I Can Copy Curses

Chapter 54  54. Orion vs The Third Guardian - 2

As all this happened, the guardian appeared to be looking around the hall, searching for Orion.

He did see the soul forms running and hiding behind the walls, but he didn't care. It was as if the only thing that the guardian wanted was Orion, and nobody else mattered to him.

Meanwhile, Orion waited for soul forms to hide before he revealed himself. He didn't want the fight between them to result in the unfortunate deaths of soul forms.

Therefore, when everyone reached safely behind the walls, Orion finally revealed himself.

The guardian, seeing him, appeared and ran towards him in a berserk manner.

At that moment, Orion also activated his curse—Unbridled Fury, and as a result, an aura of deep red surrounded him as his eyes became red, with stains of red appearing in some parts of his skin.

He felt significantly stronger than before, and looking at the guardian that was running towards him, Orion used his Burdened Gravity to lower his weight as lightly as he could.

Holding his sword with both hands, he activated Shattered Precision and bent down a little, causing the floor beneath his feet to crack down like spider webs, and then he vanished from his position, appearing right in front of the guardian with his sword slashing at the waist of the guardian.

The guardian reacted as if he had predicted Orion's move and also swung his sword at him the moment Orion appeared in front of him.

"Boom!"

As their weapons collided, the sound of an explosion reverberated throughout the hall.

However, unlike last time, they didn't appear to be in a stalemate, as the guardian was blasted back like a broken kite when their swords collided.

Orion didn't wait for the guardian to stabilize, and like a red blur zooming in, he closed the distance between them and swung his sword with all his strength.

This time the guardian couldn't react in time, and his body once again got blasted back like a ragged doll all over the floor of the temple.

Orion once again appeared in front of the guardian, but this time the guardian appeared prepared as he used his red skull symbol on his chest to power himself up.

His body started to pulsate with a red glow as he swung his sword at Orion, who had just appeared before him.

Orion didn't back down, seeing this, and increased his weight.

"Boom!"

A resounding explosion sounded as their swords collided, and this time the whole floor beneath their feet appeared to have been destroyed by their attack.

The cracks that were previously in a small area now spread to every corner of the floor, leaving behind nothing but debris and dust all over it.

At that moment, the Orion and the guardian's swords released sparks as they appeared to be in a stalemate again.

But the stalemate didn't last for long as Orion let go of his left hand holding the sword. As he did that, the pressure on him increased tremendously as he was forced to bend down a little.

At the same time, his left hand blazed with flames, and his sword started to change color from red to blue as he used the properties of attraction on it. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

After that, he quickly let the flames on his left hand touch his sword, which ablazed the sword in a fiery red flame, causing an intense red glow between the guardian and him.

As the red flames blazed on his sword, Orion pushed with all his strength, and a fiery arc of red glow appeared, forcing the guardian to back down a little.

Using this opportunity, he lowered his weight, quickly closed the distance between them, and thrust his fiery sword right at the red skull symbol on his chest.

"Boom!"

The guardian couldn't react in time, and a flaming explosion happened at his chest, causing the guardian to be blasted back by the momentum of the attack.

Smokes began to release from the chest area of the guardian, and to Orion's surprise, the red skull symbol on his chest appeared to have burned a little.

He felt surprised about that because all this time he had been using his Shattered Precision but the guardian's armor didn't even leave a scratch behind. However, the moment he attacked the skull symbol on his chest, it appeared to have burned down a little.

'If I recall correctly, he uses this symbol to power himself up, and now it appears to be the only thing in the guardian's armor that seems vulnerable.'

As he observed the symbol on the guardian's chest, he caught sight of something that made him narrow his eyes.

He saw that after he damaged the symbol on the guardian's chest, the guardian took longer than usual to stand up on his feet.

Most importantly, he didn't rush to him like other times and only warily looked at him.

Witnessing this, he came to a conclusion.

'The skull symbol on his chest must be his weakness.'

A smile appeared on Orion's face as he sighed in relief. All that time, it appeared as though he had been the dominant one, crushing the guardian with his overwhelming strength, but only he knew that his attack did nothing to the guardian, no matter how many times he attacked. It was as if the guardian's armor appeared to be made of something that's impossible to break.

But now that he knew the guardian's weakness, he felt that it wouldn't be long before their battle concluded.

On the other side, everyone witnessed the intense battle between the guardian and Orion, and their jaws dropped to the ground as a result.

It was especially true for the group of transmigrators. They hadn't witnessed a battle of this kind ever in their lives, so seeing the fight with their own eyes made them motivated to have a battle like that one day.

Meanwhile, Runo's team appeared to have the most shocked faces. They couldn't imagine how a person of bronze rank had that much power within him.

Most importantly, they understood the strength of the guardian, which required them to use the power of the Three Divine Ways to even have a fight, but witnessing Orion, who didn't use that power and could still fight toe-to-toe with the guardian, made them speechless.

However, they mostly felt relieved because of that. They thought that if Orion didn't possess such strength, maybe they would have been decimated by the guardian by now.

But there was one person among them who felt very conflicted about the situation. It was Runo.

He felt relieved that there was someone who could fight the guardian equally, but at the same time, he felt frustrated because that person happened to be Orion.

'If he is strong, then that's good for us, but why am I feeling so frustrated about this? If I don't have that much enmity with him, then why?'

He couldn't understand the reason behind his frustration.

What Runo failed to notice, or perhaps intentionally ignored, was that Orion appeared to be the exact person he didn't want to see—someone who rejected him without hesitation, someone who didn't care about him at all.

This realization could be the reason for his frustration, and he could only come to terms with it by confronting it head-on.