The Witcher: Elemental Lords

Doreen could tell that this guy was done for and was planning to go to the city to womanize, but he didn't have that hobby. As soon as they entered the city, the two separated. Doreen went to a restaurant and ordered a table full of good dishes, while Karl went somewhere else. Doreen didn't want to ask.

He was still young and couldn't handle that kind of thing.

The dishes on the plains were much more abundant than those in the mountains. Doreen went up to the second floor, got a private room, ordered a table full of dishes, and began to feast.

There were many people in the restaurant, and it was very noisy, but the private room was very quiet. Even while eating, the patterns of various magic runes were still floating in his mind. Recently, he seemed to be stuck in them and couldn't get out.

After coming out of the restaurant, Doreen wandered around outside and looked at the surrounding scenery. Before long, Karl walked out of the city with a tired face, but his expression was very satisfied.

Doreen smiled. This guy's body was really weak.

The two then left the city.

This time, they stayed for a relatively long time, a full four days, before the caravan returned to its previous size and slowly set off.

Doreen now understood another disadvantage of being outside: without a mature supply point, he didn't have the relevant medicinal herbs to make potions. He only had access to low-level materials, and he didn't even have the means to refine third-level medicinal herbs.

Now he could only hope that things would be a little easier to buy near the Eternal Forest. In the Northern Kingdom, slightly higher-level items were very strictly controlled.

...

Half a month later, the caravan successfully left the plains. The land ahead was no longer a straight line. The earth rose up, forming a series of mountains that completely blocked the road ahead.

The official road didn't directly cut into the mountains but ran parallel to them for a while before entering a valley in the mountains and disappearing into them.

Sounds came from the front of the caravan. After hearing them, Karl lifted the curtain and took a look, frowning. "We're about to enter the Cameron Mountains. It'll take five days to cross this mountain. How annoying."

Doreen had been looking outside. Hearing this, he couldn't help but feel a sinking feeling in his heart.

Mountain areas were always the domain of wild beasts and magical beasts. It wouldn't be easy to cross this mountain range, and they would have to stay for five days.

"It's noon now. I guess we won't go any further when we get to the foot of the mountain. We'll rest here for the night and then set off early tomorrow morning, trying to make good time. We have to get to the XX River tomorrow night and cross the XX Ridge the day after."

Karl muttered, his expression becoming tense.

Doreen was infected by his emotions and also began to feel nervous. After all, he knew the situation in the mountains. There were too many dangers, fierce beasts, poisonous insects, falling rocks, heavy rain, mudslides, all kinds of dangers.

At this moment, Karl suddenly asked Doreen, "How's your earth magic learning going? Can you control the soil and rocks within a few square meters?"

A few days ago, Karl had asked him to study earth magic. Doreen subconsciously agreed. Now it seemed that this guy was preparing for today.

Controlling soil and rocks was a characteristic of earth magic.

He nodded and said, "I'm okay, but my talent lies in fire magic. I'm not good at earth magic."

Karl frowned and said, "Earth magic can be more useful in the mountains. Although fire magic is also powerful, the beasts in the mountains are very fast, and it's not easy to hit them. We'll see when the time comes."

At the first level, earth magic had two spells: one called Earthquake, which could shake the ground within a small area, and the second was to use earth elements to condense an earth ball and throw it remotely, similar to a fireball. Unlike the explosion of a fireball, an earth ball only relied on physical damage to the enemy.

In addition to these, he also needed to learn a spell, Magic Missile.

Magic Missile was a pure energy ball, slightly less powerful than Fireball. In situations where Fireball was restrained, the pure energy Magic Missile was useful, such as when dealing with fire-type magical beasts, Fireball couldn't be used.

These were all skills that Karl had taught him. The spell model for Magic Missile was also bought from him for two gold coins, which was very cheap. Outside, this spell model would cost at least ten gold coins or more.

This was only a first-level witchcraft. If it was a second-level witchcraft, the value would be at least one or two hundred gold coins or more, and third-level would be even more expensive.

If a wizard didn't have a skill to earn money, even if their strength reached a certain level, they wouldn't be able to afford witchcraft and magic of the same level, which would be the most embarrassing thing.

While he was thinking, the caravan slowly stopped. He lifted the curtain and looked. Sure enough, they had arrived at a slightly flatter piece of ground. The caravan began to rest, and news quickly came from the front that they would rest here tonight.

Karl stood up in the tent at this time and said to him solemnly, "Tonight, we two have to work overtime and make a few more arrowheads. Sometimes, deterrence in the mountains depends on bows and arrows."

Doreen nodded.

The two then got out of the carriage. Sure enough, as soon as they got down, someone from Carlyle's side came to invite them.

Not far behind them, in another carriage, Canderel and Ivan saw this and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

Karl had even learned enchanting, while the two of them were still the same as before. It was really infuriating. They didn't expect this country bumpkin to have some ability.

A wizard's noble status was useful in many ways, but capable wizards didn't care about noble status at all. Of the ten Wizard Kings of the Glory Empire, only four were of noble origin, while the others were all of commoner origin. One was even of slave origin.

The two exchanged a discreet glance and walked forward. There would probably be a meeting tonight, and they needed to go to Carlyle's place to get a seat in advance.

...

The magic tent was quickly set up. Seeing the two arriving one after the other, the guards who set up the tent respectfully bowed to them.

"Lord Karl, when will you enchant for me?"

"Brother Lin Rui, when will you be free? I've been waiting so long that the flowers have withered."

"That's right, that's right. So many people were doing that a few days ago."

Everyone was familiar with each other and naturally learned to joke around.

Karl smiled faintly, "Wait until after tonight. You don't have any materials, so what are you talking about?"

As a second-level wizard, his mental strength was much stronger than Doreen's. It wasn't a problem for him to enchant dozens of times in one breath, but the success rate was a bit low, and some materials were wasted.

The guards immediately wailed.

Doreen just smiled when he saw this and didn't say anything, letting Karl deal with it.

The two then entered the tent and began to enter work mode.

Doreen already had some ideas about the second-level Sharpness Rune. It had been more than half a month, and his understanding of the first-level Sharpness Rune was very thorough. The second-level Sharpness Rune was built on the foundation of the first level. He decided to try it tonight.

If the second-level Sharpness Rune could be made, he could also use a bow and arrow to threaten the existence of first-level magical beasts. If magic was attached to the arrow, it would be even more powerful.

Thinking of this, he first refined a batch of arrowheads. When his mental strength was only half left, he made the second batch of arrowheads.

This batch of arrowheads was different from the first batch. The proportion of heavy iron was increased again, and some black copper was added.

He made several different proportions and prepared to experiment.

Karl saw Doreen's actions and was a little surprised. "Are you trying to try the second-level rune?"