A Dragonslayer’s Peerless Regression – 77



Episode 77

Catherine’s expression hardened at Zeke’s words.

She spoke to Zeke in a cold voice.

“Sir Zeke that is truly rude.”

There was anger in Catherine’s voice.

Her daughter Angelina Graham was once rumored to be the most beautiful woman on the continent.

However Angelina did not appear in social circles even after she turned 16 the age required for a debutante and this gave rise to various rumors.

Rumors spread that she had grown up not as beautifully as expected or that she had contracted a terrible disease that had turned her face ugly.

The rumor was considered to have some credibility as no one had actually seen Angelina after the age of ten.

Rumors were rife but no one had ever brought up Angelina in front of the prestigious Graham family.

Everyone was hush-hush and never even mentioned the existence of Angelina Graham.

Catherine thought she had been insulted by Zeke and spoke in a cold voice.

“I will remember your rudeness clearly. I would like you to leave the castle now.”

He also clearly issued a ban on Zig who had invested a lot of money in the mine.

It was a perfect example of how sensitive Angelina’s work was to Catherine.

But Zeke remained unmoved and spoke to Catherine.

“If we leave Lady Angelina’s illness untreated any longer it will become irreversible.”

Catherine flinched at the calm tone of Zeke’s voice.

She looked at Zeke and opened her mouth.

“You speak as if you know what Angelina’s illness is.”

“Yes I know.”

Catherine’s eyes widened at those words.

“Does that mean that even though all the famous doctors on the continent examined it they were all unable to diagnose the disease but Sir Zig knows what it is and can even treat it?”

Zeke said to Catherine.

“The affliction that afflicts Lady Angelina is not a disease it is a curse.”

Catherine’s face turned pale at those words.

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“That curse?”

Zeke nodded.

“As time goes by don’t you start to see blisters appear all over your body and your skin starts rotting?”

Catherine was startled by those words.

“Oh how did you do that….”

“At first glance it looks like you’re sick but it can’t be cured with normal medicine. It’s a terrible curse unleashed by forbidden magic.”

At that moment tears welled up in Catherine’s eyes.

“Curse. A curse. That’s ridiculous…”

“Is there any reason why you think it is not a curse?”

“When Angelina collapsed the first person she called was the magician from Nirvana. The Graham family has many enemies here and there so they always take thorough precautions against curses. Angelina in particular received a lot of attention from the world so they were especially careful. The magician from Nirvana said he couldn’t find any traces of the curse on Angelina so I thought it was just an illness…”

Zeke shook his head.

“Curses are closer to sorcery than magic. There are many things that exist in the realm of mystery that are difficult to interpret with ordinary magic.”

At Zeke’s words Catherine’s expression was completely different from before.

“Does that mean that Sir Ji Ji-k can lift that curse?”

Zick took out the Bible he had prepared in advance from his bosom.

He said making the sign of the cross.

“You have heard of the curse of the house of Agamemnon.”

Catherine nodded.

“Of course. I heard that the curse was recently lifted. Oh! Now that I think about it the new heir of the Agamemnon family is….”

“With the help of the sun god I was able to retrieve my family’s sacred water and dispel the curse.”

Catherine felt her heart waver as she looked at Zeke holding the Bible in a reverent posture.

She approached Zeke and took his hand.

“Sir Ji Ji. Can you really lift the curse on our Angelina?”

“Everything will depend on God’s will. But one thing is certain: the longer we delay the more dangerous Lady Angelina will become.”

At Zeke’s words Catherine began to pray with a pale face and trembling hands.

Zeke held Catherine’s hand and they recited the Lord’s Prayer together.

Then Pharrell who was behind him also joined hands and prayed together.

However Felix the descendant of the Arch Paladin just stood there blankly watching the three people praying.

* * *

Farrell and Felix returned to their rooms while Siegman followed Catherine into the castle.

The two headed to the north tower where outsiders were not allowed to enter.

Knights wearing full plate armor stood guard at the entrance to the tower.

Catherine began to climb up the narrow tower passageway holding a lantern in front of the entrance.

“I got rid of all the things that were powered by magic because they said magic was bad for the body.”

Perhaps because of this the passage was extremely dark as there was no common magic light.

The two walked up the spiral tower and entered the room at the top.

As soon as he entered Zeke frowned at the foul odor.

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‘It seems like the situation is worse than I thought.’

Kaaaaaaah!

From inside the room a sound like the howling of an animal could be heard.

Catherine bowed her head and began to recite the Lord’s Prayer again.

Zeke took Catherine’s hand and asked her to calm down.

“Is Lady Angelina inside?”

Catherine nodded.

“The caregiver cleans the wound and changes the bandage every day.”

“I would like to ask that you along with your caregiver please go outside.”

Catherine flinched for a moment at Zeke’s words but soon nodded.

Since it had come to this I had no choice but to trust Zeke.

Soon a caretaker came out of the inner door and Zeke slowly entered.

The stench I had smelled earlier became even more intense.

‘The condition is serious.’

After closing the door Zeke looked toward the bed in the corner of the room.

There was a human-shaped monster tied up with cloth soaked in mud that could hardly be called bandages attached all over its body.

“Kaaaah!”

Its arms and legs were bound and it made a noise like it was scraping something with iron.

“Lady Angelina.”

Zeke slowly approached the bed.

Looking at his condition it was more of a miracle that he was still alive.

The skin all over his body was torn and filled with pus and his hair had all fallen out and was growing in patches.

The bones were so close together that each joint was visible.

Zeke tried talking to Angelina.

“Lady Angelina. Can you hear me?”

Angelina didn’t respond even though Zeke spoke to her.

Then after a while he started to say something moving his lips little by little.

Zeke slowly brought his ear to the corner of her mouth.

“… Give me… my… feet….”

She lived each day struggling in pain worse than death.

Zeke looked at Angelina like that took the Bible out of his arms and placed it on the table next to him.

Then he took out Agamemnon’s golden mask from his inventory.

He looked at Angelina and caught his breath.

‘This method should work.’

Zeke knew about Angelina’s curse from the events he experienced in his past life.

He was once tasked by his master to track down and capture a sorcerer who was using an evil ancient curse.

And while interrogating the sorcerer he learned that one of the requests he had received was to curse the young lady of the Graham family in the past.

At that time Angelina was already dead and since the sorcerer did not reveal his client until after his death the Graham family was not notified separately.

‘Since it was a curse made using ancient gold technology even if the Graham family knew about it they wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it.’

Ancient curses require incredibly complex procedures to cast and carry high risks if they fail but once successful they are equally difficult to lift.

There were quite a few cases where even the sorcerer who cast the curse was unable to lift it.

In fact the curse that was placed on Angelina was of that type.

‘A curse where the more beautiful the target is the more painful it is. Who would have thought there could be such a crazy curse?’

Zeke clicked his tongue and injected mana into the golden mask.

As on the lakeside the golden mask activated and covered his face transforming into a helmet.

[The mask’s functions are linked to the system.]

[It is possible to use the function of purification.]

After purging the curse of the House of Agamemnon Zeke was able to acquire ownership of this sacred object as the successor to the house.

After that I activated the mask and tried various tests.

As a result I found out that while I could only use limited functions when I was just holding the mask I could use the ‘Great Purification’ skill by activating it and wearing it on my face.

“Phew.”

Zeke wearing a golden mask slowly approached Angelina.

He used his Great Purification skill and wide-range buff skill to target Angelina.

Woohoo!

The golden waves that emanated from his body seeped into Angelina’s body.

“Ahhhhh!”

Angelina screamed in pain as the golden light enveloped her body as if it were on fire.

At a different sound than before Catherine grabbed the doorknob and shook it.

“Sir Zeke! Are you okay? Angelina! Open the door!”

Catherine couldn’t get in because Zeke had already placed a spell on the door to prevent it from opening with a scroll.

Zeke continued to breathe the energy of purification into Angelina’s body.

Cheeeeek!

At one point black smoke rose from Angelina’s body.

“Whooooow!”

After a moment she twisted her body and spat out black liquid from her mouth.

“Ahhhhhhh!”

Angelina screamed and twisted her whole body. The black smoke coming out of her body was getting thicker.

Zeke looked at it quietly then took out a potion from his inventory and sprinkled it on Angelina’s body.

Cheeeeek!

As soon as the potion touched Angelina’s chapped skin new skin began to grow.

‘It’s not enough yet.’

This time he took out a top-grade potion grabbed Angelina’s mouth forced it open and made her swallow it.

“Whoooosh!”

Angelina tried not to drink the potion but Zeke grabbed her by the throat and forced her to drink it.

Because he had been under the curse for so long his entire body was weakened.

If you just curse your body will be shocked by the sudden change and your heart may stop.

“Eeeeeeeee!”

Angelina writhe in pain twisting her entire body on the bed.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

There was a loud noise outside as Catherine ordered her knights to break down the door.

Zeke once again focused the power of the Great Purification on Angelina.

Wooooow!

Angelina’s body was bent at a bizarre angle.

Then suddenly he opened his mouth wide and spit out black smoke.

Kwakwakwakwa!

The source of the curse could not bear it and burst out of Angelina’s body.

Zeke used Gluttony straight towards the source of the curse.

Tsk tsk tsk tsk-

A black shadow emerged from Zeke’s body and swallowed the source of the curse.

A message soon emerged.

[I gorged on the ancient cursed ghost.]

[Consumed mental power and mana replenish.]

[Absorb the abilities of the gluttonous ghost and acquire the Curse Reflection (A-rank) skill.]

By absorbing ghosts through gluttony you acquire the curse reflection skill.

‘You’ve gained unexpected benefits.’

Zeke used his healing factor skill as an area-wide buff to regenerate Angelina’s body.

Wood crunch!

Hehe! Hehe!

Angelina’s damaged body began to recover thanks to the power of the healing factor.

As it was a healing factor that even restored the Agamemnon family that was collapsing due to the erosion of magic Angelina’s cursed body was also restored to its original form.

Srrrrrr!

Zeke who confirmed that the hair that had fallen out had started to grow back put the golden mask back into his inventory after seeing Angelina recover.

Then he slowly approached Angelina.

Unlike before he grabbed her wrist and felt her pulse even though she wasn’t making any noise.

Fortunately Mac jumped.

Angelina whose curse was lifted regained her original appearance.

Zeke took off his outer garment and covered Angelina’s naked body.

That was when.

bang!

The door opened as the scroll magic that Zeke had cast took effect.

Catherine entered the room with the knights.

Catherine covered her mouth when she realized Angelina wasn’t screaming anymore.

I thought she was dead.

Catherine shouted at Zeke.

“Sir Zeke! How how could this be! My my daughter….”

I had entrusted Angelina to Zeke with a glimmer of hope but I was mistaken in thinking that it would lead to the worst outcome.

Zeke watched Catherine’s saddened appearance scratching his head.

‘I missed the chance to say that the treatment went well.’

I was wondering what to say as I felt like she wouldn’t listen to me in her current state.

“mother…?”