Sothos Town.
Ava suddenly sensed that something was off.
In the butcher shop beside him, the butcher was staring greedily at the meat in his hands.
A man and a woman walking along the road exchanged a glance, then eagerly clasped hands and hurried into the nearby woods.
On top of a wooden fence, a kitten was yowling like a crying baby in heat.
Below, two stray dogs that had come from who knew where had their hind legs joined together...
"What... is going on?"
Ava looked at Bill beside him and suddenly thought the young man looked rather handsome.
Desire surged within him, but he didn't know what to do with it.
What frightened him even more was that he saw the same flames in Bill's eyes!
"Ahem!"
The next moment, a cough rang out. It was like a basin of icy water in winter, making Ava and Bill shudder and breaking out in goosebumps.
"Grandmother, how could I have had such a thought just now... Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
Ava turned his head aside, nearly retching.
Bill's face turned green, but he still fulfilled his duties as a servant. "Baron, we've arrived in town."
"Good. Take us straight to the castle!"
Aaron's voice came from inside the carriage.
Aaron was gazing at his hands, as though he could see the extraordinarily powerful Spirit of Crimson flowing through his veins!
The sacrifice of a physical object was still mostly worn away across the divide between two worlds, leaving only pure spirituality?
That's fine, too. At least I won't have to deal with the Strange Object's negative effects...
Thoughts raced through Aaron's mind.
With the terrifying amount of Spirit of Crimson he now possessed, he was already comparable to an extraordinary being in the second or even third stage!
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