"Incredible! The blood of Lycanthropes actually contained such astonishing Transmutation School magic! And it carried both the effects of a blessing and a curse, like a exquisite work of art woven from light and darkness."
Gazing at the glow emanating from the blood in the test tube, Raymond could not help but marvel.
Clearly, the blessing granted these Lycanthropes powerful transformation abilities.
The curse, meanwhile, made them highly susceptible to losing their reason and yielding to their beastly instincts. It also gave them the power to infect others with Lycanthropy through bites.
In other words, the key to alleviating and curing Lycanthropy lay in the curse.
No wonder a legend about the Origin of Lycanthropy had always circulated throughout Faerûn.
It was said that the first Lycanthropes in the world had been gifts and blessings bestowed by Selûne, the Moon Goddess, upon children abandoned in the wild.
But later, Malar, the God of Hunting, decided that Lycanthropes were well suited to spreading his teachings. He sent down a curse that caused them to fall increasingly under the influence of their beastly natures, until they gradually became what they were today.
Since this curse had become deeply bound to both flesh and soul, ordinary magic and Divine Magic such as remove curse and cure disease would certainly be useless.
At present, the only solution was to use a stronger force to counteract it.
By disrupting the curse's continuity, Lycanthropes could be prevented from losing their minds on nights of the full moon and completely degenerating into mindless beasts.
Naturally, that was no easy task.
After all, whether it was the blessing or the curse, the astonishing power contained within temporarily exceeded the limits of Raymond's abilities.
At that moment, he was instead quite eager to see what knowledge and techniques the