Wizard: This witcher is neglecting his duties.

Chapter 206 New Ability Points and the Viper School

Through Gwent and pipe tobacco, Wayne quickly became a well-known and popular figure in Beauclair, making connections with many influential people.

Through his deliberate probing, he quickly obtained some interesting information from these estate owners, nobles, merchants, and social celebrities.

First, the Duke's two daughters, Anna Henrietta and Sylvia Anna, are almost of age and still live in Beauclair Palace, and are not yet married.

However, due to the curse of the Black Sun, the current noble class generally harbors aversion and even fear towards Sianna, and does not support the Duke's eldest daughter in inheriting the lord's rights.

Worse still, the current Duke and Duchess of Beauclair, as Syanna's parents, believed more than anyone else in the curse of the Black Sun and were staunch supporters of this prophecy. They believed that Syanna, who was cursed by the Black Sun, would bring disaster to the entire kingdom.

Rumors have even circulated in the palace that once Séanna comes of age, she will be expelled and banished by the Duke, and that the Duke's youngest daughter, Anna Henrietta, will inherit the title.

Anyone who has played The Witcher 3 knows this part of the story. In the end, Sylvanas is banished and suffers a lot of torment during the banishment. She joins a gang of thieves and returns to Toussaint twenty years later, using high vampires to seek revenge and attempting to use the gang of thieves to stir up chaos.

Speaking of this, we must mention the Black Sun Curse, also known as the Dark Sun Curse or the Curse of the Black Sun. The Black Sun refers to a solar eclipse, a prophecy by the sorcerer Aetibard that foretells the ultimate destruction of human civilization by sixty girls born during or after a specific solar eclipse.

This seemingly joking prophecy from a wizard led to the murder or imprisonment of dozens of girls from wealthy and even aristocratic families in a tower, because people believed they were possessed by demons, cursed, or defiled by the Black Sun.

Among them are several quite famous figures, such as Cyanna, Princess Renfrew who had a brief affair with Geralt, and Daedri Admaine, the daughter of Askel's destiny.

These daughters from noble families all suffered tragic fates because they were cursed by the Black Sun from a young age, and were hated and tormented by their parents and those around them.

The second piece of news was that a vineyard owner who owned a large estate outside Beauclair told Wayne an interesting story: yesterday at dusk, one of his barrel washers, while washing barrels by the river, saw a gray-green dragon flying in the sky and into the Carob Tower Forest.

The sight of the enormous beast flying in the sky startled the barrel washer so much that he fell into the river and lost two oak barrels. Some people thought he was lying, while others said they saw it too.

The plantation owner had told this story to many people, and Wayne had also overheard it by chance.

This involuntarily reminded him of the witcher that Francesca had mentioned, who was chasing a giant pterodactyl.

Upon receiving this news, he immediately rode a newly purchased horse to the Carolus Forest that the plantation owner had told him about.

After entering the forest, they quickly hid the newly purchased horse in a cave. After killing some of the evil spirits in the cave, they also sprinkled some dragon dung at the entrance of the cave to ward off any wild beasts that might be there.

Fortunately, his animal taming skills were very useful. Even newly purchased mounts were very obedient and naturally friendly to him. If the cave hadn't been inhabited by evil spirits instead of animals like bears or wolves, he might have been able to persuade the horses to get along with them.

After settling the two-hundred-crown mount, Wayne immediately changed into his magic flying carpet and flew towards the heights of the Carlobert Forest.

Similar to the habits of most flying monsters such as griffins and dragons, pterosaurs also prefer to live in high-altitude places. After all, they are very large, and if they live in densely wooded areas, it will affect their landing and take-off, which is very inconvenient.

Unfortunately, the Carob Tower Forest was too vast. Wayne flew over the forest for half an hour, even using animal language to ask some of the birds he encountered along the way, but he still couldn't find any trace of the pterodactyl.

But unexpectedly, they obtained a piece of information from a sika deer.

The fawn told Wayne that there was a beautiful blue-purple orb floating in the air near the pond where it had just drunk water.

Around this sphere of light, many beautiful flowers and plants also grow.

Upon receiving this news, Wayne immediately perked up, piloted his magic flying carpet, and swiftly flew towards the small pond the little deer had mentioned.

Sure enough, not long after, he also discovered this beautiful place, and above the pond was a magical node that was flashing with magical light.

This is a completely new magic node, not recorded in the Warlock Brotherhood's records. In fact, most magic nodes in the Southern Kingdoms are not recorded in the Warlock Brotherhood.

Faced with such an unexpected surprise, Wayne had no reason to refuse. He immediately went to the magic node and began to absorb the magic power inside.

Ding! Magic node detected. Absorb?

Ding! Magic absorption complete. You have gained 3 ability points. Your current total ability points are 6.

With six ability points, you're still four-fifths short of unlocking the next step of the Ancient Bloodline.

This time, when Wayne sensed the world on the other side of the newly formed rift, he discovered that it was a world with extremely scarce magic. The amount of magic in the aura emanating from it was very small, almost only one-tenth of that in the wizarding world.

Moreover, this magic was quite neutral, possessing neither an aura of evil nor an aura of light, and its activity level was very low, which relieved Wayne.

Based on the quality of this magic, Wayne could tell that the other side was a world with relatively low magic, without any overly powerful enemies, and thus possessed considerable exploration value.

However, he is currently busy searching for the Witcher who hunts pterodactyls and has no time to explore this world.

So he simply recorded the coordinates on his map and then used a sealing array he wasn't very familiar with to seal the spatial rift.

The Spatial Sealing Seal was arguably the first warlock spell he learned. He made up for his lack of skill with materials. Although his technique was still immature, when the quality of the casting materials was good enough, he could make up for his lack of skill.

Perhaps it was a stroke of good luck, but as Wayne dealt with the spatial rift and continued his search for the pterodactyls on his magic carpet, he was suddenly drawn to the sound of a bomb exploding.

Upon hearing the unique sound of the gunpowder exploding, he was overjoyed. In this era, there were not many people who could skillfully use bombs. Apart from some professional demolition workers who needed to work in mining, only witchers and alchemists had such abilities.

Without much hesitation, Wayne immediately piloted his flying carpet and flew quickly toward the direction from which the explosion had come.

Sure enough, before he had flown for long, he immediately heard a huge roar of a wild beast. A huge beast with bronze scales all over its body, a huge lizard head, and a total length of nearly ten meters rushed out of the forest.

Its chest had probably been hit by a pyrotechnic bomb; some scales had fallen off, blood was seeping out, and the surrounding scales were covered with charred marks.

However, compared to its size, this injury was not particularly serious. This beast seemed to be used to being the king, and it was furious at its injury. Instead of trying to escape, it began to attack the ground.

Seeing this, Wayne immediately manipulated his magic flying carpet to fly above their battle, and from there he could clearly see what was happening below.

Fighting this giant pterosaur were two witchers clad in light black armor: one was a very strong, bald, round-faced, scarred man with a menacing look, and the other was a tall, slender man with short black hair.

The battle had only been going on for less than four or five minutes, and the pterosaur's wings had already been slashed several times by the bald, round-faced witcher. Its fleshy wings were torn apart and covered in blood, rendering it unable to fly. Meanwhile, the short witcher was quite agile, constantly wielding his steel sword and using sneak attacks to draw the pterosaur's attention and create opportunities for his companion to attack.

The two worked together very well. Judging from their facial expressions, they seemed to have already drunk the Witcher's Potion, and all their physical functions were at their peak. They were also in the upper hand in the battle against the pterodactyl.

Seeing this, Wayne didn't interfere in their battle to avoid causing unnecessary misunderstandings. He simply controlled the magic flying carpet, hovering in mid-air, and waited quietly.

Soon, the battle between the Witcher and the Pterodactyl lasted for five minutes. Through their combined efforts, the two Witchers successfully exhausted most of the Pterodactyl's stamina, inflicted many injuries on its body, and caused it to lose control of its body.

Finally, the bald, round-faced, strong witcher seized an opening, climbed onto the pterodactyl's back, aimed at the back of its head, and launched a fatal blow.

After the dust settled, the burly, bald, round-faced witcher didn't collect his spoils. Instead, he and his companion, steel swords in hand, cautiously observed Wayne standing on the magic carpet and spoke in a low voice:

"Friend in the sky, who are you? Why are you waiting there?"

Having anticipated encountering witchers, Wayne had already shed his disguise and was now wearing green dragonhide armor. He had deliberately placed the Wolf School emblem on the outside of the armor, and his amber cat eyes were very conspicuous. It was probably because of these features that the witchers on the ground addressed him as a friend.

Hearing his question, Wayne smiled gently, lowering the magic carpet's altitude until it landed about seven or eight meters away from the two witchers, and said:

"My friends, I am Wayne, a witcher from the Wolf School."

"I heard that a witcher is tracking a giant pterodactyl, so I came here specifically to find you."

The burly, bald, round-faced witcher paused, then asked warily:

"I am Letho of the Viper School."

"Wayne of the Wolf School, what brings you here?"

(End of this chapter)