The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Recommended background music for this chapter: "The Song of the Sword-Dancer" Source: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Soundtrack.)

After passing Praxida, Marvin went all the way north to the northernmost tip of Redania. When he was about to leave the country, he stayed overnight in a tavern.

After asking the owner, he learned that this was the last village on the northern border. If he went further, he would be out of the border and there would be few people.

While eating, Marvin was thinking whether to teleport to Kel Siren. It would be difficult to get supplies if he went further.

A wretched man in old leather armor sat down directly opposite him and said in a low voice: "Young man, we are looking for capable people. There is a big job."

Marvin moved the plate a little. The smell of this man's hair was a bit strong.

"Not interested."

"No, man, we found a tomb with a lot of treasures in it. If we can get it out, everyone can get a big share, which is much better than working hard as a mercenary. But there are many monsters in it, and we need people with skills."

This place is close to the mercenary country of Covil, and it is normal for Marvin to be mistaken for a young mercenary.

"Oh? Where?" He showed an interested look.

This is very similar to the old routine of winning the can on the green train.

"No, how can you say it now?"

"Then how do I know whether what you said is true or false?"

"Come with me, I will take you to see our leader. After meeting the leader, you can ask him."

"Now?"

"Well, let's go."

"Don't worry, wait until I finish eating..."

The tavern owner watched the two leave, hesitant to speak...

...

"Where are your horses and weapons?"

"They were stolen..."

'Sure enough, he is a rookie, he doesn't know anything but comes out to mess around, and he seems to be quite rich. 'The wretched man thought, but said: "It doesn't matter, we have extra weapons. After this job, you can buy another horse, maybe a Kaedwen horse."

"I hope so..."

...

After more than an hour, the two men reached the foot of the mountain in the west. The wretched man pointed to the mountain and said: "We are almost there, just above."

Finally, he was a little tired of dealing with this liar.

After another half an hour, the path ahead was blocked by a barricade made of logs.

"Wait a moment."

The wretched man went over and whispered a few words to the mercenary guarding the barricade. The mercenary moved the barricade away and signaled that the two could pass.

Marvin followed the wretched man and continued to walk up the mountain.

He was not interested in these people, but in the tomb. Whether it was true or not, he asked, just in case.

Passing by scattered tents, they came to the largest tent on the mountainside.

"Go in!" The wretched man pushed Marvin hard, but he didn't move.

Marvin looked back, said nothing, and opened the door curtain and walked into the tent.

There were three men in the tent, and the one in the middle wearing chain mail seemed to be the leader.

"Colin, is this the piglet?"

"Yeah, I saw that this guy seemed to have some money, so I got him. It's a pity that his horse and weapons..."

After confirming that the leader was there, Marvin slashed with his backhand, and the wretched man's head fell to the ground...

With the Alder seal, the three people in front of him were overturned by the telekinetic impact.

It only took him 5 seconds to kill 2 people and capture the leader.

The leader was easily controlled by the mind under the mental bewitchment.

The movement in the tent still alarmed the people outside, and several soldiers walked towards the tent.

Marvin asked the leader to stand in front, walked out of the tent, and shot ice arrows one by one.

Five minutes later, they were the only two people left alive in the camp, but the mercenary leader was not in good condition. He was stabbed in the stomach and an arrow was stuck in his thigh...

Now, a dozen or so clumsy soldiers could hardly pose a threat to Marvin.

He carried the seriously injured leader back to the big tent and had a friendly negotiation...

The mercenary leader was originally a mid-level officer of Coville and Povis. He was kicked out of the army because of his mistakes. After that, he planned to run a large mercenary group on the border and make a comeback.

Coville and Povis are one country, not two. The full name is the United Kingdom of Coville and Povis. Note ①

The mercenary group was established, but the business changed. He found that robbing and trafficking people could make money much faster than doing tasks.

So, this mercenary group is now more like a robber group.

They did find a crypt, but there were many demons and poisonous gas in it. They were killed before they entered.

As for whether there are treasures in it, they don’t know at all.

After dealing with the leader, Marvin walked around the camp and found dozens of crowns. He also found that the stone on the top of the mountain behind him looked familiar, but it was too far to see clearly.

Eagle Vision, he confirmed that it was a place of magic.

Use levitation and agility to climb to the top of the mountain and touch the stalagmites.

[Hint: Found a low-level magic energy source, do you want to absorb it? ][Yes][No]

Choose yes.

[Hint: The low-level magic energy source has been absorbed, and the ability point +1 is rewarded]

...

After that, he spent more than an hour in the pine forest and found the entrance to the tomb that had been dug up.

A piece of the ground collapsed naturally, revealing a stone wall buried deep underground, with human bones and weapons and tools scattered around.

The wall had been dug up, and there was a dark cave inside.

Marvin used the dim vision and got into the cave...

Just after walking a dozen meters forward, magic fluctuations appeared behind him...

It's so familiar, it's a demon.

Roll forward to avoid the demon's attack.

Aww... the ghost monster roared with resentment.

At the same time, there was a roar from the front...

Three demons blocked Marvin in a narrow cave.

The long sword was placed diagonally on the left shoulder, and blocked the demon's slash. Then he slashed back with a sword, Alder Seal, slashed three times in a row, teleported back, and the other two enemies arrived...

Yarden Seal, Marvin jumped back to avoid the continuous attacks, frost breath, magic torrent enveloped the three demons...

The demon monsters have no vital points, so they can only fight for output.

With his increasingly proficient swordsmanship, magic and teleportation, Marvin killed the three monsters without difficulty.

Rest for 10 minutes, make up for the dim vision and Quen Seal, and continue to go deeper...

The tip of the nose was filled with the stench of sulfur and gas, and suspicious mists spurted out from the cracks in the ground in front.

This should be the poison gas that the mercenary leader mentioned.

Marvin threw a small fireball while moving forward.

The fireball ignited the poisonous fog. Boom, boom, boom, after three small explosions, the fog disappeared, but the roar of the demon spirit sounded again in front of the cave.

It was not a good idea to fight the enemy in a narrow cave filled with poisonous gas. He took out his hand towel to water it, covered his mouth and nose, and ran forward.

There was no need to worry about man-made traps in this road condition, just run.

When encountering a demon spirit, first shoot the Aden seal, then teleport forward, and then run...

After getting rid of two demon spirits in succession, he didn't know how far he ran. He stopped in a relatively intact stone corridor. There was no poisonous gas here, so he continued to walk deeper...

He kicked the rotten wooden door and came to an alchemy laboratory.

There were only broken skeletons and dried blood on the mottled laboratory table, and there were still medicine residues in the rusty extraction tank, and the piled books were rotten.

Another laboratory for biological transformation.

But this time, after searching everywhere, nothing valuable was found, which was a little disappointing.

But a clue was found on the wall deep in the laboratory, and the illusion magic fluctuated.

Eye of True Vision, the stone wall disappeared, replaced by a cave entrance...

After a rather narrow cave, we came to a cave with a radius of more than ten meters, and the entrance on the other side led to the outside world.

There was a nest made of branches and thatch in the cave, and there were 3 eggs with a diameter of about half a meter in the nest.

Marvin couldn't recognize what kind of eggs these were, nor could he recognize what kind of monster built this nest.

Ga...

There was an unpleasant roar outside the cave, and it sounded like a pterodactyl.

He applied the Quen shield to himself, walked towards the cave entrance, and ran into the big monster that was about to enter the cave.

Alder Seal.

Bang!

The telekinetic impact hit the giant beast in place, and he took the opportunity to slip out of the cave.

After pulling away from the monster, Marvin used the elimination technique to cancel the dim vision, and then he could see the surrounding scene clearly.

Outside the cave was a flat ground of several dozen meters in radius. Halfway up the mountain, you could see mountains in the distance.

The monster opposite had a pair of curved horns on its big head, thick hind legs, a short and thick tail, and strong fleshy wings.

This was a royal pterodactyl with a wingspan of more than 5 meters. Note ①

The pterodactyl shook its head, threw away the dizziness and broken ice, and screamed at the uninvited human.

While the pterodactyl stretched its head and screamed, Marvin raised his hand and cast a burning eye spell.

Gah... The pterodactyl flapped its wings and screamed, raising a strong wind and leaping back.

The burning eye spell did not have much effect. The monster rushed over again, and when it was more than 3 meters away, it jumped up and grabbed it in the air with its strong hind claws.

Teleporting, Marvin appeared on the back of the pterodactyl, and stabbed the long knife with 25 points of power and dozens of kilograms of weight into the monster's body, twisted the handle, pulled it out, and flashed back to the ground.

The pterodactyl screamed and fell to the ground and fluttered. When it stood up again, it was already staggering.

The monster opened its mouth, a red light gathered in its throat, and a fireball as big as a human head flew towards Marvin.

He rolled sideways to avoid it, and took the Aden Seal by the way. After standing up, he stood at the other end of the purple magic circle, waiting for the monster's next attack.

The pterodactyl spewed out another fireball, and after finding that it could not hurt the enemy, it lowered its head and rushed over, trying to bite the enemy to death with its strong jaw muscles and dagger-like teeth, but due to the suppression of the Aden Seal, its speed was slightly reduced.

Marvin turned sideways to avoid the monster's head and big horns, and rushed forward with a long knife. The tip of the knife broke the scales on the side of the pterodactyl's neck, cutting a wound nearly one meter long.

The monster ignored the injury, spread its wings and turned to sweep.

He rolled back to avoid it, and the pterodactyl stretched its head to bite again.

Alder Seal.

The telekinetic impact blew up the monster's head, and the Gus pattern inserted from the monster's lower jaw. With a swoosh, the long knife stabbed directly into the brain, almost piercing it through.

Marvin drew his knife and retreated.

[Hint: The Royal Pterodactyl has been killed. ]

Ga! ... Another roar of beasts came from the distance... Another Royal Pterodactyl was flying from the distant mountains. These two should be a pair.

Marvin turned and walked to the edge of the platform, watching the other monster gradually flying over.

There was a cliff nearly 100 meters high under his feet, and a lush forest at the bottom.

The pterodactyl in the air saw the strange visitor at the door of his home and his fallen partner from afar, and swooped down with a roar.

Marvin stood on the edge of the cliff and watched quietly.

When the monster approached the cliff, the Alder seal, the violent telekinetic impact blew the airflow, and the pterodactyl fell down in a spiral.

The falling pterodactyl spread its wings, circled far away, climbed up and swooped down again... Then it fell again...

The pterodactyl returned to the sky and hovered above the platform, flapping its wings and slowly descending.

Marvin covered his eyes with his hands to block the strong wind and looked at the monster.

Teleported, he appeared on the back of the pterodactyl.

This time Marvin was much bolder and was not in a hurry to get down.

He grabbed the thorns on the back of the monster with his left hand, and stabbed the monster several times with his long knife in his right hand...

Gah~Gah, Gah...

The pterodactyl screamed and shook violently, and finally flapped its wings and crashed into the rock wall.

Teleported, Marvin returned to the platform below, staggered, and almost sat down.

Gah, Gah...

The pterodactyl screamed and tried to escape, but after flying for more than ten meters, it ran out of strength and fell into the dense forest below...

Marvin turned around and collected the body first.

[Hint: Found the remains of a magical creature, do you want to submit? ] [Yes] [No]

Select Yes.

[Hint: Submit successfully, reward strength attribute +1, agility attribute +1, constitution attribute +1. ]

The eggs in the pterodactyl's nest can't be taken care of, it's more important to hurry down to find another one.

Relying on the floating technique, he slid directly to the bottom of the cliff along the cliff...

By tracking the blood trail, he found the pterodactyl still crawling.

No battle, just help the monster end its pain.

[Hint: Found the remains of a magical creature, do you want to submit? ][Yes][No]

Choose yes.

[Hint: Submit successfully, reward strength attribute +1, agility attribute +1, constitution attribute +1. ]

It was still early, Marvin walked around the woods and found that what the book said was right, in the territory of a powerful monster, there were indeed no other powerful monsters.

He hunted a wild deer, and after a meal of roasted venison, he climbed over mountains and ridges to the village while adapting to his stronger body.

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