Recaps

Dick woke after defending Odinburg and joined Kebi’s victory feast, where the fallen soldiers’ families received compensation and Dick was rewarded for his service. Kebi offered him a second title despite Dick’s existing title from Queen Meve, leaving the matter unresolved.

• Dick woke in repaired School of the Lynx armor and learned that Kebi and the others were waiting for him at the victory feast.
• Kebi introduced the guests and toasted those who had helped defend Odinburg.
• Kebi distributed compensation to the families of soldiers killed during the attack.
• Kebi awarded Dick fifty gold crowns for his contribution to the city’s defense.
• Kebi offered Dick the title “Dick of Odinburg,” but Dick refused because Queen Meve had already granted him a title.

Dick woke from a vivid dream of Kebi and the giant mantises, but found the castle under attack by Jatu soldiers and the Broom Witch. With Kebi and the maid dead and Xiya held hostage, Dick prepared to act using his witcher senses.

• In his dream, Dick refused Kebi's offer of extra gold before the hall vanished into darkness and giant mantises attacked him.
• Dick woke wearing his intact School of the Lynx armor and noticed that the castle and the maid seemed strangely unnatural.
• Dick heard a fight and found Kebi and Xiya fleeing Jatu soldiers who had broken into the castle.
• Jatu archers killed Kebi and the maid, while the Broom Witch struck Dick with her broom and captured Xiya.
• The Broom Witch ordered Dick to kneel or escape, threatening Xiya, and Dick marked the soldiers' hearts with his witcher senses.

After waking from a vivid dream of the broom witch killing him, Dick attended Kebi’s victory banquet and received his payment. As the gathering grew lively, Zeus told Dick about the continent’s factions and the southern chiefs.

• Dick woke from a dream in which the broom witch killed him and found that his shoulder wound had healed rapidly.
• A maid told Dick the victory banquet was beginning, and he changed into formal clothes before heading downstairs.
• Dick joined Kebi, Barbara, Xiya, Fisher, Zeus, and Val at the banquet and collected fifty gold crowns for the job.
• Kebi said he had already compensated the fallen soldiers’ families, while Val offered to contribute as well.
• Fisher praised everyone at the table, and the guests ate, drank, and celebrated.
• Zeus described factions including Noldor Forest and the southern kingdoms, where chiefs used pirate nicknames.

At a banquet, Barbara revealed that she had tested Dick in an illusion and helped heal his wound. After she left with Xiya, Dick struggled to answer Xiya’s feelings, but he finally told her he hoped they would stay alive and well together.

• Zeus and Fisher told Dick about the Misty Mountains, whose raiders had not been seen for nearly fifty years.
• Barbara explained that her illusion had tested Dick and that she had healed his shoulder wound at Xiya’s request.
• Barbara used a portal to leave with Xiya, and Xiya explained the limits of teleportation spells to Dick.
• Xiya asked Dick how he felt about her, and Dick eventually told her he hoped they would stay alive and well together.
• Dick returned to the castle hall, found the others passed out drunk, and went upstairs to sleep.

Dick woke in Odinburg, discovered that [Intermediate Self-Healing] had improved his appearance, and planned to strengthen himself before the Witcher Order arrived. In the courtyard, he learned more about Kebi’s sword training and Fisher’s past as a member of the Order of the Falcon.

• Dick woke late, ate breakfast, and realized his self-healing talent had cleared his skin and kept his teeth flawless.
• Dick reflected on the coming questioning by the School of the Lynx and decided to keep gaining strength and energy points.
• Dick met Kebi and Fisher in the courtyard, where Kebi explained that the battle had shown him how weak he was and why he had begun training.
• Fisher described his family’s thrust-focused swordsmanship, and Dick learned that Fisher had killed three monsters during the city’s defense.
• Kebi confirmed the monsters’ fatal eye wounds and revealed that Fisher had retired from the Order of the Falcon to settle in Odinburg.

Dick sparred with Fisher, whose superior swordsmanship was overcome by Dick’s greater strength. Afterward, Dick learned that his silver sword had been repaired, but his armor still needed attention.

• Kebi asked Dick to teach him swordsmanship, but Fisher advised Kebi to master one style before combining techniques.
• Kebi proposed a sparring match, and Dick and Fisher fought with wooden swords in the training ground.
• Dick knocked Fisher off balance and caught him, winning the match through his superior physique despite Fisher’s Elite swordsmanship.
• Fisher mentioned his talented relative Tatum and suggested that he and Dick might spar someday.
• Kebi told Dick that his silver sword had been repaired and pointed him to a standard-issue longsword.
• Dick drew his repaired silver sword, and Kebi began to address the damage to Dick’s armor before calling someone over.

Dick accepted a contract to find Jordan, a fisherman who had disappeared downstream in thick fog, and entered the mist alone after discovering tracks leading inside. He lost contact with Auntie Shake and O'Neill, while strange laughter echoed through the fog.

• Kebi gave Dick an Odinburg guard captain's armor and offered him a deputy captain position.
• Auntie Shake asked Dick to find her missing husband, Jordan, and Kebi paid Dick 100 crowns for the contract.
• At the riverside village, O'Neill showed Dick Jordan's slashed straw hat and explained where the fog began.
• Dick, Auntie Shake, and O'Neill followed the river downstream until they reached a wall of dense fog.
• Dick heard baby-like laughter, followed marked footprints into the fog, and found that he could no longer hear Auntie Shake or O'Neill.

Dick hunted two Foglets and seven Ghouls in the fog, using Ghoul oil and his witcher abilities to defeat them and clear the area. He found Jordan dead, then collected alchemical ingredients as Auntie Shake mourned, and received energy points for the kills and completed contract.

• Dick followed fresh bloodied footprints, coated his sword with Ghoul oil, and killed the first Foglet.
• Dick used his witcher senses to expose and kill the Foglet, but the fog remained, and seven or eight Ghouls charged him.
• Dick repelled the Ghouls with a psychic shock wave and killed several while pretending to weaken himself to draw out the hidden monster.
• Dick ambushed and killed the second Foglet, causing the fog to thin, then finished off the remaining Ghouls.
• Dick found Jordan dead near a pile of boulders and looted the monsters; Auntie Shake rushed to Jordan's corpse as O'Neill thanked Dick.
• Dick left after receiving 60 energy points for killing the monsters and completing the witcher contract.

Dick discovered that Xiya had left Odinburg after completing her internship, and found the potions, sword oils, bombs, and spatial pouch she had gifted him. The next morning, Kebi and Fisher told Dick that strange branches in the Black Forest were driving off woodcutters, and Dick suspected the Leshen was protecting its territory.

• Dick found Xiya's letter saying she had left to take the examination to become a full-fledged sorceress.
• Dick opened Xiya's gifts, activated the spatial pouch with a drop of blood, and stored the potions and other supplies inside.
• Dick left Xiya's home in the snowfall, resolved to grow stronger and meet her again.
• Kebi gave Dick a bearskin cloak and told him he and Fisher were investigating trouble in the Black Forest.
• Dick said the Leshen would not harm people who stayed out of its territory and asked whether the woodcutters had gone too deep into the forest.

Dick accepted a contract to deal with Drowners and a Water Hag at the fishing village near Odinburg. He enlisted local fishermen to draw the Drowners away from the hag, and they began pelting the monsters from a distance.

• Kebi warned Dick that the Jatu had cut down the timber near the Black Forest and that missing bandits and limited troops made travel dangerous.
• Sheriff O'Neill told Dick that Drowners and a Water Hag had appeared at the river near the fishing village, and Dick accepted the villagers' thirty-crown contract.
• Dick reached the river with O'Neill and asked several fishermen to help him, assuring them they would not have to fight the monsters.
• Dick identified the Water Hag as the Drowners' commander and instructed the fishermen to lure the Drowners away using their throwing skills.
• The fishermen and O'Neill threw harpoons and stones at the Drowners from a distant slope, provoking them while the Water Hag tried to hold them back.

Dick killed the Water Hag and the Drowners attacking the fishermen, then found and destroyed their underwater nest. After recovering by a bonfire, he assured O'Neill and the fishermen that they could fish safely again.

• Dick ambushed the Water Hag, killed her, and used a psychic shock wave and his sword to defeat the returning Drowners.
• Dick drank a Killer Whale potion, dove into the river, and fought his way through more Drowners to find their underwater nest.
• Dick tossed a Samum Bomb into an opening in the nest, destroying it and killing several Drowners inside.
• Dick collected alchemical ingredients from the dead Drowners and rested beside a bonfire while the fishermen grilled him fish.
• Dick told O'Neill and the fishermen that he had destroyed the nest and offered to help if Drowners returned.

After completing his contract for Lady Kardashian, Dick accepted a job to check her Withered Manor and received a Jatu warhorse from Kebi, naming it Spotty. He found Jatu marauders inside the manor, but a heavily armored man wearing a bear pendant arrived at the gate before Dick could attack.

• Dick earned 90 energy points and accepted Lady Kardashian's contract to inspect Withered Manor and drive out any monsters.
• Dick returned to Odinburg's fortress, where Kebi gave him a tall Jatu warhorse, and Dick named it Spotty.
• Dick rode to Withered Manor and used his Witcher Senses to detect living people inside whom he identified as Jatu marauders.
• As Dick prepared to sneak in and attack the Jatu, a huge bald man in black armor carrying a greatsword approached the manor gate, wearing a pendant with a roaring bear's head.

Dick and Tyson fought the Jatu soldiers’ potion-mutated monsters at Withered Manor and rescued Tyson’s father, Saier. After the battle, Saier introduced himself to Dick as a retired Oxenfurt University professor.

• Tyson attacked Withered Manor, where the Jatu soldiers transformed into giant mantises after drinking the Broom Witch’s potion.
• Two mantises flew toward Saier, but Dick shot them with arrows and rushed in to protect him.
• Dick and Tyson fought the mantises and a group of desiccated corpses, with Dick claiming most of the kills and energy points.
• Tyson checked that his father was unharmed, and Saier introduced himself to Dick.

Dick and Tyson rescued the chained maids from the Jatu occupying the estate and helped the survivors recover and care for the dead. The group settled in for the night, while Dick planned to report back to Lady Kardashian the next day.

• Dick greeted Tyson’s father, Professor Seir, then pretended to be his old, lazy self when Tyson questioned how much he had changed.
• Dick sensed that servants were still alive inside the villa, and he and Tyson entered to find five or six chained girls.
• Dick freed the girls, and Jenna thanked him before asking for help burying the servants the Jatu had killed.
• Tyson lamented that the girls called Dick their benefactor instead of him, then fantasized about finding a beautiful sorceress.
• Dick agreed to stay at the estate overnight, and Professor Seir joined everyone in clearing the courtyard and laying the dead servants to rest.

Dick listened as Professor Saier explained why he resented witchers for taking Tyson from his family under the Law of Surprise. Dick agreed the practice was unfair, but Saier’s argument ended when Tyson defended his dead mentor Kusi.

• Professor Saier told Dick he had been a biology professor at Oxenfurt University and said his son’s life had been changed because he became a witcher.
• Saier accused witchers of using the Law of Surprise to take children from their families, and explained that Kusi had claimed Tyson after saving Saier’s life.
• Dick agreed that the Law of Surprise was unfair to ordinary families and said Tyson might otherwise have become a refined scholar.
• Saier admitted that he hated witchers and especially Kusi, but Tyson stopped him from speaking ill of his dead teacher.
• Dick understood that Saier viewed witchers as monsters because of their unusual bodies, long lives, and inability to reproduce.

Tyson agreed to return to the Bacchus Empire with Professor Saier, while Dick remembered the risks and promise of Saier’s research into witcher Secondary Mutation. The next morning, Dick trained in Withered Manor’s courtyard and realized his improved body and swordsmanship let him perform new moves, drawing the maids’ attention.

• Professor Saier asked Dick to help Tyson find and complete another witcher commission so Tyson could return home sooner, and Dick agreed.
• Tyson told Dick he feared Saier’s device would turn him into an ordinary person, but Dick urged him to visit his family before it was too late.
• Tyson decided to go home with Saier, while Dick recalled that the device would cause Tyson to undergo a painful, irreversible Secondary Mutation.
• Dick considered seeking Secondary Mutation for himself once Saier’s research matured, then went to sleep.
• Tyson and Saier left Withered Manor the next morning to look for a commission, while Dick waited for Lady Kardashian.
• Dick practiced swordsmanship in the courtyard, discovered a new airborne spinning attack, and noticed the maids watching him.

Dick discovered that animals seemed naturally comfortable around him while feeding Jenna's carrier pigeon, and a new [Basic Beast Taming] skill appeared on his panel. He considered spending 200 energy points to upgrade it as the chapter ended.

• Jenna told Dick that the Jatu had eaten eight of the villa's ten carrier pigeons, leaving only two.
• Dick fed the remaining pigeon and sensed its joy as it calmly ate from his hand.
• Jenna revealed that she was one-eighth elf and said animals were comfortable around her because of her elven blood.
• Dick stroked the pigeon, which settled on his shoulder and cooed cheerfully.
• Dick saw [Basic Beast Taming] appear on his panel and considered upgrading it with 200 energy points.

Dick welcomed Lady Kardashian back after clearing her courtyard and received extra payment for fighting the Jatu. While keeping her company, he noticed signs that she might be seriously ill and listened as she spoke about the few ways people could gain power and survive.

• Dick decided to save his energy points for improving Swordsmanship and Mind Shockwave, then heard a group approaching the courtyard.
• Lady Kardashian returned with guards and thanked Dick for clearing the courtyard, then reunited with Jenna and the other maids.
• Lady Kardashian gave Dick fifty extra crowns for facing the Jatu, whose soldiers could turn into monsters, and asked about his witcher companion.
• Dick stayed at the villa while waiting to hear from his companion, and Lady Kardashian asked him to keep her company.
• Lady Kardashian coughed blood into her handkerchief, and Dick suspected she was seriously ill.
• Lady Kardashian told Dick that martial strength, magical talent, noble birth, or business acumen offered ways to survive in society.

Lady Kardashian told Dick about her past and her long-lost relationship with Vesemir, then asked him to deliver a message. Afterward, Chief Green arrived and asked Dick to help Tyson investigate a possession in Hot Spring Village.

• Lady Kardashian explained that she and her sisters built lives among the nobility, and that she had once known Vesemir.
• Dick recognized Vesemir as the head of the School of the Coyote and agreed to tell him that Kourtney Kardashian still hated him.
• Lady Kardashian went upstairs to rest while Dick waited for the Grizzly Bear witchers.
• Chief Green arrived at the Kardashian estate and asked Dick to return to Hot Spring Village because Tyson could not handle an evil ghost.
• Green said a mute villager had suddenly grown a tongue and could speak, and that the old village chief had died.

Dick rode with Green to Hot Spring Village, where Tyson was unable to dispel a wraith possessing a bound mute boy. After Dick arrived, the village chief’s son Pu’er recognized him as a [School of the Lynx] witcher.

• Dick tested whether Spotty would obey his commands, then rode with Green toward Hot Spring Village.
• Spotty overtook Green’s donkey and struck it with its tail, prompting Dick to check that Green was unharmed.
• Dick and Green reached the village and found Tyson, Professor Seir, and several villagers gathered around a bound mute boy with an unnaturally long tongue.
• Tyson admitted that he knew only the Protection Sign and could not cast a magic trap to force the wraith out.
• Pu’er insulted Tyson’s abilities, then recognized Dick’s feline pendant and exclaimed that he was a [School of the Lynx] witcher.

Dick tried to expel the entity possessing the little mute, but his upgraded Magic Trap only subdued it without revealing what it was. Suspecting Pu'er had hidden information, Dick threatened him in the courtyard as Tyson prepared to intervene.

• Pu'er explained that the little mute had been found unconscious beside the grave of Pu'er's late father, whose tongue was now in the boy's mouth.
• Dick cast Magic Trap, but the entity inside the little mute resisted and spoke through him, claiming it was not a wraith and warning Dick to leave.
• Dick spent 200 energy points to upgrade Magic Trap to professional level, then cast it again and subdued the entity without making it appear.
• Dick left the room, confronted Pu'er in the courtyard, and threatened to kill him unless he revealed what he was hiding.
• Tyson moved to intervene, but Professor Seir held him back and signaled him to watch Dick.

Dick investigated the former village chief’s death and learned that Jatu raiders had forced a potion on him, causing him to go berserk before they shot him. After the village chief was cremated and Pu’er confessed his betrayal, the mute boy remained unconscious, with black mist still in his eyes.

• Dick took Pu’er and Green to the graveyard and found compound eyes beneath the dead village chief’s eyelids.
• Pu’er explained that Jatu raiders had fed his father a potion after he directed them toward Withered Manor, and they shot the transformed man when he attacked them.
• Green revealed that Pu’er had pushed his father toward the Jatu, telling the villagers that sacrificing the chief would save them.
• Dick ordered the villagers to carry the body back, then had Pu’er kneel by the funeral fire and confess his wrongs.
• After the village chief was cremated and the tongue on the mute boy’s face stopped moving, Dick found that the boy was still unconscious with black mist in his eyes.

Dick and Tyson drove [Feikexai] out of the mute boy, but the demon escaped into the night and possessed a corpse. They caught up with it at a funeral, where it emerged as a cat-faced old woman.

• Dick trapped the deceased and the mute boy while Tyson chanted an incantation to Kaer, forcing the demon out of the boy.
• Dick burned the boy’s severed tongue, and the boy awoke with the mist gone from his eyes.
• [Feikexai] escaped into a black cat, and Dick and Tyson pursued it while Professor Seir freed the mute boy and questioned him.
• The cat ran into a coffin carried by villagers, and Dick realized the demon was still inside it.
• A cat-faced old woman emerged from the coffin, and a middle-aged woman confessed that she had refused to feed her mother.

Dick and Tyson fought the cat-faced demon, but it possessed Tyson and turned him against Dick. Tyson expelled the demon, which fled deeper into the woods.

• Dick and Tyson attacked the cat-faced old woman, weakening the black mist that protected her.
• The old woman escaped into the woods, where Dick spotted her in a tree above Tyson.
• The demon leaped onto Tyson and forced black mist into his mouth and nose, then possessed him.
• Possessed Tyson attacked Dick, who held him back and urged him to fight the demon’s control.
• Tyson regained control, expelled the demon as a giant tadpole of black mist, and watched it flee into the woods.

Dick followed the demon Feikexai to a ruined village, where the remnant souls of its victims helped him break through the demon’s defenses in a dry well. He descended into a strange cavern, killed Feikexai before the statue of King Lioke, and received rewards for the kill and the villagers’ commission.

• Dick pursued Feikexai into a deserted village, where a seven-colored rainbow formed from the villagers’ spirits guided him to a dry well.
• The spirits repeatedly struck the black mist shielding the well, breaking through it and sending their remaining soul into Dick’s forehead with a vision of Feikexai causing the villagers to kill one another.
• Dick promised to avenge the villagers, coated his sword with Relicts Oil, and leaped into the well, falling through a star-filled space to its bottom.
• Dick found Feikexai cowering before a towering bone statue of King Lioke, then attacked the demon when the oppressive force around him lifted.
• Dick repeatedly slashed Feikexai until it vanished, earning 80 energy points for the kill and 200 more for completing the villagers’ commission.