Chapter 19: The World Is Changing, the Scenery Here Is Unique
Eskel and Lambert broke away from Lynn and Geralt at the foot of the Blue Mountains.
It was not possible for anyone to pay for several Witchers at once.
They would not be able to live on one share of the payment and split it between them.
Witchers, therefore, worked alone.
Eskel and Lambert broke away from them at the foot of the mountain.
They moved west together, planning to go through Kaedwen first, and then onward to Redania.
As before mentioned, King Vizimir of Redania held the title of Just, so the position of the Witchers in Redania was not bad nor good.
Additionally, Redania's general national power was currently rated number one in the North.
The territory was thriving and the people confident.
It was a case of both an ascending great power and of common folk's pride.
Witchesers were thus able to get rewards in most cases when they worked in Redania.
There would be no Kaedwen commoners who would say, "I'm already so miserable, can't you at least help me for nothing? Are you still human? Shit mutant freak! Take the plague with you! he~tui!"
If all went as usual, Lambert could stay in Redania until the end of the year before going back to Kaer Morhen.
And Eskel was going to test his luck in Temeria, Redania's southern neighbor.
King Foltest of Temeria, like Vizimir, had a neutral attitude towards Witchers.
However, there was a province called Velen in Temeria that Eskel would avoid far away.
Lynn and Geralt moved straight south of Kaedwen. They were going to Aedirn, the neighbor of Kaedwen.
Aedirn and Kaedwen often had border conflicts.
This was because King Henselt of Kaedwen was extremely eager for the ownership of a territory that bordered Aedirn and Kaedwen.
The two countries had battled numerous times for this.
Occasionally Kaedwen would emerge victorious, and sometimes Aedirn.
And following each war carrion-eating predators were attracted.
So Geralt thought that they might be provided with some work to do on the border of the two countries.
Since they had long known that Kaedwenites were extremely unfriendly to Witchers, they did not plan on remaining in Kaedwen for long.
Geralt even brought Lynn so that they would be away from villages and towns in the distance.
They tried their best to add to their diet by hunting wild animals in the wild forests and fishing in the rivers.
"Hey, you two, yes, you, come here!"
Lynn and Geralt were walking away from the southern border of Kaedwen when they suddenly found a group of soldiers standing on the road.
When they were just about to cross paths, the leader, who appeared to be a captain, turned around and yelled at them.
"Honorable Captain, I don't think it's against the law to simply walk on the road in Kaedwen," Geralt teased with his own brand of sarcasm.
The captain did not heed his sarcasm and spoke.
"There's work for you dirty mutants. A few days ago, an Aedirnian army disguised as a merchant caravan secretly crossed the border. Having been found by our army, they were defeated and left many dead bodies behind before fleeing back to their country."
"But we didn't even have time to bury the dead on the battlefield, and carrion-eating beasts came."
"So you need two Witchers to see whether the carrion-eating creatures are sated. And if they are not, you expect us to give them a supplementary meal?"
The captain laughed loudly.
"Hahaha, you're hilarious. Who referred to Witchers as emotionless freaks?"
"But that's right, that's the case, and there is a good reward involved. I know you mutants won't work for nothing."
Geralt did not take the job immediately, but asked for details.
"There's a reward? Simple. But first, let's talk about the price. How much is a fine reward? I need an exact figure."
The captain raised six fingers. "A full sixty ducats."
Ducats were common coinage in countries such as Aedirn, Cintra, Skellige, and Kaedwen.
Its financial worth was not great, but it was adequate.
Geralt rapped his head. "Just sixty ducats? That's not enough."
The safest to value money were the crowns of Novigrad.
It was not merely because the economy of Novigrad was prosperous and Novigrad was recognized as the Pearl of the North, but Novigrad itself was a neutral free city.
No matter what the world situations changed, things in Novigrad were always unique.
The captain raised the reward to one hundred ducats, and the two parties made a deal.
So Lynn and Geralt proceeded towards the battlefield the captain had informed them about.
They traveled on the road for nearly half an hour, and then they deserted the road and began searching for tracks in the woods.
Witchers were trackers above all. Not so much because they were skilled, but due to their intensified senses through mutation, which distinguished them from ordinary people.
If they turned on Witcher senses, the pheromones ordinary people were unable to sense were all laid out before their eyes.
After more than an hour of tracking and searching, they reached the battlefield the captain told them about deep in the woods.
But to their disappointment, there were still human beings present in the place that would otherwise have corpses and flesh-eating animals alone.
A Southerner-clad merchant stood transfixed on the overturned truck, which was ringed by hordes of ghoul-like things hungry for meat.
Well, ghouls were four-legged animals. Such as the Undead of another world, they could not jump high and moved only in a circle around the truck.
The Southerner was thus safe.
Of course, only temporarily.
The moment they realized that they could get up onto the truck using their sharp claws, the Southerner's luck would be finished.
The two looked at each other and pulled out the silver swords on their backs with great caution.
After wearing a Quen shield, they bent down and crawled along.
When the ghouls that surrounded the truck finally sensed the abnormality and turned.
The two no longer hid their bodies, but stamped on the ground and rushed at the ghouls.
Lynn wrote an Aard sign with his left hand and slapped it hard.
The Master level Aard sign hit the rushing ghouls like a tsunami.
Like a thick wall, it crushed the ghouls that jumped at him into shreds.
Lynn took the opportunity to step forward and pierced the knocked-down ghoul with his silver sword into its heart.
When he pierced the second ghoul, the other knocked-down ghouls that were still standing also stood up from the ground once more and attacked again.
The "Magic Absorption" skill caused Lynn to feel like the magic he just absorbed had regained somewhat.
So he slapped the ground normally.
A purple-colored ring of light emanated from the ground.
The rest of the ghouls, when they entered the zone of the Yrden trap, slowed down like mired in a bog immediately.
And Lynn, while inside it, remained unaffected.
Sword flash flew, flesh and blood flew, wailing echoed in all locations.
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