Cursed Books, the accumulation of a witch's knowledge, experience, and power. Those who inherit the book were nearly guaranteed to quickly rise through the ranks of witchcraft.
Even though creating Cursed Books sounded hard, in reality, any witch who had become a Cursed Witch could create one. However, the process was extremely painful and difficult, so the number of witches willing to sacrifice their lives to create these Cursed Books was small.
As for those who do, they usually pass on their Cursed Books directly to their own students, who would quickly rise through the ranks. This made the supply of Cursed Books always constrained and the demand for these books high.
Though there were many Cursed Books available, they still helped witchcraft grow and prevented the extinction of the art. So no matter how many witches were willing to do it, it was a requirement for all Cursed Witches to learn how to create one.
To hear that their Teacher was going to sacrifice his life to create a Cursed Book for one of them immediately changed Lucien's and Devi's moods. Even Yoze was tempted to simply rob the inheritor so that he could easily improve his witchcraft skills.
If, in the rare case, he didn't want the Cursed Book, he could give it to Dreyer so that he could quickly become a Grand Witch.
Sensing that the mood had subtly changed, Luxy scowled as he looked at Lucien and Yoze with disappointment.
"Hmph, typical. The moment you hear of treasure, you two no longer care about our Teacher Windor's life."
"Luxy, don't speak to your Lucien like that. He is your superior, and you will treat him as such!" Devi's face immediately shifted as he quickly yelled at his student.
"Teacher, I am sorry for my language, but I am not someone who can allow injustice to spread freely. So allow me to be blunt."
"Senior Mango, with your talent for witchcraft being so much worse compared to my Teacher, I think you should just allow my Teacher to take the book. That way, he can properly advance safely without worrying about you." Luxy crossed his arms as he slowly said what he wanted without regard for Lucien's dignity.
As soon as Luxy finished speaking, Devi slapped Luxy on the back of his head to show his anger. Even though it was clear that both of them had already planned this out beforehand, Lucien felt his blood boil.
He nearly wanted to cast the Curse of Possibility on Luxy to teach him a lesson, but the moment he saw Yoze standing there with a calm look on his face, his blood chilled. All his rage seemed to vanish like smoke on a cloudy day as he felt his mind become filled with clarity.
"Please keep your student under control, Devi. He is lucky he had said those words to me and not my student, or else he would be dead before he even realized it." Though he had regained his calm, Lucien still gave Devi and Luxy cold looks as if he couldn't just accept their insults.
The reputation of a witch was extremely important as it was both a sign of strength and a source of protection. As mere mortals, it was extremely difficult for even the most powerful witch to be capable of protecting themselves from the ill intent of all witches.
Even Disaster witches could fall into the hands of a Novice witch if they were careless. So having a powerful reputation that scared away potential enemies was crucial.
For his own sake and the safety of Justice Town, Lucien knew he had to punish Luxy. Even though he wasn't the most talented witch among his Teacher's students, he was by far the student with the closest relationship with their Teacher.
So it wasn't difficult to imagine why he was chosen to be one of the only two students his Teacher chose to inherit the Cursed Book. If he allowed Luxy's insult to slide and his Teacher heard this, the chances of him getting the Cursed Book would decrease dramatically.
"Since this is your first offense, I will only give you a slap of the wrist by having you run ten laps around town. And don't try to be lazy and cheat; I have eyes all over town." After careful consideration, Lucien settled on this punishment.
Seeing their plan fail, Luxy frowned but followed orders and left to run around town. He and Devi had taken a risk to try and stain Lucien's reputation to gain an earlier advantage but failed.
So he could only take the punishment, or else he would have to suffer even worse punishments and would instead ruin Devi's reputation. As for the threat that Yoze would have killed him, he didn't take it seriously and just thought it was another means for Lucien to boost his student's reputations.
"I apologize for that, Devi. His emotions have been in turbulence ever since he knew that Teacher was going to die." Devi sighed heavily.
"Thank you for the apologies; I appreciate it. Devi, can we get to the test now?"
"Of course, just like previous times, we will be performing the spells on fake props. Since you are a Cursed Witch, you need to create as many curses as you know in two hours." Devi explained as he walked over to a large bulging sack that was in the corner of the room
As Devi pulled out numerous fake props from the bag, Yoze couldn't help but wonder why they were all stuffed animals. There was a blue Griffin, a purple lion, six penguins, and many other types of animals being pulled out.
Having gone through this before, Lucien could easily apply two different curses to the stuffed animals. Even though he didn't use his most powerful curse, the Curse of Possibility, he knew that he had passed this test with nearly the same markings as the last time he took this test.
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