Ruiwen returned to his cold appearance, came to a stone pillar in front of this open space, and placed his hand on a round diamond-like object above the stone pillar.
Then she closed her eyes and whispered some obscure words from the witcher.
After a while, the circular object above began to glow with a blue halo.
Ruiwen followed the law and came to the other pillars until all six pillars in front of the open space were lit up, and the blank space in front also changed its appearance:
Not far from them, there were actually several rotten mutilated corpses piled up. A group of flies landed on the black and yellow remains. The skeletons seemed to be those of children. A short, rotten steel sword could clearly be seen falling on the ground beside them.
Looking further ahead, there is a tall and lush dark jungle, in which the violent screams of some kind of monster can be faintly heard.
"I didn't expect there was a formation here." Dick sighed.
"I heard from Ali that they need to fill in additional energy stones every year to maintain the stability of the formation." Ruiwen slowly explained,
"Nekker are slightly intelligent creatures. In the past, as long as the formation was running, they would see several adult demon hunters guarding it, so they would not attack by force, but would only dare to hide in the jungle.
"And if the trial is started every year, we will temporarily disable this spell.
"If I don't come to disarm the magic circle, you will probably be teleported to other places if you enter rashly. The teleportation location will randomly change to another location starting at noon every day."
"So those corpses?" Dick pointed at the corpses in front of him.
"You guessed it right, those are the skeletons left after the little demon hunter participated in the trial."
"So now, the trial of the little demon hunters has officially begun?"
"That's right."
Dick came to Carter again, and saw that he had drawn out his silver sword, and the sword had been smeared with sword oil, and he was staring nervously at the forest ahead.
He lowered his head, patted Carter's shoulder gently, and comforted him, "Don't be afraid, we are all here."
Then, he added in a lower voice in Carter's ear, "If there is any danger later, don't worry about your identity being exposed, just fly away, you know?"
"But Dick, in this case..."
"It doesn't matter." Dick looked solemnly. "Remember, nothing is more important than your own safety. The most important thing right now is to save your life, don't think about what will happen next."
"I understand, Dick."
Russell on the side began to explain to the other little demon hunters with Harden:
"After entering the woods for a while, we will all be watching outside. If you want to deal with Nekker, it is best to lure them only partially and not enter the deep forest. Do you understand?"
"Understood." The four little demon hunters replied in unison.
Then the three witchers and the sorceress stood in a row side by side.
Seeing those little demon hunters slowly walking into the jungle, Barry, the smallest among them, looked back at Ruiwen with some reluctance.
Not long after, Dick and the others could no longer see the whereabouts of the little demon hunter due to the obstruction of the thick branches and leaves of the forest, but they could hear the chopping sound of swords in the forest, the roar of monsters, and... a certain little demon hunter's cry for help.
"Help, someone come and save us, Nekker, Nekker is so scary!"
Seeing a tremor of leaves ahead, a little demon hunter, the youngest Barry just now, abandoned his silver sword and ran out.
Although he was wearing School of the Grizzly Bear armor, it was not as thick as an adult. One of his shoulder armors had fallen off, and a new wound was clearly exposed on his shoulder, with blood constantly flowing out.
He ran toward the crowd with a frightened look on his face, looking back from time to time.
But behind him, he saw two short, curvy, light-colored Monsters with slightly larger heads and sharp teeth. They were beating him with sharp bone sticks from unknown animals in their hands.
This hit hit Barry right in the back. Fortunately, his armor blocked it and he was not injured. However, he was hit hard and fell down.
One of them, Nekker, grabbed his ankle with his sharp claws and dragged him deep into the jungle.
Before leaving, Nekker provocatively showed his sharp teeth to everyone and pulled out an anthropomorphic smile.
Barry looked at Ruiwen with dull eyes and stretched out his hand. He was asking for help.
But the sorceress made no move.
The child finally seemed to give up after seeing this, lowering his palms and letting the two Nekker drag him away.
"Ruiwen, what you promised him before was just a lie to him, right?" Dick asked in a deep voice.
"All I can say is that our task is to put them through trials.
"If a little demon hunter cannot defeat even two Nekker, he will also be killed by other monsters in the demon hunting commission in the future.
"Furthermore, we Witcher Order have always had regulations. These trial regulations have been passed down for hundreds of years and have never changed."
"Sure enough, Brother Jie's mother is right, the more beautiful a woman is, the better she is at lying!"
Then, he asked, "It's always been like this, right?"
Ruiwen remained silent, but Dick had already made a certain decision in his heart.
He drew out the black sword and silver sword from behind with both hands at the same time, and strode towards the jungle.
"Dick!" Russell stretched out his hand to stop, "What are you going to do?"
"You are breaking the rules by doing this. Even if there is no obvious hierarchy among us demon hunters, you will be severely punished for it after you return."
Dick turned back, frowning. "Russell, if it was not Barry who was killed in the forest just now, but me as a child, could you resist not lending a helping hand?
"But if it were you or Harden who was young, I would take action."
Russell was speechless.
Dick glanced at Harden again and saw the second senior brother looking over with an incomprehensible expression, squinting his eyes, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were noticeably deepened.
He seemed... laughing.
Finally, he glanced at Ruiwen, who still had an expressionless face.
But there seemed to be stars shining in his eyes, containing some emotions that he couldn't understand.
Then Dick turned around and rushed directly into the jungle.
"That's interesting." Harden said to himself after seeing Dick disappear.
"What's the point?" Russell asked anxiously. Due to nervousness or worry, his extreme personality was aroused again at this time, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
"Isn't what Dick is doing now exactly what you and I, and even most of the demon hunters who have gone through the trials and saw their companions being killed by Nekker but were unable to do anything, wanted to do?
"Although demon hunters are free and uninhibited, they were still bound by rules in the past. In the past, there were many monsters, and there was an urgent need for elite demon hunters to stand out. But now that there are fewer monsters, it is time to abandon this old rule.
"I know you are excited, but first relax and don't get excited. You are obviously worried about him and have good intentions, but you always make yourself murderous."
Russell After hearing this, he took a few deep breaths, barely suppressed the emotions in his chest, and said worriedly, "If he does this, he will definitely be severely punished when he goes back."
"That's not necessarily true." Harden smiled.
"Huh? What can you do?"
"The method is very simple. You know this and I know it. Ruiwen knows it. As long as we don't talk about it when we go back, who else will know?"
Then Harden looked at Ruiwen: "Really? Miss Ruiwen."
The sorceress remained silent, but nodded slightly.