Wizard Earl

Chapter 93 Moretti's Blood Curse (Please add to your favorites and vote!)

"What the heck is Moretti's Blood Curse? It sounds kind of cool..."

Just as Connor was feeling a bit confused, the cool female voice from the auxiliary chip began to speak in his mind.

According to the Marquis's Chronicles, during the late Third Age, in the late Byzantine Empire, there was a Cardinal Moretti within the Catholic Church. Cardinal Moretti was a strong contender for the Pope's position, but ultimately lost the struggle for succession. Unwilling to accept defeat, he took an extreme path, creating the combined enchanted item, Moretti's Blood Curse.

"It is said that the Moretti Blood Curse, this demonic artifact, consists of a small bowl, a crystal bead, and a mysterious item unknown to anyone. Its power is unpredictable and extremely strange. It can kill a person silently without even needing any physical information about the person being cursed! Cardinal Moretti created such an evil cursed object with the aim of cursing and killing the pope of the Church at the time, but unfortunately, he failed in the end and was burned to death by the Church's divine fire, falling into the abyss forever."

"Although Cardinal Moretti is dead, the artifact of the Moretti Blood Curse has survived!"

Connor was stunned by the introduction of the chip. Although he knew that there must be something wrong with the purple-robed woman who was willing to pay such a high price to have him refine that small bowl, he did not expect that this seemingly ordinary small bowl would have such a big background and be related to the cult.

The so-called "Cult of Gods" is a colossal organization that emerged during the Third Era, the Byzantine Empire, or even further back in the Second Era, which is even more difficult to verify. With the demise of the Byzantine Empire, the Cult of Gods also perished. The two major official religions of the Kaman Empire, the Earth God Cult and the Storm Cult, as well as the Sun God Cult of the Persis Empire, all originated from the Cult of Gods; they were once part of the Cult of Gods.

Looking down at the small bowl blueprint handed to him by the mysterious woman in purple robes, Connor's smile couldn't help but turn playful.

If the Moretti Blood Curse is truly as powerful as recorded, then according to common alchemical knowledge, even a small bowl, part of the Moretti Blood Curse's enchanted artifact set, couldn't possibly be just a level one enchanted artifact. Therefore, if this small bowl is indeed related to the Moretti Blood Curse, then it's very likely that this small bowl is a replica of the small bowl from the Moretti Blood Curse set.

However, if it is indeed a copy, then it will also possess certain abilities of the copy, which is quite interesting!

Connor made a hypothesis in his mind: the small bowl that the woman in purple robes asked him to make was a replica of the bowl in the Moretti Blood Curse artifact set. Why would the woman in purple robes spend so much money to have him make this replica? Could this seemingly ordinary small bowl possess the same cursed power as the artifact it imitated, hidden behind its ordinariness?

If the answer to the second question is yes, then everything the woman in the purple robe did can be explained.

A woman with a powerful background wanted to create this small bowl to curse someone to death, but she didn't want anyone to know. So she came to the Mönchengladbach Club, a place full of all sorts of people, and by chance found an alchemist named me. She offered me a lot of money to make this small bowl for her.

What would happen if Connor, unaware of the bowl's origin, succumbed to the lure of profit and crafted it for her, then delivered it to the location the woman in purple robes had indicated? Would Connor truly be the energy-gathering potion the woman in purple robes had offered?

Connor felt that if he were that woman in purple robes, what awaited him would not be the energy potion, but definitely death!

The woman in purple robes has made it clear she doesn't want anyone to know she's making small bowls, which is why she came to the Menxing Club. Therefore, to be more discreet and avoid any trouble, she'll most likely eliminate the alchemist making the small bowls...

A cold smile crept across his lips as Connor put the blueprints back into his spatial ring and headed towards his alchemy room in the apartment.

The small bowl is just a level one enchanted item. Crafting it is not difficult for Connor. As long as the materials are available, Connor can craft it at any time. However, knowing that crafting the small bowl might lead to being silenced, only an idiot would craft it. Anyway, Connor doesn't need that thing now. If he needs it later, he can craft it then.

As for the purple-robed woman's scheme, what she intended to do with the small bowl, Connor neither wanted to know nor was interested in knowing. In this world, sometimes knowing what you shouldn't know can come at the cost of your life.

Connor had made up his mind. The Suso alchemist, an imperial minority, at the Mönchengladbach Club was to disappear. He would reappear in Rune under a different disguise, and he wouldn't go to the Imperial Department Store, the delivery location mentioned by the woman in purple. Connor had no intention of settling scores with the woman in purple. Although her motives were impure, Connor hadn't suffered any losses so far. On the contrary, he had obtained from her the materials to enhance the Shadow Dagger, repair the Violet Ring, 150 gold pounds, and the blueprint for a level one enchanted item.

Although it was a bit of a pity that he didn't get the energy-gathering potion from the woman in the purple robe, Connor thought that one shouldn't be too greedy. Besides, Connor estimated that given Varga's personality, even if Gulsi tried to stop her from seeing him, she would still sneak out to see him.

With Varga, a potion-making genius, around, Connor felt that a bottle of mana-gathering potion wouldn't be a problem!

The most pressing task now is to complete the reinforcement of the Shadow Dagger and the repair of the Violet Ring. Only after these two tasks are completed will Connor feel confident.

Three days later, in the early morning, Connor, looking somewhat tired but overjoyed, walked out of his alchemy workshop.

He devoted himself to refining it all night last night. Although the process was somewhat tortuous, the result was ultimately good. The enhanced Shadow Dagger and the repaired Violet Ring are now lying quietly in Connor's spatial ring.

Strengthening the Shadow Dagger was easy for Connor, as there was a complete tutorial in "Reyes Alchemy." However, repairing the Violet Ring was a first for Connor, as it involved turning a damaged finished product into a semi-finished one. Even with the help of the chip, Connor did not achieve the perfect result he had envisioned, allowing the Violet Ring to have fifteen uses remaining.

Although there were some minor flaws, it was still alright. With the help of the chip, even if Connor's first attempt was terrible, he still retained the thirteen uses of the Violet Ring.

(End of this chapter)