I Can Copy Curses

Chapter 297: 297. Orion vs Josh

Orion immediately used the wind to increase his speed and struck Josh with his sword.

Clang!

However, his sword collided with something before it could reach Josh. Orion tried again, this time with even more speed. He swiftly changed direction and attacked from Josh's blind spot, thrusting his sword forward.

Clang!

But once again, it was blocked by something before it could reach Josh.

Orion frowned and stopped attacking, stepping back. He then activated the curse of Unseen Chains.

"What? Are you going to give up too?" Josh sneered when he saw Orion retreating.

Orion shook his head with a shrug. "Since my attack won't reach you, I won't attack."

Josh frowned. "You mean you want me to attack you?"

Orion spread his hands. "I don't want that either. How about this?" Orion suggested. "You give up, and we can go our separate ways. Isn't that better?"

Josh flared up at Orion's words. "Are you kidding me?" He glared at Orion. "You should know that offense is my specialty, so why would I give up?"

Orion looked at him strangely. "Weren't you the one who got anxious when I said I wouldn't attack and frowned because you had to attack after that?"

Josh didn't respond, instead locking eyes with Orion.

"You're such a boring guy. Since you won't play with me anymore, I might as well defeat you real quick and then have my fun with the main dish," Josh sneered and clenched his fists.

He then punched mindlessly into the air.

However, the moment he punched, Orion suddenly sensed something in front of him. He couldn't see what it was, but with the curse of Unseen Chains, he could tell something was coming towards him at a very fast speed.

When he activated the curse earlier, he had spread some invisible chains around him that only he could see and hear. Now, when Josh attacked, he could feel something hitting those chains.

He could tell it was Josh's attack.

Orion immediately used the wind's speed to move away quickly. Discover exclusive content at m,v l'-NovelBin.net

*Bang!*

A sound of collision echoed, and Orion turned to see a fresh mark on the wall behind him, with dust still floating around it.

"Your attack…" Orion looked at Josh and realized something.

"Humph!" Josh sneered. "You can dodge my attack once, but can you dodge it a hundred or a thousand times?"

He immediately punched into the air again, but this time ten times in quick succession.

Orion quickly stepped back and moved aside, but even after he moved, he could still feel something targeting him—many things, in fact. He just couldn't see them.

Recalling what happened just now, he formed some ideas and guesses about Josh's curse.

"I see…"

Orion's eyes narrowed as a sudden realization struck him.

Gripping his sword with unwavering determination, he gathered every ounce of his strength and drove the blade deep into the ground with a powerful thrust. The force of the impact rippled through the earth, causing a massive section of the ground to erupt in an explosion of debris, sending fragments flying in all directions.

A thick cloud of dust billowed up, swirling around him in chaotic patterns.

With a deep breath, Orion tapped into his control over the wind, manipulating the swirling dust to spread it out around him like a protective veil.

As the dust particles hung suspended in the air, they revealed something that had been hidden from his view—sharp, nearly invisible projectiles cutting through the haze, converging on him from all directions.

A slight smile played on Orion's lips. The hidden threat had been exposed, and now he could easily deal with it. His sword moved with lethal precision, intercepting the incoming attacks with ease. With the curse of Berserk Body, the strength behind these invisible attacks was easily dealt with.

"You!" Josh was surprised. He couldn't believe Orion had figured out his talent. It was supposed to be an invisible attack, yet Orion had sensed it the first time and then found a way to block it, rendering his attacks useless.

Feeling frustrated, Josh launched a barrage of fists at Orion.

Orion only smiled and once again stabbed his sword into the ground with even more power, causing a large amount of dust to gather around him.

Without a moment's hesitation, he summoned the wind, commanding it to spread the dust far and wide. The air thickened with the swirling particles, creating a hazy veil that covered everything in its wake.

As the dust settled into the atmosphere, Orion's sharp eyes caught the subtle movements within the cloud—small gaps and trails where the particles were disturbed, revealing the path of nearly invisible projectiles slicing through the air toward him.

A soft chuckle escaped his lips as he recognized the pattern of the hidden attacks. "Heh," he muttered with a mix of amusement and confidence.

With a sudden burst of speed, Orion's form blurred as he moved with the wind, and swung his sword towards each projectile, blocking them all in a matter of seconds.

"Is that it? Is that where your confidence comes from?" Orion asked with a sneer as he moved forward, carrying the dust around him in case Josh attacked again.

Josh sneered. "You saw through my attack, but so what? Can you see my defense too? And even if you can, can you break it?"

"Is that so?" Orion sneered back and looked at him. "Let me make a bold guess. When you use your defense, you can't attack, and vice versa."

He locked eyes with Josh. "Am I wrong?"

Josh's face turned ugly. It wasn't because Orion had figured out his talent, but because he had revealed it to the entire guild. Only a few members of the guild had known about this, and now, thanks to Orion, everyone understood his weakness.

Orion smiled at Josh's reaction. "You know what? You're one of the weakest in the guild. Your talent is somewhat unique, but other than that, you're nothing."

He added, "You're nothing but a useless piece of shit," saying it loudly.

As if a fuse had blown, Josh lost control and attacked again. However, that marked the end of the selection for him.

No sooner did Josh launch his attack than Orion tapped into the full strength of the Curse of Stormcaller. The wind surged around him, amplifying his speed to an unimaginable level. In an instant, Orion vanished from his original position and reappeared directly in front of Josh, moving so quickly that he was nothing more than a blur to the untrained eye.

Josh barely registered the shift in the air before he was sent hurtling through it. The force of Orion's strike hit him like a freight train, catching him completely off guard.

Pain exploded in his abdomen, knocking the wind out of him and forcing a gasp from his lungs. His vision blurred as he felt himself lifted off his feet, the world around him spinning as he was flung into the air.

Saliva dribbled from his mouth as he struggled to catch his breath, his body instinctively curling in on itself from the impact. Gravity took hold, and he began to plummet back toward the ground, still reeling from the unexpected and overwhelming blow.

However, at the last possible moment, Nathan caught him before he could injure himself further.

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