Soon Harry who is now Aron could be seen heading towards his room inside the castle, the castle was quite large and had an architecture similar to German castles.
Housing more than 7 floors with pointy tall spires reaching for the sky, it was a magnificent sight to behold. Aron who had grown up in the castle knew each and every corner of the castle like the back of his hand.
As he continued to ascend the stairs to the 7th floor where the rooms of the Smith family members were located, he started going through the memories of Aron, according to his memories currently only he and his brother lived here, mostly himself, as his brother would be busy with his work and would only come to his room to sleep at night.
Soon he got to his room, which was located just adjacent to his brother's room. As soon as he got inside his room, he found the entire room to be in a complete mess….all the furniture including chairs and tables were lying upside down as if someone had thrown and flipped them in anger, the curtains of his wide windows were torn apart and his study table was a mess.
But just as he looked around the room, his gaze suddenly landed on the eastern side wall, where he saw something that sent chills down his spine….
On the wall, he saw something written in Grizben the commonly spoken language of the Grazzier Empire, but with blood.…." THE NIGHTMARE IS UPON US" was written in big bold letters, and under it, something else was written with a smiling face drawn with blood…" KASIMO WAS HERE ☺"...
Aron looked at the wall and then at his right hand, he knew who would've written it, it was none other than the past Aron who had slit his palm and written those ominously eerie words, it was the past Aron who had painted his face the same way as the dreadful clown from his nightmare, and it was also the past Aron who had hung himself to a tree located at a secluded corner of the castle's lawn.
Harry had no idea why he would do that. Still, from Aron's past memories, he knew that Aron had been having these terrifying nightmares since he was a child…..and it seemed like these nightmares had taken a toll on his mind and sanity, slowly consuming his sanity and pushing him towards insanity…..Harry couldn't think of any other explanation for the current situation…
He went to the bathroom of his room, fetched a bucket of water and a mop, and then started cleaning the wall first, to wipe those eerie words written in blood before anyone could see them. If anyone were to see his room's current condition, they'd think that he had gone crazy! After spending a couple of hours tirelessly cleaning and restoring his room back to its previous state, he was done….and also extremely tired.
He then tiredly limped on his bed, and just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly felt something pricking from his pants pocket.
When he put his hand into his pocket to check, he felt touching a crystalline rock with lots of sharp edges, as he took the object out and held it infront of his face to take a closer look, his eyes suddenly went wide and his sleepiness instantly vanished.
What was lying inside his pocket was the Star Fragment responsible for his transmigration to this world.
As he continued to observe the Star fragment, more and more thoughts and questions started swirling up inside his head like a tornado.
The star fragment looked like a thumb-sized pitch pitch-black crystal, it was around two inches long and had sharp-cut corners.
As far as Harry could remember, an alien object fell into the Deserts of Saudi Arabia and was discovered by the tourists touring the deserts...
The object attracted the attention of every country and region. Although they tried to contend with the other countries for its ownership, ultimately they decided to sell it to the United States in exchange for a Heafty payment...
After a few years of research, the US scientists named it the "Star Fragment". There had been quite a few debates about the origins of the alien object, some scientists claimed it was a fragment of a dead Star, while others speculated it to be just a piece of some destroyed asteroid.
During the research, scientists found out that the Star Fragment possessed energy readings that contradicted most existing physical coefficients. If triggered by high-energy radiation of a certain wavelength, the Star Fragment could even teleport objects within a small area.
Because of this newly discovered teleportation method, the Government commenced the ETSF Project.
Harry was one of the researchers invited by the US government to be part of the grand project...His job was to keep a record of the effect of the wave frequencies generated by the Star Fragment on different kinds of minerals and rocks.
One day, Harry brought several sample rocks, ores, crystals, and metals into the heavily protected Star Fragment research zone to record samples, as usual.
Nothing was out of the ordinary at first. Most did not react or show any kind of changes under the waves released by the Star Fragment, except for one single crystal brought from Australia.
As Harry held the crystal and activated his Nanobotic Chip to begin recording, something went wrong with either the control panel or some other component, no one knew. The Star-Fragment started glowing in an ominous dark light, followed by a dark pulse of energy wave...
As soon as the dark pulse of energy spread through the surroundings, a visible rippling effect could be seen, a ripple in the very fabric of Space-Time...Following the ripple, the fabric of space-time around the lab started to distort causing a spatial tear to be torn open right in the middle of the lab. The next moment, before Harry could even realize what was happening, he was swallowed into the spatial rift followed by endless darkness.
After passing through the spatial rift, Harry's body was unsurprisingly destroyed, but miraculously his soul somehow managed to transmigrate to this new world, and into the body of the dying Aron Smith...
After pondering for a while, he just decided to place it on the table beside his bed and think about it tomorrow morning.
Feeling his eyelids dropping by themselves, he closed his eyes and instantly fell asleep….
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"Aron- hey Aron wake up! How long are you going to sleep, it's already afternoon!"...Aron who was sleeping peacefully in his room suddenly heard someone calling his name.
As he opened his eyes, he saw a young man in his 20s with a face and features similar to his own, but with a dignified and authoritative presence.
Aron soon sat back up on his bed, rubbing his tired eyes. The bizarre and eerie experience from yesterday had taken quite a toll on him. He still felt quite a bit tired, even after sleeping for 7-8 hours….
" Brother..what is it? Why did you wake me up? I slept quite late at night yesterday… I want to sleep some more" said Aron in a sleepy tone
Hearing this Aiden frowns a bit with a worried look in his eyes "Aron are you alright? I've heard from the guards that you were wandering around the castle late at night….I have also noticed that you have been acting quite strange for the past couple of days…
Please tell me, is there anything troubling you? haven't you stopped having those strange nightmares after Richard gave you those potions and that bracelet?" Aiden asked in a worried tone, he knew his little brother had been having those strange nightmares since he was a child….He and his parents had tried everything to cure him and stop the nightmares from destroying his sleep and mental health, but the results were ineffective as always.
He had specifically invited his old friend Richard to cure Aron's Nightmares a few months ago, at that time Aron had said that had stopped having those nightmares...but from the looks of it, that didn't seem to be the case anymore...
Aron meanwhile opened his eyes and looked at the worried Elder brother….he couldn't help but sigh.
'If only you had noticed earlier...'
"I'm fine brother, but the nightmares are back…I guess we will have to find another way to get rid of them…." replied Aron with a tired voice.
"Don't worry, Richard will be visiting us in the evening, I'll talk to him once again about it, that's the reason I came to wake you up….he is going to check out your magic talent along with all the people working in the Smith castle, So get ready before he arrives!," said Aiden after which he left.
Aron meanwhile couldn't help but feel excited for the magic talent test! According to his memories, the entire world of Versa was ruled by various Arcane Organizations. Richard himself was from the Arcane Tower of Grazzier, an Arcane organization founded and funded by the Grazzier Empier.
Shaking his head and all the unnecessary thoughts, he got up and started getting ready for the evening. In the meanwhile, he told his personal maid Reen to ask someone to turn the star fragment into a pendant for him.