Even Morgana, who was made of darkness, did not recognize the dark aura before her. That was strange!
Ren was puzzled too. He held the darkness, which flowed like water, and pondered in silence.
Suddenly, Ren clenched his right hand and crushed the flowing darkness!
The crushed darkness began to dissipate, but Ren swept a finger toward a distant plant!
With that light motion, a wisp of darkness flew from his fingertip and landed on the plant!
The darkness enveloped the plant. It swiftly withered and died!
Kayle watched the plant die, then jolted with realization. "Master... could this be the Death God's Curse?"
Ren was not the only one who had come to the Fairy Tail World to learn. Kayle had too! And Zeref, a famous figure in this world, was tormented by that very curse!
The Death God's Curse granted an ageless, undying body. The more one cherished life and cared for others, the more terrifying the death it brought!
A sharp gleam entered Ren's deep-set eyes. He looked at the trace of darkness wrapped around his fingertip and said, "Interesting... the Death God's Curse has fallen on me! If I remember correctly, Zeref researched life and death and was ultimately cursed by the Ankhseram God. And Mavis apparently developed Law Magic, so she was cursed by the Ankhseram God too. But me? A god came to curse me? How interesting!"
Ren spoke calmly, but beneath that calm lay an unfathomable coldness.
Ren did not know how he had been cursed. He did know that the moment he grabbed the flowing darkness, he had come into contact with the Death God's Curse. In fact, the so-called Death Curse was better described as a kind of energy!
That energy was like a virus, capable of spreading with frightening ease.