The First Hunt 3

At the outskirts of Ard Carraigh, already deep into the forest and throughout the entire journey, Prince Amavet was glaring daggers at me.

His guards defended him from the ordinary beasts, and maybe a little I underrate them!

Maximus the captain of guards, I could feel he is strong. The way he moves and the way he carries his sword gave me the feeling similar to Deglan.

A skilled warrior!

As for the remaining guards, they were a little bit strong… but not strong as Maximus.

"We reached the place, witcher," Maximus said.

It was an open field deep into the forest where the griffin was last sighted and it would be ease fighting a griffin here.

"Let me warn you, captain, the griffin lure might summon more than one griffin." I was serious.

The Captain nodded his head, and said to his guards, "bring the bait."

A guard soon brought an alive goat, "maeee!"

I poured the griffin's lure onto the goat and tied the goat at the centre of this field.

As for the griffin's lure potion, I had little help from a herbalist at Ard Carraigh! It surprised me when she sold her herbs pretty cheap.

I thought my handsome face earned a discount! But only later I learned the griffin killed her family member in the forest!

"Now what, witcher?" The prince Amavet asked.

"We wait." I said as I took care of the goat.

****

Few hours later

"maeeee….. maeeee…" the goat called.

"How much longer, Witcher!" the prince was getting tired of waiting, and whispered, "we should have brought Azella here."

Azella? your new debaucheries?

"Shhhhh!" I gestured him to be silent, with my finger on lips.

My Witcher senses were picking a sound.

"Can you hear it" I asked Maximus.

"What?" Maximus seems confused.

"Its coming, get your guards ready!" I said.

*screeeeeeeeeeee!!*

The Griffin appeared in the sky!

"Its magnificent!" The Prince shouted.

"This idiot!" I cursed.

The griffin, whose gaze was on the goat, turned its head down towards us.

*Screeeeeeeeeee!!*

*Screeeeeeeeeee!!*

The griffin dived towards us, specifically towards the Prince!

"Protect your highness!" Maximus shouted.

The Guards covered the prince.

Fuck! are they going to go head on with Griffin!

"Tom's mode!" I sighed as I activated a special state.

Well, this was a Tom's hyperactive state! have you seen Tom cleaning the whole large house in a matter of seconds!? Have you seen the weak Tom lifting the whole large wooden piano as if nothing!

If yes, then you can understand what Tom's Mode means.

In this state, my speed and strength increase tremendously! If it's in term of multiplier…. I can say 10 X or ten time increase of my normal state!

I rapidly appeared in front of the Prince, "Heliotrop."

It's a physical damage negation sign.

A witcher's sign that Deglan and Reidrich thought me during the three-month training!

I cast the sign on him, before I lifted him on by his back collar and ran out of guards' Circle.

*BOOOM!!!*

As soon as I left with the prince, the griffin landed on the ground, and a pit had formed.

I can even feel the impact vibrations through the ground!

*SCREEEEEEEEEE!!"

The Griffin roared, and it lifted his sharp paw, then slashed horizontally!

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhh!"

The guards cried in pain as it split their bodies into 2 parts, before the Guards lost their light from eyes!

Even the steel armor they were wearing got torn into two parts!

Seeing this, I frowned.

A griffin shouldn't be this strong!

Was it a mutated one?!

"Impossible!" The prince got terrified.

"HOOOOORAAAAAAAA!" Maximus roared, as he slashed his long sword at the griffin.

The griffin backed and dodged his slash by then it opened its mouth, and I could see a fire building in its mouth!

Fuck! it's a mutated one! And I had an idea who was behind its mutation!

*Aard*

I cast the sigh, then a whitish blue telekinetic wave from my hand threw the captain away from his place!

*ROAR!*

The Griffin Breathed a fire, where the captain was at!

"Do you still think your guards can hunt this griffin?" I asked the shivering prince!

"We… don't… think… so." the Prince replied stuttering, he is terrified.

The griffin turned its head towards me.

*Screeeeeee!*

"Save us! Witcher!" the Prince screamed.

I chuckled, "450 crowns a griffin, Prince."

"We will pay you double the promised amount, witcher! save us!" the prince panicked seeing the griffin running towards us.

*Aard*

I cast the sigh, and the telekinetic wave smashed into the Griffin.

*BANG!*

The Griffing was thrown into the air before it crashed into the ground!

However, stunned, it stood as its feet were wriggling.

I arrived beside it! Its neck was clearly in sight. Wasting no more time, I winged my sword down!

*SLASH*

…

*Thud*

The griffin's head touched the ground before its body fell, creating a fountain of blood through its neck! And its body was twitching, but it will stop soon.

I encased my silver sword and came to the prince.

It's a pity, there weren't more griffins coming here! May be the mutated one terrified other griffins? or else I could have earned more coins!

"Prince, are you all right!" Maximus, who just gained his senes, came to us.

Seeing the prince fine, he said, "Praise the Melitele! we appreciate your help, Witcher!"

Help? my ass?!! I saved your life!

****

The prince left, with his few remaining guards! They asked me to escort them back to Ard Carraigh!

But I rejected!

Gave the griffin's head to maximus as a trophy! As the Prince was still terrified by the mutated griffin, However, the body was left here!

I exited the Tom's mode! There was no time limit for this mode, but it had a side-effect. I would feel terrible hunger! and that I am feeling it now!

If hunger could be described in quantity, I can say the amount of hunger I'm feeling now after exiting Tom's mode was proportional to the time I spend in Tom's mode.

Pressing my hand on the headless body, I murmured, "transform!"

It was my first time using magic other than signs!

I could feel chaos bending to my will, and I also felt a strong connection with Chaos!

In Aretuza, it was told that witchers have connection or channel to chaos, but a corrosive one. It was the reason witchers could use signs, and sorcerers called them parlor tricks.

However, I don't feel my channel being corrosive… it's the opposite in my situation… which was thanks to Tom's physique!

Now that I remember, there was an episode where Tom could use electricity to his will the next second when he swallowed an electric fly.

The chaos surrounded the griffin's headless body.

Soon, the griffin's body decreased in size, before it finally turned into a toffee!

"Chaos, it's amazing!" The flexibility of chaos surprised me.

*glup* I tossed the toffee into my mouth and devoured it.

I could feel my hunger being satiate, and there was even a bit of increase in my strength.