I Can Copy Curses

'It led me here,' Orion thought as he quietly entered his dimension and looked around. He noticed there were no workers at the construction site, and practically nobody was around—he saw almost no one.

He frowned, thinking the page wouldn't have led him to just a random place. Or could it?

"Where is it?"

Just then, he heard a loud voice. It sounded like someone was shouting at someone else, but it also sounded strange. Orion couldn't quite figure out what made the shout seem off.

"Tell me, where is it?"

Orion heard the sound again and finally understood what was strange—it came from below him, underground.

He looked down at the floor and gave it a light kick.

Bang!

'It's made of concrete.'

Orion then activated the curse of Berserk Body and kicked it harder.

Boom!

The floor caved in, and Orion fell through to another level—or ground, as he would call it.

'So, they are here.'

Orion stood in the middle of the wreckage, surrounded by people who couldn't see him since he was in his own dimension.

"Tell me where it is!" he heard again.

He saw a bulky man asking a younger man, probably in his thirties, while gripping his collar and shoving him into the wall.

"I-I don't have it," the younger man stammered in fear.

Orion took in the scene, immediately noticing that this area was far better maintained than the construction site above and the sector he had been in earlier. At first glance, everything appeared orderly, but as he looked closer, he spotted a few suspicious details. Floating holograms hovered in the air near a massive octagonal structure, casting strange, flickering lights.

What caught his attention even more were the numerous boxes scattered around, some as large as a human. Alongside them were massive containers, the kind typically found on cargo ships, lined up as if waiting for transport.

The scene gave off an unsettling vibe, as though something important—or dangerous—was being stored or moved.

'This isn't a typical hangout spot; it's a secret hideout or something,' Orion concluded as he examined the area.

"Tell me, or you'll regret it, human," the bulky man said sinisterly.

"I-I don't have it. Believe me, I don't!" the younger man panicked, shaking his head.

Orion looked at the bulky man, then around at the others. He noticed eight or ten human corpses lying on the ground. Something clicked in his mind.

'That bulky man said "you human"… A human would never say something like that unless...' Cold sweat ran down Orion's back as the realization hit him.

'No! That's impossible. How could other races invade the three domains? And invade the Archons, no less, without anyone knowing?' Orion struggled to believe it.

"You're still alive because we share the same goal. Otherwise, you'd already be dead," the bulky man said, throwing the young man to the ground. He turned to the others and barked, "Search the entire area! See if you find anything interesting."

"Yes, boss," the others responded, scattering throughout the hideout.

'A chance!' Orion thought. He wanted to take this opportunity to kidnap one of them for questioning.

He followed a man who wandered off into a different room.

"There's nothing here either. I told the boss that thing's just a myth, but he refuses to believe me," the man muttered as he opened and closed boxes while continuing his search.

Orion appeared behind him and slowly pulled him into his dimension.

"Who—? Where is this?!" the man shouted as he found himself in a strange yet familiar place.

"Yo, how have you been?" Orion said casually, standing in a bored manner.

"Who are you? Where is this? Is this your doing?" the man demanded.

Orion smiled lightly. "I'm just a nobody, but I'm curious about you. Who are you? What are you doing here? What are you searching for?"

"Oh, I get it," the man said, smacking his fist into his palm. "This is your talent, and you brought me here."

Orion's smile widened. "Wrong. This is my world." He pointed to his hand. "Look at your right hand."

"My right hand?" The man lifted his hand, only to see it suddenly warp and vanish.

"Ah! My arm!" he screamed, watching blood drip from his shoulder.

"What did you do? What did you do?!" the man screamed hysterically, staring at Orion in fear.
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"I told you. This is my world. Anything I want will happen here," Orion replied, his smile vanishing.

He made the man float, slowly compressing his body in the void. "Now, tell me what I want to know, or you'll die."

"You think I'll tell you anything?" the man laughed crazily, feeling the pressure squeezing his body. "I'm a soldier, ready to die at any moment."

Orion quickly immobilized the man, making it impossible for him to move, not even his mouth.

'Time to use a curse I copied back at Iron rank but never had the chance to apply,' he thought as he activated the curse of Shattered Mind in Curse Transformation mode.

He appeared in front of the terrified man, placing a hand on his head.

"Hello, my friend. How are you?"

The man suddenly heard Orion's voice inside his head.

"No! I must be dreaming. He couldn't have entered my mind. It's just fear. Yeah, it's just fear."

"It's not fear. It's me," Orion said in his mind.

"AAAGH!!" The man screamed uncontrollably as Orion used the Shattered Mind ability.

"Does it hurt? Unimaginable pain? Pain you've never felt before?" Orion asked in a teasing voice.

"No! Please kill me. Just kill me!" The man begged for death, realizing that Orion had used some trick to enter his head. Inside his mind, Orion could do anything to him and worst he couldn't move his body outside.

In short, he had become a prisoner of his own mind.

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