Chapter 147 New Hunting Target
"Is this the couple the red-haired elf is looking for?"

After considering it for a moment, Ailin sighed.

Although he really hoped not, after all, this would involve the wizard and the king.

It is very dangerous for Ban Ade to go against these two forces. If he is exposed accidentally, the king's forces, which he might have a chance to win over, will become the enemy of the Wolf School completely.

But with all the coincidences and the vague so-called "fate" mentioned by the red-haired elf, it was difficult for him to convince himself to draw a negative conclusion.

"Boom~boom~boom~"

The sound of heavy footsteps interrupted his thoughts.

A black wide-brimmed hat gradually appeared from the corner of the stairs, and Ailin called out softly:

"Master Vesemir, I have something to tell you."

Vesemir was stunned for a moment, looked at the other closed doors, nodded, and came to Arryn's room.

"Bang~"

The door was closed.

Ailin looked at the pair of dark golden cat pupils seriously and said, "Master Vesemir, do you remember the prisoner cart we met at the city gate yesterday morning?"

"Is it the prison car escorted by the king's guards and wizards, with several elves imprisoned?" Vesemir asked in confusion.

Ailin nodded, and then told him about the elf with red hair and silver eyes, and the commission to protect a couple from leaving.

"The Wolf School adheres to neutrality..." Vesemir's expression suddenly became serious. "Well... Ailin, what do you think?"

Elves and humans, there is an obvious camp selection issue hidden in this commission.

In the past, Vesemir might have directly rejected this troublesome commission, but now...

He hesitated.

Arlin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. He thought Vesemir would refuse directly.

After a moment's silence, Ailin considered his words carefully and said seriously:

"The principle of neutrality is of course important."

"But given the prediction that the school will soon be destroyed, if the king is really the mastermind, we must prepare in advance and strive for all the power we can. Otherwise, we can only watch Kaermohen being destroyed."

"And the elves' strength in archery magic can just make up for our lack of long-range power."

There is a difference between being neutral and being indifferent.

In the previous life game and the original story, the neutrality mentioned by Geralt and Vesemir was the only remaining connection between them and the ruined school, apart from their companions.

It was also a helpless compromise due to the destruction of the school and the lack of power of the demon hunters.

They do not have the strength to interfere in the disputes among various forces on the continent, so they can only survive with a neutral attitude.

But the Wolf School at this time was different.

Ailin had read in the library the history of how the Witcher Cult was torn apart due to the solicitation and interference of external forces.

The current neutrality principle of the Wolf School is more like an attempt to avoid interference from external forces. With a definite principle, the goal of the entire school is to eliminate the monsters that endanger human survival.

The core is to ensure the survival of the school.

But in essence, with the strength of the Wolf Faction Demon Hunters and their reputation for hunting monsters for humans for hundreds of years, they have the ability to not be neutral.

Now the reality has proven that even if the demon hunters strictly maintain neutrality, there will still be other forces that try to provoke them and even want to destroy them.

At this time, any informed demon hunter will have this question deep in his heart.

Is neutrality really useful?

Vesemir fell silent upon hearing this.

Ailin knew that even if Vesemir had wavered in his principle of neutrality in the Wolf School because of what happened in the past, it was not easy to compromise on a lifelong belief, so he changed the topic to Viscount Hudson.

"Master Vesemir, when are you going to Viscount Hudson's castle?"

"You want to go?" The Demon Hunter Master, who was in deep thought, was stunned for a moment, then he thought of something and frowned and said:
"Do you think the two people Viscount Hudson brought back to the castle ten years ago were the ones the elves were looking for?"

"I don't know," Ailin denied, "but I think it's all too coincidental. The elf just gave me this commission yesterday, and today I heard the news about a human couple."

Vesemir was a little hesitant when he heard this, and advised: "There may be evil spirits in the castle, and there may be more than one."

As a master demon hunter, Ailin's strength is somewhat exaggerated.

At least in terms of experience in dealing with various monsters, he is far inferior to ordinary demon hunters who have gone through trials.

Especially this kind of virtual monster is extremely dangerous to unfamiliar monster hunters.

If it was an ordinary traveling witcher, Vesemir would have agreed. After all, even he himself had experienced life and death.

But Aylin was different.

Before leaving Kaer Morhen, no one except the Chief mentioned his safety.

None of the other witcher masters failed to hint and ask him to pay attention to the safety of the youngest witcher master of the Wolf School.

Ailin saw that Vesemir was a little hesitant and persuaded him:

"Don't worry, Master Vesemir. I won't be reckless."

"Besides, demons usually appear at night, so it's generally safe during the day."

"Huh? Have you learned about the habits of spirits?" Vesemir was a little surprised when he heard this.

"I read it in the library..." Ailin said.

In his previous life, he had killed countless demons in order to obtain emerald dust and evil spirit essence.

These most basic knowledge have long been engraved in my mind.

Seeing this, Vesemir knew that he understood the importance of the matter and was not blindly excited about the prey, so he nodded with relief and said:
"Okay then, come with me!"

……

"Captain Serio, why don't you find a chance to teach those freaks a lesson?"

"Yes! Captain, I have wanted to try it out for a long time to see which is faster, the swords of these demon hunters or the swords of our knights!"

Serio shook his head, leaned against a sycamore tree in the southeast corner of the inn, and said:
"They are the king's guests after all."

"Tsk~" a knight snorted coldly, "What guests? They are just low-class bastards. I don't know what the king is thinking to be so nice to these freaks."

"I heard that he gives a gift of 50,000 Orens to the two freak schools, Wolf and Cat, every year."

"What? So many?" another knight shouted in surprise and was about to ask in detail.

"Shut up! Get in the shade!"

Serio suddenly took a few steps back and hid behind the sycamore tree.

The two knights were well-trained and did not ask any questions when they heard the order. They almost instinctively shrank back into the shade of the trees.

"Pah~pah~"

The sound of a wooden window closing came from not far away.

The three knights watched the innkeeper acting suspiciously. After leaning his head out of the window and looking around, he closed all the windows and doors of the inn.

"Captain Serio, there is indeed something wrong with them!"

(End of this chapter)