Leo grimaced as he looked at the quests. One last day he needed to kill three Sword Curse Cultivators today or he will die. Leo sighed as he started to slink away from the group but a water tendril pushed him right back in line. “Where do you think you’re going?” Leo started lying:”I needed to go to the bathroom.” Slasher squinted his eyes:”Kid, I’m not an idiot we’re in the woods what bathroom are you talking about.” Leo grimaced in hindsight it wasn’t a very good lie.”It uh…..” Peak stepped in quickly saving the situation:”Leo you weren’t trying to steal the stash of Nexus Crystals I hid in the forest right?” Leo started murmuring:”Maybe I did try to steal one or two.” Nexus Crystals were what helped cultivators restore energy and sometimes use it to replace Kill Energy. Slasher growled lowly but left the subject. Leo looked urgently at Peak and Peak grimaced at Leo reaching into her bag pulling out a weird spike thingy and pressed a couple buttons on it. Later in the afternoon Leo has given up on all hope as he only had 3 hours left.

Leo sat on a rock sighing about how he was going to die like this. Leo looked at his proud level of 15 and couldn’t help but smile these few days had brought him more happiness than his whole lifetime. Then three pairs of red eyes appeared behind Leo. Leo was alone making an excuse to sit beside himself oblivious of the danger. Three daggers stabbed towards Leo’s neck red cursed energy swirling around the blades. Leo’s eyes bulged open and time seemed to slow down as the daggers touched the skin on his back. After providing some protection his skin broke apart as the daggers dug into Leo’s back. Leo’s hands bolted to his chest as he saw the blades protruding out and a terrible pain overtook him followed by fear than anger. Leo roared as the assassins pulled out and stabbed again and again. Leo turned around looking the assassins straight in the eye the assassins paid him no attention as they continued their attack.

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Leo shot out a [Void Blade] cleaving through the air and the assassins disappeared in thin air. Leo stepped back looking down at the absolute mess his body was in. Their blades were poisoned! Leo’s pathways were getting burned apart. Leo stepped back chocking on his own blood. But he also smiled as he saw that his quest updated by 1 looks like he did manage to get one of the Sword Curse Assassins they’re plan was probably to deal him a fatal blow and allow the poison to do it’s work as Leo was far away from his team saying his goodbyes to life. Leo’s vision was warped as he felt death loom even closer. Leo felt his power and energy sapped away as his power left him. Leo slumped down realizing what just happened. He was alive? Those bastards! They weren’t trying to kill him they were trying to cripple his cultivation. Either they knew that killing him would have some backlash.

Maybe his bloodline was so powerful that there were still people who had it besides him who were powerful enough to act as a detergent to the Sword Curse Sect. They instead opted to cripple him making him basically dead in anyone important eyes. Leo screamed. He didn’t no he couldn’t allow himself to go back to becoming a mortal. But what could he do even Monarchs couldn’t restore someone’s cultivation especially someone with a bloodline as weird as his. And why would even higher beings bother with someone who couldn’t reach the E-Grade by himself. Shit, Autarchs didn’t even care about Monarchs he was a Low F-Grade cripple. Leo slumped down and saw the dagger lying beside him he picked up the blade and pressed it against his own neck.