Chapter 185 The Eternal Flame and the Lion in the Flame

The calm thinking of the security officer made Chapelle sober in an instant, and he decisively assembled all the armed forces of the Eternal Flame.

Most of these people are still enemies just now, but Shapet can see the burning eternal fire in their eyes:

"Many of you are today's sinners, and now is the time for you to redeem your sins.

Let's go, protect our Novigrad! "

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Novigrad Square.

The Eternal Flame set up several huge fire racks here, and these torture devices have not been used for a long time since Chapelle recovered from his stroke.

But today, they are lit again, and the torch is not held in the hands of the eternal flame - but the gang.

"Sure enough, the people of Eternal Flame don't care about us at all, we can make trouble as much as we want!"

Hawthorne II's subordinates laughed maniacally. They dressed up as clowns and danced excitedly when they heard the screams from the fire.

Among the people being tortured on the stake were members of their rival gangs, shop owners who usually opposed them, and even homeless people they dragged from the street.

"The beggar king and the man with the machete didn't make a move, but it doesn't matter, the underground world doesn't need cowards!"

"Everyone, go and plant the banner of the Ghost Face Gang in every shop and casino you can see. After today, there will only be one gangster in Novigrad, and that is..."

With a sound of "Pfft", the leader hadn't finished speaking under the fanatical gaze of his subordinates, when an arrow from nowhere pierced his neck in full view.

Colgrim put down the crossbow in his hand, his snake eyes were cold. Although the traditional equipment of the Snake School does not include crossbows, the demon hunters who have traveled all over the world always know a little bit of everything.

After killing the leader, Colgrim turned and left without looking at the raucous Ghostface gang.

He stalked from roof to roof, being surrounded would be dangerous for a solo witcher, and now he had a more urgent mission.

The original task of the three Snake Sects was to be on standby in the city of Novigrad to prevent accidents from happening.

They had already determined that the gangsters would no longer be a problem a day ago, thinking that this would be an unremarkable task, even Oakes clamored to go to Leto to help Lann together.

But who knows, those who prevent accidents will encounter accidents without accident.

The riots started. And unlike the original plan to stay away from the Temple Island and avoid casualties of believers, these gangsters with funny clown makeup are destroying almost everything within their sight.

After Hawthorne died, Hawthorne II took over the power of the family. He was a terrorist who was even worse than his father in terms of cruelty, shamelessness and other evil qualities. He released all the thugs and criminals of the family almost immediately, and then set off their carnival in the peaceful Novigrad.

The people of Eternal Flame are busy fighting among themselves at this time, and there is no decent order maintenance in the city at all. However, the Beggar King and the machete men were not ready for war at all, and they let the ghost face gang members rampage in the city for a while, and the situation deteriorated to the extreme in an instant.

Anticipating that something was wrong, the three of the Snake Sect acted immediately and forcibly attacked and killed Hawthorne II who was under heavy protection without a plan, ending his one-day career as the gang leader.

But the riots did not stop as they imagined, and there was no reason to take back the unsheathed knives.

"This is my mission, but I failed. The fault of this riot is all my fault." Serrit apologized to his partners, his mission was to assassinate Hawthorne. He's done well, but now things are going badly.

"No." Colgrim shook his head. "This is our task, and now we should make up for our mistakes."

The gang of the Hawthorne family has been in operation for a long time, and nearly a thousand thugs under them have spread over half of Novigrad. The Snake faction is divided into three groups. They have no way to stop all the gangsters. They can only slow down their destruction by killing their leader.

"Lan, Chapelle, whoever it is, hurry up and finish the matter at hand—"

As if they heard the inner voice of the Snake Demon Hunter, there was a sudden sound of rumbling horseshoes on the avenue at the gate of the city.

At this time, there were more than a dozen gang members scattered on the main road, and they were still stepping on the promotional notice of the eternal flame.

They were being attracted by the sound of rumbling horseshoes, and when they looked up, a pillar of fire that almost filled the entire road was blasted towards them.

These dozens of gangsters were ignited into torches in an instant.

——【Igni Seal · Outbreak】!

Before they could continue screaming, a blond knight stepped on his horse and rushed out from the guard of the flames, followed by a large group of well-armed cavalry.

Swinging swords together, these vicious gangsters became silent in an instant. They fell to the ground, and the prayers of the Eternal Fire were littering the streets:

【Eternal fire, you ignite our hearts and give us light.

Please give us warmth, dry our tears, burn our enemies, and bless our friends. 】

"Lan!" The Snake Demon Hunter shouted happily, jumped over the roof a few times, landed and rolled to remove the impact, and rushed in front of the cavalry team.

Lane and Colgrim exchanged briefly. After learning about the situation at the scene, he decisively ordered to his subordinates.

"House, Levin, and Milva, each of you leads a team of cavalry. The first priority is to kill the gangsters, and try to quell the chaos as quickly as possible, understand?"

"Yes, my lord!"

After a pause, Lan added: "Under the banner of Sintra, make the lion coat of arms more prominent."

"Yes, my lord!"

The cavalry team was immediately divided into three. These gangsters who don't even have armor are not opponents of fully armed cavalry at all. Facing them, the Sintra cavalry is even enough to fight against ten.

"The cavalry can only run on the main road, and there is no scruples in the trails. Colgrim, please find the Beggar King and the Machete, and let them cooperate with our actions. If they readily agree, tell them that Chapelle has Thank you very much; if you refuse, tell them that the Eternal Flame will liquidate all the gangsters in the city, leaving only 'friends'."

"Okay, leave it to me. I'll go find Oakes or Serritt!"

Finally, Lan turned to look at Leto.

The bald man asked consciously, "What do I need to do?"

"I don't know what's going on with the situation on the Temple Island. Please take a look. If it's over, tell Chapelle about the current danger here. Quick support is needed here."

Lesso nodded and left.

Soon there were only Lan and a few guards left in the field.

Lan En took a deep breath, this time the incident happened suddenly, he did not expect that Hawthorne II, who suddenly came to power, would be so crazy.

Compared with the original book, the gang leader is younger, crueler, and more reckless in his actions. Moreover, the forces of order in the city were not there, so he really took advantage of the loopholes.

This is not good, Lan needs a prosperous Novigrad as his friend.

However, this accident was also accompanied by gains, and it could even be regarded as a good thing for Lan En. After all, as a foreign army, there are not many opportunities to intervene in a city's city defense force to quell chaos, save civilians, and improve reputation...

Not far ahead, there was a sudden violent explosion, which attracted Lan's attention.

These gangsters actually used explosives.

Lan En's eyes were fixed: "Go, help!"

This is a large courtyard on the south side of Novigrad Square, and the gate is locked. After massacring those innocent citizens who had no time to find a hiding place in the square, the members of the Ghost Face Gang finally set their target here.

Theoretically, to instigate chaos and expand the results of the war as much as possible, gangsters should ignore such closed iron gates, but should look for those back alleys or flat low houses that are easy to break into.

But I don't know what or who is in this courtyard. At this moment, these gangsters exploded with amazing enthusiasm for this courtyard, and even used such things as alchemy explosives.

That is to say, in Novigrad, the underground gangsters can really get any lethal weapons.

Everyone in the courtyard was already trembling with fear from the movement outside. At this moment, the courtyard was breached, and all kinds of birds and beasts were frightened to scatter. At a cursory glance, there are men and women inside, and there are even quite a few dwarfs and disabled people.

But not everyone is fleeing, there are also brave ones: a few men in weird costumes stood up with swords in an attempt to fend off the gangsters. They are all wooden swords or knives.

These strangely dressed "knights" used awkward fighting postures to cheer themselves up loudly, but when they really came into close combat with the gangsters, the armor on their bodies was broken with a single poke, and they were killed by these vicious gangsters as soon as they met each other. Molecules took lives.

This is actually a theater, and all these "knights" are wearing costumes. It would be all right if they made gestures and dances on the stage, but it's a pity that the target they danced with their swords this time was the real outlaws.

Seeing the death of their companions, there were mournful cries in the theater, and the members of the Ghost Face Gang became even more excited.

Terrorists dressed as clowns rushed into the colorful theater, as if they were performing a bloody stage play.

"I want to find Irina, and I want her to dress up as a princess!"

"Go away, she is mine, I want her to act as a dryad and spend the last time with me!"

"Come one by one, she belongs to everyone!"

Gangsters stormed into the theater shouting outrageous slogans.

The owner of this theater was kind-hearted, and had previously accepted many different citizens who had nowhere to hide on the street at the beginning of the chaos, but at this time they all turned into turtles in their urns, crying and screaming but had nowhere to escape.

The adults were intimidated by the cruelty of the gangsters, but a few young men who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth rushed out brandishing swords, trying to protect the women and innocent citizens in the theater.

A triangular-eyed gangster easily knocked a child to the ground, and amusedly pulled a blond-haired half-grown child: "Haha, very interesting game, kid, do you know what the end of the knight is?"

The boy kept struggling, as if he didn't know what to be afraid of. On the chest of his costume was a lion with teeth and claws, and he shouted: "Let me go, I am the lion of Cintra, you are not allowed to hurt the theater companions." !"

It may be that the theater is rehearsing some new play recently, which made the kid get into the play too deeply. This absurd remark made all the villains laugh.

"The lion of Cintra? Hahaha, how could he manage the affairs of Novigrad?"

A brown-haired and brown-eyed woman wielded a wooden stick, but she was quickly knocked to the ground as a delicate and frail woman, with only the strength left to beg for mercy:

"Don't hurt the child, please!"

In addition to people who love art, the troupe occasionally adopts street children as apprentices. For them, the troupe is their home, which is why these young people are braver than adults at the moment.

There was an evil light in the eyes of the men wearing clown masks: "Don't worry, we will come to hurt you in a while—Ms. Irina."

The eyes of the terrorists were all attracted by the actresses of the troupe, but they didn't notice that in the crowd hiding aside, a child suddenly started to twitch all over.

His body began to wriggle and swell like plasticine, growing taller and stronger under the terrified eyes of the children around him, becoming the size of an adult; his hair also gradually whitened, straightened and lengthened, and finally fell to his shoulders.

The skin of his body shone with an oily sheen, and covered him with black leather; silver studs and chain mail appeared on his shoulders and sleeves; light.

Two swords also appear above his right shoulder, and a wolf's head badge dangles from his chest.

The woman who fell on the ground saw all this clearly, and she murmured in surprise: "Dudu..."

"I'm sorry, Miss Irina, I've been having a good time at the theater these days. But I'm actually a doppelganger."

The shapeshifter named "Doo" stared open its amber cat pupils, pulled out the sword behind it, and rushed towards the stunned gangsters.

His sword moves like the wind, tossing and turning, and his skilled moves are like a swordsman who has been obsessed with killing for many years.

His reaction was quick and his speed was astonishing, and from time to time his left hand released an astonishing shock storm in conjunction with his sword moves, easily tearing open the gangsters' encirclement and defeating them one by one.

The only fly in the ointment is that his sword moves are not strong enough. Facing many situations that are enough to kill with one blow, he often hesitates for a while and misses a lot of opportunities.

So after the first few seconds of being stunned by the transformation of the doppelganger, the counterattacks of the villains followed one after another.

Daggers can't pierce the hard armor made by the doppelganger, but there are also a few axes mixed in it. The shapeshifter was no match for four hands with two fists, and soon he was injured.

"Stop it, that monster over there!"

Just when the shapeshifter was struggling, he suddenly heard a shout. He swung his sword vigorously to avoid the enemy in front of him and jumped out of the battle circle. When he turned around, he saw a scene that shocked him.

It turned out that when the low-level gangsters in front were feeding the enemy's long sword with their bodies without thinking, the bosses had already retreated to a safe place and took the hostages in their hands.

In addition to the blond boy at the beginning, they also captured a praying eternal fire believer, and there are more gangsters taking hostages.

There are various methods used by gangsters to win.

Seeing this panic, the shapeshifter made a seal with his left hand, and suddenly created a shock of thought power in front of him. Then he rushed into the crowd with a short body and a sword, slashed left and right, and forced the villains back.

It's not that he doesn't care about the hostages, but the reason in his current body tells him: If he is led by the nose by the villains at this time, not only will he not be able to save the hostages, but more friends may be sacrificed.

Those villains may also have encountered such a decisive fighter for the first time. After being dazed for a second, as if waking up from a dream, he mentioned the blond boy in his hand, and suddenly stabbed him fiercely with a dagger:

"Stop it, you dirty monster! If you don't want to make a few more blood holes on the kid, stop it!"

The blond boy screamed after being stabbed.

Another believer who was taken hostage was also stabbed, and the voice of his prayer was distorted:

"The Eternal Flame will not let you go!"

The hostages were attacked, and screams filled their ears. At this moment, the beeping shapeshifter thoughts surged up again, and the man who swung his long sword and killed all directions in the field froze immediately.

His cheeks kept twitching, as if he was enduring something: "Let him go, I can spare your life and let you leave here alive."

Seeing that the threat was effective, the triangular-eyed gangster breathed a sigh of relief and laughed loudly: "Your theater actually harbors monsters, or shapeshifters! As long as the news is released, even if we don't come back here, the eternal flame will destroy everything here." For ashes!"

He looked at the doppelganger, with a fierce and greedy light in his eyes: "I have a better idea...put down the sword and follow us, from now on this theater will be the territory of our Ghost Face Gang..."

"Dudu, leave me alone!" The boy caught in the hands of the triangular eyes suddenly struggled violently. The place where he was stabbed by the dagger was bleeding out continuously, and the little boy was crying in pain.

But even so, he was still crying: "I am the lion of Cintra! Lann Lannister Ray Allen! Leave me alone!"

After he finished speaking, he took advantage of the triangular-eyed gangster's unpreparedness and bit hard on the opponent's hand, causing the opponent to scream in pain.

"Smelly brat!" The villain felt the pain, and in a fit of rage he raised his dagger again to make multiple holes in the child's back.

The shapeshifter beeped in shock: "Stop!"

He swung his long sword and was about to step forward, his speed seemed to be too late to save the young man, but suddenly he heard the sound of a sharp arrow piercing the air.

With a sound of "噗嗤", a metal arrow shot out from Triangle Eye's neck, and he kept spitting blood from his mouth, obviously feeling the pain. But he couldn't even look down at his wound at the moment.

The gang members didn't even notice that there was an enemy behind them, and they turned their heads in panic at this moment.

At the entrance of the theater, a blond knight put down the crossbow in his hand, he carried two swords on his back, and a majestic lion was painted on the armor.

Everyone in the field was stunned for a moment. They looked at the blond boy who fell to the ground and forgot to cry, and then looked at the blond knight at the door.

At this time, Lan En also saw the situation in the field clearly.

A child imitating himself, and a... 1:1 replica of Geralt without a scar?

"Dudu, hurry up and save Xiao Lai!"

Irina screamed, and everyone in the field woke up like a dream.

But Lan was not in the slightest daze. When everyone's eyes were still focused on him, he raised his hand decisively, letting a hazy white light cover the head of a gangster.

【Yakeshi Sign】!

The villain closest to the boy turned into a walking dead on the spot, and Lann erupted at a speed far beyond ordinary people. Everyone suddenly saw a silver-black wind blowing past their eyes, and a sword touched the rest of the villains. Snatched their hands before reaching the boy.

Grabbing the blond boy by the back of the collar, he threw him in the direction of "Geralt" without looking back, and then Lane stretched out the rune sword again, and deftly lifted the hand of another prisoner, Kick this disciple of the eternal flame to safety.

There are no more friendly troops in sight, but the enemy has gathered together at this time. This is Lann's favorite way to meet the enemy at this stage.

Stretch your left hand forward, and the magic value dives downward.

[Igni Seal · Magic Explosion! 】

A heat wave that was not inferior to gangsters blasting open the iron gate gushed out, instantly enveloping these villains.

The scalding air poured back and made the trembling people behind blindfolded. Only the believer of Eternal Flame who had just been thrown back stared at him, lying on the ground and even forgot to get up.

He muttered to himself: "The flame cleanses the filth, just like burning a wound with thick sores, the souls who have committed evil crimes must also be purified by the flame..."

The enemy in front of him was defeated within two rounds by Lan En, and the cavalry who came with Lan En scattered in all directions, looking for other gangsters in the courtyard who slipped through the net.

The children hiding in the corner didn't feel the slightest bit of fear when they saw this scene, and the blood could no longer arouse their fear. They looked at the dazzling knight with shining eyes at this moment.

Seeing "Geralt" handing the child over to the brown-haired woman beside him and looking at him warily, Lane chuckled lightly.

"I'm Lann Lannister Ray Allen. Geralt told me that he once encountered a very interesting shapeshifter in Novigrad. It is said that the other party transformed into him. If I didn't If I remember correctly, your name should be——Dudu?"

Of course, Geralt did not tell this story, but Lan read it in his previous life.

The shapeshifter in front of him named "Duddo" is the one Geralt encountered before. He was once hunted down by Geralt, and later he changed into Geralt's appearance and wanted to fight the original demon hunter. He was overwhelmed by Geralt's aura before the fight started. And Shapet finally revealed his identity as a shapeshifter in front of Geralt in order to save him.

When Dudu heard Geralt's name, his body obviously relaxed a little, but the guard on his face still didn't dissipate.

"You know Geralt?"

Lan En nodded, tilted his head and gestured outside the door: "There is still a commotion outside, I'm going to help quell it, do you want to help?"

Thoughts originating from Geralt surged up again, and Dudu was obviously moved, but then he looked back at the people in the courtyard and shook his head: "I want to protect everyone in the theater here."

Lan nodded and said nothing more, turned around and called the knights who had finished searching to leave with their horses, coming and going faster.

Only then did the people in the Foxen Troupe wake up from a dream, and someone immediately went to investigate the situation of the injured companion. Irina immediately organized everyone who still had strength to search for everything they could find and blocked the theater's door again.

Dudu's body contorted for a while, and quickly changed from Geralt's image to a bearded doctor, helping the blond boy to examine the wound.

"Doo?" The boy looked at the strange-looking shapeshifter and asked uncertainly. Obviously not long ago, the bearded doctor in front of him was still his playmate who was as tall as himself, but just now he turned into a white-haired swordsman and killed many gangsters.

Dudu nodded silently.

The boy's eyes lit up: "Dudu, you are amazing!"

Dudu's movements suddenly stopped, and the silent expression finally melted.

"Yeah?"

"Hmm!" The boy's eyes sparkled with stars, "Can I learn this?"

Dudu shook his head: "You can't learn it, and you don't want to learn it."

"Okay." The boy pursed his lips. He suddenly thought of something and shouted excitedly, "That...that knight just now, did you mean he is a lion? He is, right?"

"That's right, that's what he said, he is the Lion, Lann Lannister Rhianlun."

"He pulled me by the collar and threw me out." The boy's face was blushing with excitement even though he had lost a lot of blood, "I think I'm also very powerful!"

Dudu looked at the boy and chuckled.

"Yes, you are also very powerful."

Recommend a novel with the same theme as the witcher - "The Warlord of the Witcher World", the link is at the bottom.

A new book by an old author with 1.5 million copies. The author said that the war for hegemony is more focused on war tactics and written in the way of historical texts. And I have a completely different style, another way.

Moreover, the background setting of this author is really detailed. I found a lot of original settings on the external network over the wall, and I was dumbfounded throughout the whole night of discussing with me.

The book is still thin, but you can collect it first~