Chapter 109: Weekend Underground Gathering

A few days later, on Sunday, in the basement of the Slaughtered Lamb.

Jess was sitting in the corner, looking intently at "A Brief Exploration of Orcish Rune Patterns" spread out on the table.

Gargim had been talking non-stop by the campfire for a long time, analyzing some spells or suspected spell sentences that everyone had collected in the past few weeks.

Most of those suspected to be spells are in Orcish. Jess can even understand quite a few of them.

There are not no Orcish spells, but they are rare. Even magics like Kilrogg's Eye, which were invented or improved by orcs, are in Demonic.

After all, it has only been about ten years since orcs came into contact with shadow magic. During this period, when orcs learned shadow magic on their own, they also used Demonic. The connection between Orcish and dark magic is not so profound yet.

So most of the exchanges these guys are having here are probably in vain most of the time. Jess listens while reading his own book in the name of preparing for exams, and the people present have no objections.

In the past few days, Jess hasn't dared to try the life drain spell again. This magic is undoubtedly the most dangerous one among the magics he has mastered and tried.

Not only can it cause extremely terrifying harm to others, but if not mastered properly, it can also harm oneself. Although he vomited some blood that day, Jess didn't feel sick or have any sense of inflammation or the like.

After returning to Stormwind City on the same day and having the priests of the church take a look, they didn't find any external injuries or potential internal injuries that needed treatment, and the symptom of vomiting blood ended quickly.

The imp guessed that it was very likely that the life energy he had drawn had broken his blood vessels at the initial stage and disrupted the fluid circulation. But when the life energy that his body couldn't bear overflowed and ended, the remaining energy repaired the blood vessels again.

That is to say, this is just a process of expelling the overflowing energy, and the harm to Jess's body is only limited to that initial moment. When the energy dissipates into the air and the glow of the leaking life force appears, the entire process has ended.

This statement of the imp somewhat eased Jess's worry. Moreover, even the priests didn't detect any signs of his body being invaded by dark energy.

Even when using the holy light divine art to explore for hidden injuries, the holy light didn't have the painful burning sensation as when treating the necrotic poison infection before. This matter was considered over.

However, when recalling the moment when he used life drain to deprive the sheep of its vitality afterwards, Jess always felt that there was an addiction in it.

It's hard for him to say whether this is related to shadow magic or the feeling of controlling power.

All magic powers can be addictive. To the ultimate extent, just like the elves, their dependence on magic is so great that once they are away from the magic source for a certain period of time, they will begin to experience physical and mental degeneration. That is the so-called Heartless Ones, some strange elves like emaciated zombies. Losing normal sanity, their goal in life is to frantically pursue any bit of magic power.

To try his best to ignore this addiction, he plans to find Gerred after this gathering is over to see how his injury has recovered, and then continue swordsmanship training. Use exercise and sweat to get rid of those negative and harmful emotions.

At this moment, Jess noticed that Erlan Duddmore was always looking over here from time to time, so he just pretended not to see.

Although this guy is quite capable in a fight and always speaks and acts rudely, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would hold a knife to someone in an alley like Gargim.

And at this time, he was obviously more interested in the messy spells that Gargim was talking about. Different from his previous disdain for gatherings and magic learning, after being hit by Jess's magic that day, he was obviously much more attentive to learning spells. Now he was even murmuring something along with Gargim.

At this moment, when Jess was fully immersed in the study of orc runes, Erlan suddenly shouted, "Hey, Gargim, what about that spell from last time?"

Jess noticed that although this sentence was shouted at Gargim, the sound seemed to be directed this way.

He raised his eyes and took a look. Sure enough, Erlan was looking this way.

What Erlan was clearly referring to was the curse of weakness. Why, after Gargim had talked about so many spells, hadn't he mentioned the curse of weakness yet?

"The last time I saw young brother Jess use it very well." Erlan glanced over here and then said to Gargim's side, "For such a powerful spell, Gargim, don't you plan to make it public to all of us?"

Surena, Ursula, and Galdes were looking at Jess or Gargim. Gargim said with a smile, "Don't be impatient, Erlan Duddmore. I'm glad you have such a strong desire to learn new knowledge. But the most powerful and effective spells are naturally saved for the end. Jess is willing to share his discovery with us, and I will never betray his wish."

In fact, during this period of time, Jess had been thinking about why Gargim used his "precious" spells to exchange with Jess for these practical spells. But after exchanging them, he didn't keep the spells privately but shared them with everyone.

Either Gargim thinks those so-called "precious" spells are not precious at all. Just like Jess views the curse of weakness, he takes them out as small chips to exchange with others.

After all, when Gargim took out those three spells, he mentioned that he hadn't learned any of them except the curse of recklessness.

And the curse of recklessness doesn't sound that useful either. After all, who would want their enemy to go crazy? It's not like playing a game where adding an affix gives extra drops or something.

Perhaps he really wants to develop and expand this place and sincerely wants more people to embark on his "path of dark art."

At this moment, Gargim was looking this way and said, "Our new member accidentally obtained a new spell while traveling outside recently. He named it the curse of weakness. This spell is obviously very different from what we have learned before. Its source may not be warlocks from the orc tribes."

Hearing this, Jess was a little surprised. He didn't expect Gargim to realize that this spell had nothing to do with orcs. After all, it was only after asking the imp that he confirmed that this spell was not even in Demonic but originated from the Void.

At this time, Ursula came over from not far away and whispered, "Hey, Jess, you didn't learn this spell when you went to Westfall, did you? Did you steal it back from the murlocs and not tell me but tell Gargim instead?"

Jess said helplessly, "I still didn't know what it was when I came back, Ursula. This spell is not from the murlocs. I found it while scavenging. When I just found it, I didn't even know if it was shadow magic. I couldn't understand it. Maybe it's something from the Wizard's Sanctum. Haven't you heard Gargim say that it's not clear at all whether it's an orc spell."

He leaned close to Ursula's ear and said, "Besides, didn't I give you a naga scale as compensation?"