Lynn only hesitated for less than a second before making his choice.
He first took a few steps back.
Then he jumped out of the ship's side in one breath.
It fell on the head of the giant octopus, which even though it had captured one person, was unwilling to let more delicious corpses fall into the water.
This beast is so huge that an ordinary octopus would never grow to such a big size.
Even if this is a magical world.
Because no matter how big Pontar River is, it can't accommodate such a big octopus.
However, Lynn is not a scholar like Oxenfurt University, nor is he a monster lover like Dorrega Ray.
The witcher doesn't need any words to slow down his movements.
He just silently drew out the master-level silver sword and stabbed it into the octopus giant's head before the octopus giant waved its tentacles to fly him away.
The severe pain stimulated all the tentacles of the giant octopus, twitching like an electric shock and slapping the river surface.
Lynn Holds the hilt of the master silver sword tightly with both hands.
Stir hard and stroke again.
More blood spread under the water, dyeing the river red.
Bang!
A thick tentacle swept over with a terrifying momentum.
It hit the demon hunter hard.
Lynn It's okay.
But the master-level Quen Shield that appeared around him was torn apart by this blow.
From this, we can imagine what a terrible end would happen to ordinary people if they were hit by this attack.
Lynn stepped hard on the head of the giant octopus, and while using the force to pull out the master-level silver sword, he stuffed a high-level Dragon's Dream Bomb into it.
He took a breath and plunged into the water.
Then he snapped his fingers.
Igni Sign ignited the lead of high-grade Dragon's Dream Bomb.
The head of the giant octopus that was so arrogant just now exploded like a watermelon.
All the tentacles that were beating wildly on the water suddenly became stiff.
Finally, the body of the giant octopus began to sink slowly.
Loxley didn't know what happened.
After being dragged into the water, he has been struggling desperately.
But underwater, he couldn't breathe and could only hold his breath, and his struggle became weaker and weaker.
Just when he was about to die.
The tentacle that had been tied around his waist suddenly let go.
Then he felt a hand lifting him to the surface of the water.
His eyes were closed tightly.
He tried to open it.
But I just can't open it.
He was led to swim in a certain direction, and then a rope was tied around his waist.
The next moment.
An upward pull took him out of the water.
Then came the strength of many hands.
He was thrown over the bulwark and fell onto the deck.
His body was covered with river water, mud, water plants and blood.
It was only then that he was finally able to forcefully open his eyes.
He saw the sailors gathered around him.
And the young witcher who saved his life.
Shortly after the giant octopus appeared, the pirates who besieged the barge fled in a hurry as if they had seen a cat and mice.
The survivors who survived were able to get a chance to breathe.
The less injured sailor, after hastily bandaging his wounds, quickly drove the barge and left the waters before the pirates returned.
The more seriously injured sailors were carried into the cabin together with their captain, Loxley.
The situation in Loxley is not optimistic.
When the giant octopus strangled his waist with its tentacles, the suction cups on the tentacles opened a large number of shocking wounds on his waist.
Even after applying wound medicine and wrapping a bandage, there was still blood seeping out.
What's more serious is that after Loxley was rescued on the deck, he was briefly awake for a while, but since then, he has fallen into a coma and has a high fever.
There was no doctor or sorcerer on the barge.
Only when they get to Dorian can they find someone to treat their captain.
But where they are now, it takes half a day at the fastest to reach Dorian.
And Luo Shili obviously couldn't wait that long.
In the end, Lynn had no choice but to treat Luo Shili with a bottle of high-grade Swallow Potion.
Swallow Potion is the mildest of all witcher potions.
The toxicity of high-grade Swallow Potion is further reduced than that of ordinary Swallow Potion.
But even so, it could still be fatal.
But Loxley was lucky.
The side effects of the potion did not appear on his body.
He actually made it through.
However, after the previous battle, the number of sailors was severely reduced, and the level of war exhaustion was so high that it was obviously impossible to complete this voyage.
Therefore, Loxley decided to send all passengers to Dorian and refund the overcharged fare to them.
Dorian serves as a transit station on the Pontar River, so they can easily find a captain who is willing to take them onward.
As for the shipping fees of Lynn and his dwarf companions, they were fully refunded by Luo Shili.
He personally also added some more gold coins to the shipping fees he returned.
As a thank you to the witcher for saving his life and the dwarves for their heroic fight on the ship.
Most of a day later.
Evening.
"I hate the woods, and the bugs."
Percival muttered, swatting a mosquito that was sitting on his nose sucking blood.
It made the dwarves nearby laugh.
Compared with them, the surviving sailors couldn't laugh at all.
Because Dorian is in a dense forest.
The barge is traveling on the Pontar River in the forest, as if it is traveling inside the body of a huge monster.
From the lush forests on both sides of the river, it is possible at any time to shoot arrows filled with hatred from the elves.
It is precisely this that makes the sailors nervous.
However, such a thing never happened.
The barge slowly docked next to a pier.
The sailors placed a thick wooden pedal between the side of the ship and the pier.
They helped the wounded off the barge, including Loxley, who was thickly bandaged and pale and bloodless.
After they all disembarked, it was the passengers' turn to walk behind.
Looking at the towering trees surrounding it, most of the passengers looked fearful.
They were used to living in towns and villages, and it was hard for them to imagine how humans could live in this forest.
Dorian is not far from the pier.
The guards had discovered them long ago.
Because the Children of Freedom in this era are not as rampant and frequent as the Scoia'tael later, people's hostility towards non-human races is not as deep.
After checking everyone's identities, the guards let them go.
Including the dwarves, no one was in trouble.
Yarpen, Zoltan and other dwarves are noisily going to the tavern to have a drink first.
As for Lynn, he went to find the mayor of Dorian alone.
Because he heard it from one of the passengers.
The mayor who manages Dorian offers a very high bounty to the octopus monster and pirates who harm Pontar River.
As a result, when he was sitting in the mayor's office, he realized that the passenger must have some misunderstanding about the word "very high".
The two bounties added together are only one thousand orens.
In other words, if you just kill the octopus monster, or just drive away the pirates...
That's only five hundred orens.
Not even a hundred crowns.
It's really pitiful.
Lynn took out five hundred orens, which represented the reward for driving away the pirates, and gave them to Loxley, his sailors, and the dwarves such as Yarpen.
He only wanted the five hundred orens that represented the killing of the giant octopus.
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