I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 183 - 117: Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar_2

Chapter 183: Chapter 117: Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar_2

Boom~

A loud noise erupted, and the entire barriered sanctuary instantly collapsed, transforming into a Magic Pig without mane, ears, or tail.

"Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar?"

In that moment, Gu Shanhai recognized the prototype of the curse, originating from the most resentful curse of a Druid having lost their child.

"It really is interesting..."

Gu Shanhai didn’t know what else to say at this point; the curse was indeed very terrifying with various ways of triggering.

You could be killed by the cursed Magic Pig, but the Magic Pig which killed you wouldn’t live much longer; hunting wild boars was forbidden; wherever you were, if there was a woman present, you must not eat or drink before her; requests from women in distress could not be refused; you must not enter or leave the King Mansion through the side doors; if you heard the barking of hunting dogs, you must participate in the hunt and not stop running until catching up with the dogs; you must assist the losing side when watching a competition; requests from companions must not be refused; when comrades from the War Knight group call the battle cry, you must respond.

Failing just one of these prohibitions would instantly trigger the curse, and for nobles and knights especially, it was easy to accidentally trigger the curse.

A Druid’s curse was not some form of energy or so-called skill, but closer to rules and a certain standard of behavior.

Generally, Druids would not issue such severe or mad curses unless they too suffered a corresponding price, such as issuing this curse only in extreme grief over losing a child and having no descendants.

Gu Shanhai didn’t want to delve into the rights and wrongs of this; what mattered now was finding a way to make a quick escape.

This curse had taken the form of Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar. Although Gu Shanhai had guided it towards striking the Stone of Destiny, the terrifying power unleashed was definitely more than Gu Shanhai could withstand—this was the last strike.

"Let’s hope this thing can exhaust the remaining curse of Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar. After all, ’Dust to dust, ashes to ashes,’ the man is dead."

Gu Shanhai said this and decisively fled.

The curse on him was also Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar, but he had suppressed it, so it could not take effect. Of course, even if it did, he would not experience the same trigger conditions, whether entering and leaving the King Mansion, hunting, or watching matches, as such activities were only partaken by nobles.

After leaving the Royal Capital, he had kept moving forward in the wilderness, never encountering anyone, and certainly unable to trigger the curse.

After he made his exit, the Magic Pig charged into the ground, causing a huge shockwave and severe tremors.

Luckily, Little White had been trained in this area, so he handled the vibration and shock very calmly.

After the shock, the wild scream of the boar gradually changed from high to calm and finally faded into nothingness, along with the massive curse power.

Gu Shanhai returned to find the S

word in the Stone·Gold unbroken, instead tainted by the curse, transforming from the original Sword of the King into a Curse Sword. Gu Shanhai wasn’t clear on the specifics of the curse, but it probably wasn’t Sliver Gui Lion’s Curse Boar curse, since it still combined with the original power of the Sword of the King.

Beneath the Curse Sword lay a patch of dull, broken gravel—these were the remnants of the shattered Stone of Destiny.

Gu Shanhai gathered everything, then looked at the Curse Sword, contemplating whether to take it or not. The curse on it was definitely fiercer than the Curse Boar of Sliver Gui Lion, possibly a fate-related curse. Gu Shanhai wasn’t even sure if he could handle it.

Every time he thought about it, he would feel a surge of fear, not danger, but a reminder that if he could avoid taking it, he should.

As Gu Shanhai was conflicted, the entire world underwent a drastic change; priests sensed they had lost contact with their lord, their divine arts were working intermittently, or even failing significantly, as if they were breaking down, and this deterioration appeared to be spreading, as though it was about to disappear.

The bound Holy Knights also felt their beliefs suddenly waver; their powerful Holy Flame began to dim and looked like it could extinguish at any moment.

In the Royal Capital, where Merlin Ambrosius was arguing with Morico Polaris about whether to issue a wanted order for Gu Shanhai, he felt the chains of fate on himself seemed to have been broken, giving him a sense of unprecedented liberation. After a meaningful look at the neutral Minister of State Kay, he canceled the wanted order for Gu Shanhai, which left Morico Polaris confused as they had just been fiercely arguing.

On the other hand, Gu Shanhai decided to pick up the Curse Sword. He didn’t believe that, once he left this world, the item could still exert a rule-level fate curse. If that were true... it would prove to be a treasure, to be studied if possible, and if not, could be given to either protagonists or antagonists.

However, he dared not touch it directly; instead, he found a safe along with various devices to first sterilize it, then placed it into the safe, all performed via contactless operations using the devices, after which he stored it in a dedicated warehouse within his portable laboratory.

"Affecting my luck, currently the impact is minimal, but it should continue to increase. It’s just that the efficiency is low, even the Auspicious Skill that is supposed to enhance my luck can’t offset it."

"This... seems like a good thing?"

He realized that the spell to reverse his destiny had consistently been using him as a lever to reverse the influence of this luck, which, if successful, could turn bad luck into good luck, potentially allowing him to catch up with the protagonist’s luck.

Regrettably, the lever wasn’t effective, and the spell of reversals was only third circle. Plus, with Gu Shanhai’s insufficient strength, it had always been in vain, but that didn’t mean it would always be futile.

"Eh, destiny seems... dead?" Gu Shanhai puzzled, wasn’t there the Holy Grail still unresolved?

"I must have miscalculated, no, that’s not right, there’s no miscalculation. I just missed one point, the carrier of fate or the unborn lord is the Stone of Destiny. The Holy Grail is probably just one of their devices used to intercept magic power or elements."

"That noble family that was eradicated might have been the Druid Family who released the Curse Boar of Sliver Gui Lion. The shattered Stone of Destiny was due to the Fiona Knights being led to obtain the Stone of Destiny, causing a counterreaction in the rules."

"Somebody forcibly used this curse through the lord for interfering with the Stone of Destiny or some people’s destiny, like the people of that town who weren’t supposed to die."

Gu Shanhai quickly targeted the church, then remembered something. Fate, or rather the unborn lord, had perished, which would undoubtedly affect the church.

Priests are unlike Druids who worship nature itself. Even if nature’s will wanted to become a lord, only that segment of Druids who worship the nature’s will would be impacted, not all Druids. But the priests, they could well be erased from history, becoming just a record.

It meant players in this world might no longer be able to become priests or Holy Knights since the prerequisite classes for Holy Knights are priests and nobles.

Now that the prerequisite class of priests had vanished, naturally, the class of Holy Knights would disappear along with it.

"Is this Holy Knight lineage still of any use to me? Or should I go for War Knight instead?" Gu Shanhai pondered, finally considering a change, though how could he actually obtain the War Knight legacy that had long vanished? Of course, the church might have it, but surely it’s kept for conversion purposes, not for Gu Shanhai.

As an upper-level Holy Knight, it would be more beneficial for him, completely feasible to study and extract useful parts for himself. He never thought of relying solely on such a heritage to soar; in his view, it was at most to compensate for the inadequacy of the Mana aura in his Magic Domain.