I Can Copy Curses

"For the first time in a while, Archons will be entering any of the three domains," Dane muttered solemnly. "I just hope that Magus Kingdom prepared for everything, for even I don't know what they might do here."

He shook his head helplessly and entered his void shuttle, which then flew up and vanished into the sky.

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Inside the hotel:

"So, why are you in a hurry to come to the hotel?" Emily asked, her eyes looking suspiciously at Orion.

"I will tell you everything, but first let her go to her own room," Orion said, pointing at Elyn.

Emily's frown deepened at Orion's words, but she listened to him this time and signaled Elyn with her eyes.

"Humph!" Elyn grumpily left, leaving Emily and Orion alone.

"Now, tell me," Emily said.

Orion didn't respond immediately, instead putting his hand on his chin in thought.

A moment later, he looked at Emily and asked, "Big Sis, can you do something that makes anyone eavesdropping on our conversation feel as if we are just normally talking?"

Emily's eyes narrowed at his words. Her suspicion deepened. She had never seen him this serious about anything.

Waving her hands, a blue sphere of light surrounded them, but she still did what Orion asked.

"Now, tell me," she demanded.

Orion nodded and explained about the curse families, why Carl and his four friends had come here, and everything he felt was connected to them.

But the strange thing was that Emily didn't show any shock until the very end—until she realized something.

She recalled how Orion vanished from the boss arena using Space Tear, the appearance of the masked man shortly after, and now, as she pieced the events together, she understood something.

"It was you?" she asked in shock.

"It was me," Orion nodded.

Although he didn't admit it earlier, it was clear when he mentioned those things to her. The death of the four of them combined with his revelation was too much of a coincidence.

Emily would be a fool if she couldn't connect the dots. She understood that the guy who killed Carl's group was Orion, but she wasn't clear about the means he gained such strength.

"Tell father about this," Orion urged her.

"You don't need to worry about that. Our family already knows about the other two cursed families and also that one of the cursed families might come after our family for the sacred wood in the ancestral chamber," Emily said with a calm expression.

Orion was shocked upon hearing her, then he realized something.

"Did I kill them for nothing?" he asked, his expression a little regretful.

"No, you did a good thing," Emily patted him on the shoulder. "Although we did know about the other two families, we didn't know about anything else—about who these two families are."

She looked out the window and continued, "Now that we know one of the families is from Archons, we need time to prepare accordingly. So, you did the right thing, and... I would have done the same if I were in your shoes."

At the end of her words, she sounded a little desolate to Orion.

She further said, her voice sounding solemn, "I will inform father and tell him about your information."

Orion nodded and asked, "So, are we staying here for a month?"

"Let's see what I can do," Emily said, pondering.

She added, "I will let you know in a few days."

Orion nodded and said, "I will be hunting in the nearest jungle in a while. If you need anything, just contact me through the universal bracelet."

"Wait, tell me first, what is the source of your diamond rank strength?" Emily asked.

Orion sighed. He had expected her to ask such questions but had also hoped she might not dig into his secrets. Guess, he was wrong.

"It's related to my talent," he gave a vague answer.

Emily frowned, unsatisfied with Orion's words, but she understood that the strength was a part of his talent and not anything bad.

She then asked, "Are you the Curse Lord?"

Orion nodded. "Yup, that person is indeed me."

She nodded. "Alright, you can go now."

"Big Sis, can you keep these things just between us?" Orion requested with a pitiful expression.

Emily sighed and nodded. "Of course, Orion. Just be careful out there."

Orion gave her a grateful smile. "Thank you, Big Sis. I will."

After that, he left her room after that and headed to his own room. A very important task awaited his attention before he departed for the hunt.

Arriving in his room, he locked the door and shut the windows.

After that, he swung his hand in a swiping motion, and many things mysteriously dropped onto the floor out of nowhere.

A total of three to be exact.

A book, a sword, and a spherical object.

These were the things he had obtained from the diamond rank boss monster.

It had died in his dimension when it exploded, leaving these three things.

Picking up the skill book, Orion directly stored it in his space bracelet and focused his attention on the other two.

"The sword is nice," he could feel the sword was strong—very strong compared to many he had seen before.

"And it's heavy too."

Although it was just a normal style sword, its weight was way beyond that for someone in the gold rank.

He believed that even some strong platinum rank experts would have trouble wielding this sword effectively if they hadn't upgraded their strength stat.

"This sword should be in the diamond ranks," Orion murmured to himself, finding the sword very suitable for him.

As he examined the sword carefully, he found some words etched onto the hilt.

It mentioned "Silver Fang."

"Silver Fang?" Orion found this name very amusing. "But it's good. From now on, you will be my main weapon."

Very satisfied with the sword, he kept it for himself and then turned his attention to the last item on the floor.

Orion picked up the core of the diamond rank monster, and a notification appeared in his vision asking him whether he would absorb the core or not.

He rejected it directly.

After hunting and killing so many wolves in the dungeon, his stats had almost reached his peak.

Only about 10 points were needed in each of his stats.

Therefore, he didn't want to waste a diamond rank core when he could easily increase his stats to peak by hunting a few monsters.

So, he also stored the diamond rank core in his space bracelet for later use.

"Now, all that's left before I go hunting is to check how many of the curses I copied in the dungeon are useful for me," Orion muttered.

He didn't know the exact numbers, but as far as he could tell, he had almost copied around 50 curses.

He would be happy if even five of them were useful to him.

"Let's check."

Orion opened his status and began checking the descriptions of each curse one by one.

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