The Witcher: This Demon Hunter is Not Doing His Job

Chapter 132 Apprenticeship Program
Hearing Wayne's voice, Alex looked up at him.

Old clothes, messy hair, a face swollen due to injuries, with several obvious palm prints, and some thin bodies trembling slightly, looking very pitiful.

However, Wayne found that the eyes of the boy who was less than ten years old in front of him were still clear even after being treated like this. Even though he was beaten and bruised, his eyes were different from the numbness in other slums, and they still flickered glowing.

He tilted his head and looked at Wayne. After a few seconds, he shook his head and said:

"Sorry, sir, thank you for saving me, but I don't remember you anymore."

Perhaps for him, warning a person whose things have been stolen is just a trivial matter.

Wayne reached out and pulled him up from the ground, touched his head, and asked:
"You're injured, I'll take you to the Temple of Meritelli to find Sister Carol there."

"They'll heal you."

Sister Carol is the manager of the Temple of Meritelli in Vizima. She is a priestess in her 50s. Last year, when Wayne went to the cemetery to pay homage to his mother, he met the old man a few times and was a kind person. And a kind old man.

And the goddess Melitelli has a wide range of beliefs throughout the northern countries. Almost all women, from noble ladies to beggars and prostitutes, are almost all believers of the goddess Melitelli.

She is a trinity goddess, often shown in the image of a carefree girl, a mature pregnant woman, and a hunched old woman, symbolizing fertility, conception, pastoral, fertility and many other beliefs.

Priestesses of the Meritelli order preach love and peace.They established many hospitals, shelters, and orphanages, and basically all the herbalists and midwives in the entire North came from here.

No lord would dare harm the priestesses of the goddess Melitelli in the North, because to do so would offend all the women in the North, including their own mothers and wives.

However, after hearing that Wayne was going to send him to Sister Carol, he immediately shook his head and refused:
"I don't want to go there. My injury is much better and it doesn't hurt anymore. If I go to Sister Carol like this, she will worry about me."

"That's it."

Wayne pondered for a second. The injuries on Alex's body were indeed only skin traumas, but it was true that they didn't have to be sent to the Temple of Meritelli.

"Where is your home? Do you need me to take you back?"

Alex nodded, shook his head again, and said:

"I live in the orphanage next to the temple, but it's not my home. My home has been sold to someone else."

"It's the nuns in the temple who are taking care of me, but I don't want to cause them any more trouble. There are a lot of orphans there. I want to learn how to make money and move out earlier."

Seeing such a strong character of Alex, Wayne's heart was actually a little moved. He was going to adopt some orphans like the previous generations of witchers, or use the accident rate to find some talented children.

Of course, he would not let these children risk their lives to perform the Green Grass Trial, but would train them as ordinary swordsmanship apprentices.

Although it is true that demon hunters are much stronger than ordinary people, it is not that ordinary people have no chance of defeating demon hunters. Just like the famous demon hunter killer in the south, the demon hunter who died in his hands seems to have three There are four.

If there is a chance in the future, Wayne will definitely improve the Demon Hunter's Trial of Green Grass, and will definitely find an exclusive Warlock belonging to the Demon Hunter. If the survival rate of the new Demon Hunter cannot be guaranteed, he is not going to create a new one. The witcher is gone.

After thinking about it for a few seconds, Wayne touched Alex's head and said:

"Well, I'll take you back to my house and help you deal with the wound."

"Don't you want to work to make money? It just so happens that my house has some chores and I need someone to do them. From now on, you will come to my house to do chores every day. I will pay you tung seeds a week and provide you with three meals a day. Why? Sample?"

The remuneration for twenty tung seeds a week is quite rare, and the salary of an ordinary adult worker is about five or six times that price.

It's not that Wayne is stingy with this small amount of money, it's just that for a child like Alex who is less than ten years old, if he has too much money, it will be a disaster for him.

And he didn't directly propose to search for Alex as an apprentice. One reason is that he still needs to continue to investigate the child's character, and he won't just take a person who doesn't know the details and personality by his side.

Another reason is that, after all, the child still lives in the orphanage of the Temple of Meritelli, and he and Sister Carol are also acquainted. No matter what decision is made, at least Sister Carol must be informed of.

However, Wayne's idea was good, but he obviously underestimated the vigilance of the children in the slums.

When Alex heard that the man in front of him wanted to take him home, his little face immediately showed a look of vigilance. He looked around with his little head, as if looking for a way to escape, and said in his mouth :

"No, I won't go home with you. Sister Carol told us not to follow strangers, because such people are traffickers."

Wayne twitched the corner of his mouth. Although he felt a little embarrassed, he still agreed with this vigilance, so he said:
"Well then, you should know the owner of the Fox Tavern. He is my friend. I'll take you to him first. If he guarantees me, you should be able to trust me."

Hearing Old York from the Fox Tavern, Alex became a little less vigilant. As a well-known local viper in the slums, Old York is still a kind of person who is willing to help other poor people. This area still has quite a reputation.

Moreover, the Fox Tavern is not far from here. After Alex followed Wayne to the Fox Tavern vigilantly, seeing that he was indeed a friend of Old York, his vigilance had dissipated by eight or nine points, and he began to be moved by Wayne's proposal. stand up.

Although twenty coppers a week is not much, but three full meals is definitely a big temptation for these helpless orphans.

In the entire northern countries, there are too many orphans, poor people, or sick people in the Temple of Meritelli, and the only income of these priestesses is the donations of believers, so don't expect them to be treated well , It is their best effort to ensure that the orphans will not starve to death.

As for work, there are too many people who need to work in this world. No one is interested in some orphans who are too thin to do heavy work. There are only those who are traffickers or bad people with other malicious intentions.

Outside the Fox Tavern, Old York was still smoking his old pipe, and Aunt Melissa was holding some herbs that she didn't know where to find to help Alex treat the wound.

After listening to Wayne's story, Old York frowned, looked at the bruises on Alex's face, and said bitterly:
"It must be that Rat Tail helped those bastards do it. They are just some local hooligans from the countryside. Do you really think of yourself as someone? Dare to bully children on my territory, this group of trash, I will kill them later Get someone to clean them up."

When Wayne heard this, he immediately asked with interest:

"The Rat Tail Gang, is it a new gang again? Do you need me to do it? I don't need much reward from you, just give me the bottle of good wine you hid."

He actually likes these gangs quite a bit, they are all dirty things, and killing them will not cause any trouble. When he first came to Vizima City, the wild dog gang brought him The benefit of almost a thousand oren is like a cash machine.

Hearing Wayne's question, Old York waved his hand and snorted disdainfully:

"Shit, they don't deserve to be called gangs. They're just a group of thieves, hooligans, and gangsters who commit crimes. They're mud-legged people who come from the backcountry. They're bullying and afraid of tough things. Any hard stubble can overthrow them."

As he spoke, the old man gave Wayne a sideways look, and said:
"When you massacred the Wild Dog Gang last year, you killed more than a dozen people in one afternoon, but you frightened the garbage nearby. Many scumbags left Vizima directly and went to other places to beg for a living."

"It is estimated that within two or three years, there will be no more successful gangs."

Wayne shrugged regretfully, and said:
"What do you think of what I just said?"

"I'm going to test this boy Alex, and if he's still suitable, I'll accept him as an apprentice."

"And you can also help me find some children who are tough, not afraid of hardship, but not ungrateful, and you can recommend them to me."

"I don't care about their origins, nor their talents. In the future world, learning how to use a sword can save their lives in times of danger."

Old York frowned, thought for a while, and then said:

"I've known some poor good boys."

"But you have to promise me that you will never let them become demon hunters. I have heard it a long time ago. Among ten children who want to become demon hunters, one or two may not be able to become demon hunters." survive."

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(End of this chapter)