Chapter 149: Curing The Symptoms Not The Cause

"An Infernal curse has no way around it..." Done checking up on him, Darius pulled his hand out from the magic circle hovering over Raven's chest. Taking the gloves off as well, he quickly moved around his desk and settled down on his workbench. "We'll need to treat the symptoms until we can find a cure. Not ideal, obviously but I don't see a way around it."

Getting off his seat, Raven leaned forward and lifted Daruis' face. Showing him the mana-fused eye, he searched for an answer, no matter how drastic the measures could've been. But no matter how long he peered, there was nothing at the top of Darius' head that could help elevate the curse from his body.

"What the hell are you doing?" Shoving Raven away, Darius stared at him with his nose scrunched up and eyebrows scowled. "The fuck happened to you all out there?"

Letting his expression slowly lighten up, the inscription mage heaved a tired sigh. He'd known Raven for as long as he could remember, yet he'd seen him so desperate, so aggressive at least towards him or his other friends.

"Forget that," fanning his hand in front, Raven shook his head trying not to let his desperation get to him. "Just tell me how I can cure the poison or at least keep it at bay until we can find a way to get rid of the curse."

Holding his gaze for a while, Darius's lips pushed sideways as he glanced down at the pen and a slip of paper. Picking up the pen, he quickly began to write down runes that could provide immunity to poison. However, usually when used their effect would only last a day or two, but since he couldn't travel with the group, Darius had other plans to make it last much longer.

"Take this," stacking the multiple rune-etched slips, he slipped them closer to Raven. "Go to Reina, and tell her to fuse the slips into rings. Could be glass or silver, make sure she doesn't use iron."

"Won't the paper burn up?" Raven asked, grabbing the stack of slips.

'Maine, she might know something.' Caressing the crimson jewel on his bracelet, he could feel both Mino and Maine present inside. 'I had to take her to Linkle anyways, so what better timing?'

Taking off from the Enchanted Wand, Raven headed straight for Linkle's shop. It almost felt comical going back to where he'd first landed beside Linkle after the teleportation, what's more? He had to go back and forth between her shop, the blacksmith, and then back to her shop again.

Unless of course, someone else from his party had stayed behind in the Lifeclover instead of doing whatever it was that they needed to do like they always did while visiting.

Despite the poison spreading through their veins, Aria was headed for the blacksmith as always and had plans to meet up with Helga as well. Mel and Erika were off to the church in hopes that someone would know how to get rid of the curse, and if not perhaps the orphans would be happy to see some familiar faces. As for Amedith and Liliyana?

The two had decided to stay behind at the Lifeclover as parading a devil through Athenian streets was bound to end up badly.

Not to mention, ever since the goddess stripped Amedith of his title everyone somehow knew that the new hero was Raven and they scorned at the sight of the failed hero.

'Hell if I care.' Thought Amedith, sitting on a stool inside Linkle's shop staring at Liliyana playing around with the floating vampire head Vlad. Following behind it as the head moved throughout the shop, the devil-child couldn't help her curiosity. Knowing little of this world, everything she witnessed in the outdoors she stared at it closely with a giggling smile.

Poking the head on its back, trying to run away from it as it chased her in anger! These were but a few examples of how she was finally enjoying moving her body around.

"Don't bite my tail! EKKK!" Biting the heart-tipped tail, Vlad's undead head finally got payback in the form of the fae-child's scream.