"If you really find it, you can greatly increase the survival rate of Trial of the Grasses and allow the number of our demon hunters to grow rapidly - I know this will take at least ten years, maybe even longer."
"But for us demon hunters, decades or hundreds of years are just a passing moment."
"In this day and age, demon hunting commissions are no longer what they used to be. It's getting harder and harder to find jobs. The employment environment will only get worse in the future, but when the time comes, more demon hunters will flood into the market. I'm afraid..."
Auckes did not mean to contradict Lynn.
He is just worried.
When Old Order split, the pioneers of School of the Viper followed Arnaghad and left the cult.
But later they betrayed Arnaghad and almost killed him before continuing to move south.
It is precisely because School of the Viper and School of the Cat do not mind accepting assassination commissions to make a living...
Therefore, the demon hunter of School of the Viper is more realistic when considering issues.
Now these demon hunters are all subordinates of Lynn.
And it is impossible for Lynn to ignore his brothers and teachers of his own school.
This means that Vesemir, Lambert, and Eskel will all join.
This adds three more mouths to eat.
No matter how well Vesemir and the two sorceresses improved Potion of the Grasses, there will always be a few of the children who followed them to Kaer Morhen alive to survive Trial of the Grasses.
Does this increase the number of people that need to be fed?
What if the number of witchers continues to increase?
Since Letho and others did not know the asset status of Lynn, this made the realist Auckes unable to help but worry.
If this number continues, it will only be a matter of time before the number of demon hunters exceeds fifty or even one hundred.
And Lynn, can he pay the salary of a hundred demon hunters?
If he goes bankrupt, how will so many demon hunters be settled?
Today's demon hunters can no longer be said to live, but to survive.
It's still so hard to find a job now. In the future, the number of monsters will become smaller, but the number of demon hunters will increase. By then, won't the environment be even worse?
The words of Auckes are also the voices of Letho and Serrit.
School of the Viper is different from School of the Griffin.
School of the Griffin Even if you don't need any reward, you can survive as long as you are grateful from the people you help.
But School of the Viper has been living in a more realistic and cruel Nilfgaardian Empire that has no human touch at all for a long time and only operates according to a set of rules, so he is accustomed to thinking about the worst in everything.
Auckes's words immediately resonated with others.
Even Tissaia and Yennefer looked over curiously, wanting to see how Lynn would answer.
Although Brotherhood of Sorcerers in this era is full of shortcomings, it still stands like a big mountain.
Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, spell casters are aloof beings.
But in fact, only the top group of warlocks at the top of the pyramid can monopolize all resources.
The life of an ordinary warlock is not as fulfilling as imagined.
Take Yennefer as an example.
Because of her reputation, female nobles would come to her if they wanted to have an abortion.
Even Yennefer's fees are much higher than those of ordinary warlocks.
But those female nobles are willing to line up to send money to Yennefer.
Ordinary warlocks do not have such a great reputation, so they can only rely on the knowledge they learned in the academy to become an herbalist, alchemist, or other related professions.
This is the current situation for most spellcasters.
Different from the powerful warlocks in bards and street stalls, whose guns and oars were turned into ashes while talking and laughing, most warlocks in reality do not have that strength, and most of the resources are monopolized by high-level warlocks, and they can only fight for the scraps that flow out of the cracks in their hands.
Regarding this current situation, Brotherhood of Sorcerers has never thought about how to improve it.
Because high-level warlocks regard ordinary warlocks with low strength as mortals.
Therefore, they never thought about doing something for those ordinary warlocks, they only cared about what these ordinary warlocks could do for them.
Therefore, these two sorceresses were also very curious and wanted to know what Lynn's plans would be if he succeeded in creating a large number of demon hunters in batches.
Facing the many eyes focused on him, Lynn smiled slightly.
He told Tissaia before that as long as he helped Istredd, Istredd promised to allocate a piece of land from Kovir to him, and told him again.
Except for a few insiders such as Geralt and Tissaia, everyone else was shocked.
"Geralt, I remember that escort mission, you also participated in it, Lynn, is what this kid said true?" Lambert looked at Geralt in shock.
Geralt nodded.
Eskel asked, "Then do you think he will keep his promise?"
Geralt shook his head first, then nodded. "I... I don't know, but Lynn thinks he will, I believe Lynn."
"Land, a territory that belongs to the witcher himself."
On the other side, Letho, Serrit, and Auckes's eyes lit up, and their faces could not help but reveal a look of yearning.
Even the headquarters of the Old Order era - the Morgraig Castle located in the Kestrel Mountains, strictly speaking, is not the territory of the demon hunters, but an unclaimed land occupied by the demon hunters.
So Alzur and Cosimo can continue their plan to cultivate demon hunters in that castle.
This is even more true as for the various schools of thought that split from Old Order.
It is for this reason that they need to work to support themselves.
But if you can get a territory, it will be different.
Just like those canonized knights on the mainland, they can obtain most of the labor output of their subjects without producing.
In this way, even if the monsters are extinct and no one posts monster hunting requests anymore, they don't have to worry about going hungry.
Of course, the three Letho never thought about becoming anyone's master.
After all, Lynn is their employer now, and the head of the Thyssen family family only made an agreement with Lynn.
Although School of the Viper is a realist, there is no rebellion in the back of his head. And through this period of contact with Lynn, he has become more aware of how unfathomable and terrifying this young demon hunter is.
Since School of the Viper's base camp was captured by the army sent by Nilfgaard's usurper emperor, Letho's ideals and goals have only been to rebuild School of the Viper.
They never dared to think that the demon hunters could actually obtain a territory like the knights.
It is Lynn who has a more lofty ideal than them, and it is not just rhetoric, but really active for this goal. Letho and the three people do not have the slightest idea that they should not have it. On the contrary, they respect Lynn even more.