In the spacious cafeteria, silver metal tables and chairs were arranged neatly on the ground. The surrounding white walls were painted with pictures of little ducks, apples, and pears.
Students sat in twos and threes at the tables and chairs, eating from their own plates. Some were queuing up to bring their plates out of the cafeteria window.
Garon and Raffaele sat opposite each other at the right end of a long table. Both of them were eating the sandwiches on their plates, dipping them in the sesame sauce from time to time, and drinking a mouthful of tomato, potato, and beef soup.
There was a low buzzing sound in the cafeteria. The sound of many people talking was reflected in the empty cafeteria, mixed with echoes. It felt like they could hear what was being said clearly, but if they listened carefully, it was all a blur.
Garon raised his head and looked at Raffaele opposite him.
"You haven't answered my question last time."
"What question?"
"What do you like about me?" Garon put an apple into his mouth.
"I like everything …" Raffaele's face was calm. "If I have to say one thing, it's that you're good-looking. Don't you feel proud to bring me out?"
“.....”
"Then what other reason do you want?" Raffaele shrugged.
Both of them stopped talking for a while.
Garon felt that this little girl was a little weird. She was a girl, but she had the same personality as a boy.
"Can you tell me what kind of agreement you made with Eeleen and the others?"
"I can't tell you that." Raffaele smiled. "But you just need to know that the power of an oath is unstoppable. This doesn't just involve me and them. "
"Is that so?" Garon narrowed his eyes. He felt that he might have to go back to Wenwen's parents and ask them about some of the town's secrets. As the two of them had lived here for so many years, they should more or less know some of the secrets.
This secret might have something to do with potential points.
"After eating, let's go play basketball. I have a sister waiting for me at the basketball court. You can cheer for me when the time comes." Raffaele said matter-of-factly.
Garon also wanted to interact with her more and dig out the secrets inside, so he nodded and didn't refuse.
After eating, they went to the court to play basketball for a while. After class in the afternoon, Garon went home under Raffaele's protection. Raffaele insisted on sending Garon home, like a boy sending his girlfriend home.
After playing with Vivien, who was calling him brother, Garon finally waited for his parents to come home one after another.
In the study room in the evening, Garen sent his brother and sister away and looked at his mother who was sitting in front of him with a puzzled expression.
"What's the matter? You. "Mother," Raffaele, "Raffaele," Raffaele, "Raffaele," Raffaele "Raffaele." Raffaele Raffaele Raffaele, "Raffles."
Rato Raffaele, "?" "to Raffaele.
"Rae,". "" Rato Rae, ".". "". ".". ".". "" "to Rato it" "" to Ra- "" to Ra. "" "."
"Raffles?" Raffaele Reese thought for a while, "We've moved here for many years. Indeed, there is a ritual here that only the locals follow. As immigrants, we've only heard of it but never seen it. They call it the Ancestral Oath. "
"Is it a ritual?"
"." Yeah, something like that. The locals see it as a very formal and serious thing. The Ancestral Oath is a place where you have to be careful with your words even when you're joking. If you're cursing or something that involves the Ancestral Oath, you might even lose your life. "Raffaele Reese said seriously. "Oh right, I heard there's a girl chasing you? She's also very pretty? Is that right? "
Seeing his mother's face quickly become mischievous, Garon knew that he probably wouldn't be able to get any more information from her. After saying so much, it was as good as not saying anything.
Looking at his mother's expression, it seemed like she really didn't know any more, so he could only give up.
After chatting with his mother for a while, Garon left the room. He brought his laptop over. It was a birthday gift from his father last year.
He typed out a line of words on the keyboard and entered it into the internet search engine.
There was a lot of information about the oath. After narrowing it down, he entered the United States, Grano Town.
Click.
He pressed the Enter key. Suddenly, there were only five messages left on the screen.
They were all religious oaths. Four of them were local public oaths. There was also a video of a student pledging to inherit the American spirit under the national flag.
Looking carefully at the religious ceremonies, they were all public occasions. A lot of things needed to be prepared before they could be carried out. Moreover, they were either for spring plowing, fishing, or as part of a festival. They were all worthless.
Turning off the computer, Garon sat on the edge of the bed, deep in thought. In this town, it seemed like many women, especially the local women, shared a special secret. This secret was ancient, solemn, and everyone followed the rules.
"Looks like the best breakthrough is my relationship with Raffaele … When the relationship is close to a certain extent, naturally, many secrets are no longer secrets …"
Life after that was no different from usual. The only change was that the girls accompanying Garon changed from Serin and Eeleen to Raffaele alone. Raffaele would come to pick up Garon on time every day. Occasionally, she would give him some small gifts. They were all old antiques. Garon wanted to talk to Serin and Eeleen many times, but they purposely avoided him, so he could only give up.
As the days passed, he gradually got used to Raffaele's presence.
Occasionally, he would return some small gifts to Raffaele. Their relationship continued to warm up. They were like best friends, but also like a couple.
For a child, the unchanging life passed by abnormally fast.
Slowly, Eeleen and Serin faded out of Garon's sight. His relationship with Raffaele also got better. He was never someone who took the initiative to get close to others. Pursuing his own goals, he did not have much time to interact with the people around him. But Raffaele, who took the initiative to get close to him, slowly became an exception.
Life in junior high school was not much different from primary school. The only difference was that the students grew faster, and their thoughts were more mature.
Garen practiced his Secret Technique every day, but his cultivation level was still stuck at the second level. His progress was extremely slow. He had asked Raffaele many times about the situation of the Stag Badge, but the information he got was not clear. She said that only her grandmother knew more about it. This made Garon, whose cultivation level was almost stagnant, even more curious.
*****
On the blue sea, the golden red light of the setting sun rippled continuously.
On the beach, hundreds of kilometers away from Grano.
On the pale yellow beach, a blonde boy in his teens was slowly walking towards the sea. He was only wearing a pair of black swimming trunks. His clothes were thrown far away on a black reef.
The boy's face was handsome, with a hint of feminine androgyny. He gave off a weak feeling. He was obviously a boy, but he had a gentle beauty that made people pity him.
He slowly walked towards the sea. Step by step, his feet were submerged. Then it was his calves, then his knees, thighs, abdomen, and finally his chest.
In an instant, wisps of pitch-black mist spread out from his body and spread out along the seawater.
The mist was like ink, and quickly dyed the water around the boy black.
The boy did not seem to feel it, and continued to walk towards the depths.
Strangely, the sea water that submerged up to his chest, after he left the shallow sea area and walked towards the depths, it still only submerged up to his chest, and did not change at all.
Whoosh!!
Suddenly, there was a splash of water not far away. Two triangular fins rushed towards the boy from afar. Under the mixed blue sea, there were two gigantic bluish-black sharks, swimming towards the boy quickly. The fins were like motorboats breaking the waves, bringing out two arcs of white waves.
Just as the fins entered the black sea water around the boy.
The boy's weakness suddenly changed. His hands were straight like two sharp knives, and he stabbed them into the water.
Psst!
The two giant sharks exploded with two loud bangs, turning into two masses of scarlet flesh and blood. The blood quickly flowed into the black water around the boy, and the color of the blood was quickly covered by the black water. Then, everything returned to its original tranquility.
Garon frowned and raised his hands.
"The progress is too slow …" He sighed.
The power of the Black Claw of Sethe had already reached the level of a Grandmaster of Combat. In addition, his current physique had reached the level where he could barely release aura, so his strength had recovered somewhat.
However, the rules of this world were different. It seemed like he could no longer completely condense aura. Even at his level, he could only imbue his aura into matter in front of everyone, and then use it to affect external things. He could no longer release it directly like before to suppress his opponent.
However, this way, his aura could be fused into the water, into the air, and become something that normal people could see, and not something that only Grandmasters of Combat could see. However, it consumed a lot more energy. Garon could only maintain his aura release for ten minutes at most. The area covered by his aura was about ten meters around him. Within these ten meters, all living things that entered would be subjected to terrifying mental illusions. At the same time, the solidified Black Claw of Sethe's Insidious Palm Energy would slowly seep into the enemy's body along with his aura, gradually weakening their physique and speed.
Rather than saying that his aura was a product of the fusion of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, it was more like a pure poisonous gas released from Garon's body. This poisonous gas had a strong hallucinogenic effect, and could also weaken the opponent's physique and speed. It could also be dissolved in water.
"Garon! You went into the sea again! "On the beach far away, a slim blonde girl was waving her hand at him with all her might. "Come ashore, I have something to tell you."
Garon looked back and saw that it was Raffaele. He liked to train now, and every day after school, he would ride his motorcycle to the beach to swim. In essence, he was training the use of Black Claw of Sethe's Insidious Palm Energy.
This secret technique seemed to be a standard evil technique. It actually had the effect of absorbing and melting the flesh of other living things, and foreign flesh would have a good strengthening effect on the palm energy. If he went on a killing spree in the forest, it was very likely that he would be discovered, so he might as well go further away and train in the sea, and not be discovered at all.
As an evil technique, other than its insidious nature, Black Claw of Sethe's specialty was its strong concealment. It was estimated that even a Grandmaster of Combat of the same level would not be able to sense the movement of Garon's secret technique. This was also something that Garon was very satisfied with.
Garon quickly retracted the poisonous gas that had merged with the surrounding seawater, and turned back to swim towards the shore.
His movements were very natural, and the lines of his body were unusually soft. Every time he paddled, his body would swim forward quickly like a fish.
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