Chapter 575: Reincarnated as a Genius of the Most Talented Family
386. Eternal Curse (1)
The lecture is over.
It was a more satisfying lecture than I expected.
I guess I had a vague idea that it was an unpopular department, and I felt a bit bored before I started.
“It is interesting.”
“Right? That professor really teaches well.”
Jenna smiled brightly, saying she knew it.
“Curses, I don’t think you’ll ever actually have to try them, but they’re interesting in theory.”
“Well then. Well, honestly, I’m a student of the Necromancer School, but I don’t see any reason to actually put the curse into practice. The risk is really… .”
Above all, it is not easy to truly hate and despise someone.
It’s best not to create something like that in the first place.
As you live, there are times when you will be hated, but to be hated enough to be cursed means to become a mortal enemy.
Of course, there are cases where we become enemies regardless of my intentions, so it may not be my intention to get to that point.
There are so many people in the world who hold grudges for really ridiculous reasons.
“Dane, what do you do now?”
“Now that I’m done, I’m going to go to the library for the first time in a while.”
“Library? There’s a reason you’re the top student.”
“It’s not about reviewing lectures or studying. I have something else to find out.”
Since it’s been a while since I’ve been there, it would be fun to re-read the old books there.
The number of readable characters will also increase.
But my plan didn’t go quite as planned.
“Dane student? Do you have a moment?”
Professor Bruno, who I thought was gone, was standing in front of me with a big smile on his face.
“Oh, Professor. What’s the matter?”
“If you have time, student Jenna, come with us.”
“Yes? Me too?”
what.
Are you going to offer graduate school while you’re at it?
After a while.
Professor Bruno asked us with quite serious eyes.
“You two are in the same club, right?”
“That’s right.”
“I heard that that club… … mainly does adventure and exploration. Is that true?”
“Yes. I do this and that, but that’s what I mainly do.”
“Okay. So, you two, are you willing to go on an adventure?”
It was a sudden proposal.
“What exactly do you mean?”
“It’s literally true. There’s a place worth going on an adventure. Let’s go there.”
“Are you talking to us?”
“Yes. Two people.”
Professor Bruno looked around for a moment and then continued speaking cautiously.
“That’s right. To be honest, I’m not as strong as a Dane student. I’ve lived my whole life as a desk student, but I’m weaker than the wizards who study harder than me. That’s why I want to go to that place, but I can’t.”
He quickly added to it.
“I know. It may be a bit of a request. So of course there will be compensation.”
It’s a reward.
It doesn’t require much money, nor does it require any fancy weapons.
“Adventures must have their rewards, so I’d like to ask you what you want.”
“Nothing comes to mind right now.”
But I have a question.
“I’m more curious about where the professor brought up the adventure story.”
“Ah. Yes, that explanation is needed first.”
Before Professor Bruno could even open his mouth, he closed the classroom door.
And then he opened his mouth in a very small voice.
“The place I am about to go is a cursed and forbidden place where no one can approach now.”
“Was there such a place near the capital?”
“Although it is expressed as prohibited, it is closer to the concept of a building than the concept of ‘land.’ Because it is a closed temple.”
I know what you mean.
I think it’s talking about some kind of abandoned building.
“It’s been quite some time since even the Imperial Family has been able to do anything about it. Approaching is possible, but it’s difficult to guarantee the lives of those who approach.”
I remember going to the temple in the restricted area shortly after entering the academy.
There, the soul of a saint who had been treated as a traitor to the empire was purified.
“Why did it end up like that?”
“Because that’s where the warlocks died. And 50 of them at once.”
When I heard that 50 people had died at once, Jenna gasped for a moment, and I was also a little surprised.
“It was a time when we hunted warlocks.”
“That’s right. To add a little, it was almost the end of the hunt for those who dealt with the strange energy, such as warlocks and necromancers. The warlocks who called themselves the ‘resistance force’ gathered at that temple, but they couldn’t handle the priests from all over the empire.”
“Then why were you cursed?”
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“They didn’t just die. They let their powers run wild as they died, and the entire temple was cursed as a result. The power of 50 warlocks was incredible. It’s so powerful that we still haven’t been able to purify it.”
The detailed explanation of the magic power formula is complicated, but simply put, each runaway magic power acts in the form of a square.
“So now it’s an inaccessible area. Of course, access itself isn’t difficult. The Empire doesn’t send people there anymore.”
“Even though it’s a dangerous area?”
“Even if you approach it, you instinctively know that you will die if you approach it. The land nearby is all dry, and not even animals or mere bugs can approach it. It is also in the thick forest, so you cannot see it. Sometimes adventurers or young people who do not know what is cool go there, but most of them come back.”
At this point, a reasonable question arises.
“Why do you want to go there?”
“Because that’s where the final knowledge held by the warlocks lies.”
I would usually tell that kind of story a little more cautiously or give another reason to avoid it.
Is this the professors’ passion for learning? Their eyes sparkle unusually.
And Jenna seemed to be getting a little scared.
“If it’s the knowledge of a black magician… isn’t it dangerous?”
Yeah, it’s dangerous
It’s probably dangerous in many ways.
There may be dangers to knowledge itself, and above all, the empire will not leave it alone.
But Professor Bruno gave his own reasons.
“Curses are a theory and method that originally started with black magicians. The Empire developed it into a discipline, but before that, it existed as a kind of ‘method.’ I want to find one of those methods.”
I can see why Professor Bruno would want to go against the ban.
“It’s for academic reasons.”
“There are personal reasons, to be honest. I need to lift a curse on someone.”
Professor Bruno began the story cautiously.
“So, I want to get help from you two. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to come with me. But if you can at least tell me how to break through the ban and look inside, that would be great. I promise to reward you generously. Anything you want. If I can’t do it right now, I’ll do it for the rest of my life.”
It seems terribly desperate, but strictly speaking, it’s not my situation.
However, there is something I am curious about in this part.
“professor.”
“Yes, Dane.”
“Can you help me find Zionif?”
“……What did you say?”
“I said Sionif. If you can find Sionif or help us find him, we will do what we must.”
what.
Is the word Zionism really that shocking?
Professor Bruno just stared at me blankly.
Jenna asked, poking me in the ribs.
“What is Zionif?”
“Don’t you know?”
“I don’t know. I’m still a sophomore. This is my first time hearing about curses.”
Meanwhile, Professor Bruno asked me:
“How do you know about Zionif?”
“I need to lift the curse on a certain guy.”
Professor Bruno muttered in disbelief.
“… … What I was looking for in that temple was Zionist literature… … .”
* * *
This is what it means for interests to align.
“Sionifra… … How did you become interested in it?”
We moved completely.
It was Professor Bruno’s lab.
It is not a personal lab, but a lab shared with other professors.
“Fortunately, no one is home today, so feel free to talk.”
Professor Bruno poured me a cup of tea and asked again.
“Zionif… … In fact, it’s a name that students have no reason to know, and it’s difficult to know unless you delve quite deeply into sorcery.”
“I didn’t know about it until recently. I just found out about it.”
“Curse… … It could be said to be the origin of all curses, so it’s natural to find it in order to lift the curse. Right, what curse is it? Student Dane?”
There was no need to mention the ideology, so I just spoke briefly.
“I’m trying to wake you up from your eternal sleep.”
“It’s a powerful curse. It’s probably the highest level of curses.”
I felt something stirring inside me as Professor Bruno spoke. It must be Poenes. Perhaps he was flustered.
“Professor, what curse are you trying to lift?”
“… … .”
Professor Bruno was silent for a while, then sighed and barely managed to start talking.
“It’s the curse of eternal love.”
Eternal Love?
“Curses that have the word ‘eternal’ in front of them are usually very powerful. Eternal death, eternal life, eternal separation… … .”
I wonder what Poenes is thinking.
“The most powerful of them all is the eternal love that I am trying to unleash now.”
“I don’t quite get it, could you explain it to me?”
“It’s not difficult. It’s literally about falling in love forever. You have to love someone or something forever. No matter what happens.”
The last word is key.
No matter what happens.
“If you love someone forever while they’re alive, that means you can’t help but love them no matter what they do.”
“It’s scary. But I find it more difficult to say, no matter what.”
“You hit the nail on the head. That’s right. That’s the biggest problem. It’s okay to love while you’re alive, but it’s a big problem to love after you’re dead.”
Professor Bruno asked Jenna.
“Student Jenna, can you sense the spirits around you for a moment without speaking?”
“It’s… Friday?”
“Yes. Right now. You can probably see it.”
Jenna closed her eyes for a moment, summoned her magic, and then gasped in surprise.
“Really… … it is. It’s right behind me.”
“Yes. Just be aware of it. Never force it. If you do it wrong, you could lose your body.”
“How powerful a soul must be for me to be able to sense it like this… … .”
“It’s very strong. It’s so strong that it’s overwhelming… … .”
Professor Bruno mutters absentmindedly.
I asked Jenna.
“What kind of soul is it?”
“I just… … I can’t feel anything. Nothing. It’s empty. It’s hollow. This is the first time I’ve seen a spirit like this. Professor, why is this spirit behind you… … .”
“… … .”
What on earth could it be?
Why is such a ridiculous spirit behind Professor Bruno, and why is Professor Bruno trying to lift the curse?
Do you simply hate being stuck with a soul?
well.
It’s a spirit so powerful that you can’t even feel it unless you detect it.
I once heard from Jenna that the more powerful a soul is, the more it hides its existence.
That way, you can exert your influence without being caught.
In that sense, it means that the spirits that a necromancer with Jenna’s level of talent can detect and see are very powerful.
Professor Bruno opens his mouth as if he has made up his mind after being silent for a while.
“Everything I tell you from now on is a secret.”
And then he told me a bit of a shocking story.
“I was the one who placed that curse. To be exact, it was a curse that I prepared together with the person behind me right now while I was alive.”
fantasy,
