251 The Power Of Curses
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Curse Magic, the ability to cast curses in a target, be it alive or an object, it seems that literally anything can be cursed, wow. I wonder how I could handle it with my infinite Mana… Could I be able to constantly conjure a curse on a target? No… much like other spells, the effects must have some sort of limit to them, also, infinite magic doesn’t mean infinite power in a spell, to increase the total power of my spells, I need to increase the Runes I have in my magic circle… or conjure a lot of flames together to make a big flame! But that can only be done using stuff like Ember, everything else seems to be too slow to conjure, infinite magic cannot let me skip this process, unless I learn more about magic formulas and also enhance my magic circle.
Just recently I reached Rank 3 in my Tier 2 Magic Circle, while my Physique is already at Rank 7 of Tier 1, which is closer to reaching Tier 2, surprising at the age of 7, especially for a girl who are usually quite weak physically when they’re children. I am not an amazon either so my muscles won’t develop amazingly like Nepheline’s muscles. Female elves are often delicate maidens, and my father said that the girls of his tribe were also all quite delicate, but good using bows and magic. …It is already amazing I am getting closer to Tier 2 Physique at the age of 7, but I guess being bathed in the blood of a dragon and eating monster meat and the dragon meat also helps at enhancing my physique, especially when it was all prepared using Cooking Magic.
Anyways, my Magic Circle is at a good Tier for my age and everything else, and I am constantly generating new runes inside and slowly making it Rank Up, so my magic power should be slowly increasing. Although I wonder how much magic power can affect curses, I decided to continue listening to my mother.
“Curse Magic is quite an important trick every hero learned to use to weaken enemies with their blows.” Said my mother. “It is important that you learn it, but also that you know how to use it moderately. If you go and end up using it on a friend when sparring, it could end in terrible consequences you might even regret for the rest of your lives, so never dare use curse magic when sparing against a friend… I can heal any curse you guys could ever conjure, but still, there might be times when I won’t be around all the time.”
“True… We’ll be careful.” I said, Aquarina and Zack nodded, agreeing to what I said as well, they seemed to be pumped up about learning Curse Magic though, and were excited about it more than I thought.
“Anyways, let’s begin right away! I don’t want to overextend things way too much. For starters let’s do some basic Curse casting!” Said my mother, quickly forming a small magic circle. “Slow, Parasite, Exhaustion, Depression…” She said, as she conjured the oddly named Runes for the magic circle.
FLASH!
And then, she suddenly took out a doll from a Spatial Inventory, and made it move through another Spell called “Fake Life” that generated a synthetic soul inside an object.
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The doll fell over the floor, and began to walk around, it had the apeparace of a little elf. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
“Uwah! W-What is that?!” Asked Aquarina.
“This is a living doll, a small servant used in elven libraries, we use the Fake Life spell to give them a synthetic soul and they can serve us tirelessly for some time, until the soul disappears into thin air.” Said my mother. As she pointed the Curse Magic Spell she was creating.
“Slow.” She said, as the magic circle suddenly activated, rotating like a ring, and then converging together into a strange and phantasmal black mass of magic, reaching the doll and cursing it.
The doll was covered on this darkness as if it were burning, it felt a bit impacting, but also interesting to see. The doll suddenly slowed down, walking slowly, and then, it tripped over the floor and began to struggle to move.
“P-poor thing…!” Said Aquarina.
“Don’t pity it, Aquarina, we use them as dummies all the time.” Said my mother. “Anyways, as you can see, it slowed down, tripped over the floor, and seems to be having a difficult time at trying to crawl out of its misery. This is the power of Curse Magic, of course, the larger and stronger an opponent, the easier they’ll be able to withstand a curse. For that, you need stronger magic power and curses to curse them even strongly… But that’s good for now, just by having some curse you should be able to slightly weaken even strong foes. Your natural magical power is already quite advanced for your age.”
“Curse Magic is kind of cool…” Said Zack.
I wanted to try it out right away, so mother decided to bring out some more dummies, this time they resembled teddy bears, and they were three, they were around a meter in height, and were crawling around aimlessly, ready to get cursed.
“Let’s see…” I said, quickly conjuring each Rune in place around the magic circle ring, and using yet another magic ring to complete the magic circle in front of me, it took me around 5 seconds, so the conjuration time is not that long, I just need to find a way to add it to my normal magic and attacks though.
“SLOW!”
FLASH!
A black mass emerged from my magic circle, as I loaded it with some extra bit of Mana, making the curse stronger, as it resembled a large mass of soot coming out of thin air, and reaching the teddy bear.
SPLASH!
The darkness splashed over the creature as if it were some sort of black liquid, covering it and cursing the living teddy bear with a curse that made it walk slowly.
Oh, it worked right away, first try!
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