After chatting with the heir for more than ten minutes, Xie Yuan finally felt the presence of Geralt and Yennefer again.
They seemed to have experienced teleportation just now, so the space readings on their bodies seemed very wrong. But when they actually appeared in front of the public, Xie Yuan showed a narrow smile.
Because he already felt that the two seemed to have traces of pheromones left after having sex... Hahaha, they are indeed an old couple.
Just listen to Yennefer's alibi to Arnwald: "We... just got a breath of fresh air."
Of course, he said this to Geralt with a teasing look.
However, the official reception time had not yet begun, because Kratz Quite suddenly stood in the middle of the hall, and he announced an important decision at the dining table.
That is when the selection of King Bran's successor officially begins - and this time the protagonist is no longer the current lord... but their sons and daughters.
This is a choice to maintain stability. Judging from the information Margarita just quietly gave to Xie Yuan, several lords are in conflict due to economic and old hatreds-if it were not for the tradition of the island and the virtue of being a spell caster, Due to Rui's intimidation, their civil war has already started.
And now, letting the helmsman of Skellige's old ship be directly given to the newcomers to choose, this can avoid some malice caused by hatred-because each of the families on the island has a consensus to preserve, so as long as the contemporary lord does not become The king's acceptance would be higher, and the bloodshed afterwards would be slightly less.
After Kratz announced the rules, the sons of each lord quickly came up and handed over their weapons... They couldn't wait to seize this opportunity-even Bran's son was no exception.
Kraz Quite quickly produced an ax and joined the pile of weapons - not for himself, but for his son Hjalmar.
However, this irritable young man had already gathered a ship and rushed to Udvik Island - a place with beautiful scenery and delicious food. Unfortunately, an ice giant was recently destroyed and turned into a monster. A plundered desert island.
However, in a competition-style event like this, things can always go awry - just like in Harry Potter and the Holy Grail of Fire, there's always going to be drama.
Caris stroked her dagger in the dark for a long time. After Kratz announced that her son Halma would participate in the heir election, she quickly ran over and dropped her dagger in the pile of weapons, and then He also said intermittently: "Let the best lord's son... or daughter win!" and then left without looking back.
The ceremony ended inexplicably, but Kratz had to pour wine down his throat in depression, because now he understood why Caris was in such a hurry to go to Spylug Island-that is, that Uldrik's territory.
But regarding Caris's behavior, the people gathered around Kratz could not comment - Geralt and Yennefer were his friends, and Yennefer was even his old lover, but this was Que Special family affairs.
Therefore, Yennefer could only use the proverb "a tiger father has no dog daughter" to get around this topic, and reminded that it was time to have a formal conversation.
Some time later, several people met on the balcony of the castle. Geralt also formally introduced Xie Yuan to Kratz as Ciri's swordsmanship teacher and friend, plus Ciri's magic teacher Margarita. , all the people related to Xili gathered here.
However, the leader of the conversation was still Kratz, because he was in a sense the second person with a huge causal relationship with Ciri - the first was Geralt.
Because there used to be an accident law, which is the so-called person who saves others, he can ask for rewards from the saved person according to this, asking for the first thing the saved person sees when he returns home, or something that the saved person does not know but actually owns. thing.
In most cases, this law of accidents generally refers to children, and Geralt and a group of young demon hunters of the Wolf School basically came from this.
The law of accident not only has secular effects in this world, it is even one of the rules of this world that is protected by magic - constructed by fate.
And this is the relationship between Geralt and Ciri.
Kratz is different from Geralt, because when he was young, Ciri's parents... Emhyr, who was not the emperor of Nilfgaard at the time, was with Princess Pavetta of Cintra, an ally of the Skellige Islands. A shipwreck occurred while out at sea.
Although it was later confirmed that this was Emhyr's conspiracy, and Pavetta did die in the shipwreck, Kratz, who was unable to defend himself at the time, swore to use his own power in front of Calanthe, the then queen of Cintra and Ciri's grandmother. His life protects Ciri.
Closer to home, in fact, according to Xie Yuan's idea, there is no need to investigate Ciri's traces in the Skellige Islands. Now that Avallac'h has been found, there is no need to wait any longer, and he can just break the curse on Avallac'h.
But Yennefer still wanted to find out the entire whereabouts, and after learning about Avallac'h's situation, she still persisted.
Because in her opinion, this Avallac'h might not necessarily tell the truth, and in order to prevent him from lying after breaking the curse, she decided to explore this place before taking over Uma.
Geralt also let her - another selfish reason is that Uma's spell is indeed a very difficult Elvish spell, which has been mutually identified by Yennefer and Margarita.
Not only is the procedure for undoing the curse complicated, but the bigger trouble is that Yennefer believes that spending such a high price to undo the curse on Avallac'h is not worth the gain - she really wants to find a way to find Ciri without the help of elven sages, so that she You can just kick Avallac'h away and ignore him.
This is very selfish and refined, but Geralt is not too opposed to it, because he does not trust any Ayn El people of the same race as Eredin - if he can find Ciri without using them, he will It doesn’t matter whether Uma lives or lives.
Since the investigation in Skellige continues, Kratz's assistance will inevitably be needed - because the local spellcasting force druids here do not want to see the mage at all, and the leader, the Archdruid Mossak, even spoke out Let all the druids on the island beware of Yennefer.
Kratz has opened the door to convenience - of course, this also means that Geralt and his party need to help the lord a little.
Poor parents in the world, Kratz's son and daughter all went to dangerous places: Halma went to Udvik Island to fight against the newly emerged ice giant; and Keris had already gone to Spylug. Island, who believes that Uldric's condition is that of a curse - but Kratz simply doesn't believe Uldric and considers him to be dangerous.
In any case, both brothers and sisters have chosen a task that is almost impossible to accomplish in the eyes of ordinary people. It doesn’t matter whether they can complete it or not, but as a father, Kratz wants to save the lives of his children - he has to find an insurance policy.
Geralt agreed to the lord's request. After all, he was a friend, and he had just been of great help.
After reminiscing about old times, the next journey is to head south to the seaside forest of the Great Skellige Island - a strange magical phenomenon almost destroyed it.
That was everyone's next primary target, and Margarita also left through teleportation with Yennefer - after all, women need more preparation.
(End of chapter)
