?"

"No. So, you know it wasn't done by a demon hunter?"

"Does it matter? I just want this shit to end quickly."

"That depends on how much you can pay."

"30 Orens?"

"50 Orens, otherwise I won't do it."

"Okay, how long will it take?"

"One day or three days, it won't take too long."

"That's great."

"So, can you tell me now?"

"Sure, sure. There's a cemetery east of our village, it's been there for many years. My grandfather is buried there...

It must have been two or three months. The villagers said that something dug up the grave and stole the body in the coffin.

At first we thought it was a hungry wild wolf. Later, every time a dead person was buried, monsters would come and dig up the body every few days.

Dirk also led people to guard it for a few days, but the monster escaped.

In the past few days, some children ran away to play but never came back. Mir was arrested in the village last night. I could hear the child crying from home. "

"You just listen to that?"

"Do you think I'm stupid? There are so many people like Dirk and I can't do anything about it, why should I, an old man, go out and die?"

"Where is the Dirk you mentioned? I have to talk to him."

"Over there, go to the third house."

[Task tip: Tomb robber. The villagers of Galak Village are discussing a monster that robs graves and steals corpses. It is said that it also kidnapped the children in the village. The village chief entrusts you to destroy this monster. Do you want to accept this task? 】【whether】

Select Yes.

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"Dirk?"

"It's me, what's the matter?"

"I'll deal with the monster, the one who stole the body."

"That's great! And there are kids to catch."

"Solve it one by one. Dirk, I heard that you saw that monster in the cemetery?"

"Yes, after Saken was buried, we stayed there for three days. We brought pitchforks and hoes."

"Can you describe what the monster looks like?"

"Hey! I didn't see it clearly at all, it was too dark, but... I looked like it was a person... That night, we staggered all of a sudden, like... we got a stick on the head. Fortunately, we were fine after a while. Fortunately, the monster who stole the body was not found. Later, we returned to the village.

"Are you okay when you come back? Are any of you sick or anything like that?"

"No, there are four of us in total. We are all great guys. Everything will be fine after we sleep."

"That's it."

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Following the path up the mountain, Marvin came to the cemetery, which was on a flat land on the mountainside.

"Roar... drink..." Three wild dogs digging for carrion roared at Marvin in warning.

With 2 ice arrows and 1 knife, 3 wild dogs were quickly eliminated.

Marvin's ice arrows are different from what they used to be. They are instantaneous, fast, high frequency and very accurate. They can hit coins within 10 meters, kettles within 20 meters, and kite shields within 30 meters. Ice arrows from any further distance are easy. Gone.

There are dozens of graves in the cemetery, seven or eight of which have been dug up.

Marvin inspected the grave that had been dug, using tools such as shovels. The coffin was broken open and the body taken away.

The kidnapped child had no clue at all, so he had to start from the cemetery.

The possibility of two monsters appearing in a village at the same time is too low. There is a high probability that the two things were done by the same monster, or it might be a human.

He stole from the corpse and didn't leave out his shovel or anything else. There aren't many clues.

Marvin found the newly dug grave, carefully searched the ground, and found what seemed to be human footprints.

The footprints were small and thin, as if they had no bones.

The owner of the footprints was barefoot and without shoes, and stepped deeply, presumably because he/she was carrying the body on his back.

Using "Footprint Recognition", these footprints became highlighted in Marvin's field of vision and extended into a string towards the edge of the cemetery...

Follow the footprints down the mountain from the other side, cross a stream, and finally find two thatched huts in the col.

There was a faint smell of corpses and dark and cold black magic fluctuations in the thatched house.

Black magician, or black witch, dark mage...

This group of people has many names, but none of them are very nice.

The magical heritage of the Demon Hunter Continent is not so recent.

Because the knowledge system comes from the Ein Siddi elves, it is relatively complete, but there is no concept of forbidden magic yet.

Magicians are not averse to black magic and necromancy.

But all humans will reject those who play with the corpses of their own kind, and the lingering filth and stench on them.

Therefore, mages who specialize in black magic and necromancy are not popular with everyone.

They will be kicked out of the academy and out of the city, like the guy in the hut.

Marvin put on Quen's shield and walked straight 5 meters away from the hut. It would be easy to fall into a trap if he went further.

"Hi, is anyone there?"

The window of the hut on the right opened a crack, and a dark eye without pupils looked out.

"Who are you? Stranger." The voice was hoarse and harsh, but you could tell that you were a woman, or had been a woman.

"I'm looking for the person who stole the body. Come out, I know it's you."

"Get out! There is no one you are looking for here."

"Don't admit it? Black Witch."

"...Yeah, so what if it's me? Come and catch me. Haha...chichichichichichichichi..."

"Stop, stop, stop laughing, it's too ugly. Come out."

The window snapped down, and there was no movement in the thatched house...

Marvin waited for a while and found that the dark witch had no intention of coming out.

He wasn't going to be stupid enough to break into a dark witch's house, so he started throwing fireballs.

These two shabby huts cannot have strong protective magic.

Flames spread across the roof of the hut...

"Mage? Warlock? I have been driven out of Arethusa by you. Why don't you let me go?"

The angry roar of the black witch rang out in the hut, and the flames were extinguished by the spreading black magic energy.

Marvin didn't answer, but continued to set fire. The flames mixed with the explosion blew off the thatched roof piece by piece.

The wooden door burst open with a bang, and a black mist floated in with dark green fluorescence. It was the "plague fly".

The continuous fireballs burned all the flies to death, and then rushed into the open wooden door...

The air was filled with the stench of burnt protein.

Boom, bang... Pyroblast exploded and burned in the thatched house...

"Cough cough cough..." The black witch slapped the flames on her body and staggered out of the hut. She did not expect that the frequency of this young man's fire magic was so high.

The real master finally appeared, and Marvin switched to the more convenient ice arrow.

Two consecutive ice arrows shot at the witch with afterimages.

The witch looked flustered, but her reaction was not slow.

She held up the gray-black magic barrier and stared at Marvin with her black eyes.

"I'm going to kill you! Kill you!"

Ice arrows hit the magic barrier one after another, flying and shattering...

Marvin pretended that his magic power was not enough, backed away slowly, then turned around and ran away...

He is actually pulling monsters. There may be something fishy near the hut, so don't rush over and engage in close combat.

"Chi chi chi chi...young man, you will die... chi chi chi chi...you are so young, let me kill you, okay?"

It seemed that the black magic had burned out the witch's brain, and she chased her out without any doubt.

Marvin looked back while running. When he found that the witch was far enough away from the hut, he turned back and shot another ice arrow.

The witch once again put up a magical barrier.

"Plenty of physical strength, plenty of magic...jijijiji...you are so good. Don't be afraid..."

Marvin didn't want to talk to a madman, he just kept casting ice arrows and moved closer to the witch.

20 meters, 15 meters...

The witch still held up the magic barrier and continued to talk nonsense...

If it was just like this, she could persist for a long time, but she didn't believe that the young man in front of her could keep firing ice arrows like this.

10 meters, 8 meters...

Marvin suddenly stopped and switched to using both hands to cast spells. He also silently recited a difficult-to-speak incantation, as if he was planning to use a bigger move...

Witches who specialize in black magic are best at cursing, weakening, and traps. Face-to-face combat is not their strong point.

The person in front of me can also cast spells such as plague flies, acid arrows, and acid mist that are directly effective against the enemy. However, she has been suppressed by Marvin and lacks the means to move, so she can only wait for the opportunity.

Now, she thinks the time has come...

The witch removed the magic barrier and began to read and cast spells. It only took 1.5 seconds for her to release a dark mist, blocking the opponent's perception... Then she summoned two ghost monsters, and the battle was quickly over...

But Marvin wouldn't give her 1.5 seconds...

Instant, cough technique.

He had practiced this move for many days and finally used it today.

The black witch suddenly felt that her throat was itchy, "Cough cough cough... wow..."

She was interrupted from casting a spell, bent over and retched...

Teleporting, Gu Siwen drew an arc of ice blue light and severed his head with a single blow.

puff!

The black witch's shriveled head was pushed far away by the blood pressure and rolled aside with a gurgling sound.

Marvin nimbly jumped back to avoid it. Who knows what is in the blood of the dark wizard, curses, germs...

Perhaps due to being exposed to black magic for too long and dealing with corpses all day long, this witch became extremely ugly.

She was so thin that she was out of shape. Her originally exquisite black skirt was loose and the wrinkles on her neck and chest could be seen.

Almost all of her hair has fallen out, leaving only a few long strands stuck together, hanging in pieces on the back of her head and temples.

The hands were as dry as chicken feet, and the black nails were stained with dirt.

You know, almost all female mages in the world of witchers use magic to make themselves beautiful, no matter how old she is.

Marvin wrapped his left hand in ice and touched the black witch's body.

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