I Can Copy Curses

As planned, Zim and Lary left to inform the Dungeon Management Association about the deaths of the four young masters, and Dane stayed behind.

"Do any of you know anything about the masked individual?" he asked, his eyes examining each person in the crowd for any change in expression.

To his surprise, many people's expressions did change when he asked them about the masked man.

"Tell me, what do you know?" He grabbed one of the people whose expression changed the most.

The man panicked being held by Dane. "I-I only know that the mask he wore has recently become famous."

"How so?" Dane asked.

The man took a deep breath and said, "There was a man who called himself Curse Lord who wore this mask a few days ago but..."

"But what?" Dane urged.

The man continued, "But his strength was only at the gold rank, and he looked different and talked different compared to the guy who killed them."

Dane pondered. He knew a person with the strength of the gold rank wouldn't be a suspect, but this was the only lead they had so far, so he had no choice but to look more into this matter.

"Do you have any pictures?" he asked the trembling man.

"I-I have," the man immediately began to fiddle with his universal bracelet, and articles of holographic images passed above his bracelet until he stopped suddenly.

"This is him!" He pointed at the man in the mask to Dane.

Dane looked at the image on the article and read the information below too.

"So, someone tried to be a hero, huh," Dane muttered. "But no one knows who he is..."

After reading the details, he found this individual very mysterious. There were no records of this man before his recent appearance, and the most shocking thing it mentioned was that his strength was only at the iron rank.

"A masked man who calls himself Curse Lord has the strength at peak gold rank only at iron rank," Dane found this man very interesting. "But this guy shouldn't be him. He is just a kid who has a very powerful talent and decided to play hero by hiding behind a mask to kill the demons."

He couldn't believe that an iron rank individual would have the strength of a diamond rank. Even the strength of peak gold rank surprised him, let alone diamond rank.

No one should possess the strength of diamond rank at iron rank. It was humanly impossible. This was common knowledge, and Dane also believed in this.

So he completely set aside this Curse Lord out of the equation. He believed someone who could enter the dungeon with them guarding the portal should possess strength at the diamond rank at the least.

And most importantly, they couldn't even sense him when he came and went out of the dungeon. Only someone stronger than them should have the strength to accomplish that feat—someone above the diamond rank.

Moreover, there was another reason that made him believe Curse Lord couldn't be that person.

In the picture of the article, it clearly showed that he was using fire and ice as his strength. This made Dane suspect that Curse Lord should have the legendary dual talents of fire and ice and hence his incredible strength at gold rank when he was just at the iron rank.

Also, the man responsible for the killings had flame talent, but it was black flames. This made him believe that Curse Lord and the culprit were completely different individuals.

Thinking along these lines, he let the man go and looked at the crowd. "Aside from the Curse Lord, does any other individual come to mind?"

The people in the crowd shook their heads.

Dane frowned upon seeing that but he also understood that the culprit might be a trained assassin of some organization, and hence common people might not know about them.

At this moment, a thought crossed his mind.

'Could he be from the Archons?' Dane pondered this. He heard the last man say that the culprit followed them all the way from the base of the Archons to this Magus Kingdom.

But he didn't know if what the man said was true or not. It could be a bait to draw their attention somewhere else, and yet at the same time, it could also be true.

'Damn, this is such a headache,' he pinched the center of his nose and thought. 'I will first inform Emperor Maximus and Sword Sage about this. Maybe they would know something about this man.'

With that thought in mind, he addressed the crowd, "You can go for now, but you cannot leave this planet for the time being."

Although he understood the culprit couldn't be among the crowd, he couldn't let go of the possibility either.

Also, people from the Archons would be arriving in about a month's time, so he thought they might have something that could make them spill everything if anyone hid anything here.

That was why he didn't want them to leave.

"How long do we have to stay here?" One of the people in the crowd took the courage to ask Dane.

"One month."

Dane looked at them and explained, "You guys will stay on this planet for one month. In that time, you are free to go anywhere on this planet, but you can't leave."

Everyone frowned when they heard the time they had to stay on the planet. It was too long.

Many of these people came to this planet to explore the Heaven City, and when they heard about a dungeon opening in this place, they came to clear it.

But now they had to stay here for another month, which obviously didn't sit well with many. However, like always, they didn't say anything and could only silently accept what they were told.

Orion, on the other hand, also wanted to leave this planet and visit his home as soon as possible. He couldn't wait to tell his father about Carl's family and the curse thing, but it seemed he could only relay this via the universal bracelet now. That was the only option he had at the moment.

"Alright, you can go now," Dane dismissed them.

Moments later, everyone left the hilly area, leaving only Dane standing alone in the place.

"Night," he whispered a word as if he were talking to himself.

But at that moment, a woman revealed herself in front of him. She wore black clothes completely covering her whole body and a veil covering her mouth. She appeared to be around her late twenties.

"Gather a team and keep an eye on every individual that left just now," Dane ordered her. "Also, if you see anyone doing any suspicious activity, subdue that person and bring them to me."

"As you command."

With those words, the woman disappeared from the place.

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