Volume I: The Golden Pocket Watch Chapter Ninety-Six: Testing Talent
Federal Mountains, Hornavich University, Higher 1st Floor Dormitory!
The iron dorm door slammed shut, and Venason followed behind Avril, her cheeks flushed hotly, feeling like she had eaten a pound of red peppers.
The more he walked, the more he felt that his legs seemed to be filled with lead, when he was Chen Xiuyuan in his previous life, he didn't even hold a girl's hand, in this life, except for his sister Irene, the heterosexual social interaction was basically zero, and when he thought of sharing the same room with a beautiful woman directly, he unconsciously thought about whether some progress would be too fast.
"Shared a room with me...... You seem to be resistant? ”
Avril stopped, turned her head sideways to look at Venason, looked at the slightly melancholy teenager in front of her, and said lightly.
"No, Miss Avril, you are mistaken, I just am not used to being alone in a room with the opposite sex, after all, we are not engaged...... No, it's not, sorry, I mean, we've just met, wouldn't it be a little too soon, ah, not ...... Oops, what am I talking about......"
Venason's cheeks became hotter and hotter, and he always felt that he no longer had the face to face the young lady in front of him.
Death, death, death, what are you talking about, people just slept with you, and they actually thought of getting engaged? It's so ashamed that I don't have the face to see anyone.
Avril smiled in the crimson moonlight, and she lifted her left hand to remove her delicate monocle, letting the breeze gently stir her Black Forest-like hair.
"I'm not from Ghent, I'm not from Chambitin, Tuduo, Florence, not strictly from the continent of Federas."
"In the southern part of the Far North, in the Olympic Mountains, in the land favored by the Titans of the Giants and Pinool, there was a magnificent castle, and everyone who lived there was full of joy, until one day, the sky turned black, and the raindrops turned black, and the earth began to alienate, and my father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, and aunt put me in the dungeon of the castle, which was very dark and dark, and accompanied me only by a broken sword."
"During the long wait, I slept in a certain part of the dungeon, I can't remember how long it was, until one day, the teacher found me in the dungeon, when the Olympic Mountains were broken, the castle was ruined, everyone was gone, and it was the teacher who brought me out and brought me here."
"Your experience...... I'm sorry, I, I didn't know you had a ...... past."
Vinason bowed down and apologized, while he thought in his mind about the black sky, the black raindrops, that Avril had mentioned.
I'd seen in Jason's diary about black things, like the black stone, which came from the mountains, but this was the first time I'd heard of black rain.
The Faslanka Library records events from other continents, and it is recorded that during the Age of Natural Disasters, many ancient families mysteriously disappeared from the continent of Federas, the Far North, and the Rum continent.
Among them are the Capetian family, the Zarathu family, the Guig family, the Weitbach family, the Pierster family, and the Sodros family of the Gudanlo Empire...... Wait, Sodros, Avril Sodros, she can't be from the Sodros family, right?
Venason raised his head and looked at Avril lavigne bathed in the moonlight, the crimson brilliance gently draped over her body, as if attached to a dreamlike light veil, quiet and dreamy.
If the question of the same surname is aside, she, standing in front of me at the moment, is very likely to be a family lady from another continent, or a down-and-out princess?
"Venason, it's time for you to go to the freshman feast!"
Avril said lightly, and she pointed to the gate not far from her right:
"From there, through the foyer, through a double door into the sumptuous auditorium, where the freshmen feast will take tonight, I can take you there."
"Good...... Ok thanks! Vinason quickly gathered his thoughts and replied with a smile.
Avril put her monocle back on, she turned her head, and began to walk towards the door not far away, Venason still silently followed, and soon they entered the room, through the not particularly large foyer, to the ornate auditorium.
Plates of copper oil hanging from the huge print dome are clustered with thousands of candles, and the crimson fire illuminates the auditorium.
As soon as he entered the door, Venason was so illuminated by the light that he couldn't open his eyes, and he struggled for several seconds before he could barely get used to it.
He glanced around and saw that the freshmen who had disembarked from the transcendent train today were already seated around four long, beautifully carved tables with glittering gold plates and goblets and delicately colored food.
"What are they waiting for?" Venason wondered.
"Test!"
Avril replied briefly, and she looked at the row of seats on the left, and said with a blank face:
"Your friend is waiting for you over there."
Eh, your personality wasn't like this just now, but now that there are more people, I always feel a lot colder, like a different person?
Venason sneered, and he looked away, and suddenly saw Lilith, Carl, Ron, and the others waving at him, motioning for him to hurry over.
"Shall I go over now?"
"Yes." With that, Avril walked straight to the door on the other side, where there stood the previous senior students, Caterina, Merry, Dennis, and the others.
Venason didn't look much as he ran to the three friends he had just made today and sat down next to Ron.
"Wienerson, Professor Wright...... Well, that ......"
"Lilith, this is Venason's privacy." Karl interrupted Lilith's questioning, which was not polite, even if he was curious.
"Oh!" Lilith grimaced at Carl.
Ron scratched his head, and his chubby little face raised, "Accept apprentices in advance, I've heard about the unspoken rules of Hornavich University before!" ”
"Oh~"
Almost everyone heard Ron's voice, and there was an "oh" sound, and they looked at Venason in unison.
Ha? Unspoken rules? Hey, can you kid stop messing around with words?
To avoid their gaze, Vinason looked up into the distance, only to see an old man in a velvety black hooded robe, with countless stars shining behind him.
"Professor Claudie is here, Karl, Professor just said that before the feast begins, we need to put a final test on the Blasphemy Slate, and it's, um, I mean, how can that Profane Slab accurately measure our talents?"
Lilith glanced at the hooded old man, and she blinked her ruby eyes as she asked Carl beside her.
"I once heard the teacher say that the blasphemy slate can effectively detect the fit of the blasphemy card in the human body, the higher the degree of fit, the better the person's touch extraordinary talent, which is helpful for subsequent digestion and promotion, however, this situation is very rare, basically the test result can reach 3 stars is already very remarkable, most of the clergy who touch the transcendent only hovering at 2 stars or 1 star."
Venasson's heart trembled violently after hearing this...... Only 2 or 1 stars?
"If the test results appear, won't everyone be able to see each other's talent points?" Ron muttered again, and a trace of worry suddenly rose in his heart about the extraordinary power he had gained by touching the blasphemous card just now.
"Can everyone really see it?"
Lilith's face obviously changed slightly, but the etiquette course for a long time has cultivated strong coping skills, and she still sits elegantly.
I hate it, I haven't been touching the transcendent for long, what if I test out 1 star? Before he came, Carl didn't say that the school would come to such a trick, and neither did Dad.
Vinason glanced up and looked around, all the students were panicked at the moment, and no one spoke.
"Alright, kids, get ready to start!"
Professor Claudie walked to his exclusive seat, looked at the energetic young man below, and nodded in satisfaction.
Then his fingers tapped on the tabletop, and one after another irregularly shaped spirits seemed to receive some kind of message, and they happily stood against the blue flames, and drilled out of the reliefs on the surrounding walls, causing many noble children who saw spirits for the first time to jump up and down, and even the young lady screamed loudly regardless of the image.
"Is that a ghost? No, I remember that ghosts are very powerful spirit creatures. ”
Venason was also taken aback by the sudden blue spirit at first, especially when about twenty ghost-like things suddenly popped out of the wall behind them, and no one could calm down.
These irregularly shaped creatures with blue flames glided across the room in mid-air, chattering and chasing and frolicking with owls flying in mid-air, but paying little or no attention to the freshmen sitting at the table.
"Quiet, children, these are the Academy's unique spirit creatures, their names are the Cubs of the Indefinite Species, the servants of the great Sleeping and Crimson God, these little ones can change, store, and contain objects that do not have living properties at will, and the next profane stone tablet you will touch is hidden in their bodies."
Claudie stood up, grabbed a floating amorphous creature cub, showed it to the freshmen, and said in a random ancient Hermetian language:
"Line up, start merging, test your talents!"
This sentence was not said to the freshmen, but the amorphous creature cubs flying in the air, and I saw that the group of creatures with blue illusory flames on their heads really lined up obediently in the next second after hearing Professor Claudie's sharp voice, and they fused together in mid-air, rapidly expanding like absorbent sponges, turning into twisted creatures full of huge mouths.
"Just put your hand in its mouth, which of you will be the first to come?"
Professor Claudie swept around, and the freshmen leaned back one by one, and no one dared to talk.
"It's the same scene every year, so I'll have to name it!"
Professor Claudie smiled at them and said, "I think I hope you can test all your talents to 3 stars, may Crimson bless!" ”
"Praise Crimson!"
All the students silently closed their eyes and prayed in return, and Venason followed them, clasping his hands to his chin.