"It's time for him to suffer some hardships." Vesemir on the side sighed softly,
"This Ivan always liked to make trouble in the tavern when he was out in the past. This was not the first time he killed a mercenary. This time he was taught a lesson.
"I am getting old, and many of my disciples are not very obedient. No matter how I warned them in the past, it is of no use. It just so happens that this time, Ivan may be able to be more obedient in the future.
"Do you think so, Geralt."
"Vesemir, stop talking nonsense. Even if Ivan is disobedient, am I disobedient? Aisi is disobedient? Carl is disobedient?" Geralt retorted with a straight face and was not polite in his words.
"Okay, okay, you all are obedient. By the way, I remember just now..." And Vesemir didn't care at all.
"I remember just now that the Eternal Flame Cult leader Duncan with a human head and a dog's face said that his subordinates are called [Witch Hunters].
"Isn't this a derogatory term for a sorceress?"
Seeing Vesemir's eyes looking over, sorceress Ruiwen slowly replied, "Witch is indeed a derogatory term for sorceress.
"A hundred years ago, there was no such thing as Magic Academy.
"Many little girls have become deformed due to awakening magic power, and they cannot control this power, causing many tragedies.
"People at that time were so afraid of them that some nobles called them witches, captured these girls, tied them to crosses and burned them to death.
"Such [witch hunts] were very frequent at that time, but over the years no one has used the term 'witch'. Everyone knows that when the little girl around them behaves unusually, it is a sign of the awakening of magic.
"And those girls will be voluntarily sent to the Magic Academy by their families for training, so that they can slowly master the power of communicating with magical elements in the air.
"And I have heard that this Duncan is deeply rooted in the Long River City known as [Free City].
"There, they will openly burn to death the mixed and disguised Werewolf and other monsters in the city.
"Not only that, they sometimes give the name of witch to ordinary pharmacists and alchemists.
"Even the sorceresses who had no family or sect in the wild, no, not only the sorceresses, but also the male sorcerers, they also captured, tied and burned them to death.
"I have a very bad impression of this [Eternal Fire] church. Fortunately, we Northern Kingdoms have not been infiltrated by their power."
Dick suddenly realized, no wonder Ruiwen had a cold face just now.
If he were a warlock himself, he wouldn't have a good impression of the [Eternal Fire] church, let alone give Duncan a smile.
And it seems that after hundreds of years, another witch hunt has begun on this land.
The Renaissance belongs to it.
"It's in chaos, the world is going to be in chaos again." Vesemir sighed,
"In the past fifty or sixty years, this [Conjunction of the Spheres] phenomenon has not occurred. The number of monsters has slowly begun to decrease in recent years, and the people are living a good life.
"I didn't expect that another [Eternal Fire] church would appear within our human race. It would probably cause more intense disputes between countries."
"Hahaha, Vesemir, do you really think it is a good thing that there is no supernatural phenomenon like [Conjunction of the Spheres]?"
"What did you say, Master?" Vesemir raised an eyebrow.
"[Conjunction of the Spheres] is a supernatural phenomenon. Warlocks have not yet studied the cause of it. They can only roughly attribute it to the fact that our world and other world planes overlapped each other at a certain time, so the communication door of the world was opened to some extent, and a large number of creatures were transmitted to our world in a short period of time.
"I remember that even humans were transported here thousands of years ago. And the natives of this planet should be those long-eared elves."
"It's like this Master, you are talking so much, hurry up and get to the point."
"Okay, okay, Vesemir, don't be anxious.
"What I mean is that [Conjunction of the Spheres] 60 years ago brought a large number of monsters. However, after our Witcher Order has developed vigorously in recent years, the number of demon hunters has increased dramatically. Through our joint efforts, the number of monsters has decreased."
Speaking of this, he glanced at the people around him. "Didn't you notice that when the commission fee was collected, the price of monsters became lower?"
"Well, I didn't notice that." Vesemir's index finger gently dug his ears, "Because I haven't bought Kaer Morhen for several years. Geralt, do you think the price of monsters has dropped?"
"Yes." Geralt replied in his low and hoarse voice,
"Vesemir, twenty years ago it cost ten Kelang to hunt a Drowner. Now sometimes it may cost less than two Kelang, and this price downward trend has always existed.
"Maybe one day, one Drowner will only be worth a few copper Kelang."
"That's not right," Dick interjected, "If the number of monsters decreases, shouldn't the price of hunting each monster increase? Isn't it said that rare things are more expensive?"
"Dick, you misunderstood." Master began to explain,
"There were many monsters in the past.
"Like Drowner just mentioned, in the past, there might be several groups or hundreds of them around a village.
"At that time, let alone how the common people could deal with these Drowner, even the nobles and their soldiers did not dare to deal with so many Drowner easily.
"Only we demon hunters will try our best to eat away at these Monster.
"Now when an order for Drowner appears, if you bid too high, the villagers may unite and try their best to deal with one Drowner, so there will be nothing wrong with us."
"Then these villagers will not be harmed?"
"Sometimes." Master continued to explain,
"But the nearby Sheriff will also help them along with the soldiers, only when there are few monsters and they are alone.
"Of course this is only one aspect, the other is that we have too many demon hunters.
"Although the success rate of demon hunters who have undergone Trial of the Grasses's survival transformation is very low, even [School of the Coyote] has the highest success rate, but it is only 30%.
"Not to mention our [School of the Lynx] success rate is less than 10%.
"But after a long period of accumulation, the number of witchers who have survived over the years has reached a hundred.
"After a long period of accumulated experience in hunting monsters, coupled with their transcendent physical fitness, and combined with magic potions, sword oil, and Magic Bombs, each of these hundreds of people can become an expert in dealing with monsters."
"And most of the time we demon hunters will not participate in royal power struggles between nobles unless our own interests are actually violated.
"So witchers can only hunt monsters. In the end, the number of witchers will continue to increase, and the number of monsters will continue to decrease."
"For example," Dick took over, "It's like a cake. As the number of cakes decreases, more people share the cake, so each person's share will also decrease."