Solam's idea was simple: let the curse absorb an enormous amount of life force and burst it to death!
Don't think this was a joke.
Everything in the world had its limits. Take this curse, for example—if it could absorb life force without limit, wouldn't the witch doctor be invincible? And even if the curse truly had no limits, what about the person who cast it?
How much power could he control?
That was right. The curse was still under its caster's control. Witch doctors' curses were troublesome. Their curses all required a medium, and even with one, the caster had to continuously maintain control through spellcasting.
This was one reason witch doctors' magic had vanished from public view entirely—it was far too cumbersome. Unlike mages, who could throw out a curse and be done with it, whether it worked afterward was no longer their concern.
Of course, this also had its benefits: the curse could be adjusted at any time to maximize its effectiveness.
So what Solam intended to do was simple. He had never planned to touch the curse at all. Didn't it want life force? Fine, he would give it life force—until its caster could no longer control it!
Thus, everyone watched as Solam opened a Bag of Holding, revealing a heap of blood-red crystals inside! The moment they saw them, several priests cried out, "Primal Blood Crystals!"
These were the crystals left behind after the monsters died following the prevention of the "Blood Path" in Beauclair.
That day, after those monsters died, their bodies crystallized. At first, no one understood what these things were, so they feared them greatly. With Beauclair still in ruins and needing reconstruction, the crystals were tossed into a warehouse to be dealt with later.
After Solam woke up, the Radiance Church