"One-Eye" Lugos was a little surprised by Lynn's rejection.
In his opinion, how could working for those country folk compare with serving the lord?
How many people want to help relieve the lord's worries, but they are not so lucky.
He wanted to try again.
"If it's because of remuneration, this can be discussed..."
"This has nothing to do with reward, it's just because assassination is not a good job," Lynn thought about it and reminded tactfully, "Sir Lugos, Skellige people like to listen to rumors, the songs of bards, and the stories passed down by word of mouth."
"Then can you name any famous swordsman, bounty hunter, or mercenary who has ever had the experience of assassinating others?"
In this era, it's one thing to be the intelligence chief, but it's another thing entirely to assassinate someone yourself.
In the history of the mainland countries, there are many nobles who are intelligence chiefs and hold great power in their hands.
But these nobles, without exception, would not let their white gloves be stained with a trace of blood.
They would never let their subordinates do things like this.
For example, in the original novel, as the ceiling of human strength, Leo Bonhart is just a bounty hunter.
In fact, with his superb swordsmanship, if he was willing to take on the assassination job, he would definitely earn more than if he were a bounty hunter.
But no matter how notorious and notorious Bonhart is, he is not willing to help the nobles assassinate the enemy nobles.
Besides, in Skellige Isles, people sing about warriors who fight bravely on the battlefield. How often have you seen a song praising assassins?
If he accepts this job, the stigma of assassination will follow him just like the name "Kingslayer" follows Jaime Lannister.
Even if "One-Eye" Lugos is not spread, then your control will be in the opponent's hands.
You can only listen to the other party's mercy.
Finally, and most importantly, this doesn't make sense.
An Craite Clan is a local, and Clan Drummond is an outsider.
Helping "One-Eye" Lugos is equivalent to helping the tyrants do evil.
Lynn would not do this kind of thing that betrays one's conscience and would cause mental internal friction all the time when thinking about it in the future.
"One-Eye" Lugos looked a little ugly when he saw Lynn's firm attitude.
Indeed.
Just as Lynn thought, his purpose was indeed to kill an Craite Clan's young family head, Crach Quit.
In this way, when an Craite Clan is leaderless, he can take the opportunity to lead his troops northward, annex an Craite Clan's territory, and monopolize Great Skellige Island.
But he cannot use his own people to do this, he has to find outsiders.
Therefore, he thought of Lynn, which has been in the limelight recently.
Of course he wouldn't be like Voodoo Boys, who would just go out and find a foot wrap, get the job done, and then sell Lynn regardless of whether Lynn was in trouble or not.
What he thought was that he would find a position for Lynn in his own territory, such as captain of the guard or something like that.
But since Lynn doesn't want to, then forget it.
He was worried that if Lynn was cornered, they would turn to Crach Quite and join forces to deal with him.
So "One-Eye" Lugos gave up this plan and changed his request.
"My son," Madman"Lugos wants to become Clan Drummond the greatest warrior of all time, so he is planning an expedition."
"But the goal of his expedition is neither to loot the coast nor to rob the monastery, but to clean up the evil spirits entrenched in "Haunted Castle"."
Lynn said doubtfully.
"Haunted Castle? Where is that place?"
"A very bad place, a cursed place..." As if he didn't want to remember, "One-Eye" Lugos showed a painful expression, "I can't tell you the specific details, because no one can come out alive after entering Haunted Castle, so naturally no one knows what is inside."
Lynn also feels that this name does not sound like an auspicious place.
"If it's such a bad place, why would your son venture there?"
"One-Eye" Lugos said helplessly, "His nickname is "Madman", otherwise how do you think this nickname came from?"
This is true.
There are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames.
Since it was not to help the tyrants, but to be entrusted with hunting demons, Lynn readily agreed.
"Okay, but I want two thousand ducats as payment, how about that?"
"Okay, but my son can't lose an arm or a leg. It doesn't matter if he has a few more scars, but he can't be disabled."
Two thousand ducats are approximately equivalent to one thousand six hundred Oren.
Considering that even the king of Temeria originally paid Geralt only three thousand Oren.
As one of the lords who rules Skellige Isles, the fact that he is willing to spend one thousand six hundred Oren is enough to show his sincerity and the importance he attaches to his son.
The reward is indeed not particularly generous, but the other party is probably bleeding a lot.
No matter how much I ask for, the other party won't be able to get it.
"Okay, but I have one condition."
"Say, as long as it's not too much, I'll try my best to agree to it."
"Everything found in Haunted Castle belongs to me."
There must be valuable things in a place like this.
Of course, some of them may have curses attached to them.
But curses are something that ordinary people avoid, but not necessarily demon hunters.
Because witchers are experts at lifting curses.
Besides, if it really doesn't work, isn't there Tissaia, the near-legendary high-level sorceress?
"One-Eye"Lugos is not a fool either.
He quickly guessed what Lynn was thinking.
But he also knew that everything in that place might be cursed.
No matter how good the thing is, it must first have the life flower.
So, the two sides settled the matter happily.
"One-Eye"Lugos shouted toward the door, "Guard."
A guard walked in. "Master of the family?"
"One-Eye" Lugos pointed at Lynn.
"Take the master witcher to see my son and tell that stupid boy that this is the helper his father found for him."
"I don't need any help. That bad old man still treats me like a child. He is so self-righteous and thinks I can't do anything?!"
In another room at Kaer Muire Castle.
A young man who looked somewhat similar to "One-Eye" Lugos shouted loudly at the guard.
"Of course the head of the family doesn't mean this..."
The guard quickly explained.
But the young man obviously couldn't listen to anything.
While these two people were arguing, Lynn was also observing the young man.
"Madman" Lugos, the future owner of Clan Drummond.
In the Witcher 3, the fate of the family leader will also be different depending on the choice of Geralt in the game.
Seemingly noticing the witcher's gaze, "Madman" Lugos's eyes suddenly glared over fiercely.
"What are you looking at?"
Lynn met the other party's gaze without hesitation.
"You are "Madman" Lugos, right? I heard that although you are not old, no one in Clan Drummond can be your opponent."