As Wayne finished speaking, the entire living room was silent for more than ten seconds.

Princess Pavetta's face was full of disbelief, Queen Calanthe was angry and surprised, and the old druid Mossak and King Easter looked at each other without saying a word, seeming to be lost in thought.

The Sea Boar Kratz showed it most clearly. He slammed the table and said indignantly: "This Donnie is really not a good guy. The first time I saw him, I felt that he was a liar and a coward."

"You shouldn't have stopped me at the beginning and let me stab him to death. This way, the world would have one less scourge."

Seeing his nephew speaking nonsense, King East glared at Kratz and scolded him:

"Shut up, Kratz. Donny is Pavetta's fiancé now. Don't jump to conclusions before you investigate thoroughly."

Queen Calanthe didn't like Donnie in the first place, and only reluctantly accepted that guy because of the choice of the accidental law and her daughter. Now that she heard this information from Wayne, she did not express whether she believed it or not for the time being, but asked the archdruid Mossak, the spellcaster with the best relationship with the Cintra royal family: "Mossak, what do you think of what Wayne said?"

The old druid first looked at Wayne. Emotionally and rationally, he was willing to believe what Wayne said. After all, a newly-minted demon hunter who came to Cintra for the first time had no conflict of interest with the suddenly appearing Donnie, so he would not lie in front of the royal family to frame him.

The old druid stroked his beard, thought for a while and said:

"If what Wayne said is true, then there is an explanation for Donnie's disappearance."

"There were no signs of a struggle in the study. It's likely that after Donnie lifted the curse on himself, he connected with the warlock he was working with, and then left through a spell."

"That must be a powerful sorcerer. My prophecy spell has no effect on him."

"As for the reason why Donny left, maybe it was because of your wedding with Ester that Donny, who might be Prince Emhyr, realized that he had failed in his fight for the throne of Cintra, so he didn't want to waste any more time."

"Perhaps he has returned to Nilfgaard in secret, but has left without telling us."

Wayne nodded repeatedly as he listened, but he couldn't help complaining in his heart. This old man was really good at using his imagination. He could figure out the cause and effect in such a short time, and what he said made quite sense.

As he spoke, the old druid raised his head and looked at Queen Calanthe, with a puzzled expression, he said:

"But I still have some questions that I can't figure out. If the curse can be broken only by relying on the law of surprise, why did Donnie choose Princess Pavetta? Wouldn't it be easier to choose a commoner?"

"The last banquet was full of danger. If Geralt and Wayne hadn't helped him, Donnie would have died."

No one else knew how to answer Mossak's question, mainly because there were too few clues in this matter and they couldn't figure it out.

However, Wayne had already prepared a speech in his mind. Seeing that everyone looked thoughtful, he coughed lightly to attract the attention of others, and then said, "I do have some guesses about this question, which may give you some inspiration."

Upon hearing this, the old druid Mossak immediately looked at him, and the others also pricked up their ears. Only Princess Pavera fell into a trance again. It was obvious that Wayne's initial answer had a great impact on her.

This princess, who was only a teenager and whose head was full of fantasies about love, probably never imagined that the man she found would be a liar who had been deceiving her from the very beginning.

Wayne did not hide it and said directly:

"According to the investigation of my fellow demon hunter, the evil warlock who cooperated with Emhyr had the main purpose of seizing the power of the Ancient Blood. This is probably why Emhyr approached Princess Pavilla."

"He used the law of surprise to make Princess Pavetta his own, and seek the throne of Cintra. He even sought to gain more power from the ancient blood by giving birth to offspring."

When the word "ancient blood" was mentioned, as well as Wayne's subsequent speculation, Queen Calanthe's face became quite ugly. Mossak looked at Wayne deeply, while King Easter and others were all confused, not knowing what this so-called ancient blood was.

Wayne didn't pay attention to the expressions of the others, but said in a warning tone:

"I have read about the blood of the ancients in an ancient book. It is an extremely rare and powerful force. People who possess this bloodline are natural source sorcerers. They have extremely powerful spellcasting talents and can even control special powerful forces."

"Before I met Princess Pavetta, I thought it was just a legend. Now, I'm afraid that among all the northern countries, only the royal family of Cintra still has this bloodline."

"Her Royal Highness was originally just an ordinary person who had never learned any magic. The power she displayed at the banquet was witnessed by everyone."

Then, Wayne looked at Queen Calanthe with a gloomy expression and continued:

"Your Majesty, this power is like a treasure. It can bring unimaginable benefits to its owner, but it can also bring many dangers to the owner."

"Perhaps I am exaggerating a bit. As for the Ancient Blood, I think any warlock, mage, or anyone else who wants to obtain this power would not mind having one more Ancient Blood test subject in their laboratory."

"Whether it's the Brotherhood of Warlocks or the evil warlocks in the south, it's the same."

………………

The conversation that afternoon ended somewhat unpleasantly, and no conclusion was reached regarding the whereabouts of the hedgehog man Donnie.

The only thing he can do now is to improve his own strength, strengthen his power, and respond to all changes with the same strategy. In the future, no matter whether it is the Wild Hunt, the Warlock Brotherhood, or the army in the north or the south, as long as his strength is strong enough, he can do what he wants.

A few days later, Wayne returned to the Kingdom of Temeria and the city of Vizima on a magic carpet.

Accompanying him were two beautiful tree beauties, Marika and Aiglese.

However, considering that the two tree-beautiful girls were not used to city life or getting along with humans, Wayne took them directly to the forest on Black Tern Island and let them live in this forest temporarily.

Anyway, this island in the middle of Lake Vizima is almost Wayne's territory. The outer lake is managed by the little earth spirit Fitz, and the forest on the island is where Lilith, the goddess of the lake, often appears. No outsider will ever land on this island.

To this end, he spent a day and a night having an in-depth communication with the goddess, and during the day, he introduced these two beautiful Shumei girls to the goddess.

Both Marika and Agnes were very excited about being able to meet the Lady of the Lake. They even began to believe the words of the Dryad Queen and regarded Wayne as the one chosen by fate. They looked at Wayne with even more respect. After all, how could an ordinary mortal be so familiar with the Lady of the Lake?

The only pity is that Wayne discovered that since he had in-depth communication with the Lady of the Lake, which allowed his Divine Blessing skill to be upgraded to level two, the growth rate of this skill has become very slow. Even if he performed that kind of exercise with the goddess again, the rate of increase became very small.

This made him wonder, could it be that this divine blessing skill must be increased significantly by having sex with different goddesses? Unfortunately, the current data sample only has the goddess Lilith, and there is no other data for comparison.

After returning to Vizima, Wayne reminisced with his old friends and took the time to go back to Middle-earth to deal with some matters in Wayne Manor.

Old Ford, the butler of the manor, seemed to have gotten used to Wayne's frequent absences. Hobbits were kind by nature, and even when Wayne was away, Old Ford still conscientiously took care of all the affairs of the manor for Wayne.

The warehouse in Wayne Manor was filled with countless packages of pipe weed of all sizes. More than half of the 10,000 gold coins he had invested in advance had been used in the process of purchasing pipe weed.

However, Wayne did not intend to sell the pipe weeds directly to the wealthy businessman Revarden or to the dwarves.

Always relying on other people's channels not only fails to make big money, but also fails to gain real power, so Wayne wants to set up a chamber of commerce of his own, specializing in selling goods from other worlds.

With this chamber of commerce, more forces and more power can be continuously incubated with this chamber of commerce as the center, and even an extremely powerful organization spanning multiple worlds can be established, like the bank of the goddess of wealth.

For Wayne, who received modern education, commercial actions such as armed caravans and companies are more in line with his management habits.

The only pity is that this caravan plan is still lacking a soul figure. Only someone who is trustworthy, capable enough and can lead the caravan to continuous development can meet his requirements.

However, this matter is not urgent. Wayne has enough time to find a suitable target. As a demon hunter, he has plenty of time.

Time flies and it is October. Wayne lived a very peaceful life during this period. Apart from taking time out to help Revarden complete an expert task of cleaning the mine, he never took on any other difficult tasks.

In his spare time, he would fly to Dark Island with his tools and build a hut for the two beautiful tree girls in the forest.

Wayne also obtained several sacred oak saplings for the dryads from the druid elder Keynster. With the permission of the Lady of the Lake, the two dryads will build a dryad home of their own in this forest.

Of course, as an old pervert, there is no reason not to eat the meat that is served to him. Since the tree spirits moved to the forest on the island in the middle of the lake, Wayne has stayed there more often.

Marika and Agnes were both dryads who had never conceived offspring and had no experience in this regard. Under the guidance of the veteran driver, Master Wayne, they also experienced the joy of it. As the three of them got to know each other better, their relationship became closer and closer. Although it was too early to call them lovers, it was definitely much closer than the relationship between an employer and a guard.

On this day, a morning in mid-October, Wayne took Triss from his arms and put her aside as usual. The sorceress had a smile on her face, as if she had dreamed of something happy.

He did not disturb the red-haired beauty's sweet dream, but put on his clothes, tiptoed out of Triss's bedroom, and went to the kitchen to prepare a delicious breakfast for the sorceress.

It was not until he habitually picked up the silver dice on the table and rolled the lucky number once that Wayne was slightly stunned and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

After waiting for the entire month of September, the lucky day of October finally arrived. It was time to draw prizes from the pile of treasure chests he had accumulated.

But this time was unusual. Although there were only more than forty ordinary-level treasure chests and one expert-level treasure chest, he had three master-level treasure chests.

The mission of the Vampire Bird, the mission of the Dryad Queen and the mission of the Cintra Bride Selection Feast, three consecutive high-difficulty missions in just over a month, not only allowed him to obtain three master-level treasure chests, but also gained more than a thousand experience points.

If it was an ordinary-level task of one per day, it would take at least a year. With these experiences, his demon hunter level was finally raised to level 11, which made you make a small progress again.

However, after so many lucky days of opening treasure chests, Wayne had gotten used to it. He didn't make himself appear to be in a hurry, but prepared a delicious breakfast for Triss as usual, then woke up the sorceress, and the two of them enjoyed a sweet breakfast time.

Only after Triss left his mansion did Wayne return to his home leisurely.

(PS: As for why Princess Pavetta is so powerful, I would like to explain here that it is described in the original novel, and the bride selection banquet in Cintra is also a very important part of the original novel. Because I respect the original novel, I did not make a major adaptation. Maybe due to my lack of ability, the adaptation is a bit abrupt. I hope readers will bear with it. XOXO!) (No charge if the word count is not exceeded.) (End of this chapter)