After the children adjusted to the environment of Kaer Morhen, the witchers officially began their physical training.

Even if they didn't go through the Trial of the Grasses mutation in the end, witcher physical training was extremely beneficial for ordinary people.

Ciri's swordsmanship, learned from traveling the world in the original story, was a prime example.

However, before formal sword training began, the children first ran to build stamina.

Once they gradually got used to it, they would then run the Killer's Run.

The Killer's Run was a path winding through the forests surrounding Kaer Morhen, riddled with obstacles.

Every apprentice's physical training was inseparable from the Killer's Run.

The numerous obstacles on the Killer's Run taught witchers how to avoid danger, allowing their muscles to firmly remember the training, so that in real combat, they wouldn't need to think, but could act purely on instinct.

Of course, any training could lead to injury.

It was said that the previous grandmaster, before Vesemir, had extremely strict requirements for apprentices.

If the witcher instructor responsible for training didn't say to stop, an apprentice, even if injured, couldn't bind their wounds and had to endure the pain during training.

Because in the grandmaster's eyes, witchers dealt with monsters; if they complained about pain or fatigue from a minor injury, how could they become witchers?

While this method of training had some merit in a way, it was too brutal and cold.

Witchers were ultimately human, not emotionless monsters.

Excessive harshness might hone combat skills to their peak, but the lack of humanistic care could easily lead to extreme ideologies.

Therefore, when Vesemir became grandmaster, he abolished such extreme rules when training Geralt and the others.

Instead, he added a moral philosophy class.

He actively tried to prevent his students from falling to the dark side of the Force.

In addition to their physical training, the witchers also prepared cave fungus and mysterious herbal juice for the children.

Both of these were common in every school, though the mixing formulas varied slightly.

These were collectively known as catalysts, pre-mutagens taken before the actual Trial of the Grasses.

These were also among the few potions in the witcher's alchemy system that ordinary people could consume without side effects.

Cave fungus helped children stay healthy and made their muscles stronger.

Mysterious herbal juice ensured an ideal metabolic rate and accelerated development.

What was even more remarkable was that it had no side effects for boys.

So, Tissaia and Triss, besides spending most of their mornings in the basement with Vesemir, working on improving the secondary mutation method, also made sure the children received proper nutrition.

Moreover, in Lynn's home world, there was a saying that "food therapy is better than medicine."

Therefore, the children received meat, eggs, and milk for all three meals, and bread was unlimited.

Lynn believed that under such training methods, even if they didn't become witchers in the future, they would absolutely be among the most exceptional individuals among ordinary humans.

While the children underwent training, Lynn himself was not idle.

For half of the morning, he taught the elven commoners he rescued archery, as he himself knew the most flourishing and now lost Phoenix Archery of the Sun Dynasty from the elves…

In the afternoon, taking advantage of still being at Kaer Morhen for the winter, Lynn sought out Letho and George to learn the secret techniques of their respective schools.

After the Old Order fragmented, each school lost some things but also created new ones.

For example, the School of the Cat lost the technique for casting Signs, so witchers of the Cat School had no magical abilities.

However, in contrast, they created a variation of the standard witcher swordsmanship, Cat School swordsmanship.

Another example was the School of the Viper's mastery of alchemy and the School of the Griffin's superior spellcasting abilities and research into Signs.

These could all enhance Lynn's personal combat prowess.

And the stronger Lynn's personal combat prowess, the more it would naturally help him with the endeavors he wished to undertake.

Facing Lynn's requests, Letho's trio and George did not refuse.

Although Lynn was asking for the secret techniques of their respective schools, the witcher community was on the verge of extinction; what good was clinging to their treasured knowledge?

Moreover, the School of the Viper and the School of the Griffin had both splintered from the Old Order. Now that Lynn intended to rebuild the witcher school and revive the Witcher Order, it was only right for them to share their schools' secret techniques.

Thus, Letho readily produced a manuscript.

"This is the Viper Venomous Arts of the School of the Viper. All the unique poison formulas of the Viper School are in here."

Lynn took it and first looked at the table of contents.

The poisons recorded in this Viper Venomous Arts mainly fell into three categories:

Poisons for humans, poisons for monsters, and auxiliary poisons.

He quickly skimmed through it and found that the first two were essentially just adding a layer of poison damage on top of blade oils.

But the last category, the auxiliary poisons, was truly remarkable.

There were many types of auxiliary poisons, with varied effects, but in specific situations, they could produce unexpected results.

For example, there was a poison called Serpent's Eye. After consumption, the user would immediately feel as if they were being bitten by thousands of snakes, an unbearable pain.

Only by drinking a specific antidote could the poison's effects be temporarily alleviated.

Furthermore, this antidote only provided temporary relief, and the antidote had to be taken again periodically, otherwise the poison would relapse, causing unbearable agony.

At the end of this formula, it was clearly noted that the creator of the Serpent's Eye poison was Ivar Evil-Eye, the founder of the School of the Viper.

Because the School of the Viper, similar to the School of the Cat, had largely lost the ability to use Signs, Ivar Evil-Eye had to invent the Serpent's Eye poison, its purpose being to replace the Axii Sign for controlling others.

Just imagine: if a person's life was completely in someone else's hands, wouldn't they have no choice but to obey from then on?

However, Ivar Evil-Eye did not do this out of personal greed but with noble intentions.

Having long witnessed the atrocities of the Wild Hunt, Ivar Evil-Eye's original intention in establishing the School of the Viper was to eliminate the Wild Hunt.

And inventing the Serpent's Eye poison to control others was, in fact, for this very purpose.

"Grandmaster Ivar Evil-Eye invented the Serpent's Eye poison, so how did the School of the Viper end up in this state?"

Lynn found it very strange.

Serpent's Eye poison was unlike the Axii Sign.

Even the most profound Signs had a day when they would fail.

Moreover, using Signs made it easy for others to detect something amiss.

Even the enchantment magic performed by sorceresses had various drawbacks.

The most obvious example was in the plot of The Witcher 2, where Philippa used a potion to control Saskia, but Geralt and Iorveth still saw through it.

But Serpent's Eye poison was different.

It would make the poisoned person willingly submit to manipulation.

The School of the Viper wouldn't even need to cause a huge stir; they could just quietly poison a few village elders who oppressed their villagers and exploited the common folk, making these elders pay tribute to the School of the Viper.

After all, the School of the Viper had few members left; with the elders' tributes, they could live very well without working.

And if they didn't take assassination contracts, the usurper emperor of Nilfgaard wouldn't see their value and wouldn't send armies to conquer them.

As the saying goes, as long as I have no use, I won't be used.

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