However, no one can always be favored by the goddess of luck, and Shirley is no exception.

Just when she left the courtyard and came to a dark corridor, a hand suddenly appeared and grabbed her by the back of her collar, lifting her entire petite body up!

A slightly contented hoarse voice then sounded:

"Got you, little one!"

It was a short man with a crooked nose, a bruised and swollen face, and an obvious scar on his lip.

The one who caught Ciri was Terra Nova who had his nose blown off by Lu Qi's punch and then threw Kayla out of the window in the melee!

The short warlock clamped his hands firmly on Ciri's shoulders, making the girl's struggle meaningless:

"Stop flapping your wings, little bird, or I will singe your feathers! Let me take a good look at what the Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr and the girl Vygfortz values ​​so much look like.

Sample..."

Approaching Ciri, Terranova looked the silver-haired girl up and down, and then opened her mouth full of stench:

"It's interesting. They say you are so precious, but I think you are worthless. However, you are a person who can see the future. There must be something worthy of their efforts and they must seize your value."

"What if the person who gave you as a gift to Emhyr was Old Terranova? What reward would he be willing to give? It's exciting to think about it!"

"Why don't you say a word? Do you think I am afraid of you, a little bird in my hand? A false prophet, a false prophet?!"

"Maybe you should be afraid."

Hearing Xili's murmur, the short warlock immediately looked up to the sky and laughed, but the next second, the laughter suddenly turned into a painful scream.

A bolt of lightning hit his back with a "pop". It made his feet weak in pain, and he fell to his knees directly on the ground.

Taking this opportunity, Ciri rushed forward and broke free from Terra Nova's restraints in an instant.

"You can't even think of escaping from me..."

Whispering? The short warlock raised a hand, pointed it at Ciri, and began to recite a spell in a crazy and hoarse voice.

However? There is someone faster than him!

An afterimage suddenly appeared behind him.

The next second, the sharp sword with cold light cut through the air and neatly chopped off the short warlock's head!

The head with its lips still trembling slightly? How many times did it spin in the air? Finally, it fell to the ground with a "bang".

In an instant, a rich bright red spurted out from the fracture!

Hearing the sound, Xili looked back, but was pleasantly surprised to see a familiar face:

"Geralt!"

"Ciri."

In addition to the white-haired witcher, Ciri also saw a black-haired man? And a sorceress she had seen in Gastang Palace.

Those were Lu Qi and Keira who came with Geralt to find Ciri.

Stepping forward and kicking the headless corpse hard? Keira cursed in a low voice with a slightly unclear voice:

"Damn dwarf? I asked you to beat me...I asked you to throw me out of the window..."

Needless to say, that bolt of lightning that just hit Terranova's back was her fault...

Letting Keira vent her inner frustration, Lu Qi took a step forward and reminded:

"We don't have time, let's get out of here quickly, the Scoia'tael will be chasing us soon..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of rapid and noisy footsteps sounded from the stairs behind him!

As a result, the four of them immediately ran away without saying a word.

However, before he could run very far, he heard several "ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss" sound, and a series of sharp arrows came from behind and plunged into the ground on both sides.

Looking back, the demon hunter suddenly stopped his feet, holding swords in both hands, and said calmly:

"Alex, you and the two of them go first, and I'll stop those elves."

Hearing this, Xili couldn't help but stop and shouted:

"Are you going to abandon me too?!"

"I will come soon. He is my friend and will protect you."

Glancing at Lu Qi, the silver-haired girl looked at the other shorter steel sword behind the demon hunter and said firmly:

"Give me my sword, Geralt!"

However, the demon hunter did not intend to hand the sword to her just like that. Instead, he looked directly into those green eyes and said calmly:

"If you have a sword in your hand, you have to kill with it. Can you do it?"

"I don't know, give me my sword."

Under Ciri's insistence, Geralt handed her the tailor-made steel sword.

Lu Qi, who witnessed the whole process, knew that with the skills of the demon hunter, the Scoia'tael could not do anything to him. However, before leaving, he still did not forget to remind:

"Be careful, don't be shot into a hedgehog by those guys..."

"I'll be here in a minute."

...

Leaving behind Geralt, the three people who had just left Gastang Palace were about to walk down the road surrounding the hillside, away from this chaotic vortex.

But at this moment, a sound of horse hooves sounded from behind!

Xili, who was running, couldn't help but look back. Fear immediately froze her in place.

Chasing the three men on horseback was a knight in black armor, with raptor feathers on his helmet, and a black cloak fluttering and whistling in the wind behind him.

Behind him, there were some elven archers wearing hats decorated with squirrel fur, hurried over.

The galloping black knight reminded Ciri of Cintra, of the Nilfgaardians in black armor massacred in the city, and of the blood and raging fires...

"Ciri!"

At Lu Qi's shout, the silver-haired girl who was standing there blinked and woke up from the nightmare that had been plaguing her.

Seeing another wave of pursuing soldiers approaching, Lu Qi pulled out the steel sword from his waist and looked at the sorceress beside him:

"Keira, you and her go first!"

"how about you?"

"I'll come right after I deal with them!"

Before he finished speaking, Lu Qi raised the steel sword in his hand and blocked a sharp sword that was shot at his head with a "clang" sound.

The next second, he raised his left hand politely, swung it forward, and a flying knife merged into the darkness and shot out quickly.

With a sound of "Ah", an elf who shot an arrow at him not far away immediately covered his throat with his hands and fell to the ground.

At the same time, the black-armored knight riding at the forefront was getting closer and closer:

"Young lion of Sintra, you can't escape this time!"

Hearing this, Lu Qi, who was standing in front of Xili and Kayla, sharpened his eyes and threw his left hand forward again!

Accompanied by the horse's scream, the knight on the horse only felt castrated. Before he had time to react, he was thrown away by the horse that suddenly knelt down on its knees!

With a "bang" sound, it rolled on the ground several times before the black-armored knight rolled into the grass beside it.

Ciri, who had witnessed all this, looked at the funny look of the black knight who was lingering in her dream, fell off his horse, and then rolled into the grass. The fear in his heart was suddenly replaced by relaxation:
Chapter completed!