NovelEnglishRoy, Auckes, and Serrit split up their jobs. Auckes and Serrit would look through the living quarters and experimentation area on the right, while Roy picked Kiyan's sword up. He flicked it around to see how it felt.
The young witcher clasped his index and middle finger together, and he brushed them along the back of the blade. A frown furrowed his brows. There was actually a hint of rust on the blade, perhaps from the lack of greasing.
He held the hilt with one hand and the blade with the other to observe the back of the sword closely.
'Moonblade
Type: Silver sword
Components: Dark iron ingots, cured draconid leather, powdered monster tissue, silver ingot…
Specs: Weighs 5.06 pounds, hilt measures 11 inches, blade measures 40 inches.
Affixes:
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtStrengthened Yrden: Yrden has slightly increased strength when you're equipped with this sword.
Freeze: Whenever you hit an enemy, there's a small chance to freeze the target. -10 to Dexterity when Frozen.'
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Roy went to the end of the passage in the center and approached the hexagram Kiyan was meditating in.What he saw surprised him. He didn't notice it earlier, but now that he was closer, he noticed a bunch of thick blueprints on the ground. When he picked them up and saw what they were, the young witcher was delighted.
Even an official Cat like Felix was only wearing regular armor. These blueprints were more valuable than anyone could imagine.
"Gonna give them a surprise later."
He tucked them away in his inventory space and looked at another thing on the floor—a humble leather parchment.Roy picked it up and flipped to the first page.
'Day 1.
Luckily we were teleported directly into my laboratory. It's good to be home. I had grown sick to the gills of that leaky tub. I hope that storm I summoned smashed it into those craggy rocks off the Grassy Knoll shore. The experiments which my students conducted on drowners in my absence did not yield the expected results. As usual, I must do everything myself.
I will administer a brew of medicinal opium to the subject. This "milk of the poppy" will keep the witcher in a state of half-consciousness, and thus incapable of resistance. Commencing studies.'
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He flipped to the second entry. The gist was that Kiyan told the sorcerer about the Cat School's details and how they would train would-be witchers. After he was thoroughly tortured, of course.
The Brotherhood of Sorcerers specifically prohibited anyone from performing experiments on humans, and that was inclusive of dwarves, elves, and witchers. Anyone who broke this law would be subjected to dimeritium cuffs and a century of house arrest. Serious offenders would be kicked out of the brotherhood.
Of course, consensual experimentations and anything that had a contract of safety guarantee was another story. Of course, experiments no one knew anything about were as well.
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Roy flipped through the entries, and every one was worse than the last. The sorcerer's experiments elevated into total perversion. Torture, poison, fire, ice, starvation, and dehydration were commonplace.
That kind of hellish life lasted for months, and Kiyan turned into something resembling a monster.
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Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmRoy thought he had seen everything, but the last page's content made his eyes bulge.
'Conclusion: As I suspected, the witcher is a superb energumen! A demon trapped in such an excellently prepared body will become death incarnate, vengeful wrath made flesh – and placed under my command. No one has succeeded in creating a being of such power since the times of Malaspin and Alzur.'
"To be precise, there's something else dwelling in his body, and that… is the demon. Somebody used this hexagram to summon it."
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"Mew?"
"Gryphon? How'd you get there? Come back down!" Roy picked Gryphon up and tucked it into his hood. He scanned the feline statue's tail, but it didn't seem like any feline animal he had seen.
'Statue of an unknown animal.'
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"Time for a discussion." Roy was a little excited. "There's five of us, and those guys are veterans. They might actually come up with some kind of exorcism and bring that guy back."
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