The Divine Hunter

Is it the continuation of the family blood, or is the dignity of the nobles more important? After a long silence, Ignacio chose the former, and slowly knelt down in front of Cogrim's bones, the beard on his lips trembling, and his head hit the ground.

"Bang, bang, bang."

Three in a row.

Out of tension, fear, and shame, the ground in front of the corpse was wet with the surging sweat and tears on Ignacio's head.

Roy nodded in satisfaction. As a transmigrator, he never felt that the nobles were superior to others - since they made a mistake, then use their proud honor to apologize!

Seeing this scene, Leto briefly lost his mind.

His original idea was to teach Ignacio a profound lesson, or simply to kill him decisively. After living for decades, Leto also had the blood of some nobles on his hands.

He didn't even think about taking revenge in another way.

Demon hunter, what a vulgar and despicable word, a freak, a mutant that even ordinary people dare to despise and spurn, an existence whose identity is so humble that it is in the dirt.

But just today, at this moment—the dignified Temeria Kingdom, a legally recognized lord, actually, in an extremely humiliating gesture, lowered his "noble head" to the witchers who looked down on them. , kowtow in apology.

This little devil has no concept of superiority or inferiority in his mind at all?

The bald-headed man took a deep breath and calmed down his slightly restless mood, but the youthful back in his eyes became inexplicably blurred.

"How? Leto," Roy looked at the crawling White Orchard Lord and lowered his voice, "are you still going?"

Corgamlin's life is not something that can be offset by a few clicks.

"Find out the whereabouts of the banshee first," Leto shook his head, "and then decide the fate of Ignacio."

...

"Okay. Ser Ignatius, I think the undead of Cogrim have felt your repentance."

Hearing this, Ignacio breathed a sigh of relief, slowly stood up with the help of the maid, his face was gray, and his body was stooped, as if he had aged ten years in an instant, "Witcher...I...I Sincere apology...it's your turn...to keep your promise.

"

"Of course, but one yard is one yard... This is a commission... We have to talk about the reward." Leto's voice joined in.

"Two masters, rest assured! The reward will satisfy you!"

"In order to fully understand the source of the witch marks on your body. Sir Ignacio, I have some questions... What is the relationship between the nameless coffin at the end of the tomb and you? Whose child is the baby in the coffin?"

Ignacio stared straight at the witcher, silent.

"Sir, if you want to completely solve the family's misfortune, please don't hide anything. We can assure you that we will never reveal the privacy of the Raleigh family to the public."

Ignacio sighed and sat down on the sofa, "He's my bastard."

"Bastard?" Roy suddenly asked, "Where is the child's mother? We haven't seen your wife since we entered the castle."

"He doesn't have a mother, and I don't have a wife." Ignacio shook his fingers on the sofa.

"Sir—"

"Okay, I said, I'll tell you everything!" Ignacio roared suddenly out of control, followed by a knock on the door and a question from Butler Grant, "Sir, are you okay?"

Ignacio instructed impatiently, "Liv, go outside for me, don't let anyone get close!"

The dazed maid was ordered to leave, leaving only the two witchers and the baron of White Orchard in the parlour.

"No one bothers now." Sir hooked Roy's hand, "Remember your promise, witcher, never divulge this secret to anyone outside Amavit Castle—"

"Rest assured, ser, take care of your problem, and we'll be leaving White Orchard right away."

Ignacio clenched his fists, his expression changed, he hesitated for a long time, and before Roy's patience was about to disappear, he finally lowered his voice and said, "To be honest... the child who died in childbirth was not my child, but the illegitimate child of my mother Mary. ."

Roy's expression froze, and then suddenly, "That's right, it is recorded on the tombstone that Mary died due to dystocia. Now it seems that the baby in the nameless coffin is the poor child."

"Mother was pregnant after my father's death..." Ignacio raised his head sharply, his eyes swept across the two of them, and a trace of madness appeared on his face, "Witcher, do you think it's very perverted and ridiculous?"

"No... You have misunderstood..." Roy and Lesso looked calm. "This is the internal affairs of the Willie Reis family. As outsiders, we are not qualified to judge... In short, as long as you are happy."

Mrs. Mary, her husband has passed away, she can't hold back her loneliness and find a concubine and give birth to a child.

It's not surprising to Roy. After all, the family customs of nobles are always so messy. Regarding this, King Foltest of Temeria has already made a further "example".

But the son fell in love with the same sex, the mother cheated...Is there not a normal person in Ignacio Velieres' relatives?

Roy had a vague feeling that the so-called "birthmarks" in this family were inseparable from the family's strange phenomena, and he had to dig further.

"There are many demon spirits in the tomb of the Veli Leis family. How did Mrs. Mary's remains be brought into the tomb for burial?"

"There were only one or two before. The soldiers in the castle were enough to deal with it. Most of the demon spirits appeared after my mother was buried," Ignacio explained. "Then Cogrim came, and he asked for a trial."

The witcher was silent.

"About Mrs. Mary, the father of the dead child..." Leto further asked,

"Witcher! Please..." Ignacio's voice became hoarse and dry, "Stop torturing me with words!"

"Sir Ignacio..." Roy sighed, "It seems that you need to rest and adjust." He changed his voice, "If possible, let me see your family tree, and we will find a way to find clues ourselves. "

...

Top floor bedroom.

"You two masters, don't let others see it." Ignacio handed a parchment scroll taken out from the safe to the witcher, his face exhausted, "I'm sorry, I need to rest now. Grant , treat the two masters well for me and try to meet their requirements."

Although Grant was curious about his master's demeanor as if he was seriously ill, he abide by his duty, without asking a single word, and thoughtfully closed the bedroom door for Ignacio.

"This way, please," Grant flicked the key in his hand, "now the two of you can go check the basement."

Afterwards, the group entered the dark and spacious basement through the wooden ladder extending down from the secret door of the kitchen, where the butler lit a torch.

"Hmm..." The witcher's nose moved, "What are these things, moldy?" Old clothes, tattered armor, old furniture, rags, covered with dust and cobwebs, piled up with all kinds of debris There are hills with no end in sight.

"The debris of the Amavit Castle has been accumulated here for decades, and it has not been taken care of for a long time." The housekeeper snorted the dust and odor lingering in front of his nose,

He led Letso to rummage through the lost blueprint of the Snake faction.

Roy, on the other hand, began to browse the family tree of the Willis family. The yellowed parchment scroll, with a faint strange smell, started to sink slightly.

"Well, let me see, in the spring of 1134, the ancestors of the Viriles family came to the white orchard in the east of Vizima, Temeria. Tsk tsk, at this point in time, the castle of Amavit was still deserted. The witcher was born only two hundred years ago, a long time ago."

"In 1150, the fortress of Amavit was established on the east side of White Orchard, and the following year Leon Villiers and Jennifer Villiers gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl."

Roy glanced at the family history, and then at the family tree that branched like a branch.

"The first ancestors of the Villiers family, Leon and Jennifer, co-founded the Villiers family."

"In 1154, the two had another child. So there are three children in the second generation of the Villaris family."

Leon and Jennifer are at the top of the pyramid, and the family tree down is divided into three parts, like the branches of a big tree, getting wider and more lush.

"When the three children of the second generation grew up, the twins, Sarah Villiers, married their son-in-law, Richardson Villiers, and gave birth to a daughter, Lanie, and a son, Franz. "

Their bloodline is located in the center of the family tree, and can be called the core members of the Veli Reis family, serving as the head of the family.

"And the two remaining boys of the second generation have intermarried with foreigners and still live in Amavit Castle." These two are located on the left and right sides of the family tree, and their family status is obviously inferior to that of Sarah Villiers.

"It's weird." An Jin's pupils showed doubts.

Aristocratic families don't pay more attention to male heirs, why should Sarah Valerie be placed at the center of the family tree, while the two boys are placed next to the family tree?

Keep looking down-

"In the third generation, Sarah's son Franz died in an accident when he was six years old. Sarah's daughter, Lanie, married another son-in-law when she was thirty-two, and gave birth to a young daughter, Mary Victoria. Liles... and the collateral line is still intermarrying with the outside world, spreading branches and leaves, the number of offspring is obviously more than Sarah's, and the blood is stronger."

On the genealogy, it is broad and lush on both sides, and the lineage in the center remains unchanged, even withering and narrowing.

Until the third generation, members of the entire Viriles family were buried in huge family tombs after death.

But to the fourth generation, that is, the generation of Sir Ignacio's parents, Mary Villiers, and his son-in-law, John Villiers.

The other two members of the castle left White Orchard one after another to settle in Vizima in the west, or further afield, in Aedirn in the Far East.

In the castle, only Mary of the fourth generation and her husband, Ignacio of the fifth generation, were left.

"The two Valeries that moved out of the castle...are there any sorcery marks on them?"

Roy went through the family tree from beginning to end again, and found an astonishing fact. According to the records on the family tree, all the family members of the Ignatius branch died of diseases or accidents, and none of them lived to the end of their lives.

In contrast, the other two encounters are much more normal.

"Is it a coincidence, or is it a function of that witchcraft brand?"

The fourth generation of John lost the ability to have offspring after giving birth to Ignatius with Mary, and later died of tuberculosis.

John Villiers and Mary Villiers, the only son of the current owner.

"Jazz is the only child of the family, but both his parents have passed away, his son hanged himself, and he was alone in the family. He also lost his fertility because of excessive drinking and indulgence. I am afraid that the family blood will be broken in his hands."

Roy thought of Ignacio's absurd behavior in the past, and gradually turned into the tragic appearance he is today - is it possible that the brand was affecting his mind?

The teenager fell into deep thought, and Leto came to him at some point, holding a blueprint of animal skin in his hand—the long-lost silver sword forging map of the Viper School.

Roy took the hand and looked at it for a while before putting the blueprint into the space.

Then he expressed his doubts.

"According to you, there is something strange about it. Why did the second generation of the Valerie family choose their daughter, Sarah Valerie, to inherit the position of the head of the family, while the two men were marginalized? This has to be asked. Ask Ignatius."

"As for the witchcraft branding," the bald man rubbed his rough chin, "intuition tells me that only Ignacio and his immediate family are affected and have innate 'birthmarks'. The next two members are not affected. influences."

"So the members of Ignaxiu's family will not die in their later years, and the descendants are generally rare, at most one son and one daughter, and there are only one descendant for several generations."

"In contrast, the next two branches will be much more prosperous for future generations."

"Can't die, cut off descendants? Is the witchcraft mark some kind of curse?" Roy thought deeply,

"I've never seen a curse of the same type," Lesso said with a cautious expression. "Even a priest of the God of Bad Omen is incapable of allowing the curse to be passed down through the bloodline and from generation to generation."

"Not even the God of Omen?" Roy was silent for a moment, "What about more powerful warlocks and spellcasters? Ignatius' ancestors offended them and were cursed?"

"Then we need more clues to understand Yita's ancestors."