Contract: Phantom of the Trade Route Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Suggested level: 23
Group: Witcher Contracts
Location: Velen
This contract can be started by talking to a Refugee in Benek. If you do that, you will be able to haggle with him.
Once upon a time, Geralt took a contract from a group of refugees. I don't know if he felt sorry for the poor souls or if his witcher blood was simply itching for some action - one way or the other, he promised to find their missing companions, who had set off with a caravan headed north. All signs seemed to indicate a beast had attacked them en route.
You will also start this quest when you find the men hiding in the cave.
Geralt found the refugees in a cave where they had sought shelter from a monster. Such is the fate of refugees all too often - they are forever jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. They told the witcher about the beast that had attacked them during their travels and asked him for help.
Related points of interest
Refugee
Velen / Novigrad
Missing Caravan
Velen / Novigrad
Cave Entrance
Velen / Novigrad
Draconids
Velen / Novigrad
Draconids
Velen / Novigrad
Royal Wyvern
Velen / Novigrad
Quest stages of Contract: Phantom of the Trade Route
1. Find the missing caravan. / Examine the cart using your Witcher Senses.
Find the Missing Caravan and examine the claw marks, footprints, broken wine barrel and cut rope pieces.
2. Follow the scent using your Witcher Senses. / Explore the cave using your Witcher Senses.
The smell of wine will lead you to the Cave Entrance. At the entrance you will find the corpse of one of the victims and a little further inside the cave you will come across two men, still alive, who will tell you what happened.
It didn't take much for an old hand like Geralt to find out that the monster which had attacked the refugees was a wyvern. And not just any wyvern - a royal wyvern, though I doubt knowing they had come in close contact with royalty was much comfort to them.
3. Find the wyvern's nest. / Destroy the wyvern's nest. 0/2
Go up the cave until you get to the two wyvern nests. Each one of them is guarded by one wyvern (21). You can fight each of them separately. Kill them and destroy both nests.
4. Wait for the royal wyvern to take the bait. / Kill the royal wyvern. / Take a trophy from the royal wyvern.
When you destroy the last of the nests, the Royal Wyvern will appear after a while.
When fighting, be careful not to fall off the slope or it will end in your death. Kill it and take the trophy. In addition to the trophy, in the corpse you will also find a relic silver sword - Anathema.
Wyvern trophy
5% bonus experience from monsters
5. Visit the poster of the notice about your payment. / Collect your reward.
Head to the Refugee in Benek and collect your reward. Depending on whether you have talked to him before or not, the conversation with him will be a bit different but eventually you will receive your reward.
