Nothing, Surprisingly

Artur Checked and Rechecked His Wards, Only to Find Nothing Broken, Disrupted, Or Bypassed, He Was Deeply Concerned By This, and Had The Caution To Check Other Area's of The Castle Warding As Well. Artur Would Need To Postpone This However, as The School of The Basilisk Was Set To Perform It's First Trial of The Grasses, Which Every Witcher, Artur Included, Was NOT Looking Forward To. Artur Had The Worst Experiences of Any Living Witcher, Because He'd Been Subjected To The Trial's Six Times, One For Each School, Well Each School Save The Basilisk School. Artur Had Taken Precautions to Prevent Previously High Fatality Rates, Such As Increasing Physical Fortitude, Resolve, Resilience and Increasing Tolerance to The Herbs, Mushrooms, and Fungi In The Trials.

Artur Had Seen His Recruits Gradually Grow Stronger For This, Their Tolerance Building Slowly, But Certainly. Of Course Certain Groups or Culture's Received Certain Advantages. Skelligers, Kaedweni, and Zerrikanian Recruits Were More Physically Resilient, and Their Pain Threshold and Personal Strength Were Naturally Stronger Than Others. Temerian Recruits Were More In Tune With Speed, Agility, and Reflexes Over Brutish Means, Whereas Redanian's Were Prone To More Cunning and Practical Logic, and These Would Inevitably Prove Advantageous Traits.

Artur Meanwhile Had Informed Yen of The Trial of The Grasses Inner Workings and Processes, and She'd Found The Necessary Ingredients For The Potions Needed For The Trial Of The Grasses and Artur Similarly Bought A Couple Wagons Of Est Est, Erveluce, and Butcher Of Vizima, Since Most of Them Would Need to Drink Themselves Into A Three Day Stupor Should The Trial Fail.

Artur, Eskel, Lambert, Yennefer, Letho, Gaetan, and Keira and Ida Were Preparing to Subject Artur's Temerian Pupil To The Trial of The Grasses, Artur's Usually Unreadable Face, Was Cracked With Regret, Uncertainty, and Pain. Artur Chose To Use A Mix of Griffin Trial Potions and Elixirs and Wolf and Cat Mutagens. Only Time Would Tell if He Chose Rightly or Wrongly, and Artur Prayed It Was The Former.

It Was Agony Watching The Trial, and Already Lambert Opened Some Butcher Of Vizima and Had Drained Four Bottles Of It, Whereas Artur and Eskel Were On Their Second Erveluce and Est Est Respectfully. Artur Was Glad To To Know His Apprentice Had Not Succumbed To The Agony Of The Trial That Had Killed So Many Would-Be Witcher's, He Saw That Most of The Agonising Signs of Pain Were Not Present, and Artur Watched As His Student's Eyes Began To Change Color. "It's Working." Artur Comments. "Artur, I'm Going Fortktail Baiting Come Find Me Later." Saus Letho. "Understood Old Friend, Stay Safe, Geralt Take Over For Me, I Need To Conduct an Autopsy On A Katakan With Detlaff and Regis." Says Artur. "Sure Thing." Says Geralt.

Artur Left and Found Detlaff and Regis Sharing A Bottle of Mandrake. "Detlaff, Regis, It's Time For The Autopsy On That Katakan." Says Artur. "I Don't Like Desecrating Our Dead Brethren Like This." Comments Detlaff. "Neither Do I My Friend, But It Is Sometime's A Necessary Evil." Says Regis. "Perhaps, Perhaps Not." Says Detlaff. "Rest Assured Master Detlaff, We Mostly Just Examine It's Body." Artur Reassures Hin. "As You Say." Says Detlaff.

Artur and The Two Higher Vampire's Were Examining The Katakan's Corpse, Artur Examined The Claws, Teeth, Head, and Body. "It's Claws Appear Cracked, and It's Teeth Long and Brittle." Artur Notes. "What of His Limbs?" Asks Detlaff. "His Skin Is Old and Wrinkled But His Muscles Appear to Be Stronger Than Suggested. His Head Shows Some Signs of Silver Contact, But I Can't Tell If It's Witcher Related Or Not. Hmm, This is Odd." Says Artur. "What is It?" Asks Detlaff. "It's Neural Decay Suggests Silver Intake, But What Sort of Vampire, Would Willingly or Not Swallow Silver?" Asks Artur. "Should I Brew Resonance?" Asks Regis. "Perhaps, But Only You and Detlaff Should Take it, Because it Is A Katakan, I Can't Be Sure of The Outcome if I or Any-Non True Higher Vampire Were to Drink it." Says Artur. "Huh, Agreed." Says Detlaff. "I'd Best Go Check and See How Well The Trial Has Taken." Says Artur