I Can Copy Curses

Chapter 323: 323. Absolute Annihilation

Orion checked the descriptions of all the curses he had copied and felt disappointed.

"Only four of them are useful; the others are just trash."

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He sighed. He had copied a total of fifteen curses, and only four of them turned out to be useful. The odds were not as bad compared to some other times when he had copied curses, but it was still disappointing nonetheless.

He opened his status once again.

'Status.'

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[Name: Orion Darkwood]

[Rank: Gold]

[Divine Ability: Transformation]

[Talent: Copy Curse - 31%]

[Sub Abilities: Burst Mode, Curse Transformation, Curse Synthesis, Curse Overload]

[Curse: Shadow Nemesis, Gold Heart, Sword Chaos, Blood Boil, Destructive Edge]

[Strength: _ ]

[Stamina: _ ]

[Agility: _ ]

[Perception: _ ]

[Constitution: _ ]

[Mana: Nil]

[Skills: Nil]

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'I copied the Shadow Nemesis curse from Patrick. In his case, shadows became out of control, but for me, I can control the shadows more effectively than he did,' Orion thought, examining the first curse.

'Gold Heart... Reilly would have had his heart and all the internal parts of his body turned to gold if his curse had remained activated for a long time. But for me, it's a great boon,' he smiled mysteriously.

'Sword Chaos, this is the only curse whose uses I don't understand. The description only mentioned that the user would be transported to a world of swords, lost forever there,' Orion thought carefully, though he still kept the curse.

'Blood Boil is the best, just like Gold Heart. It will be very useful in the future,' Orion thought, moving on to the last curse, Destructive Edge. He had copied this curse with the sole purpose of combining it with the curse of Shattered Precision.

The moment he saw the name of the curse, he decided to combine it with Shattered Precision. He had a feeling the result would be very good.

'Combine Destructive Edge with Shattered Precision.'

[Synthesis of curses—Destructive Edge with Shattered Precision initiated...]

[Synthesis is successful.]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the curse of Absolute Annihilation.]

Orion smiled as he saw the synthesis was successful and checked the description of his new curse.

[Absolute Annihilation - A devastating power that obliterates everything in its path, leaving no trace of its target behind.]

Orion understood the meaning behind the description of the new curse and closed his status.

'It's time to sleep. I have something important to do tomorrow.'

Satisfied with his new curses, Orion rested and fell asleep.

The next day, Orion woke up, freshened up, and immediately left his house. He had a very important task for the day. Since the next day would be the day he would leave for the next assessment at Dollas Academy, he wanted to be fully prepared.

He wanted to find out if the opponents he would face later in the assessment would include those in the Platinum Rank. He suspected he might face such opponents and wanted to confirm.

In the Magus Kingdom, he had noticed that all the top geniuses were at the peak of Gold Rank, and none were in the Platinum Rank. Now that three months had passed, they would surely have reached Platinum Rank.

Orion had previously suspected that the reason they hadn't advanced to Platinum Rank was due to the Grimshore, but that suspicion was now corrected.

He just didn't know the specific reason behind this. However, it raised many questions for him.

Were all of them like Astral, Elyn, and others in the Magus Kingdom, who didn't advance to Platinum Rank due to their low mastery of their talents, or was there another reason?

Was the other reason related to Grimshore?

Ignoring the geniuses from the Magus Kingdom, the geniuses of the Human Federation Realm were also strangely at the peak of Gold Rank, at least the geniuses of the Nio planet.

This led Orion to believe that lack of mastery of talents couldn't be the reason holding geniuses from two domains back. It was too coincidental that all the geniuses he knew from these two domains had been unable to upgrade due to their lack of mastery.

'There must be a more concrete reason behind it.'

Orion thought as he appeared out of his dimension and landed not far from his guild.

***

In Erza's office.

"So, you wanted to ask something," Erza said, looking at Orion.

"Yes, I'm here again regarding the upcoming assessment for Dollas Academy," Orion said.

He added, "Have you gotten any information on how the next assessment will proceed?"

"That information is confidential and hasn't been shared with any guild. I doubt even the Hunter Association knows about it," Erza replied plainly.

She then asked, "Is that all you wanted to know?"

Orion shook his head. "No, I wanted to know if the opponents we will face in the next assessment might include those in the Platinum Rank."

"That's a given," Erza replied. "Although it takes a long time to reach Platinum Rank, there's no shortage of geniuses in the Human Federation Realm. So, there should be those in the Platinum Rank."

Orion frowned. "So, could there be opponents with a power level of 9th level Platinum Rank in the assessment?" he asked.

Erza shrugged. "If they can reach the 9th level of Platinum Rank before the age of 23, then it is indeed possible."

"23 years?" Orion understood. The age limit for participating in the assessment at Dollas Academy was 23 years old. Beyond that, one would no longer be eligible.

Then a thought occurred to Orion.

'25 years is like a full-fledged adult on Earth who has experienced one-fourth of their life. Yet in this world, one can still attend an academy at 23.'

Orion looked at her, realizing something.

"You didn't know that?" Erza asked in surprise.

"How would I know such things?" Orion shrugged. "You have never told me."

"Heh, why don't you just admit it's your ignorance?" Erza sneered.

"Cough!" Orion smiled awkwardly and changed the topic. "By the way, I wanted to know if Platinum Rank experts have any special abilities or something like that?"

Erza narrowed her eyes at Orion. "Why do you think Platinum Rank experts would have new abilities?"

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