Seeing Keira Metz's response, the red-haired girl smiled:

"I just heard outside my father's door that you were going to look for Lann in Cintra, right? He's also a demon hunter, right? How about taking me with you?"

"Princess Yada." Keira called out the other person's identity and nodded as a greeting. "This requires the king's consent. But you don't have to worry. I will be able to bring him back soon."

After she finished speaking, she no longer looked at Princess Yada's reaction. She waved her hands, a strong wind blew, the light flashed, and then she disappeared from the princess's sight.

…

White Fruit Garden, City Lord’s Mansion.

Sir Villiers sat back in his chair, his eyes confused.

After a while, he suddenly shuddered, woke up, and wanted to shout when he looked at Lan En opposite him.

Before he could say anything, Lann waved his hand and released [Axis Seal] + [Charm] + 50 mana points.

"sit down."

Lan said softly, but this time Sir Villiers did not follow the instructions as before. Instead, he wandered around as if he had lost his soul, circling away from Lan, as if he was sleepwalking.

Lann nodded in understanding. It seemed that after the magic power was reduced to 50 points, the magic-added [Charm] would no longer have the hypnotic effect, but would only retain the power of the skill level itself.

I just don't know if it's because the lord's will is not firm, which makes him easily influenced. Should we find an opportunity to set up a few more experimental control groups?

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Lane shouted, and House pushed the door open.

"My Lord, the witcher named Kolgrim wants to see you."

"Where is he?"

"I'll be waiting for you outside the door."

Lan nodded, picked up the anesthetic that had been prepared long ago from the table beside him, pointed at Sir Villiers and said to House: "Give it to our Lord of White Orchard, carry him to his own bed and let him sleep. Send someone to watch him, and continue to give him the medicine when he wakes up.

Remember, no beatings, no tying up, and no taking away any property here, understand?"

House nodded, then carried Villiers away disrespectfully as if he were a chicken.

This was Temeria after all, and Lann's ordering his men to fight with swords could barely be considered a negotiation technique. Now he was seeking justice as a noble who had been wronged, so as long as this "justice" was not obtained, he could keep asking for it.

Sir Villiers couldn't give Lan what he wanted, so Lan had been waiting for the bigger and more qualified man to come to an end. For this, he needed passing travelers to spread the news.

While waiting, he couldn't let Sir Villiers suffer too much injustice, lest the Sir's injustice offset his own "injustice".

This was actually unreasonable, and there was no way to use it as a bargaining chip on the negotiation table. But this was originally an unexpected surprise, and Lann did it easily. As long as he could meet the King of Temeria, it would be considered a success.

Although I already have a vague idea of ​​the other party's attitude, I still feel unwilling to not meet them. At least I have to test the other party's attitude in person, just in case there is a turning point?

Apart from this brief opportunity, the biggest gain for Lann from this trip was the snake-faction demon hunter in front of him.

Kolgrim, a demon hunter of the Snake School.

The equipment of the snake school is very similar to that of the wolf school and the griffin school, and is also medium-weight armor. However, the "medium-weight" of snakes and wolves is slightly lighter than the "medium-weight" of griffins, and snakes are lighter than wolves.

At this moment, Kolgrim had already retrieved his equipment that was confiscated by the locals: a set of armor, mainly leather armor, with chain mail-style reinforcements on the shoulders and waist, but without any rivet design to help with attack. The main design intention was to be close-fitting and agile.

He carried two snake-headed long swords on his back, and two daggers tied to his waist and thighs. In addition to magic potions, his alchemical backpack also contained many small bottles of poison. These were obviously not means to deal with monsters, but people.

Around his neck hung the emblem of the Snake Sect, with a slender snake body coiled into a hollow pine cone shape, with its head facing downwards.

Bruise and blood were still visible on Kolgrim's face, but his complexion had improved a lot: "Thank you, you saved my life, brother of the griffin."

Lann smiled and said, "Please just call me Lann, please. I believe that no one would ignore such a thing after passing by. The so-called 'trial' is too ridiculous."

Facing Lann's closeness and courtesy, Kolgrim exclaimed: "It is indeed a griffin, worthy of being a griffin."

Then he said seriously, "So Lan, how do you want me to repay you for saving my life? Please tell me."

This is what I've been waiting for.

Lan invited the other party to sit down, poured a glass of wine for each of them, and said:

"I plan to rebuild the Witcher Cult in Cintra. Now I have the support of the entire Griffin School and the Wolf School. You appear at the right time, Kolgrim. You may not be clear about the recent situation in Cintra. Let me explain it to you..."

When Kolgrim heard Lann talking about rebuilding the Witcher Order, he was stunned. Then, when he heard Lann talking about Cintra's recent situation and Lann's control and planning for Cintra, his eyes widened even more.

What's going on? When the Snake School was about to die out and had to do dirty work for others as an assassin, the Griffin had quietly risen from the knight class to the earl. It seemed that he would control a country in the future?

"Not only that, Kolgrim." Seeing the shocked look on the Snake Faction Demon Hunter's face, Lann planned to continue to attack him with heavy punches, and confuse him directly. "I have seen in our school's collection of books that the purpose of the Snake Faction was to deal with the Wild Hunt, right?"

Hearing Lann's question, Kolgrim nodded. This was not something that needed to be hidden.

The founder of the Snake School is called Ivar the Evil Eye, one of the first demon hunters created by Arzu. Not only that, Ivar also showed excellent adaptability in mutations, so he was selected to participate in more complex and dangerous experiments.

Fortunately, Iva not only survived the advanced experiment with an exponentially more dangerous factor, but also gained a pair of special eyes that could see through dimensions and observe other worlds, hence the name "Evil Eye".

In the endless world that Iva could observe, for some reason he could always see a group of soldiers wearing heavy skeleton armor slaughtering people. This made him, who had a strong sense of morality and justice, very distressed and angry. He consulted a lot of books and finally found a book that recorded this army, and learned that they were called "Wild Hunt".

Unfortunately, Ivar's evil eye can only see other worlds, but he cannot go there himself. He is also tortured day and night by the lightning and thunder and ghostly howling brought by the Wild Hunt, and the rivers of blood caused by the Wild Hunt in each world.

When the Witcher Cult was disbanded, Ivar followed the voice in his heart and founded the Snake School, and set the purpose of the Snake School: to defeat the Wild Hunt.

But now, the Wild Hunt still travels through various dimensions, becoming the nightmare of countless people, who may never even know that they have such an enemy; the Snake School, however, has dwindled to only two or three small snakes, and they have even begun to transform into assassins, becoming one of the main culprits that ruined the reputation of the Demon Hunters.

The Wild Hunt is also Lann's enemy. The ancient blood in his body is the ultimate weapon that the Wild Hunt once cultivated for their own tribe, but it ended up in the human world for various reasons. The Wild Hunt wants to take back the ancient blood all the time.

This is also one of the bargaining chips that Lann uses to win over the Snake School.

"Ancient blood, I have ancient blood." Lann said, "Moreover, this power has awakened in me, and it will surely attract the Wild Hunt."

To prove his words, Lann reached out and slapped the table, and the potions and various bombs that Geron had prepared for Lann were released from the [Inventory], and just a part of them made the table full.

At this moment, Kolgrim's chin was about to turn into a snake's shape. It was not known whether it was because of the spatial power displayed by Lann or because of the table full of high-level bombs and potions.

After a while, Kolgrim recovered. He asked hesitantly, "I know about the Ancient Blood, but... why is it related to the Wild Hunt?"

Lan was stunned.

He hesitated for a moment, and an impolite guess came to his mind, so he asked:

"Your School of Snake Studies has been studying the Wild Hunt for hundreds of years, right?"

Kolgrim nodded confidently: "No one knows the Wild Hunt better than us! The Master of the Evil Eye even saw the Wild Hunt take off their helmets. They have elf ears, you know!"

Kolgrim tried to see Lann's surprised expression, but what he got was a look that he didn't know how to describe accurately.

Lann sighed. He had taken it for granted. There was no complete Ancient Blood in this world that could be recorded. Even the warlocks only vaguely knew the obscure concept of "the Ancient Blood was the strongest in the world", or knew through some prophecies that the Ancient Blood was the power to save the world, but there was nothing more.

Lann calmed down and began to explain the pros and cons to Kolgrim.

Then Kolgrim's jaw once again took the shape of a snake.

After a while, when the Snake Faction Demon Hunter had digested this information, he thought for a while and said, "I can take your words to the current leader of our school, his name is Letho. If what you said is true, he may... Never mind, I can't guarantee that Letho will join you, but I promise to bring him to you. Then you may have to convince him again."

Lan nodded. He didn't expect to achieve success overnight. "That's enough."

"It's okay." Kolgrim smiled. "Based on my understanding of Letho, he will most likely agree to your request. Even if he doesn't come, I will still come to help you."

The snake demon hunter said sternly: "Just bringing a message is not enough to repay your help. If I hadn't been responsible for bringing the blueprint back, I would have gone to Cintra to help you now."

Lan also laughed and was about to say something else when suddenly, the griffin emblem on his neck began to vibrate violently.

He frowned and looked up, seeing Kolgrim's Serpent Faction badge had the same reaction.

Magic fluctuations!

Suddenly, a strong wind blew in the house, and a bottomless shadow stretched out the fiery red frame. Then, a woman with light golden hair walked out from inside.

Lan held down the vibrating badge and looked at the face carefully. It was another familiar face.

And he also knew that he had finally gotten to see the King of Temeria.