The Witcher: Start with getting the Crimson modifier

Chapter 58 What are you afraid of?
Aaron pushed the carriage door open, jumped out of the carriage, and a stretch of low hills came into view.

The flowing water is murmuring, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the scenery is quiet and beautiful.

The buildings here are mainly in Gothic style, with towering spires and pointed arches overlapping each other, visually people can't help but give birth to an illusion of 'stepping into the dome and clouds'.

There are round towers, beautiful bungalows, and even the style of the church!

Vaults, beam columns, and flying buttresses, these elements combine to add a bit of lightness to this solemn and solemn building complex.

The coachman asked: "My lord, do you need to return?"

"Hmm." The snub-nosed wizard's voice came out of his nose, a little contemptuous.

For ordinary people living in Jialan Academy, this level of contempt is already a kind of rare kindness.

The coachman and the wildebeest stayed in the spacious stable of the post station obediently, and like other coachmen in the stable, they fed their wildebeest with refined fodder.

The snub-nosed wizard led Aaron up the cobbled path, where the grass was lush and flowers were blooming.

This beautiful and comfortable environment made Aaron feel a little awkward.

He felt that with the tone of the academy, this should not be like this:
Here should be white bones, howling souls, dark clouds and bleak appearance.

However, there is nothing, the beautiful environment is outrageous.

Aaron's own shantytown looked like a doghouse by comparison.

'I hope that after the verification is completed, the college can give me a new residence for free. '

The snub-nosed wizard led Aaron to a three-story building covered in vines.

Standing at the door are two mechanical puppets with hideous faces, with red lights shining in their eye sockets.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but Aaron suddenly heard the mournful wailing from the two puppets.

It's as if the soul of a living person is imprisoned inside.

I pricked up my ears to listen carefully, but there was no sound.

'Is it an illusion?still'

Aaron inexplicably thought of the outstanding intelligence of the training puppets in the meditation room and the large number of apprentices recruited by the academy every five years.

An indescribable chill spread in his heart.

"Huh~" Aaron exhaled the turbid air in his lungs, suppressed the speculation in his heart, and followed the snub-nosed wizard into the building.

The lonely first floor is very empty, only a witch is there.

This witch was ugly, half of her ear was missing, and her lips, bridge of nose, and brow bone were covered with black nails.

The snub-nosed wizard stepped forward to explain a few words to her, and then sat down on the sofa in the hall.

The witch came over and looked at Aaron with an expectation in his eyes that Aaron could not understand.

'What is she expecting? '

"Follow me," the witch walked in the front. She led Aaron up to the second floor, opened the door of the room at the end, and beckoned Aaron to go in by himself.

The light in the room was dim, and there was a figure sitting there.

"Have you cultivated the spiritual seeds?" a hoarse voice sounded.

Aaron replied cautiously: "My lord, yes, to be precise, it was cultivated yesterday."

"But." The hoarse voice suddenly became agitated: "Your initial spiritual power is only 1.3, it's true that you can cultivate spiritual seeds in such a short period of time."

call out!
The evil wind rushed, and a twisting black shadow rushed to Aaron's body. When it stopped, Aaron could see the appearance of this black shadow clearly.

It was a disheveled head with black stitches all over its face.

The skin color of this face is different, one part is black, one part is white, and one part is yellow, and even scales like fish scales can be seen!

The two eyes are also different in size, one side is a khaki narrow animal pupil, and the other is a normal round pupil.

The nose was flattened and collapsed like Voldemort's snake nose.

There is also a very obvious difference in the lips. The upper lip is a red cherry mouth, and the lower lip has become a chapped and thick sausage lip.

This face is inconsistent everywhere, full of weird and distorted feeling, as if it is sewn with different people, different skins and organs, it is very scary.

If you look closely, the neck at the back of this head is curved, like the silk thread of a kite, connecting his torso and head, and this head is a human head balloon flying freely in the wind!
Even though Aaron felt that he was used to Nairn's abnormality, he was still taken aback by such an advanced and twisted work.

This head flying around is very similar to Junji Ito's work "Head Balloon".

Let's just call it a human head balloon.

Looking at this balloon with a human head so close at hand, my scalp felt numb.

"I'm really curious how you did it." Aaron's wet snort hit Aaron's face, reminding him of wet and slippery snakes.

Aaron endured both psychological and physical discomfort, and replied with a stiff face: "I have a relatively good memory, and I can remember the deconstruction model of the rune."

"Oh~" The distorted human-head balloon elongated its voice, as if singing something: "It turns out that the brain is easier to use."

"As for the brain, you can't replace it, but it tastes good if you roast it and eat it." The human-headed balloon muttered indistinctly, and its neck shrugged back.

Aaron's hairs stood on his head when he heard it, and he wanted to run out of the dark room.

After the head balloon was retracted, the magic wave appeared, and the witchcraft circle under Aaron's feet lit up, and the dark green light enveloped him in it.

The hoarse voice of the head balloon sounded again, this time somewhat hollow and mechanical:
"Now I ask you to answer, tell the truth, no lying."

After saying this sentence, the head balloon muttered and cursed dissatisfiedly, but Aaron couldn't hear it clearly due to the distance.

This prompt made Aaron raise his vigilance: 'Is it strictly forbidden to tell a lie? '

'Will I be detected if I lie? '

Crimson is a secret that Aaron must never reveal.

'If detected, will I become the experimental material of the academy? '

A series of questions came to Aaron's mind.

The head balloon didn't wait for Aaron to think about it, and quickly asked:
"What's your name, how old are you, where are you from? Who are your parents? What's your initial mental strength? Did you practice anything else before arriving at Jialan Academy?"

These questions are like checking accounts.

"My name is Aaron Gasseril; I am 14 years old; I am from the Principality of Gasseril; my mother died early, and my father is the lord of Candlelight Land; the initial spiritual power is 1.3; I have not practiced anything before arriving at Jialan Academy .”

The head of the human-headed balloon floated up, shaking left and right:

"Did you cultivate the spiritual seeds by yourself?"

As the question was posed, Aaron's nerves tensed.

His worst fear arose.

Crimson is his biggest secret.

if exposed
"I can smell fear on you, you're there"

The sound of the head balloon suddenly sounded, his head was attached to the dark green light curtain rising from the witchcraft circle, and his eyes were greedily staring at Aaron's head:
"afraid of what??"

(End of this chapter)