After making sure to put the thing in Leo's hands, Sylvia mentioned Leo and her previous idea of ​​forcing the devil out of his eyeballs and then extracting the devil's secrets from his mouth.
Hearing these words, Fringilla was completely shocked. She looked at Sylvia and Leo as if she were looking at two madmen, and couldn't help but say what she was thinking.
: "You are crazy! Do you know that it is a demon? It is not a little monster like an evil spirit that appears when the heaven and earth meet."
"Of course we know what this is." Sylvia said calmly: "Don't you think this is a good opportunity to understand the devil? This devil is at its weakest now, and with Leo beside us, we can't even
There will be no danger."
After hearing Sylvia's defense, Fringilla was about to refute, but when she opened her mouth, she didn't say anything. There was also a look of contemplation on her face. Apparently she also felt Sylvia's words in her heart.
It makes sense, now is indeed a good opportunity to learn about demons.
"How do you plan to deal with this demon in the end?" Fringilla asked after thinking for a long time.
Sylvia did not answer, but looked at Leo, who said: "If you can kill him, of course you will kill him, but unless you bring the devil's body into this world, you can't do it at all.
It could kill him, so it's better to send him back to where he came from."
Fringilla nodded and said: "If I want to send the demon back, I can't do it alone. I need to find someone who has experience in studying demons."
"Can people from outside come in now?" Geralt, who had been silent until now, suddenly frowned and asked.
"Of course not. The wind and snow outside are so strong that even the portal cannot pass through." Fringilla shook her head and said: "You may know that person. He is Alto from the Blue Mountains. He happens to be here right now.
In Toussaint.”
"Alto of the Blue Mountains, I know him. I have read the encyclopedia of monsters compiled by him." Geralt nodded, and then asked doubtfully: "I thought he had died on Xenide Island."
"No, although he used to be a member of the Warlock Brotherhood, he is not keen on power and only likes to study the things he likes in the library of Thanede Island. Therefore, when the incident on Thanede Island happened, neither party took it seriously.
He was treated as a target to be eliminated." Fringilla explained: "However, after the Xenide Island incident, the Warlock Brotherhood was disbanded and he also lived outside. Because he is more like a scholar and does not have much to survive outside.
He had the ability, so he had a rough time, and after living in Nilfgaard, he was caught by the hunters there. Later, I met him, rescued him, and brought him here."
"Does Alto from the Blue Mountains know much about demons?" Sylvia asked curiously.
Fringilla replied: "Not just demons, he understands any monster."
Leo asked: "How long will it take to find him?"
"One day at most." Fringilla said: "He didn't like to offend Beauclair, so he chose a remote elven ruin as his residence. It will take at least one day to get from him to Beauclair."
In this way, Leo and the others decided to wait for the arrival of Alto from the Blue Mountains, find a way to force the devil out of the eyeballs, then imprison the devil, and torture the secrets about the devil from the devil's mouth.
"By the way! There is one more thing." Just after deciding on the devil, Sylvia suddenly thought of another thing, pointed to the garden outside, and said: "In your garden, the one in the center of the fountain
Was there a stone pillar before the statue?”
"Yes, it's an ugly stone pillar! How did you know?" Fringilla was stunned, nodded and admitted, then asked again.
This time it was Leo's turn to confirm: "Are there a lot of monster reliefs carved on that stone pillar?"
"Yes." Fringilla nodded again, and soon realized that the stone pillars in her garden might have something to do with Leo's adventure in the underground ruins.
Later, Leo briefly talked about the magic circle used to summon monsters in the Elf Kingdom.
When she heard that her garden turned out to be a summoning magic circle, Fringilla's face became extremely ugly, but at the same time she felt extremely lucky.
Because when she first built the manor, she thought the stone pillar was too ugly and moved it away. Otherwise, if one day the magic circle suddenly activated for some unknown reason and summoned a large number of monsters, she would
Not only would her life be in danger, but she might even be thought to be doing some dangerous magic experiment afterwards to summon the monster. In that case, no matter how eloquent she was, she would not be able to explain it clearly, and at that time she
Even her noble status may not be able to save her.
"I will destroy the stone pillar as soon as possible." Fringilla said decisively after recovering a little.
Sylvia stopped her and said, "Wait a minute, that's not what we meant. It might be better to keep this thing."
Geralt felt the thoughts of Sylvia and Leo very keenly and said: "Do you want to summon monsters through this summoning magic circle?"
"You are crazy!" Fringilla glared at Leo and Sylvia with some annoyance and said, "This is Beauclair, the center of Toussaint. If something happens here, Toussaint will be destroyed."
"Don't be nervous, of course we know how serious the consequences will be," Sylvia smiled very calmly and said: "But is it really as dangerous as you think? As long as we are properly prepared, there will be no danger at all.
It's dangerous, don't forget that Leo killed so many summoned monsters underground. Those summoned monsters are very rare materials that cannot be obtained elsewhere."
It was obvious that Sylvia's words made Fringilla a little moved. If Sunide Island was still there, Fringilla might not have any interest in this proposal, because you can buy anything on Sunide Island.
Grow alchemy materials and spellcasting materials, but now that Xenide Island has been destroyed, it has become extremely difficult to collect materials.
A top sorceress like her is pretty good. She has joined the sorceress gathering and can get some resources in the sorceress gathering. Although it is far from comparable to that of Xianide Island, compared with other warlocks and wizards now,
, but it’s already very good.
But even so, she still couldn't get many rare materials, which forced her to stop some of the spells and potions she had studied before, so she was now particularly thirsty for all kinds of rare materials.
Although she may not be able to use the materials obtained from the summoned monsters, she can exchange these materials with others for scarce materials. In this environment, ordinary materials can still be bought with money, but they are scarce.
Even if you have money, you can't buy those materials, you can only exchange them.
"Follow me!" Fringilla finally made a decision after thinking about it for a long time and said in a deep voice.
"Wait!" Geralt took Fringilla's arm and said, "I don't think this is a good idea. You must know that these summoning magic circles were arranged by the Elf Kingdom in order to perish together with the enemy. No one knows
After these summoning magic circles are activated, something will be summoned from them. Don't forget, in the underground ruins, this kind of summoning magic circle can even summon demons. If we..."
Before Geralt could finish speaking, Leo stepped forward and held his shoulders, saying, "Don't worry, with me, the things you're worried about won't happen." He followed him and said, "Besides, we're just going now.
Looking at the stone pillar, I have no intention of summoning it now, and I don't have a clue whether or how this summoning magic circle can operate. It is still unknown whether it will be able to summon something in the end, so your worries are a bit unnecessary now.
And I don’t think Fringilla would activate this summoning magic circle without any protective measures.”
Fringilla rolled her eyes at Geralt and said, "Of course, this is my home. I don't want to be like those lunatics and destroy my home for so-called experiments."
Seeing that the conversation had reached this point, Geralt could not say anything more, so he let go of Fringilla's arm, and then, together with Leo and the others, led by Fringilla, they walked towards the warehouse of the manor.
Go, there are some things piled there that Fringilla considers valuable and is reluctant to throw away.
After arriving at the warehouse, Fringilla found the housekeeper and opened the warehouse door. She saw a large number of waste items piled haphazardly inside the warehouse, so densely packed that it was difficult to see what was inside.
Just when Fringilla was about to ask the servants to clean out everything in the warehouse, Leo stretched out his hand to stop her and said: "There is no need to clean up, the stone pillar is not in the warehouse."
Just now he had checked the situation inside through the spiritual network, and the stone pillar was not inside.
Fringilla didn't know how Leo knew that the stone pillar was not in the warehouse, so she asked suspiciously: "Are you sure?"
"Very sure." Leo said solemnly.
At this time, the housekeeper suddenly interrupted and said: "Master, if you are talking about the stone pillar on the garden fountain before, I know where it is."
"You know?" Fringilla frowned and looked at the housekeeper.
The housekeeper reminded: "Master, you have forgotten that two years ago Baron Josh borrowed some relics from the Elf Kingdom from you. At that time, you sent them to him with the stone pillar and told him that the things were given to him and there was no need to do so.
Returned."
"Baron Josh?" Fringilla thought for a moment and said, "Is it the Baron Josh whose family suddenly committed suicide a year ago?"
"Yes, that's Baron Josh." The housekeeper nodded and responded.
At this time, Fringilla's face suddenly became a little ugly, as if she had thought of something bad.
And Geralt, who was paying attention to his lover's condition, seemed to have thought of something and said: "This Baron Josh suddenly committed suicide. Could it be related to that stone pillar?"
After hearing this, Fringilla glared at Geralt who was not covering his mouth angrily, then waved to the housekeeper, indicating that she could leave, and then complained to Geralt: "Don't you know something?
You can say something, but what can't you say? If what you just said spread, someone will definitely think that I deliberately used evil witchcraft to kill Baron Josh and his family."
Geralt knew that he had done something wrong just now, and did not refute. He just smiled apologetically, as if he was letting Fringilla beat him and scold him.
Seeing Geralt like this, Fringilla couldn't say anything else, not to mention there were two outsiders, Sylvia and Leo, beside her, so she changed the topic back to the stone pillar and said: "
Baron Josh is Anna's distant cousin and has some kinship with me. He is a Nilfgaardian. He just arrived in Toussaint three years ago and then bought an old manor on the edge of the Carberta Forest.
The old manor was rebuilt and was only completed two years ago. After the completion, he was going to hold a reception in the manor. At that time, he needed some relics from the Elf Kingdom to decorate the reception at the manor, so he came to me. I have never liked that.
A stone pillar, so I gave it to Baron Josh at that time.”
As she said that, she stopped, thinking that this was not the place to talk, and led everyone back to the study, poured herself a glass of wine, and said while drinking: "A year ago, Baron Josh suddenly went crazy in the manor and killed
All the people in the manor, including his family and servants, were taken away. Because this incident was too weird and for some other reasons, it was only announced to the outside world that Baron Josh had committed suicide. Later, the person who obtained the inheritance of Baron Josh took the manor
After cleaning up, I bought a wine merchant who settled here from abroad. As a result, the wine merchant also went crazy and killed everyone in the manor a month after moving in. Because the wine merchant had no heirs, the manor was also taken over.
It was under the name of the Baroness. I also checked it at the time and found nothing unusual. However, the news about the manor had spread in Toussaint, so no one would buy the manor, and the manor fell into disuse.
"
"Are the baron and the wine merchant strong? Can they kill people from a manor alone?" Geralt suddenly asked.
Fringilla shook her head and said: "This is also weird. In fact, the baron and the wine merchant are both in poor health. They are not as good as ordinary people. It is very difficult to kill one person, let alone kill an entire body."
People from the manor."
"Let me handle this matter!" Leo took the initiative to stand up and said: "If the things in that manor are really related to the stone pillars, I also have experience in dealing with them. If not, I will see if I can find out the problem. If nothing else works,
You can also move the stone pillars out of the manor."
Although Geralt was also very interested in this matter and looked eager to give it a try, he was stopped by Fringilla because she had gone to the manor before to investigate the death of Baron Josh and the wine merchant, although she had not
She could find anything, but she instinctively felt that it was very dangerous, so she quickly left the manor and suggested to the duchess that it be abandoned.
She felt that such a sorceress was in danger, let alone a witcher like Geralt. If she went there, she would only become a burden to Leo. However, she did not speak out her thoughts directly, but used a
Chapter completed!