Lynn said hesitantly, "I thought you would tell me about the neutrality code of the witcher."
"Code of Neutrality? Ha!" Vesemir said, looking at his student who was obviously different from others.
"Witchers really shouldn't get involved in the political games between kings and warlocks, but that's for others."
Vesemir looked at Lynn, as if he were seeing himself when he was young.
At that time, I may not have been proficient in swordsmanship, nor was I experienced enough in using the seals.
But he has a passion that cannot be quenched no matter how much water he pours on him.
As time goes by, this warm blood slowly cools down.
Even now, even if I try my best, I can only try to keep this big family together.
And this alone made him somewhat unable to do what he wanted.
As for reviving the Demon Hunter, he had long since thought about it.
But now, a young student whom he taught told him that he wanted to revive the witcher...
And this student didn't just talk about it, he also took practical actions.
Vesemir is just old, not stupid.
How could he be so stubborn that he would accept death so rigidly?
The reason why he repeatedly stressed the need to remain neutral in the past was because like Geralt, Eskel and Lambert, they relied on the heads of water ghosts to bargain with farmers.
To expect them to get involved in the Game of Thrones, even a few lives are not enough.
I'm afraid it will be eaten until no bones are left.
That's why Vesemir requires them to adhere to neutrality.
But Lynn is different from them.
Lynn As soon as he came down from the mountain and made money, he knew to hire a group of dwarves to come back and repair the castle...
This is unlike other demon hunters who, even if they are lucky enough to make a fortune, will only spend the money on alcohol and women.
From here you can see the difference between Lynn and others.
Therefore.
Since Lynn has the ambition to restore the glory of the demon hunter, Vesemir will naturally not dissuade Lynn like he did to Geralt and the others, but...
"Lynn, do you know how many witchers there were in this castle before the massacre of Kaer Morhen?"
"A hundred people?"
Vesemir shook his head.
Then he said a number that made Lynn feel incredible.
"This castle once housed twenty-three witchers and forty apprentices."
"So few?"
The survival rate of the witcher's Trial of the Grasses is three out of ten, while that of School of the Wolf is slightly higher, at four out of ten.
Apprentice refers to those who have not received Trial of the Grasses, so I won't mention it here.
Let's just talk about the official witchers.
Even if a hundred people accept Trial of the Grasses, there should be at least forty official demon hunters in the castle.
How come there are only about twenty people?
"The cruelty of Trial of the Grasses is one aspect, but the other aspect is that kings and warlocks always try their best to obstruct the demon hunters and try to obtain soldiers through other means besides Law of Surprise."
"And Law of Surprise will further deepen people's misunderstanding of the witcher and become a tool for kings and warlocks to incite people's dissatisfaction."
Vesemir has experienced that era.
In fact, no matter what era it is, it is easy for a demon hunter to increase his troop sources.
Kings and nobles are often called blue bloods.
This is of course due to silver poisoning caused by their extensive use of silverware.
But in fact there is another reason, that is, when the king and the nobles think about the problem, their position will never be placed on the common people who have red blood flowing in their bodies.
Even if there is no threat from the south, Northern Kingdoms will fight with each other.
Although their intentions in launching the war were ridiculous, the harm they caused to civilians was real.
Demon hunters can take in orphans who have lost everything due to the war, or buy extra money from parents who are extremely poor and cannot feed them.
The secret agents, spies, and dead soldiers of other kings and nobles were trained in this way.
Everyone else can do this.
But only the witcher can't.
The king and the sorcerers have set strict rules. If the demon hunters want to obtain soldiers, they can only go through Law of Surprise.
In addition to this illusory Law of Surprise, there is another reason why demon hunters always cannot (or should say, have no money) to improve their appearance...
It is said that people rely on clothes and gold.
Suppose a demon hunter takes a child and passes by a village.
When the villagers in the village saw it, even if they didn't say anything, they would feel in their hearts that it was the demon hunter who abducted the child.
But if it is a decent person who wears rich clothes and spends a lot of money, then the impression of the villagers will be completely different.
No one will ever consider whether the child was abducted or not.
They will only be crazy and jealous, wondering why the person next to that decent person is not them.
That's how people are.
Of course, some people may think this is human nature.
But regardless of whether this is bad nature or not, human beings are indeed creatures that judge others by their appearance.
At least that's the case for most humans.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that the ignorant civilians have an increasingly bad impression of demon hunters.
Lynn suddenly thought of a question.
"Teacher, why don't any of the books in the castle relate to the siege?"
The collection of books in the castle mentions how other schools of thought died.
But there is no record of the siege of Kaer Morhen.
Vesemir's cutting action suddenly stopped.
"Because almost no one survived, they didn't even spare the youngest child. Only I escaped by hiding in the pile of corpses."
"But I didn't bring this up to make you sad or angry."
"Those mobs... or rather, the Kaedwen soldiers disguised as mobs, no matter how many they were, the city defense facilities in Kaer Morhen at that time were not what they are now..."
"At that time, the walls of Kaer Morhen were still intact, and enemies could only pass through the main entrance if they wanted to attack."
"There were ballistas and trebuchets on the city wall, and we also had warlocks here at that time, although they were not many in number."
Lynn hesitated for a moment and said.
"But the castle was breached... was it the work of a sorcerer?"
"Your intuition is very keen, Lynn." Vesemir cast an approving glance.
He never mentioned Kaer Morhen to Lynn, and rarely discussed it with Geralt and the others.
But Lynn is able to realize this, which means that he not only knows how to use a sword, but also knows more.
"That's right, without the strong support from Ben Ad, Kaedwen's army alone would not be able to capture this castle."
"A few dozen soldiers are enough to hold on to a fortress under siege by an enemy ten times their size, let alone dozens of demon hunters."
Lynn knows that what Vesemir said is the truth.
In the European Middle Ages in his home world, in 1403 to be exact, Caernarfon Castle, which was guarded by only about 30 garrison troops, withstood two fierce attacks by the Welsh army supported by the French army during a long siege.
Demon hunters are physically stronger than ordinary garrison soldiers.
Without the help of the warlock, Kaer Morhen would only be replicating Caernarfon Castle's achievements.
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