This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 159 - 150: Black Magic Curse_1

Chapter 159: Chapter 150: Black Magic Curse_1

Tutor Vivian?

This title made Mu You realize that their relationship may not be limited to just colleagues within the secret technique’s association.

Looking at the elderly woman constantly shedding tears, she resembled a little girl who had been alone for too long, suddenly seeing her parental figure again.

Mu You quietly left the room and closed the door.

No matter what their relationship was, two old friends meeting again surely had a lot of private words to share. If he stayed, it might make them feel uncomfortable to speak openly.

"Mu You, where is Grandma?"

At the door, a group of people were still waiting outside, immediately crowding around Mu You as they saw him. Lin Xue quickly asked.

"She is still inside."

Mu You shook his head at her, then looked at the others: "Don’t go in, let the elderly rest a while."

The others didn’t object. They had faintly heard the sobbing coming from inside the room a moment ago. It was obviously inappropriate to enter now. Moreover, if something were to happen, the alarm inside would go off.

"Young man, what kind of medicine did you use just now?" The middle-aged man, who had spoken earlier, approached and asked in a low voice.

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent, all waiting for Mu You’s response.

"Come with me!"

Lin Xue suddenly grabbed Mu You’s sleeve, took him quickly downstairs and left the villa.

Mu You noticed that Lin Xue had a distinguished status within the family; no one from the Lin Family elder generation attempted to stop them at this time. They could only watch the two leave the villa.

Lin Xue brought Mu You to a garden next to the villa and sat under the spacious shade of a tree. Only then did she ask him, "Do you really have a way to save my grandma?"

At this, Mu You just sighed and shook his head.

He really wanted to tell Lin Xue that there was a way to save her, but in actuality, he couldn’t.

Mu You initially thought that Pisces would be a powerful wizard, and her critical illness was only due to a curse or some other influence.

It was not until he saw the elderly woman that he realized she was just an ordinary old woman. There was no sign of magic power fluctuation in her whole body, and the Omniscient Crystal provided no information about the Star Spirit World. What she was enduring now was not an ordinary illness, but the exhaustion of her life.

Being from the Star Spirit World, Pisces couldn’t access the Fool’s game. She couldn’t earn more life through the game. Once her life was exhausted, it was truly over.

As for the potion he used earlier, it only temporarily relieved the old woman’s pain, allowing her to be at ease for a short time but it couldn’t extend her life.

Moreover, if it was just a matter of life expectancy, Mu You had the unicorn, a god beast that could prolong life, and Vivian, a master potion maker. It wasn’t difficult for them to create some life-prolonging potions.

However, Vivian didn’t mention anything about this earlier, which made Mu You realize that the old woman’s problem might not merely be about lifespan.

With this in mind, Mu You turned to Lin Xue: "Has your grandma given you anything recently?"

Lin Xue was taken aback, nodded, and took out a ring: "This is what Grandma gave me last week when I became a player..."

Mu You took a look, this ring was exactly the same as the Aries Ring, the only difference was the decoration at the top had turned into two swimming fishes.

As expected, the old woman indeed passed the Pisces Ring to Lin Xue...

"Have you activated it yet?" Mu You asked.

Lin Xue shook her head, looking at the ring in her hand, she sighed: "Grandma asked me to wear it as soon as possible, but I always feel that when I put it on, that would be the moment Grandma leaves me..."

Mu You, of course, knew her feeling was correct. The full inheritance of the secret technique’s Crystal could only be officially handed over to the next heir after the previous Sorcerer had died.

Since her Grandma had given the ring to Lin Xue, it meant that she had long been prepared to face death.

"Sometimes, death is not a painful thing for some people, it is living that makes them continue to suffer. Death, on the contrary, is a kind of relief." Mu You looked at Lin Xue and said seriously.

Mu You could see that when the old woman saw Vivian earlier, her eyes were not only filled with joy at the reunion of old friends, but also a sense of relief as if she had unloaded a heavy burden. This was like the time when he first saw Vivian, who also appeared to be relieved of all burdens.

For people like them who had lived for so long, the only remaining goal in life was to pass on their heritage. Once this goal was reached, they could face death peacefully at any time.

Lin Xue looked at Mu You carefully, suddenly said: "Grandma once said that she was waiting for someone to appear. It looks like the person she was waiting for was you."

"No, not me..."

Mu You shook his head amusingly: "The person your Grandma was waiting for is named Anseni Vivian."

"An...seni?"

"Yes, she’s my master, she and your grandma probably had a relationship that was both as tutors and friends."

"Can you tell me about her?" Lin Xue asked after thinking for a moment.

"Alright."

Mu You didn’t hold back, he explained in detail the secrets of Vivian, the Sorcerers’ Association, and the twelve sorcerers to her, also briefly describing the previous events at the Sorcerers’ Association.

Lin Xue was about to become the inheritor of Pisces, and she had the right to know all this.

"So...that’s how it is..."

After hearing everything, Lin Xue’s eyes reddened a bit.

Being as clever as she was, after hearing these secrets, she naturally guessed the most likely outcome--her grandmother’s death seemed to have become an unalterable fact.

Of course, she didn’t show excessive grief, because she vaguely understood from Mu You’s description that this was a better choice for her grandmother.

At this moment, Lin Xue’s mobile phone rang.

She looked at it, and then towards Mu You, "Grandma is calling us home."

"Alright."

The two immediately returned to the villa and went straight into the second-floor bedroom under everyone’s gaze, then closed the door.

On the sickbed, Grandma Lin Xue’s emotions seemed to have calmed down, and her condition seemed much better, she looked at the two who came in with a kind smile.

Vivian was still standing by the bedside. Mu You noticed that her magic power has consumed a bit, apparently, she had used some means to stabilize the old lady’s condition.

When the two approached the sickbed, the old lady gently looked at Mu You and said, "Child, if you have any questions, just ask. I’ll do my best to answer."

Mu You nodded, he had many doubts that had been looming around for quite a while. He cautiously asked, "I want to know, why do the twelve sorcerers choose the Fool as their heir?"

This question also included an implicit query: why did these twelve powerful sorcerers all meet a tragic end...

"Well, it’s not hard to understand. It’s because of the Black Magic Curse," the old lady chuckled.

"Curse?"

Mu You was somewhat puzzled: "Isn’t the out-of-control curse resolved by inventing secret technique crystals?"

The Black Magic Curse refers to ’losing control’, after which the caster will permanently turn into some kind of monster.

But the existence of secret technique crystals, which are designed to prevent losing control, allows everyone to use black magic safely and stably, without any side effects. Mu You didn’t quite understand what the old lady meant by ’curse’.

"Losing control is just the surface curse. There is another more profound curse involved in using black magic." At this point, Vivian spoke up.

"What?"

"Humanity."

The old lady sighed: "Black magic is a method to manipulate the power of nature. Each use of black magic erodes the caster’s humanity a little bit. Although the amount lost each time is minimal, if used often and in excess, the collective loss of humanity can cause drastic changes in a person in a short period of time. They will become cold-blooded, lose their normal rationality and emotions, and become intensely obsessed with killing and bloodshed."

"And this change is irreversible. In this situation, a person will become more and more dependent on black magic, and the loss of humanity will only deepen until the day humanity is completely extinguished; reducing them to slaves of natural rules, a pure killing machine..."

"There’s something like that?"

Mu You was taken aback.

He suddenly thought of his first kill on the beach when he killed the fat wizard. Although it was his first time killing someone, he didn’t feel any mental turmoil, and his calmness at the time was abnormal.

Now looking back, could it be that he was already affected by black magic then, and lost some of his humanity?

"Yes."

Vivian continued: "At first, we didn’t know that black magic had this hidden effect. By the time we realized something was wrong, it was too late. By then, all twelve of us had already lost too much humanity due to black magic. Although we consciously reduced the usage of black magic from that time on, it only delayed our death."

"Then what about us..."

Mu You looked at the two with a puzzled expression. If black magic had the same effect on him and Lin Xue, it wouldn’t make sense for Vivian not to tell him, and Grandma Lin Xue definitely wouldn’t harm her own granddaughter or intentionally pass the inheritance to her.

"Don’t worry, the curse of black magic is ineffective on you."

Vivian shook her head and said: "Or rather, the humanity you Fools lose can quickly be regained in daily life. This seems to be a special ability unique to your Fool’s Bloodline. That’s why we must find a Fool as an inheritor. Black magic is truly harmless only for Fools," Vivian explained.

"So that’s how it is..."

Mu You finally understood this major doubt.

At this time, the old lady gave a bitter smile: "After discovering this curse, the twelve of us made a pact that before any of us completely lost our humanity, we would leave the inheritance to the next generation and then end our own lives."

"Vivian and the other eleven sorcerers left their inheritances in the Star Spirit World before their death, only I was lucky enough to escape to the Forgotten Land. I forgot all the magic, sealed the secret technique crystal, abandoned my former identity, and strived to blend into life here. After adapting repeatedly for many years, I finally stopped losing my humanity."

"Later, I started a family here, wanting to leave the inheritance to the younger generation. But when my child was born, I find out that they still had half of the Star Spirit Bloodline and would still be affected by the curse of black magic. Helpless, I had to continue waiting for the next generation to be born...Luckily, among the next generation, a Fool who met the conditions of the inheritance was finally born."

"That’s...me?" Lin Xue stuttered.