Chapter 9: The Missing Girl
The Principal's Aunt opened the drawer, took out a box of injections, and handed it to Alan.
"This injection, you can take it back and inject it first, and you can awaken the cultivation method of the warlock apprentice, which is called 'atavistic meditation'."
"You cultivate by yourself first, if there is anything you don't understand, come and ask me again."
When a warlock meditates, he forgets what is outside of his body and enters a subtle state of mind.
It is as if you have become an ancestral creature corresponding to your bloodline, born and grown, fighting for survival, gradually growing, and learning various skills until you reach the peak of your life.
Through meditation, awaken the sleeping ancestral memories in your blood.
This is called "atavistic meditation".
Mainstream warlocks all practice in a similar way, but the specific meditation methods used are also of high and low grades.
This entry-level meditation method that Ms. Sora gave to Allen is only for the apprenticeship stage.
In fact, she herself had only obtained the "First-Order Meditation Method", because of her limited talent, she could not be promoted to a second-order warlock for a long time, and she had no chance to contact a higher-level cultivation method.
Alan accepted the injection and thanked the principal's aunt.
Then the conversation shifted, and she made a request that she didn't expect.
"Ms. Sora, I want to keep some flowers and plants at home, can I ask you for tips on flower cultivation?"
"Of course it's fine!"
The little boy did what he liked, and the principal's aunt was very happy.
Alan observed her face and slowly revealed his true purpose.
"Also, I like the hydrangeas-like white flowers you grow in your garden, and I want to transplant a pot and raise it at home."
"Huh?!"
The principal's aunt immediately put away her smile, and her expression became extremely serious.
"That's the Condensing Flower, which can be used to refine incense that promotes the efficiency of meditation, but the leaves contain deadly poison and are not suitable for ordinary people to raise at home! It's too dangerous! ”
Finding that Alan was disappointed, the principal's aunt couldn't help but soften.
After a moment's hesitation, his tone softened.
"If you are interested, you can come to my greenhouse in the future to see the condensing flowers, and learn the skills of plant cultivation and alchemy by the way."
"Lady Sora, you have such a good heart!"
Alan thanked him gratefully and smiled innocently.
With the permission of the principal's aunt, it is convenient to enter this glass garden in the future, and collect toxin-containing plants to improve toxin resistance.
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After school, Alan saw his sister Kelly as soon as he walked out of the school gate.
"After school and school, let's go together!" Kelly told her brother with a serious face.
Alan couldn't refuse this personal "bodyguard", and shrugged helplessly.
"I heard you killed two people?" Kelly asked after her brother.
"Two villains who specialize in kidnapping children, I didn't want to kill them." Alan told the truth, "At that time, I was full of thoughts about running for my life, and I accidentally hit it too hard. ”
Looking back on the thrilling experience in the morning, I still have palpitations.
"Don't go to the docks in the future, it's too messy." Kelly admonished.
The siblings returned home.
Over lunch, Kelly and her mother talked about the hottest topic of the moment, the circus abduction of children.
"The two missing boys, Marlowe is the son of a trader, and the other is Hugo, the nephew of the mayor, and they are both prominent figures in the school." Kelly said to her mother and brother.
"Actually, there is another girl who is also missing, but she can't afford to pay the tuition and has never gone to school, so it's normal for you to not know."
The mother followed her daughter's words and sighed sympathetically.
"Other children pay to go to the circus, Sonia goes to work to earn money, and she goes missing."
"Maybe she took the initiative to follow the circus, at least she could eat a mouthful of food." Kelly guessed.
Sonia, the girl the mother and daughter talked about, is the same age as Alan.
Sonia's father, Mr. Marmeradov, was originally a minor civil servant in the town.
Sonia's mother, who came from a poor background, is very beautiful.
The daughter inherited her mother's excellent genes and was originally a beautiful embryo.
It's a pity that when I was born, there was a scarlet birthmark on my face, as if a piece of the dough had been peeled off, revealing bloody muscles.
Although Sonia's face is not very good, her parents still love her very much and treat her as a treasure.
Before Sonia was seven years old, a family of three lived a plain and happy life.
However, as fate would have it, one day five years ago, a warlock passed by the port of Gwent.
While waiting for the boat at the dock, I accidentally saw a young woman who came to buy fish with her daughter.
Finding that the young woman was quite beautiful and hot, she immediately moved evil thoughts.
The warlock snapped his fingers and cast a spell on the young woman.
Sonia's mother, seduced by spells.
Leaving his daughter in a daze, he followed the lustful warlock and got on the boat.
Sonia cries on the docks, begging her mother to come back.
However, her mother had fallen under a spell and had lost her consciousness and turned a deaf ear to her daughter's cries.
Sonia tries to get on the boat and pull her mother back.
The warlock frowned.
You don't need to say a word.
Immediately, a guard rushed up and slapped the little girl twice, causing her to bleed from the corner of her mouth.
Then, like garbage, he threw poor little Sonia out.
Sonia awoke from her coma, and the ship had left the harbor.
Even if she cried her throat and called her mother countless times, she couldn't undo this tragedy.
The docks are full of people.
So many people are watching.
Couldn't it be that none of the onlookers had compassion or a sense of justice, and none of them stepped in to stop this atrocity in broad daylight?
Are you kidding?!
That's a warlock with extraordinary powers!
Who dares to fight injustice?
Annoy the warlock master, and say that if you kill your whole family, you will kill your whole family!
You don't even blink an eye!
Sonia went home crying alone and told her father what had happened to her mother.
Mr. Marmeladov was incapable of retaking his wife, could not withstand the blow, and broke down.
He soon degenerated into a waste who could only anesthetize himself with alcohol, and lost his decent job as a result.
A small town family that was originally happy was completely ruined by the whim of a passer-by warlock.
Since then, Sonia has lived as if in hell.
Her drunkard dad beat her like crazy when he got drunk.
scolded her for being an ugly "freak" and an unfilial girl.
It's just that the young daughter refuses to go out to pick up customers on the street to earn money and buy wine for herself.
Last winter, there was a heavy snowfall.
When the weather was at its coldest, Marmeladov dragged his daughter, who was wearing only a tattered single dress, out of the house, pushed her down on the snow, and beat and scolded her like crazy.
His eyes were as red as a bull, and his mouth was spewing wine.
But the old neighbors, knowing in their hearts, know that this bastard thing is actually not completely drunk.
The reason why he abused her daughter in public on the street and beat poor Sonia with a blue nose and swollen face was to show her cruelty and her daughter's misery to people.
In this way, it stimulates people's empathy and attracts others to come and persuade them.
Then he had the opportunity to complain and cry poor.
For Sonia's sake, the others had to give him a little money so that he could get drunk in the tavern, lest he have any extra energy to abuse his poor daughter.