Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 141

Chapter 141

The mountain elder guided Zeke and Boris back toward the long, maze-like corridor.

Only after walking down the corridor for a while were they able to reach the room where the youngest disciple was.

The mountain elder only allowed Zeke to enter the room.

Before opening the door, he spoke to Zeke.

“If it’s possible, I’ll accept your request. But if you fail…”

“That’s for you to decide.”

Zeke’s voice was quite confident.

Despite being suspicious of such an attitude, the mountain elder felt like he wanted to trust Zeke once.

It was an inevitable choice since the desperate side was at a disadvantage in negotiations.

The mountain elder slowly opened the door.

At the same time, a strong fragrant scent flowed out from inside.

Incense was rising from braziers placed in every corner of the room.

[Detecting sleeping incense containing drug components.]

[Constitution of Poison Immunity neutralizes the sleeping incense.]

Zeke pretended not to know and asked the mountain elder.

“Why is there so much incense burning?”

The mountain elder frowned and said.

“You’ll see when you go in.”

On the bed inside the room lay a young man.

He seemed around the same age as Zeke, but appeared to be unconscious.

Just looking at the outside, he didn’t seem to be cursed.

That’s when the mountain elder lifted the blanket covering the young man.

“Hmm.”

Zeke let out a low groan.

Below the young man’s neck was horrific.

Dozens of hideous faces were writhing as if a monster had entered under his skin.

Pus and blood were flowing from areas where the skin had necrotized.

At a glance, it was clear this was not a simple skin disease but a terrible curse.

“What did the healers and mages say?”

The mountain elder sighed and said.

“They said they’ve never seen anything like this. It’s neither disease nor magic.”

If it wasn’t disease or magic, there was a high possibility he was afflicted by ancient magic like Angelina.

Zeke looked at the mountain elder and said.

“Have you ever heard of a place called Abyss?”

At those words, the mountain elder nodded.

“I don’t know directly, but I’ve heard about it from a source. I heard they’re quite nasty fellows.”

“I think there’s a high probability this curse was cast by the Abyss.”

At Zeke’s words, the mountain elder made a suspicious expression and said.

“If you’re trying to needlessly scheme to cause discord, stop it. Salmak is not a place that moves by such shallow words.”

“No, there really is a high possibility it’s them. Even Angelina, the lady of House Graham, was cursed by an ancient mage who received a request from the Abyss.”

“Ancient mages aren’t only in the Abyss, so specifying them like that is quite suspicious.”

“Well, if that’s what you think. I just stated my opinion, so judge for yourself.”

Although the mountain elder denied it, he had a troubled expression after hearing Zeke’s words.

Ancient magic was a mysterious realm that was difficult to handle.

While there were such mages in the northern continent, those who could cast such powerful curses were rare.

The mountain elder clenched his fist as he looked at the traces of the curse that had sprouted on his youngest disciple’s body.

‘The Abyss .’

The two characters were firmly planted in the mountain elder’s mind.

It meant Zeke’s intention had worked to some degree.

Zeke, who was examining the unconscious young man, asked the mountain elder.

“What’s your disciple’s name?”

“Iraman.”

“Has Iraman been continuously unconscious?”

“No, we deliberately put him to sleep with the incense. When he’s awake, those hideous things wake up too.”

“Do those things move alive?”

“Yes. They gradually suck the host’s flesh and blood from the inside and grow their bodies.”

It sounded like a terrible curse just hearing about it.

‘Hmm, I wonder if purification will be able to solve this.’

In Angelina’s case, it was possible to remove it with just purification because she had a cursed spirit attached, but the situation was different with Iraman as the curse’s parasites were growing directly in his skin.

Zeke asked the mountain elder.

“Have you tried cutting those off the skin?”

“We tried but gave up. The mages said the roots of those things are embedded throughout the blood vessels, so he could die the moment we remove them.”

It was a troublesome curse in many ways.

Zeke said to the mountain elder.

“Prepare hot water and dry towels, sterilized surgical knives and restraints. When you’re ready, leave.”

“I’ll watch from the side.”

“No. The treatment process could be painful. If you try to stop it after seeing that, your disciple could be in danger.”

The mountain elder was uneasy about leaving Zeke alone in his disciple’s room, but he had no choice.

He prepared what Zeke wanted and went outside.

After the mountain elder left, Zeke first secured the unconscious Iraman’s arms and legs with restraints.

“It’ll be troublesome if you wake up and move, so I’ll leave you like this.”

Zeke put on Agamemnon’s mask.

First, he tried using the power of purification.

WOOOONG!

Golden aura flowed into Iraman’s body.

Then the parasites attached to his skin started to wake up making strange sounds.

“URRRGH.”

As the parasites woke up, Iraman twisted his body in pain and tried to wake up.

Zeke withdrew the purification aura.

Then the parasites became docile again.

‘It seems it will be difficult to remove with just purification.’

Unlike Angelina where the curse was attached in the form of a spirit, this one was attached directly to the body like a parasite, so it seemed surgical intervention would be needed alongside.

Zeke picked up the surgical knife prepared by the mountain elder.

“It’s been a while since I performed surgery.”

In his past life, when Zeke was active as a Highlander, he sometimes carried out missions with other Highlanders.

Each Highlander had unique personalities and specialties.

Among them was a Naga tribe mage who, unusually, specialized in surgery.

Since Zeke held the principle that it’s good to learn anything, he had received basic surgical training from him.

Zeke took surgical knives of various sizes and sterilized them once more with pure fire.

Then he imbued the surgical knife with purification power.

WOOOONG!

The surgical knife was infused with a purification blade, emitting a golden aura.

“Alright, let’s try this.”

Zeke lightly brought the purification blade to a parasite attached to the forearm.

TSSS!

As soon as the blade touched it, the parasite suddenly opened its eyes.

GYAAAAAAK!

The parasite opened its mouth wide and let out a horrible scream.

Then the sleeping parasites began opening their eyes one by one.

Zeke was startled and immediately cut off the screaming one with the knife.

SPLAT!

The cut-off parasite fell to the floor and melted away with a foul smell.

But at the cut site, a new parasite began to writhe and grow.

“What kind of things are these?”

It seemed they would keep growing unless the roots were removed.

“UNGH.”

Iraman, who had been unconscious, groaned as if coming to from the pain.

Zeke took out Sandman’s sand from his inventory and put Iraman back to sleep.

But the parasites seemed fully awake now, writhing on his skin while making hideous sounds.

After some thought, Zeke recalled the holy fire he had used to torment the demon Griesmodal recently, and immediately summoned it.

WHOOSH!

White flames bloomed in front of Zeke.

When one of the parasites received the holy fire’s light, it twisted its entire body and screamed.

“This seems to be effective.”

Zeke cut off the regenerating parasite on the arm again with the purification blade and shone the holy fire’s light on that spot.

SSSSSSK!

This time the roots couldn’t grow due to the power of the light.

Zeke checked Iraman’s pulse with his dragon eye.

There was no problem even after removing the parasite.

“Good. I understand the trick now.”

Zeke first removed the parasites attached to the arms and legs with the purification blade and burned away the roots with holy fire.

When blood would surge out occasionally, he used healing with his area buff.

The wounds on Iraman’s body healed cleanly and the bleeding stopped.

After fighting with the parasites for over an hour, Zeke wiped away his cold sweat.

“Whew, Lady Angelina’s curse was nasty but this one is even worse.”

Almost all the parasites on the body had been removed, with just one remaining.

It was the one attached to Iraman’s heart.

Examining Iraman’s body with his dragon eye, Zeke realized this one attached to the heart had spread the other parasites.

‘So this is the cause. Once this is removed, it should be resolved.’

Conversely, this meant the parasites could spread again if this one wasn’t dealt with.

Zeke took a deep breath and brought the purification blade to Iraman’s left chest.

He prepared healing and potions to recover him immediately in case the knife accidentally stabbed the heart.

SHUNK!

The purification blade cut into the lower left side of Iraman’s chest.

After cutting through the ribs, Zeke discovered the hideous parasite clinging to the heart.

“Oh no…”

The situation was more serious than expected.

The parasite had almost completely integrated with the heart and was pulsing together with it.

Zeke furrowed his brows, contemplating what to do.

‘If I just cut it off, half the heart would go with it.’

His concern deepened since he wasn’t sure if healing could recover the heart.

“If only that parasite would detach itself…”

Then an idea occurred to Zeke.

“What if I use hydra poison…?”

Parasites are beings that settle in a host to suck blood and consume flesh.

But if poison that could kill them spread through the host’s body, they would likely judge they could no longer parasitize it.

After some thought, Zeke created hydra poison at his fingertip.

A few drops of lethal poison formed at his fingertip.

Zeke made it so the poison’s effects would be as slow as possible.

Then he dropped several drops of hydra poison into Iraman’s mouth.

Through his dragon eye, Zeke could see the hydra poison slowly spreading.

After a while, the parasite huddled in the heart twisted its body as if sensing something wrong.

KIEEEEEEEK!

It began extending roots from the heart to create other parasites.

Then it tried to expel the hydra poison from Iraman’s body.

But Zeke immediately cut off the parasites that sprouted out of the skin with the purification blade.

KEGEGEGEK!

Having failed to expel the poison, the parasite gradually felt the poison building up in Iraman’s body.

The poison slowly circulated even to the heart where it was staying.

The poison’s effects manifested slowly but effectively.

Iraman’s body was gradually dying.

The parasite attached to the heart writhed its whole body in panic.

Then one of its roots detached from the heart.

And surprisingly, that root flew toward Zeke the moment it detached.

SWOOSH!

The sharp root pierced the back of Zeke’s hand.

Then it began squirming and trying to enter Zeke’s body.

‘Would you look at that?’

It seemed to be an instinct to find another host instead of the dying one.

By now, the remaining parasite on the heart was slowly detaching from Iraman’s heart.

The roots that had been almost completely integrated were separating from the heart.

The moment the parasite’s roots detached, Zeke immediately used healing on Iraman.

Then he fed him the potion he was holding.

Iraman’s wounds slowly began to heal.

Zeke immediately extracted the hydra poison from Iraman’s body.

Then he dropped a few drops of poison on the parasite that was crawling up his wrist from the back of his hand.

KIEEEEEK!

Zeke grabbed the parasite with his hand and shouted.

“Purification.”

WOOOONG!

Golden aura enveloped Zeke’s body.

The parasite screamed and turned to ash, vanishing.

Zeke dusted off his hands and gritted his teeth.

“This is truly horrific. What kind of person would cast such a curse?.”

The mountain elder would likely search for them with burning eyes.

Zeke checked Iraman’s pulse again.

Fortunately, everything was normal.

Just to be safe, Zeke used the purification skill a few more times on Iraman’s body before finishing the treatment.

“Finally, it’s over.”

Zeke informed the mountain elder who was anxiously waiting outside that the treatment was complete.