I Can Copy Curses

60  60. Trapped Goddess

Liira stood there, staring at the pond blankly. She felt anxious and worried and didn't know what to do.

Thinking of her sister, she felt her heart beat faster with each passing second.

It was at that moment that Runo and Ralf came running to her.

"Liira, what happened?" Runo said, frowning. "I heard your shout from so far away."

He said this as he looked around, but he didn't find any trace of Orion or Miira.

"And where are Orion and Miira?" He asked.

"They… a vine…my sister…" Liira started crying all of a sudden in the middle of explaining. Her tears fall down her cheeks.

Runo's frown deepened as he saw this, and he couldn't help but put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.

"Alright, calm down now," he said. "Tell me slowly what happened."

After calming down for a moment, Liira slowly explained what happened just a moment ago, and hearing her, both Runo and Ralf's faces turned ugly.

Especially Runo, who didn't know what to say to her after hearing her. He also felt sad about what happened to Miira, but he understood that now wasn't the time for that.

Most importantly, they still had to stay away from the pond, lest another vine come and take them away.

"Liira, don't worry; Orion went into the pond as well, so he will definitely save Miira," he said, trying to console her. "As for us, we should stay away from the pond. Let's go. We will wait at the boat."

Liira nodded weakly as she followed behind Runo and Ralf to the boat.

***

Meanwhile, when Orion jumped into the pond, he suddenly found himself deep in the water. He could tell it wasn't the pond he had jumped into earlier, but something different.

The strange thing was that there weren't any fish or aquatic animals in the water, but deep down, he could see a light source coming down from the area, illuminating the strange place he had come to.

Looking at the light source, Orion felt that's the only place the vine could have come from; otherwise, he really couldn't tell if it did come from anywhere else.

So, without much thought, he used one of his flying swords as a base for his foot like a surf boat and let it fly towards the source of light, carrying him on it.

He didn't know how to swim, so that's the only thing he could do here.

As time passed, he drew closer and closer to the light source until he appeared right in front of it.

'Let's see what's on the other side of it."

He thought as he quickly used his sword and went into the light source.

A moment later, he suddenly came out of a pond and flew into the air with his sword.

Due to that, he suddenly lost control of his sword and his body, but he quickly used attraction on his foot and the sword to attach himself to it so that he didn't fall.

With that, as he controlled the sword, he could finally fly in the air.

However, as he surveyed around the pond he just came out of, from up in the air, an expression of shock appeared on his face.

He saw that, unlike the area around the pond where he had jumped, this area seemed completely barren. There wasn't even a speck of grass growing here. All he could see were rocks and stones on the surface around the pond.

But he did see a huge tree in the distance, and the area around it appeared to be lush with green vegetation. The tree itself appeared fully green, in contrast to the bleak surface around the pond.

At that moment, he also saw something that shocked him to the core.

He saw that at the trunk of the tree, a lady with white hair had been trapped by the vines of the tree coiled around her.

However, the thing that shocked him was that the lady appeared to have the same appearance as that of the Goddess he had seen in the temple—Goddess of Immortality—Isis.

Orion saw that Isis seemed to have her eyes closed, as if she were resting peacefully in the embrace of the tree.

'How did she end up here?'

He couldn't comprehend how a goddess like her could be in such a situation.

He shook his head as he stopped thinking about it and focused his attention on the bottom of the trunk, where four individual bodies had been coiled around by thick vines and trapped beside the tree.

They were Famir, Ryfin, and Miira, and as for the last one, he didn't know that person.

Seeing that, he flew towards the four of them when the vines of the tree suddenly moved towards him.

Orion quickly used his other two swords and cut the incoming vines into pieces.

However, the tree didn't lack them, as it sent more vines towards him.

"Damn, there are so many vines."

He cursed as he flew back and used his flying swords to cut these vines back and forth continuously, but the number of vines didn't go down, and as time passed, more and more vines moved towards him.

Looking back, he saw tens of hundreds of vines moving towards him as if they were flying like him, following him everywhere he went.

Seeing that, he quickly conjured a small ball of flames in his right hand and threw it back to the vines following behind him.

"Boom!"

The vines burst into flames, causing a small explosion, and smoke began to release from them.

Orion then activated his curse—Dimensional Dissonance—and used the smoke as a cover to go to his pocket dimension and disappeared from the place.

As the smoke dissipated, the vines once again started moving, but they stopped soon after noticing their target had disappeared.

After not finding the target, these vines went back to the tree and coiled around its branches peacefully.

Orion, who could see everything from the other dimension, slowly moved towards Famir and the others after seeing the vines go away.

A moment later, he reached beside them and saw that the bodies of the three, excluding Miira, appeared somewhat thin, as if they hadn't eaten for days.

Miira's body seemed fine for the time being, but he had a feeling that she would have the same result as the other three if she were to remain here.

His hand then slowly came out of the other dimension and touched the vines coiled around Miira to see if the tree would notice it.

But to his relief, the tree didn't have any reaction whatsoever when he touched the vines.

'Good.' Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He thought as he used his curse—Shattered Precision on his hands—and one by one broke the vines binding Miira until she got free and opened her eyes slowly.

However, as soon as she opened her eyes and saw Orion's face popping out of nowhere, she got scared and was about to scream when Orion put a hand on her mouth.

"It's my talent," he whispered to her. "Don't talk and follow me silently."

Miira understood and nodded her head upon hearing his words.

After that, he moved towards Famir and the other two.

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