Crow's Perch is built on an inland island, and the entire castle is divided into an inner city and an outer city.
The inner city was the residence of the lord, while the outer city was for the residents of the lord.
When Baron Velerad left Crow's Perch, he also took many residents from the outer city with him. Now Crow's Perch's outer city happens to have a lot of vacant houses and land. Even if these people are allowed to live there, there will still be open space.
Putting them under your nose is also convenient for monitoring.
Otherwise, if they were moved to another village too far away from Crow's Perch, they would not even know they were corrupted by then.
Of course, Lynn also knows that this approach only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
Velen will never lack followers of Ladies of the Wood.
Once another natural disaster or man-made disaster strikes, people on Velen will rush to offer their loyalty and faith without their instigation.
But in fact Lynn knows what the so-called Ladies of the Wood is.
So he is waiting.
Ladies of the Wood holds a banquet every year on Bald Mountain.
Those believers who believe in Ladies of the Wood will also go to Bald Mountain at this time to present the tributes they have prepared for this year to Ladies of the Wood.
Afterwards, they will receive Ladies of the Wood's magic acorns from the sacred oak tree on top of Bald Mountain's mountain.
As long as believers squeeze these magic acorns into oil and then sprinkle it on the fields, they can have a bumper harvest in the coming year.
And what Lynn has to wait for is that time.
Lynn asked people to buy a large amount of grain at Novigrad, and Triss opened a portal to transport the grain directly to Crow's Perch, and then sent it to other villages.
With these grains available, if we save some food, we can feed Velen people for at least a year.
However, Lynn also knows that people are lazy.
Therefore, in order to prevent the Velen people from forming the habit of "it doesn't matter whether the land is planted or not with the lord's relief anyway", when distributing grain, he made it clear that the grain was lent to them by the lord and they would have to pay it back in the future.
At the same time, Lynn also spread Eternal Fire to the land of Velen. In addition to preparing to defeat faith with faith, the newly formed Order of Hospitallers will also take on the responsibility of patrolling the roads between villages.
Lynn does not expect them to eliminate all threats to Velen, as long as they ensure safety on the road.
In the next two months, Lynn has been staying with Velen, helping Triss become a qualified lord.
Then, two months passed by in the blink of an eye.
On this day, at dusk, Lynn came to Bald Mountain alone by boat.
Because today is the time when Ladies of the Wood gathers on Bald Mountain to collect tributes from those believers and give them blessings.
Bald Mountain There is only one way up the mountain.
At the bottom of the mountain, Lynn took out several bottles of high-grade magic potion, took them respectively, and then walked towards the mountain.
At this time, the sun has completely dropped below the horizon, and night has fallen.
The surroundings became quiet and silent.
After Lynn walked on the mountain road for a while, suddenly a crossbow arrow shot over from above.
In his current eyes, the speed of this crossbow arrow is really slow.
He didn't even draw his sword, and with a flick of his hand, he blocked the flying crossbow arrow aside.
Immediately, he looked upward.
But on the mountain road in the distance, I saw a man holding a crossbow with a stunned expression on his face.
Apparently he was frightened by Lynn's ability to deflect flying arrows with one hand.
Lynn suddenly disappeared from the place, and when he reappeared, he was already in front of the man.
Before he could react, he reached out and grabbed his throat tightly and lifted him up from the ground.
The man still wanted to struggle, but the hand holding his throat was like steel. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free.
Click--
Only a crisp sound was heard, and the man stopped struggling.
When Lynn dropped the man's body, more guards holding pitchforks and wearing garlands rushed out from the blind spots on both sides of the mountain road.
From their clothing, Lynn could easily tell that these guards were farmers, not soldiers.
Except for the one whose neck was broken, the other guards were holding farm tools, not weapons.
If Geralt was here, he might be soft-hearted.
But Lynn is not Geralt, and he will not show mercy.
On the narrow and rugged mountain road, the huge Lady of the Lake's Sword was waving like a storm. Wherever the giant sword passed, patches of bright cold light shone.
Although these guards are numerous, they will soon discover a desperate fact: they are not surrounding Lynn, but Lynn alone has surrounded them.
Pitchforks, hoes, scythes... none of the agricultural tools can hit the witcher. On the contrary, the huge and exaggerated Lady of the Lake's Sword in the witcher's hand will bring up pieces of blood mist every time he swings it.
Because the swing was so fast, the guards could only see a flash of snow-white sword light, and their bodies had no time to react before they were split in half by the sword light.
When the number of surrounding guards dropped sharply from dozens to dozens, the remaining guards finally woke up from their enthusiasm for Ladies of the Wood.
Smelling the strong smell of blood wafting in the air, and seeing the fallen corpses of his companions on the mountain road, even the most ardent believer, the belief in his heart was eventually overwhelmed by the biological instinct of fear.
I don't know who shouted first, then dropped the weapon, turned around and ran away.
Seeing this, the other guards joined in the escape.
If they are on the battlefield, these enemies who have lost their will to fight can still live and let their country pay a ransom for them.
Or let them earn the right to freedom through labor.
But this is not on the battlefield, and these guards are not enemy soldiers with different positions, but minions of evil creatures.
Then leave them alone.
After killing all the guards, another half hour passed, and finally, Lynn came to an open space in the mountains.
I saw several blazing bonfires set up in the open space.
Many men and women wearing garlands were sitting around the campfire, talking to each other.
Some of them saw the Witcher because of the angle.
But Lynn really didn't look like a believer who came up the mountain to ask for blessings, so everyone who saw him couldn't help but focus on him.
Slowly, other people began to be affected and looked over.
Eventually, everyone stopped talking.
Lynn stuck the big sword in his hand on the ground.
He turned on Detect Evil and found that the degree of corruption among the people present was not that serious.
At least they are not as corrupted as the guards outside.