Witcher: Master Kiliman’s Grand Ambitions-Chapter 28: Looking for the Little Girl, Miko

Perhaps influenced by the witcher's calm tone, Valessa let out a soft sigh, her expression no longer so anxious.
After exchanging a glance with the weary middle-aged elf woman behind her, she began to explain the commission details while introducing the woman.
"This is Lady Riana, former court alchemist."
"She and her family originally lived in seclusion in Vizima city, making a living by selling various perfumes."
"However, since the outbreak of the Catriona plague, Vizima has become increasingly harsh toward non-human races, and that city is no longer safe."
"Many non-human citizens have been arrested, detained, interrogated, had their property confiscated, or even directly imprisoned in the plague-ridden old Vizima district to await death, all on fabricated charges."
"Lady Riana feared such things might happen to her family, so she recently accepted our invitation to bring her family to live in Ammonite Village."
"But just last night, while they were staying at a rural inn on the outskirts of Vizima city, Lady Riana's daughter Miko went missing. She's just a little girl about eight years old."
"No one knows how she disappeared—she vanished in the blink of an eye, or perhaps no one is willing to tell the truth."
At this point, Valessa's expression turned somewhat gloomy as she looked into the witcher's eyes and continued:
"After getting nowhere with inquiries, Lady Riana rushed here overnight seeking our help. Her husband remains at that inn continuing the search."
"However, the warriors under my command are all elves. They find it difficult to move freely in human-dominated towns like those in the Vizima outskirts, and they're not skilled at searching for missing persons."
"So, Kiriman, you are a witcher. I've heard many stories about witchers solving difficult commissions."
"I hope you can help us find that little girl and bring her back safely."
Former court alchemist? Searching for a missing little girl?
Tsk tsk tsk!
It seems Valessa isn't even pretending anymore, directly revealing the forces behind her.
Of course, Kiriman didn't mind these things.
He hadn't promised to join this organization, nor sworn allegiance to anyone. Even his relationship with Valessa couldn't be considered formal lovers yet.
Regardless of who the employer was or what organization they belonged to, as long as he didn't take commissions that showed too much bias or favoritism toward any particular side, then the so-called employer was just an ordinary employer.
However, searching for a missing little girl?
This wasn't like hunting monsters or eliminating some scumbag where you could just charge in and fight.
Ammonite Village was about a day's walking distance from the Vizima outskirts, and even riding at full gallop would take half a day.
By the time he arrived, it would have been nearly a day since the little girl went missing.
Being unfamiliar with the place and people, how difficult would it be to find information about a missing person?
Even in the technologically advanced modern society, there were sayings like the golden 48 hours for missing persons.
Beyond that time frame, finding missing persons became extremely difficult. How much more so in this barbaric and backward quasi-medieval era?
Kiriman felt this commission might be beyond his capabilities and couldn't help but hesitate internally.
Although many experienced witchers could handle various complex and troublesome commissions like the great detective Geralt, uncovering the truth through their keen witcher senses.
He was just a newcomer who had only been in this world for a month, never having worked as any kind of detective before. One couldn't expect too much from him.
Seeing him still hesitating, Lady Riana behind Valessa immediately grew anxious, her body trembling slightly as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Perhaps for Kiriman, this was just a commission he was hesitating whether to accept—whether he took it or not didn't matter and wouldn't affect his life at all.
But for a mother who had lost her daughter, this might be her only hope.
Riana frantically pushed past Valessa in front of her, walking up to Kiriman flustered and at a loss, her face full of pleading and anxious expression as she said in a trembling voice:
"Please, Master Witcher, save my daughter."
"Miko is our only child. She is the hope of my life. My husband and I cannot lose her."
"We're willing to offer all our family savings—more than five hundred Orens total—just to get our daughter back."
Five hundred Orens!
Hearing this price, Kiriman inwardly gasped, somewhat shocked by this mother's offering.
But he had heard from Valessa that elves naturally had difficulty reproducing. For this long-lived race, having a child was considered a gift from heaven.
Due to genetic and lifespan issues, almost all pure-blooded elves had lost their desire for love. Only a very few would form families, and they lacked the joy between men and women—calling them sexually frigid wouldn't be an exaggeration.
During the racial war between humans and elves, one of the important reasons why the powerful elves were defeated by humans...
Was their inability to effectively replenish their population.
And the fact that he had so quickly conquered Valessa, this obviously elite pure-blooded elf beauty physically...
The soul tempering method of spiritual and physical dual cultivation, along with his far superior bed skills, could be said to have contributed greatly.
Through his understanding during this period, Kiriman had gained some knowledge about Temeria's economic situation.
At this point in time, each country's currency value differed significantly. Even different types of gold coins had vastly different purchasing power.
The most valuable were the crown gold coins from Redania, the strongest northern kingdom, minted in Novigrad, the most prosperous trading city in the north. These circulated in multiple northern countries and were one of the main currencies in the north.
In the Kingdom of Temeria, Orens were the main currency here. An ordinary adult male worker's monthly income was only about a dozen Orens or so.
Converting to modern currency, it would be like an era with extremely scarce supplies and transportation where ordinary workers earned about a thousand yuan monthly—one Oren gold coin would be roughly equivalent to one hundred yuan.
Perhaps players didn't notice while playing the game, but in this real witcher world, below gold coins there were silver coins, and below silver coins there were small currencies like copper coins.
How could all daily transactions possibly be conducted using only gold coins?
Looking at Lady Riana willing to pay a large reward, looking at this weary, tear-streaked mother begging bitterly before him...
Kiriman wasn't heartless either. Perhaps this commission might not be completed successfully, but there was no harm in trying.
Coincidentally, he was planning to go live in Vizima city for a while afterwards, so he could treat this commission as getting familiar with the environment in advance.
He sighed inwardly, looked up at Valessa who also showed a pleading expression, then nodded to Riana and said:
"Alright, Lady Riana."
"Let's set aside the matter of reward for now. I will immediately head to that inn to meet with your husband."
"I cannot guarantee whether I can find your daughter, but I will do my best."
After speaking, Kiriman stood up preparing to return to the bathroom and change into combat gear for immediate departure.
However, Valessa immediately reached out and stopped him, saying:
"Thank you for helping Riana, Kiriman."
"I thank you on behalf of my people."
"My horse is in the stables—I've already had someone prepare it. Ride it when you're ready to depart."