I am curious right now. I never considered the chance of a demon being behind this curse. Status effects can be for any reason, and demons usually use curses to get the upper advantage in combat. They are different from debuffs, curses last longer and their effects are much more aggressive. So can last a whole lifeti.
But this is not normally how demons operate.
We move to the inner chamber and get to the internal library, where they have a shit ton of books in different shelves that are older than the priest, I assu.
On a large study table, Lisa drops the book. anwhile, Father Kaelen searches for a book.
"It should be around here..." he says.
I look around the area... too many cobwebs, dust. So books are more covered, others look pretty new. So of them have nas that you could expect.
The trifecta: the offspring of the Creator Entity
Prayers of the old Tis
Studies of the Rapture
Origins of the the three Heroes
Those nas call my attention. I don’t rember ever a Creator Entity being nad in the ga or the Three Heroes. Bae, the elf from the Movers, ntioned the legend.
"Here it is." The Father says and pulls out another big book.
"What is it with humans always keeping all these books?" Aurelia asks. "I don’t get it."
"Why am I not surprised you don’t read?" I comnt.
"What is the use of it? Where I co from, it is either kill or be killed." She makes her scythe appear, for so reason, maybe to show her point. "I don’t have ti to think about books or the spirituality when soone might co in and try to kill you."
"Well.. context matters." The Father says, dropping the big book on the table.
It creates a loud noise that echoes through the whole chamber, like a bang while lifting the dust on the wooden table.
"No one cleans this place?" I ask.
"The collection here is old."
I hope that book, which looks to have been written since the beginning of ti, has so relevant information to what is happening to .
"But so of the information is relevant." He opens it and scans the beginning of the book. "Here... what do you know about the origin of the world?"
I believe that question is directed to ? But that is easy to answer for soone like , who read each passage of the lore.
"The world was created by the trifecta after they saw the empty land, they gave birth to their sons and daughters, creating all that is known." I give the short version of it.
Lisa and the Father looked at each other for a second.
"A-Amber, I don’t know what version you have read, but that is not the one we believe in." Lisa comnts.
What?
That is the only version of the lore that talks about the creation. It goes on about how the whole world was created and slowly took form from an egg... That is the one the followers of the whole trifecta said. Lisa is a follower of the trifecta itself.
Shouldn’t that be her belief?
"Old tales explain about a Creator Entity. An unknown being that ca and saw the world in its dreams." The Father explains, reading the book. "This being wanted to make it real, to co into existence. But he needed others to believe in it, to learn about it. But instead of telling them, they showed it to them with its power. It wrote the sacred rules of the world, it defined how magic works, who our deities are, even the System we use, it decided everything... then, it made it co into existence with a wish."
That is so different from the version I know! And it even includes the System? The ga does not ntion it, thinking about it, it never recognizes it in ga as part of the world! What does that an?
"T-that is not sothing I have ever heard of..."
"Hah! You had sothing wrong?!" Aurelia was laughing at .
"Oh, shut up!"
"Maybe sothing that you read was misleading you?" Karina proposes.
Maybe? But why would there be such a discrepancy between the version of this ga and this one? Now not only so rules were different, the whole creation story was?
"Now... those rules are the important part. Curses move them around and make the rules not work as intended." He points at . "You should be gaining experience in your stats and skills... you are not gaining them. That is the modification."
"Normally, a priest can remove it thanks to the blessing of a deity." Lisa continues. "But you lost all your levels, and only the Ego weapon in your person can gain it, without counting that you cannot receive the XP, the system is sending it sowhere."
It is sending it to Bloodless.
"There is no ti limit to it, it cannot be removed... that sounds like the work of a powerful demon or a powerful deity. Only a high ranking one can make one as such, without giving you a way to get off it."
...
"I was stabbed when I got cursed, and the blade went through the System." I explain. "It did not care about my defenses or resistances."
"Then that item was given to your attacker by a powerful entity." The Father explains, quickly checking his book.
It takes him a while, there is a pause that makes tense. I see him run through them, like checking every page in a quick look. Then he lands on one, and reads it before returning his attention to .
"Here." He points to the page.
I swallow saliva and get closer. There is a drawing of different weapons and items, prominent is a dagger with a red blade.
Cursed by a weapon that ignores the System and Magic
Items and weapons obtained only through a deal with a higher being, be it demon or deity. They are said to be items created deep within the strings of creation, made directly with the flowing energy of the sacred writings that give form to our world.
Calling them cursed is an oxymoron. Even when created by a demon, these items are the closest to the creation and less of a blasphemy on itself. They are only made with permission by the forces that made the world co to form.
Therefore, these curses are often considered more of a punishnt for a curse and they not only bypass the rules of the universe. They change it for all eternity on those affected by them.
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