I Can Copy Curses

Tocola Forest.

After finishing up with his new teammates, Orion came here to increase his stats. He hunted monsters and absorbed their cores for about five hours, and now he was finally done.

He knew he would be gone for almost a week and would hardly get any more time to hunt monsters and increase his stats during that period. This was his last chance to boost his stats as much as possible before leaving for the mission tomorrow.

'It's been getting late.'

Orion thought as he looked at the sky, which had turned red and showed signs of turning dark.

'Status.'

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[Name: Orion Darkwood]

[Rank: Iron]

[Divine Ability: Transformation]

[Talent: Copy; Curse: 12%]

[Sub Ability: Burst Mode, Curse Transformation]

[Curse: Reality Fracture, Berserk Body, Malevolent Gaze, Identity Strain, Devouring Abyss, Thunder's Wrath]

[Strength: 46]

[Stamina: 41]

[Agility: 40]

[Perception: 39]

[Constitution: 43]

[Mana: Nil]

[Skills: Nil]

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'Hmm, almost halfway through the mark.'

Orion looked at his stats and thought but his attention was once again drawn to the talent mastery that was still only at 12%.

'Should I create more moves?'

He remembered he had created many moves or techniques, you could say in the bronze rank, that might have resulted in an increase in his talent mastery.

'I haven't created anything like that in the iron rank. So, it's worth a try and who knows, it might increase my talent mastery faster.'

He thought about it and started walking towards the exit of the Tocola Forest. He would do this once he left this era.

Arriving at one of the safest areas outside of the palace and making sure there wasn't anyone there, Orion chose this place to create his techniques. This was a plain area with small peaks and mountains in the distance.

Standing there, he thought about which one of the curses he should start with.

'I haven't even tried Thunder's Wraith yet. Let's see if I can do anything with that.'

Thinking of Thunder's wrath, he didn't hesitate and immediately activated the curse.

Lightning erupted from every part of his body, making him appear as though he was the embodiment of lightning, spitting bolts everywhere around him.

'This is...too much lightning!'

He was surprised to see this much lightning released from his body. Even the ground around him turned pitch black as lightning bolts continued to strike here and there.

'But it's good for me. Now how do I make a powerful attack with these lightning?'

He thought as he took all the lightning back into his body and raised his hand. Lightning began to wriggle around his arm as soon as he raised it.

He could use lightning normally now but if he wanted to make it even more powerful, he would have to create some powerful techniques with it, just like he did with fire and ice. They were just like lightning, created inside of his body because of some curse but it was his techniques that made the use of fire and ice much more terrifying than what it was before.

So he thought hard about what could be the best way to make a powerful lightning attack.

After careful thinking and planning, he successfully created something that could bring forth the destruction of lightning.

'It's getting late. I should leave.'

Orion thought as he looked at the moon that hung high in the air.

***

The next morning, Orion and his team stood near the area where hundreds of void shuttles were placed.

There were also Butler Rio and Orion's friends who were standing beside them, along with Lisa.

At this moment, Orion was holding a book and reading its contents. His eyebrows furrowed as he dove deeper into the text before finally closing it.

The book contained the content of the mission Orion and his team were about to undertake.

After reading through it, Orion was surprised that it was a very easy mission.

The task was simple. On one of the many 3-star planets owned by the Darkwood Family, a pool of mana essence was found. But because the mana essence pool was guarded by a gold-ranking monster, the people over there couldn't take the mana essence that was right before their eyes. Hence, their mission was to kill the gold-rank monster.

Also, it wasn't that there was a lack of gold-ranking personnel on that planet; no, the higher officials of the planet were indeed of gold rank. But it was because of their assessment that they were strictly told not to interfere in any of the business of the mana essence pool until and unless Orion's team went there and killed the gold-rank monster.

However, Orion felt that there was more to the mission than met the eye. It couldn't be as simple as going there and killing the gold-rank monster; there had to be something more about it; otherwise, it would be too easy for a mission to test one's leadership qualities.

Yes, leadership qualities. After Orion received the details of the mission, Butler Rio informed him that it would test his abilities as a leader, specifically how he would manage a team where nearly all the members were dissatisfied with him being the leader.

'Let's see what happens.'

Orion thought as he turned his head to look at his team.

"I will explain the mission now. So listen carefully. It's about a planet."

He briefly explained the mission and what they needed to do to complete it.

As they heard the details of the mission, all of them looked surprised but not happy. They felt that the master of the house had intentionally made the mission easy so that Orion could pass it without any difficulty.

But they didn't say it out loud—they couldn't say it out loud. They could clench their fists in silence.

Orion caught the strange expressions on their faces but he didn't care. He understood what they were thinking but he would never believe that his father would lower the difficulty of the mission just for him.

What he did believe in was that the mission would be much harder than it seemed on the surface.

At that moment, Mike came in and bowed down to him.

"Young Master, we are ready to go."

Orion nodded and looked at his friends—Famir, Ryfin, and Ron. They unexpectedly turned to him this morning, saying they also wanted to do some missions and that was how they ended up here. Since it was what they wanted, Orion couldn't disagree, so he told Mike to go with them for their safety.

Also, Mike couldn't go with him either since, in his mission, no individual stronger than silver rank was allowed and even those who were allowed couldn't assist Orion in any way during the mission.

"Do you guys really want to do this?" Orion asked them last time.

They nodded. They had already talked among themselves about this.

Orion sighed and nodded to them, thinking that since Mike would be with them the whole time, there probably wouldn't be any mishaps.

"Alright but be careful on your mission."

They nodded to him before the three of them, along with Mike, boarded a void shuttle and left Planet Morse.

"Let's go too."

Orion said to his team before he went inside his void shuttle. The seven others followed him alongside Lisa.

Soon their void shuttle also took flight and disappeared from planet Morse.

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