Before leaving, he decided to explore a little deeper. He couldn't return empty-handed; he needed to bring back something valuable.
So, Guilliman set his sights on a place in the game called Stormgate.
That was the outermost gateway to the Royal Capital, Stormveil Castle, and also a good place to farm Runes in the early game.
There, a large number of Godrick Soldiers were entrenched. They were not only relatively weak but also numerous, and the items they dropped were decent.
And the Site of Grace at that gate was also where many people first met Melina.
The reason he chose this place was because the Godrick Soldiers' equipment was all quite good.
Perhaps because the Lands Between followed a 'elite soldier' approach, there were generally no battles involving hundreds or even thousands of soldiers. Even places called military camps probably had no more than a hundred soldiers.
And in the real-world Lands Between where he was, there was no such thing as drop rates.
Every Godrick Soldier he killed would yield a complete set of excellent equipment.
If he could farm a hundred sets, then his trip to the Lands Between would be well worth it.
With this thought, Guilliman, guided by his in-game experience and the map in his hand, didn't take long to find the Stormgate, located between two canyons, as well as the Godrick Soldier encampment and ruins in front of the gate.
With the help of the Specter Sabina's reconnaissance, Guilliman discovered that, unlike in the game, the number of soldiers in this camp was around thirty to forty. Even the relatively troublesome Godrick Knights, armed with spears and greatshields and wearing excellent armor, numbered three here.
The total quantity was roughly three to four times that of the game.
Not only that, but the soldiers within Stormgate were not stationary as they were in the game.
They occasionally patrolled outside the gate, and he even saw giants four or five meters tall, as well as siege engines.
After all, this wasn't a game. These Godrick Soldiers wouldn't act like blind men, allowing him to lure them out and kill them one by one.
He feared that once he attacked one and created the sound of battle, the soldiers throughout the entire camp would surround him and justly gang up on him.
Of course, Guilliman wasn't afraid of these ordinary Godrick Soldiers. Although their combat strength was far superior to ordinary soldiers in the Witcher world, roughly achieving a 1:3 combat ratio, they were ultimately just ordinary mortals.
They possessed neither magic nor the ability to use special powers. Even their lord, Godrick the Grafted, the weakest of the demigods, tried everything to enhance the strength of these ordinary soldiers, but the effect was still minimal. Instead, it turned many into something neither human nor ghost, living a miserable existence.
Godrick Soldiers were probably among the weakest beings in the entire Lands Between, second only to ordinary skeletal monsters.
But it didn't matter; Guilliman was interested in their equipment, soul power, and the supplies in the camp, not them personally.
Moreover, the witcher discovered while fighting the Godrick Soldiers that these soldiers could no longer be considered normal humans.
Like the Tree Sentinel, although they maintained a human appearance, their faces were gaunt, their movements stiff, and their reactions slow, all somewhat resembling hypnotized puppets or zombies.
They were clearly corrupted by some evil force, lacking their own will.
Perhaps killing them was a form of liberation for these soldiers, he thought.
Of course, this wasn't a self-consoling thought, because when Guilliman appeared before the Godrick Soldiers on Torrent, these soldiers immediately attacked him without needing any communication.
Even if he spoke to them, he would get no response. Apart from a final scream before death, the only sounds from these soldiers came from their equipment clashing.
And when the witcher absorbed their souls, it only took a brief moment to crush them, with little resistance.
Thus, Guilliman summoned the Specter Sabina and used long-range magic and alchemical bombs. Without much trouble, he eliminated all dozens of soldiers at Stormgate.
Even when facing the more troublesome Godrick Knights, whose strength was several times that of the soldiers, the witcher didn't even need to act personally.
Sabina, leveraging her ghostly nature, could enter their bodies and dispatch these knights, who possessed neither magic nor magical weapons.
Conversely, the beasts and monsters that naturally wielded some magical energy sometimes posed a threat to Sabina.
After the battle, it was time to collect the spoils.
The results were good. Guilliman collected approximately fifty sets of excellent standard equipment from these Godrick Soldiers and Knights.
As a world rich in metal resources and with highly advanced forging techniques, even the armor of ordinary Godrick Soldiers was remarkably defensive.
It wasn't ordinary steel but seemed to be a special alloy, ensuring both sturdiness and flexibility, while also possessing some magical resistance.
Guilliman felt that bringing them back, whether to sell to Adda for the Flaming Rose Knights or to Francesca to form an elven guard, would be an excellent choice.
And the soldiers' weapons, whether longswords, shields, or spears, were even better than their armor. In the Witcher world, they would basically be considered the work of master craftsmen, and their value would be quite high.
However, what surprised Guilliman even more was that in Godrick's camp supplies, he finally found seven or eight ordinary Smithing Stones, and even two ordinary Somber Smithing Stones.
The long-awaited Lands Between weapon enhancement system could finally be put to the test.
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