Everyone was dumbfounded!
All eyes turned to Wu An in unison!
"What... did he just say?"
"This man said he could lift the Empress's curse?"
"That's impossible!"
"The curse on the Empress's back came from Gorgon, a monster from the Central Sea. There's no cure for it!"
"That's right. Rumor has it that the curse is a giant eye. Anyone who sees that eye will be turned to stone!"
"That's why the Empress sets up a protective formation every time she bathes, forbidding anyone from approaching!"
Everyone started talking at once!
Without exception, their voices were filled with utter disbelief!
Lift the Empress's curse?
How was that possible!
Wu An smiled casually!
Having read the story, he naturally knew there was no curse on the Empress's back at all!
The reason such a rumor existed was because the Empress did not want anyone to know what was on her back!
When the Empress heard this, her gaze at Wu An immediately turned sharp!
"What do you think the curse on my back is?"
The Empress stared at Wu An with her deep-blue eyes, her tone incomparably arrogant!
In her eyes, Wu An must have been like everyone else, believing the rumor she had deliberately spread!
He believed she had been afflicted by some curse!
How laughable!
She was the mighty Empress. What curse in this world could she not undo?
Boa Marigold and Boa Sandersonia also shook their heads slightly!
A curse?
This man actually believed that the three sisters had been cursed?
If not for Wu An's performance just now earning a bit of their regard!
They would have thrown him into the sea long ago!
Still, even if Wu An had some ability, they did not think much of him!
The leader who had acted earlier was indeed fairly strong, but within the Kuja Pirates, she was only average!
Not to mention the strongest of them all, the Empress!
The two sisters alone were confident they could deal with Wu An!
"Do you really want me to say it?"
Wu An clasped his hands behind his back and looked at the Empress!
"It's a brand!"
Wu An smiled faintly!
The moment he said that, the entire crowd erupted!
A brand?
The Empress's back clearly bore a curse, yet he was calling it a brand?
Was he treating everyone like idiots?
Everyone looked at Wu An with unfriendly expressions!
Although Wu An was very handsome and had a unique bearing!
Who could tolerate him deceiving them so openly?
"See? Men really can't be trusted!"
"He's already started lying!"
"Hmph, men are all scumbags!"
"It's over. He's spouting such nonsense—would the Empress spare him lightly?"
"He deserves it!"
Everyone reacted differently!
Wu An smiled slightly!
He naturally understood the islanders' doubts!
The truth was often held by only a few!
And the real secret on the Empress's back was clearly known only to the Empress and her sisters!
Of course, Wu An was now included as well!
"You..."
The Empress was shocked!
She never imagined that Wu An would reveal the secret she had hidden all this time!
This... how was this possible!
This man...
How did he know?
The Empress knew very clearly that she had never met Wu An!
Yet Wu An knew everything about her!
Boa Marigold and Boa Sandersonia were equally incredulous!
"Big Sister, should we..."
Boa Marigold spoke in a low voice.
Killing intent surfaced in her tone! Since Wu An might know, there was even less reason to let him go!
Because this secret was the lifelong shame of the three sisters!
Everyone who knew this secret had to die!
With that thought, Boa Marigold made up her mind!
"Wait!"
"Let's hear what he has to say!"
The Empress spoke slowly, one word at a time!
She clearly remembered what Wu An had said earlier: he could remove this curse!
Since he dared say that, he must know something else as well!
"Empress, I forgot to tell you—I am a divine physician!"
"You may not understand what that means, so think of it this way: a divine physician can help you remove the brand on your back!"
Seeing that the time was right, Wu An said it outright!
At its core, the brand on the Empress's back was a tattoo!
When the Empress and her sisters were twelve, they had been abducted by human traffickers and sold to the World Nobles, the Celestial Dragons!
After that, the mark of a slave was branded onto their backs!
Later, Fisher Tiger liberated the slaves there, and the Empress and her sisters were rescued because of it!
After returning to their homeland, the Empress relied on her own strength to become the ruler of Amazon Lily and the captain of the Kuja Pirates!
The slave tattoos on their backs became a secret the Empress and her sisters would protect with their lives!
They had even fabricated rumors that they were afflicted by a curse!
As for removing a tattoo, it was child's play to Wu An!
A tattoo was nothing more than pigment embedded deep in the skin!
And Wu An had inherited the Peerless Medical Arts of the greatest divine physician in The Outcast world. He had ten thousand methods in his mind to deal with this kind of pigment!
What!
It really could be done?
The Empress's deep-blue pupils suddenly contracted!
She had never imagined that Wu An truly had the ability to remove the slave tattoo that symbolized her humiliation!
It was simply unbelievable!
Her two younger sisters beside her were also dumbfounded!
Removing the slave tattoos on their backs was something they had dreamed of!
"Are you sure?"
The Empress asked solemnly!
"You know the consequences of deceiving me!"
The Empress looked deeply at Wu An!
"Since I said I can remove it, then I can remove it!"
A powerful confidence rose from Wu An!
It was the pride unique to a divine physician!
There was no illness in the world he could not cure!
And for a divine physician who thoroughly understood the human body, what difficulty was there in removing a tattoo?
"I'll believe you this once!"
The Empress spoke directly, without hesitation!
The women who had come to greet the Empress were all stunned!
This man...
What exactly was he talking about?
Why did the Empress look as though she trusted him so much?
"Good. Come back to the palace with me!"
The Empress waved her hand and spoke arrogantly!
Kuja Palace!
The Empress reclined against a chair shaped like a snake's body!
"Here are the silver needles you wanted!"
"Do you intend to use these to remove the brands from our backs?"
Boa Sandersonia asked curiously!
"Exactly!"
Wu An accepted the silver needles and nodded!
Chinese medicine was vast and profound!
The setting of The Outcast world was a traditional Eastern one!
Naturally, the divine physicians within it specialized in Chinese medicine!
In Chinese medicine, acupuncture was an absolutely indispensable part!
And Wu An intended to use acupuncture to remove the tattoo on the Empress's back!
After receiving the silver needles, Wu An extended his right hand and gently stroked them!
Although Wu An had never handled silver needles before!
For some inexplicable reason, he felt a sense of familiarity with them!
As though he had spent decades with them!
All kinds of acupuncture methods emerged in his mind!
There was not the slightest trace of obscurity!
Wu An knew this was brought by the Peerless Medical Arts!
This reward could turn Wu An from a complete medical novice into an unparalleled divine physician!
"Since everything is more or less ready..."
"Empress..."
"Take off your clothes..."
Wu An raised his head and looked at the Empress!
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