Before they knew it, Lynn and Geralt had been staying at Toussaint for a month.
Caroberta Although the Duchess still hasn't woken up, her complexion is getting better day by day. Toussaint's famous doctor also judged that the Duchess's life is not in danger. All we have to do next is to wait.
But whether it is Lynn or Geralt, they are all masters who can't take any time off.
After enjoying a life in the palace for a few days, where they had food to eat, clothes to stretch out, hot baths to take at any time, and people to take care of them at any time, both of them felt very uncomfortable and felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.
Therefore, the two of them simply approached Earl Raymond and accepted a commission to defeat the bandits.
As mentioned before, Toussaint does not have an army, and its armed forces are mainly knights errant and Ducal Guard.
Ducal Guard Whether it is training or equipment, it is actually no worse than the real army.
But their numbers are too few.
The main forces are distributed in the capital Beauclair, as well as several passes connecting Toussaint to the outside world.
Public security in the countryside mainly relied on knights errant and the retinue who followed them.
But the problem is that now most of the knights errant in Toussaint are basically sent to the north.
Without the knights errant, bandit groups that discovered the blue sea sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Earl Raymond also felt very anxious because of these bandits who were burning, killing and looting everywhere.
Although after the duchess was out of danger, she found a way to contact the knights errant and asked them to return immediately.
But obviously it will take some time for them to return to Toussaint.
But now, the two demon hunters came to the door, and Earl Raymond naturally wanted them.
With a wave of his hand, he took out some hands from Ducal Guard and put them under the command of two demon hunters.
But what surprised him was that it was rejected by Lynn.
There is no need to assign additional manpower, just increase the bounty.
This is not because Lynn is arrogant.
But dealing with bandits is different from dealing with the army.
After all, bandits are not a real army. Although a small number of them may have been soldiers, most of them are ordinary people.
Although there are numerous bandit groups currently causing trouble in Toussaint, each bandit group does not have many members and is a mixed bag with no discipline at all.
To deal with such a rabble, you don't even need to kill everyone. You just need to cut down the most talented ones, and the rest will naturally collapse at the first touch.
It doesn't matter even if you encounter large-scale gangs of robbers with more than fifty or hundreds of people.
He and Geralt don't have to have a head-on confrontation.
They can completely deceive and attack by surprise.
In short, there are ways.
Although it is unbelievable, Earl Raymond still chooses to believe in Lynn because of Lynn's previous performance.
He also promised that as long as Lynn brings back a robber head, he can go directly to the financial officer of the principality treasury to receive a reward of Florin.
Although there is only one Florin, you must know that one Florin can be exchanged for eleven Oren.
This is much more cost-effective than the Drowner head.
So in the afternoon of that day, Lynn made a large purchase at Beauclair, greatly replenishing the magic potions and alchemy bombs that had been consumed before.
Then Beauclair left with Geralt the next day.
In the north of Beauclair, there is a hotel called Cockatrice Inn.
This hotel is located on one of the few bridges on both sides of the Sansretour River, so Cockatrice Inn has naturally become a frequent destination for businessmen, smugglers and boatmen. Its signature lobster chowder is even more popular.
The owner of Cockatrice Inn, Adam Gay, used to like to tell everyone the origin of the name of this hotel.
The story goes like this:
Gay When he was young, he served as a retinue of a knight errant, and the two of them worked together to defeat a bloodthirsty petrified cockatrice.
The beast's head hung at the hotel's entrance for many years.
Until a traveler from Oxenfurt told everyone that it was just a poor imitation made of pheasant, weasel and pig body parts.
After that, Gay's self-esteem was severely damaged, so he took off the "evil beast"'s head.
However, the name of the hotel has never been changed.
But now, the hotel has been occupied by a group of newly arrived robbers.
"Damn it, it's been how many days, and I haven't even seen a single person. And you're saying there's a lot of money to be made after occupying this place, what the heck!"
A robber was sitting on a long bench, hiding under the eaves of the hotel where the harsh sunlight could not reach him, staring in the direction across the bridge.
He had been looking at his husband's stone for several days, but all his efforts were in vain.
This was exactly what made him irritated.
"Didn't I say that this is the only bridge nearby, and people going north or south must stop at this hotel? If I hadn't been here for several days and didn't even see a chicken feather, I would have almost believed it."
"Stop nagging. The more you nag, the hotter you will get." Another robber wearing a leather vest, but with his chest and belly exposed, said while picking his nose.
The first robber picked his ears and looked at the closed door of the hotel.
"How about we go talk to the boss? It's not a problem to keep waiting like this. I heard that the old woman Caroberta has been revived by two demon hunters from the north."
"Those knights errant who went to the north are now on their way back. The good days of being happy and lawless like now will be over in a few days."
There was another robber lying on the ground, with his hands behind his head, not looking over here, and talking to himself.
"If you want to, you can go, but I won't go anyway. It's not like you don't know the boss's temper. Unless he figures out what he has decided, you can't let him get off the stage in front of him, or he will peel off your skin."
The first robber who spoke froze and scratched the back of his head.
"Then why don't we wait until night and sneak away secretly? Why do we go out to commit robberies? Isn't it just to eat meat, drink wine, and have sex whenever we want? Look at what kind of life we are living now."
"If the life of a robber is so boring, to be honest, I won't risk going to the gallows to commit robberies. Whoever wants to do it will do it."
Another robber said lazily, "You can shout louder, so you don't have to worry about being hung on the gallows. The boss will use your skull as a bowl first."
"Shut up, everyone, we have guests coming."
The third robber's panicked voice immediately alerted the other two accomplices.
They all looked at the two figures walking across the bridge in unison.
"Go get the others, quickly!"