I Can Copy Curses

Chapter  90. Mana Crystals

As Orion walked deep into the cave, he didn't see any mana crystals on the way. This made him frown.

However, after walking a little more, he saw a shining crystal the size of his finger embedded in the wall of the cave.

His eyes sparkled as he finally found one, but one wouldn't be sufficient for him. He had a plan in mind, and for that, he would need at least a hundred of them.

'Let's get one first.'

He thought as he took out his sword and dug out the crystal embedded on the wall with the help of it.

He held the mana crystal in his hand as it cast a gentle blue glow over his face. However, he didn't feel anything from the mana crystal. It felt as though it was like any other stone he would find in the cave.

'System, is there any way I can use the mana crystals?'

[Negative.]

Orion sighed as he heard the system.

At that moment, he felt ground, and the walls of the cave trembled a little. and before he could react, a centipede dug out of the wall at his right side came straight at him, intending to eat him in one gulp.

'Damn!'

He instinctively held the teeth of the centipede with his two hands when it was about to devour him, causing the centipede to crash him into a wall as it continued to head forward.

However, Orion still hadn't let go of its teeth.

Seeing that, the centipede became angry and continued to move deeper into the cave as it broke walls after walls, crashing Orion's body first as it came into contact with the walls.

As Orion felt his back bombarded with walls after walls, his eyes unexpectedly caught a glimpse ofinto a small cave full of mana crystals, but before he could think of anything, the centipede crashed him to another wall as it continued to move forward.

'There are so many mana crystals and this monster core will also definitely give me some extra stat points.'

He thought as he continued to latch onto the teeth of the centipede and activated the curse of Frozen Torment in the meantime.

White smoke began to release from his hands, and before the centipede could react, the teeth Orion had been holding all this time started to freeze, and not only that, but the layer of frost also entered its mouth, causing it to slowly freeze down wherever the layer of frost went.

Not long after, the movement of the centipede slowed down, and slowly but steadily, its outer shell also froze into ice popsicles as the centipede came to a halt.

Orion then used the curse of Detonating Flesh causing his hands to glow in a purple glow, which in turn caused the head of the frozen centipede he had been holding to turn purple as well.

Seeing that, he jumped backward a little and detonated the bomb he had planted.

Bang!—

The head of the centipede exploded into pieces of ice crystals before him.

After that, he took out his sword and dug the belly of the centipede for a moment until he found its core.

As he touched the core with his hands, a notification appeared in Orion's vision.

[Do you want to absorb the core?]

Orion nodded and a moment later, the core turned into dust particles. Almost instantly, he felt a soothing feeling wash over his whole body. It felt very relaxing to him.

After that, he quickly traced back the movement of the centipede before he found himself standing in front of a small cave full of mana crystals.

He quickly took out his three swords and let them run havoc here, and a moment later, a small mountain of mana crystals was placed in front of him.

Seeing no one around, he used the curse of Dimensional Dissonance and stored them in his pocket dimension.

'I am rich, hehe.'

He thought as he hopped into the other dimension and walked out of the cave.

He then appeared at the base of the ground elevator, where a large number of people stood.

'They are probably waiting for it to go up.'

Waiting for the ground elevator to take them up, Orion opened his status in the meantime and checked his stats.

[Strength: 13]

[Stamina 12]

[Agility: 100]

[Perception: 12]

[Constitution, 11]

'Last time I absorbed the core of that wolf-type monster, my perception increased by one and this time my strength and my stamina each got a stat point.'

He thought as he examined his status. After that, he waited, like everyone else, for it to move up.

A moment later, the ground trembled a little before the ground elevator started to move up, and in no time, they appeared at the Market Street of Aethelgard City.

Now that Orion was back here, a problem arose in his mind. He didn't know if it was really a problem or not.

He thought that since people here think he killed someone, how would they react when he wanted to buy something from them with mana crystals? Would they reject him or would they not care about what had happened earlier?

'I guess I will find out.'

The things he wanted to buy were the most common commodities here. It was food, so it didn't take Orion much time to find a food store. In fact, he saw many food stalls near the area where he 'killed' that guy, so he intentionally looked for one at the back end of Market Street, and the store he stood in front of was that one.

He found one thing very amusing about this store, and that was that it was a store and not a stall. It had a separate building specially designed to sell food, unlike the stalls he had been seeing all around the market area. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

As Orion walked inside the store, he noticed that the store was unusually empty when compared to the hustle and bustle of the stalls around Market Street.

"Hohoho, a customer is here! What an occasion! What an occasion!"

When Orion was looking around the store, he heard an old man's voice, causing him to promptly turn around.

He then saw an old man coming out of a door inside the store. He had a well-built body, better than anyone he had seen. His white hair appeared neatly combed to the side, while his white beard looked well trimmed. He wore a pitch black shirt with matching pants.

"Ugh, I need food worth the whole week. How much would that be?" Orion asked him.

"Hehe, that would be around a hundred mana crystals," the old man said, smiling as he sat on the only chair in the store. "But since you are my first customer in a while, I will give you a 50% discount."

For some reason, Orion had a feeling this old man was a fraud because he doubted anyone would give a 50% discount to a customer. Even his reason seemed far-fetched to him.

But since fifty mana crystals wasn't much for him, he decided to see how it would go.

He then grabbed the pouch he had made, took out fifty mana crystals, and placed it on the table.

The old man smiled, seeing the mana crystals, and then shouted at the door behind him.

"Ely, bring the food."

A moment later, the door opened once again, and Orion was surprised to see Elyn walk out from there. She was the girl with the scratch mark on her face. He had met her along with Vance when they first arrived here.

He saw her carrying a big bag full of food and placed it on the floor. After that, she took the mana crystals and traced her steps back to where she came from.

Orion wanted to say something to her, but he didn't get a chance at all. Feeling a little embarrassed, he took the bag full of food and quickly walked out of the store.