361 Curse (2/2)

What really attracted their attention was the black, surging energy above the box, which looked like the seething clouds before a spring thunderstorm.

In the middle of the energy were two red spots that stared at the intruders like eyes. They were absolutely still and inert.

Andonara drew her longsword and subconsciously stopped before Roland.

”Is this the watcher?” Cage looked around and waved the longsword with blue flames, before he said with a smile, ”So, it's a dark creature. All of them are susceptible to our family. No wonder the ancestor said that it's not challenging for us.”

”But I feel that it's tricky.” Andonara pursed her red lips and said uncomfortably, ”I'm a Great Swordsman. I can't deal with anything that doesn't have a real entity.”

”Then let me destroy it first.” Cage picked up the blue fiery sword and walked forward.

”Wait!” Andonara suddenly stopped him. ”Unless—unless you're going to relocate the Phoenix Blood to your home, you'd better keep this thing here as the watcher, or any intruder could take away the rest of the Phoenix Blood easily.”

Cage moved his foot back and said, ”You do have a point.”

”Then what do we do?” Cage looked at the black energy and remarked, ”If we don't kill it, we will probably be attacked the moment we step forward.”

”Can't you cover yourself with the blue flames, open the box, and then come back with the bottle?” Roland thought with the mindset of a Mage and said, ”The blue flames of your family suppress the dark creatures. I don't think it will dare to attack you.”

Cage looked at Roland speechlessly, which puzzled Roland.

”Did I say something wrong?”

Looking at Roland's innocent face, Cage said in depression, ”We're Warriors, not Mages. We can't control magic power precisely like Mages. It took me ten years to learn to attach my flames to my sword without burning anything up… You want me to cover myself with flames? Though I won't be hurt, they will consume my clothes and my hair. Besides, I can't complete such a complicated operation at all.”

”Then it seems that we can only destroy it.” Roland opened his hands.

Cage stepped forward with his sword, but at this point, the two red balls in the collection of energy grew brighter and bigger, turning from apricots into apples.

Then, weird sounds echoed in the secret chamber, nasty and discomforting.

They sounded like someone scratching an iron blackboard with their fingernails.

Cage subconsciously stepped back in a defensive posture, and Roland immediately summoned two blue shield-holding magic puppets before Andonara.

In the meantime, he prepared to cast Prismatic Spray.

”The offspring of the Phoenix family are really weak.”

The high-pitched voices made everybody in the secret chamber extremely uncomfortable.

The voices also came with intense mental attacks.

Cage had the bloodline power of a Hero, which contained the Valiance specialization. He was immune to regular mental attacks.

Roland's mental power was high, and he was protected by a magic shield. So he was barely influenced.

Andonara was more affected than Roland was. As a pure Warrior, she was less resistant to mental attacks. But since the Great Swordsman's defense against all magic attacks, including mental ones, had been strengthened, she felt a headache but wasn't really hurt.

Cage looked at the black energy and said in surprise, ”You're conscious? The manuscript said that… you're just a simple pale soul.”

”Hehehe!” The black energy smirked mockingly. ”I've been here for almost a hundred years. It's not strange that I would get my consciousness back, is it?”

Cage looked rather awful. A conscious soul was much stronger than an unconscious one. Since his Hero bloodline power was not apparent, it might be troublesome for him to deal with a soul that was conscious after a hundred years without dispersing.

Then, he looked at Roland and felt glad that he was with a Mage.

Spellcasters were natural enemies to energy creatures.

”So to speak, you have a name and a past?” Roland secretly concentrated his magic power, ready to attack.

”Of course.” The ball of black energy expanded and reshaped into a gigantic human-shaped monster with two horns.

It was about three meters tall and looked rather magnificent.

Roland found it familiar and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Cage and Andonara, on the other hand, couldn't have looked more awful.

”It seems that you remember my appearance, offspring of the Devil King Phoenix who betrayed the details.” The black horned monster laughed furiously. ”That pitiful traitor and scoundrel gave up the Realm of Devils where he was born and raised and only hoped to become a dog of the main plane. It was your ancestor who destroyed our best chance to conquer the world of human beings. Phoenix, you will forever be cursed by all devils. You will spend half of your life in painful slumber, and your descendants will lose their loved ones in their happiest moments. I see it… I see the curse growing and roaring inside you two. Hahahaha!”

Due to his gloating, malicious laughter, the secret chamber was shaking and dust was falling.

Both Cage and Andonara were so pale that there was no hint of blood in their cheeks at all.