I Can Copy Curses

Chapter 166: 166. Leader

Orion bathed in the glory of winning the assessment. Although it was an easy win for him, what he did was almost an impossible feat for all the people out there.

Hearing all these people cheer for him made him feel something. Five years ago, maybe these people would have been the ones who mocked him, but at present, they all cheered for him.

This made him wonder if the phrase 'Time Changes' was meant for a situation like this.

Soon, his father, Estor, and Claose came to the stage.

Although they appeared calm, their hearts were raging with storms. They just couldn't understand how Orion could defeat everyone so effortlessly. As he said previously, no one could take a move from him; all of them were defeated in one move.

This made the trio of Magi Kings wonder how strong Orion really was to be able to do something impossible like this.

"Orion, was it?" Estor patted him on the shoulder. "Good job. I believe it won't be long before you are listed in the elite rankings and I have a feeling your ranking would be very high—at least in the top ten."

"Yeah, you are very strong." Claose also nodded from the side. "But you are also too arrogant and one day this arrogancy will make you fall. So you should know what to do."

Orion bowed down to them in respect.

"Thanks for the praise and the advice, Magi Kings."

At the same time, Barion looked at the son and his youngest son with complex expressions.

"Orion, I hereby declare you the leader of this time's young generation," he said with a smile. "Though you should be aware, it isn't permanent yet. Tomorrow morning, you will be assigned a mission. Complete it and make your spot as the leader permanent."

"I understand, father." Orion also bowed down to him.

Barion nodded and turned his attention to the bustling crowd in the arena.

"The assessment has come to an end and all you know is the winner. But I will announce it one last time. The winner of this time assessment is Orion Darkwood."

Everyone in the crowd once again erupted as Orion's name was heard. They just couldn't get enough of this. However, all good things must come to an end and so did this.

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Monty hesitated but he eventually gave in when he saw Orion glaring at him. He shook his hands with Orion and quickly left the hall.

Likewise, everyone shook hands with Orion. Some didn't like it, while others didn't care but they all eventually shook hands with him before they left.

However, Orion's face turned dark once again as they left.

This time it was because of the curses he copied just now. While copying their curses, he noticed that none of them had curses that sounded very good. All names were like Shadow Slave, Wind Destroyer, Blood Vines, etc.

'Let's check them; maybe just the names were bad.'

With much optimism, he checked all the curses. As he did, his face shifted from dark blue to pale white until he finally sighed.

'Damn, not one of them had curses that are useful to me.'

He cursed silently, thinking about those descriptions of the curses he copied.

'But I guess this is also good in a way. I don't want to reach the limit of the number of curses in iron rank so easily.'

He thought that since he had six curses at iron rank and his talent mastery was still only at 12%, he would need a long time before he could make his talent mastery reach 20%. In that amount of time, he would surely come across many good curses.

So, with that thought, he calmed down and thought of the problem he just noticed.

'Why is my talent mastery increasing so slowly?'

He remembered he barely did anything in the bronze rank and his talent mastery shot to 10%.

'I guess the higher the rank, the more difficult it is to increase the mastery of the talent. In my case, there hasn't much time passed; that could be one of the reasons why my talent mastery hasn't increased.'

He speculated. Though he wasn't sure about this, He would have to see the change in a week before he could assume anything.

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