It was still early spring, and although the temperature in Toussaint was much higher than in the north, the temperature underwater was still quite cold.

Well, for a demon hunter like Wayne, the cold underwater is nothing to mention.

With the help of the Hekna Amulet, he dived into the river fairly easily and soon reached the bottom.

However, because this is the wild, there are a large number of wild water ghosts living underwater. When they see someone going into the water, they immediately surround them with roars and cries, just like bees eyeing nectar.

However, facing Wayne, who had more than a dozen powerful crossbows hidden in his space bracelet, they were quickly shot through the vital points like dumplings and sank to the bottom of the river.

Unfortunately, the materials of these monsters are not valuable. For example, Wayne once sold the water ghost brain to Vivian's trophy purchasing station, but it was not worth even one oren, and was even much lower than the price Wayne sold it to the warlock.

Although Wayne spends money lavishly now, most of the spoils, except for the valuable ones that can be recycled, are collected by him, and the rest are sold directly to Vivian. He can make a lot of money from every battle.

This is called earning money when you should, and spending money when you should. Boys should be nicer to themselves when they go out.

Thinking of this, Wayne swam to the bottom of the river, picked up the dozen or so bodies of water ghosts, and sold them to Vivian in exchange for seven or eight orens, which he deposited into his account.

Then, using the night vision ability of the cat's eye potion, he searched for the remains of Professor Moreau's laboratory in the pitch-black river.

Compared with the underwater environment full of weeds and rocks, the huge stone pillars of the ruins gate were still quite conspicuous. After searching for about ten minutes, he found the ruins gate that was about to be destroyed on the riverbed near the river bank.

After walking about a few dozen meters in the direction of the gate and killing several water ghosts lurking in the dark corners, Wayne finally saw the portal that was still flashing with magical light.

However, although it was confirmed in the game and in Professor Moreau's notes that this was the portal, Wayne still adhered to the idea of ​​safety first. He carefully checked several times outside the portal and used his ancient blood ability to confirm that the portal would not take him too far before he carefully entered the portal.

Along with the uncomfortable teleportation technique, he was soon teleported to a dark underground ruins.

What you see is high ceilings, a spacious underground space, and some statues carved on the walls and buildings.

The turbid air and some rotten smell made Wayne's sensitive sense of smell quite uncomfortable.

But what made him even more curious was how much money the professor had invested to build such a huge underground laboratory. It seemed like it was not a small amount of money.

It is indeed a bit of a waste to leave such a hidden and spacious space here.

It just so happens that after he has cleared out the monsters and traps here, he can arrange another portal and use this place as a secret base for demon hunters. This would be a good choice.

He had also decided who would be in charge of guarding the place, so he decided to let Gaitan be in charge.

This guy is from the Cat School. Taking him to the north will easily affect the reputation of the Demon Hunters, so it is just right to place him here as the person in charge of this stronghold and responsible for protecting this relic.

With the help of Professor Moreau's notes, it was not difficult for Wayne to explore the ruins of the laboratory. Whether it was the ground spike trap at the beginning, or the gargoyle puppets and cheetah puppets later, they could only cause a little bit of obstacles to him and had no effect on him.

With the help of the magic carpet, he could even fly directly over these obstacles and enter Professor Moreau's real experimental site without triggering these traps.

However, for the safety of people who entered here later, Wayne still spent half a day to eliminate all the traps and monsters.

By the way, he also called Vivian out, and with the help of this wealth elf, he sold all the worthless and useless junk in the entire ruins to her trophy acquisition center, in exchange for about 500 orens of gold coins.

Finally, after spending seven or eight hours, Wayne cleaned up the entire laboratory ruins and found the experimental equipment and experimental notes left by Professor Moreau, as well as the telescope that was similar to a video recording device.

As for the giant centipede monsters raised in the cave by Professor Moreau, because they themselves are important materials for the demon hunter to undergo secondary mutation, Wayne did not kill them or disturb them, but let them continue to reproduce in the cave.

In the next two or three days, Wayne left the laboratory ruins once and returned to the city of Beauclair to prepare some supplies. He met with Reso and others who had found a set of grandmaster-level equipment drawings, told them the location of the shop and the new residence, and by the way, he gave a warning to Sianna, who was working hard for him, asking this thoughtful girl not to have any frivolous thoughts.

In the following time, Wayne stayed in the laboratory, studying the experimental notes left by Professor Moreau, and by the way, he also copied all the notes.

Unfortunately, as a demon hunter, Wayne's strength may have reached its peak. It is not an exaggeration to call him the strongest demon hunter.

But as a warlock and a spellcaster, Wayne lacks so much in terms of spellcasting skills, magical knowledge, and research experience. In this regard, he can only be called an apprentice.

Wayne could only read the research notes of a talented researcher like Professor Moreau, who had his own unique insights in research and even blazed a new trail. He could barely understand the meaning and could not even judge whether the content was right or wrong.

Whenever this happened, Wayne always longed for a true wolf-faction witcher to come out and help him.

Although Triss is his lover and they have a very close relationship, Keira can barely be considered his lover and can provide him with a lot of help, and the elven warlock Francesca is his partner and the two can trade many things.

As for training a warlock, not to mention that Wayne does not have the ability or resources to do so, he cannot even find anyone with talent in this area. Even if he has the ability, he does not have enough time to train him slowly.

The training of a warlock usually takes ten years. If one can become an independent warlock within thirty or forty years, he is considered a genius warlock.

It's not that Wayne hasn't thought about this issue, but it has been delayed because there is really no suitable solution.

Now, in addition to recruiting spellcasters and researchers from other worlds to help the witcher with research, he could think of another plan, which was to take the risk and choose a male warlock from the north to help the witcher.

What the former needs to consider is the differences in the magic systems of the two worlds and the problem of acclimatization.

The latter is how to find a candidate who has good character, is trustworthy and capable.

You know, for the warlock group, they don't want the demon hunter to rise.

It's a blessing that they don't cause trouble. It's difficult to get help from the Warlock Brotherhood.

There was no way, this problem had to be put on hold for the time being. Wayne planned to go back to Kaer Morhen after returning to the north and discuss it with Vesemir, the most experienced person in the School of the Wolf. Before he had figured out the secondary mutation system, he couldn't do the same as Geralt did and experiment directly on his own body.

The famous White Wolf is the protagonist, favored by fate. Of course he can succeed in one go. Not only does his strength increase greatly, but there are no side effects. As for the others, it's hard to say.

What Wayne hopes is to spread the secondary mutation to all demon hunters, and even use the power of the secondary mutation to repair the defects of various major schools caused by the first mutation.

This is not a simple project, and it is just an idea at the moment. It is very difficult to realize it. Fortunately, time is not urgent now, and there is still a lot of time to prepare. When Wayne’s strength is strong enough, there will definitely be someone willing to serve him.

After staying in the laboratory ruins for another two days, Wayne, who had made no progress, chose to leave it alone for the time being and think of a solution when he returned to the north.

If that doesn't work, he can only rely on his beauty to bribe Triss. After all, among all the warlocks Wayne knows, she is the only one who has enough ability and is the most trustworthy.

Unfortunately, this is not the Civil War era, and the Warlock Brotherhood has not been destroyed, otherwise this matter would be much easier to handle.

Even during the witch hunting period, the sorceresses would cry and shout, begging the witchers for protection.

After leaving the remains of the laboratory, Wayne found himself temporarily without a place to go as there was something urgent that needed to be done.

With Sianna as his poster girl helping him run the shop and sell pipe weed, Wayne started a crazy Gwent competition throughout Beauclair and even the entire Kingdom of Toussaint.

The odds are still double, and he has not shown overwhelming strength. Every two days, he will hold public duels in different places, attracting a large number of Gwent players to come and play games with him.

This somewhat ostentatious move even spread his reputation as a tobacco merchant, Joel, to the court of Beauclair and to many wine estates around Beauclair.

Many people know that a tobacco merchant came from the Kingdom of Zerekan. The pipe tobacco he sells has a mellow flavor and is a high-end luxury product. At the same time, this merchant is also a super player of Gwent. He is handsome and rich. Now he has become a celebrity in the city of Beauclair. Many important figures know him and like to play Gwent with him.

Influenced by this trend, even Wayne's tobacco shop business became more prosperous. Coupled with the huge profits from pipe tobacco, as well as Sianna's elegant temperament and increasingly mature sales skills, the business of the entire shop can almost be said to be making a fortune every day.

This was a tough time for Gaitan from the Cat School, because the business was so booming and there were only him and Sienna in the store. He soon became a porter and waiter from a bodyguard, and under Sienna's command, he was as busy as a dog.

After Wayne discovered their predicament, he gave Sienna the authority to recruit several employees, and he himself finally upgraded the level of Gwent to level ten after playing thousands of Gwent duels in a row.

Gwent LV10: Luck +10.

Lucky Curse: Because you have been blessed by luck for a long time, you find that you have awakened some magical ability. You seem to have the power to control luck. You can roughly see the fortune of others and steal other people's luck for your own use. While increasing your own luck, you also make the other person unlucky. Effect: Steal someone's luck value for your own use. The stealing effect is 1-20. The effect is affected by your own luck. The duration is seven days and the cooling time is half a month.

Lucky Blessing: Because you have been blessed by luck for a long time, you find that you have awakened some magical ability. You seem to have the power to control luck and can roughly see the fortune of others. At the same time, you can also give your own luck to someone, changing that person's fortune for a period of time, making him very lucky, but during that time, you will also lose the blessing of luck and no longer have good luck. Effect: Give all your luck points to someone, your luck points will be reset to zero, and the other person will become more lucky. It lasts for one day, and the cooldown time is three days.

After seeing that Gwent offered two skill specialties, Wayne fell into deep thought.

These two skills and specialties, one is to harm others for personal gain, stealing other people's luck for one's own use, and can even be used against enemies.

The other is to put others first and sacrifice oneself to make others lucky, which can be used to help relatives and friends change their destiny.

How should he choose?

(End of this chapter)