The Strongest Sorceress Is the New Enemy?

This wasn't nonsense.

For Soyer, and for any grandmaster of a witcher school, the Cave of a Thousand Monsters was a place that might fulfill the ideals held when the Witcher Conclave was founded, yet offered no tangible benefit.

There were countless monsters there, but because the region was so sparsely populated, there were no contracts. There was no bounty to earn, only pure expenditure.

Instead, the villages and cities near the Cave of a Thousand Monsters often received many contracts because of the powerful monsters that wandered out of it.

Thus, the only thing that could be called a benefit was the reputation gained across the Northern Continent.

Martyrs were always respected.

Of course, that applied to ordinary witcher schools. For the current School of the Wolf, what hindered its development was precisely the overly safe environment Kaer Morhen had maintained for more than a century.

Members of the Monster Hunting Legion needed to hunt vast numbers of monsters to gain achievements and Combat Points, but the most common monster around Kaer Morhen was only the drowners.

During their apprentice years, witchers could train swordsmanship, Signs, and teamwork while hunting drowners. That was manageable and somewhat beneficial.

But once they rose a little higher, ordinary witchers like Ernie and Klar could no longer gain much from hunting drowners.

And even if the drowners around Kaer Morhen respawned endlessly, hunting them every day meant each person could kill at most a hundred or so. It was a drop in the bucket.

Besides, if there was no significant improvement and they were merely hunting drowners monotonously for Combat Points, doing it for a few days was fine, but no one wanted to keep doing it every day.

Ernie and Klar were people, and children at that—lively ones, no less. They were