Demon Hunter: I have a red gourd

Chapter 1 Red Gourd

1262, Western Swamp of Velen.

Ivan jerked to the left, narrowly avoiding the monster's next swift attack. Its sharp claws sliced ​​through the air, stirring up a gust of damp wind, mingled with the pungent smell of fish.

Taking advantage of the monster's unstable center of gravity, Ivan did not hesitate to turn his hand and slash the silver sword with a cold glowing light accurately into its exposed neck.

Blood gushed out instantly, accompanied by a shrill roar from the monster. Ivan kicked it on the back, knocking it over into the muddy water, splashing a large amount of mud.

The last one.

Ivan carefully wiped the blood off the silver sword and put it into the scabbard behind him.

He looked around and saw purple-blue broken arms and limbs scattered in the swamp, scales and dorsal fins were faintly visible in the mud and water, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood and the sour stench of corruption.

Ivan sniffed. Although he had witnessed such scenes more than a dozen times, his overly sensitive sense of smell still made him feel very uncomfortable.

Water ghost.

The most common type of monster in Velen.

It is also the weakest type of monster.

If there were an experienced old man present, he might be able to tell Ivan's identity at a glance.

A demon hunter.

However, unlike ordinary demon hunters, this young and handsome boy now looked a little embarrassed.

The armor on his body seemed to have been through a fierce battle, with obvious damage in several places.

The protective plates on the shoulders were torn, and there was a deep gash in the breastplate.

The silver sword that had just been used had also lost its luster, and the mottled marks on the sword showed that it had experienced a fierce collision.

The blade is slightly blunt, with slight cracks faintly visible.

However, the most eye-catching thing was his waist.

Hanging there was an exquisitely crafted red gourd that was completely inconsistent with the style of this demon hunter.

The gourd is bright red all over and as shiny as a mirror. Golden lines swirl around its surface, depicting a pattern of flying dragons and phoenixes, like flowing streams.

"1, 2, 36, six water ghosts in total. This should be enough."

Ivan grinned and reached out to uncork the red gourd at his waist.

In a sight that only he could see, a white light like air emerged from the water ghost's body on the ground and slowly flowed into the red gourd around his waist.

[Water Ghost Spirit*6 collected, Spiritual Essence +60]

[Current Water Ghost Spirit Collection Progress: 100/100]

[Detected that a monster spirit has been collected, the system is officially activated! ]

"It's done! It's finally done!"

"After all this hard work, my cheat code is finally going to be online!"

Seeing the pale golden words suddenly appearing before his eyes, Ivan finally couldn't suppress his inner excitement and let out a long roar to the sky.

It has been three months since I came into this world.

Three months ago, Ivan was just an ordinary master's student.

It was an ordinary night. He punched out of the lab as usual, and then rewarded himself with a few hours of playing the new game.

However, when he went to bed, he never expected that when he opened his eyes again, he would find himself in a completely unfamiliar world.

The identity of the person he had traveled through was quite abstract. His name was also Ivan, a young demon hunter apprentice from the Griffin School who had just passed the Green Grass Trial and the Dream Trial.

The reason why he is called a demon hunter apprentice is that the demon hunter trials of most schools are generally divided into four stages:

Choice, Grass Trial, Dream Trial and Mountain Trial.

Without passing these four stages of trials, one cannot be fully recognized by the school and cannot be called a true demon hunter.

The decision means that the witcher apprentice needs to voluntarily decide whether to accept the witcher lifestyle at this stage.

During this stage, apprentices are not allowed to eat any food other than the herbs, mushrooms and mosses grown in the witcher's laboratory. They must also undergo rigorous and cruel physical training and theoretical knowledge learning, which will last about six years.

The Trial of Green Grass is the cruelest and most painful stage of the Demon Hunter Trial.

During this stage, apprentices need to take a special decoction called "green grass". This decoction is undoubtedly highly toxic to ordinary people. Only by eating the special mushrooms and mosses cultivated by the witcher for a long time and the transformed body can it be barely tolerated.

Even so, the success rate is less than 30%.

The Trial of Green Grass lasts for about seven days. The witcher apprentice who successfully passes the Trial of Green Grass will have his body mutated, his strength enhanced, and his reaction speed accelerated. In the eyes of ordinary people, he can be called a superman.

Next is the dream trial. In this stage, apprentices need to take and inject more special potions. After surviving, their eyes will mutate like cats or poisonous snakes, and they will gain the ability to see in the dark.

Depending on the formula of each school, the bone marrow and hormones will also produce different mutations, allowing apprentices to recover from injuries faster, have stronger resistance to poison, and gain the unique abilities of each school.

The Green Grass Trial and the Dream Trial are the two parts of the Demon Hunter Trial with the highest mortality rate, which is also the direct reason for the scarcity of Demon Hunters. After passing these two trials, the apprentices' bodies are no different from those of full-fledged Demon Hunters.

But this is still not enough to gain the recognition of the school, and the next step is the last stage of the Demon Hunter Trial.

The Mountain Trial is also known as the "Badge Trial".

This is actually an examination for the apprentices, the main purpose of which is to test whether they still remember what they learned during the decision-making period.

The assessment methods of different schools are also different. For example, the Wolf School, which has the best-preserved heritage, requires apprentices to go through a difficult trial in the mountains.

They have to avoid various powerful monsters on the way, such as the little fog monster, the cyclops "Old Spearhead" and the troll, and finally reach the "Ring of Elements" and obtain their own school badge, and the trial will end.

This is undoubtedly extremely dangerous for newcomers. Only by cooperating and supporting each other can they have the possibility of passing. This is also the purpose of the Wolf School mentors.

The Griffin School is different from the Wolf School. In the distant past, the Griffin School's mountain trial task required its apprentices to find a griffin nest in the egg-laying period and bring a griffin egg from it back to the school's castle.

However, as time went by, the number of griffins had greatly decreased due to organized hunting by demon hunters, and it was even more difficult to find the nests of griffins during the egg-laying period.

Therefore, in order to better train the apprentices of the school, the instructors of the Griffin School adjusted the original trial tasks.

They changed the task to a more difficult, but not completely impossible challenge - that is, the apprentice was required to hunt down an ordinary griffin alone without the help of others.

The instructors provided more targeted training for the apprentices based on the characteristics of the griffins.

There are three types of griffins: common griffins, great griffins, and royal griffins.

Thanks to the instructors' carefully designed training plans and sufficient preparation, most apprentices can complete the task independently when facing an ordinary griffin.

What they need to worry about more is where to find an ordinary griffin in this era.

Ivan's predecessor was a young demon hunter apprentice who was called "the most dazzling genius of the Griffin School since its founder" by the old mentor Kelda.
At this stage,
He was killed by the griffin that he had found with great difficulty!

Isn't this too outrageous?
He luckily passed the first three difficult stages of the trial, but died in the high mountain trial with the highest pass rate.

It can be said that all the suffering was suffered by the indigenous people in our previous lives.

All the blessings were enjoyed by Ivan, the time traveler.

What a sad life.

(End of this chapter)