I Can Copy Curses

Orion frowned when he saw the carefree guy blocking the masked girl's path.

'That guy is very strong—way stronger than Carl.'

Although he couldn't see through his strength, considering this dungeon had a limit for only platinum rank experts, it wasn't hard to deduce his strength was at most the peak of the platinum rank.

But Orion could feel that this guy was way stronger and more dangerous than Carl.

'It seems like she will be defeated here.'

He envisioned the worst-case scenario for the masked girl and prepared accordingly if anything along the line were to happen to her.

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"Don't blame me then," the masked girl uttered those words and used the same technique she used against Carl to heavily injure him.

From her three sides, crimson shadows of a dragon, a phoenix, and a blob mass of an unknown entity condensed, and a moment later, they combined together to form a ray of light that zoomed towards Ethan, who was watching her do that with a lazy expression on his face.

This time, the intensity of the crimson ray of light was even stronger than the last time, causing the ground to be destroyed along the way as it waved towards Ethan.

Meanwhile, Ethan nodded, feeling the strength of the attack. "I have to say, this attack of yours is one of the strongest I have ever seen, but it's just one of the strongest attacks. If your strength were truly at the platinum rank, none of us would stand a chance against you, but sadly, that was all if."

He shook his head in pity and moved his right hand forward.

Within moments, the five fingers of his hand began to glow with a bright purple light, casting a shade of purple around his face.

The five purple lights emanating from his fingers coalesced into a sphere the size of his fist.

"Look, this is a similar attack to yours, but it's slightly inferior. However, given the vast difference in our ranks, this will suffice against your attack."

As he uttered those words, the five purple spheres hovering above his fingers merged, forming a new sphere the size of his head. It released a purple beam of light that collided with the masked girl's incoming crimson ray.

As the purple beam of light collided with the crimson ray of light, a breathtaking cascade of red and purple coalesced at the center of their collision.

But only a moment later, the intensity of their collision died down, and one could see who had the upper hand.

It was Ethan.

His purple beam of light had almost reached the masked girl, who had been trying her best to maintain her crimson ray all this time. Sweat trickled down her face as she held on with all her strength.

"You are going down," Ethan shook his head as he increased the power of his attack.

Almost instantly, the masked girl felt the pressure upon her increase, causing her crimson ray to weaken as the purple beam of light closed in on her.

'No, this isn't how it should end!'

Tears glistened on her cheeks as she felt the energy of her attack being devoured by the incoming purple beam that slowly but steadily closed in on her.

It was only a moment before the purple beam of light would devour her too, and knowing she could die at any moment terrified her.

All her life, since that day, she had wanted revenge. The thought that she might die here without fulfilling it made her feel she was wasting her life. She regretted her rash actions.

But as it stood, she couldn't do anything and could only hope that her attacker would stop on his own accord.

However, it was highly unlikely considering she had just tried to kill his friend.

Most importantly, this attack of hers had a fatal weakness: she couldn't move from her position while attacking and couldn't stop the attack once initiated. The attack would only cease when its energy was drained, leaving her standing like a puppet.

That was the cost of using such powerful skills with her current strength. She had no control over her attack, making it a double-edged sword. This time, she was unlucky.

When she came here, knowing Carl would be here, she had already prepared for the possibility that it might be her last day. But in the end, it seemed she fell short.

'Mother, father, forgive me for coming too soon...'

She closed her eyes as she accepted her fate.

Soon, the purple beam of light completely erased her crimson ray, casting a purple shade on her despairing face.

However, it was also at that moment that she felt a hand on her back, and then the awaited death didn't come.

Surprised, she opened her eyes to see that she was in a different position from where she previously stood.

Not only her, but even Ethan was surprised to see that. According to what he saw, she teleported to her left at the last possible moment when his purple wave of light was about to hit her.

'I see, so that's how it is...'

But when he saw someone else standing behind her, he finally understood that another person helped her.

"So, are you regretting your decision now?" Orion chuckled and asked as he looked at her.

The masked girl panicked, seeing him. "Haven't you left? Leave now. Quick, or they will kill you!" She had thought he had already left when she pushed him away, but it seemed she had overestimated Orion's IQ a bit.

"Who would save you if I left?" Orion smiled, shaking his head, and looked at Ethan.

"Can you let her go?" he asked him as his right hand went behind his back.

Ethan shook his head and said with a frown, "I can't, and if you are going to help her, then sadly I will have to kill you too."

"Just because she intended to kill your friend?" Orion asked.

Ethan nodded. "Just because she intended to kill my friend."

Orion raised his brows upon hearing that. "But isn't he alive?"

"That's because I interfered," Ethan said, feeling very interested in where the conversation was going between them.

Orion looked at him deeply and said, "Well, in her case, I interfered too. She is also my friend, just like Carl is to you. If Carl gets to live, so does she."

Ethan burst into laughter. "Your statement is correct, and I commend you for thinking like that, but you forget one main thing."

"And what is that?" Orion asked slowly.

"She attacked Carl first, so your previous statement was flawed," Ethan said, chuckling.

Orion shrugged. "I know that. I was just playing with you."

"Hehe, you know what? I already knew what you wanted to do when you started talking and put one of your hands behind your back. You thought if you could distract me for a minute or two, you could prepare something that would allow both of you an easy escape, didn't you?" Ethan smiled as he revealed Orion's plan.

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