Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 294 293. Day Demon Spirit

The residents of this small village received Lan En and Poppy warmly. At least on the surface, they were warm.

Outside of Lan En's front, people would still subconsciously resist contact with the witcher.

The village elder was a man named Mut, who looked to be in his forties or fifties, and his face was gloomy after living in poverty for too long.

The linen shirt on his body was tattered and threaded at the corners, and he wore a pair of shiny leather boots on his feet.

He invited Lan En to stay at his home tonight.

"We sincerely thank you, Master Demon Hunter. Those glowing beasts outside have caused our village to suffer for a long time. Every night, we upright villagers can only sit in our dens and pray. I didn’t even dare to look outside.”

At the dinner table, Lan En slowly ate the dinner provided by the village chief and elders.

The mushroom soup was nothing new, and the bread was dry and hard. I guess the flour was mixed with acorn powder.

The elder described a picture of an honest and dutiful village being besieged by monsters who didn't know where to live, and living a difficult life.

Lan En raised his eyes and looked at him.

"Those are ghost dogs, Mr. Mutt. Don't you know this kind of thing? They are very famous among the people."

"What ghost dog? Master, we are all honest farmers, different from those green bitches in the forest next to us who kill and sell goods and do all kinds of evil. We don't know what kind of monster it is, and we don't want to know. We just want to farm honestly. land."

He is lying.

When Lan En heard this, he had already made a judgment without even raising his head from the soup bowl to observe his expression.

If he really didn't know the folklore of the Nether Dog 'coming from evil', why did he compare it to the 'tree spirit who does all evil'?

But he still didn't know whether the evil that attracted these ghost dogs was done by the village elders or by many villagers.

In rural areas, it is not uncommon for villagers to cover up each other or even cooperate with each other to do things that violate morality and law.

The matter of the three ghost dogs shouldn't be that bad, right?

Lan En himself had little experience, so he was just planning to get the Cormorant Curse settled first and then seek advice from the experienced Geralt.

So I directly asked the village elders if there was any special scenery nearby that was suitable for a tryst.

This is related to Baron Ham's lifting of the curse, so he should cooperate well.

But contrary to Lan En's expectation, this time he tried his best to pull off the tiger's skin with other villages, but it failed to make him submit to Mutt.

On the contrary, this man seemed to want to blackmail him in turn.

"Aha! This is about the Baron turning back into a human being!"

When Mutt spoke in an uncontrollably happy tone, Lan En's eyes narrowed slightly.

Sure enough, the next moment.

"Master! Master Demon Hunter! This is a big deal! You, you can't let this job go wrong, right?"

Mutt swallowed nervously, but did not let himself avoid staring at Lan En's cat eyes.

"You, please do us a favor. As long as we deal with the monster wandering outside the village, we will cooperate with you in everything!"

The young man pursed his lips as he looked at the village elder in front of him, who was frightened but clinging to the message.

Damn, it’s really possible to meet this kind of person! ?

Lan En used the name of Baron Ham to get people in various villages to actively cooperate because Baron Ham's intimidating power was indeed great in the hearts of the villagers.

The baron who can shake the grain shovel when collecting taxes is the biggest power holder to the villagers.

But what if the title of Baron is not the most intimidating in a village?

Like a monster wandering outside the village.

At this time, the other party had the courage to threaten the people sent by the baron.

The Baron wants me to work, but now I'm about to be torn apart by monsters! If you don't help me deal with the monsters, whoever is willing to do this job will do it!

Mutt now looked at Lan En with a humble and pleading face, almost kneeling down before him.

But in fact, he was the one threatening Lan En now.

He thought that the witcher, like him, relied on the Baron to make a living, so he should not dare to mess things up no matter what.

In this era of limited information, even village elders mostly do not have extensive knowledge.

Lan En shook his head, ready to reject him directly.

If Lan En were to encounter a monster that was ravaging a village on the road, he would most likely just draw his sword and attack it. But you have to use coercion to force him to work

Even if I want to kill that monster, I have to wait until you learn a lesson before I do it.

Do good guys have to be held at gunpoint? That doesn't make sense!

But just when Lan En was about to refuse, Mutt had already begun to describe the monster to him.

"That's an ethereal, shadow-like demon spirit. She always appears at noon, and the villagers who see her feel like they've been roasted dry! It's been two years now that we don't dare to go anywhere between noon and two p.m. Get out of the house!"

"Please, be kind. Drive this thing away quickly!"

Lan En, who was originally ready to refuse directly, stopped what he was about to say.

His cat eyes looked at the pleading Mutt with a strange expression, but the words in his mouth became.

".Okay, no problem."

Mutt jumped up happily and walked out of the house, announcing the good news to the villagers, causing a cheer.

Lan En, who was in the room, looked at the village elder's back calmly.

The reason why I changed my mind temporarily was because of that monster

Daytime demon.

It is said that when the sun reaches its highest point, a demonic spirit that looks like a sunburnt woman wearing a white robe sometimes appears. These are day spirits, most of whom are transformed from young women who died violently before their weddings.

With emotions of pain and resentment, they and their own phantoms form a circle in the sun and dance the dance of demons. Ordinary people will be confused by the supernatural power and join in.

But in the end, all that's left is a roasted corpse.

That's a bit too coincidental, isn't it?

Fresnet had a falling out with his lover two years ago and was cursed to become a cormorant. In this village where they once had a tryst, daytime demons started to appear two years ago.

This kind of female demon spirit was born with the anger of love and hatred.

Lan En felt that he was about to get the clue.

"Sir, we are not sure yet that it is the day spirit. The farmers' words always lack accuracy because they lack knowledge and always like to exaggerate."

Mentos carefully reminded Lan not to rashly determine the type of monster and formulate a battle plan just because of what the village elder said.

Many master witchers died on this.

"I understand. Let's go to the site to see for ourselves tomorrow."

As a demon hunter, Lan En always adheres to a cautious style.

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