The Divine Hunter

Roy and Lesso listened attentively. Except for the whistling wind, there was no abnormal movement in the tomb, and the snake pendant on their necks did not vibrate, indicating that there was no active magic nearby.

There are no ghosts.

"Where did Mrs. Mary's body go?" Roy pondered while browsing the animal skin drawings. The drawings depict the separated sword grid, hilt, and body. The dimensions, thicknesses, and materials required for casting, the furnace temperature, and the techniques of these three components are all well-documented and detailed.

This is a complete blueprint for the forging of the Viper School of Steel Swords.

"Starting with the Viper Steel Sword, the purpose of this trip to White Orchard is half completed, and there is still a drawing of the Viper Silver Sword." According to the unsent letter on Cogrim's body, the remaining blueprint was taken by the White Orchard. Lord Ignacio of the lord searched and smothered.

"Just on the way..." Roy put the steel sword blueprint close to him, "Let's ask Lord Ignacio for an account."

On the other hand, Leto was still thinking about the matter of Lady Mary's body, and his long career as a witcher made him feel that there must be something strange about it. "There is a connection between Cogrim's death and Mary's disappearing body. Roy, search the remaining coffins as well."

In the past, they would never be able to do this kind of behavior. After all, demon hunters are not tomb robbers. They pay attention to certain principles and will not deliberately open coffins to desecrate corpses.

Right now, there is no better way.

"John, Florian... Three, adults have a lot, don't worry about us..." Roy muttered and opened the coffin.

Among the three coffins, there are two and a half remains. Why do you say half? The baby was too petite, with bones similar to the fists of an adult male, and was automatically excluded.

To determine the gender of the other two remains, the witcher primarily examined their pelvic bones.

"The pelvis is thick, tall and narrow, and the greater sciatic notch is narrow and deep," said Leto as the provisional coroner. In fact, with his decades of experience as a witcher, he has long been familiar with the structure of human skeletons. "The pubic symphysis is high and the inferior pubic angle is small. From these features, both bodies are male."

There is still no whereabouts of Lady Mary's body. The two of them also didn't intend to move the coffins in the surrounding walls, that's not necessary.

After Lesso checked the pelvis, he glanced at the other parts of the two corpses. Unexpectedly, he made a new discovery - the back of the corpse's skull was imprinted with a series of black and teeny words.

"This seems to be an ancient saying,

Roy, come and take a look..." Lesso said, turning the baby's thumb-sized skull over, and suddenly gasped, "God! Who would it be, so maddened that even a newborn baby would be spared! "

"Look at me!" Roy's ancient language inherited from the blood of the El-Sidi clan was more adept than Leto, "Po?wi?ca? si?..." He read it out.

"What's the meaning?"

"Sacrifice, sacrifice? This... This is the meaning of sacrifice in the ancient language, which means that they were chosen as sacrifices." Roy looked stunned, "This situation is usually recorded in witchcraft books, and It is an evil witchcraft that is expressly forbidden...through cruel and secret means, to achieve some ulterior motive!"

"how do you know?"

"In the Temple of Meritelli, Coral mentioned it to me when she was instructing the basic theory of magic, and she was very serious at the time."

For a moment, there were only two dull heartbeats left in the tomb.

"Unknown, evil sorcery, sacrifice... So Kogrim's death is more than just a simple tomb ghost." Leto pondered, "Is there another secret?"

The rulers of White Orchard, the Viriles family must have some kind of problem.

"Should we continue?" Roy looked around the gloomy burial chamber, feeling inexplicably chilled, "Don't you often say that curiosity killed the cat?"

"The witcher's vitality is much more tenacious than the cat... Do you want to back down?" The bald man's eyes became cold.

"Just kidding," Roy straightened his face immediately and changed his words, "Cogrim is an important member of the Viper School, and he will never be allowed to die inexplicably."

"As long as you know."

"But the matter of witchcraft...we have very limited clues at the moment. Apart from knowing that these three corpses are all direct relatives of Sir Ignatius, and finding the sacrificial amulet on their skulls, there are no more clues, only to see To Sir Ignatius. But I have new ideas about Mary's body,"

Leto's tone paused, "There are three possible situations..."

"Tell me."

"One is that she was hidden in the coffin in the wall, and the other is... There is no body in the coffin at all. As for the third situation - Roy, do you remember how the demon spirit was born?"

"Special environments, such as the tomb of the Velieris family where we are now, are undoubtedly an excellent place for the birth of demon spirits." Roy recalled his biological knowledge, "Besides, we have to consider the life of the deceased. People who can be transformed into demon spirits have a huge emotional burden. Before death, they are often unwilling, have unfulfilled wishes, or have strong attachment and hatred in their hearts.”

"Mary Veliris died of a difficult childbirth..." Leto added a tone.

"You mean Mary's corpse was transformed into a demon and killed Cogrim?"

"Let me correct you, she didn't kill Cogrim. There's no way that the demons would take the initiative to move human corpses into the coffin. From this, it can be deduced—"

"Colgram hid himself in the coffin." Roy murmured, patted his head sharply, and imagined a scene in his mind, "The exhausted Snake Sect witcher knew he couldn't deal with the demon, so he hid in the sarcophagus Heal your wounds and recharge your energy.”

That's right, Geralt, the wolf witcher, used the same trick when Vizima dealt with the bloodthirsty monster bird.

"Unfortunately, I guess Cogrim's injuries were too severe to survive in the sarcophagus. But where did the demon spirit go?" Roy was puzzled, and Leto couldn't answer this point, "No evil spirit dust was found in this tomb. , I have a hunch, Mary's demon spirit will never die easily."

Roy rubbed the rough surface of the sarcophagus with his palm, stared at its empty interior in a trance, and suddenly jumped into the sarcophagus on a whim, imitating his predecessors.

"Hey, kid, are you having a brain cramp?"

"I want to give it a try, what kind of experience it is to lie in a coffin." Thinking of doing it, Roy lay down in the coffin.

But he was particularly dissatisfied.

"Lesso, help me close the coffin..."

"Are you crazy?" The big man looked disdainful, but still thoughtfully closed the sarcophagus for him.

In an instant, Roy entered another dark, narrow, and cold world, and his mutant eyesight allowed him to still see in the dark. His eyes swept across the slate above and slowly moved down. At a certain moment, his pupils contracted, and he dazedly reached out and touched the lower surface of the coffin lid. The regular scratches were extremely clear.

"Lesso..."

"Are you scared, kid? Then come out and don't waste time!"

"There are words in the coffin... I think this is Cogrim's warning to those who follow."

"Any word?"

"Colgram carved two words with a steel sword - Banshee." Roy pulled open the coffin board with difficulty and sat up. "He's telling us that Mary Valerie has become a banshee!"

"No wonder!" Lesso couldn't help but patted his hands, "At first I wondered why there were no demon spirits in the nearby tombs. This is obviously unreasonable compared to the previous situation, but it makes sense now. Powerful beasts usually With a sense of territory, it will drive away all threatening individuals in the territory. This phenomenon is also applicable to demon spirits. Mary Veliris is a powerful banshee, she stuns the nearby demon spirits."

Banshees and demon spirits have different names, but their strengths are very different.

The latter is just a kind of evil spirit that relies entirely on instinct, while the banshee retains a small part of the memory of her life, the birth conditions are more stringent, and it also possesses some special and powerful abilities.

Such as the banshee, it can spread the plague wantonly.

Banshees, on the other hand, can let out a fainting wailing, wake up the dead, and even leave the tomb to move freely in the sun.

"Mary died in 1259, two years ago," Roy walked over to Leto. "The banshee that Mary turned into must have left the tomb. Where did she go?"

"Mary is the mother of the sergeant. What place did she have the most obsession with and miss the most during her lifetime? Let's go and meet the lord of White Orchard, Ignacio Veliris..."