Before you ask, Mauser was a Vanedeni [Hero]. He ca long after . I was already nothing more than a soul in a book when he almost single-handedly ruined our people. He had the famous class, the charm, and the talent. But he was a spineless idiot. No one knows how classes are really assigned, but one thing is for sure: Mauser wasnt a [Hero].
The hope of our continent, Princess Valarith, who still had to get the class when she slew him, died with that foolish kid. Since arriving at Ko, never in our history had there been a civil war among the Vanedenis, Joey. Never. The only exception was the one caused by Mauser.
He was a great [Necromancer]. One of the greatest, perhaps. And he spread his cult far and wide before he was felled. Now, please. Let . Ill teach you about this in the future. But for now, I need to do it myself, and Ill need to borrow your body.
maybe my Ancestor could
Antoninus, stand back, please, my voice is deeper and stronger than usual. I dont object to Lord Julers taking control as he simply moves my mouth. Ill cure your mother.
Everyone in the room turns to , but Lord Juler has put a neutral expression on my face. Hes looking through my eyes at the womans body. Its frail and weak, barely hanging onto life. I cant imagine what her muscles must be like if she lay in a bed for an entire year. Her body is probably atrophied and decaying. How she is still alive is a mystery.
Joey, you dont know
Antoninus, I can remove both curses. But I need all of you to get out.
No one has moved yet.
Joey, Lucillus eyes severely, and I can feel Lord Julers anger starting to mount after being disobeyed.
You know, I actually wonder how this possession thing works. If magic cos from the soul, does he need to bridge our souls and
Silence, Joey Luciani. It is indeed very hard. But do not forget who you are talking to. [Supre Archmagus] is not a title to throw around casually. I need to focus to make this work.
Give half an hour with your mother. That bone-nding balm lost its efficacy months ago. And you know it too. Her bones are not nding properly. She needs my intervention, now.
Antoninus gets up and stands in front of . The guy is much taller than , and I have to look up to gaze into his eyes. Hes pained by whats happening. And he clearly doesnt trust what I or better, Lord Juler just said. But they have also seen do incredible things, havent they?
If anything happens to my mother
Its the first ti I see Antoninus growling. Hes usually laid back and relaxed, but now he looks like an elephant about to rampage.
She will walk again, Antoninus. You have my word.
Princess Laura takes all the people in the room out and closes the door behind her. But not before she gives a long and aningful stare.
Im going to show you how Formations work. This is just fueled by Mana, but we need to establish what curses affect her body first.
Before I can ask what he ans by that, lines of Mana materialize in the air, visible even to the naked eye. The form intersects in circles and other geotrical patterns above the shaking body of the woman.
I might not have my skills anymore, but magical expertise is not just skills, student.
Slowly, a massive array or what so would call a mandala arranges itself on top of the body. Several parts start flashing before going black or deep shades of gray.
The two curses they ntioned are just the result of ten different curses ravaging her body. The bones are rotten. The necromancer managed to penetrate her body with a shard of Rottenbone. Thats one of the most insidious and high-level curses a Necromancer can employ. It eats the bone and replaces it with more Rottenbone. Its a rare skill/material. The skill can only be embedded in a shard of bone that will need to penetrate the bone. It has many maleficent properties. The most significant is the ability to keep digging through flesh to reach the bone and ld with it.
Mauser was an expert on curses and body manipulation. He created Undeads that still haunt so countries. On Ko, our ho, there should still be a lake infested with his last creations, so of the most powerful ones.
[Rottenbone] requires a physical vessel because its properties are so against life itself that it would never pass a soul-shroud. Therefore, Mauser engineered the curse himself. It was one of his most terrible Unique Skills. Well talk about that in the future. Rottebone is like a worm that eats and spawns more Rottenbone. This womans body is riddled with it. Its a curse that will leave the body debilitated and slowly kill it over a couple of years. It was ant to affect the [Dragonslayers] assets so dear to our enemies that they spent imnse riches to try and heal them. But no one could. Only in very few cases, where Rottenbone had barely taken hold, was there any success at lifting the curse. And that happened by amputating the affected limb or body part.
How are we solving this, then? Didnt you just say that this woman had Rottenbone all over her body?
I dont have a solution for this. I could have done sothing if I had my own body here. And even then, it would have been a very crude solution.
Lord Juler, you just said you are a [Supre Archmagus]! For Gods sake, arent you all-powerful or sothing? Isnt there a spell to save this woman?
Magic can do everything, but I did not expect Rottenbone here. The [Necromancer] this woman killed must have been of the highest caliber. Over level 50, maybe approaching level 60. In ti, such a person could have revived Mausers legacy.
Give a second.
Lord Juler draws a few more lines of Mana in the air.
This woman is a [Blademaster] at level 44. Thats not too bad. But she sacrificed herself to prevent a possible catastrophe. If what Ive heard is true, many should thank her for her noble deed.
What are we going to do, then?! We have to save her! You said I would save her!
We might have to give Antoninus so very bad news, Joey Luciani.
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