I Can Copy Curses

"I don\'t know why you asked that," she said, looking at Orion. "But my mother said that there is no such thing as fate or destiny in this world. What you do eventually becomes your fate. So I think your question is stupid according to this logic. You die when it\'s your turn; you live if it isn\'t. It\'s that simple."

The words she spoke were so deep that Orion didn\'t understand a thing. He barely made sense of what she said in the last part.

\'I die if it\'s my turn; I live if it\'s not.\'

But he had already died once. So what did it mean? His turn to die had come or…gone.

"Why did you ask that question?" Miira asked after seeing Orion ponder her words so deeply. "Do you think you will die?"

Orion gazed at her, preparing to respond, when her body abruptly exploded into pieces, showering him with blood and bits and pieces of her.

"Ah!"

He still stared at the position in which she stood, but his blood-soaked eyes were filled with horror. He couldn\'t believe that happened. He was just talking to her a moment ago, and now she was gone.

"So, that\'s where you ants are hiding. I was getting bored with all the waiting, so I thought, why not give you guys a surprise? Do you like it?"

In that instant, a voice resonated throughout the boat, and as everyone heard it, their bodies erupted into pieces like bursting watermelons, sparing no one.

Orion, still reeling from shock at what happened to Miira, failed to heed the voice. However, this ignorance didn\'t alter the outcome, as he soon felt something stirring within him before his body, like the others, exploded into pieces.

***

Orion once again found himself back in the boat, but he still hadn\'t gained his senses.

"Why? Why? Why did this happen? WHY?"

He suddenly murmured to himself before that murmur turned into a shout, attracting everyone\'s attention in the boat towards him.

Everyone in the boat felt puzzled as to why Orion suddenly shouted.

Everyone but Sam. He too caught a glimpse of how everyone just exploded into pieces before he himself met with the same ending.

And like Orion, he was in despair because the boss monster didn\'t wait for them to come around; instead, he came to them himself, and as he calculated the time it took the boss to come from the time he set his anchor point, he estimated it was about half an hour. That meant half an hour from now. They would die again.

\'At this rate, there is no use of my talent at all. Against someone like this boss, whose power resembles that of a god, even a day\'s worth of time is not enough, and we only have half an hour. Damn it. It looks like this is the end for us.\' n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Sam thought in despair as he looked at Orion and started walking towards him. He wanted to let everyone know about this. At least that way, even if they die, they will at least know what killed them.

Orion saw Sam coming towards him and started laughing.

"Sam," he said, his face looking crazy. "Did you see that we are going to die now, no matter how many times you could use your talents? You saw his powers, right? He can make you explode into pieces with just a thought. What power is that? It\'s the power of a god, and nobody could fight a god. Not me, not you. We are just ants in front of him waiting to be stepped on by his foot."

"Hahahaha," he then started laughing like a madman. "And here we thought we could somehow survive. We can\'t. This is the endgame now. Hahaha"

At the end, his laugh became a little hollow as he looked at the sky and then at the group of people in the boat who stared at him as if he had become a madman.

"I will tell you guys something interesting," he said, still with his crazy look. "If we were to go and fight the boss now, the result would be our demise. He could kill us without lifting his fingers. Can you do that? No, you can\'t. We can\'t. So, it\'s powerless to fight against the boss."

A strange look appeared on everyone\'s faces. They couldn\'t understand what Orion had been blabbering about all of a sudden. They could tell it was related to the boss of the dungeon, but according to him, the boss was kind of a god, and they would die if they were to fight now. That sounded like nonsense to them.

Everyone in the boat, excluding the transmigrators, understood how the dungeon worked. A bronze-level dungeon would have a bronze-level boss. But Orion said the boss\'s power was that of a god. So they really thought he had gone mad all of a sudden.

Moreover, as they looked at the crazed smile on his face with all that gibberish he spoke just now, they truly believed that there was something wrong with him.

"Orion," Miira called out to him, a look of concern on her face. "Are you alright?"

Orion trembled a little as he heard her voice, and what happened to her a while ago resurfaced in his mind, which caused him to step back a little.

"No, no, no." Orion shook his hands dismissively at her. "Don\'t come near me."

Miira frowned as she saw this. She couldn\'t understand how that confident looking guy who fought and defeated the third guardian turned to him.

"Calm down and tell us what happened," she said, trying to calm Orion down.

Orion didn\'t even look at her and was only staring at someone beside her. He feared that if he talked and looked at her, she would again die.

"Agggahhhh!"

But in that moment, he heard Miira\'s scream, causing him to swiftly divert his attention to her when he saw something horrifying happening to her.

He saw Miira\'s hands begin to morph into straw-like tendrils, resembling noodles from the earth, and all the while she screamed in agony. Blood gushed from her hands, pooling on the floor of the boat like a river.

Soon, her legs underwent the same transformation, followed by her torso, and finally her head. At the end, she completely transformed into straw-like pieces, collapsing onto the blood-soaked floor of the boat.

It was not just her, but everyone went through the same process, filling the floor of the boat into a bloody pond where straw-like pieces of them moved like snakes in the water.

Orion wasn\'t an exception. He screamed in agony as his hands and legs started to transform into straw-like pieces. The pain he felt was as if someone were actually cutting his hands into thin straw-like pieces.

He quickly activated his curse—Sacrificial Renewal because of it. That way, he wouldn\'t feel any pain, even if he were to die.

When the transformation reached his head, he only heard a voice in his mind before everything turned dark for him.

"You can fool me once; you can fool me twice; but you can\'t fool me three times. I will be waiting for you on the other side."

Bonus Chapters Goals:-

100 ps/30 gt - 1 bonus chapter 200 ps/60 gt - 2 bonus chapter 300 ps/ 100 gt - 3 bonus chapter 

A/N: My friend said it works but I don\'t believe it.

ShinGotLost

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