I Can Copy Curses

Seeing that Orion only covered his body in red, glowing armour, Monty sneered at him.

"Trash; that's the only thing you could do, I guess."

He then commanded the cloud above Orion's head.

Almost instantly, a bolt of lightning descended upon Orion, causing a blinding light to envelope the entire arena.

But it went away as soon as it came, revealing Orion, who, much to everyone's surprise, was fine after all that.

He seemed to be standing there with a sneer on his face, his eyes looking straight at Monty.

"Is that it?" He asked Monty.

Monty, who was still in disbelief after hearing the remarks, trembled with anger. He felt humiliated.

"Again."

Once again, another bolt of lightning descended upon Orion but like last time, there wasn't even a scratch on him.

"I don't believe it."

Monty shouted and the clouds above Orion became more dense and they expanded to double their previous size.

"You ask for it."

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The bolts of lightning fell upon Orion continuously and each bolt appeared bigger and more dangerous than the previous two.

However, to Monty's despair, Orion appeared to be still standing with a sneer on his face.

"No, no, no. How are you still fine after that?"

"Who knows?" Orion shrugged. "Maybe you are too weak to even put a scratch on me."

"No, that can't be."

Monty panicked. He refused to believe that his attacks were simply ineffective against Orion.

'Why won't my lightning work against him? .... Lightning?

At that moment, inspiration came to his mind.

"If lightning doesn't hurt you, then I will have to do it myself."

As his words left his mouth, a dark grey aura began to release from his body before it all concentrated behind his back to form a sphere the size of a fist hovering above the ground.

'Three Divine Ways? It's good; I have been wanting to try something and it came at the right time.'

Orion thought, and his eyes focused on the grey sphere hovering behind Monty's back.

He also activated Malevolent Gaze at that moment.

Monty then came running towards him, his fists glowing with grey light.

Arriving before Orion, he punched straight at Orion's guts.

"You are weak."

Orion muttered in such a low voice that only Monty could hear him before he caught his fist with his right hand.

"Your fists are even weaker than your lightning."

As he said that, he punched Monty in the guts.

"Your Three Divine Ways are trash."

He again punched him but this time in his face, causing blood to flow from his mouth.

"You are 'Trash.'"

He kicked him with his knee.

"You are simply worthless."

He slapped him on the face.

"You don't deserve to live."

In the end, he held his hair tightly and pulled him up.

"Do you see this? You are nothing in front of me. You are like an ant; I can step on you anytime."

Orion's emotionless eyes stared straight at Monty's lifeless eyes, giving him a chill he had never experienced before.

He wanted to run—he wanted to flee far from here—but he couldn't.

He felt death looking at those eyes, cold and unyielding, as if they held the weight of an eternity of sorrow and silence.

In that instant, the world around him faded into insignificance, leaving only the inescapable reality of his own mortality reflected in those empty, haunting eyes.

"Don't give up; the best is yet to come."

A sneer brought Monty back to reality.

"NO! What are you doing?"

He then saw, to his shock, that Orion held the Divine Core hovering behind his back in his own hand.

"This? It's something I have been thinking of doing lately.

Orion smiled kindly at him but to Monty, that smile appeared like a devil's smile, sending a chill down his spine.

'Let's see what happens.'

Orion thought and activated the curse of Devouring Abyss.

Almost instantly, he could feel something going on inside his body. It was a very subtle feeling and if he hadn't been focusing on his body this whole time, he would have surely missed that.

"Aaaagghhh, what are you doing? My mana...its going away."

A panicked scream was released from Monty before he sensed that all the mana inside his body was being drained by something.

Orion smiled eerily, seeing Monty scream.

All those years ago, he was like this: helpless and weak, with no one to help him.

He had suffered, suffered, and even more suffered till the end.

The pain, the sadness, the anguish, the relentless torment of loneliness and despair—it had all consumed him, leaving behind a bitter residue that clung to his soul.

And now that he saw the suffering in one of the many who had caused him to feel those feelings, he felt delighted in watching Monty squirm and cry out in pain.

He felt a twisted kind of satisfaction upon seeing Monty suffer like this. It was as though God had finally given him the power to bring justice to himself.

"Ah, Big Brother Orion! Stop it."

At that moment, a shout brought Orion back to reality.

Hearing that voice, Orion turned to look at his sister and frowned.

"Ella, don't you remember how this guy used to beat me all those years ago, how he made me cry and made me feel pain? I am just taking revenge for this. There is nothing wrong with it."

Ella shook her head.

"But if you do this, won't you become like him?" She said that her voice appeared to be choking.

"Become like him?" Orion felt that his sister might be overreacting to all of this. Considering she was only ten this year, he thought this might be the case.

"Alright, I will listen to you but first." Orion turned his attention to Monty, who was on the verge of losing his consciousness.

[Does the host want to copy the curse of Thunder's Wrath?]

'Yes.'

[Thunder's Wrath has been copied.]

Orion smiled upon seeing the notification screen before he turned his attention to Luke, who was trembling all this time.

All this time, Monty was taking the beating; it was him who felt his heart beating fast.

He was stronger than Monty but not by much.

Therefore, he understood that he would suffer the same fate as Monty but he could do nothing and wait for his turn.

And now seeing Orion's emotionless eyes staring at him made him want to leave everything and run away from here.

"Take this back."

He threw the body of Monty to Luke, who caught him.

"If my father asked how this happened, just tell him it was all training and nothing major, understood?"

Luke nodded heavily.

"Alright, just don't come in next time; otherwise, you two won't be walking back home."

After saying those words, Orion turned around and walked back to his sister and friends.

Arriving there, he looked at his sister and saw that she had calmed down from that.

"Big Brother, you shouldn't beat someone like that."

Orion laughed upon hearing his sister.

"What if they want to beat your brother?"

Ella thought for a moment before responding to him.

"Then you can beat them."

Orion nodded and patted her head.

"If you say so."

Ignoring the glares from the two servants of Luke and Monty, Orion held his sister's hand and exited the arena.