I Can Copy Curses

About a few minutes later, Orion arrived at his destination and as he looked at the scenery, he was shocked because all he could see was dense forest as far as his eyes could take.

His mother did tell him that the forest was huge but seeing it with his own eyes was spectacular.

Even standing only at the entrance, he could hear the roar of the monsters deep in the forest. He wondered what secrets this forest held to house so many monsters for so long.

'Let's start. My goal for today is at least twenty in all stats.'

He thought and walked inside the forest and as he entered and looked around, he felt as if evening had already arrived but it hadn't.

The canopies of the trees here were so dense that the sunlight couldn't pass through them, making the entire forest dim in light.

Soon, he spotted his first monster.

It looked like a deer but it had antlers—not just any antlers but antlers bathing in lightning. Its body was also bigger, like the size of an elephant.

Orion took out his heavy sword, activated the curse of Berserk Body and Electrostatic Disruption and walked towards the monster.

As he walked, a layer of red covered his entire body.

The monster's ears perked up as he went closer and looked in his direction.

However, just as it noticed him, instead of running away, it came running towards him and at the same time, the lightning at his antlers shot towards him like a beam of light.

Orion ignored the lightning and it struck his body but couldn't get past his absolute defense.

At that moment, the monster also reached in front of him and attacked with his antlers once again but this time as a direct head-on attack.

But Orion sidestepped, easily dodged that, and swung his sword at the same time.

The monster's head rolled to the ground and its headless fell down.

He went over its body, quickly took out its core and absorbed it.

[Agility increased by 1]

'It will be a long day, I guess.'

Orion thought, pondering that he would need to kill almost a hundred monsters to get 20 stat points in all his stats.

"Let's go to an area where there are a large number of monsters."

He muttered to himself and went a little deep into the forest.

***

About six hours later, Orion sat near a river and looked at the night sky that was twinkling with stars.

The starry sky of this world never ceases to amaze him. It was like that in the dungeon too and it was even more beautiful here.

However, as he looked at the sky full of stars, he wondered about his goal in this world.

Unlike his life on Earth, where he used to only study and hadn't had any time left for anything else, in this world, he had all the time to himself, which made him wonder what he was going to do with all this time.

'I should visit the Human Federation Realm and the Martial Domain once.'

He made a mental note to visit those places once he was done with the upcoming tournament in a month.

'It's time I return.'

It was almost night and at night, the monsters were abundant in the forest but the family rule also mentioned not to hunt at night so he could only leave the forest for now.

'Status.'

[Name: Orion Darkwood]

[Rank: Iron]

[Divine Ability - Transformation]

[Talent: Copy Curse: 12%]

[Sub Ability: Burst Mode, Curse Transformation]

[Curse: Reality Fracture, Berserk Body, Malevolent Gaze, Identity Strain, Devouring Abyss, Thunder's Wrath]

[Strength: 20]

[Stamina: 18]

[Agility: 19]

[Perception: 17]

[Constitution: 18]

[Mana: Nil]

[Skills: Nil]

As he was walking towards the palace, he looked at his status.

He focused his attention on the Thunder's Wraith and an additional window appeared in his vision.

[Curse: Thunder's Wrath]

[Description: The talent of the Storm Summoner grants the wielder the ability to control and summon powerful lightning and storms. However, this potent ability is accompanied by the curse of Thunder's Wrath, which produces lightning that damages the wielder's own body.]

'That's what I was hoping for. With this curse added to my arsenal, I have fire, ice, and lightning at my disposal.'

Orion smiled in satisfaction at the last curse he obtained from Monty.

Sometimes later, he completely left the area of the Tocola Forest and appeared near the area of the palace and the districts.

This area was also surrounded by trees, but not dense and tall like the ones from the Tocola Forest.

As he passed from there, he heard sounds of battle coming from a little distance from him.

'Who is fighting here?'

Curious, he changed his direction and headed in the direction where the sound came from.

Arriving there, he jumped on a tree and saw a pit of fire where two ladies were sitting and eating. While at the side, he noticed two men around his age or older were fighting each other.

Orion recognised all of them; after all, they were his cousins.

The four of them were present in the king's chamber last month.

The four of them also noticed him, and they were surprised to see him here.

"Yo, Orion, come here and eat something."

One of the ladies sitting there invited Orion to eat, while the other looked at Orion as if he wasn't worthy to eat among them.

Orion noticed her expression but he didn't care. He jumped from the tree and appeared before them.

"What are you eating, Sister Lucy?" He asked, looking at the lady who invited him. He remembered she was one of the few individuals who never changed her behaviour towards him when he was found to have no talent.

And Orion really appreciated that.

Meanwhile, Lucy appeared somewhat confused, wondering how this was the same kid who didn't appear to have any talent and yet passed the test.

"This is a delicacy from Blackmist Haven. Try it and you will enjoy it for sure."

Orion nodded, took the food from her and put it in his mouth.

"It's indeed tasty."

He replied after eating the whole thing.

"So what are you guys doing here?" He asked.

The two guys stopped fighting when they saw Orion eating and came over.

"We were thinking of how we should defeat Tray at the assessment tomorrow." Said one of the guys with long black hair. He was also the tallest one among them.

"Tray?" Orion had totally forgotten about this guy.

In his family, it was said that his big sister Emily had the highest potential, followed by his big brother Aron and then this Tray guy came next. That didn't mean all the others had low potential.

No, in fact, all the members of the Darkwood Family had very good potential but these three were said to have surpassed the 'very good' category and entered a realm where only the top geniuses of the Magus Kingdom could pose any challenge to them.

"Dustin, we have no hope against Tray. We should just accept our defeat." Said the other boy. He appeared well built for someone his age and his baldness was for reasons unknown.

"I know that, Ford. But if he becomes our leader, then our good days are over."

Dustin sweated, thinking about what would happen if Tray were to become their leader.