The Witcher: Grinding Proficiency Starting with the Witcher

"Bang!"

The hotel's wooden door was violently flung open, and Li Wei helped Aite, whose face was ashen, rush in.

The strong smell of blood instantly filled the small space.

"Put him on the bed!"

Mavis's voice carried a hint of barely perceptible panic as she strode forward and took a glass bottle containing a bright green liquid from her alchemy pouch at her waist.

"This is the Swallow Potion! Quick, make him drink it!"

Li Wei laid Aite flat on the bed as instructed, and carefully tore off the blood-soaked leather armor and clothing from his left arm.

Three deep, bone-revealing claw marks were a shocking sight. The flesh around the wounds had turned black, and wisps of black energy writhed like living things, preventing the blood from clotting.

Aite gritted his teeth and gulped down the entire bottle of medicine.

As the medicine took effect, his tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed a little, but he still uttered a soft moan of pain.

Mavis didn't dare to delay and immediately stretched out her hands, enveloping the wounds in a bright green [Healing] spell.

The moment the light came into contact with the black mist, it emitted a sizzling, corrosive sound, greatly slowing down the healing process.

"Damn cursed power!"

Mavis cursed under her breath and had no choice but to increase her magical output.

Fortunately, Mavis had a deep understanding of life-healing magic. With the help of the Swallow Potion, the black aura on the wound was gradually worn away, and the chapped flesh began to slowly writhe at a visible speed.

Li Wei waited by the side the whole time, watching as the wounds on Aite's arm closed up. Mavis took out silver needles and skillfully stitched the wounds up completely.

On the pale skin, a dark red tattoo, made of countless thorny roots, was pieced together.

Mavis cut the stitches, and Levi handed her a handkerchief, which she took and used to wipe her forehead.

"It's nothing serious, but I haven't been able to use my left arm much for the past month. I need to rest properly."

Li Wei quickly stepped forward and used another handkerchief to wipe the cold sweat from Aite's forehead.

Aite was panting heavily, his voice weak but very firm.

"Li Wei, we must leave Gaoshan Town immediately."

"Baron Olsen's goal from the beginning was not to deal with the werewolves at all, but to kill Taylor."

After this period of time, Li Wei had calmed down. "I understand that for him to go to such lengths, even resorting to such means to deceive and exploit us... Taylor's biological father must be someone extraordinary."

"We were used as pawns."

"That bastard!"

Mavis trembled with rage, her beautiful face flushed red with fury.

Without a moment's delay, Li Wei quickly packed his luggage, while Mavis simply bandaged Aite's right arm with gauze.

The three of them then led their horses and quickly left Gaoshan Town.

Behind them, in a room high up in the castle, Baroness Serena looked out the window at the body being guarded in the front yard by the guards. Each guard had his right hand on his left chest, his head bowed in silent mourning.

Not far away, Baron Olsen was brandishing his knight's sword, hacking wildly as if venting his grief over the loss of his son.

Her eyes were filled with tears, her gaze fixed on the distance, her hands gripping the window frame tightly, her eyes almost bleeding, filled with resentment and malice.

"You just wait, you witcher."

three days later.

Amber Leaf Town, west of Gaoshan Town, the Golden Inn.

The night was deep. Li Wei sat cross-legged on the carpet in the room, his eyes closed, adjusting his breathing rhythm.

The Moonlight Breathing Technique and Basic Meditation Technique were simultaneously operating within the body, slowly absorbing the magic lurking in the surroundings.

These past few days, he has been unable to calm down.

Baron Olsen's contemptuous yet oppressive gaze, and the deadly threat posed by the crossbowmen around him, haunted his mind like a nightmare.

This was the first time he had felt so clearly how fragile personal strength was in the face of absolute power and status, leaving him without even the right to draw his sword.

"Power... I need even greater power..."

Suddenly, Li Wei, who was in deep meditation, twitched his eyelids slightly, and a barely perceptible gust of wind swept from behind him!

Almost instinctively, Li Wei's body tensed up instantly.

Without thinking, without hesitation!

[Hound Walk]!

His figure leaped out like a cheetah, instantly creating a three-meter distance.

"laugh!"

A poisoned dagger gleaming with green light grazed almost the back of his neck.

The attacker was clearly not expecting his target to dodge this deadly attack, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

But for Li Wei, that was enough.

"court death!"

The anger and humiliation that had been suppressed for three days erupted at this moment!

Li Wei suddenly turned around, drew the greatsword he had been carrying on his back, and leaped forward to slash, drawing a powerful arc.

Ripples of power surged across the blade!

【Ripple Cross Slash】!

"What?!"

The assassin's pupils contracted sharply. That speed and power were far beyond what a rookie witcher should possess, according to the intelligence!

The intelligence is incorrect!

And this... is a Witcher?

Where's the cat's eye?

He tried to back away, but it was too late, and he was forced to raise his dagger to parry.

"Bang!"

The sound of metal clashing rang out.

Li Wei's greatsword swiftly cleaved through the small dagger, striking the assassin's right shoulder.

With a flick of his wrist, the sword light sliced ​​off most of the assassin's head.

Blood mixed with brain matter was splattered all over the bed.

The assassin stared at Li Wei in disbelief, making a "hoarse" sound in his throat, his eyes filled with horror and resentment, before collapsing to the ground with a thud.

[Slaying the assassin grants +10 to Black Python Body Tempering Breathing Technique proficiency! +10 to Spinning Cross Slash proficiency! +10 to Hound Stance proficiency!]

One sword strike, instant kill!

Li Wei gripped his sword, his chest heaving violently. The pent-up emotions in his chest seemed to be released with this strike, making him feel much more at ease.

"Li Wei!"

"What happened?"

The door was suddenly pushed open, and Aite and Mavis rushed in upon hearing the noise. When they saw the corpse on the ground, their expressions changed drastically.

Ignoring the throbbing pain in his arm, Aite immediately stepped forward, crouched down, and began examining the assassin's body.

He skillfully searched the assassin's body and quickly lifted the assassin's right sleeve.

On that arm, there was a vivid, blooming crimson rose tattooed on it.

Aite's expression instantly became extremely solemn.

"Crimson Rose..."

He slowly uttered four words in a low voice, "One of the most notorious assassin organizations in the Kingdom of Flac."

"How did they come looking for us?"

Mavis asked, her voice filled with surprise and uncertainty.

Aite raised his head, his cat-like pupils sweeping over Li Wei, then glancing at the corpse on the ground, and said coldly.

"It seems that the generous Baron Olsen doesn't want us to take what happened that day out of High Mountain Town."