Hearing the shout in the middle of his thoughts, Lester came to his senses and the first thing he saw was a sword coming towards his neck.

"!!!"

The audience watching the ring held their breath.

The sound of sword clashing with sword echoed in the training ground.

"I'm not a coward!"

Seeing his attack blocked, Paul shouted as he continued the attacks. The Mana in his body was flowing wildly.

Lester raised his eyebrows as he blocked Paul from charging wildly.

He didn't remember calling Paul a Coward.

After a few attacks, Lester was forced to step back.

'This guy got stronger'

He didn't know how or why, but Paul was at least twice as strong as he was a few weeks ago.

Those who saw Lester being pushed back opened their eyes in surprise and saw this monster being pushed back for the first time.

'Looks like I'm going to have to get a little serious'

He wasn't in a position to be happy that Paul Lester was pushing back; in fact, he wasn't even aware that he was pushing him back. The only thing he focused on was overcoming his fear.

That's why he continued the attacks.

When the swords clashed harshly, the two men came face to face.

Paul lightly drew his sword and thrust it into the opponent's chest.

Once again his attack was blocked, as he expected.

Without wasting any opportunity, he tried to kick Lester's leg.

Lester jumped back and avoided the blow.

Just as Paul was about to attack again, he felt a strong pressure from Lester. Stunned for a few seconds, Paul tried to block the incoming sword.

But the blow was so strong that the hand holding the sword was pushed away, leaving his chest exposed.

He wouldn't be able to block the next attack. He must have angered Lester by attacking like that. The mad dog would definitely try to kill him.

but he didn't regret it. Paul closed his eyes.

'I faced my fear, father'

While the professors watching the ring were about to take action

" You fought well"

Lester spoke.

Hearing the sound, Paul opened his eyes wide.

At that moment, no one could believe what they heard.

Did Lester Ortiz 'Mad dog', instead of killing him, he told him he was a good fighter?

Paul's mouth fell open

His eyes were full of surprise and question marks.

When he looked at the reactions of the students and professors around him, he realized that what he heard was true.

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Lester got out of the ring and headed towards the exit of the training area. He always left after his own fight was over.

In the eyes of the audience, this was his most normal move today.

After Lester left, there was a huge uproar among the students.

Paul was standing in the ring, looking out of the training area.

Paul had seen it.

Lester Ortiz 'Mad dog', the man who beat dozens of students to death, smiled briefly before leaving the stage.

He didn't know if it was a genuine smile, but it was definitely real.

***

'I was really messing up there'

While thinking about the [blood curse], the opponent almost took a sword to his neck.

'but it was more fun than stopping and thinking'

Until yesterday, Lester was a long-time swordsman who thought with his instincts, not his mind.

Because he was angry

He wanted revenge.

But his anger and his goal of revenge had begun to distort. He had been angry at everyone for a long time. If he didn't release his body's energy, he became even more angry.

Actually, it wasn't like this when I was a kid. He was a normal child, he had no anger problems.

Until the day that certain incident took place.

death of his mother

'Something changed inside me after her death'

'It was as if the increasingly negative emotions had drawn a curtain over my eyes. Anger and hatred took over me

'The reason was not only my mother's death'

Of course, it was an event that would affect a person, but Lester knew that the other truth behind these increasing acts of violence was

'[Blood Curse] The Curse that haunts the Ortiz family's bloodline and leaves the person with anger problems that become more severe day by day.'

'As if it were not enough to increase negative emotions to extreme levels in daily life, it was a fact that there would be many cases where you would lose your own self and attack others at advanced levels.'

'The reason why that guy killed my mother was one of the advanced attacks of this curse.'

Lester shook his head, his eyes fluttering.

'Anyway, I don't know why, but I don't feel that angry state right now, since my memories woke up, those sinister thoughts in my mind have disappeared.'

He hadn't noticed it before because he was confused by the memories of his past life and the awakening of the system, but now he felt it. Those thoughts that were plaguing his mind and causing him to spread anger around were gone as if they never existed.

'This situation will not last forever, I'm sure, I need to remove this curse from my body.'

He didn't know why, but he was absolutely sure that those sinister thoughts had not disappeared, they would definitely come back. He decided to make removing the curse from his body his priority, because if he didn't he wouldn't be able to prevent his own destruction, let alone the destruction of the world.

'The Ortiz family's blood curse was a secret knowledge known only to the mainline of the family, but what they didn't know about the curse was its origin.'

'All the Ortiz family knew was that the more they used the mana, the stronger the curse became.'

'The origin of this Curse was none other than the secret technique of the Ortizs, which enabled the Ortiz family to rise so high.'

A few hundred years ago, the ancestor of the Ortizs, an ordinary adventurer, found a book in one of the dungeons he entered.

The book talked about a Mana technique he had never heard of before.

This ordinary adventurer was no fool. Realizing that this technique was very valuable, the man decided to learn the technique instead of selling it and making money.

The technique he learned after long efforts produced tremendous results.

Thanks to the technique, he became the most powerful adventurer of the period, and with the wealth he earned, he bought a large region and founded the Ortiz family. He shared the technique only with his direct descendants.

The Ortiz family was getting stronger day by day, but then they encountered a problem. Almost the entire family started having attacks. The Ortiz family, who went crazy and had anger issues, went into a rage and killed their family members.

Adults who want to hide the problem

They tried many methods to solve this.

First, because their family members' mana was out of control, they taught a common Mana technique to several children from their lineage to see if the problem was caused by this Mana technique.

The result was useless. As the children grew older, they began to experience tantrums and swearing attacks again. Although they were not as violent as the family members who learned the technique, they did not think that the problem was in the technique because they showed these movements. Unable to find the source of the problem, the final decision of the Ortiz family was that there was nothing to do other than procreate less in order to prevent this weakness of the family from appearing in the future and to have as few children as possible. It is likely that he will be doomed to this fate.

But Lester knew the reason behind the curse. The reason was the Mana technique itself. This Mana technique was a superior technique that increased an individual's Mana output, but the technique, which allowed the person to produce enough Mana to exceed his own limit, left a sinister energy in the body, and this energy polluted the blood.

The dirty blood did not remain as it was, it was increasing. The blood polluted by this increasing Sinister energy was driving people crazy. Not only that, this dirty blood also reached the organs and marrow. When it reached the marrow due to serious attacks by Ortiz members, the marrow began to produce dirty blood for the body.

This was the reason Ortiz family members were experiencing serious attacks.

So why did those who did not use the technique encounter attacks?

The answer was simple.

The dirty blood filled even the reproductive organs with this Evil energy.

That's why even newborn babies had some dirty blood. If they could not remove this blood from the body until it reached the marrow, they experienced the same problems.

Lester sighed.

It was good that he knew the root of the problem, but it wasn't enough.

'If I had known it would be like this, I would have played the game as Lester'

He didn't know how to get rid of this curse.

He only played with Lester a few times in the game, as it was impossible to play as a character who constantly lost control due to the curse.

When Lester returned to his room, he took the notebook in front of him. He decided to write down things that would help him get rid of the blood curse. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of anything other than a few things that would slow down this curse.

"Oh fuck"

A curse came out of his mouth involuntarily.