Chapter 199: Blessings and Curses

Lolth didn’t remove Dorothy’s clothes due to uncontrolled succubus instincts.

In fact, among the three present, only Tina blushed at Lolth’s actions, unable to conceal her envy, while Kanor and Isabella remained composed and found nothing unusual.

Dorothy was wearing a warlock robe with enhancement effects.

Although the magical fluctuations were extremely weak, it could be classified as a magical item of at most level three or four, yet it still influenced Lolth since it was worn directly against her body.

Now, even the slightest influence must be eliminated.

After removing the warlock robe, Lolth stared at Dorothy, who was nearly completely bare save for the underwear covering the essential areas, in astonishment.

This girl was even more fragile than she had imagined.

Her lower abdomen and chest were incredibly flat, with no excess fat; her waist was so slender it seemed it could break with gentle force, and when lying down, her ribs were even outlined.

What truly shocked her were the dark red “etched” marks beneath the skin across Dorothy’s lower abdomen and chest, extending over her shoulders to her back.

They were sharp and contorted, like thorns growing beneath her skin.

It was a kind of power that felt strange to Lolth.

Although the energy felt like a special type of magic, it was neither divine power nor any common magical attribute.

Its nature leaned toward “disorder,” “chaos,” and “sensitivity to reactions,” resembling the magic found in areas with high magical concentration in the abyss.

But it was not as violent as the abyss.

This “etching” itself was not any runes or magical structures; this form of power… seemed to be a special “curse.”

What shocked Lolth most was that she had completely overlooked this curse before.

Prior to noticing the strange marks on her skin, her magic had carefully flowed through her body and soul twice without detecting this suspected “curse.”

When she saw this and attempted to find where the curse was hidden, she finally made a discovery.

“I can’t believe how weak this little girl’s hero bloodline power is…”

Lolth furrowed her brow and eventually found traces of the curse within the strange, weaker version of the “blessing” that belonged uniquely to “heroes” in her bloodline and body.

“Blessing” and “curse” are simply two different names for the same kind of magical spell.

Warlocks and priests both have similar mystical techniques and divine spells; even gods themselves can use curses and blessings to deliver “divine punishment” or “bestow blessings.”

However, the earliest origin of these spells, when traced back, is actually similar to the Plane Magic Tide… it is a kind of “natural phenomenon.”

When “Plane Will” is cast upon someone, the marks it leaves behind become the oldest “plane blessings” or “curses.”

The Plane Will of the Divine Kingdom is the gods, and the Plane Will of ancient civilizations that opened half-planes may come from a man-made core, rather than the natural Plane Will of the Divine Kingdom, usually believed to be determined by its magical attributes, plane rules, and the combined will of all life.

So, the so-called heroes can actually be seen as people who are “blessed by all planes.”

However, the reason why the “Hero” appears only in the main plane is still unclear.

But the “curse” hidden in the “blessing” is indeed very difficult to detect, like stacking a similar spell within a high-level magic.

If you put an explosion in the center of a Fireball, as long as it doesn’t explode, a regular person definitely won’t notice it.

At the same time, Lolth also understands why Dorothy is so weak, and why her hero bloodline power has gone out of control.

Because the power she inherited has a serious problem.

“It seems like I accidentally found the source of the problem.”

Lolth sighed like this, but for a moment, she couldn’t do anything.

Because the power of the curse and the hero’s blessing she inherited have completely mixed together, and the hero’s blessing itself is deeply imprinted in her soul and body.

Lolth doesn’t have a good way to deal with this “Plane Will” yet.

She must wait until Dorothy is normal again before she can think of a solution.

For now, she can only deal with the original problem step by step.

With her hands on the girl’s skin, Lolth could feel the softness and chill even through the gloves.

“What a troubled child… Kanor, Tina, get ready.”

Lolth turned to see that both of them had finished their preparations. Kanor stepped forward with the magic absorption device made from “Versatile Kitchenware” and began the slow process of clearing and guiding.

First, she focused on the two strongest powers, Holy Light and the Power of the Evil God.

Since divine energy is extremely hard to convert, Lolth decided not to convert it at all. Instead, she wrapped it in magical energy and slowly drew it out forcefully from the girl’s body, tossing it to Kanor.

Kanor immediately activated the magic absorption device, cleaning up all the magic energy.

“All done, Mistress Lolth.”

After that, Kanor nodded to confirm that no magic had been absorbed back by Dorothy, and then she said.

“It’s good that it’s done, well done, Kanor,” Lolth praised Kanor and then started to work on her familiar space powers, “Tina, prepare the mystical technique, first the soul, then the body, do you understand?”

As Lolth said this, Tina nodded, and the Elven soul repair spell began.

As a monthly Elven priest, her strongest power, the power of the stars and moon, naturally had the ability to repair souls.

And Lolth was making good progress too, since converting space magic into pure magic was something she was very familiar with.

The remaining bits of messy magic were quickly dealt with, as they were sorted and converted in an increasingly stable magical environment.

In the end, only the ancient rune magic and Dorothy’s own magic remained.

Lolth gradually adjusted the pure, attribute-free magic to match the magic waves in Dorothy’s body, gently guiding Dorothy to absorb it, slowly reaching a balance with the ancient rune magic.

At the same time, she also realized the meaning of the evil god’s actions.

The evil god was indeed very thoughtful. After completing the runic structure to “become a god,” it turned into a normal rune used for “gaining strength.”

This piece was already very stable; it didn’t need to get rid of itself.

So now it was Tina’s turn to step in.

“Tina, you can begin—pull her out of that ‘near-death state’ for me!”